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According to a Newsweek report, a Roman situla, or bucket, containing cremated human remains has been unearthed in southern Poland. The vessel was discovered in a cemetery belonging to the Przeworsk culture that was in use between the first century B.C. and the second century A.D. “The situla has survived almost intact, with elaborately cast dolphin-shaped handle attachments,” said Joanna Zagórska-Telega of Jagiellonian University. “Three legs in the shape of stylized dolphins have also survived at the base,” she added. Pieces of such vessels, thought to have been made in northern Italy or the eastern Alps, have been uncovered all...