Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Skilled female potters travelled around the Baltic nearly 5000 years ago

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These are Neolithic Corded ware pottery recovered in Southern Finland [Credit: Elisabeth Holmqvist-Sipilä] Was it the fine pottery it...

Ramsey Island: New survey finds 'Bronze Age' site

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Ramsey Island is owned and managed by the RSPB New archaeological sites on a small island off the coast of west Wales have been discove...

The archaeologists sorting out Orkney's Neolithic bones

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Archaeologists excavating Neolithic tombs in Orkney are used to finding jumbled collections of bones A new study could potentially tran...
Monday, March 19, 2018

Site of huge Iron Age feast celebration found on Orkney

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Windwick Bay at South Ronaldsay, close to the site of the massive cliff top feast held more than 1,700 years ago. PIC: www.geography.co.u...

Utrecht’s history goes back 11,000 years, archaeologists say

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The history of Utrecht begins at least 8,000 years earlier than was previously thought, local broadcaster RTV Utrecht reported this week....
Thursday, March 1, 2018

15,000-year-old artefacts discovered along Scotland's Aberdeen bypass

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Artefacts and structures found during archaeological excavations on the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route/Balmedie to Tipperty (AWPR/B-T) pr...
Monday, February 26, 2018

Britain's prehistoric catastrophe revealed

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Ancient Britons may have been nearly wiped out by bubonic plague brought by newcomers to the island The builders of Stonehenge are thou...

The Archaeology of Wealth Inequality

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Researchers trace the income gap back more than 11,000 years W hen the last of the volcanic ash from Mount Vesuvius settled over Pompeii ...

Ancient Britons 'replaced' by newcomers

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Beaker pottery starts to appear in Britain around 4,500 years ago The ancient population of Britain was almost completely replaced by n...

13,500-year-old carved bison bone fished from the bottom of the North Sea

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he carved bison bone was fished out of the North Sea in 2005 and dates to the last Ice Age  [Credit: Rijksmuseum van Oudheden] Late I...

The Guardian view on Neanderthals: we were not alone

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Drawing of Panel 78 in La Pasiega by Breuil et al (1913). The red scalariform (ladder) symbol has a minimum age of 64,000 years but it is...

Neanderthals – not modern humans – were first artists on Earth, experts claim

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Paintings on a section of the La Pasiega cave wall, including a ladder shape composed of red horizontal and vertical lines. Photograph: P...

A rare Neanderthal hand axe found in a long lost cave in Wales

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Image courtesy National Museum Cardiff Elizabeth Walker, Palaeolithic & Mesolithic Archaeologist and Head of Collections at Nationa...
Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Northumberland Bronze Age skeleton: Whose bones are these?

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Sanita Nezirovic has been investigating the Bronze Age remains Forensic scientists have been analysing Bronze Age bones found in a fiel...

Bizarre 'Spider Stones' Found at Site of Neolithic Sun-Worshipers

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Two of the 5,000-year-old "spider stones" unearthed on the Danish island on Bornholm. Credit: Bornholm Museum Strangely ma...

8,000-Year-Old Heads on Stakes Found in Mysterious Underwater Grave

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None of the human skulls had jaw bones. There was one human jaw bone at the site, but it wasn't associated with any of the skulls. ...

Neanderthals' lack of drawing ability may relate to hunting techniques

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Replica of drawing of lions painted in the Chauvet Cave. Art in the cave has been identified  as created by early modern humans [Credi...

Major Neolithic ceremonial enclosure uncovered at Windsor

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An aerial view of the site of the Neolithic causewayed enclosure  [Credit: Wessex Archaeology] A major 5,500 year old Neolithic cerem...

Mystery of 8,000-Year-Old Impaled Human Heads Has Researchers Stumped

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Archaeologists have never before encountered this grisly phenomenon in Mesolithic Scandinavia, and they're hard-pressed to explain it. ...
Thursday, February 8, 2018

Discovery of Windsor neolithic monument excites archaeologists

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Scientists expect to uncover entire circuit of causewayed enclosure at Berkshire quarry An aerial view of the site of the Neolithic ca...