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Experimental Study Investigates Marks on Bronze Age Weapons

Wear and tear of bronze spearheads during the free spear fighting experiment. (A) Bent tip; (B–C) socket rim damage; (D) round depression GŌTTINGEN, GERMANY—According to a statement released by the University of Göttingen, a team of researchers, including experienced fighters, investigated how Bronze Age spears were used in battle by …

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Culinary Tradition in Tunisia May Be More Than 7,000 Years Old

PROVENCE, FRANCE—Phys.org reports that 41 cooked snail shells with epiphragms have been found among more than 35,000 Sphincterochila candidissima shells in a 7,700-year-old rammadiyet, or shell mound, at the site of Kef Ezzahi in northern Tunisia. Ismail Saafi of Aix-Marseille University explained that some land snails form an epiphragm, a …

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Eurasian Scythians May Have Had Roots in Siberia

Finds unearthed between clusters of horse bones at Tunnug 1 JENA, GERMANY—The Scythians who lived in Central Asia and Eastern Europe some 2,500 years ago may have had roots in Siberia, according to a Science News report. At the Tunnug 1 burial mound in southern Siberia, archaeologist Gino Caspari of …

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World War II Destroyer Found Off California Coastline

USS Stewart stern SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA—Live Science reports that the wreckage of the destroyer USS Stewart has been found under 3,500 feet of water in the Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary by a team of researchers from the marine robotics company Ocean Infinity; Search, an archaeology company; the Air/Sea Heritage …

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Study Evaluates Northern Africa’s Paleoecology

TARRAGONA, SPAIN—According to a statement released by the Spanish National Research Center for Human Evolution (CENIEH), an international team of researchers led by Iván Ramírez-Pedraza of the Catalan Institute for Human Palaeoecology and Social Evolution-Research Centres of Catalonia (IPHES-CERCA) examined materials from the Guefaït-4 site in Morocco in order to …

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