Wednesday, June 20, 2018

New technique provides accurate dating of ancient skeletons

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EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF HUMAN GENETICS—Milan, Italy: Interest in the origins of human populations and their migration routes has increased gr...

Enigmatic Stone Balls from 5,000 Years Ago Continue to Baffle Archaeologists

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The 3D models of the carved balls of stone, including the spiral-carved Towie ball (center), are now posted online.  Credit: National Mus...

Anger at bird hide damage to Neolithic burial site

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The hide, which has toppled over, was constructed on an ancient burial cairn PAUL CAMPBELL A makeshift bird hide has been built on th...
Monday, June 18, 2018

Possible discovery of prehistoric settlement near Thurso

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Archaeologists are to make further investigations of the structures found ORKNEY RESEARCH CENTRE FOR ARCHAEOLOGY A community archaeol...
Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Detection of invisible elements in ancient rock engravings

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Detailed picture of a bovine animal after applying the methodology  [Credit: Aroa Gutiérrez Alonso] Two researchers from Universidad ...
Tuesday, June 12, 2018

3,000-year-old Bronze Age oak road to be preserved in Co Westmeath

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Bronze Age track at Mayne Bog: when Westland Horticulture uncovered it in 2005 the National Monuments Service did not issue a preservatio...

When prehistoric man lived around Glasgow

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The Cochno Stone at Faifley was excavated in 2015 and 2016 and then reburied to protect it from damage. PIC: John Devlin/TSPL. Prehisto...

Oldest Bubonic Plague Genome Decoded

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Double burial of the two plague victims in the Samara region, Russia  [Credit: V.V. Kondrashin and V.A. Tsybin; Spyrou et al.  Nature...

Woolly mammoth bone discovered on shore near Stranraer

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The discovery was made on the shore near Stranraer SOLWAY FIRTH PARTNERSHIP A bone believed to have come from a woolly mammoth has be...

Prehistoric roundhouse excavated at Tore near Inverness

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A stone bead or spindle whorl from the excavation AOC ARCHAEOLOGY The remains of an ancient roundhouse have been uncovered by archaeo...
Tuesday, June 5, 2018

Take your pick: Is this Britain's oldest tin mining tool?

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New research suggests Cornwall can lay claim to having Britain's oldest tin mining tool. A pick made from a deer antler found near ...
Monday, May 7, 2018

Scientists Confirm Earliest Use of Fire and Oldest Stone Handaxe in Europe

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In a recently published paper* in the journal, Historical Biology, researchers report confirmation that sediments bearing early human cul...

Stone Age settlement found in the middle of Copenhagen

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Traces of Copenhagen’s Stone Age past were found under the resistance museum just opposite the Anglican church (photo: Henrik Lundbak, N...

Iron Age finds to go on display in Alderney

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A display of Iron Age finds that were dug up in Alderney are going on display in the island. Guernsey Museums is also heading back to t...

Meet the ancestors… the two brothers creating lifelike figures of early man

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Compare and contrast (l-r): Homo sapiens and a Neanderthal man. Photograph: Kevin Webb/ The Natural History Museum, London  Dutch t...
Thursday, April 26, 2018

Ash from destructive hill fort fire 'preserved in peat'

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Dun Deardail was built 2,500 years ago NEVIS LANDSCAPE PARTNERSHIP Archaeologists believe they have found, preserved in peat, charcoa...

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...