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Issue 362 - April 2018

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Illuminating the cave, drawing in black: wood charcoal analysis at Chauvet-Pont d’Arc
The Grotte Chauvet is world renowned for its Palaeolithic art. Fire was particularly important, providing light and producing charcoal for use in motifs.
Isabelle Théry-Parisot et al
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Symbolic equids and Kushite state formation: a horse burial at Tombos
The recent discovery of a well-preserved horse burial at the Third Cataract site of Tombos illuminates the social significance of equids in the Nile Valley.
Sarah A. Schrader, Stuart Tyson Smith, Sandra Olsen & Michele Buzon
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A moment frozen in time: evidence of a late fifth-century massacre at Sandby borg
Recent excavations at Sandby borg ringfort in Sweden have revealed indisputable evidence of a massacre during the European Migration Period (c. 400–550 AD)
Clara Alfsdotter, Ludvig Papmehl-Dufay & Helena Victor
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Early art in the Urals: new research on the wooden sculpture from Shigir
The carved wooden object uncovered from the Shigir peat bog is one of the oldest, known examples of monumental anthropomorphic sculpture.
Mikhail Zhilin, Svetlana Savchenko, Svend Hansen, Karl-Uwe Heussner & Thomas Terberger
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