Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Europe's Earliest Humans Did Not Use Fire

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New research conducted by scientists at the University of York and the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona reveals for the first time that E...

Archäologen entdecken erste befestigte Flachland-Siedlung der Eisenzeit in Westfalen

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Werne (lwl).  Wo der Versandhandelsriese Amazon aktuell künftige Geschenke für das Weihnachtsfest lagert, deponierten die Menschen schon ...
Thursday, December 15, 2016

Neanderthals visited seaside cave in England for 180,000 years

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SAINT HELIER, Jersey, Dec. 14 (UPI) --  Neanderthals may have taken vacations, or at least they liked the view from the granite cliffs o...
Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Sex of prehistoric hand-stencil artists can be determined forensic analysis

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"This geometric approach is very powerful as it allows us to look at the palm and fingers independently," researcher Patrick Rand...

Late Bronze Age Grave Of Yound Girl Wearing Elaborate Diadem Found In Northern Greece

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The skeleton of the young girl as found during the discovery of the tomb [Credit: Ethnos] The coronet was unearthed among a trove of ot...

Why don't humans have a penis bone? Scientists may now know

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Speed of human mating might be behind the lack of a baculum in humans, suggests study tracing bone’s evolution It can be as long as a...
Sunday, December 11, 2016

France to unveil stunning copy of landmark prehistoric art cave

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More than 70 years after the original cave was discovered, France will unveil a stunning real-to-life copy of the 18,000 year-old Lascau...

Human blood, organs, and a surprising virus detected in ancient pottery

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The vessels were interred in a burial mound near an Iron Age hillfort in Germany, known as the Heuneburg, reconstructed here. Sometime...
Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Archaeologists uncover clues to life of Iron Age man

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Archaeologists have been able to provide insights into the life of a man whose remains were found at an Iron Age site on Orkney. A hum...

Anglesey dig discovers human remains at 'internationally important' neolithic site

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Two partial sets of human remains  have been found at a massive neolithic site on Anglesey. Archaeologists have also unearthed a fourt...

Moderner als gedacht - Neandertaler passten ihre Überlebensstrategien aktiv an

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Wissenschaftler des Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment an der Universität Tübingen haben herausgefunden, dass N...
Tuesday, December 6, 2016

‘Bronze Age burial reveals its long held secret’

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Archaeologists studying Neolithic and Early Bronze Age human remains in the Manx Museum collection for the ‘Round Mounds of the Isle of M...
Monday, November 28, 2016

5,000-Year-Old Hill Fort 'Damaged By Metal Detectors'

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Cissbury Ring is the largest hill fort in Sussex [Credit: National Trust] A 5,000-year-old hill fort is being damaged by the "ill...
Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Vast 5,600-year-old religious centre discovered near Stonehenge

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The centre was built more than 1,000 years before the stones of Stonehenge were erected A reconstruction of part of a Neolithic causew...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS FIND 2ND ANTIQUITY FORTRESS AT PREHISTORIC, THRACIAN ROCK SHRINE NEAR BULGARIA’S ANGEL VOYVODA

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A second Antiquity fortress has been found at the ancient rock shrine Hasara near Bulgaria’s Mineralni Bani. Photo: Mineralni Bani Munici...

Archaeological finds on route of Inverness West Link

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Burnt grains and timbers found while excavating a grain-drying kiln at Torvean Prehistoric and Bronze Age finds have been made during ...
Friday, November 11, 2016

Prehistoric Greenlanders ate bowhead whales to survive 4,000 years ago

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Bowhead whales in the Fram Strait between Svalbard and Greenland fruchtzwerg's world/Flickr The first humans to arrive at Greenland...

Shackle-Bound Skeleton Found in Etruscan Burial

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The gruesome find suggests the ancient people had a dark side. Archaeologists digging in central Tuscany have brought to light a dark s...

The Fate Of Neanderthal Genes

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The Neanderthals disappeared about 30,000 years ago, but little pieces of them live on in the form of DNA sequences scattered through the ...
Monday, November 7, 2016

A 9,000-year-old axe sheds light on burial practices

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Ireland’s earliest burial site gives up the secrets of our hunter-gatherer ancestors Analysis of an axe that is more than 9,000 years ...