University of Nottingham archaeologists dated the restart of Peak District lead mining to the mid-seventh century from lead in childhood tooth enamel. Centuries of re-smelting had erased the usual industrial traces, so the evidence is teeth from three cemeteries.
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Lismore volunteers led by Argyll Archaeology found burial grounds and precious-metal working at Lios Mòr, a monastery founded in the sixth century. Their Antiquity paper weighs the site, long known mainly from records and tradition, against Britain's major monasteries.
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Seventh-century builders in northern Sudan raised a church around a giant carving that may show a Kushite ruler
University of Warsaw-led archaeologists who surveyed nearly 300 sites at Miseeda, Sudan, say a 7th-century church was built around a much older rock carving. They suggest the figure may be a Kushite ruler marking a borderland, but the carving itself still needs a date.
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Christophe Helmke's team at the University of Copenhagen reads three red glyphs in Chalcatzingo's Cave 19 as Teotihuacan writing tied to warrior fire rites. The readings add a site beyond the city to the case for a Teotihuacan script, while the fire-ritual claim rests on soot above one rock shelf.
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Peter Trebsche and Marion Berranger count 193 complete bars and 307 partial ones from Deinham in Austria, Europe's largest prehistoric iron find, radiocarbon dated to the La Tene period and recovered from gravel heaps that destroyed its context.
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Storage pests show a Gran Canaria burial cave held grain first
More than 8,000 arthropod remains from the Cruz de la Esquina cave on Gran Canaria put bulk grain in it before the wrapped bodies, and the same assemblage argues the dead were placed there soon after death.
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The 70-centimetre figure sat on a bench in a round room barely three metres across, and because it is so far the only one of its kind, a reversed composition cannot yet settle how these carvers ranked people against animals.
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