Friday, April 12, 2013

Ötzi the Iceman Needed a Dentist

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Silicea D6 - Schnäppchen bei eBay Alles für Ihre Gesundheit: Kosmetik, Diät, Kontaktlinsen, Haarpflege - unschlagbar günstig be...

Pottery reveals Ice Age hunter-gatherers' taste for fish

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Hunter-gatherers living in glacial conditions produced pots for cooking fish, according to the findings of a pioneering new study led by t...

Team reconstructs 'human ancestor'

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The researchers were able reconstruct the species using bones from three different individuals The most complete view yet of a p...
Sunday, April 7, 2013

Investigating Bronze Age stone ships on Gotland

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Ship Stones in Gannarve, Gotland. Image: Jerzy Kociatkiewicz  (Flickr, used under a CC BY-SA 3.0) In the middle of the Bronze Age, ...

Ancient monument 'damaged by cattle'

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One of the Westcountry's most famous archaeological landmarks is being threatened by grazing cattle permitted by the Government...

First Love Child of Human, Neanderthal Found

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The skeletal remains of an individual living in northern Italy 40,000-30,000 years ago are believed to be that of a human/Neanderthal h...

Bronze warship ram reveals secrets

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Analysis of a bronze battering ram from a 2,000 year-old warship sheds light on how such an object would have been made in ancient time...
Saturday, March 23, 2013

AFTERLIFE OF EARLY NEOLITHIC HOUSES IN THE POLISH LOWLANDS

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First farmers on the Polish Lowland The transition to farming on the Polish Lowland, which is a part of the North European Plain...

Stone Ships Show Signs of Maritime Network in Baltic Sea Region 3,000 Years Ago

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 In the middle of the Bronze Age, around 1000 BC, the amount of metal objects increased dramatically in the Baltic Sea region. Around th...

'Out of Africa' Story Being Rewritten Again

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Our early human ancestors may have left Africa more recently than thought, between 62,000 and 95,000 years ago, suggests a new analysi...
Monday, March 18, 2013

How Beer Gave Us Civilization

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HUMAN beings are social animals. But just as important, we are socially constrained as well. We can probably thank the latter trait ...

Ancient Rock Art at Risk, Warn Experts

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Chatton. Urgent action is needed to prevent ancient art disappearing, Newcastle University experts have warned. (Credit: Image courtesy ...
Friday, March 15, 2013

Failure to Hunt Rabbits Part of Neanderthals' Demise?

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Neanderthals did not learn how to hunt small animals such as rabbits (pictured, a group of animals Portugal). Rabbits are small, fas...

Bronze Age settlement unearthed in SW England

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Wick Barrow beakers [Credit: Somerset County Council] Excavations at the Hinkley C site have revealed the remains of a 3,000-year-old...
Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Neanderthals' large eyes 'caused their demise'

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Continue reading the main story The eyes have it: The Neanderthal skull (L) has larger eye sockets compared with a modern human s...

Ancient Reindeer Hunters Fished Ice Age Lakes

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Archaeologists unearthed six fishhooks that date to 12,300 years ago, with one made from a 19,000-year-old mammoth tusk.   CREDIT: B...
Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Stonehenge started as graveyard, says new research

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New research overturns the belief that Stonehenge was built as an astronomical calendar or observatory [Credit: Associated Press] Brit...
Saturday, March 9, 2013

Stonehenge may have been burial site for Stone Age elite, say archaeologists

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Dating cremated bone fragments of men, women and children found at site puts origin of first circle back 500 years to 3,000 BC Centur...

Tooth found in Cave of Orce named earliest human remain

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A MILK tooth discovered in Granada has been declared the earliest known human remain ever found in Western Europe. The infants tooth...
Friday, March 8, 2013

BRONZE AGE BOAT TRIP – BY ROAD

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T HE 3,000-year-old Carpow log boat is about to embark on another journey – not by river, but by road. The waterlogged craft was disco...