https://phys.org/news/2023-09-role-pareidolia-early-human-cave.html
A psychological phenomenon where people see meaningful forms in random patterns, such as seeing faces in clouds, may have stimulated early humans to make cave art.
https://phys.org/news/2023-09-indo-european-language-excavation-turkey.html
An excavation in Turkey has brought to light an unknown Indo-European language. Professor Daniel Schwemer, an expert for the ancient Near East, is involved in investigating the discovery.
http://www.archaeology.org/news/11755-230921-viking-combs-trade
http://www.archaeology.org/news/11756-230921-hominin-wood-structure
https://www.archaeology.org/news/11704-230825-williamsburg-confederate-soldiers
When the Romantic poet’s younger brother John died at sea, marine artefacts helped him bear the loss, research reveals
When William Wordsworth’s beloved younger brother John died on a ship that sank in rough seas off the coast of Dorset in 1805, the great Romantic poet dealt with his sorrow by writing of the “calamitous” loss: “Sea, Ship, drown’d, Shipwreck – so it came/The meek, the brave, the good, was gone;/ He who had been our living John/ Was nothing but a name.”
John was captain of the East India Company’s largest ship, the Earl of Abergavenny, which sank after hitting rocks shortly after embarking on a trading voyage to China. He was among more than 250 crew and passengers who perished on a bitterly cold February night.
http://www.archaeology.org/news/11705-230825-russia-bronze-age-family
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/26/revival-of-stonehenge-road-tunnel-plan-triggers-new-legal-challenge
Campaigners to return to the courts after planned two-mile tunnel near site, blocked in 2021, is greenlit again
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/aug/26/british-museum-reputation-damaged-treasures-loss
Experts say loss of 1,500 items reveals lax cataloguing and boosts case for returning objects to countries of origin
https://phys.org/news/2023-08-doctoral-thesis-west-estonian-lowlands.html
At the end of the Middle Stone Age and during the Late Stone Age, settlements in the West Estonian lowlands were more seasonal than in the neighboring areas of the island of Saaremaa and the Pärnu Bay catchment area, indicates the study conducted by Kristjan Sander who defended his doctoral thesis at Tallinn University's School of Humanities. The doctoral thesis examines the period of approximately 5300-2600 BC.
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