‘High status’ Roman villa and bath house found in England (CNN 15/04/21)
Remains of a complex of “high-status” Roman buildings have been uncovered during construction work on a new housing development in northern England
New evidence regarding emerald production in Roman Egypt coming from Wadi Sikait (EurekAlert 14/04/21)
Resuming the archaeological season in the Egyptian Eastern Desert provides proof of Roman emerald mines
New evidence suggests sexual division of labor as farming arose in Europe (Phys.org 14/04/21)
A new investigation of stone tools buried in graves provides evidence supporting the existence of a division of different types of labor between people of male and female biological sex at the start of the Neolithic
Genetic admixture in the South Pacific: from Denisovans to the human immune response (EurekAlert 14/04/21)
Describing the genetic diversity of human populations is essential to improve our understanding of human diseases and their geographical distribution
‘Lost golden city’ found in Egypt reveals lives of ancient pharaohs (BBC 09/04/21)
The discovery of a 3,000-year-old city that was lost to the sands of Egypt has been hailed as one of the most important archaeological finds since Tutankhamun’s tomb
Egypt mummies pass through Cairo in ancient rulers’ parade (BBC 04/04/21)
Egyptians have been witnessing a historic procession of their country’s ancient rulers through the capital, Cairo
Genomes of the earliest Europeans (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft 07/04/21)
Ancient genomes shed new light on the earliest Europeans and their relationships with Neandertals
Bronze Age slab found in France is oldest 3D map in Europe (BBC 06/04/21)
A freshly unearthed Bronze-Age stone may be the oldest three-dimensional map in Europe, researchers say
Lunch Break Science #24| Kate McGrath
Lunch Break Science is a weekly online series featuring short lectures or interviews with Leakey Foundation scientists Lunch Break Science #24| Kate McGrath Meet Leakey Foundation grantee Kate McGrath and learn what the teeth of our ancestors can tell us about their life histories.
In show of Pharaonic heritage, Egypt parades royal mummies (Phys.org 03/04/21)
Egypt held a gala parade on Saturday celebrating the transport of 22 of its prized royal mummies from central Cairo to their new resting place in a massive new museum further south in the capital
Humans were apex predators for two million years (EurekAlert 05/04/21)
What did our ancestors eat during the stone age? Mostly meat
Warriors’ down bedding could ease journey to realm of the dead (Phys.org 25/03/21)
The burial field in Valsgärde outside Uppsala in central Sweden contains more than 90 graves from the Iron Age