Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Popular Archaeology Magazine Launched

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Popular Archaeology magazine is a 100% online periodical dedicated to participatory, or public, archaeology. Unlike most other major magazi...

German Archeologists Uncover Celtic Treasure

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Archeologists in Germany have discovered a 2,600-year-old Celtic tomb containing ornate jewellery of gold and amber. They say the grave is u...

Celtic noble's tomb discovery is a 'milestone of archaeology'

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Stuttgart - Scientists have discovered a 2,600 year-old aristocratic burial, likely of a Celtic noblewoman, at the hill fort site of Heunebu...
Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Neanderthals may have feasted on meat and two veg diet

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Scientists have upgraded their opinion of Neanderthal cuisine after spotting traces of cooked food on the fossilised teeth of our long-extin...

Neanderthals ate their greens

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It just goes to show what can happen if you don't brush your teeth: some anthropologist can tip up thousands of years later and start ma...

The earliest evidence of modern man?

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Israeli archaeologists claim that they may have found the earliest evidence yet for the existence of modern man. A Tel Aviv University team ...

Homo sapiens lived in Eretz Yisrael 400,000 years ago

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Long before the land was called Israel and the residents Jews, Homo sapiens lived here twice as long ago as was previously believed, the res...

Swedish scientists study ice man bacteria samples

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A team of scientists are currently examining specimens of stomach bacteria from Ötzi the Iceman, who lived about 5,300 years ago, at Stockho...

Ancient Bone's DNA Suggests New Human Ancestors

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DNA taken from a pinkie bone at least 30,000 years old is hinting at the existence of a previously unknown population of ancient humans. It...

Weder Neandertaler noch moderner Mensch

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Das Genom eines ausgestorbenen Urmenschen liefert neue Erkenntnisse über die Ursprünge des modernen Menschen Ein internationales Forschertea...
Monday, December 20, 2010

Crowds expected to gather to witness magical winter solstice light ceremony at Newgrange

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Despite the weather, it’s expected that like last year, crowds will gather to witness the winter solstice light ceremony on December 21. Las...
Saturday, December 18, 2010

Spain rethinks reopening of prehistoric art 'Sistine Chapel'

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Spain's Altamira cave, dubbed the "Sistine Chapel" of Paleolithic art because of the paintings of animals on its ceiling, will...

Woodhenge: Is this one of the greatest discoveries of archaeology...or a simple farmer's fence?

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The discovery of a wooden version of Stonehenge – a few hundred yards from the famous monument – was hailed as one of the most important arc...

Lucky duck! Spanish Bronze Age man suffered broken bone in neck – and lived

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Archaeologists exploring a Bronze Age fortress at La Motilla del Azuer, in Spain, have come across a very lucky man. One of the skeletons is...
Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Neanderthals Fashioned Earliest Tool Made From Human Bone

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The earliest known tool made from human bone has been discovered — and it was apparently crafted by Neanderthals, scientists find. The scien...

Archaeology: 8000 year-old Sun temple found in Bulgaria

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The oldest temple of the Sun has been discovered in northeast Bulgaria, near the city of Varna, aged at more then 8000 years, the Bulgarian ...

UK exhibits Newark, Sedgeford torcs

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The British Museum has exhibited the Newark Torc alongside the museum's own Sedgeford Torc, both of which date back to the pre-Roman Iro...
Tuesday, December 14, 2010

10 Ancient Burial Places Discovered in Stavropol Territory

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The burial grounds recently found in Stavropol Territory date back to different periods, the earliest of them 5th millennium B.C. The burial...
Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Giant fossil bird found on 'hobbit' island of Flores

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A giant marabou stork has been discovered on an island once home to human-like 'hobbits'. Fossils of the bird were discovered on the...
Monday, December 6, 2010

Neanderthals: how needles and skins gave us the edge on our kissing cousins

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The Neanderthal genome tells us we were very similar: in fact we interbred. But intellect and invention meant that we lived while they peris...