Subway excavation in the Greek city of Salonika uncovered more than 1,400 graves spanning 800 years, from the fourth century B.C. to the fourth century A.D.

Neolithic people traveled hundreds of miles with their cattle and pigs to attend feasts at Stonehenge. “We are looking at communication networks and rituals that are bringing people from a large area of southern England to the Stonehenge area before the Stonehenge stones were in place. I think what we are seeing is basically a sort of bring-your-own-beef barbecue at Durrington Walls,” said Jane Evans of the British Geological Survey.  

Ireland’s Department of Environment is looking for a team to study the medieval “Drogheda Boat,” discovered at the bottom of the River Boyne.  

In Turkey, a fountain has been found at an entrance to the theater at Kaunos.  

Patricia Sutherland, an archaeologist with the Canadian Museum of Civilization, thinks that ancient artifacts found near Kimmirut suggest contact between Inuit and Vikings, or other European mariners, between 1000 and 1450 A.D. “Were the Norse spending more time in Arctic Canada than we previously thought?” she asked.  

Here’s an old photograph of the S.S. City of Medicine Hat, which sank in 1908 after hitting a bridge in Saskatoon. An archaeologist and volunteers brought up some artifacts from the South Saskatchewan River that may have come from the wreckage.  

John and Elizabeth Macarthur are known in Australia as the wealthy pioneers of the merino wool industry. They built a luxurious mansion in the 1830s, but archaeologist Ted Higginbotham may have found their first home, what a visitor called a “small, miserable hut” in 1810.  

Al-Ahram tells the story of the return to Egypt of an eye from a statue of Amenhotep III that was stolen in 1972. A photograph of the fragment is included.  

Watch the video from the Associated Press on the excavation of a Lambayeque tomb in Peru that contained the remains of what may been a sacrificed pregnant woman.

A pregnant woman may have sacrificed and buried in one of two Lambayeque tombs uncovered at the Chotuna Chornancap archaeological site in Lima, Peru. The jawbone of a fetus was found among one woman’s skeleton, three other sacrificed women, and several llamas. “The concept of fertility was well respected, so this could represent a sacrifice for a very important religious event,” commented archaeologist Walter Alva, who did not participate in this excavation.

Among the 900 graves investigated at the Macedonian site of Pella were the burials of 20 warriors and 11 women from the Archaic period. Some of the men’s eyes, mouths, and chests were covered in gold foil, and they were wearing bronze helmets. The women wore gold and bronze necklaces, earrings, and broaches.   Photographs of a bronze helmet and hammered gold face plate and jewelry and other artifacts from Pella are available from the United Kingdom’s Daily Mail.  

A temple dedicated to Athena was discovered in Bodrum, Turkey.  

An international team converged on the sixteenth-century shipwreck thought to be a Portuguese trading vessel discovered off the coast of Namibia during diamond mining earlier this year. The ship had been carrying gold coins, bronze cannons, elephant tusks, and copper when it sank.  

Modern humans may have reproduced more quickly and easily than Neanderthals, giving them a competitive edge. This article from National Geographic News offers more information on Neanderthal birth, growth, and development from the recent study of the skulls of two Neanderthal toddlers and a newborn infant.   Discovery News offers a wrap-up of current Neanderthal research.   

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