Archaeology news for April 22-May 6

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Smuggled Cargo Found on Ancient Roman Ship
http://news.discovery.com/history/roman-shipwreck-smuggling-120425.html

Genes shed light on spread of agriculture in Stone Age Europe
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-04/uu-gsl040312.php
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-04/aaft-nsc042012.php

'Inhabitants of Madrid' ate elephants’ meat and bone marrow 80,000 years ago
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-04/f-sf-om042412.php

Oldest Human Ancestor Found in Lake Sludge (Somewhat misleading headline on this one...)
http://news.discovery.com/animals/oldest-organism-120428.html

Iceman Lived a While After Arrow Wound
http://news.discovery.com/history/oetzi-iceman-mummy-blood-120502.html

Scientists recover the world’s oldest human blood cells from Ötzi the Iceman
http://io9.com/5907418/scientists-recover-the-worlds-oldest-human-blood-cells-from-tzi-the-iceman

Columbus May Not Have Been First to America (That headline made me go, "You don't say!")
http://news.discovery.com/history/columbus-cabot-new-world-discovery-120503.html

New UF study shows early North Americans lived with extinct giant beasts
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-05/uof-nus050312.php