Friday, November 28, 2014

People ate mammoth; Dogs got reindeer

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Artist's depiction of cave painting of primitive hunt (stock image). Credit: © Nomad_Soul / Fotolia Bi ogeologists have shown how...
Thursday, November 27, 2014

Woolly mammoth skeleton fetches £189,000 at auction

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Monty the woolly mammoth skeleton is displayed at Summers Place Auctions in Billingshurst, West Sussex. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Get...

Stone age axe found with wood handle

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Archaeologists in Denmark have uncovered an incredibly rare find: a stone age axe held within its wooden handle. The 5,500-year-old Ne...
Thursday, November 20, 2014

Climate change was not to blame for the collapse of the Bronze Age

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Scientists will have to find alternative explanations for a huge population collapse in Europe at the end of the Bronze Age as researchers ...

Were Neanderthals a sub-species of modern humans? New research says no

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In an extensive, multi-institution study led by SUNY Downstate Medical Center, researchers have identified new evidence supporting the gr...

Solent's Stone Age village 'washing away'

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In 1999, a team of divers off the Isle of Wight came across a lobster busily digging out its burrow. To their surprise they found it was ki...

Woolly mammoth could be cloned by South Korean scientists

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Scientists are considering an attempt to ressurect the extinct woolly mammoth. But concerns have been raised about the ethics of such a ...
Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Rare pre-historic basket found in North Uist set for imminent excavation

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A pre-historic woven reed basket found last week in North Uist is to be excavated by specialist archaeologists within the next few days....

5,000 year old footprints found in Denmark

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Archaeologists working on the excavations for the Femern Bælt Tunnel have discovered several well-preserved footprints dating back to the S...

First Europeans 'weathered Ice Age'

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The DNA comes from a man who lived in westernmost Russia some 36,000 years ago The genetic ancestry of the earliest Europeans survive...
Monday, November 3, 2014

Sound Illusions: Eerie Echoes May Have Inspired Prehistoric Cave Art

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Humankind has a long-standing affinity for art. As far back as 40,000 years ago, people were decorating cave walls in Indonesia and in E...
Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Archaeologists have discovered a sunken village from millennia ago

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The first Stone Age settlement identified in Polish waters has been discovered in the lake Gil Wielki, Iława Lake District (Warmia and M...

Decrypting the enigmatic Phaistos Disk

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The decoding of the Phaistos Disk has puzzled specialists for over a century, however new findings describe the disk as “the first Minoan C...

Forscherteam identifiziert 3500 Jahre alte Königsstadt

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Marburger Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler haben die Identität einer 3500 Jahre alten Königsstadt enthüllt. Bei Ausgrabungen des ...
Monday, October 13, 2014

Stunning new finds from Antikythera

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A Greek and international team of divers and archaeologists has retrieved stunning new finds from an ancient Greek ship that sank more than...

Découverte d’un nouveau pré-Néandertalien en France : l’homme de Tourville-la-Rivière

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Une équipe d’archéologues de l’Inrap a mis au jour, sur le site préhistorique de Tourville-la-Rivière (Seine-Maritime), les vestiges d’un ...
Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Neolithic finds unearthed at Scilly Isles site

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Archaeologists have discovered one of the largest hauls of Neolithic pottery in the south west on St Martin's in the Isles of Scilly.  ...
Monday, September 29, 2014

Sardinian archaeologists find Bronze Age 'giant'

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Archeologists working in Sardinia's southwestern region have uncovered a new 'giant', officials reported on Thursday.  Th...

Prehistoric Stone Tools Evolved Independently Within Local Populations, Say Researchers

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Suggestion challenges the traditional Out-of-Africa human migration theory for new stone tool introduction into Eurasia. I t wasn’t ...
Thursday, September 25, 2014

Study shows early modern human settlement in Central Europe over 43,000 years ago

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E arly modern humans inhabited the region of what is today known as Austria around 43,500 years ago, living in an environment that was c...