Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Ancient erotic carvings found in Germany

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Researchers in Germany have discovered Stone Age cave art including carvings of nude women. Archaeologists working for the Bavarian State Of...

Time team dig up the dirt: experts push back origins of farming in city’s history

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ARCHAEOLOGISTS working at a Sheffield farm have dug up a mystery – the remains of a settlement which could date back 8,000 years to the Iron...
Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Part Ape, Part Human

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A new ancestor emerges from the richest collection of fossil skeletons ever found. Lee Berger is standing in a death trap, smiling. It is a ...

Carving found in Gower cave could be oldest rock art

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An archaeologist believes a wall carving in a south Wales cave could be Britain's oldest example of rock art. The faint scratchings of a...
Sunday, July 24, 2011

Early Human Ancestors Walked Fully Upright Earlier Than Scientists Thought, Study Shows

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Early human ancestors walked fully upright about 2 million years earlier than scientists have long suggested, according to the results of a ...

7,000-year-old archaeological site was a Stone Age rest area

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A recently uncovered archaeological site in the Scottish highlands dates back to the Mesolithic, roughly 10,000 years ago. What makes it so ...

Mesolithic 'rest stop' found at new Sainsbury's site

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Archaeologists believe the remains of burned oak uncovered at the site of the first Sainsbury's in the Highlands to be evidence of an an...

UK's 'oldest' open-air cemetery discovered in Somerset

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Somerset was the site of the UK's oldest open-air cemetery, the county council says. Recent radiocarbon dating of two skulls found at a ...

Schönebeck: »Deutsches Stonehenge« II - nur ohne Steine

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Bei Schönebeck südlich von Magdeburg wird derzeit eine frühbronzezeitliche Kreisgrabenanlage ausgegraben. Das vorgeschichtliche Heiligtum li...
Monday, July 18, 2011

Dorchester Cursus - Cursus in England in Oxfordshire

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Oxford Archaeology has been excavating the Dorchester-on-Thames cursus with the help of volunteers. Finds were on display at the open day, a...

Genetic Research Confirms That Non-Africans Are Part Neanderthal

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Some of the human X chromosome originates from Neanderthals and is found exclusively in people outside Africa, according to an international...

Stone Age relics may be hidden in Western Isles' seas

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Submerged sites of ancient communities could be hidden in the seas around the Western Isles, according to experts. Dr Jonathan Benjamin and ...

Outrage, as English Neolithic monument bulldozed flat

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Reports began to circulate in early June concerning damage to one of a series of four remarkable Neolithic monuments in Somerset, southwest ...

5,000-year-old skeleton unearthed in Northern Italy

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The 5,000-year-old skeleton of a woman was recently found in Aosta Valley (Northern Italy). "The Lady of Introd", as it has been n...
Monday, July 11, 2011

Early humans, ritual cannibals: Study

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Archaeologists have found 32,000-year-old human remains in southeastern Europe, which suggest that the earliest humans practiced “mortuary” ...
Sunday, July 10, 2011

Bringing ancient rock art into the digital age

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new digital media project at Newcastle University is proving that academic thought is not set in stone. Through the use of a modern-day tab...

8,000-year-old dog tomb ‘significant’ find

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Archaeologists have discovered an unprecedented 8,000-year-old dog tomb – the oldest in southern Europe – in a shell mound near the Portugue...

"Tomb of the Otters" Filled With Stone Age Human Bones

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Thousands of human bones have been found inside a Stone Age tomb on a northern Scottish island, archaeologists say. The 5,000-year-old buria...
Thursday, July 7, 2011

Earliest Europeans Were Cannibals, Wore Bling

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Early humans wore jewelry and likely practiced cannibalism, suggest remains of the earliest known Homo sapiens from southeastern Europe. The...
Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Mobile phone app will help users find North East prehistoric rock art Read More http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-news/2011/07/06/m

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THE meaning of rock art created in the North East thousands of years ago has baffled modern day experts. And the prehistoric people who carv...