Sediment cores taken from Indiana’s Appleman Lake reveal that megafauna declined 15,000 years ago, during a time of major environmental changes. “We can’t resolve the climate versus human debate but we have eliminated one of the main hypotheses for each camp,” said Jacquelyn Gill of the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Three skeletons were revealed during excavation work at Notre Dame Basilica in Montreal. “From their bones and teeth we can determine with sex, age, and size,” said bioarchaeologist Gerard Gagne.  

And a human skull turned up at a hospital construction site in Iowa.  

Two seventeenth-century mill stones that were incorporated into a Long Island City, New York, sidewalk have been moved as part of a renovation project. “Due to the excessive weight of the stones and their fragility, we feel it is prudent to move them as little as possible,” said Janel Patterson of the Economic Development Corporation.  

A Utah man will plead guilty to threatening the government informant in a recent federal American Indian artifacts sting operation. He is expected to get a year in prison.  

Scotland has more Roman camps than any other European country-at least 225 of them.  

Bartender Mike Astins of the Fairmont Royal York Hotel in Ontario has created a “King Tut Martini” in honor of the Tutankhamun exhibit now at the Art Gallery of Ontario.  Recipe included.  

Then travel to Egypt with Dugald Jellie of the Sydney Morning Herald.  

A tooth, a thumb, and a finger that once belonged to Galileo Galilei surfaced at auction. Other body parts taken from the corpse of the scientist have been housed in Italian museums since 1737. “On the basis of considerable historical documentation, there are no doubts about the authenticity of the items,” read a statement issued by Florence’s History of Science Museum.

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