Monthly Archaeology Round-Up: August

Mayan cremains, Chinese metallurgy, the Bantu Expansion, Bronze Age plagues, Boomerang functionality and much more

Among this month’s offerings are grisly Mayan rubber technology, Chinese metallurgy, Bronze Age plagues, a Jewish massacre, the Bantu Expansion and Aboriginal boomerangs. Probably the biggest publication this month, the ‘Southern Arc’ papers concerning the genetic findings of a recent Indo-European study, will be dealt with in a separate article.

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