In Spain’s Esquilleu Cave, anthropologists have discovered a hearth and grass piles that could represent a Neanderthal bedroom. “It is possible that the Neanderthals renewed the bedding each time they visited the cave,” said Dan Cabanes of the Weizmann Institute of Science. The beds may also have been covered with animal fur.  

A medieval hospital cemetery is being excavated in South Yorkshire, England. “By analyzing the remains over a period of time we will hope to find out more about their lives and how they died. It is possible they were not all local,” said Dawn Hadley of Sheffield University.  

You can vote for funds to be given Florida’s “Save Our Shipwrecks” project as part of the Pepsi Refresh Project Do Good for the Gulf Initiative. The project will preserve Florida wrecks in the region of the oil spill.  

Another man caught in the federal artifacts trafficking raids in Utah has been sentenced. He will receive three years of probation.  

Officials at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia have decided to transfer its archaeology lab’s home to smaller quarters and give the larger space to the American Revolution Center, a private organization. In exchange, 78 acres in Valley Forge will be given to the National Park Service. Visitors to the park will now need an appointment to visit the archaeology lab and its one million artifacts.  

There’s a little more information about the project to sequence the Iceman’s genome at Live Science.

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