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Issue 386 - April 2022

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Keeping time at Stonehenge
It had long been thought that the famous site of Stonehenge served as an ancient calendar, given its alignment with the solstices. Now, research has identified how it may have worked.
Timothy Darvill
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Weight regulation in British and Irish Bronze Age gold objects: a reanalysis and reinterpretation
Bronze Age Europe had units of mass, but such a system of weight-regulation was not used for gold in Britain.
Raphael Hermann
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The sacred pool of Ba'al: a reinterpretation of the ‘Kothon’ at Motya
Archaeologists have found a 2,500year-old artificial basin in Sicily, once identified as a military harbour, is actually one of the largest sacred pools in the Mediterranean.
Lorenzo Nigro
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Assembling the dead: human vertebrae-on-posts in the Chincha Valley, Peru
Archaeologists have found nearly 200 examples of human vertebrae threaded onto reed posts in the Chincha Valley, Peru.
Jacob L. Bongers, Juliana Gómez Mejía et al.
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