Monday, September 9, 2013

Striking Patterns: Skill for Forming Tools and Words Evolved Together

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A meeting in the mind?  In a test of how toolmaking and language activate the brain, an expert knapper made an Acheulean hand ax ( above ...

Melting Snow Reveals Iron Age Sweater

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A boat neck sweater made of warm wool and woven in diamond twill was a dominating fashion trend among reindeer hunters 1,700 years ago, ...

Bronze Age boats older than was first thought

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Eight Bronze Age boats discovered in a deep Cambridgeshire quarry are much older than it was first thought, carbon-dating research has reve...

Final excavations underway at Ham Hill

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Archaeologists from the Universities of Cambridge and Cardiff are currently undertaking their third, and final, round of excavations at H...

Bone dates 'earliest northerner', say archaeologists in Liverpool

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Archaeologists discovered the remains of humans and animals in the early 1990s but they have been dated following a study into the findin...
Friday, August 16, 2013

Oxford Experience 2014

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The programme for the Oxford Experience Summer School is now online.  Registration will not begin until late September, but now is the ti...
Thursday, August 15, 2013

Earliest Specialized Neanderthal Bone Tools Discovered

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E xcavations at two cave sites in southwestern France have yielded bone fragments that show intentional shaping, likely by Neanderthals, ...

Drought drove collapse of Late Bronze Age civilizations

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Climate change may have driven the collapse of once-flourishing Eastern Mediterranean civilizations towards the end of the 13th century BC,...

Laois ‘bog body’ said to be world’s oldest

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The bog body found by Jason Phelan at the Bord Na Mona Cashel Bog, in Co Laois. The body is estimated to be over 4,000 years old, and is ...

Head of a goddess statue discovered in Aegean province

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The head of a mother goddess statue is the first of its kind in Turkey. AA photo The head of an 8,000-year-old statue of a goddess has ...

5,000-year-old gaming tokens found in Turkey

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Small carved stones unearthed in a nearly 5,000-year-old burial site could represent the earliest gaming tokens ever found, according to Tu...

Uraltes Erbe: Heutige Schleifwerkzeuge zur Lederbearbeitung wurden in ähnlicher Form schon von den Neandertalern gefertigt

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Vier Ansichten des am vollständigsten erhaltenen Lissoirs, der bei Ausgrabungsarbeiten in der Neandertalerfundstätte Abri Peyroni entdeck...
Friday, August 9, 2013

Ancient treasures found at Russian burial site

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Archaeologists have found the intact burial chamber of a noble woman from a powerful tribe that roamed the Eurasian steppes 2,500 years ago...

Crossrail unearths evidence humans lived on Thames in 7,000 BC

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Lead archaeologist Jay Carver said the flint factory was an "exciting find" Rare evidence that humans lived on the River Th...
Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Archaeologists find treasures at ancient Russian burial cite

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Archaeologists have found the intact burial chamber of a noble woman from a powerful tribe that roamed the Eurasian steppes 2,500 years ...

Neanderthals Found in Greece

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S cientists have uncovered new evidence of Neanderthal occupation at the Kalamakia cave site on the western coast of the Mani peninsula i...

Oldest Human Fossil in Western Europe Found in Spain

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A n international team of researchers have announced the discovery of the oldest hominin (early or archaic human) fossil ever found in We...

Researchers Shed New Light on Genetic Adam and Eve

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P revious genetic research has indicated the existence of two ancient modern human individuals who passed their genes along to all humans...

Irish 'bog body' may be world’s oldest

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The mummified remains of a body found in a Laois bog two years ago have been found to date back to 2,000BC, making it the oldest “bog body...

5,000-year-old art found in Orkney dig

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An intricately-inscribed stone was discovered by excited archaeologists at the Ness of Brodgar on Wednesday. The carved stone unearthed ...