Monday, January 31, 2011

Secrets in stone

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It looked to be a routine excavation of what was thought to be a burial mound. But beneath the mound, archaeologists from the Norwegian Univ...

Norwegian petroglyphs found beneath burial mounds

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It looked to be a routine excavation of what was thought to be a burial mound. But beneath the mound, archaeologists from the Norwegian Univ...
Saturday, January 29, 2011

Was the fox prehistoric man's best friend?

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Early humans may have preferred the fox to the dog as an animal companion, new archaeological findings suggest. Researchers analysing remain...

Modern humans reached Arabia earlier than thought, new artifacts suggest

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Artifacts unearthed in the United Arab Emirates date back 100,000 years and imply that modern humans first left Africa much earlier than res...

Hints of earlier human exit from Africa

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Stone Age people apparently took a surprisingly fast track out of Africa via an unexpected route — Arabia. Modern humans reached Arabia’s ea...

Ancient Tools May Mark Earlier Path Out of Africa

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The bodies are still missing, but a prehistoric toolkit discovered in the United Arab Emirates has led some archaeologists to propose a more...

Tools Suggest Earlier Human Exit From Africa

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A cache of stone tools found on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula has reopened the critical question of when and how modern humans esc...
Monday, January 17, 2011

Neanderthal faces were not adapted to cold

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New research into Neanderthal skulls suggests that facial features believed for over a century to be adaptations to extreme cold are unlikel...

Reviving the taste of an Iron Age beer

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Early Celtic rulers of a community in what’s now southwestern Germany liked to party, staging elaborate feasts in a ceremonial center. The b...
Friday, January 14, 2011

Your Favourite Archaeological Sites in Europe

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Which sites in Europe have you most enjoyed visiting? A new Archaeology in Europe website allows you to post descriptions and photos of ar...
Thursday, January 13, 2011

Neanderthals and early modern humans had same lifespan

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A new study by a Washington University in St. Louis suggests life expectancy was probably the same for early modern and late archaic humans ...
Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Dying Young Didn't Wipe Out Neanderthals

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Early humans had the same life expectancy as their ancient cousins before Neanderthals died off about 30,000 years ago. Dying young was not ...

Effective Use Of Power In The Bronze Age Societies Of Central Europe

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During the first part of the Bronze Age in the Carpathian Basin in Central Europe, a large proportion of the population lived in what are kn...

Longevity unlikely to have aided early modern humans

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Life expectancy was probably the same for early modern and late archaic humans and did not factor in the extinction of Neanderthals, suggest...

Chemical analysis confirms discovery of oldest wine-making equipment ever found

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UCLA scientists use new scientific method to verify vintage 4100 B.C. wine Analysis by a UCLA-led team of scientists has confirmed the disco...

Oldest-known wine press found in southern Armenia

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Researchers find dried grape vines, after previously unearthing an ancient sandal from the same site. In the 1970s, Soviet officials initial...

Ancient Denisovans and the human family tree

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Last month scientists revealed remarkable evidence of a new group of ancient humans called Denisovans that interbred with our species and le...

Irish archaeologists help unearth the world’s oldest winery

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Winery discovered close by to location of world’s oldest shoe find The world’s oldest winery has been discovered by an Armenian, Irish, U.S....

World’s Oldest Winery Discovered by Archaeologists

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Life on the planet was recently reported in the media to be 3 billion years old but the wine production is only around 6100 years old accord...
Tuesday, January 11, 2011

At 6,000 years old, wine press is oldest yet found

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Archeologists have unearthed the oldest wine-making facility ever found, using biochemical techniques to identify a dry red vintage made abo...