Archaeo News Podcast 270

• Largest known Viking Longhouse in Scandinavia
• Mercury poisoning in Copper Age Iberia
• Neolithic pits near Stonehenge were human-made
• 4000-year-old graves discovered in Denmark
• Isotope analyses unlock Iron Age secrets
• Bronze Age hoards found on Hertfordshire farm
• 3D model of ancient Neolithic village online
• Stonehenge builders’ eating habits explored

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Special Stonehenge issue

This is a special issue devoted to some very interesting news about Stonehenge. Specifically, it's the discovery of a dismantled stone circle near the Stonehenge bluestone quarries in west Wales, which raises the possibility that a 900-year-old legend about Stonehenge being built from an earlier stone circle contains a grain of truth.

This podcast was originally recorded at the end of February 2021, so please accept our apologies for the late publication.

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• Iron Age man first known case of tuberculosis in Britain
• Earliest known identical twins found in Upper Palaeolithic grave
• How to mend a giant menhir
• Ancient cave art inspired by hallucinogens
• 8,400-year-old dog buried with his master
• Some tasks specialised according to gender almost 4,000 years ago
• Remains of female hunter challenge ancient gender roles
• 2,000 pieces of plastic found at Iron Age site in Wales

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• Australia wildfires reveal ancient aquaculture system
• Neolithic house orientations finally solved
• Damage to prehistoric burial mound in Wales
• Study suggests two megalithic cultures were separate groups
• Homo erectus may not have evolved in Asia
• Neanderthals could swim and dive?
• Unique Stone Age Ring made from deer antler discovered in Denmark
• Ancient Chinese people experimented with different methods of making beer

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• Ancient humans survived longer than previously thought
• Footprints of Ice Age mammoths and prehistoric humans
• Neolithic chewing gum helps recreate image of ancient Dane
• Public help document damage to historic Scottish sites
• Prehistoric infants found with helmets made from skulls
• Comparing the teeth of Denisovans and modern Asians
• Neolithic crops discovered in Tibet
• Prehistoric humans built a wall to keep out the sea - But it failed

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• Ancient platform 'damaged' during Stonehenge tunnel work
• Bid to build replica Iron Age tower in Scotland
• Tests find human skull age exceeds 10,000 years
• Ritual finger amputation may explain missing fingers in Palaeolithic people
• 'Ancient' Scottish stone circle found to be replica
• Oldest ever traces of the plague found in Sweden
• Hoard of Copper Age axes discovered in Bulgaria
• Archaeologists find the oldest burials in Ecuador
• Handpas Project

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• Did the people buried at Stonehenge come from Wales?
• Scientists identify oldest Homo sapiens drawing
• Prehistoric Children learned many skilled tasks
• Greek farmer in Crete stumbles onto 3,400-year-old tomb
• Scotland's largest find of prehistoric pottery
• 13,000-year-old brewery discovered in Israel
• Neolithic people adapted to climate change
• 7,200-year-old cheese making found in Croatia

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• Neolithic ritual cave site discovered in Mayo
• Jersey joins Europe's Cultural Route programme
• Painted stone gives clues to ancient Japanese culture
• Wooden tools hint at Neanderthal fire use
• Henge discovered in England could have been an ancient sauna
• Skilled potters travelled around the Baltic nearly 5000 years ago
• Early Scandinavians descended from Europeans and Russians
• Proposed tunnel under Stonehenge raises new fears

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• Long Barrow near Stonehenge to be excavated
• The continuing story of Oetzi
• Were Denisovans an isolated part of our lineage?
• Bones suggest cannibal ritual in ancient Britain
• 8,000-year-old paint workshop discovered in Turkey
• Dolmens dating to around 3,000 years found in southern India
• Evidence of a skull cult found at Neolithic site in Turkey
• First evidence of dismemberment in prehistoric Ireland

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• Ochre use in Ethiopian cave persisted over thousands of years
• Prehistoric site discovered off California coast
• Neolithic tomb in Wales stars in new CGI film
• Siberian island provides earliest evidence for dog breeding
• Prehistoric henge uncovered in Warwickshire
• Tools sharpens focus on network in ancient Middle East
• Scientists solve prehistoric bison hunt mystery
• 13,000-year-old arrowhead discovered in Massachusetts
• Oldest human-made object from South America discovered

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