Prehistoric Archaeology Blog

The Prehistoric Archaeology Blog is concerned with news reports featuring Prehistoric period archaeology. If you wish to see news reports for general European archaeology, please go to The Archaeology of Europe Weblog.

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

New bog body discovered in Co. Meath

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A new, partially intact bog body has been discovered by Bord na Mona workers in Co Meath. Archaeologists from the National Museum of Irelan...
Tuesday, September 16, 2014

New bog body found in Rossan, Co. Meath

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New bog body remains (photo National Museum of Ireland) Exciting news. The partial remains of a bog body has been uncovered in Rossan b...

Groundwater tied to human evolution

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Insert shows with arrow the location of study area in eastern Africa. Map of the Northern Tanzanian Divergence Zone depicts the East Afri...
Monday, September 15, 2014

NEOLITHIC NECROPOLIS CONTAINS TWENTY MONUMENTAL TOMBS

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Hypothetical reconstruction of the plain occupied by the cemetery. © Laurent Juhel / Inrap A  team of archaeologists is currently condu...

Stonehenge researchers discover site is much larger than previously thought

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Stonehenge. Photograph: Geert Verhoeven/University of Bi/PA Stonehenge  stood at the heart of a sprawling landscape of chapels, buri...

Une nécropole du Néolithique moyen à Fleury-sur-Orne

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Une équipe d’archéologues de l’Inrap mène actuellement, sur prescription de l’État (Drac Basse-Normandie), une fouille de  20 hectares  à...
Friday, August 22, 2014

Archaeologists Find Humans Were Eating Snails 30,000 Years Ago

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Paleolithic humans of present-day Spain may have eaten snails as much as 30,000 years ago, or 10,000 years earlier than inhabitants of M...

Humans Did Not Wipe Out the Neanderthals, New Research Suggests

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Neanderthals went extinct in Europe about 40,000 years ago, giving them millennia to coexist with modern humans culturally and sexually,...
Thursday, August 21, 2014

New dates rewrite Neanderthal story

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Our ancestors may have passed on technological innovations to the Neanderthals Modern humans and Neanderthals co-existed in Europe 10 ...
Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Before they left Africa, early modern humans were 'culturally diverse'

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A new study provides fresh insights into the life of early modern humans before they left Africa following a massive comparative study of...

Archaeologists compare Neolithic Kent site to Stonehenge, find Bronze Age funerary monument

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A Neolithic ditch which became a huge funerary monument when it was enlarged with an outer ring during the Bronze Age has been found on ho...

Remains of at least two bodies found in ancient grave

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Archaeologist Paul Murtagh excavating the Bronze Age burial cist in which the remains of at least two bodies were found Archaeologist...

Mystery of the ancient Gauls found dumped in a pit

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Eight skeletons including two of children dating back to the Iron Age have been found in good condition in France.  Eight skeletons da...

Découverte d’une occupation néandertalienne en bord de Saône

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Une séquence stratigraphique exceptionnelle Ce site préhistorique est implanté sur une butte lœssique dominant l’ancien lit de la Sa...
Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Major finds unearthed on Hinkley bypass dig

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Important finds dating back to the Iron Age and Roman period have been uncovered at the site of a new bypass to be built as part of the Hin...

Greek tomb at Amphipolis is 'important discovery'

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Archaeologists know that major events took place in the area in the years after Alexander's death Archaeologists unearthing a buri...
Friday, August 8, 2014

Europe's oldest village sought under Greek bay

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PlanetSolar press officer Julia Tames walks across the deck of the MS Turanor PlanetSolar, The world's largest solar-powered boat ...

Fowl play: Neanderthals were first bird eaters (Update)

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Cut-marked bone (ulna) of Rock Dove specimens from Gorham’s Cave  Credit: Ruth Blasco et al., Scientific Reports Neanderthals may ha...
Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Schoolboys unearth golden hair tress more than 4,000 years old

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A GOLDEN hair tress dating back 4,300 years has been unearthed by a group of children taking part in a summertime archaeological dig. ...

More on Gallic chariot tomb discovered in France

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A combined team composed of archaeologists from the Ardennes departmental archaeology unit and from Inrap has just finished excavating the ...
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David Beard MA, FSA, FSA Scot
I am a freelance archaeologist and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland specializing in the medieval period. I have worked as a field archaeologist for the Department of Environment (Northern Ireland) and the Museum of London. I have been involved in continuing education for many years and have taught for the University of Oxford Department for Continuing Education (OUDCE) and the Universities of London, Essex, Ulster, and the London College of the University of Notre Dame, and I was the Archaeological Consultant for Southwark Cathedral. I am the author of and tutor for an OUDCE online course on the Vikings, and the Programme Director and Academic Director for the Oxford Experience Summer School.
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