Four bronze statuettes have been recovered by Egypt’s tourism and antiquities police. Two of the statues were stolen from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. The other two will be identified and returned to the proper museums or archaeological sites. 

Researchers have found a 12,000-year-old site in southern Jordan which consists of three large buildings and several smaller ones. None of the structures appear to be individual family homes, leading Bill Finalyson of the Council for British Research in the Levant, and Steven Mithen of the University of Reading, to suggest that the people came together to process food and conduct other communal activities, during the transition from hunting and gathering to farming. 

There’s more information on the actual diet preferred by “Nutcracker Man” in this article by the Associated Press. 

Former archaeologist Sean McLachlan weighs in on the planned exhumation of The Leather Man, who was buried in Ossining, New York, in 1889. 

Some 650 pots are being reassembled at the National Park Service’s Western Archaeological and Conservation Center in Tucson, Arizona. The glue used to reconstruct the pots in the 1920s is disintegrating. 

A brass ship’s bell inscribed “U.S.S. Triton” has been returned to the U.S. Navy from a private home. The bell came from a submarine that was sunk in the Pacific Ocean during World War II, and then it later traveled on a nuclear-powered sub that became the first submerged vessel to circumnavigate the world in 1960.

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