USC basketball's improbable run of bad injury luck continues

This is getting ridiculous. JuJu Watkins got injured last March. Then Rodney Rice. Now Chad Baker-Mazara is hurt. USC hoops can't catch a break ...
Yahoo! Sports

USC's inexplicable free throw shooting nightmare simply won't end

There has to be an old Aztec burial ground under the free throw lines at the Galen Center. There is simply no other way to explain the bizarre, consistent, unrelenting free throw shooting nightmare ...

Tomb raiders pose a challenge in preserving Mexico’s history

Within Mexico the recent discoveries in Oaxaca have also sparked a furious debate over who has ownership rights to cultural ...
The Conversation

The Aztec empire’s collapse shows why ruling through coercion and force fails

Jay Silverstein received funding from the US National Science Foundation (NSF), the Foundation for the Advancment of Mesoamerican Studies (FAMSI), and The Penn State Hill Foundation that supported his ...
The Conversation

Human composting, natural burials, water cremation: greener ways to go when you die

Sandra van der Laan has received funding from CPA Australia. Lee Moerman has received funding from CPA Australia. She is a volunteer with Tender Funerals, a community-based, not-for-profit funeral ...

Prehistoric Victory Celebrations Were Far More Brutal Than We Thought

Ancient bones from France reveal that Neolithic wars may have ended in ritualized executions and trophy-taking. The evidence suggests violence was staged to display dominance and unite communities.
Phys.org

Two rare 5th millennium BC fetal burials in Iran reveal variable prehistoric practices

In a study conducted by Dr. Mahdi Alirezazadeh and Dr. Hanan Bahranipoor, published in Archaeological Research in Asia, two exceptionally well-preserved fetal burials from Chaparabad, Iran, dating to ...
The Daily Progress

Farm outside Charlottesville welcomes living and dead to natural burial ground

On a farm just north of Charlottesville, the life cycle is on full display — and not just that of plant and wildlife, but humans too.
Smithsonian Magazine

Archaeologists Say This 9,500-Year-Old Burial Is the Oldest Known Evidence of Intentional Cremation Discovered in Africa

The remains were found at the base of Mount Hora, in northern Malawi. Jacob Davis A large mound of ash containing burned bone fragments has been discovered in Malawi. The remains belonged to a Stone ...
Archaeology

Setting Sail for Valhalla

A 1904 photograph shows the excavation of a Viking ship burial in Oseberg, Norway. The 71-foot-long vessel dating to A.D. 834 contained the remains of two women and an abundance of extraordinary grave ...
The Guardian

Disappeared bodies, mass burials and ‘30,000 dead’: what is the truth of Iran’s death toll?

Testimony from medics, morgue and graveyard staff reveals huge state effort to conceal systematic killing of protesters On Thursday 8 January, in a midsize Iranian town, Dr Ahmadi’s* phone began to ...
WCVB Channel 5 Boston

Community invited to honor 2 veterans without family at Bourne cemetery

The public is invited to attend the funerals of two local veterans with no surviving family members at Massachusetts National Cemetery in Bourne this week.Richard Cubetus and David P. Czech are two ...