Monday, May 28, 2012

Earliest Musical Instruments Date Back 42000 Years

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Oxford and Tübingen scientists have identified what they believe are the world’s oldest known musical instruments. Mammoth-, left, and bird...
Friday, May 25, 2012

Oldest Art Even Older: New Dates from Geißenklösterle Cave Show Early Arrival of Modern Humans, Art and Music

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Jewelry. Geißenklösterle Cave is one of several caves in the Swabian Jura that have produced important examples of personal ornaments,...

Earliest musical instruments in Europe 40,000 old

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The first modern humans in Europe were playing musical instruments and showing artistic creativity as early as 40,000 years ago, accord...
Thursday, May 24, 2012

Trefael Stone reveals stone age burial chamber

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    The Trefael Stone, seen here with a metre-long measuring stick, is probably the capstone of a Stone Age burial chamber ...

Prague dig yields 5500 BC settlement

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You could almost say that Prague keeps getting older. Not long ago, archaeologists found evidence of the oldest ploughed field here, t...
Tuesday, May 22, 2012

The Times of Their Lives: Understanding the Neolithic peoples of Europe

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Windmill Hill, a large Neolithic causewayed enclosure in Avebury, was previously thought to be built circa 3700 - 3100 BC, but with th...

Join the experts to uncover the past at Flag Fen dig

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Flag Fen Flag Fen will live again this summer when archaeological experts will work t...

"This place has never been empty..."

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"Since the discovery in 1999, of a large settlement site from Early Stone Age (ca 6 000 -- 4 000 BC) close to the river Motala strö...
Monday, May 21, 2012

Modern dogs have 'little in common' with ancient breeds

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The cross-breeding of dogs has made it difficult to trace the genetic roots of today's pets, according to a new study. Scientis...

New Look for the Current Archaeology Website

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Current Archaeology now has a dedicated news editor in-house, and the news articles are now posted on our website as the stories break...
Sunday, May 20, 2012

Ancient rock art likened to a prehistoric Facebook

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Ancient rock art has been likened to a prehistoric form of Facebook by a Cambridge archaeologist.  Cambridge archaeologist Ma...
Friday, May 18, 2012

Warfare Began with Human Hunter-Gatherers?

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Author Robert Ardrey's* popularization of the theory that modern humans are in part a product of their violent primate ancestral past ma...

Humanity's Best Friend: How Dogs May Have Helped Humans Beat the Neanderthals

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One of the most compelling -- and enduring -- mysteries in archaeology concerns the rise of early humans and the decline of Neanderthals. F...

Von sehr alten und etwas jüngeren Felszeichnungen: Abri Castanet und Grotte Chauvet

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Die vor fünf Jahren im Abri Castanet in Südfrankreich entdeckten Felszeichnungen und Gravuren dürften mit einem Alter von 37.000 Jahren zu ...
Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Layer by layer: the Upper Palaeolithic at Mas d’Azil cave revealed

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The upstream entrance of the cave of Mas d’Azil/cleaning of the upper archaeological layers. Images: © Marc Jarry / Inrap M as d’Azil ...

The oldest farming village in the Mediterranean islands is discovered in Cyprus

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The communal building in Klimonas partially excavated. It measures 10 m in diameter. Credit: J.-D. Vigne, CNRS-MN...

Anthropologists discover earliest form of wall art

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Anthropologists working in southern France have determined that a 1.5 metric ton block of engraved limestone constitutes the earliest ...

Archaeologists uncover 37,000-year-old wall art in France

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A massive block of limestone in France contains what scientists believe are the earliest known engravings of wall art dating back some ...
Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Repairs for replica Bronze Age boat after Dover launch

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    The half-size replica Bronze Age boat took more than three months to build A replica Bronze Age boat made in Kent is...
Monday, May 14, 2012

Dover launch of replica Bronze Age boat aborted

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The half-size replica Bronze Age boat took more than three months to build The maiden voyage of a replica Bronze Age boa...