Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Anthropology: Ancient skull from Galilee cave offers clues to the first modern Europeans

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Interior of the Manot Cave in Israel's Galilee, where a 55,000-year-old skull sheds new light on human migration patterns. Th e dis...

Skull discovery suggests location where humans first had sex with Neanderthals

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Views of the human skull, with missing jaw, found in western Galilee, northern Isreal and estimated at 55,000 years old. Photograph: Tel ...

Scan finds new tattoos on 5300-year-old Iceman

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A new study has used advanced imaging techniques to identify previously unknown tattoos on the ribcage of the 5300-year old man known as...
Friday, January 23, 2015

Maybe Early Humans Weren't The First To Get A Good Grip

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An example of a human precision grip — grasping a first metacarpal from the thumb of a specimen of Australopithecus africanus that's t...
Monday, January 19, 2015

Stone Age artefacts found in Norway's melting glaciers

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Around 7,000 years ago the Earth was enjoying a warm climate. Now glaciers and patches of perennial ice in the high mountains of Southern N...
Friday, January 16, 2015

Stone Age man wasn't necessarily more advanced than the Neanderthals

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A multi-purpose bone tool dating from the Neanderthal era has been discovered by University of Montreal researchers, throwing into ques...

Recreating the ancient Greek drinking game Kottabos

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Years before beer pong was invented, the ancient Greeks played kottabos to pass the time at symposia (drinking parties) where privileged me...

Parasiteneier aus der Keltenzeit in Basel gefunden

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Ei eines Spulwurms (Ascaris sp.) mit der typischen gewellten Membran. Foto: IPNA In Proben aus der früheren keltischen Siedlung «Basel-...
Monday, January 12, 2015

THE BRONZE AGE SETTLEMENT OF AKROTIRI

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THE BRONZE AGE SETTLEMENT OF AKROTIRI ON THE ISLAND OF SANTORINI a Lecture by Michael Duigan 7.00 pm, Friday, 16th January Activ...

Would you be beautiful in the ancient world?

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In ancient Greece the rules of beauty were all important. Things were good for men who were buff and glossy. And for women, fuller-figur...
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...