Nature News reports that palaeontologist Christopher Lepre found stone axes and cruder stone tools together at a 1.76-million-year-old site in Kenya. The discovery may help explain who made similar types of stone tools found outside of Africa.

Australian bushranger Ned Kelly’s bones have been identified in a mass prison grave using DNA analysis. Kelly was hanged for murder 130 years ago, and his remains were moved from a Melbourne jail to Pentridge Prison in 1929. His skull is still missing.

The Iron Age hill fort at Ham Hill in Somerset, England, may have been surrounded by a residential neighborhood. “There was a main road going through and regular enclosures with round houses in them – it looks rather like suburbia,” said Christopher Evans of the Cambridge Archaeological Unit.

A Neolithic tomb and a ceremonial monument have been found at the bluestone quarry that is thought to have supplied material to build Stonehenge, located 150 miles away.

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