Sunday, February 28, 2016

World famous ancient Siberian Venus figurines 'are NOT Venuses after all'

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Close microscopic inspection reveals them as being far from idealised female forms.  Picture: Hermitage Museum New groundbreaking res...

Engraved Mesolithic pendant unearthed in the UK

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An 11,000 year old engraved shale pendant discovered by archaeologists during excavations at the Early Mesolithic site at Star Carr in No...
Monday, February 22, 2016

Neanderthals mated with modern humans much earlier than previously thought, study finds

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COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY—Cold Spring Harbor, NY - Using several different methods of DNA analysis, an international research team ...
Friday, February 19, 2016

Remains Found of 7,000-Year-Old Man Buried Upright

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The young man was buried in a vertical pit in a 8,500-year-old cemetery, one of the oldest ever found in Europe. A Mesolithic site i...

Bronze Age wheel at 'British Pompeii' Must Farm an 'unprecedented find'

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A complete Bronze Age wheel believed to be the largest and earliest of its kind found in the UK has been unearthed. The 3,000-year-ol...

Perfectly preserved bronze age wheel unearthed in Cambridgeshire

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The largest and most perfectly preserved bronze age wheel ever discovered in the UK, made of oak planks almost 3,000 years ago, has eme...

Scientists Can Now 3D Print Otzi The Mummified Ice Man

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Otzi, for those not up on their 5,300-year-old mummified men, died and was frozen in the Alps near Hauslabjoch on the border between Au...
Monday, February 15, 2016

Effort to unlock secrets of 3,700-year-old woman 'Ava'

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A skull and other remains were found at a Middle Bronze Age burial site almost 30 years ago An archaeologist hopes to gain new insight...

FOCUS ON TUVA: Stunning treasures - and macabre slaughter - in Siberia's Valley of the Kings

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In all, some 9,300 decorative gold pieces were found here, not including the 'uncountable golden beads'. Picture: Vera Salnitsk...

Mysterious Graves Discovered at Ancient European Cemetery

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This six-month-old baby is one of the oldest infant skeletons found in Europe. It was buried 8,400 years ago by hunter-gatherers near B...
Saturday, February 13, 2016

Bronze Age burial near Stonehenge discovered by badger

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A Bronze Age cremation burial has been discovered near Stonehenge after being accidentally dug up by a badger. Objects found in a bu...

9,200-year-old settlement discovered in Sweden

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The discovery of the world's oldest storage of fermented fish in southern Sweden could rewrite the Nordic prehistory with findings in...

Freilegung des "Herren von Boilstädt" abgeschlossen

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Das Highlight der Ausgrabungen im Zuge von Bauarbeiten zur Ortsumfahrung Gotha-Sundhausen in den Jahren 2012 und 2013 waren zwei frühmit...
Friday, February 5, 2016

Legal bid fails to rebury remains of 2,500 year old tattooed 'ice princess'

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After archeologists dug up the ancient mummy - preserved in permafrost - natural disasters were unleashed in Siberia, court told. A ...

DNA evidence uncovers major upheaval in Europe near end of last Ice Age

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A photograph of les Closeaux at Rueil-Malmaison, Paris Basin, France. Credit: L. Lang DNA evidence lifted from the ancient bones and t...

Humans evolved by sharing technology and culture

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Blombos Cave in South Africa has given us vast knowledge about our early ancestors. In 2015, four open access articles, with research fin...

Europe’s First Modern Humans May Have Been Replaced

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TÜBINGEN, GERMANY—A new genetic study suggests that some 50,000 years ago, all non-Africans dispersed rapidly from a single population, ...
Thursday, February 4, 2016

Headteacher mocked on Twitter for claiming evolution is not a fact

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Richard Dawkins weighs in on social media debate after Christina Wilkinson said there was ‘more evidence that Bible is true’ Christin...

Kilnwood, Vicarage Hill

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This report has been reproduced by TimeTeign to help enhance our understanding of the early occupation and history of Kingsteignton dur...

Bärenkult und Schamanenzauber

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Bärenkult und Schamanenzauber: Rituale Früher Jäger 5.12.2015 - 28.3.2016 Archäologische Museum Frankfurt  Warum hat man Bären fei...