Scientists have been examining the well-preserved Neanderthal bones recovered in 1994 from the Spanish cave known as El Sidrón. They think that the remains represent an extended family of 12 members who were killed and butchered.

A mass grave of people killed in 1936, during the Spanish Civil War, is being exhumed by archaeologists. “We never used to speak about the war here. But it’s starting now that they’ve discovered the bodies,” said a woman in her 80s who lives in the village of Cazalla.  

At Newgrange, heavy snowfall prevented light from reaching the tomb chamber at sunrise this morning, the shortest day of the year.  

An Anglo-Saxon settlement has been unearthed in Northumberland, England, for the first time.  

Archaeologist Rob Paton and geomorphologist Tim Stone say that there is a 41,000-year-old site containing more than two million stone stools at the site of a planned bypass bridge in Tasmania. Other scholars say that the site is less than 30,000 years old, and that the construction project could continue.  

An airplane pilot spotted a shipwreck in the sands of Cape Cod last month. “It strikes me that it’s a vessel that might have run aground and sanded over,” said Victor Mastone of the Massachusetts Board of Underwater Archeological Resources. The state plans to investigate the wreck next month.

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