Anna walks Amber through a sampler platter of recent archaeological news stories. We talk about inner ears and gibbon arms, chromosomes galore, Medieval dogs, the Ishtar gate of Babylon, ancient hunter-gatherer poop, and more!

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To learn more:

How did humans learn to walk? New evolutionary study offers an earful | ScienceDaily

To see some gibbons bopping around in the trees:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rdn26Hpdwo&ab_channel=SmithsonianChannel

Prehistoric person with Turner syndrome identified from ancient DNA | ScienceDaily

Dogs in the middle ages: What medieval writing tells us about our ancestors' pets

The Devonshire Hunting Tapestries | Unknown | V&A Explore The Collections

Archaeomagnetism Dates Construction of Babylon’s Ishtar Gate - Archaeology Magazine

Babylon's Ishtar Gate may have a totally different purpose than we thought, magnetic field measurements suggest | Live Science

DNA from preserved feces reveals ancient Japanese gut environment

Metagenomic analyses of 7000 to 5500 years old coprolites excavated from the Torihama shell-mound site in the Japanese archipelago | PLOS ONE