Thursday, February 23, 2017

Neanderthal DNA contributes to human gene expression

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The last Neanderthal died 40,000 years ago, but much of their genome lives on, in bits and pieces, through modern humans. The impact of Ne...
Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Did Stone Age People Build A Large Labyrinth In Denmark?

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A series of Stone Age palisade enclosures have been discovered in Denmark in recent years and archaeologists are still wondering what they ...
Monday, February 20, 2017

Woolly mammoth on verge of resurrection, scientists reveal

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Scientist leading ‘de-extinction’ effort says Harvard team could create hybrid mammoth-elephant embryo in two years Woolly mammoth (M...

Late Bronze Age Weapons Hoard Dug Up At Scottish Building Site

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GUARD Archaeologists have recently recovered a very rare and internationally significant hoard of metalwork that is a major addition to Sco...

National Trust blamed for visitors urinating on Avebury stones after deciding to close loos at 4pm

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The National Trust is being blamed for visitors urinating on Europe's largest stone circle after deciding to shut its loos early. ...
Wednesday, February 15, 2017

7,000 Year Old Enigma Displayed At The National Archaeological Museum In Athens

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The “7,000-year-old enigma,” as it has been dubbed by the National Archaeological Museum, has been put on display until March 26 after be...
Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Stonehenge tunnel plan given backing by English Heritage and National Trust

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Plans for a tunnel past Stonehenge would reconnect the "extraordinary"  ancient landscape which is severed by a busy road, heri...

Stonehenge tunnel: heritage groups warn over ancient barrow

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Historic England, English Heritage and the National Trust say western end is too close to important neolithic tombs Traffic passing St...
Monday, February 6, 2017

38,000-Year-Old Rock Art Discovered in France

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Archaeologists discovered this 38,000-year-old engraved image of an aurochs in a rock shelter in France. Credit: Ph. Jugie/Musée nation...

Baltic Hunter Gatherers Adopted Farming Without Influence Of Mass Migration, Ancient DNA Suggests

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Ancient DNA analyses show that – unlike elsewhere in Europe – farmers from the Near East did not overtake hunter-gatherer populations in th...
Monday, January 30, 2017

Iceman Oetzi's last meal was 'Stone Age bacon'

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Oetzi the famous "iceman" mummy of the Alps appears to have enjoyed a fine slice or two of Stone Age bacon before he was kill...
Thursday, January 12, 2017

Neolithic hoard discovered during St Andrews University energy centre work

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Pottery and flint tools buried for 4,000 years were uncovered during excavations for St Andrews University’s new energy centre. The an...

The Caves That Prove Neanderthals Were Cannibals

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Deep in the caves of Goyet in Belgium researchers have found the grisly evidence that the Neanderthals did not just feast on horses or rein...

Archäologen entdecken weitere Teile eines 5.000 Jahre alten Wagens

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Erfolgreicher Abschluss der öffentlich zugänglichen Grabung von Olzreute-Enzisholz (Landkreis Biberach) Kurz vor Weihnachten 2016 wur...
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...