The story of the discovery of a prehistoric American Indian cremation pit on Ossabaw Island, Georgia, has been picked up by the Associated Press, which has provided more information about the significance of the find. “Burials from the Woodland Period tend to be shallow, bowl-shaped pits with bodies flexed in an almost fetal position on […]

Two jaw bones holding teeth decorated with iron pyrite and jade were sent anonymously to the Honduran Embassy in the Netherlands, according to this report in the Latin American Herald Tribune. Dario Euraque of the Honduran Anthropology and History Institute says that the jaws came from two members of the Maya elite who lived in […]