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Index of Newsbriefs
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Volume 56 Number 5, September/October 2003
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(Click on the title of a newsbrief to see the full text.)
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Latest News
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The best source for archaeological news online, updated by 6pm EST weekdays
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| Live from Inner Mongolia |
Mongolian state television recently featured a live broadcast of archaeologists opening a Liao Dynasty coffin. |
| Elusive Ice Age Art |
Britain's first Ice Age cave art was recently discovered by a team of British and Spanish archaeologists. |
| Far-Flung Figurines |
A new sourcing technique has determined that red figurines found in sites across the American South were made of flint-clay mined near Cahokia. |
| Bowled Over |
A very early civilization has been discovered by a team of French and Ecuadorian archaeologists in Ecuador. |
| Neolithic Nightmare |
More than 100 skeletons some showing evidence of extreme violence have been found at the Austrian site of Asparn. |
| Ancestromorphs? |
Anthromorphs are among the more than 200 figures identified in a recent discovery of 4,000-year-old Aboriginal rock art in eastern Australia. |
| Top-Notch Tomb |
A 1,500-year-old Zapotec tomb has been discovered in Oaxaca, Mexico. |
| Quarry Excavations |
Egyptian archaeologists have recently removed dust and debris from the famous granite quarry in Aswan. |
| Race for Early Rice |
Korean archaeologists have announced that remains of rice grains collected from the Paleolithic site of Sorori in Chungbuk Province yielded a radiocarbon date of about 14,000 B.P. |
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