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The Friday Five – Some of the more funky events happening in the archeological world.
1. Butchering a 200,000 year-old cut of meat. Yum!
“Instead of a prey's carcass being prepared by just one or two persons resulting in clear and repeated cutting marks — the forefathers of the modern butcher — cut marks on ancient animal bones suggest something else.”
2. Garage sales at British museums?
“University College London asks its visitors: Should Agatha Christie’s picnic basket go?”
3. Deceitful men, genetic monsters and love-sick women
Has the Minoan Labyrinth really been found?
4. Dumpster diving: just another day in archeology class
“This is the second year for a class Dumpster dive in an effort to learn some of the basic archaeological principles. Applegate said students learn where the garbage came from as well as stratigraphy, or understanding that the oldest things will always be on the bottom layer.”
5.Aye, matey. Back in the day, I escaped the noose and fled Tortuga….
“The bones of Edward Salter, a barrel maker who died in 1735, may belong to a member of Blackbeard’s pirate crew who escaped the noose and returned to settle in Bath, North Carolina.”
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