Monday, June 29, 2015

Polish farmer finds 2,500 year old gold bracelets

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Gold items preliminarily dated to 1600-400 BC have been discovered by a farmer near Jasło in the Subcarpathia. The antique objects have bee...

Archaeologists find Bronze Age food at prehistoric settlement "comparable to the Mary Rose"

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Archaeologists found food from between 800-1000 BC in a set of pots, textiles and other material at a Cambridgeshire settlement destroyed...
Friday, June 19, 2015

“Globally unparalleled” evidence of prehistoric Welsh feasting practices unearthed by archaeologists

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New research led by archaeologists at Cardiff University has showcased "globally unparalleled" evidence of a unique prehistori...

400,000-year-old dental tartar provides earliest evidence of manmade pollution

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Most dentists recommend a proper teeth cleaning every six months to prevent, among other things, the implacable buildup of calculus or t...

Le prince au torque d’or de Lavau

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Exhumée par une équipe d’archéologues de l’Inrap, la tombe princière de Lavau, datée du début du V e  siècle avant notre ère, a révélé un...
Friday, May 29, 2015

Modern humans migrated out of Africa via Egypt, suggests genetic study

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How and when the first modern human populations emerged out of Africa to settle Europe and Asia has been at the center of a long-standin...

New human ancestor species from Ethiopia lived alongside Lucy's species

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Holotype upper jaw of a new human ancestor species found on March 4, 2011.  Credit: Yohannes Haile-Selassie, Cleveland Museum of Natura...

New finds at Plassi, Marathon in Attica

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This year’s excavations of the Prehistoric-Classical site of Plassi, Marathon in Attica, conducted by the University of Athens, have been c...

Brumath-Brocomagus, Civitas Capital of the Triboci

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Brumath-Brocomagus, Civitas Capital of the Triboci Exhibition at Musée Archéologique, Strasburg until 31 December 2015 Occasi...
Thursday, May 28, 2015

Il y a 35 000 ans, les Aurignaciens, premiers hommes modernes à occuper la grotte du Mas d’Azil

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Une équipe d’archéologues et de géo-archéologues de l’Inrap et du laboratoire Traces (CNRS – université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès), intervi...

Evidence of 430,000-year-old human violence found

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Human remains from a cave in northern Spain show evidence of a lethal attack 430,000 years ago, a study has shown. Researchers examine...

'New species' of ancient human found

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Researchers say the jaw bones and teeth are unlike any they have seen before A new species of ancient human has been unearthed in the ...
Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Danish Bronze Age girl may have been German

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One of Denmark's proudest relics may not be Danish after all, researchers have found. In a feat of laboratory sleuthing, scientist...

Our bond with dogs may go back more than 27,000 years

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Dogs' special relationship to humans may go back 27,000 to 40,000 years, according to genomic analysis of an ancient Taimyr wolf bon...
Thursday, May 21, 2015

Oldest stone tools pre-date earliest humans

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The tools includes sharp-edged flakes, hammers and anvils The world's oldest stone tools have been discovered, scientists report....
Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Prehistoric man with shield found after dig

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An archeological dig in Pocklington has unearthed a prehistoric man buried with a shield. The skeleton was found in one of the square b...

Neolithic fishing spear found in southern Denmark

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At the archaeological investigations ahead of the construction of the future Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link, archaeologists from Museum Lolland-Fa...
Monday, April 27, 2015

France's prehistoric Chauvet cave opens

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A stunning replica of the 36,000 year-old Grotte Chauvet, home to the oldest figurative cave drawings in the world and an Unesco Heritage...
Tuesday, April 21, 2015

New Thoughts on Neanderthal Cooking

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Neanderthals went extinct in most of Europe around 40,000 years ago, some 5,000 years after the arrival of the first modern humans. “The...
Saturday, April 18, 2015

Study report revisits cave of prehistoric cannibals

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In 2012, a detailed report of prehistoric cannibalism in Gough’s cave in Cheddar Gorge (Somerset), UK, attracted media attention with t...