Large-scale communal bison hunting via jumping is a renowned tactic best known from the northern Plains. In contrast, evidence for jumps in the southern Plains is sparse and controversial. The paucity of bison jumps in the southern Plains has been attributed by some to a lack of suitable precipices. Yet the eastern Caprock Escarpment of the Llano Estacado (in the Southern High Plains) presents numerous scarps suitable for bison jumping. Recent investigations at the Nighthawk site in Caprock Canyons State Park in the Texas Panhandle have revealed an exceptional record of at least seven discrete kill events spanning 3,000 years from the Late Archaic to Protohistoric periods. We present the results of 27 direct radiocarbon measurements on bone collagen and charcoal, reconstruct site formation processes, and describe the skeletal composition of each kill and lithic evidence from this long-term hunting facility. These new data challenge many long-held assumptions about the nature of bison jump hunting techniques in time and space.

Excavations at the stone sarcophagus burial site of Pangkung Paruk on Bali have yielded the largest collection of Roman gold-glass beads in early Southeast Asia found to date, together with elaborate gold ornaments and two Han Chinese bronze mirrors. Unprecedented in Island Southeast Asia, these artefacts find parallels at Oc Eo in Vietnam, at other sites in the Mekong Delta and on the Thai-Malay Peninsula. Analyses of these new finds and comparison with others from across the region provide insights into the early to mid first-millennium AD trans-Asiatic networks that linked Southeast Asia to South Asia, the Roman world and China.