News Round Up

We would like to invite anyone attending Current Archaeology Live! 2020 to join us at a special Editor-in-Chief’s dinner after the conference on Friday 28th February.  The meal will take place directly after the evening reception, at the Goodge…

POZNAŃ, POLAND—According to a Science in Poland report, a two-inch piece of donkey bone thought to have been carved into an anthropomorphic figurine some 8,000 years ago has been unearthed by an international team led by M.Z. Barański at Çatalhöyük…

POZNAŃ, POLAND—According to a Science in Poland report, a two-inch piece of donkey bone thought to have been carved into an anthropomorphic figurine some 8,000 years ago has been unearthed by an international team led by M.Z. Barański at Çatalhöyük…

MINYA GOVERNORATE, EGYPT—Ahram Online reports that the communal tombs of senior officials and high priests of the god Djehuty—who was also known as Thoth, the god of knowledge, the moon, measurement, wisdom, and writing—have been discovered in Upper…

PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY—According to a report in Science News, a new study indicates that modern Africans inherited DNA from migrating Neanderthals. Geneticist Joshua Akey of Princeton University and his colleagues conducted a statistical analysis of…

A brilliant, large scale kinetic sculpture by Rowland Emett has been acquired by the Science Museum Group who have put it on display at Locomotion Constructed in 1984, A Quiet Afternoon in the Cloud Cuckoo Valley comprises eight separate machines…

How local people are using the St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery photography collection to remember and share the social history of local cinema-going The story of the rise, fall and rebirth of cinema-going in our small towns is one of those histories…

The House of Illustration shines a light on the work of the influential Polish émigré and British mid-century designer George Him Despite being a Royal Designer for Industry and a favourite of iconic British brands such as Penguin Books and…

Richard Long’s art returns to the land that inspired him courtesy of a major retrospective at the Thelma Hulbert in Honiton For more than 50 years, Richard Long has been at the forefront of conceptual art, working beyond the confines of traditional…

COLUMBUS, OHIO—According to a Cosmos Magazine report, Mark Hubbe of The Ohio State University and his colleagues suggest that the peopling of North America may have been a more complex process than previously thought. The researchers analyzed four…

LEYMEBAMBA, PERU—Live Science reports that a team led by archaeologist Daniel Fernandez-Davila and application engineer Jason Kleinhenz of Exact Metrology have created a 3-D scan of a one-ton monolith located in a remote jungle of northern Peru. The…

WARSAW, POLAND—According to a Science in Poland report, a shipwreck measuring some 120 feet long was spotted in the Vistula River by researchers using sonar mounted on a motorboat. Divers then visited the wreck site, which is thought to be a vessel…

Haunting objects from the Museum of London collection come out of storage to tell the story of the capital’s bloody history of executions It is one of the rarest and most intriguing objects of the Museum of London’s seven million object strong…

TORONTO, CANADA—According to a statement released by the University of Toronto, animal bones collected from northeastern Lebanon’s Nachcharini Cave in the 1970s have been radiocarbon dated to about 10,000 years ago—a period known as the Pre-Pottery…

WIELICZKA, POLAND—The First News reports that archaeologist Michał Wojenka of Jagiellonian University and his colleagues were investigating the site of the so-called Old Synagogue in southeastern Poland when they discovered some 350 objects,…

MANCHESTER, ENGLAND—A 2,600-year-old Egyptian mummy brought to Belfast and unwrapped in 1835 has undergone additional testing, according to a statement released by the University of Manchester. Researchers from the National Museums Northern Ireland…

LONDON, ENGLAND—The Guardian reports that archaeologists have recovered a variety of medieval artifacts from a 15-foot-deep cesspit under Somerset House, an eighteenth-century Neoclassical building in central London. The well-preserved objects,…

WILMINGTON, DELAWARE—According to a CNN report, U.S. federal authorities have recovered a copy of a letter written in Spanish by Christopher Columbus to King Ferdinand of Spain in 1493. The text of the letter was soon translated into Latin and…

NOVOSIBIRSK, RUSSIA—Cosmos Magazine reports that Kseniya Kolobova of Siberia’s Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Richard Roberts of the University of Wollongong, and their colleagues have discovered 74 Neanderthal bones, animal fossils,…

BATH, ENGLAND—According to a report in the Bath Echo, traces of two semicircular stone buildings, uncovered at Bath Abbey during renovation work, have been radiocarbon dated with charcoal recovered from the site to the Anglo-Saxon period. The…