Archaeologists Have Found a 2,400-Year-Old Shipwreck Graveyard

Archaeologists Have Found a 2,400-Year-Old Shipwreck Graveyard

The Bay of Algeciras, near Gibraltar, has been home to well over 100 shipwrecks.

Spain uncovers shipwreck graveyard with over 130 vessels near Algeciras

Spain has unveiled a shipwreck graveyard near Algeciras, revealing over 130 vessels from the fifth century BC to World War Two. This significant discovery is part of a project led by Felipe Cerezo Andreo at the University of Cádiz, with further documentation still to come.

DAILY DOSE: Early Humans Planned Their Toolmaking Far Earlier Than Expected; Farming May Have Triggered a Burst of Human Evolution.

Early Humans Planned Their Toolmaking Far Earlier Than Expected: One of the week’s most intriguing archaeology stories argues that early humans were not simply wandering into stone-rich places and opportunistically knapping tools. Instead, researchers say favored rock sites became organized “assembly lines,” suggesting a degree of foresight and logistical planning that began roughly 50,000 years earlier than many archaeologists had assumed. That…