Thursday, May 16, 2013

Scandalous Construction in Bulgarian Black Sea Archaeology Site Halted

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Photos of the illegal construction started circulating Bulgarian social networks on Saturday. Municipal authorities have ordered...

Prehistoric ear bones could lead to evolutionary answers

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Tiny ear bones (from left) the incus, stapes, and malleus could provide big clues to human evolution. Credit: Texas A&M The tinie...

DNA reveals origin of Greece's ancient Minoan culture

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The palace of Knossos on Crete is now a major tourist attraction Europe's first advanced civilisation was local in origin and no...

Early Greek states beyond the 'polis'

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The Greek polis, as a political and territorial entity, is a remarkable social organisation that emerged in the Greek world after the coll...
Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Earliest evidence of human ancestors as hunters/scavengers found

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A U.S. anthropologist says a dig in Africa has revealed the earliest evidence of humans involved in hunting and scavenging as food acquisi...

Heavy equipment invades İstanbul excavation site, harming Neolithic ruins

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An archeologist examines a human skeleton found during construction in İstanbul's Pendik district. (Photo: AA, Şebnem Coşku...

Unique workshop of Palaeolithic hunters discovered in Silesia

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The digital model of a biface discovered in the area of the site. Below, a schematic tool cross section showing the method of making o...

Ancient wooden boat found in the Boyne river

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Find made as shopping trolleys removed from river Sean Cahill of the Boyne Fishermen’s Rescue and Recovery Service beside the lo...
Monday, May 6, 2013

Neolithic huts built at Old Sarum by English Heritage

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The aim is to build these Neolithic huts at the Stonehenge visitor next year Three Neolithic-style huts have been built at Old Sar...
Thursday, May 2, 2013

Toba super-volcano catastrophe idea 'dismissed'

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Toba traces: The volcanic glass fragments are thinner than human hair The idea that humans nearly became extinct 75,000 ago because ...
Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Cradle of Stonehenge: interview with David Jacques

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In  CA  271  we brought you news of astonishing Mesolithic finds at Vespasian’s Camp on Salisbury Plain, a potentially game-changing site...
Sunday, April 28, 2013

Bejeweled skeleton may be that of ancient queen

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A reconstruction of what the ancient woman may have looked like when she was buried. More than 4,000 years ago, a woman, perhaps an ...

Big dig uncovers Belfast's hidden treasure

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. Archaeologists have taken to the Belfast hills in an effort to uncover hidden treasure of bygone years. The big dig on Divis Mo...

Did an Earthquake Destroy Ancient Greece?

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Remnants of Cyclopean walls built by the Mycenaeans can be found at the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. The grand Mycenaens, the first ...

Tracing Our Footsteps: Archaeology in the Digital Age

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Human ancestors that walked the earth left few traces of their passage. Some of their footprints have lithified, or turned to stone, bu...

New excavations indicate use of fertilizers 5,000 years ago

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Researchers from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have spent many years studying the remains of a Stone Age community in Karleby outs...

Lion statue guarding Etruscan tomb discovered

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Recent excavations at the necropolis of Banditaccia in Cerveteri have unearthed a statue of a lion and an Etruscan tomb. The lion statue...

Big brains, no fur, sinuses … are these clues to our ancestors' lives as 'aquatic apes'?

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Controversial theory that seeks to explain one of the great leaps of human evolution finds new support but still divides scientists ...
Friday, April 26, 2013

Online Courses in Archaeology

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University of Oxford Online Courses in Archaeology Cave paintings, castles and pyramids, Neanderthals, Romans and Vikings - archaeol...

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Beaker reconstructions by Karen Nichols The two artist’s reconstructions are an impression of how the person may have looked during t...