Sunday, September 11, 2011

Human Ancestor May Put Twist in Origin Story, New Studies Say

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Two-million-year-old bones—and possibly skin—from a pair of primate fossils are offering new insight into the apelike species that may have...
Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Before They Left Africa, Modern Humans Interbred With Archaic Humans, Reports DNA Study

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It has become increasingly clear through DNA studies that modern humans may have interbred with Neanderthals in Eurasia following their mig...

Ancient humans were mixing it up

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Anatomically modern humans interbred with more archaic hominin forms even before they migrated out of Africa, a UA-led team of researchers ...

Could this be the oldest pub in Scotland?

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A historic site's true purpose may have been revealed - as an Iron Age boozer. Experts believe that 4600 years ago, thirsty natives ma...
Monday, September 5, 2011

Volcanic artifacts imply ice-age mariners in prehistoric Greece

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Mariners may have been traveling the Aegean Sea even before the end of the last ice age, according to new evidence from researchers, in ord...
Saturday, September 3, 2011

Iron age hill fort excavation reveals 'possible suburbia'

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Size of settlement suggests Ham Hill site was a town rather than a defensive structure, archaeologists believe The most intensive investig...

Bronze Age excavation project begins in Cornwall

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A 10-day excavation project at a Bronze Age site in Cornwall has begun. Organisers hope they will find more information on a settlement at...

Tomb found at Stonehenge quarry site

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The tomb for the original builders of Stonehenge could have been unearthed by an excavation at a site in Wales. The Carn Menyn site in the...

Stone tools shed light on early human migrations

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Hominins with different tool-making technologies coexisted. The discovery of stone axes in the same sediment layer as cruder tools indic...
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...