Peru has filed legal papers to dismiss allegations of fraud and conspiracy from its lawsuit against Yale University. Peru is suing for the return of artifacts removed by a Yale scholar from Maccu Picchu between 1911 and 1915. Trial dates have been set for eight more defendants in the federal artifacts-trafficking sting in Utah and […]

 Czech archaeologists say that they have found a 150,000-year-old settlement in the northern Iraqi town of Arbil, one of the oldest permanently inhabited parts of the world. Here’s a wrap-up of the latest thinking on Homo floresiensis. “This is a new species that cannot be explained by any known pathology,” concluded William L. Jungers of […]