SEVILLE, SPAIN—According to an El País report, a team of researchers led by Carlos Odriozola of the University of Seville has studied replica amber beads produced by people living on the Iberian Peninsula between 3,000 and 5,000 years ago. More than 2,000 beads crafted to resemble amber have been found …

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL—According to a statement released by Tel Aviv University, about two-thirds of the 4,500-year-old pottery vessels unearthed at Syria’s site of Tel Hama in the 1930s were made by children as young as seven or eight years old. The potters’ ages were determined through measuring fingerprints in the …

Potential barrows identified by volunteers LEIDEN, THE NETHERLANDS—More than 6,500 volunteers have assisted with the identification of some 1,000 prehistoric burial mounds in the central Netherlands in the Heritage Quest project, according to a ZME Science report. The citizen scientists were tasked with reviewing small image tiles compiled from lidar …

Roman marble statue of Gaius Marius Hermogenes VARNA, BULGARIA—The Sofia Globe reports that a larger-than-life Roman statue dated to the second or third century A.D. was uncovered during construction work near the coast of the Black Sea, outside the walls of the ancient city of Odessos. The white marble figure …

1st-century A.D. grave with cremated remains and grave goods during excavation MUNICH, GERMANY—Phys.org reports that Wolf-Rüdiger Teegen of Ludwig-Maximilians University examined the cremated remains of more than 1,600 people unearthed at the Wederath-Belginum cemetery in western Germany. Three hundred and sixty-four of the individuals lived during the Celtic Iron Age, …

MÜNSTER, GERMANY—CBS News reports that traces of an early Christian church have been uncovered in Armenia, at the site of the ancient city of Artaxata, by a team of German and Armenian researchers. “The building, which dates back to the fourth century, is the oldest archaeologically documented church in the …

ESKILSTRUP, DENMARK—According to a ZME Science report, a stone-paved pit discovered in southern Denmark during work on a railway line has been dated to 5,000 years ago. The pit, which was found at a Funnel Beaker Culture site known as Nygårdsvej 3, measures more than six feet long by five …

Excavation in Tam Pà Ling Cave, Laos ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA—Cosmos Magazine reports that researchers led by Vito Hernandez of Flinders University are reconstructing the environment of Tam Pà Ling cave in northeastern Laos between 52,000 and 10,000 years ago. Human fossils unearthed deep within the cave during previous investigations were determined …

Excavations by Oxford Archaeology at the east range of Oriel College, Oxford OXFORD, ENGLAND—According to a BBC News report, evidence of a defensive ditch constructed by the Anglo-Saxons has been detected in sediment cores collected at Oriel College by researchers from Oxford Archaeology. The study indicates that the ditch was …

Stamp impression with inscription mmšt, ‘(belonging) to the king’ JERUSALEM—Live Science reports that archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have uncovered an administration building in the Mordot Arnona neighborhood of Jerusalem that was used for the collection of taxes in the eighth and seventh centuries B.C. Jars bearing inscriptions …