Strides technology has made possible in archaeology shine in this discovery of fabled Kweneng, as Brett Tingley well recounts. Here’s another exciting and huge find to monitor. From big digs to big questions we go with Jocelyne LeBlanc’s coverage of a New Explanation Offered As To How Alexander The Great Died. Few characters in antiquity are as controversial as Alexander of Macedon: none of the stories about him, even by relatively staid ancient historians, is free of bias, and nothing is more disputed about the man’s life than the manner of his death. And Dunedin School of Medicine’s Dr. Katherine Hall has just added a possible and rather macabre diagnosis to the medley of various explanations. Hall’s suggestion that Alexander actually passed away six days after he had been pronounced dead is as chilling and ironic as it is surprising. Evaluated in the abstract, it may seem “small potatoes” that some Ancient Carved ‘Drums’ Give Exact Stonehenge Measurements, Say Archaeologists. Tom Metcalfe explains how relatively diminutive artifacts open up wide possibilities in our understanding of advanced Neolithic technologies and knowledge. That the Folkton drums were found in a child’s grave also poses questions about symbolism or, more prosaically, the prehistory of educational toys! (WM)

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