"Baffling" Roman Artifact, an Unusual Burial, and Vegan Cavemen - Ep 263

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This week we have 3 interesting news articles! First, we look at a mysterious Roman artifact called a dodecahedron that literally has baffled archaeologists and historians. Then, we look an unusual burial in Vienna with 2 individuals in an embrace. Re-analysis with new techniques has corrected assumptions made in the past about who they were! And finally, we discuss new evidence that paleolithic humans ate a primarlily vegan diet.

Links

• Segment 1

  • An Unbelievable Relic From the Roman Empire Is Baffling Archaeologists (Popular Mechanics)

  • Why Did Ancient Romans Make this Baffling Metal Dodecahedron? (Scientific American)

• Segment 2

  • Two ancient women buried together in Austria in first of its kind find. ‘Remarkable’

• Segment 3

  • Scientists find that cavemen ate a mostly vegan diet in groundbreaking new study (Joe)

  • Isotopic evidence of high reliance on plant food among Later Stone Age hunter-gatherers at Taforalt, Morocco (Nature Ecology & Evolution)

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Ram Skulls, Cavemen wielding clubs?, and Paleothermometry - Ep 212

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This week we have 3 archaeology news stories! First up, 2,000 ram skulls have been discovered in Egypt’s temple of Ramses II. Then we cover the rent Sapiens article about whether prehistoric humans actually carried and used clubs. Then finally, a new technology is used to create a surprising climate profile at Paleolithic sites in Alaska.

Links

• Over 2,000 ram skulls discovered in Egypt's temple of Ramses II, a new mystery for archaeologists - CBS News

• Club-Wielding Ancestors: Myth or Reality? - Sapiens

• The Use of Wooden Clubs and Throwing Sticks among Recent Foragers - Springer

• New investigations at Kalambo Falls, Zambia: Luminescence chronology, site formation, and archaeological significance - Journal of Human Evolution

• Understanding blunt force trauma and violence in Neolithic Europe: the first experiments using a skin-skull-brain model and the Thames Beater - Antiquity

• A reconstruction of prehistoric temperatures for some of the oldest archaeological sites in North America

• BrGDGT temperature reconstruction from interior Alaska: Assessing 14,000 years of deglacial to Holocene temperature variability and potential effects on early human settlement

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