Monday, February 28, 2011

Prehistoric Dog Lived, Died Among Humans

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Burial remains of a dog that lived over 7,000 years ago in Siberia suggest the male Husky-like animal probably lived and died similar to how...

How Stone Age man kept his pores clean... in the SAUNA

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The remains of a 4,500-year-old sauna have been discovered by archaeologists excavating a Stone Age temple. They unearthed the foundations o...

Britain may pull out of funding heritage sites

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Britain is threatening to withdraw its support for the United Nations agency responsible for designating world heritage sites such as Stoneh...
Saturday, February 26, 2011

Garden dig leads to a grave discovery

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Pat Tiernan is a keen fan of television's 'Time Team' and amateur archaeology. But he never thought a dig in his back garden wou...

New Discovery ‘will rewrite Stonehenge’s history’

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Researchers from Leicester and Wales have shed new light on the origins of bluestones at Stonehenge- long believed to have come from ‘sacred...

The Iceman Mummy: Finally Face to Face

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Brown-eyed, bearded, furrow faced, and tired: this is how Ötzi the Iceman might have looked, according to the latest reconstruction based on...

Ancient Britons: Iron Age riches in Cornwall

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The South West has more ancient monuments than anywhere else in the country providing a rich history of how people used to live. As part of ...

Oldest subarctic North American human remains found

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Fairbanks, Alaska—A newly excavated archaeological site in Alaska contained the cremated remains of one of the earliest inhabitants of North...

11,500-Year-Old Remains of Cremated 3-Year-Old Discovered

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An archaeological dig in Alaska has uncovered the oldest human remains ever found in Arctic or Subarctic North America – the cremated skelet...

Pictures: Otzi the Iceman's New, Older Face Unveiled

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Prematurely aged, with leathery, wrinkled skin, deep-set eyes, and a shaggy beard, this new reconstruction of "Ötzi" the Iceman is...
Thursday, February 24, 2011

Origins of Farming in Europe Result of Human Migration and Cultural Change, Study Suggests

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It has long been debated as to whether the transition from a largely hunter-gatherer to an agricultural subsistence strategy in Europe was t...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011

New discovery throws further light on the origins of famous bluestones of Stonehenge

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The ongoing debate surrounding the source of the famous bluestones formimg the distinctive inner circle and horseshoe of Stonehenge has take...

Researchers Map Out Ice Sheets Shrinking During Ice Age

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A set of maps created by the University of Sheffield have illustrated, for the first time, how our last British ice sheet shrunk during the ...

Decorated sandstone boulder found after dig

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ARCHEOLOGISTS have discovered that an artefact found during last year’s dig at Eddisbury Hill is a decorated sandstone boulder dated between...

Too hot, too cold, just right: Testing the limits of where humans can live

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On an isolated segment of islands in the Pacific Ring of Fire, residents endure volcanoes, tsunamis, dense fog, steep cliffs and long and ch...

Giving Lucy a foot to walk on

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New fossil evidence from Hadar, Ethiopia suggests that Australopithecus afarensis, the humanoid species thought to have existed between abou...

Why early man could have done with a dose of aspirin

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Back pain is often blamed on lazy lifestyles – watching television and eating too much. But debilitating backache dates back millions of yea...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Unlocking Noord-Holland's Late Neolithic Treasure Chest

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About the Project The project Unlocking Noord-Holland's Late Neolithic Treasure Chest was initiated by Hans Peeters (then Dutch Cultural...

Structures of Roman fort defences never before seen in Britain have been unearthed during an excavation in Wales. Archaeologists have uncovered sect

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Italy has ruled the fashion world for longer than we thought. That, at least, is the claim of archaeologists who say they have evidence that...

Stonehenge and Avebury World Heritage Site Revised Research Framework (SARRF)

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Wessex Archaeology is pleased to announce that we are co-ordinating the revision and updating of the Avebury and Stonehenge resource assessm...