Friday, February 28, 2014

Prehistoric rock art found in Scottish Highlands

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A rare example of prehistoric rock art has been uncovered in the Highlands. Archaeologists made the discovery while moving a boulder decora...
Thursday, February 27, 2014

Jersey site that was last Neanderthal home studied

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An ice age site said to be one of the last known places Neanderthals lived is being studied to assess storm damage.  More Neanderthal ...
Monday, February 24, 2014

Didcot dig: MP Ed Vaizey supports history trail plans

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Culture Minister Ed Vaizey is supporting a campaign for a history trail through a new housing estate. Archaeologists discovered hunter...
Sunday, February 23, 2014

Source of rocks used to build Stonehenge identified

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A new study, published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, suggests that the site researchers had previously thought was the starting...

The Oldest Human Infectious Disease? MD Anderson Researcher Uncovers Some Ancient Mysteries Of Leprosy

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New research at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston has unearthed some of the ancient mysteries behind leprosy, ...

Dozens of prehistoric burials found in West Pomerania

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Dozens of prehistoric burials have been discovered by archaeologists during excavations in Nowy Łowicz in the biggest Polish military train...
Sunday, February 16, 2014

ABBEY CRAIG: NOT JUST ANOTHER IRON-AGE HILLFORT

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Scotland’s hillforts are amongst the most visible ancient monuments in the landscape; they are often large, in very prominent locations a...

Dating the Uluzzian

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Researchers have securely dated a prehistoric human stone tool industry that is thought to have been used by early modern humans, or pos...

‘Active’ Bronze Age woman found in Highland woods

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A BRONZE Age grave uncovered in the Highlands has revealed the remains of a woman in her forties who was suffering from toothache before ...

Archaeologists and chemists trace diets of ancient Britain

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The change by our ancestors from hunter-gathers to farmers is one of the most intensively researched aspects of archaeology. Now a large-sc...

Bronze Age skeleton removed from school playground

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THE SKELETON of a small Bronze Age man with worn-away teeth was today removed from his grave a metre beneath a primary school playground...
Tuesday, February 11, 2014

NEAR EAST CROSSROAD OF THE PALAEOLITHIC NOW QUESTIONED

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T he Out-of-Africa model currently holds that anatomically modern humans (AMH) evolved and dispersed from Africa into Asia from about 50,...

A 'smoking gun' on the Ice Age megafauna extinctions

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Gut content It was climate that killed many of the large mammals after the latest Ice Age. But what more specifically was it with the cli...
Sunday, February 9, 2014

Earliest human footprints outside Africa found – in Norfolk

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Archaeologists have found the earliest human footprints known outside Africa, at  Happisburgh on the Norfolk coast. Dating back 800,00...

900,000 year old footprints of earliest northern Europeans discovered

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Footprints left behind by the earliest known human ancestors to live in northern Europe have been discovered after stormy seas swept ...

Earliest footprints outside Africa discovered in Norfolk

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Scientists have discovered the earliest evidence of human footprints outside of Africa, on the Norfolk Coast in the East of England. T...

When was Britain first colonised by early humans?

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When was Britain first colonised by early humans? The famous Boxgrove bones, found in the 1990s, date back about 500,000 years, and are s...

Dartmoor tomb treasure hoard uncovered by archaeologists

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Archaeologists from around the UK have been examining a hoard of treasures unearthed in a 4,000-year-old tomb on Dartmoor. Prehistoric...
Thursday, February 6, 2014

Rabbits unearth a trove of New Stone Age treasure at Land's End

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Burrowing bunnies have uncovered an 8,000-year old treasure trove buried near Land’s End. The family of rabbits are believed to be...

Edinburgh Bronze Age bodies ‘part of burial sites’

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Two Bronze Age bodies discovered beneath an Edinburgh primary school could be part of a nationally significant network of burial plots, arc...