There's some "mind-blowing" news in archaeology this week! We start with early hominids in Ethiopia using tools 500,000 years earlier than anything thought. Then we move to a possible 20,000 year old writing system in rock art. Finally, the oldest mummy ever found in Egypt was covered in gold! What else will they find there?

Links

• Archaeologists Discover 1.2 Million-Year-Old 'Workshop' in Mind-Blowing Find
• A surge in obsidian exploitation more than 1.2 million years ago at Simbiro III (Melka Kunture, Upper Awash, Ethiopia) (Abstract and figures only)
• Cave drawings from 20,000 years ago may feature an early form of writing
• Could These Cave Markings Be the Earliest Form of Writing?
• An Upper Palaeolithic Proto-writing System and Phenological Calendar (open access)
• Pseudo-Arch Podcast: The Antikythera Mechanism - Ep 96
• Body Ritual Among the Nacirema
• Archaeologists may have found Egypt's oldest mummy

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