Stone tools and plant material dated to 35,000 years ago were uncovered in a rock shelter in remote northwestern Australia. “It will be very interesting to see if this work can be related in any way to rock engravings in the area,” commented archaeologist Ian Crawford.

The ancient Appian Way links Rome to the southern city of Brindisi, and should be protected by law as the Regional Park of the Appia Antica. But vandalism and illegal development are damaging the road’s archaeological sites.  

Three thousand families living on a mound in northern India have been ordered to evacuate. The Archaeological Service of India will excavate a portion of the 1,000-year-old fort within the mound.  

Whaling began at least 3,000 years ago, according to Daniel Odess of the University of Alaska Museum. His team found an ivory carving depicting whale hunting at the site of Un’en’en on Russia’s Chukotka Peninsula. “It’s about as close to a smoking gun as you get in archaeology,” he said.  

A photograph of lifeboats from the HMAS Sydney, which was sunk in the Indian Ocean during World War II by the German raider Kormoran, was released to the public.  

Skeletons uncovered in a mass grave in Oxford may have belonged to executed criminals or Saxon soldiers killed in battle, and not Romans as previously believed.  

Wari-Bateshwar is known for its abundance of 2,500-year-old beads crafted from semi-precious stones that are not found in Bangladesh. Archaeologists think that the raw materials were imported to the site, where the beads were produced, and then they were traded abroad.  

Canadian anthropologists spoke to writer Lynda Hurst of the Toronto Star about the significance of the 1.3-million-year-old jaw bone discovered in Spain.  

Here’s another article on the new excavation taking place at Stonehenge.

Scientists have gained a new understanding of the Aztecs’ arithmetic system from hieroglyphic tax records kept between 1540 and 1544. “I think the study is neat because it shows that this sort of math and science was pretty practical in orientation,” commented Michael Smith of Arizona State University.

A Viking-age hoard of 470 silver coins was discovered beneath a cairn near Stockholm’s Arlanda airport. The coins had been minted in Baghdad, Damascus, Persia, and North Africa.  

The shallow grave of a British naval officer who died in the nineteenth century was uncovered at the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario. “That burial ground appears on charts as far back as 1816 and may have been established as early as the War of 1812,” said archaeologist Sue Bazely.  

Rome’s archaeologists say that tourists have pillaged the city’s ancient monuments.  

Here’s more information on yesterday’s announcement that 14,000-year-old human feces were discovered in a cave in Oregon. “We finally have human remains or cells, basically molecular evidence for human beings before the Clovis time,” said archaeologist Dennis Jenkins.