Sunday, July 29, 2012

17,500-Year-Old Ceramic Figures Unearthed in Croatia

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36 ceramics artifacts found at the archaeological site of Vela Spila, Croatia (Rebecca Farbstein / PLoS ONE) An international team ...
Friday, July 27, 2012

Archaeologists uncover Palaeolithic ceramic art

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Leg and torso from the model of a four-legged animal, possibly a deer or horse. This is one of 36 ceramic items recovered from Vela ...
Thursday, July 26, 2012

6,500 year old hunting trophy found in eastern Croatia

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Archaeologists in Bapska, eastern Croatia have stumbled across 6,500 year old deer antlers. The hunting trophy was found hanging on t...
Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Archaeologists to dig at Bronze Age site near Peterborough

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Archaeologists are hoping to find clues about an ancient timber structure at Flag Fen Credit: ITV Central Archaeologists are to di...

News Science Archaeology House of the Telephus Relief: raising the roof on Roman real estate

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Buried by Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago, archaeologists at Herculaneum have excavated and carried out the first-ever full reconstruct...
Sunday, July 22, 2012

Neanderthals Self-Medicated?

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Tartar remains on teeth reveal traces of herbs, veggies, study says.  Neanderthals may have been gatherers and hunters (file picture o...
Friday, July 20, 2012

Neanderthals' macho image may be wrong

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Neanderthals have traditionally been seen as a race of macho hunters but in reality they spent much of their time carrying out domes...

Neanderthals ate their greens

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Neanderthals have long been viewed as meat-eaters. The vision of them as inflexible carnivores has even been used to suggest that they ...
Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Prehistoric Ironworking at Beechwood, Inverness

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Archaeological excavations by AOC Archaeology Group at Beechwood, Inverness, have uncovered new evidence of Iron Age metalworking whi...

Prehistorc tablet calls into question history of writing

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Back in 1993, in a Neolithic lakeshore settlement that occupied an artificial island near the modern village of Dispilio on Lake Kasto...
Tuesday, July 17, 2012

300 000 year old flint tools found in Northern France

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The deposits at Etricourt Manancourt in the Picardie region of France documents the history of early European settlements, revealing ...

Scientists Reconstruct Diet of Australopithecus Anamensis

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A team of Spanish paleoanthropologists has reconstructed the diet of Australopithecus anamensis , a hominid that lived in the east of th...
Monday, July 16, 2012

Tom Higham's audio: Neanderthals and modern humans

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A public day of lectures and discussion on the Palaeolithic of Europe, the arrival of the first modern humans and the extinction of Ne...

New 'Iron Age' discoveries made in Inverness

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New discoveries made in Inverness have fuelled speculation among experts that it was an important area of prehistoric iron productio...

'Deep Fen' archaeologists awarded for Cambridgeshire finds

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Bronze Age boats, spears and clothing dating back 3,000 years have helped secure two prestigious awards for Cambridgeshire archaeolo...

Scientists uncover 'pre-human' skeleton in South Africa

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Archaeologists have identified the most complete skeleton related to an ancient relative of human in a rock in South Africa, which d...

2,000 year old coins found in Leicestershire

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A man from Leicestershire has stumbled across a set of 2,000 year old coins, which will be unveiled at the start of the county's t...
Saturday, July 14, 2012

Hidden Doggerland underworld uncovered in North Sea

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A map of the UK with Doggerland marked as red A huge area of land which was swallowed up into the North Sea thousands of years ag...
Friday, July 13, 2012

Surprise Human-Ancestor Find—Key Fossils Hidden in Lab Rock

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Posing with an A. sediba skull, student Justin Mukanku points to the tooth he found in a fossil-filled rock. Single tooth tipped r...
Thursday, July 12, 2012

Roots of medieval rights of common stretch back thousands of years

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The Uffington white horse marks an area of open grassland that has been subject to common rights of pasture for over 3,000 years. Im...