Cut marks on 7,000-year-old human bones from Herxheim, Germany, suggest that these early farmers were cannibals. “It is impossible to establish direct proof of cannibalism. But here we have systematic, repetitive gestures, which suggest that the bodies were eaten,” said Bruno Boulestin, of Bordeaux University. The bones were found in two lines of ditches dug around the settlement.  

Here’s a little more information on the Byzantine bathhouse discovered in southern Israel.  

A group of volunteers hoped to dig up evidence of a Revolutionary War encampment at a building site in Connecticut, but they found pottery, horse shoes, and nails instead.  

Archaeologists had more luck while looking for Revolutionary War-era artifacts at the McDowell House in North Carolina.  

It has been thought that millet was domesticated in northwest China 8,000 years ago, but archaeologists haven’t found enough of the fossilized grains at the early farming village of Dadiwan to be sure. They analyzed the bones of dogs, pigs, and humans, and found that millet became an important crop over time, even earlier than rice agriculture in southern China.  

National Geographic News has picked up on the discovery of tunnels dug beneath Palace Square in Valletta by the Knights of Malta. The tunnel network may have been part of the city’s extensive water system.  

Sixth-grade students in Liverpool, New York, “honored the gods with valor” at their Ancient Olympic Games, held in the school cafeteria.  

Writer Glenn Adams took his kids out of the school cafeteria and on a tour of Greece, including the Palestra in Olympia.

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