Thursday, February 28, 2013

Archaeological remake of 4,000-year-old boat faces "moment of truth" in Cornwall

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A team of history experts and boatbuilding volunteers will be praying to the prehistoric gods for good weather this week, when a recrea...

Seeking Meaning in the Earliest Female Nudes

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Changing styles.  Prehistoric female figurines started off voluptuous like the Venus of Willendorf ( left ) but then became schematic l...

Evolution and the Ice Age

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John Stewart conducting his research into prehistoric environments. (Credit: Image courtesy of Bournemouth University) Dr John Stewar...

Geneticists Estimate Publication Date Of The 'Iliad'

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Scientists who decode the genetic history of humans by tracking how genes mutate have applied the same technique to one of the Western ...
Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Bronze Age boat to be launched

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A Bronze Age boat will be launched in Falmouth tomorrow as part of an archaeological experiment being carried out by the National Mariti...

Desert finds challenge horse taming ideas

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The Al Magar finds appear to show horse-like animals with the accessories of domestication Recent archaeological discoveries on the ...
Monday, February 25, 2013

Bronze Age necropolis discovered in Romania

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The Paru archaeological site  [Credit tion.ro] An impressive archaeological discovery was made by a team of archaeologists led by Prof...

Ancient warrior's treasure-filled grave found in Russia

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The burial of the warrior was richly adorned and contained more than a dozen gold artifacts. This fibula-brooch, despite being only 2.3 ...
Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Human mouth in 'a permanent state of disease'

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PEOPLE can brush their teeth as much as they like, but our mouths will never be as healthy as those of our ancient ancestors. Mo...

High-altitude archaeologists to probe prehistoric Himalayas

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A team of archaeologists from the University of York are to travel to the roof of the world to discover, survey, and record mountain arc...
Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Dartmoor burial site gives up its 4,000-year-old secrets

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Excavation of the 4,000 year old burial cists on Dartmoor [Credit: PA] An archaeological find on Dartmoor is exciting academics from a...
Monday, February 18, 2013

ARCHI The Archaeological Sites Index

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ARCHI, the online searchable archaeological database, has added a new feature that allows users to add sites to their world-wide datab...

Ancient teeth bacteria record disease evolution

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DNA preserved in calcified bacteria on the teeth of ancient human skeletons has shed light on the health consequences of the evolving di...

'Amazing' treasures revealed in Dartmoor bronze age cist

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A specialist at the Wiltshire Conservation Lab examines a prized amber bead A rare and "amazing" burial discovery dating b...

Origins and Evolution of the Etruscans’ mtDNA

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The Etruscan culture is documented in Etruria, Central Italy, from the 8 th  to the 1 st  century BC. For more than 2,000 years there ha...
Sunday, February 17, 2013

Archaeology Summer Courses at Oxford

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The Oxford Experience is offering a number of archaeology courses this summer. Each course lasts for one week and participants sta...

Skin Decoration Goes Way Back, Suggests Researcher

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A bout 1.5 to 2 million years ago, early humans, according to the prevailing view of most paleoanthropologists and archaeologists, evolv...

Dig provides glimpse into 9,000 years of village life

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One of the special burials contained what is thought to be a woman and a stillborn baby [Credit: BBC] When archaeologists began diggin...

Artificial finger tests evolutionary origin of prints

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The artificial finger at Dartmouth College has a silicon pad with ridges impressed upon it It seems intuitive that fingerprints shou...
Saturday, February 16, 2013

EMAS Easter Study Tour to Yorkshire

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There are still a few places available on the Easter archaeological study tour to Yorkshire. The Study Tour is organized by EMAS, the ...