Tuesday, March 29, 2011

£58,000 bronze age windfall for Wiltshire museum

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The Wiltshire Heritage Museum in Devizes has been awarded £58,200 to work on plans to create new Bronze Age galleries. The money has come fr...

2,500-year-old intact human brain found

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British archeologists have found that the human brain, which was found intact in a muddy Iron Age pit in the UK, dates back to 2,500 years a...

Scientists Trace Violent Death of Iron Age Man

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An Iron Age man whose skull and brain was unearthed during excavations at the University of York was the victim of a gruesome ritual killing...
Monday, March 28, 2011

Cornish stone circle damaged by cattle

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Longhorn cattle introduced as part of a Higher Level Stewardship conservation grazing scheme onto Carnyorth Common near St Just (Cornwall, E...
Saturday, March 26, 2011

2,500-Year-Old Human Preserved Brain Discovered

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A 2,500-year-old human skull uncovered in England was less of a surprise than what was in it: the brain. The discovery of the yellowish, cri...
Monday, March 21, 2011

Neolithic stone axe on Tralee bypass route

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THE discovery of a stone axe on the proposed route of the Tralee bypass proves that people lived in the area about 5,000 years ago. The find...

‘Talking fires’ link iron age hillforts

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A TEST to show how people in the Iron Age communicated using Welsh peaks was yesterday hailed a success. Scores of volunteers flashed torche...

Money raised for Iron Age gold treasure find

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A £1m Iron Age gold hoard found near Stirling by an amateur treasure hunter has been secured for the nation after a fundraising campaign. Th...

The pre-Neolithic in the Troodos Mountains of Cyprus

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Archaeologists working at the pre-Neolithic site of Rhoudias, situated in the south foothills of the Troodos Mountains next to the Xenos ri...
Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Science friction: Study questions how long ago ancient ancestors learned to use fire

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WASHINGTON — A new study is raising questions about when ancient human ancestors in Europe learned to control fire, one of the most importan...

Neanderthals were nifty at controlling fire, says CU-Boulder-led study

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But Neanderthal predecessors pushed into cold regions of Europe at least 800,000 years ago without the use of fire A new study involving the...

Neanderthals were nifty at controlling fire, says CU-Boulder-led study

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A new study involving the University of Colorado Boulder shows clear evidence of the continuous control of fire by Neanderthals in Europe da...

Iron Age road found in Shropshire by archaeologists

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Archaeologists think they may have found evidence that Iron Age Britons were capable of building roads - before the Romans arrived. Environm...
Monday, March 14, 2011

Marden Henge excavations opens window on Neolithic ritual

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English Heritage archaeologists have uncovered a ceremonial building, thought to be 4,500 years old during a recent 6-week archaeological ex...

New archaeological finds in El Salvador

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Three renowned French archaeologists have been travelling through the country to document the existence of cave art. Their findings at Moraz...
Saturday, March 12, 2011

Stonehenge Being Scanned With Lasers

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Modern laser scanning is being implemented to study Stonehenge and to search for hidden clues about how and why the ancient wonder was built...

Excavations at Banks Chambered Tomb, South Ronaldsay, Orkney

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A team of archaeologists from the Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology (ORCA) recently undertook a rescue excavation on a newly discovered...

Complete neolithic pot found in Didcot

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Archaeologists working on a housing development in Oxfordshire claim to have found one of the oldest complete pots in the country. The neoli...

Shedding our penis spines helped us become human, DNA study hints

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Genetic comparison with chimps suggests that losing chunks of DNA – including one associated with penis spines and facial whiskers – played ...

Ancient gold treasure found in field

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GOLD coins which could date back more than 2,000 years have been found in a field in Harborough district. The ten coins originate from the c...