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Win Scutt (EAA Social Media Editor)

30 fine gemstones, 40 women’s hairpins and 35 glass beads have been found in a drain during archaeological excavations of an opulent #Roman bathhouse next to the Hadrian's Wall fort at Carlisle, UK. https://bit.ly/3wBUcm3

Headless skeletons in a settlement trench: A 7000-year-old mass grave? Last summer's excavations by Slovak-German team at #neolithic site of Vráble-Ve`lke, Lehemby, Slovakia.
https://buff.ly/3ixWAHh

Anglo-Saxon monasteries were more resilient to #Viking attacks than previously thought. Lyminge, a monastery in Kent, UK, endured repeated attacks, but resisted collapse for almost a century, say University of Reading archaeologists.
bit.ly/3JpBlSI

Shipwreck of Gribshunden (1495), flagship of King Hans of Denmark and Norway, have revealed diverse artifacts including exotic spices imported from far distant origins: saffron, ginger, clove, peppercorns, and almond.
https://bit.ly/3YAVA4o

First solid scientific evidence that Vikings brought animals to Britain.
https://bit.ly/3HkWriE

"How Should Scientists Navigate the Ethics of Ancient Human DNA Research?", an interesting discussion in Knowable Magazine.
https://bit.ly/3X0CCmm

Who made these earliest stone tools made 2.6 to 3 million years ago in Kenya? A species of Early Homo or perhaps of Paranthropus? A remarkable new paper in the journal Science.
https://bit.ly/3JWuxMX

Neanderthals hunted elephants: Earliest evidence found of humans killing elephants for food.
https://bit.ly/40l8bue"

Bronze Age well contents reveal the history of animal resources in Mycenae, Greece. Analysis of a refuse dump, including dog and livestock animal remains, provides clues to food availability and destruction over time.
https://bit.ly/3M8uZsk

A 23,000-year-old southern Iberian individual links human groups that lived in Western Europe before and after the Last Glacial Maximum.
https://go.nature.com/3nBrZe2

Scandinavian scientists say they have identified the oldest-known inscription referencing the Norse god Odin on part of a gold disc unearthed in western Denmark in 2020.
https://bit.ly/3zHEYh7

Geo-archaeologist Dr Simon Fitch from the University of Bradford is about to embark on a “first of its kind” mission to map sunken ice age landscapes lost to the oceans millennia ago.
https://bit.ly/42UH3mZ

Archaeologists in France have found one of the first residential sites belonging to the prehistoric builders of some of Europe's first monumental stone structures.
https://bit.ly/3KpwqkZ

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