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Issue 377 - October 2020

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Phoenician lime for Phoenician wine: Iron Age plaster from a wine press at Tell el-Burak, Lebanon
A 2,600-year-old wine 'factory' has been discovered in ancient Phonecia, whose inhabitants had a key role in spreading & popularising the drink
Adriano Orsingher et al.
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Make a desert and call it peace: massacre at the Iberian Iron Age village of La Hoya
An Iron Age massacre has been uncovered at the town of La Hoya in Spain. It was attacked and destroyed ~200 BC, with the victims left where they fell
Teresa Fernández-Crespo et al.
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Summary justice or the King's will? The first case of formal facial mutilation from Anglo-Saxon England
Archaeologists analyzing the skull of an Anglo-Saxon girl made a gruesome discovery that shines a light on the brutal punishments meted out to criminals in early medieval England.
Garrard Cole et al.
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Death is not the end: radiocarbon and histo-taphonomic evidence for the curation and excarnation of human remains in Bronze Age Britain
Bronze Age people were keeping human body parts and preserving them, even turning some of them into objects such as musical instruments.
Thomas J. Booth and Joanna Brück
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