To help solve the mystery, an international team of researchers investigated 215 bones
previously excavated from 11 sites in southern Iberia, in an area known as Spain today.
In addition to CT scanning of bones and teeth and radiocarbon dating of
previously excavated materials, researchers hope to launch new archaeological digs, possibly in Europe or the Near East.
He was rummaging through boxes of animal bones
previously excavated in the Sterkfontein caves, about 40 kilometers northwest of Johannesburg, where a number of fossils of australopithecines — advanced apes similar to the famous Lucy — have been discovered.
Six specially constructed ditches
previously excavated at Eberdingen - Hochdorf a 2,550 - year - old Celtic settlement, were used to make high - quality barley malt, a key beer ingredient, says archaeobotanist Hans - Peter Stika of the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart.
The authors of this study analyzed
previously excavated Alvarezsaurid remains from the Turonian Bissekty Formation of Uzbekistan.
Previously excavated stone tools, which researchers think were made by H. floresiensis, were dated to between 190,000 and 50,000 years old.
The researchers examined artifacts
previously excavated from the site, which are mostly flint tools for cutting and scraping, and flint debris created in their manufacture.
A previously excavated cow skull from a roughly 5,400 - to 5,000 - year - old settlement in France contains a surgically created hole on the right side, a new study finds.
Not exact matches
These data were
previously published by two teams that
excavated and then reburied 7th Cavalry soldiers who died at Little Big Horn.
By
excavating the houses of both rich and poor, we have found that provincial society was far more complex than
previously thought.
Previously British Roman archaeology had tended to be biased towards
excavating high - status sites such as villas, as these were what researchers had chosen to investigate.
We have
previously seen such a mosaic in Australopithecus sediba, a 2 - million - year - old hominin that Berger and his colleagues
excavated in 2008 from the Malapa cave, a few kilometres away.