Monday, December 18, 2017

Evidence of 'special site' for Bronze Age burials near Loch Ness

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The latest grave to be found is pictured before and after soil was removed from inside it Archaeologists say they are finding increasing...
Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Prehistoric women's arms 'stronger than those of today's elite rowers'

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Katherine Grainger and Anna Watkins celebrate Olympic victory in 2012. Neolithic women’s arm bones were about 30% stronger than those of ...
Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Ancient sword and other incredible items discovered during dig at Glenfield Park

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Archeologists have discovered an unprecedented collection of artefacts from the Iron Age at Glenfield Park in Leicestershire. Prehist...
Monday, November 27, 2017

Bronze Age Burial Of 'Shaman' Discovered In Slovakia

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Archaeologists found an interesting discovery when researching the area of the transport infrastructure for Jaguar Land Rover and accompa...

Fairy Tales Are Much Older Than You Think

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How does the same story come to be known as “Beauty and the Beast” in the U.S. and “The Fairy Serpent” in China? As Wilhelm and Jaco...
Tuesday, November 7, 2017

When the Gloves Come Off – Why We Do Not Use Gloves to Handle Artifacts in the Field

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Ever since we started publishing pictures of our crew holding artifacts without using gloves, we have taken some heat in the Facebook com...

Living With Gods review – 40,000 years of religious art, and this is it?

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 Chosen for content over aesthetic merit … six Zoroastrian tiles, Parsi shrine, 1989-90, India. Photograph: © Trustees of the British Mus...

Fossil of 'our earliest ancestors' found in Dorset

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The mammals ventured out at night to hunt insects Fossils of the oldest-known ancestors of most living mammals, including human beings...
Tuesday, October 17, 2017

'Big, bad wolf' image flawed - scientists

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Wolves are good at working together to get food rewards New research casts doubt on the idea that dogs are naturally more tolerant and...
Monday, October 16, 2017

Whisper it – Greek amphitheatre's legendary acoustics are a myth

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Epidaurus. Ancient Greeks might have used all manner of devices to amplify sound, including placing hollow vessels at strategic locations...
Monday, October 9, 2017

Prehistoric humans are likely to have formed mating networks to avoid inbreeding

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Early humans seem to have recognized the dangers of inbreeding at least 34,000 years ago, and developed surprisingly sophisticated social an...

Ax Linked to Ötzi the Iceman Found North of the Alps

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Apart from a few scratches, the 2.6-inch-long (6.5 centimeters) blade is undamaged.  Credit: Res Eichenberger Archaeologists found a ...
Friday, October 6, 2017

Mysterious Stone Tools Unearthed at Bronze-Age Site in Wales

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The stone tools found by the CRAG team vary in size, from around 220 millimeters (8.5 inches) in length, down to about 50 millimeters (2 ...

Antikythera Shipwreck Yields More Amazing Finds

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For the third consecutive year, the Greek Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities has conducted an underwater excavation at the site of the Antik...

Antikythera shipwreck yields bronze arm – and hints at spectacular haul of statues

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Arm points to existence of at least seven statues from Greek shipwreck, already the source of most extensive and exciting ancient cargo ever...
Tuesday, September 26, 2017

New scientific dating research unravels the story of life in prehistoric Orkney Read

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A new study, published today in Antiquity journal, is challenging the previously understood narrative for prehistoric life on Orkney. It was...

House “older than Stonehenge” found in East Ayrshire field

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The field near Kilmarnock where man settled some 6,000 years ago. PIC: Scottish Water. The remains of a pre-historic dwelling older than...

Storytelling flints and the original Oxen Ford: Oxford flood scheme archaeology begins

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THIS tiny piece of flint is barely an inch long, but it tells an incredible story. A stone flake reveals that 6,000 years ago, for just...

Bronze Age Arrows and a Viking Sword – The 2017 Fieldwork Was Awesome!

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Finally, the long wait was over and we were so ready for fieldwork! We had chosen two large sites for the main fieldwork in 2017 – the Lau...

Neanderthal brains 'grew more slowly'

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The skeleton of a boy that shattered our view of Neanderthal brain development A new study shows that Neanderthal brains developed more...