Sunday, May 29, 2011

Bronze-Age Battle Frozen in Time: Photos

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he earliest probable evidence for a large-scale battle, described in the latest issue of Antiquity, reveals in gory detail what warfare was ...

Unique Canine Tooth from 'Peking Man' Found in Swedish Museum Collection

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Fossils from so-called Peking man are extremely rare, as most of the finds disappeared during World War II. A unique discovery has been made...
Thursday, May 26, 2011

Population genetics reveals shared ancestries

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More than just a tool for predicting health, modern genetics is upending long-held assumptions about who we are. A new study by Harvard rese...
Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Iron Age cliff castle excavation finally reveals its secrets after 70 years

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After a delay of 70 years, a new book has been published which sheds light on the history of a nationally important monument in Cornwall. Th...
Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Early Bronze Age battle site found on German river bank

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Fractured human remains found on a German river bank could provide the first compelling evidence of a major Bronze Age battle. Archaeologica...
Thursday, May 19, 2011

Standing Up to Fight: Does It Explain Why We Walk Upright and Why Women Like Tall Men?

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A University of Utah study shows that men hit harder when they stand on two legs than when they are on all fours, and when hitting downward ...

Golden Cap's ancient burial mounds excavated in Dorset

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Work has started to excavate three Bronze Age burial mounds on Golden Cap in Dorset. The 4,000-year-old mounds are at risk from coastal eros...
Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Archaeological dig at Iron Age hill fort to open to the public

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GUIDED tours of an archaeological excavation taking place at an Iron Age hill fort are to be held as part of a public open weekend. The free...
Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Clues to Neanderthal hunting tactics hidden in reindeer teeth

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Scientists have found that our cousins the Neanderthal employed sophisticated hunting strategies similar to the tactics used much later by m...
Monday, May 16, 2011

Rare performance of Iron Age horn

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A CHURCH was filled with sounds from the Iron Age during a music event on Saturday. Musician John Kenny was at Harborough’s St Dionysius Chu...

On Prehistoric Supercontinent of Pangaea, Latitude and Rain Dictated Where Species Lived

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More than 200 million years ago, mammals and reptiles lived in their own separate worlds on the supercontinent Pangaea, despite little geogr...
Sunday, May 15, 2011

Prehistoric Cave Art Discovered in Basque Country

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In a locally well known cave near an industrial town in Spain, researchers have unexpectedly discovered faint images of horses and hand prin...

Neanderthals' Last Stand Possibly Found

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A newly found prehistoric toolkit suggests Neanderthals may have lingered in Russia's Ural Mountains as recently as 33,000 years ago. A ...

Butter in bog may be 2,500 years old

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BOG BUTTER found in a timber vessel in a bog at Shancloon near Caherlistrane, north Galway, could be 2,000 to 2,500 years old, according to ...
Saturday, May 14, 2011

Stone Age cold case baffles scientists

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In Asia’s northern hinterlands not far from the Arctic Circle, Stone Age toolmakers left an evolutionary calling card that’s hard to read. A...
Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Neanderthal extinction debate rumbles on

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Direct dating of a fossil of a Neanderthal infant suggests that Neanderthals probably died out earlier than previously thought. Researchers ...

Prehistoric paintings found in Spain

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Paintings depicting horses and human hands made by prehistoric humans around 25,000 years ago have been discovered in a cave in northern Spa...

Were Neandertals and Modern Humans Just Ships in the Night?

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Researchers have long debated how long Neandertals stuck around after modern humans invaded their home territories in Europe and Asia around...
Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Neanderthals and Early Humans May Not Have Mingled Much

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n improvement in the dating of fossils suggests that the Neanderthals, a heavily muscled, thick-boned human species adapted to living in ice...

Archaeologists find 2,600-year-old Celtic Princess buried in Germany

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German archaeologists are examining a Celtic grave in the Danube heartland when they found the remains of a Celtic princess, from 2,600 year...