7past horizons For more news stories that are updated constantly, try: Past Horizons News Blog: http:// pasthorizons. wordpress. com/ category/ news- and- articles ? Stonepages Weekly News and Podcast: http:// www. stonepages. com/ news ? CBA Archaeology News Feed: http:// www. britarch. ac. uk/ newsfeed ? Archaeologica: http:// www. archaeologica. org/ NewsPage. htm ? Iron Age stele reveals early evidence of belief in the soul A team from the Oriental Institute, Chicago, working in southeastern Turkey has discovered an Iron Age stone slab that provides the first written evidence in the region that people believed the soul was separate from the body. Read more: http:// chronicle. uchicago. edu/ 081120/ ironage. shtml ? archaeologists try to date the Brodgar megaliths This season saw the anticipated re- opening of Professor Colin Renfrew's 1973 trenches at the Ring of Brodgar, Orkney. Although the date has never been scientifi­cally confirmed, the impressive monument is thought to be 4,000 to 4,500 years old. Read more: http:// www. 24hourmuseum. org. uk/ nwh_ gfx_ en/ ART62367. html ? Babylon Is Targeted in Project of World Monuments Fund The World Monuments Fund is launching a project with Iraq to preserve the ancient city of Babylon where King Nebuchadnezzar II ( 630- 562 B. C.) built his hanging gardens, one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Read more: http:// www. bloomberg. com/ apps/ news? pid= 20601088& sid= apwIlJ7IbtWc ? Gladiators to ' Fight' Again at Rome's Colosseum Gladiators are to return to the Colosseum almost 2,000 years after their bloody sport last entertained Roman crowds. Now five million people who visit each year will experience " the sights, sounds and smells" again. Read more: http:// dsc. discovery. com/ news/ 2009/ 01/ 06/ gladiator- rome. html ? German battlefield yields Roman surprises Archaeologists have found over 600 relics from a huge battle between a Roman army and Barbarians in the third century, long after historians believed Rome had given up control of northern Germany. Read more: http:// edition. cnn. com/ 2009/ WORLD/ europe/ 01/ 05/ germany. battlefield ? dna tracks ancient Alaskan's descendants An ancient mariner who lived and died 10,000 years ago probably doesn't have any close relatives left in Alaska. But some of them migrated south and their descendants can be found today in coastal Native American populations. Read more: http:// www. adn. com/ news/ alaska/ rural/ southeast/ story/ 636254. html ? Current Archaeology, Cardiff University and the National Museum Cardiff announce the 2nd annual Archaeology Festival, 6- 8 February 2009 Join us there: http:// www. archaeology. co. uk ?

past horizons8 Explaining the issues surrounding the Putney Debates All photographs: John Beardsworth Putney Debates