Thursday, January 28, 2016

Sicily the superpower: British Museum revisits island's golden ages

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New exhibition will explore periods under Norman and Greek rule when island was one of Europe’s most enlightened cultures  A gold liba...

No fairy tale: Origins of some famous stories go back thousands of years

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Statistical analysis of language evolution helps estimate storytelling dates ONCE UPON A TIME  Some folktales such as “Rumpelstiltski...
Thursday, January 21, 2016

Uncovering the Culture of Bronze Age Logboats

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The advent of metal tools created demand for a European trade network—and boats to deliver the goods. When people first took to the wa...
Monday, January 18, 2016

Walking back in time to the
 Bronze Age

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A leading archaeologist has called for Peterborough to become a national bronze age heritage centre after an incredible 3,000 year old se...

New finds at ancient Hephaestia on Limnos

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A major temple with finds dating from two main periods – one in the 7th-6th century B.C. and the second in the 3rd-2nd century B.C – was di...
Saturday, January 16, 2016

Grisly find suggests humans inhabited Arctic 45,000 years ago

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To hunt mammoths in the Arctic, humans had to have the hunting tools, insulated clothes and shelter to survive in the Arctic. In Augus...

Meet the archaeologists making ancient rock art into 3D reality

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An event next Monday (18 January 2016) will give the public a chance to experience at first hand the technologies that have enabled archa...

'Cave of forgotten dreams' may hold earliest painting of volcanic eruption

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France's iconic Chauvet cave holds mysterious spray-shaped imagery, made around the time when nearby volcanoes were spewing lava. ...

Chauvet Cave painting depicts 36,000 year-old volcanic eruption

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Scientists believe that they have identified the oldest known images of erupting volcanoes, daubed in red and white pigments over other cav...
Friday, January 15, 2016

New discoveries concerning Ötzi's genetic history

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EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF BOZEN/BOLZANO (EURAC) —A study was published last week on the DNA of  Helicobacter pylori , the pathogen extracted fr...

Intact horse skeleton discovered in ancient cemetery in southern coastal Athens

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A burial site containing an unusually well preserved skeleton of a horse, intact even down to the hooves, was among the finds discovered...

NEW DISCOVERIES CONCERNING ÖTZI’S GENETIC HISTORY

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The Iceman’s maternal genetic line originated in the Alps and is now extinct. A study was published last week on the DNA of Helicoba...

The Ancient Greek Drinking Party

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The Ancient Greek Drinking Party a lecture by Michael Duigan Friday, 12 February 2016 7:00 pm Activity Space 1, Clore Learning C...
Thursday, January 14, 2016

Apulian burial rituals prove you can take it with you

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Death is inevitable, but what death shows us about the social behaviors of the living is not. And recent University of Cincinnati research ...

Sulawesi find: 118,000-year-old stone tools point to 'archaic group of humans'

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Discovery of 311 implements on Indonesian island suggest modern humans settling there 60,000 years ago would have met an ‘isolated human li...

Bronze Age stilt houses unearthed in Cambridgeshire

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Large circular wooden houses built on stilts collapsed in a dramatic fire 3,000 years ago and plunged into a river, preserving their conten...

Dog domestication may have increased harmful genetic changes, UCLA biologists report

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T he domestication of dogs may have inadvertently caused harmful genetic changes, a UCLA-led study suggests. Domesticating dogs from gr...
Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Bronze Age houses: What the finds tell us

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At a quarry in Cambridgeshire, archaeologists say they have discovered Britain's "Pompeii - a number of well-preserved dwellings...

Bronze Age village found near ancient Roman city

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A 3,500-year-old settlement has been unearthed near an ancient Roman city in northeast Italy. The Roman city of Aquileia, in Friuli Ve...

Dorset's oldest settlement 'could fall into sea'

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Parts of what is believed to be Dorset's oldest human settlement could be lost to coastal erosion, archaeologists have warned.  E...