Wait... when did it become Monday?

[jeweledeyes]

A few days late (maybe just one day... do I usually do these on Saturdays or Sunday? I don't even remember), have some archaeology news.

OMG Australopithecus sediba!

Fossil discovery could be our oldest human ancestor
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-09/uom-fdc090811.php

Fossil discovery supports evolutionary link between Australopiths and Homo
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-09/tau-fds090711.php

Australopithecus sediba paved the way for Homo species, new studies suggest
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-09/aaft-sp090211.php

Sediba hominid skull hints at later brain evolution
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-09/eu-shs090811.php

In non-Sebida news...

Another tomb possibly discovered in the Valley of the Kings
http://www.kv64.info/2011/09/wow-kv64-update.html

Search Is on for Lost Da Vinci
http://news.discovery.com/history/da-vinci-lost-fresco-110906.html

Anatomically modern humans interbred with more archaic hominin forms even before they migrated out of Africa
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-09/uoa-ahw090211.php
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-09/nsf-epi090711.php

Secrets of WTC Shipwreck Sleuthed Out
http://news.discovery.com/earth/secrets-of-wtc-ship-revealed-110907.html

New issue of Egyptological up (free to read online!)
http://www.egyptological.com/magazine/current-magazine

And maybe not exactly archaeology news, but JSTOR has made all the articles on their database that were published before 1923 free to the public!
http://about.jstor.org/news-events/news/jstor%E2%80%93free-access-early-journal-content

Comments

[archersangel]

the valley of the kings continues to be full of surprises. i remember seeing something on KV 5, which for some reason was ignored, has at least 120 rooms & is likely where the sons of ramesses II are.

[ein_myria]

I'm happy to hear about the JSTOR articles being free to the public but hadn't known about the Swartz case. (yes, it seems that I've been living under a rock)

[jeweledeyes]

We must live under the same rock, because I'd never heard of it either XD