Thursday, November 7, 2013

The Corrard gold torc – Bronze Age jewellery with a twist to the tale

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The Corrard gold torc. © National Museums Northern Ireland: Collection Ulster Museum Dr Greer Ramsey, Curator, National Museums North...
Monday, November 4, 2013

6,000 years of occupation revealed at French site

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In advance of the construction of an industrial business park by the associated communes of Pays de Sainte Odile, Inrap has just finished a...

Resourceful Neanderthals in France

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H ow "smart" were the Neanderthals, really? The question has been at the center of scholarly debate for decades. But the findin...
Sunday, October 20, 2013

The stomach-turning truth about what the Neanderthals ate?

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New thinking suggests that Neanderthals may have eaten the contents of animals' stomachs – 'a consistency and a flavour that is n...

Jersey's place in Neanderthal history revealed in study

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A large portion of the site contains sediments dating to the last Ice Age A study on a Jersey site that revealed a significant piece o...
Saturday, October 19, 2013

Neanderthals used toothpicks to alleviate gum disease

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Removing food scraps trapped between the teeth one of the most common functions of using toothpicks, thus contributing to our oral hygiene....
Friday, October 18, 2013

5200 BC House Discovered in Romania

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Recently , we shared with you some recent discoveries in Romania, from various periods. Apparently there is room for more, as the biggest...

Skull Find Could Change Picture of Early Human Evolutionary History

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W e  may have to change some thinking about early human evolution in a major way,  suggests researchers, after studying new fossil finds ...

1.8M-year-old skull gives glimpse of our evolution, suggests early man was single species

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In this photo taken Oct. 2, 2013, in Tbilisi, Georgia, David Lordkipanidze, director of the Georgia National Museum, holds a pre-human s...

Archaeologists rediscover the lost home of the last Neanderthals

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A record of Neanderthal archaeology, thought to be long lost, has been re-discovered by NERC-funded scientists working in the Channel isla...

Blow to multiple human species idea

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The 1.8 million-year-old skull is the most complete hominid skull ever found The idea that there were several different human species...
Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Frogs' legs may have been English delicacy 8,000 years before France

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Blick Mead, near Stonehenge, where a charred toad's leg was found. Photograph: University of Buckingham/PA If you're French, a...
Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Bronze Age Europe – the first Industrial revolution

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s part of a larger pan-European study investigating the Bronze Age of Europe, an archaeologist from the University of Gothenburg has pr...

Amesbury dig 'could explain' Stonehenge history

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A group of archaeologists is undertaking a major dig in Wiltshire, which it is hoped could explain why Stonehenge was built where it w...

Iron Age camp unearthed at UK quarry

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Archaeologists have unearthed an Iron Age enclosure while excavating land at the edge of a working quarry. Archaeologists are excavati...

Forscher enträtseln die Bevölkerungsentwicklung Europas in der Jungsteinzeit

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Die bisher umfangreichste und detaillierteste genetische Studie zur Besiedlungsgeschichte Europas während des Neolithikums ergab deutlic...
Friday, October 11, 2013

European origins laid bare by DNA

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DNA from ancient skeletons has revealed how a complex patchwork of prehistoric migrations fashioned the modern European gene pool. The ...

Link to Oetzi the Iceman found in living Austrians

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Austrian scientists have found that 19 Tyrolean men alive today are related to Oetzi the Iceman, whose 5,300-year-old frozen body was fou...
Monday, October 7, 2013

Shock Bronze Age find 'changes history'

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Archaeologists in northern Sweden have located the remains of a farm from the Bronze Age, a find which challenges the established histor...
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...