Saturday, April 30, 2011

Monkeys, Brains, and Human Evolution: New Findings

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Two recently conducted studies may add some possible new revelations related to our understanding of human or primate evolution. In one, res...
Thursday, April 28, 2011

Bear DNA is clue to age of Chauvet cave art

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EXPLORING a gorge in south-east France in 1994 for prehistoric artefacts, Jean-Marie Chauvet hit the jackpot. After squeezing through a narr...

Archaeologists Explore Site for Answers About First European Farmers

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It is a small, quiet village in Bulgaria. Before now, few people knew of its existence. It sits adjacent to mountains in a river valley and ...

Four Individuals Caught in 'Death Trap' May Shed Light on Human Ancestors

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Finding one partial skeleton of an ancient member of the human family is the rarest of rare discoveries in human evolution. So, paleoanthrop...

Cavemen, Cave Bears Battled Over Turf

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After prehistoric humans and cave bears competed for the same real estate, the bears were wiped out. But are our ancestors to blame? Cavemen...
Monday, April 18, 2011

Did Lucy's species butcher animals?

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In August 2010 archaeologists announced that they had discovered evidence that pushed back the origin of butchery nearly 800,000 years. Stud...

Mass burial suggests massacre at Iron Age hill fort

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Archaeologists have found evidence of a massacre linked to Iron Age warfare at a hill fort in Derbyshire. A burial site contained only women...
Friday, April 15, 2011

Was Eurasia a stone's throw for early humans?

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Picture this scene: it’s 1.8 million years ago in the southern reaches of the Caucasus Mountains and a powerful feline, an ancestor of the m...

Roman kilns and Bronze Age remains at Plumley Wood

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rchaeological fieldwork carried out in advance of mineral extraction unearthed a group of pottery kilns dating from the late Roman period. T...
Monday, April 11, 2011

Scientists speak out to discredit 'gay caveman' media reports

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Reports that surfaced last week about the remains of a "gay caveman" found in the Czech Republic have prompted scientists to take ...
Sunday, April 10, 2011

'Gay Caveman' Story Overblown, Archaeologists Say

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Archaeologists in Prague say they've uncovered a Stone-Age man buried in a position usually reserved for women — but media claims of a ...
Friday, April 8, 2011

Neanderthals: Bad luck and its part in their downfall

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AS OUR ancestors moved north out of Africa and onto the doorstep to the rest of the world, they came across their long-lost cousins: the Nea...

What caused Britain's Bronze Age 'recession'?

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A large gap in pre-history could signal that Britain underwent an economic downturn over 2,500 years ago. In history lessons, the three ages...
Wednesday, April 6, 2011

1,700-year-old African skeleton could be an ancestor

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It is hoped a 1,700-year-old African skeleton unearthed in Warwickshire could provide data about the DNA history of later populations and th...
Monday, April 4, 2011

New funding unveiled for Stonehenge

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Plans to transform the surroundings of Stonehenge came another "crucial" step closer today, English Heritage said as new funding w...
Friday, April 1, 2011

Longer Pregnancy + Breast-Feeding = Bigger Brains, Longer Life Rea

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Advice around breast-feeding can drive new mothers mad, but a new study suggests that the long pregnancies and lactation periods of our preh...
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...