Sunday, January 31, 2010

Archaeologists unearth Iron Age settlement in Kent

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The remains of an Iron Age settlement have been unearthed by archaeologists working along the route of a new £1.3m water pipeline in Kent. E...

Horizontal and vertical: The evolution of evolution

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JUST suppose that Darwin's ideas were only a part of the story of evolution. Suppose that a process he never wrote about, and never even...
Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Evidence of Stone Age amputation forces rethink over history of surgery

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The surgeon was dressed in a goat or sheep skin and used a sharpened stone to amputate the arm of his patient. The operating theatre was not...
Sunday, January 24, 2010

Fears over M-way near ancient site

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The ancient Bru na Boinne site around Newgrange may lose its World Heritage status if the proposed M2 motorway goes ahead, it is claimed. Th...
Friday, January 22, 2010

Slane bypass would run close to Newgrange

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The National Roads Authority has given details of plans for the new Slane bypass, which would be built 500m from the World Heritage Site at ...

Bypass will run 500 metres from Newgrange complex

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THE proposed route of the Slane bypass in Co Meath will run just 500 metres from the edge of the ancient Newgrange complex. The National Roa...
Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Tools point to early Cretan arrivals

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Evidence for the world’s earliest seafaring has emerged from an archaeological survey in Crete. Tools of Lower Palaeolithic type, at least 1...

Genome Study Provides a Census of Early Humans

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From the composition of just two human genomes, geneticists have computed the size of the human population 1.2 million years ago from which ...
Sunday, January 17, 2010

Radiocarbon Daters Tune Up Their Time Machine

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It took nearly 30 years and a lot of heated debate, but a team of researchers has finally produced what archaeologists, geologists, and othe...

Ancient arrowhead a 'chance find' at Sutherland school

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Archaeologists have made what they described as a "chance discovery" of a stone arrowhead in the garden of a ruined schoolhouse in...
Thursday, January 14, 2010

If it turns out the Neanderthals weren't numbskulls, who can we look down on?

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Archaeology is exploding the comforting myths and yardsticks against which we measure our supposed progress These are about the only two arc...

Neanderthals Enjoyed Surf and Turf Meals

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Recently at Discovery News I told you about Neanderthal-made shell jewelry that suggests these hominids were as smart and creative as modern...
Wednesday, January 13, 2010

In praise of… Neanderthal man

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It seems we have all been guilty of defaming Neanderthal man. Research by a team based at the University of Bristol suggests that, far from ...
Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Stonehenge on 'most threatened' world wonders list

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Britain's failure to deal with road traffic around the prehistoric stone circle is condemned as 'a national disgrace' The traffi...

Museums and English Heritage unite for Stonehenge show to "draw on all the senses"

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A plan to actively encourage Stonehenge visitors to understand the wider archaeological landscape of Wiltshire through surrounding museum co...

Seahenge set to be complete for the first time in 10 years

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An iconic ancient monument uncovered by the tides on a Norfolk beach will soon be complete for the first time in a decade. Scientists have b...

Because they were worth it? Research finds Neanderthals enjoyed makeup

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For decades, our low-browed Neanderthal cousins have been portrayed as dim savages whose idea of seduction was a whispered "ug" an...

Use of body ornamentation shows Neanderthal mind capable of advanced thought

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The widespread view of Neanderthals as cognitively inferior to early modern humans is challenged by new research from the University of Bris...
Sunday, January 10, 2010

Did We Mate Or Murder Neanderthals?

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Aiming his crossbow, Steven Churchill leaves no more than a two-inch gap between the freshly killed pig and the tip of his spear. His weapon...

Ancient hominids may have been seafarers

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Human ancestors that left Africa hundreds of thousands of years ago to see the rest of the world were no landlubbers. Stone hand axes uneart...