Thursday, June 29, 2017

Analysis of Neanderthal teeth grooves uncovers evidence of prehistoric dentistry

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Three views of the four articulated teeth making up KDP 20. a. occlusal view showing lingually placed mesial interproximal wear facet on ...

Dead heads: Turkish site reveals more evidence of neolithic 'skull cult'

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Fragments of three skulls found at Göbekli Tepe have hallmarks of being carved with flint after being scalped and defleshed first  A...

Roman oil and wine pottery found at Ipplepen dig site

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Archaeologists washing evidence of the iron works and pottery Archaeologists say pre-Roman Britons who lived in a rural location since ...

Podkarpackie / Unique figurine from 7 thousand years ago discovered in arable field

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Photo by Piotr Alagierski While walking in a field in one of the villages of Podkarpacie, an archaeologist from Wielkopolska came acros...

7,000 year old human remains discovered in Swiss city

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The remains of ancient villages dating back to 5,500BC have been discovered on a construction site in Sion in the Valais. Burial foun...

Avebury stone circle contains hidden square, archaeologists find

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A model of the inner square at the Avebury Neolithic stone circl. Photograph: Mark Gillings / University of Leicester Radar techno...
Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Archaeologists unearth prehistoric ritual area around Bryn Celli Ddu

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Bryn Celli Ddu, a Neolithic passage tomb on the Isle of Anglesey.  Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo Previously unknown Anglesey landscap...
Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Lavau Celtic Prince: 2,500-year-old royal tomb starts to reveal its secrets

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Objects inside the tomb appear to show the cultural interactions between different worlds in the 5th century BCE. The bronze cauldron ...
Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Did Dutch hordes kill off the early Britons who started Stonehenge?

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A gene study has shown that incomers could have ousted Stone Age Britons During the building of Stonehenge, around 2500BC, gene recor...

Dig Finds UK's Oldest Sacred Site

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Archaeologists say a sacred burial site uncovered in Shrewsbury in February is over 4,000 years old. They say the site, which was discovered...
Thursday, May 18, 2017

Grassy beginning for earliest Homo

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ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY—In 2013, an ASU research team found the oldest known evidence of our own genus,  Homo , at Ledi-Geraru in the l...
Friday, May 5, 2017

How migrations and other population dynamics could have shaped early human culture

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STANFORD UNIVERSITY— Something odd happened in the transition from the Middle to the Upper Paleolithic, around 50,000 years ago. Modern ...

24 Bronze Age Axes Found In Farmer's Field In Norway

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Some 3,000 years ago, 24 axes were cached in Stjørdal municipality, about 44 km east of Trondheim. They're now seeing the light of day o...

3,000-year-old axes found in farmer's field in mid-Norway

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Archaeologist Merete Moe Henriksen and conservator Ellen Randers present the Hegra discoveries. Credit: Julie Gloppe Solem Some 3,000...

Mycenaean Chamber Tomb With Grave Offerings Found On Greek Island Of Salamis

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A Late Mycenaean chamber tomb with grave goods dating to the 13th-12th centuries BCE has been discovered in the centre of the main town on t...

Glockenbecher-Gräber im Salzlandkreis

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Ein kleines Gräberfeld der Glockenbecherkultur (3. Jahrtausend v.Chr.) kam bei archäologischen Ausgrabungen des Landesamts für Denkmalpfl...
Monday, May 1, 2017

A Spanish quest to hand down prehistoric secrets

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Photo: Extremadura Turismo It's dark and surprisingly warm in a cave in western Spain that hides our most intimate connection to th...

Radiocarbon Dating Gets A Postmodern Makeover

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For decades, radiocarbon dating has been a way for scientists to get a rough picture of when once-living stuff lived. The method has been re...
Friday, April 28, 2017

Dog family tree reveals hidden history of canine diversity

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Genetic map showing how dog breeds are related provides a wealth of information about their origins. A new family tree of dogs contain...

Prehistoric human DNA is found in caves without bones in 'enormous scientific breakthrough'

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Becky Miller sampling sediment for genetic analyses at the archaeological site of  Trou Al'Wesse, Belgium  CREDIT:  MAX PLANCK IN...