Thursday, September 30, 2010

Trampling Skews Artifact Dates by Thousands of Years?

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Around the world, the hooves of water buffaloes, goats, and other large animals may have propelled countless Stone Age artifacts back in tim...

What we can learn from our hunter-gatherer ancestors

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The roots of our current problems of climate change and resource depletion go back 6,000 years to the arrival of farming As an archaeologist...
Friday, September 24, 2010

Remains of Neolithic village discovered in SW Budapest

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The remains of a 7,000-year-old village have been unearthed in southwest Budapest's 22nd district by archaeologists of the Budapest Hist...

Animal burials at Carshalton

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A series of 2,000 year old animal burials have been found at Carshalton, London Borough of Sutton. The burials, which were placed in pits, w...

Volcanoes Killed Off Neanderthals, Study Suggests

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Catastrophic volcanic eruptions in Europe may have culled Neanderthals to the point where they couldn't bounce back, according to a cont...

Neanderthals More Intelligent Than Thought

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For the last fifty years, any discovery of modern tools associated with a Neanderthal community was thought to be a byproduct of Neanderthal...
Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Online Courses in Archaeology with the University of Oxford

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Cave paintings, castles and pyramids, Neanderthals, Romans and Vikings - archaeology is about the excitement of discovery, finding out about...

Caveman diet could hold key to optimum nutrition

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Unilever has for the first time gathered unlikely scientific bedfellows from the fields of archaeology, anthropology, evolutionary genetics,...

In pictures: Bronze Age dig uncovers murdered man

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The Bronze age in the Isle of Man ran from around 2000 BC to 600 BC. Houses, burial sites and artefacts from this era have been found all ov...

8,000-year-old seal unearthed in western Turkey

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Archaeologists have unearthed a seal believed to be 8,000 years old during excavations in the Yeşilova Tumulus, one of the oldest settlement...
Friday, September 17, 2010

Greek archaeologists uncover ancient tombs

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Greek archaeologists on Thursday announced the discovery of 37 ancient tombs dating back to the iron age in a cemetery near the ancient Mace...

Iron Age village found at UK school building site

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Ancient human infant and animal remains believed to be more than 2,000 years old have been unearthed during the construction of a school in ...

Bronze Age burials at Inverness Asda site

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A Bronze Age burial site has been uncovered at the planned location of the Highlands' first Asda supermarket. Archaeologists found an ar...

Researchers unearth 8,500-year-old bodies near Bursa

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Ancient bodies believed to be 8,500 years old have been unearthed at a burial mound in the Akçalar area of the Marmara province of Bursa. Th...

Violent death of Bronze Age man examined by Manx Museum

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Investigations into the mysterious death of a Bronze Age man are helping to paint a picture of life on the Isle of Man over 3,000 years ago....
Friday, September 3, 2010

Bronze Age Gold Treasure found in East Kent

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Two Bronze Age gold bracelets almost 3,000 years old have been discovered during excavations along the route of the East Kent Access Road. W...

Scalpels and skulls point to Bronze Age brain surgery

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Önder Bilgi talks about his discovery of a razor-sharp 4000-year-old scalpel and what it was originally used for Where are you digging? At a...

Human Meat Just Another Meal for Early Europeans?

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For some European cavemen, human meat wasn't a ritual delicacy or a food of last resort but an everyday meal, according to a new study o...
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...