Last week's archaeology news

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CT Scanners Crack Open a Mummy Mystery
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/2011/09/ct-scanners-crack-open-a-mummy-mystery/

Analysing skeletal remains from Amara West
http://blog.britishmuseum.org/2011/09/13/back-in-the-lab-analysing-skeletal-remains-from-amara-west/

Climatic fluctuations drove key events in human evolution
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-09/uol-cfd092111.php

Did the orientation of the continents hinder ancient settlement of the Americas?
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-09/w-dto092111.php

Seems to be related (although different universities... did two different studies about the same subject come out on the same day?), but bizarrely different conclusions drawn at Discovery News:
North-South vs East-West Long-Distance Love
http://news.discovery.com/earth/continent-hampered-native-american-love-110921.html

Ohhh boy more SCA drama! Apparently the new head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities tried to resign in protest and the government told him "lol not." Break out the popcorn!
http://egyptology.blogspot.com/2011/09/resignation-of-sca-head-refused.html

Hopefully Egypt will return to some kind of normalcy soon :-/

And finally, links to this week’s Archaeology.org news headlines:
http://www.archaeology.org/news/?p=1709
http://www.archaeology.org/news/?p=1712
http://www.archaeology.org/news/?p=1715
http://www.archaeology.org/news/?p=1719
http://www.archaeology.org/news/?p=1722