The 33,000-year-old skull of a dog in the very early stages of domestication  has been found in Siberia’s Altai Mountains. “At this time, people were hunting animals in large numbers and leaving large piles of bones behind, and that was attracting the wolves,” said evolutionary biologist Susan Crockford.

Skeletons have been unearthed outside the boundaries of a church cemetery in Kempsey, England. Some of the burials could date to 500 A.D. “We thought the graveyard boundary was static and had remained where it was since the church was first built but this clearly shows it was much larger. It indicates Kempsey was a lot more important than the smaller village we have now,” said Tom Vaughan of the Worcestershire Archaeology Service.

Fragments of 13 Inuit skeletons that were excavated 40 years ago are being returned to northern Labrador. The remains will be reburied on Rose Island.

Highway construction in southern Utah has revealed five ancient Pueblo structures.

Archaeology students from the University of California, San Diego, have transformed a Microsoft Kinect game system into a handheld 3D scanner that they think can eventually be used in the field.

The Athens Acropolis will not open on the evening of the August full moon this year, which is normally the only time when archaeological sites are open after sunset. Damage to the monument and visitor injuries are cited.

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