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Ancient DNA is a powerful tool for studying the past – when archaeologists and geneticists work together By Elizabeth Sawchuk and Mary Prendergast (The Conversation)
Ancient palace emerges from drought-hit Iraq reservoir By Jack Guy (CNN)
A Sunken Kingdom Re-emerges By Katrin Bennhold (The New York Times)
Archaeology Find: Camels In 'Bible' Are Literary Anachronisms (NPR)
Archaeology Magazine
Britain's equivalent to Tutankhamun found in Southend-on-Sea By Mark Brown (The Guardian)
David Reich Unearths Human History Etched in Bone By Carl Zimmer (The New York Times)
Earliest Cookware Was Used To Make Fish Soup By Nancy Shute (NPR)
Earliest Footprints Outside Africa Discovered in Norfolk By Pallab Ghosh (BBC)
Engraved bones reveal that symbolism had ancient roots in East Asia By Bruce Bower (Science News)
Exploring a Hidden Archive of New York City’s Historic Trash By Jessica Leigh Hester (Atlas Obscura)
Finally, the Beauty of France's Chauvet Cave Makes its Grand Public Debut By Joshua Hammer (Smithsonian Magazine)
Grave Science (NPR)
Helle's toilet: 12th-century three-person loo seat goes on display By Esther Addley (The Guardian)
Iconic 2,500 year old Siberian princess 'died from breast cancer', reveals MRI scan By Anna Liesowska (The Siberian Times)
Jawbone Fossil Fills a Gap in Early Human Evolution By John Noble Wilford (The New York Times)
These knotted cords may hide the first evidence that the Incas collected taxes By Bruce Bower (Science News)
Lost City Discovered in the Honduran Rain Forest By Douglas Preston (National Geographic)
Monte Testaccio
Mummies of the World: The Exhibition
Mysterious Cave Rings Show Neanderthals Liked To Build By Christopher Joyce (NPR)
Mythical Beings May Be Earliest Imaginative Cave Art by Humans By Becky Ferreira (The New York Times)
Narrower Skulls, Oblong Brains: How Neanderthal DNA Still Shapes Us By Carl Zimmer (The New York Times)
New York Times Topics: Archaeology and Anthropology
Oldest 'Out of Africa' Human Footprints Found on British Coast By Scott Neuman (NPR)
Pause Is Seen in a Continent’s Peopling By Nicholas Wade (The New York Times)
People may have smoked marijuana in rituals 2,500 years ago in western China By Bruce Bower (Science News)
Receding Waters in California Expose Artifacts to Plundering By Patricia Leigh Brown (The New York Times)
Rio’s Race to Future Intersects Slave Past By Simon Romero (The New York Times)
Scientists Are Discovering Long-Lost Rules for Ancient Board Games By Matthew Gault (Vice)
Scientists reveal 10,000-year-old mummy is Native American ancestor By Hannah Devlin (The Guardian)
Siberian Princess reveals her 2,500 year old tattoos By Siberian Times Reporter (The Siberian Times)
Stonehenge Begins to Yield Its Secrets By Kenneth Chang (The New York Times)
The Archaeology of the Stars By Curtis Brainard (The New York Times)
The Cheapside Hoard: London's Lost Jewels (Museum of London)
The climate crisis has sparked a Siberian mammoth tusk gold rush By Sabrina Weiss (Wired)
There Were Once More Than 425 Shellmounds in the Bay Area. Where Did They Go? By Laura Klivans (KQED)
Were the Terracotta Warriors Based on Actual People? By Elizabeth Quill (The Smithsonian Magazine)
What 15,000 Years Of Cooking Fish Tells Us About Humanity By Barbara J. King (NPR)
Why a Medieval Woman Had Lapis Lazuli Hidden in Her Teeth By Sarah Zhang (The Atlantic)
Will the Iconic Skull of an Ancient Human Return to Zambia? By Michael Balter (Sapiens)
World's 'oldest figurative painting' discovered in Borneo cave By Ian Sample (The Guardian)