Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Tortoise banquet: Remains of the oldest feast found

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In a cave 12,000 years ago, a group of people settled down to a dinner that has rarely been matched: 71 tortoises that had been roasted in t...
Sunday, August 29, 2010

Acoustic archaeology: The secret sounds of Stonehenge

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Just after sunrise on a misty spring morning last year, my fellow acoustician at the University of Salford, Bruno Fazenda, and Rupert Till o...

Prehistoric ‘Iceman’ Gets Ceremonial Twist

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A prehistoric man whose naturally mummified body was discovered frozen in the Italian Alps may have been toted up the mountain by his comrad...

Eine neue Mammutfundstelle im Kanton Aargau

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Sprengungsarbeiten beim Steinbruch der Firma Jura Cement in Wildegg (Kanton Aargau) förderten in einem bisher nicht dafür bekannten Gebiet K...
Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Bronze Age henge found in Hertfordshire

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A Bronze Age henge has been discovered on land near Letchworth. Archaeologists have found a circular area about 50 metres wide surrounded by...
Saturday, August 21, 2010

Dig unearths insight into life before the Romans

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THE third phase of the Big Dig at Brading Roman Villa may well have been one of the toughest excavations eminent archaeologist Sir Barry Cun...
Friday, August 20, 2010

'Mitochondrial Eve': Mother of All Humans Lived 200,000 Years Ago

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The most robust statistical examination to date of our species' genetic links to "mitochondrial Eve" -- the maternal ancestor ...
Friday, August 13, 2010

Europe's prehistoric tombs built in bursts

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Western Europe's massive prehistoric tombs were built in a burst of activity over a few centuries around 4000 BC, suggests dating eviden...

Early humans were butchers 3.4 million years ago

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Our ancestors were carving meat some 800,000 years earlier than previously thought. Marks on fossilised animal bones found in Ethiopia indic...
Thursday, August 12, 2010

Stone Age remains are Britain's earliest house

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Archaeologists working on Stone Age remains at a site in North Yorkshire say it contains Britain's earliest surviving house. The team fr...

Evolutionary Surprise: Freedom of Neck Played Major Role in Human Brain Evolution, Research Suggests

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By deciphering the genetics in humans and fish, scientists now believe that the neck -- that little body part between your head and shoulder...

Tool Use by Early Humans Started Much Earlier

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Small-brained human ancestors used stone tools to whack into large mammals some 800,000 years earlier than previously thought. Fossilized bo...

From Grunting To Gabbing: Why Humans Can Talk

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Most of us do it every day without even thinking about it, yet talking is a uniquely human ability. Not only do humans have evolved brains t...

Cannibal cavemen of Spain uncovered

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More evidence that The Flintstones didn't tell us the whole story about cavemen. Our prehuman ancestors cannibalized one another for the...

Archaeologists unearth Britain's oldest house

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Deceptively spacious - many original features - but in need of some modernisation. Archaeologists have discovered what they believe is Brita...

Bone discovery pushes date for first use of stone tools back 1m years

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Butchered bones found near site of 'Lucy', a probable human ancestor, who lived 3.2m years ago The ancestors of early humans used st...

Archaeologists find Britain's oldest house - constructed 11,000 years ago

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Archaeologists have found Britain's earliest house - constructed by Stone Age tribesmen around 11,000 years ago. The discovery is likely...
Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Obsidian used as ancient scalpel found in Turkey's Samsun

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A piece of obsidian (volcanic glass) dating back 4,000 years and believed to have been used as a scalpel for surgery has been unearthed duri...

Yorkshire Dales stone circle investigated

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A circle of stones in the Yorkshire Dales first discovered in 1896 have been uncovered again. Archaeologists, in Hartlington near Burnsall, ...

Environmentalists outraged as ring forts levelled

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ENVIRONMENTAL campaigners want the "full weight of the law" to be brought to bear following the destruction of two ancient ring fo...