This weekly feature is a place to discuss new developments in fields of history and archaeology. This can be newly discovered documents and archaeological sites, recent publications, documents that have just become publicly available through digitization or the opening of archives, and new theories and interpretations.
I posted this previously, but it is worth repeating: the Nevada Census Database has been placed online again after a hiatus of three years. This is an extraordinarily valuable tool, and dozens of dissertations, articles, and books are folded into these data simply waiting to be discovered. I helped develop the data and I have used it extensively in my research. Anyone wanted extreme fame and fortune (or at least an interesting time looking at bizarre nineteenth-century occupations or any number of other details) should consider consulting the site.
Just coming out today is news of skeletons discovered on the shores of Lake Turkana in Kenya. These skeletons are between 9500 and 10,500 years old, and they bear evidence of being victims of a massacre.
This is interesting as a very early example of violence between hunter-gatherer societies.