Thursday, April 11, 2019

Stone Circles Ringed House That May Have Belonged to the Neolithic 'One Percent'

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The Avebury henge consists of at least two stone circles enclosed within a larger stone circle. Credit: Kevin Standage/Shutterstock T...

Woolly mammoth mystery solved? Study reveals shocking details about prehistoric creature

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A new study suggests that woolly mammoths and mankind's ancestors, the Neanderthals, may have shared genetic traits. Extinct for th...

Stonehenge tunnel: Row over building clause in deeds

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Campaigners say the deeds prevent work close to the stones Plans for a controversial road tunnel near Stonehenge could be blocked becau...

Von den Kelten bis zum Mittelalter: Eisenverhüttung im Siegerland

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Vor über 2.000 Jahren war das Siegerland eine blühende Region für Eisenproduktion. In den bislang größten bekannten Verhüttungsöfen ihrer...

World-renowned Ring of Brodgar stone circle vandalised in Orkney

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The Ring of Brodgar originally comprised 60 stones, of which 36 survive.  Photograph: Murdo Macleod/The Guardian Graffiti engraved o...

'New species of human' found in cave throws doubt over evolution theories

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Key site: Callao Cave on Luzon island in the Philippines, where fossils of Homo luzonensis were found. Photo: AFP/Getty Images A pre...

New species of ancient human discovered in Philippines cave

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Callao cave, where the fossils of Homo luzonensis were discovered.  Photograph: Quincy/Alamy Homo luzonensis fossils found in Luzon is...
Thursday, April 4, 2019

A 5,000-year-old barley grain discovered in Finland

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Researchers determined the age of millennia-old barley grains using radiocarbon dating  [Credit: Santeri Vanhanen] On the basis of pr...

Climate change drove some Neanderthals to cannibalism

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File photo - Hyperrealistic face of a neanderthal male is displayed in a cave in the new Neanderthal Museum in the northern Croatian town...
Wednesday, April 3, 2019

Neolithic Britons travelled across country for regular mass national feasts 4,500 years ago, new research claims

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Feasts were held at ritual sites, including Avebury ( English Heritage ) Findings suggest prehistoric tribes may have established cultu...

Ancient teeth hint at mysterious human relative

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The gorges of Guizhou Province glimmer in the sunlight in China. Fossil teeth found in this province suggest that millions of years ago, ...

Concerns mount over plans for two-mile road tunnel past Stonehenge

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Stonehenge lies within 165 metres of the A303, a key transport link for people travelling to and from England’s south-west. Photograph: S...
Monday, March 18, 2019

Archaeologists discovered a flintstone workshop of Neanderthals in the southern Poland; it is approx. 60,000 years old

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Researchers discovered a flint workshop of Neanderthals in Pietraszyno (Silesia). According to scientists, it is the first such large wor...

Ancient switch to soft food gave us an overbite—and the ability to pronounce ‘f’s and ‘v’s

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An ancient woman from Romania shows an edgeto-edge bite (left). A Bronze Age man from Austria had a slight overbite (right). D. E. BLASI ...

Ancient migration transformed Spain's DNA

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Bronze Age burials: Iberia saw a dramatic genetic shift during this period L BENITEZ DE LUGO ENRICH - JOSE LUIS FUENTES SANCH A migra...

Neandertaler und moderne Menschen hatten ähnliche Speisezettel

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Knochen aus Spy geben Aufschluss über Ernährung und Mobilität der dortigen Neandertaler. Foto: Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Science...
Thursday, March 14, 2019

Hominids may have hunted rabbits as far back as 400,000 years ago

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BUNNY TRAIL  Fossils from southern European sites indicate that ancient relatives of humans hunted small, fast animals as early as around...

Researchers find a piece of Palaeolithic art featuring birds and humans

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A tracing of the engraved figures over the stone [Credit: University of Barcelona] It is not very common to find representations of sce...

Stonehenge was 'hub for Britain's earliest mass parties'

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Pigs were the main food at the feasts and were brought from as far away as Scotland and the North East of England to Stonehenge ENGLISH...

HABITATS DE L’ÂGE DU BRONZE, SILOS ET RITUELS GAULOIS À FAUX-FRESNAY

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À Faux-Fresnay, dans la Marne, une équipe d’archéologues de l’Inrap a découvert des vestiges de deux villages de l’âge du Bronze et de l’...