How did humans become adaptable beings? This is the questions to be asked in a new study that will look at how climate change over millions of years affected human evolution. “The explanations that we’ve had tied human origins back to an African savannah or to a European ice age, and it was never really adequate to understand the plasticity, the versatility of the human species,” explained Rick Potts of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.

Energy companies that want to construct offshore wind farms in the North Sea will have to beware of Stone Age villages in the region known as Doggerland, which was submerged by ice melt some 8,000 years ago. Doggerland once connected Britain to mainland Europe.   

As Pakistan’s historical sites are deteriorating, people are moving in and building new homes on the land.  

A section of a twelfth-century wall in Sri Lanka, said to have been built by King Parakramabahu the Great to protect the city of Polonnaruwa, has been bulldozed. The construction workers were putting in a new water line.  

An Eastern Han Dynasty walled city has been discovered in China’s Jiangxi province. The city is estimated to be 2,000 years old.  

Here’s more on the politics of archaeology in Jerusalem.  

The Assyrian International News Agency reports that structures belonging to the Anglican Church in Luxor, Egypt, have been destroyed to make way for the “Rams Road” project, before negotiations for the land were completed.   The project, also called the “Avenue of Sphinxes,” has been making news for a while.

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