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Old News, July 2020
This month, Anna shoe-horned a rhyme into every segue, so you know it's a good roundup. We look at submerged sites off the Australia coast, bone tools that look like stone tools, cats and mice respectively, and so much more!
Archaeologists Find Traces of Non-Tobacco Plant in Pre-Columbian Native American Pipe (Sci-News)
A Submerged 7,000-Year-Old Discovery Shows the Great Potential of Underwater Archaeology (Smithsonian)
Researchers Continue Search for the Roots of the Hyksos (Archaeology)
In Ancient Kazakhstan, Nomadic Herders Kept Their Toothless Pet Cat Alive (Smithsonian)
1,000-Year-Old Cat Skeleton Suggests Nomadic Herders Cared for Ailing Pet (Gizmodo)
1.4-Million-Year-Old Handaxe Unearthed in Ethiopia (Sci-News)
Naturally perforated shells one of the earliest adornments in the Middle Paleolithic (ScienceDaily)
Ancient oyster shells provide historical insights (ScienceDaily)