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Charlemagne in medieval East Central Europe (ca. 800 to ca. 1200) . Medievalists.net Foot Bones Allow Researchers To Determine Sex of Skeletal Remains . North Carolina State University Ancient Maya Exhibition Explores 2012 End-of-World Prediction . Popular Archaeology Ecuador 'locates final resting place of last Inca emperor's tomb' . The Telegraph DNA reveals Neanderthal extinction clues . BBC Neanderthals were ancient mariners . New Scientist Research Re-examines Role of Maya Women . UCR today

Major philanthropic gift for indigenous rock art research . Past Horizons Google ancient places digs into the past . Past Horizons Tomb exploration reveals first archaeological evidence of Christianity from the time of Jesus . Eurekalert Ancient cave speaks of Hades myth . USA today Scientists find 4500-year old temple in Ur in Irak . Azzaman Found: Ancient Warrior's Helmet, Owner Unknown . Live Science Iceman may have suffered from Lyme disease . MSNBC

Rethinking the social structure of ancient Eurasian nomads: Current Anthropology research . Eurekalert European Neandertals were on the verge of extinction even before the arrival of modern humans . Eurekalert Ancient Arabic writings help scientists piece together past climate . eurekalert Nottingham academic reveals insight into early prehistoric human occupations . Heritage daily Alternate fortunes? The role of domestic ducks and geese from Roman to Medieval times in Britain . Medievalists.net   Secret Renaissance Letter Reveals Plan to Save England . Live Science Profit or preservation? Debate rages over Titanic treasures . Kval Copper beads spring a surprise in Megalithic excavation . The Hindu 3,000-year-old shipwreck shows European trade was thriving in Bronze Age . The Telegraph Climate change at Xcoch mapped in Mayan caves . Past Horizons New evidence suggests Stone Age hunters from Europe discovered America . The Independent

Lead poisoning in Rome: the skeletal evidence . Past Horizons Fossil of ancient horse found in China . UPI In a narrow, modest laboratory in Michigan State University’s Giltner Hall, students pore over African skeletons from the Middle Ages in an effort to make the bones speak. . Physorg Archaeology students make surprising finds at tabernacle dig site . KSL Facebook, YouTube and even texting will be the salvation of many of the world's endangered languages, scientists believe. . BBC New archaeological site discovered. Dawn ASI defends amendment to monuments act . Deccan Herald

Unique runstone included in UNESCO list . Past Horizons The Use of Fortification as a Political Instrument by the Ayyubids and the Mamluks in Bilad al-Sham and in Egypt (Twelfth-Thirteenth Centuries) . Medievalists.net Wild cereals threatened by global warming . University of Haifa Bulgaria to grant 1M leva for digs at motorway sites . The Sofia Echo ASI wants marble removed from Bodhi tree . Ians live Greece seeks to increase museum security after thefts of valuable artwork. The Washington Post Mexico Discovers One-Thousand-Year-Old Maya Game . Prensa Latina Google Funds Project Investigating Geography Of Ancient World . Eurasia Review

‘With a Vertu and Leawté’: Masculine Relationships in Medieval Scotland . Medievalists.net Archaeologists bringing Jerusalem's ancient Roman city back to life . Haaretz Water Management and Climate Change in Ancient Maya City . Science Daily Four unknown shipwrecks found. Athens news Ancient plants back to life after 30,000 frozen years . BBC From Bass Strait to the Indian Ocean -- tracking a current . Eurekalert Rare Opportunity to Hear about Excavation of Ancient Port of Constantinople . Popular archaeology Archaeologists find pebble floors. Gguampdn

University of Miami anthropological linguist studies the anumeric language of an Amazonian tribe; the findings add new perspective to the way people acquire knowledge, perception and reasoning . Eurekalert  ASU sustainability scientist to give anthropologist view of globalization at the local scale . Eurekalert Climate change, economic turmoil and cultural upheaval may be pressing concerns today -- but history can teach us how best to respond, research suggests . Eurekalert Aztec carving tell story of cosmic battle . Past Horizons Evidence of massacre in bronze age Turkey . Past Horizons Precious past: why the ancient assets of Greece and Egypt must be saved . The Guardian Archaeologists discover Jordans earliest buildings . Heritage Daily   University of Tennessee hosts Symposium on Reading, Writing in Pre-modern World . Medievalists.net Archaeologists Excavate Magnificent Monumental City of the Decapolis . Popular archaeology Japanese-Egyptian team starts restoring

Chiseldon cauldron update: an unique form of decoration . Past Horizons Charter service: encasing the Magna carta . Heritage Daily Stonehenge was based on a 'magical' auditory illusion, says scientist . The Guardian Magic Sounds of Peru's Ancient Chavín de Huántar . Popular archaeology Human Evolution Linked to Climate Change? . Environmental protection Greece Olympic Games Museum robbed . Euronews

The birs in the Iliad strengthened warriors . Past Horizons Fossilized Pollen Unlocks Secrets of Ancient Royal Garden . AFTAU Tunisia: Discovery of a Roman Cemetery in Djerba . All Africa Vandalism at Maldives Museum Stirs Fears of Extremism . Asia Pacific Big Find Made at Aztec Temple in Mexico . Fox news Latino Bulgarian Govt Exacerbates Conflict with Archaeologists over Highways . Novinite Archaeological Survey of India DG Gautam Sengupta meets Odisha CM . Orissa current news

Glasgow team gets £1m grant to study illegal trade in antiquities . The Guardian Montreal Museum of Fine Arts has archaeological pieces stolen . The Gazette Archaeological dept cannot confirm if painting is a Goya . Hindustan Times Archaeological Institute of America program about early pipe-making in Illinois during Middle Woodland Period — part 1. The Rock River Times Amerindian archaeologist in list for Caribbean Awards . Guardian A Sip for the Ancestors: The True Story of Civilization’s Stumbling Debt to Beer and Fungus . Scientific American

The world’s strongest and purest neutron beam . Technishe Universität München Archaeologists Uncovering Legendary Lost City of Poseidon . Popular archaeology Neanderthals Used Red Ochre Pigment 250,000 Years Ago . Popular archaeology Animal Mummies Discovered at Ancient Egyptian Site . Live Science Snow damages Colosseum. News24 Life on Earth Began on Land, Not in Sea ? . National Geographic Malta: Workmen discover a Muslim cemetery . Times of Malta Ancient Afro-Asia Links: New Evidence from a Maritime Perspective . Medievalists.net The villa Loupian: a Gallo-Roman estate in Languedoc . Past Horizons Nag Hammadi codices: a new interpretive approach .Past Horizons Archaeologists strike gold in quest to find Queen of Sheba's wealth . The Guardian Roman remains discovered in Bath . Heritage Daily Israel OKs tourist center in tense Arab area . AP   Bulgarian archaeologists uncovers 130 ancient sites along Nabucco pipeline route . Trend Archaeologists m

  Recorda splendidissima: the use of pipe rolls in the thirteenth century . Medievalists.net Mexican experts excited to find ancient home ruins . The Colombus dispatch Application of Lidar surveys in archaeology – some examples from France and abroad . Calenda Acropolis of forgotten kingdom uncovered . Ansa Med Sunet sits on archaeological goldmine, ASI slumbers on . Indian Express Spain: Underwater Archaeology in Ibiza . Ibiza Spotlight Ancient Poop Science: Inside the Archaeology of Paleofeces . IO9 Pakistan cultural treasures boosted by US support. Pakistan observer

Archaeologists go deep to uncover history . Heritage daily The German Reformation and Medieval Thought and Culture . Medievalists.net Ancient Farmers had Impact on Disappearance of African Rainforests . Popular archaeology Hazard assements of cultural landscapes. Eastern Attica as case study . Heritage daily Complete Denisovan genome offers glimpse of ancient variation . Nature Origin of ancient mosaics at BGSU suspect . Toledo blade Sunet sits on archaeological goldmine, ASI slumbers on . Indian express China to build 1st archaeological museum . China daily

Neanderthal demise due to many influences . Past Horizons Fossil cricket reveals Jurassic love song . Heritage daily The Place of the Papacy in the Ecclesial Piety of the 11th-century Reformers . Medievalists.net Did Easter Islanders Mix It Up With South Americans ? Science mag Religious Rock Art topic of next World of Science lecture . Prospectus news Dead Sea Scrolls get new life . My fox Ancient cremated bodies found in field . The rugby observer

Viking Barley in Greenland . Past Horizons Archaeologists dicosver ancient greek graves . Heritage Daily Stonehenge as you've never seen it . The Guardian Research: Neanderthal demise due to many influences, including cultural changes . Eurekalert Census Declares Thousands of China’s Heritage Sites “Disappeared” . Popular archaeoly At a planned train trench, an archaeological treasure trove . Los Angeles Times Rare Indus seal discovered in Cholistan . Dawn Archaeological tag for pancha mathas . Deccan Chronicle

 Treasure from sunken galleon must be returned to Spain, judge says . The Guardian Piltdown Man: British archaeology's greatest hoax . The Guardian Helping to conserve Albania's cultural heritage . Past Horizons Maya 2012: lords of time . Past Horizons New insight into ancient greek pills . Heritage Daily Early Chinese Tattoo . Medievalists.net Tiny artifacts recovered at the excavations of 17th century Jamestown in Virginia give clues about life in the earliest years of the colony . Popular archaeology Blackbeard Artifacts to be Opened to Public . Popular archaeology Did Early Humans Ride the Waves to Australia ? . The Wall Street Journal Punjab archaeology sites to be on Google Maps . dawn Israel: First Temple Period Archaeological Discovery on the Hill of Jonah . SCI news Viking axe find in Slimbridge discounted by archaeologists . BBC news

Archaeologists and pagans alike glory in the Brodgar complex. The Guardian Police appeal for information on theft of Anglo-Saxon coins . Heritage Daily Kazakhstan : Archaeological Remains of a Nomadic Culture is an Eye-Opening Surprise . Popular Archaeology Japanese archaeologists find pottery with ogre's face . People's daily The Earliest Copy Of Mona Lisa Found . Discovery news Community archaeology project success leads to more North East digs . Journal Live Caledon’s unique archaeological treasures to be resurrected . Tyrone Times

 Study Reveals Possible New Key to Human Evolution . Popular archaeology Museum and archaeological park for Abu Dhabi . Past Horizons ‘Have This Horse’: The Role of Horses and Horsemanship in Medieval Arthurian Literature . Medievalists.net Viking axe head discovery is 'evidence of battle' . BBC news New Species of Ancient Crocodile, Ancestor of Today’s Species, Discovered by MU Researcher . University of Missouri Deal May Yield World’s Richest Shipwreck Trove . The New-York Times Swift Action Preserves Roman Past for the Future . Only Kent

First plants caused ice ages . Eurekalert Sex Differentials in Frailty in Medieval England . Medievalists.net Archaeologists and pagans alike glory in the Brodgar complex . The Guardian Treasure from sunken galleon must be returned to Spain, judge says . The Guardian Researchers find cancer in ancient Egyptian mummy . Yahoo news Origin of Ancient Jade Tool Baffles Scientists . Live science Archeologist uncovers ancient pottery . Guampdn Gods and Myths of Antiquity. The Art newspaper