The “tug-of-war” between traditional and more remote assumptions of the peopling of the Americas has experienced its latest yank backwards. So says Kambiz Kamrani, reporting upon a find—wait for it—in the backyard of the principal author of the new study in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution! Tim Brinkhof educates us upon a less-sweeping but still fascinating part of past mobility, namely The Forgotten Voyagers of Ancient Greece, China, and Scandinavia. Ancient texts may pose their own special interpretation issues, but reading them is surely fun. And perhaps light shines upon a more recent part of the past, since Archaeologists May Have Discovered the Palace of Genghis Khan’s Grandson in eastern Turkey. Hulagu Khan is best known for his 1258 sack of Baghdad, something of which he was probably prouder than we would be. The “discovery” is yet unproven, but the team involved is praised. And the University of Southern Denmark has discovered that Floors in Greek Luxury Villa Were Laid with Recycled Glass. Birgitte Svennevig tells how new study techniques used on material from excavations in 1856 and the 1990s at ancient Halikarnassos in modern Turkey have led to this surprise and how it may shape our understanding of late antiquity. (WM)
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