Archaeologist Mario Bergeron, aged 55, has died of injuries he sustained during an excavation in Montreal. He had been uncovering the remains of Canada’s first permanent parliament building. A 50,000-year-old human skull fragment may have been used by Neanderthals as a sharpening tool. The bone was found in a cave in southwestern France, among other […]

Indonesian fisherman spotted a shipwreck that was probably pushed closer to shore by last October’s tsunami. The ship may date to the fourteenth century.  Jawbones recovered from a warrior’s burial at Teotihuacan in 2004 have been identified as crossbred wolf-dogs. “In oral traditions and old chronicles, dog-like animals appear with symbols of power or divinity. […]