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Early Bronze Age hillforts of the basalt desert of Eastern Jordan . Past Horizons Water sources key to Australia’s colonisation . Past Horizons Humans may have occupied Southern Cone of South America 14,000 years ago . Popular Archaeology Archaeologists discover ancient Chinese skeletons in London cemetery . The Week Cats colonized most of the planet by boat . Quartz New evidence shifts the timeline back for human arrival in the Americas . Plos New discovery in Matariya points to a King Ramses II temple . Ahram Online How oral cultures memorise so much information . Physorg 5,000-Year-Old Swirling Rock Art in Scotland Remains a Mystery . Live Science Ancient Roman coins unearthed from Japanese castle baffle archaeologists . ABC Evidence of Ancient Assyrian Church Discovered in Kazakhstan . AINA

New method differentiates between modern humans and Neanderthals . Past Horizons Marble statues of Aphrodite discovered during Petra excavations . Past Horizons Ancient Charred Hebrew Scroll Virtually Unwrapped . Popular Archaeology The World's Earliest Known Use of Indigo Dye Found in Peru . Popular Archaeology   Ancient Skeleton Discovered on Antikythera Shipwreck . Heritage Daily   3,000-Year-Old Cooking Fail Found At A Danish Dig Site . NPR   This Man Was Killed by Brutal Boomerang Blow 800 Years Ago . Live Science   Scientists found a network of ancient cities in Cambodia . ASK NAIJ   Drone Photos Reveal Ancient Settlement . Archaeology A Sunken Bridge the Size of a Continent . Hakai Dying in ancient Egypt—evidence of inflammation, infection and possible cancer . Physorg Painting claimed to be among Australia’s oldest known rock art . Science News 8,000-year-old female figurine uncovered in central Turkey . Miami Herald

Researchers unearth ancient mythological statues in Jordan . Eurekalert 13th century Maya codex, long shrouded in controversy, proves genuine . Eurekalert 5,000 year old Prehistoric art panel uncovered . Physorg Evidence of child sacrifice found at centuries-old burial site in Peru . Fox news Latino 2,100-year-old statue of Cybele the Anatolian mother goddess unearthed in northwestern Turkey . Daily Sabah Ancient scripture stone found in Mrouk-Oo of Arakan . BNI Archaeologists excavate a Late Bronze Age settlement in Portugal . Popular Archeology How did prehistoric humans occupy the Tibetan Plateau ? Eurekalert

Field Museum scientists unearth centuries-old crocodile stone . Eurekalert Technology and innovation not driven by climate change . Eurekalert Dental plaque sheds new light on diet of Mesolithic Balkans . Past Horizons Etruscan discovery names goddess Uni . Past Horizons Some people enhanced the environment, not degraded it, over past 13,000 years . Popular Archaeology Huge four-year project launched to uncover history and archaeology of Blaenau Gwent valley . Wales online Deep in the Swamps, Archaeologists Are Finding How Fugitive Slaves Kept Their Freedom . Smithsonian Archaeologists Identify More Than 150 Rock Art Paintings in Chile . Scientific American   Mystery stone structure under Neolithic dump on Orkney . BBC   Archeologists discover 4,200 yr-old rattle in central Turkey . Daily Sabah Water management and the demise of the Maya civilization . Popular Archaeology   Burial chamber discovered in Asasif on Luxor's west bank . Ahram Online