Saturday, November 10, 2012

Iceman was Central Europe native, new research finds

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Otzi the Iceman, an astonishingly well-preserved Neolithic mummy found in the Italian Alps in 1991, was a native of Central Europe, not...

Archaeologists discover Thracian golden jewelry

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Archaeologists say they have unearthed an almost 2,400-year-old golden hoard in an ancient Thracian tomb in northern Bulgaria. he trea...

Unique Thracian treasure found in Bulgaria

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Bulgarian archaeologists have found a unique gold Thracian treasure in the famous Sveshtari tomb. The team, led by one of the most pro...
Thursday, November 8, 2012

Oldest Arrowheads Hint at How Modern Humans Overtook Neandertals

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Tiny stone blades from Pinnacle Point Cave 5-6 in South Africa that once tipped arrows or darts represent the oldest known projectile we...
Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Mammoth skeleton found in France

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Archaeologists in France have unearthed a rather hairy fossil — a nearly complete skeleton of a mammoth. The bones — thought to belong...

Archeologists Examine One of the Oldest Hoards Found in Europe

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Jewelry and female figurines from Belica, Serbia, to be exhibited for the first time at Tübingen University Museum. Archeologists from ...

Tolkien estate bans reference to 'hobbits'

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It was, perhaps, inevitable that Homo floresiensis, the one-metre-tall species of primitive human discovered on the Indonesian island o...
Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Archaeologists find prehistoric remains in Truro

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A slate disc decorated on both sides is believed to date to the later Neolithic, found at the Truro site Credit: Cornwall Council Arch...
Monday, November 5, 2012

Europe's oldest prehistoric town unearthed in Bulgaria

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Archaeologists in Bulgaria say they have uncovered the oldest prehistoric town found to date in Europe. The walled fortified settleme...

Prehistoric remains unearthed in Cornwall

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Archaeologists working at the site of the future Truro Eastern District Centre (TEDC) have discovered the fragmentary remains of a preh...
Monday, October 22, 2012

Breakthrough in world's oldest undeciphered writing

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Experts working on proto-Elamite hope they are on the point of 'a breakthrough' The world's oldest undeciphered writing s...

Core sample sends carbon clock farther back in time

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The carbon clock is getting reset . Climate records from a Japanese lake are set to improve the accuracy of the dating technique, which...

Ancient sundial found in northern Greece

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The ancient sundial dating from the Greco-Roman period found in Polichrono in Chalkidiki [Credit: Greek Reporter] One of the rarest sun...

»Ötzi 3« wird nun bestattet

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Vitrinenfenster zur Kühlzelle der Mumie vom Hauslabjoch (© Südtiroler Archäologiemuseum) »Ötzi 3« ist ein Mann, der seinen Körper nach ...
Friday, October 19, 2012

Prehistoric Autopsy: Alice Roberts

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Professor Alice Roberts, one of the presenters of Prehistoric Autopsy (credit: BBC)  Professor Alice Roberts is back on our screens nex...

‘Time-capsule’ Japanese lake sediment advances radiocarbon dating for older objects

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A new series of radiocarbon measurements from Japan’s Lake Suigetsu will give scientists a more accurate benchmark for dating materials...

'Fox hole' opens passage to Neolithic past, possibly Hades

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(Photo Courtesy of Bill Parkinson) Alepotrypa Cave was home to a Neolithic community more than 5,000 years ago. The first archaeologi...
Thursday, October 18, 2012

Ancient 'sauna' unearthed in Assynt

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Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of what they believe could be an Bronze Age bathing site, or a sauna. The metre-deep pit...

Ancient tomb found at 'Sweden's Stonehenge'

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Sweden's 'Stonehenge', the Ale's Stones in Skane [Credit: Xuanxu/Flickr[ Swedish archaeologists have unearthed what is...
Monday, October 15, 2012

Dig team uncovers 4,000-year-old artefact

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Project manager Jane Harrison VOLUNTEER archaeologists in Blackbird Leys had a shock on their second day of digging...