Wednesday, December 17, 2014

4,000 year old skeleton was likely a 'warrior chief'

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A Bronze Age skeleton found buried in West Sussex with one of the earliest bronze daggers in the UK was probably a high-ranking warrior chi...
Monday, December 8, 2014

Solid gold torc hidden in Celtic coin hoard

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A Celtic coin hoard discovered on Jersey has been astounding archaeologists with a series of gold treasure finds.  The Golden torc is...

Une nécropole antique dans le quartier périphérique occidental de la ville de Saintes : plusieurs individus entravés, dont un enfant

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De septembre à novembre 2014, une équipe d’archéologues de l’Inrap a mené, sur prescription de l’État (Drac Poitou-Charentes), une fouill...
Monday, December 1, 2014

EMAS Easter Study Tour to North Scotland and the Isle of Skye

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EMAS Easter Study Tour to North Scotland  and the Isle of Skye 2 - 8 April 2015 The 2015 EMAS Easter Study Tour is to the Nort...

Limestone 'Venus' 23,000 years old dug up in France

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A person points to a 23,000 year-old chalk statue of a woman called the "Venus of Renancourt" which was found at the paleolithi...

Secrets of a Celtic princess

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The burial chamber of the "Celtic Princess of the Danube" unearthed in 2010 remains one of the most important archeological fin...

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Archaeologists working for a mining company have uncovered an Iron Age settlement near Newcastle.  Workmen at the dig [Credit: Banks ...
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...