Thin stone points complete with barbs have been discovered at three different sites on California’s Channel Islands, along with the bones of marine mammals and birds. Scientists say the various points are between 12,200 and 11,400 years old, and support the idea that early seafaring people may have followed a “kelp highway” from Japan, across the Bering Strait to Alaska, and then down the coast of North America.  

Zahi Hawass has told The New York Times that he is leaving his post as Egypt’s minister of antiquities in Essam Sharaf’s new government because he can no longer protect those antiquities. “If the government will ask me again, I will not accept this job,” he said.  

Archaeologists think they have uncovered the ruins of Valongo wharf, Rio’s infamous slave port and market, in the city’s harbor area. An estimated three million Africans were sold into Brazilian slavery between 1550 and 1888.

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