Archaeologist Daniel Pullen of Florida State University has discovered a well-preserved, partially submerged, Mycenaean harbor town. There is little farmland near the site, and its 900 walls are aligned on a grid, suggesting that the settlement was a naval or military base.

Anthropologist Tim Weaver of the University of California, Davis, says that the differences between the skulls of Homo sapiens and Neanderthals were the result of random changes that occurred over time, and not adaptations that gave modern humans a competitive edge.  

In Scotland, plumber David Barnes spotted a piece of sandstone bearing Neolithic carvings while walking on the beach.  

The Stone Age hand axes from the bottom of the North Sea are in the news again-this time National Geographic News has the story.  

The New York Times offers an article on the bones from 25 little individuals discovered by paleoanthropologist Lee Berger on Palau, and how they have been compared to the bones known as Homo floresiensis. Several scientists answer the questions Berger has raised in this latest skirmish of the “Hobbit Wars.”  

Here’s the story of the Miami Circle, which was carved into Florida’s limestone at least 2,000 years ago.

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