Stone tools dating to 50,000 to 35,000 years ago have been discovered in Greece’s Pindos Mountains. The tools may have been used by some of the last Neanderthals in Europe. It had been thought that hunter gatherers kept to lower altitudes. 

Archaeologists will look for the remains of a circus elephant rumored to have died in 1848 while on tour in the Welsh town of Tregaron. “It would be fabulous if the story was confirmed as true – it is such a great local story,” said Michael Freeman, curator of the Ceredigion Museum. 

In conjunction with Britain’s No Smoking Day, osteologist Donald Walker of the Museum of London Archaeology Service examined the skeletons of 268 individuals who had been buried between 1843 and 1854. He found that the teeth of 92 percent of the adults had been damaged by pipe smoking. 

In Oxfordshire, England, archeologists say they have found an intact Neolithic pot. 

Laser scanners are being used to look for carvings on the surfaces of Stonehenge. “This new survey will capture a lot more information on the subtleties of the monument and its surrounding landscape,” said Paul Bryan of English Heritage. 

A married couple from Durnago, Colorado, has pleaded guilty to charges brought against them after the federal artifacts sting operation in the Four Corners region. The authorities removed five truckloads of American Indian artifacts from their home. 

A team of archaeology students and professors from Simon Fraser University will assist police in the search for the remains of a Vancouver woman who disappeared in 1977. 

National Geographic Daily News has posted photographs of an underwater cave near Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, where divers found a human skull thought to be 10,000 years old. 

Egyptologists and archaeologists have joined together in an international petition campaign calling for adequate security at Egypt’s heritage sites. “The situation is certainly quite dire indeed,” said Andrew Bayuk, who started the petition.

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