Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Pits add to Stonehenge mystery

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Researchers say they've found two pits to the east and west of Stonehenge that may have played a role in an ancient midsummer ceremon...
Monday, November 28, 2011

Archaeological discovery provides evidence of a celestial procession at Stonehenge

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Archaeologists led by the University of Birmingham with the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection have discovered e...

When Humans First Plied the Deep Blue Sea

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In a shallow cave on an island north of Australia, researchers have made a surprising discovery: the 42,000-year-old bones of tuna and s...

Archaeologists make new Stonehenge 'sun worship' find

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Two previously undiscovered pits have been found at Stonehenge which point to it once being used as a place of sun worship before the s...
Thursday, November 24, 2011

'Earliest' evidence of human violence

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A healed fracture discovered on an ancient skull from China may be the oldest documented evidence of violence between humans, a study h...

Moreton-in-Marsh Stone Age axe find leads to seaside theory

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A Stone Age hand axe which was found on a building site could help prove part of Gloucestershire was once "almost on the seaside...
Saturday, November 19, 2011

Bronze Age hoard found in Wiltshire field

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A Bronze Age hoard of more than 100 objects dating back over 2,700 years has been discovered in west Wiltshire. The objects, includin...

Neanderthals Vanished Because of Their Own Success, Suggests Study

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Using data obtained from the archaeological record, a team of researchers at Arizona State University and the University of Colorado, Denv...

Earliest Sample of Minoan Hieroglyphics Found in Western Crete

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A four-sided red jasper sealstone is among the finds unearthed during this season’s excavation of the Minoan peak sanctuary at Vrysinas, ...
Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Archeologists Discover Huge Ancient Greek Commercial Area On Island of Sicily

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The Greeks were not always in such dire financial straits as today. German archeologists have discovered a very large commercial area from...

Bulgarian archaeological site destroyed by bulldozers

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An archaeological site in Bulgaria, including remnants of a village said to date back 8000 years, has been destroyed by bulldozers, allege...
Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Bronze Age burial site excavated on Dartmoor

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An early Bronze Age burial cist containing cremated bones and material dating back 4,000 years has been excavated on Dartmoor. Archaeo...
Monday, November 14, 2011

Twigs suggest Assynt site 'genuine Iron Age broch'

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Radiocarbon dating of burnt twigs found inside an ancient building in Assynt suggest its interior remained untouched after it was built...
Saturday, November 12, 2011

A question of style: Reading rock art using art history

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Ancient engravings and drawings are present all around the world. They are witnesses of people’s journeys through time and space. While t...

New dating of cave site upsets Neanderthal theory

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Members of our species ( Homo sapiens ) arrived in Europe several millennia earlier than previously thought. This was the conclusion by ...

Prehistoric Men Scarred, Pierced, Tattooed Privates

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Men in prehistoric Europe scarred, pierced and tattooed their penises, likely for ritualistic and social group reasons, according to a n...

Ground-breaking technology shows no second chamber at Newgrange

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The technology used in an attempt to find out whether a second passage tomb, which may also be aligned with a solstice event, exists at...
Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Spotted Horses in Cave Art Weren’t Just a Figment, DNA Shows

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Roughly 25,000 years ago in what is now southwestern France, human beings walked deep into a cave and left their enduring marks. Using ma...

Archaeologists Find Habitation Sites in Port of Rotterdam

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The site of what is now Rotterdam’s Yangtzehaven was inhabited by humans in the Middle Stone Age. At a depth of 20 metres, in the sea be...
Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Human Ancestor 'Family' May Not Have Been Related

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A famous trail of footprints once thought to have been left behind by a family of three human ancestors may have actually been made by fou...