The increase in the variety of projectile points in North America 1,500 years ago marks the development of bow and arrow technology through repeated experimentation, according to a study by archaeologists from the University of Missouri. “The introduction of the bow and arrow, a different weapon delivery system, demanded some innovating thinking,” said R. Lee Lyman.

Fifty Iron Age homes have been uncovered in Northumberland, England. “The discovery of this site has confirmed what we were beginning to suspect and that is that there is settlement in the lowlands as well as the uplands and it is more dense than we thought,” said Nick Best, the Northumberland County Council archaeologist.  

A rock panel bearing petroglyphs between 6,000 and 7,000 years old was stolen from Kaibab National Forest in Arizona.   

Yemen’s academics and preservationists have called for archaeological education in the country’s schools, and for the removal of any government or military official who is involved in crimes against archaeology.   Yemen has already begun its crackdown on businessmen attempting to smuggle artifacts. The trial of French suspect Yves Lebourgeois is due to begin today. Lebourgeois was stopped in May at Sana’a Airport with 12 Yemeni artifacts. 

Photographs of St. Georgeous Church in Jordan and what has been called the “oldest Christian church in the world” beneath it are available at Monsters & Critics.

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