Prehistoric Archaeology Blog

The Prehistoric Archaeology Blog is concerned with news reports featuring Prehistoric period archaeology. If you wish to see news reports for general European archaeology, please go to The Archaeology of Europe Weblog.

Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Archaeologists uncover rare Celtic remains

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A bronze clothes pin and ceramic object typically found in the 1st century BC. (Kanton Luzern) Archaeologists from canton Lucerne hav...

World's oldest intact shipwreck discovered in Black Sea

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Archaeologists say the 23-metre vessel has lain undisturbed for more than 2,400 years Archaeologists have found what they believe to be...

A14 road workers find woolly mammoth bones

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The remains are thought to date back to the last Ice Age Road workers building a new bypass have unearthed the Ice Age remains of a woo...
Tuesday, October 2, 2018

Ancient cemetery unearthed in Albania

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URAN, Albania (AP) — In a rich agricultural basin near the town of Korca in southeastern Albania, gas pipeline construction work is offer...
Monday, August 6, 2018

Experts ask if there was a tsunami in ancient Orkney

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Maesehowe is Orkney's most famous burial cairn, and a popular tourist attraction A new academic paper has suggested it is possible ...

Stonehenge: Origins of those who built world-famous monument revealed by groundbreaking scientific research

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Experts have discovered act of cremation actually crystallises a bone’s structure and allows its origins to be detected – something previous...

Small height evolved twice on 'Hobbit' island of Flores

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Liang Bua cave, where the Hobbit remains were found ROSINO / CREATIVE COMMONS A new study has shown that small height evolved twice i...

Stonehenge: First residents from west Wales

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Researchers have shown that cremated humans at Stonehenge were from the same region of Wales as the stones used in construction. The ke...
Friday, July 27, 2018

Roadworks reveal remains of Iron Age village in York

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An enclosure measuring 16 metres across is believed to date from the Iron Age  [Credit: City of York Council] The earliest find – a ...

Treasure found across Northern Ireland

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More than 40 objects found across Northern Ireland between 2009 and 2016 have been officially categorised as "treasure" by a c...
Thursday, July 19, 2018

Lessons From A Real Atlantis

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Before it was lost to the bottom of sea, Doggerland was made up of woodland, meadows, marshes and rivers,  as shown by simulations [Credi...

Research on British teeth unlocks potential for new insights into ancient diets

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Skeleton sampled for the study, dating to the post-medieval period in Britain. The analysis suggests the Victorians were partial to a bow...

Hidden landscapes the heatwave is revealing

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As the summer sun continues to beat down on the British Isles, ghosts are appearing in the yellowing fields. Normally kept hidden by lu...

The real cabbage soup diet: What Britons ate down the ages

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Ancient Britons were eating dairy, peas, cabbage and oats, according to gunk trapped in their teeth. Scientists analysed dental plaque...

Brú na Bóinne: Megalithic tomb discovered in Meath

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One kerbstone is heavily decorated with Neolithic carvings The discovery of a 5,500-year-old megalithic tomb in County Meath has been d...

Unsere weitverzweigten afrikanischen Wurzeln

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Artefakte aus der Mittleren Steinzeit, die im Norden und Süden des afrikanischen Kontinents gefunden wurden. Bild: Eleanor Scerri/Francesc...
Thursday, July 5, 2018

Power company project becomes one of Europe's largest archeological digs

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The site included the skull of an auroch, an extinct species of cattle. A Neolithic trackway dating to 2300 B.C. was uncovered in a non...

'German Stonehenge' Yields Grisly Evidence of Sacrificed Women and Children

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A reconstruction of the 4,300-year-old Pömmelte enclosure. Credit: Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt” (State ...

Archaeologists stumble on Neolithic ritual site in Suffolk

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A 4,300-year-old stake discovered in a field in Suffolk. Photograph: Scottish Power As diggers began to strip the daisies and buttercup...

Mycenaean vessels among finds at Dromolaxia, Cyprus

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Chariot krater from Tomb RR, Dromoloaxia-Vyzakia  [Credit: Cyprus Department of Antiquities] The Department of Antiquities in Cyprus ...
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David Beard MA, FSA, FSA Scot
I am a freelance archaeologist and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland specializing in the medieval period. I have worked as a field archaeologist for the Department of Environment (Northern Ireland) and the Museum of London. I have been involved in continuing education for many years and have taught for the University of Oxford Department for Continuing Education (OUDCE) and the Universities of London, Essex, Ulster, and the London College of the University of Notre Dame, and I was the Archaeological Consultant for Southwark Cathedral. I am the author of and tutor for an OUDCE online course on the Vikings, and the Programme Director and Academic Director for the Oxford Experience Summer School.
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