1.2 Million Year Old Tools, 20 kyo Proto Writing, and Crazy Rich Egyptians! - Ep 204

There's some "mind-blowing" news in archaeology this week! We start with early hominids in Ethiopia using tools 500,000 years earlier than anything thought. Then we move to a possible 20,000 year old writing system in rock art. Finally, the oldest mummy ever found in Egypt was covered in gold! What else will they find there?

Links

• Archaeologists Discover 1.2 Million-Year-Old 'Workshop' in Mind-Blowing Find

• A surge in obsidian exploitation more than 1.2 million years ago at Simbiro III (Melka Kunture, Upper Awash, Ethiopia) (Abstract and figures only)

• Cave drawings from 20,000 years ago may feature an early form of writing

• Could These Cave Markings Be the Earliest Form of Writing?

• An Upper Palaeolithic Proto-writing System and Phenological Calendar (open access)

• Pseudo-Arch Podcast: The Antikythera Mechanism - Ep 96

• Body Ritual Among the Nacirema

• Archaeologists may have found Egypt's oldest mummy

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