Friday, September 30, 2011

Stone-age toddlers had art lessons, study says

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Research on Dordogne cave art shows children learned to finger-paint in palaeolithic age, approximately 13,000 years ago Stone age toddl...
Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Lost city found in Dardanelles, Turkey : Older than Troy

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A group of scientists and archeologists from Canakkale (Dardanelles) University have found traces of a lost city, older than famed Troy,...
Monday, September 26, 2011

Bronze Age finds at Llangollen's Pillar of Eliseg

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Remains dating back to the Bronze Age have been uncovered by archaeologists excavating the site of a 9th Century monument. The finds ...

Ancestors' lifestyle change probed by archaeologists

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Archaeologists are investigating islands around Britain to find out why our ancestors gave up being hunter-gatherers 6,000 years ago...
Sunday, September 25, 2011

Excavation of islands around Britain to establish origins of Neolithic period

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Archaeologists at the University of Liverpool are investigating three island groups around Britain to further understanding of...

Leicestershire archaeologists find Iron Age skeleton

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A team of archaeologists has unearthed an Iron Age skeleton during excavations in Leicestershire.  Dr Jermey Taylor, who has been exa...

First Aboriginal genome sequenced

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A 90-year-old tuft of hair has yielded the first complete genome of an Aboriginal Australian, a young man who lived in southwest Austral...

Archaeologists Investigate Origins Of Agriculture In Britain

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Archaeologists are investigating three island groups around Britain to further understanding of why, in approximately 4,000 BC, humans...
Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Human Skulls Mounted On Stakes Found By Researchers At Stone Age Site In Sweden

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Stone Age hunter-gatherers in southeast Sweden mounted the skulls of their dead on stakes and buried them in a lake, according to a team of...
Friday, September 16, 2011

Major archeological finds made at Wrexham's Borras quarry

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HUNDREDS of ancient artefacts have been unearthed at a quarry. Fragments of Neolithic pottery and a rare ancient arrowhead have been disco...
Thursday, September 15, 2011

Neanderthal man lived on seafood far earlier than previously thought

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Neanderthal man lived on a diet of seafood in the caves of southern Spain much longer ago than previously thought, new archaeological findi...
Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Bluestone Henge twin?

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new digital reconstruction of the monument, discovered by the Stonehenge Riverside Project in 2009 suggests that the circle of Welsh blue ...
Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Bulgarian Archaeology Finds Said to Rewrite History of Black Sea Sailing

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Massive ancient stone anchors were found by divers participating in an archaeological expedition near the southern Bulgarian Black Sea town...
Monday, September 12, 2011

Human-Neanderthal coupling was rare: study

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Scientists have shown that modern humans have some traces of genes from Neanderthals, but a study out Monday suggests that any breeding bet...
Sunday, September 11, 2011

Iron age hill fort excavation reveals ‘possible suburbia

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The most intensive investigation ever undertaken of Britain’s largest iron age hill fort is expected to reveal new details of how Britons l...

Iron Age findings help build picture

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AN IRON Age community discovered in the Daventry district has been described as of “regional, if not national importance”. New investigat...

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...