A six-inch-tall figurine of a kneeling woman with long hair was unearthed at the 1,000-year-old city discovered in southwestern Illinois, where a new Mississippi River bridge is being built. “This is the biggest look at a Mississippian City ever. It’s really a very rare opportunity,” said dig supervisor Joe Galloy.

Human feet and legs are best suited for endurance running, according to evolutionary biologist Dan Lieberman of Harvard University. “You know, when you’re in the marathon and you’re wondering at mile 16 or 17 what on earth you’re doing, remember, you’re chasing a kudu, that’s what you’re doing, you’re re-enacting that chase from a million years ago,” he said.  

A seventeenth-century shipwreck salvaged from the shores of North Carolina has been moved to the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum, where it will be conserved and protected.  

Discovery News has additional photographs of objects taken from the tomb beneath the El Diablo pyramid at the Maya site of El Zotz.  

A virtual, 3D map of Stonehenge is in the works. “The results of this work will be a digital chart of the ‘invisible’ Stonehenge landscape, a seamless map linking one of the world’s most famous monuments with the buried archaeology that surrounds it,” said Vince Gaffney of the University of Birmingham.

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