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Enjoy these additional images from some of our January/February 2024 Digs & Discoveries. Image 1 is from "From Hunted to Herded." Image 2 is from "Legionary Personal Effects." Image 3 is from "A Courtesan’s Prized Possession." Image 4 is from "Tracking Ancient Animals." Image 5 is from "Ice Age Cannibalism."

  • Rock art from the Andean site of Rocotuyoc in Peru dates to around A.D. 1000, and shows humans interacting with domesticated camelids, as well as abstract symbols. (Courtesy Victor Ponte)
  • Aerial view of the excavated area of a bath complex at the Roman frontier fort of Novae in northern Bulgaria. (Krzysztof Narloch)
  • Archaeologists excavate the 2,300-year-old shaft grave of a young woman along Via Hebron on the southern outskirts of Jerusalem, Israel. (Shai Halevi, Israel Antiquities Authority)
  • A rock art panel (top) engraved with almost 300 animal track engravings was recently discovered in Namibia’s Doro! Nawas Mountains. The carvings can be made out more easily in a version of the image (above) that has been digitally enhanced. (Photographs and artwork by P. Breunig)
  • A photo (top) and scanning electron microscope composite image (above) show details of zigzag patterned engravings made on a human radius discovered at the Paleolithic site of Gough’s Cave in England, which is thought to be evidence of ritual cannibalism. The red arrows in the electron microscope image indicate sawing incisions, while the blue arrows point to incisions made by scraping. (Courtesy Rosalind Wallduck)

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