"Baffling" Roman Artifact, an Unusual Burial, and Vegan Cavemen - Ep 263

This week we have 3 interesting news articles! First, we look at a mysterious Roman artifact called a dodecahedron that literally has baffled archaeologists and historians. Then, we look an unusual burial in Vienna with 2 individuals in an embrace. Re-analysis with new techniques has corrected assumptions made in the past about who they were! And finally, we discuss new evidence that paleolithic humans ate a primarlily vegan diet.
Links
Segment 1
• An Unbelievable Relic From the Roman Empire Is Baffling Archaeologists (Popular Mechanics) (popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a6066…)
• Why Did Ancient Romans Make this Baffling Metal Dodecahedron? (Scientific American) (scientificamerican.com/article/why-did-ancient…)
Segment 2
• Two ancient women buried together in Austria in first of its kind find. ‘Remarkable’ (miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/articl…)
Segment 3
• Scientists find that cavemen ate a mostly vegan diet in groundbreaking new study (Joe) (joe.co.uk/news/scientists-find-that-cavemen-at…)
• Isotopic evidence of high reliance on plant food among Later Stone Age hunter-gatherers at Taforalt, Morocco (Nature Ecology & Evolution) (nature.com/articles/s41559-024-02382-z?utm_med…)
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