Monthly Archaeology Round-Up: December

Palaeolithic Bear Skins, Merovingian Leprosy, Eurasian Forager Pottery, Archaic Hominin Fire Skills, Hunnic violence and more.

December saw a good mix of discoveries, ranging from ancestral fire production to medieval diseases, from Hunnic raids to Palaeolithic bear skins. As usual I’ve tried to combine a good blend of methodologies and time periods, looking at metagenomics, pottery analysis, climate data and tool typology. I did want to include the recent LiDAR discoveries in …