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American cannibals

By Stephen Ornes / May 8, 2013

Artists and scientists worked together to create this sculpture that shows what Jane, a colonial American, might have looked like. A study of the teen’s remains indicates she was cannibalized after she died. Credit: StudioEIS, Don Hurlbert/Smithsonian

Skull fragment suggests starving colonists may have eaten one of their own

Posted in Ancient Times | Tagged anthropology, archaeology, bones, cannibal, cannibalism, colonial, Douglas Owsley, forensics, getinvolved, history, hunger, James Horn, Jamestown, Jamestown Rediscovery Archaeological Project, shin, skull, Smithsonian Institution, starvation, topstories, William Kelso, Williamsburg

Building Stonehenge

By Stephen Ornes / September 27, 2012

Stonehenge may have been built by animal herders, not farmers, according to a new study. Credit: Matthew Brennan

A new study of ancient crops may identify the laborers behind Britain’s most famous stone monument

Posted in Ancient Times | Tagged Alasdair Whittle, ancient people, archaeology, Cardiff University, Chris Stevens, climate change, cultivators, Dorian Fuller, farmers, farming, getinvolved, Great Britain, herders, hunter-gatherers, livestock, pastoralist, prehistory, Stonehenge, University College London, Wessex Archaeology

World’s oldest pots

By Erin Wayman / July 6, 2012

One of many 20,000-year-old pottery fragments found in a Chinese cave. Credit: Science/AAAS

Ice age people made cookware long before the rise of farming

Posted in Ancient Times | Tagged alcohol, Anna Belfer-Cohen, archaeology, Asia, bone marrow, cave, China, clay, cooking, farming, getinvolved, humans, hunter-gatherers, ice age, pot, pottery, T. Douglas Price, Xianrendong Cave, Xiaohong Wu, Zhijun Zhao