Thursday, June 30, 2011

No Family Plots, Just Communal Burials In Ancient Settlement

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Human remains discovered beneath the floors of mud-brick houses at one of the world's first permanent settlements, were not biologically...

Peking man differing from modern humans in brain asymmetry

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Paleoanthropologists studying the fossil endocasts of Australopithecus, Homo habilis, Homo erectus, Neanderthals, and Homo sapiens have repo...
Monday, June 27, 2011

Butser Ancient Farm revamp is off to a flying start

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AN OUTDOOR museum and archaeology centre has won £30,000 towards refurbishments. The South Downs National Park Authority awarded the grant t...

Prehistoric BBQ Leftovers Found

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Stone Age barbecue consumers first went for the bone marrow and then for the ribs, suggest the leftovers of an outdoor 7,700-year-old meaty ...
Saturday, June 25, 2011

Archaeology: New Thracian grave found in northeastern Bulgaria

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Ancient Thracian golden and bronze finds have been excavated by archaeologists in the town of Opaka, district Turgovishte, in northeastern B...

Cutting edge training developed the human brain 80 000 years ago

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Advanced crafting of stone spearheads contributed to the development of new ways of human thinking and behaving. This is what new findings b...

Iceman's Stomach Sampled—Filled With Goat Meat

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Hours before he died, "Ötzi" the Iceman gorged on the fatty meat of a wild goat, according to a new analysis of the famous mummy...

Lascaux's 18,000 year-old cave art under threat

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MONTIGNAC, France (AFP) – They call her the Old Lady, for she is some 18,000 years old and frail, which is why she is protected by steel doo...
Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Iron-Age brewing evidence found in southeastern France

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Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that the occupants of southeastern France were brewing beer during the Iron Age, some 2,500 years ago...

Protein from Bones of 600,000-Year-Old Mammoth Extracted Successfully

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Researchers from the University of York and Manchester have successfully extracted protein from the bones of a 600,000-year-old mammoth, pav...

Early French had a taste for beer

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Evidence of beer making in Mediterranean France, as far back as the 5th century BC, has been unearthed by Laurent Bouby from the CNRS - Cent...
Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Prehistoric stone circle discovered in Yorkshire

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A stone circle that was once part of a prehistoric cairn has been discovered by a group of amateur archaeologists on Ilkley Moor, Yorkshire,...

Bronze Age discovery at Hes East

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University of York Archaeology students have unearthed a rare Bronze Age cremation urn during excavations on the University’s Heslington Eas...

Bronze Age Brain Surgeons

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You might shudder at the mere thought of ancient brain surgery, but recent studies of the practice at Bronze Age sites in Turkey suggest tha...
Saturday, June 11, 2011

Stone circle found by amateur archaeologists on Ilkley Moor

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Amateur archaeologists are celebrating discovering another prehistoric stone circle on Wharfedale's moors. The identification of the pre...

Broken idols of Keros: British archaeologists explain Greek mystery

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To say it has been an archaeological mystery may be an understatement: why are fragments of beautiful but deliberately smashed bronze age fi...
Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Ancient Farmers Started the First 'Green Revolution'

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The 1960s marked a turning point for agriculture in Asia: that's when plant breeders launched a "green revolution" in rice pro...

'Incredibly exciting' rare pre-Ice Age handaxe discovered on Orkney

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An “incredibly rare" pre-Ice Age handaxe which may have been used to kill woolly mammoths, has been found on an Orkney beach. The Palae...
Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Human ancestors in Eurasia earlier than thought

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Archaeologists have long thought that Homo erectus, humanity's first ancestor to spread around the world, evolved in Africa before dispe...

Bulgarian Archaeologists Embark on Alpine Mission to Thracian Kings' Residence

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Bulgaria's National History Museum are starting the largest alpine expedition in the history of Bulgarian archaeology in order to excava...