Thursday, July 31, 2014

Ice age lion figurine: Ancient fragment of ivory belonging to 40,000 year old animal figurine unearthed

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The fragment on the left makes up half the head of the animal figure on the right, showing that the “lion” was fully three-dimensional, ...

VIOLENT AFTERMATH FOR THE WARRIORS AT ALKEN ENGE

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Four pelvic bones on a stick and bundles of desecrated bones testify to the ritual violence perpetrated on the corpses of the many warriors...

Wine-cup used by Pericles found in ancient grave

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A cup believed to have been used by Classical Greek statesman Pericles has been found in a pauper's grave in north Athens, according to...
Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Prehistoric dairy farming at the extremes

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Finland's love of milk has been traced back to 2500 BC thanks to high-tech techniques to analyse residues preserved in fragments of anc...

Violent aftermath for the warriors at Alken Enge

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Four pelvic bones on a stick are shown. Credit: Peter Jensen, Aarhus University Denmark attracted international attention in 2012 wh...

Mycenaean vaulted tomb unearthed in central Greece

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A Mycenaean vaulted tomb has been discovered near Amfissa in central Greece during the course of an irrigation project.  Found in A...
Monday, July 21, 2014

Ötzi's non-human DNA: Opportunistic pathogen discovered in Iceman tissue biopsy

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A team of scientists from EURAC in Bolzano/Bozen together with colleagues from the University of Vienna successfully analysed the non-hum...

Extensive remains of vast Mycenaean citadel revealed

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A team of archaeologists is excavating the remains of a vast ancient Mycenaean citadel, known as Glas or Kastro (castle). Under the leaders...

Burgenland's 'Stonehenge' discovery

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Reconstruction of circular ditches at Heldenberg, Lower Austria. Photo: Wikimedia Commons In a sensational find for Austrian archaeolo...

Have archaeologists discovered an 8,000-year-old HUMAN BRAIN? Skull unearthed in Norway 'harbours fragments of grey matter'

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Archaeologists have found what they think is an 8,000 year old human skull in a dig in Norway. Shown here is the skull embedded in soil, ...

Romanian cave holds oldest human footprints

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Human footprints found in Romania’s Ciur-Izbuc Cave represent the oldest such impressions in Europe, and perhaps the world, researchers say...
Thursday, July 10, 2014

Iron Age house unearthed in Jersey

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An iron age settlement has been unearthed in Jersey after a two month excavation. The work on the site in St Clement has discovered objects...

Dating the second timber circle at Norwich

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In the late 1990s two remarkable Bronze Age timber circles were discovered on Holme Beach. One of these – Seahenge – was excavated in 1998 ...

French archaeologists discover an exceptional Gallic chariot tomb at Warcq in France

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The excavation has currently revealed only the upper levels of this 15 m² funerary chamber.  © Denis Gliksman, Inrap. PARIS.- A combi...
Sunday, June 29, 2014

4,000-Year-Old Burial with Chariots Discovered in South Caucasus

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Here, the roof of a 4,000-year-old burial chamber buried in a Kurgan (mound) in the country of Georgia. Credit: Photo courtesy Zurab Ma...

More on Polish meteorite venerated by Neolithic man

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Archaeologists from the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology (IAE) PAS in Szczecin discovered a meteorite fragment inside the remains of ...

Découverte d’une tombe à char gauloise exceptionnelle à Warcq (Ardennes)

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Une équipe mixte, composée d’archéologues de la cellule départementale d’archéologie des Ardennes et de l’Inrap, mène actuellement la fouil...
Thursday, June 26, 2014

Oldest ever schistosomiasis egg found may be first proof of early human technology exacerbating disease burden

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Chalcolithic burial at Zeidan. Credit: Gil Stein, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago Th e discovery of a schistosomiasis paras...

Archaeo-astronomy steps out from shadows of the past

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This week, a developing field of research that merges astronomical techniques with the study of ancient human-made features and the surroun...

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A diver from the National Monuments Service’s Underwater Archaeology Unit records a 12m-long Bronze Age logboat at the bottom of Lough Co...