Friday, August 18, 2017

Bronze Age tombs unearthed during car park construction in Switzerland

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The burial site of a Bronze Age warrior has revealed yet more treasures  [Credit: SBMA - ARIA SA] Workers digging the foundations for...

13 million-year-old infant ape skull discovered in the Turkana Basin

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Alesi partially excavated after careful removal of loose sand and rocks with dental picks and brushes. © Isaiah Nengo. The discovery in...

New 13-million-year-old infant skull sheds light on ape ancestry

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Alesi, the skull of the new extinct ape species Nyanzapithecus alesi (KNM-NP 59050) [Credit: Fred Spoor] The discovery in Kenya of a ...
Friday, August 11, 2017

Engraved bones are 'evidence of cannibalistic rituals by early humans'

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The researchers suggest the engravings may have been part of an elaborate post-death ritual carried that culminated in the deceased being ...
Sunday, August 6, 2017

Contents of 2,500-year-old sarcophagus discovered in Turkey's Balıkesir revealed

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R esearchers at the ancient Greek city of Antandrus, located in Turkey's Balıkesir province, have discovered the remains of a woman a...

Ancient Greek quarry in Marseille 'partly classified' as historic monument

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The Greek quarry dating from the 5th century BC in Marseille is going to be partly classified  as a Historical Monument [Credit: AFP/Be...

Slawische und eisenzeitliche Siedlung bei Theißen entdeckt

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Blick auf die Ausgrabungsfläche mit Gruben und weiteren Befunden der slawischen Siedlung.  Foto © LDA Sachsen-Anhalt Bei Ausgrabungen...
Thursday, August 3, 2017

The Greeks really do have near-mythical origins, ancient DNA reveals

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A Mycenaean woman depicted on a fresco at Mycenae on mainland Greece. Ever since the days of Homer, Greeks have long idealized their My...

Mammut und viel Rohkost

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Hinterkopf-Knochen eines anatomisch modernen Menschen der Fundstelle Buran-Kaya III.  (© S. Prat) Senckenberg-Wissenschaftler haben d...
Sunday, July 30, 2017

Bronze Age Iberia received fewer Steppe invaders than the rest of Europe

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Archaeological remains of individual MC337 excavated from the site of Hipogeu de Monte Canelas I, Portugal, and analysed by the archaeolo...
Thursday, July 27, 2017

Amazingly well preserved 3,500-year-old lunch box discovered in Swiss Alps

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An incredibly rare wooden container from the Bronze Age has been discovered on the Lötschberg mountain in Switzerland, still with detecta...
Wednesday, July 26, 2017

3,000 Year Old Necropolis Discovered Beneath Site Of Visigoth Graves In Spain

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Spanish archaeologists excavating a Visigoth necropolis in Sena, in the northeastern province of Huesca, have uncovered what they say is a b...
Thursday, July 20, 2017

Sofia will have a Second Archaeological Complex

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Sofia will have a second archaeological park, where visitors can see a prehistoric settlement from the first European civilization. In t...

Orkney Neolithic 'butterfly-like' motifs found by chance

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A sketch of the designs found on a block of stone Neolithic markings carved into a stone in Orkney that were missed for years by arc...

Copper in Ötzi the Iceman’s ax came from surprisingly far away BLADE TRADE Copper for Ötzi the Iceman’s ax, or possibly even the finished blade, came from what’s now central Italy, an unexpectedly long way from the ancient man’s home region in northern Italy. Ötzi the Iceman’s copper ax was imported. The mummy’s frozen body and assorted belongings were found in 1991 poking out of an Alpine glacier at Italy’s northern border with Austria. But Ötzi’s ax originated about 500 kilometers to the south in what is now central Italy’s Southern Tuscany region, say geoscientist Gilberto Artioli of the University of Padua in Italy and colleagues. It’s unclear whether Ötzi acquired the Tuscan copper as raw material or as a finished blade, the investigators report July 5 in PLOS ONE. While mostly copper, the blade contains small concentrations of lead, arsenic, silver and more than a dozen other chemical elements. Researchers previously suspected the copper came from known ore deposits 100 kilometers or less from the site of the Iceman’s demise. But comparing the mix of different forms of lead, or isotopes, in the ax with that in copper ore from present-day deposits across much of Europe indicated that the ancient man’s blade came from Southern Tuscany. Other chemical components identified in the copper implement also point to a Southern Tuscan origin. Read the rest of this article...

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BLADE TRADE  Copper for Ötzi the Iceman’s ax, or possibly even the finished blade, came from what’s now central Italy, an unexpectedly lo...

How did dogs become our best friends? New evidence

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Dogs most probably evolved from wolves at a single location about 20,000 to 40,000 years ago, a study suggests. Previously, it had bee...
Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Archaeologists go high-tech in 2,500-year-old Greek cold case

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A conservator of archaeological works on a human skull in a lab at the American School  of Archaeology in Athens on July 7, 2017 [Credit...

Did human women contribute to Neanderthal genomes over 200,000 years ago?

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A new Neanderthal mitochondrial genome supports a remarkable hypothesis – that there was interbreeding with an extremely early migration of ...
Sunday, July 16, 2017

Ancestors of Stonehenge people could be buried inside ‘House of the Dead’ discovered in Wiltshire

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The site in a farmer's field was identified in aerial photographs  [Credit: University of Reading] A ‘House of the Dead’ has b...
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 ...