Monthly Archaeology Round-Up: October

Taiwan Pygmies, Falcon Cults, Mayan Terror Caves, the Origins of Lagash and More

This month had a particularly wide variety of papers and methods, from dental calculus to drone mapping, glass isotopes to machine learning. I think readers will find it interesting to see how modern archaeology makes use of the different analytical techniques available. There were some bigger genetics papers, including a new ancestral story for the peo…