Nature News reports that palaeontologist Christopher Lepre found stone axes and cruder stone tools together at a 1.76-million-year-old site in Kenya. The discovery may help explain who made similar types of stone tools found outside of Africa.

Australian bushranger Ned Kelly’s bones have been identified in a mass prison grave using DNA analysis. Kelly was hanged for murder 130 years ago, and his remains were moved from a Melbourne jail to Pentridge Prison in 1929. His skull is still missing.

The Iron Age hill fort at Ham Hill in Somerset, England, may have been surrounded by a residential neighborhood. “There was a main road going through and regular enclosures with round houses in them – it looks rather like suburbia,” said Christopher Evans of the Cambridge Archaeological Unit.

A Neolithic tomb and a ceremonial monument have been found at the bluestone quarry that is thought to have supplied material to build Stonehenge, located 150 miles away.

A massive amphitheater used to train gladiators has reportedly been found east of Vienna.

Plans to construct a four-lane highway along the Fraser River in British Columbia could destroy two ancient archaeological sites.

Human remains excavated in the 1960s and 1970s by archaeologists from the University of Colorado and Simon Fraser University will be reburied in British Columbia at the ancient coastal village site of Namu.

National Geographic Daily News offers more photographs of the eighteenth-century ship discovered at the World Trade Center site in New York City.

In a 17-minute video, geneticist Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology explains his research into the migration of modern humans out of Africa and their contact with Neanderthals and Denisovans.