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Northern Nevada rock imagery.

(Note: The preferred term, at least by the five tribe Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition in the Four Corners region, is now "rock imagery." We no longer call it "art" as we have no idea what was in the mind of the person when they drew the pictograph or petroglyph images. Please be respectful when visiting cultural sites, prehistoric or modern.)

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Viking figurines were more than amulets: new analysis reveals their real roles

A new study published in the journal Antiquity provides new insight into how anthropomorphic figurines from the Viking Age were produced, used, and eventually deposited...

More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/11/vik…

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Genetic study shows dogs traveled with humans across Eurasia for 11,000 years

For tens of thousands of years, dogs have been in symbiosis with people across the vast range of Eurasia, but new genetic findings indicate that their history was tied to human migrations more closely than previously known...

More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/11/dog…

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1,500-year-old reindeer hunting system emerges from melting ice in Norway

A team of archaeologists working high on the Aurlandsfjellet mountain plateau in Vestland County, Norway, has made a fantastic discovery: a remarkably well-preserved 1,500-year-old reindeer trapping system revealed by retreating ice...

More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/11/150…

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Viking treasures unearthed in Sweden reveal a society in transition

Archaeologists from Arkeologerna—the Archaeologists at the Swedish History Museums—have unearthed exceptional Viking Age treasures during excavations carried out between 2021 and 2022 along the E18 motorway in Västmanland, Sweden...

More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/11/vik…

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Delightful detail from the Roman “unswept floor” mosaic by Heraclitus, showing a mouse nibbling a walnut.
Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect!
2nd century AD. Vatican Museums museivaticani.va/content/musei…
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