Thursday, April 26, 2018

Megalithic Malta : Prehistoric but far from Primitive

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If the Neolithic (New Stone Age) seems remote, primitive and ‘Just a load of old stones’, take a visit to Malta.   Here you can go back ...
Monday, April 23, 2018

Neolithic Surgeons May Have Practiced on Animals

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PARIS, FRANCE—Paleontologists Alain Froment and Fernando Ramirez Rozzi of the French National Center for Scientific Research suggest a ho...

Stonehenge archaeology 'under threat' from Highways England diggers

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Stonehenge Alliance said using heavy machinery on wet ground could "devastate any fragile archaeological deposits" Heavy digg...

DES OCCUPATIONS DU NÉOLITHIQUE À L’ÂGE DU FER SUR LE CONTOURNEMENT OUEST DE STRASBOURG

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U ne équipe d’archéologues de l’Inrap mène actuellement une fouille archéologique à Berstett (Bas-Rhin), sur prescription de l’Etat (Drac...
Thursday, April 19, 2018

Raunds henge 'discovered' by Warth Park building work

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An archaeological site thought to be 4,000 years old has been fully unearthed by work to extend an industrial estate. Builders have unc...

The nineteenth century doctor who practiced neolithic trepanation

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Human skull illustrating different methods of trephination owned by Dr. T. Wilson Parry, skull of Guanche, Canary Islands, 1871-1930 (app...

Skull and mandible

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Bronze Age skull and mandible of an adult male recovered from Rathlin Island, Co. Antrim. The skull and mandible were both modelled 36...
Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Bronze age pot uncovered in Cornwall field

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A tenant farmer on the National Trust land where the pot was found had suggested the archaeology team should investigate his field An i...
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...