Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Iron Age road link to Iceni tribe

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A suspected Iron Age road, made of timber and preserved in peat for 2,000 years, has been uncovered by archaeologists in East Anglia. T...
Friday, August 12, 2011

Iron Age people gave interiors of dwellings a decorative streak

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Archaeologists in Saxony-Anhalt have discovered a 2,600-year-old wall painted in bright patterns. It reveals that Iron Age houses were not...

Stone Age toe could redraw human family tree

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ON THE western fringes of Siberia, the Stone Age Denisova cave has surrendered precious treasure: a toe bone that could shed light on earl...

Snails help date Britain's last three million years

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Scientists have built the most comprehensive timeline yet for working out the exact order in which geological and archaeological events ha...
Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Archaeologists uncover 3,000-year-old lion adorning citadel gate complex in Turkey

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Archaeologists leading the University of Toronto's Tayinat Archaeological Project in southeastern Turkey have unearthed the remains of...

Ancient DNA reveals secrets of human history

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For a field that relies on fossils that have lain undisturbed for tens of thousands of years, ancient human genomics is moving at breaknec...
Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Thank climate change for the rise of humans

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SOME claim climate change will destroy our species; now it seems it also helped forge it. The rapid fluctuations in temperature that chara...

Ancient stone chamber unearthed in garden

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An ancient underground chamber which could date back 2,000 years has been unearthed near Clonmany in Inishowen. Discovered by Clonmany ...
Sunday, August 7, 2011

Going underground: The massive European network of Stone Age tunnels that weaves from Scotland to Turkey

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Stone Age man created a massive network of underground tunnels criss-crossing Europe from Scotland to Turkey, a new book on the ancient supe...

Important finds at Late Bronze Age site

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A LARGE building dating as far back as 1200 BC and a female goddess figurine were only some of the fascinating finds following five-week lon...

Ancient Graves Reveal When Elderly Gained Power

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It's not easy to study the elderly in a society where life was all too often cut short by disease, childbirth and injuries. But new rese...
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...