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  Ancient burials suggestive of blood feuds – Popular Archeology - Popular Archaeology

  UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA—There is significant variation in how different cultures over time have dealt with the dead. Yet, at a very basic level, funerals in the Sonoran Desert thousands of years ago were similar to what they are today. Bodies of the deceased were buried respectfully, while families and mourners followed certain customs to honor lives lost.
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  A wooden toe: Swiss Egyptologists study 3,000-year-old prosthesis – Popular Archeology - Popular Archaeology

  UNIVERSITY OF BASEL—It is likely to be one of the oldest prosthetic devices in human history: Together with other experts, Egyptologists from the University of Basel have reexamined an artificial wooden big toe. The find is almost 3000 years old and was discovered in a female burial from the necropolis of Sheikh ´Abd el-Qurna close to Luxor. This area is currently being studied using state-of-the-art methods.
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  DNA sat nav uncovers ancient Ashkenaz and Yiddish origins – Popular Archeology - Popular Archaeology

  UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD—The origin of Yiddish, the millennium old language of Ashkenazic Jews, is something which linguists have questioned for decades.
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  Genetics reveal 50,000 years of independent history of aboriginal Australian people – Popular Archeology - Popular Archaeology

  Scientists worked with aboriginal Australian communities to explore heritage.
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  Baltic hunter-gatherers began farming without influence of migration, ancient DNA suggests – Popular Archeology - Popular Archaeology

  TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN—New research indicates that Baltic hunter-gatherers were not swamped by migrations of early agriculturalists from the Middle East, as was the case for the rest of central and western Europe. Instead, these people probably acquired knowledge of farming and ceramics by sharing cultures and ideas—rather than genes—with outside communities.