Monday, September 30, 2013

Stonehenge prepares to open visitor centre after decades of rows and delays

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Construction of museum, cafe and shop 1.5 miles from stones follows series of scrapped plans and missed deadlines The English Heritag...

Listen here: Our ancestors may have sounded like this

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Recording studios were hard to find 6,500 years ago, but thanks to centuries of scholarship, we may now be able to get a sense of how our a...

New Finds Uncovered at Ancient Greek Site of Argilos

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W ith a team of 50 students and additional help from workmen, archaeologists have uncovered the remains of structures at the site of ancie...

Anthropologists confirm link between cranial anatomy and two-legged walking

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Comparison of the skeletons of three bipedal mammals:  an Egyptian jerboa, an eastern gray kangaroo and a human. Anthropology rese...
Sunday, September 29, 2013

Yorkshire Museum appeals to public to help save Iron Age jewellery of pre-Roman torc

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Curators at The Yorkshire Museum are warning that a 2,000-year-old torc, described as having a rarer and more intricate style than i...

Ancient Greek site threatened amid celebration

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Greece—While world leaders and top athletes lit the Olympic flame with pageantry drawn from antiquity, another important ancient site of ...

Bulgaria’s 2013 season draws to a close

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The archaeology season for Bulgaria is winding down, with a number of dig teams announcing their findings in recent days. Although this sum...
Saturday, September 28, 2013

2500-Year-Old Horse Remains in Bulgaria Suggest Creatures Were Buried Upright

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Archaeologists  have uncovered the remains of a Thracian carriage and two  horses  that appear to have been buried upright. The char...
Thursday, September 26, 2013

Fight hots up to keep Iron Age gold in Yorkshire

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Natalie McCaul, curator of archaeology at the Yorkshire Museum, with the Iron Age torc, right, that the museum is hoping to buy to reunit...

Bronze Age 'boat building' discovery in Monmouth

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Reconstruction of the channels in the clay earth by Peter Bere An artist's impression of how the channels could have been left in t...

Londonderry city walls archaeological dig extended

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The Northern Ireland environment minister has announced a two-week extension to an archaeological dig in Derry that uncovered 13 skeleton...

Derry dig team working in Bishop Street given more time to go back 4,000 years

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The human remains found believed to be of a child aged between six and 10 years old The archaeological dig that uncovered 13 skeletal ...

The First Great Human Population Explosion

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I t seems there is no end these days to what genetics might be telling us about our past. To add to the profusion of new findings are the...

Archaeological dig seeks evidence of the very first islanders' arrival

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ISLANDS perhaps better known for their Bronze Age relics are revealing traces of an earlier civilisation. A settlement being unearthed o...

Alpine Archaeology Reveals High Life Through the Ages

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An international team of archaeologists led by experts from the University of York has uncovered evidence of human activity in the high s...

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A Bronze Age stone pathway that links stone circles has been uncovered for the first time since the 1930s. The dig was a community archae...
Tuesday, September 24, 2013

A VIRTUAL PREHISTORIC WORLD YOU CAN EXPLORE

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Digital world. Image: Marcus Abbott I magine the possibilities as you explore a stunning visualisation of a 3D digital world generated ...

Neolithic stone puts spotlight on Perthshire glen’s ancient history

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The possible Neolithic quern stone found in Balnaguard Glen. An ancient relic that shines a light on Neolithic life has been discovere...

How Complex Was Neanderthal Speech?

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The challenge : Unlike pottery shards, arrowhead flints, and cave paintings, language does not leave an archaeological trace that can be...

Cave Paintings Among the Oldest in Europe

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Scientists find wall paintings in the Altxerri cave system in northern Spain pre-date most prehistoric paintings in Europe. A  team of ...