Digital digs: Technology preserving Europe's cultural heritage Technological advancements such as 3D scans based on drone images are helping archaeologists document Europe's heritage before sites and artifacts are lost to future generations.
https://phys.org/news/2024-11-....digital-technology-e

Norway's Kon-Tiki museum returns human remains to Easter Island Norway's Kon-Tiki Museum on Wednesday returned human remains taken from Easter Island by the explorer Thor Heyerdahl during his trans-Pacific raft expeditions in the 1950s.
https://phys.org/news/2024-11-....norway-kon-tiki-muse

12,000-year old stones may be very early evidence of wheel-like technology A collection of perforated pebbles from an archaeological site in Israel may be spindle whorls, representing a key milestone in the development of rotational tools including wheels, according to a study published November 13, 2024 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Talia Yashuv and Leore Grosman from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
https://phys.org/news/2024-11-....year-stones-early-ev

The Incas used stringy objects called 'khipus' to record data—we just got a step closer to understanding them For more than a millennium, many Andean peoples used an object called a "khipu" (also spelled "quipu" and pronounced "key-poo" to record and communicate information.
https://phys.org/news/2024-11-....incas-stringy-khipus

Archaeologists excavate earliest known ancient Maya salt works A team of archaeologists from LSU and the University of Texas at Tyler has excavated the earliest known ancient Maya salt works in southern Belize, as reported in the journal Antiquity.
https://phys.org/news/2024-11-....archaeologists-excav