A mass grave that may hold the remains of Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca is being exhumed at the request of relatives of the other men who may be buried there. “This country had an appalling civil war. There are 130,000 people out there still in common graves, ditches, fields, and gullies,” said historian Ian Gibson, whose research helped locate the excavation site.

Stone Age artifacts made of wood have been discovered in a peat-covered burial in some mud in central Sweden. 

Halloween traditions are explained at Live Science, but there’s even more “uncanny” information at ARCHAEOLOGY.  

PhD candidate Ellen OCarroll is investigating tree use by the Irish. “Trees were part of their life and folklore and history, and they were used to make artifacts. It’s hard for us now to appreciate just how important they were,” she said.  

Students from the University of California, Santa Cruz, are investigating pre-colonial West Africa and the roots of the international slave trade in Benin. “It was a tense and terrifying time for people,” said anthropologist Cameron Monroe.  

Four people were arrested in Nepal for trying to smuggle statues of Buddha into India.

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