Sunday, October 31, 2010

How 5000-yr-old Neolithic men painted their homes

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London, Oct 30 : A new research has revealed that our ancestors from 5,000 years ago painted their homes to brighten up their places too. Th...
Saturday, October 23, 2010

Stonehenge bosses 'regret' photography ban (update)

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English Heritage has issued a statement to photographers after it sent an email that banned commercial use of images of historic tourist att...
Thursday, October 21, 2010

Hunting for the Dawn of Writing, When Prehistory Became History

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One of the stars of the Oriental Institute’s new show, “Visible Language: Inventions of Writing in the Ancient Middle East and Beyond,” is a...

Archaeologists find early Neolithic evidence

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Cornell archaeologists are helping to rewrite the early prehistory of human civilization on Cyprus, with evidence that hunter-gatherers bega...
Wednesday, October 20, 2010

5,000-year-old door found in Europe

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Archaeologists in the Swiss city of Zurich have found a 5,000-year-old door that may be one of the oldest ever found in Europe. Niels Bleich...

Swiss archaeologists find 5,000-year-old door

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Archaeologists in the Swiss city of Zurich have found a 5,000-year-old door that may be the oldest ever found in Europe. Chief archaeologist...

Stone Age flour found across Europe

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Once thought of as near total carnivores, early humans ate ground flour 20,000 years before the dawn of agriculture. Flour residues recovere...

A Setback for Neandertal Smarts?

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Neandertals are looking sharp these days. Many researchers now credit our evolutionary cousins, once regarded as brutish and dumb, with ...
Sunday, October 17, 2010

Man who discovered Iron Age torcs with metal detector set for £460,000 windfall

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Amateur metal-detecting enthusiast, David Booth, who discovered a collection of Iron Age gold in a field near Stirling has could be in line ...

Maghera tomb: 5,000-year-old burial site to give up secrets

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Archaeologists are to dig out a portal tomb in Northern Ireland for the first time in 50 years. The collapse of Tirnony Dolmen near Maghera ...

How Middle Eastern Milk Drinkers Conquered Europe

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New research has revealed that agriculture came to Europe amid a wave of immigration from the Middle East during the Neolithic period. The n...

Bejeweled Stonehenge Boy Came From Mediterranean?

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As a major attraction for more than 3,500 years, Stonehenge has inspired many an ancient road trip. Now, new evidence shows that Bronze Age ...
Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Bronze Age civilisation discovered in Russian Caucasus

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Traces of a previously unknown Bronze Age civilisation have been discovered in the peaks of Russia's Caucasus Mountains thanks to aerial...
Monday, October 11, 2010

My bright idea: Neanderthals could show compassion

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Dr Penny Spikins is a young archaeologist at the University of York who focuses her research on social and cognitive evolution and prehistor...

'Mini-Pompeii' Found in Norway

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Norwegian archaeologists have unearthed a Neolithic “mini Pompeii” at a campsite near the North Sea, they announced this week. Discovered at...
Monday, October 4, 2010

Unearthed Aryan cities rewrite history

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BRONZE Age cities archaeologists say could be the precursor of Western civilisation is being uncovered in excavations on the Russian steppe....

Archaeologists find ‘mini-Pompeii’

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The most well-preserved pottery from the Stone Age ever found in Norway has turned up in an unspoiled dwelling site not far from Kristiansan...

Steinzeit-Skelett aus Arnoldsweiler geborgen

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Die Ausgrabung eines großen Fundplatzes auf der künftigen Trasse der A 4 bei Düren-Arnoldsweiler hatte spektakuläre Ergebnisse erbracht – si...

No Evidence Found Of Catastrophic Impact In Pleistocene

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Anthropology professor Vance T. Holliday and others take issue with claims that a comet strike led to the demise of Paleoindian megafauna hu...
Saturday, October 2, 2010

Seafood diet behind big brains

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Our love of seafood goes way back. Archaeologists have found crocodiles, turtles and fish were eaten by early humans almost 2 million years ...