Monday, May 27, 2019

LATE BRONZE AGE SETTLEMENT DISCOVERED IN NORTHWEST BULGARIA IN TURKISH STREAM GAS PIPELINE RESCUE DIGS

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A settlement originally dating back to the Late Bronze Age, which was also subsequently inhabited in the Thracian and Roman Antiquity, an...

Roadworks uncover Bronze Age urn burial site in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

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Credit: ct-press Construction work along the future A14 highway between Dolle and Lüderitz has revealed an urn burial ground from the ...

NOUVELLE FOUILLE DE LA TOMBE DE LA « DAME DE VIX »

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Le site de Vix en Côte-d’Or est avant tout célèbre pour la tombe de « la Dame de Vix », dont la fouille, menée en 1953, a révélé un mobil...
Sunday, May 26, 2019

'Phenomenal' 2,300-year-old bark shield found in Leicestershire

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The shield is made from green bark that has been stiffened with internal wooden laths. An “astonishing and unparalleled” 2,300-year-old...
Wednesday, May 22, 2019

New data platform illuminates history of humans' environmental impact

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Animal bones on display. Credit: © DedMityay / Adobe Stock The human environmental footprint is not only deep, but old. Ancient tra...
Sunday, May 19, 2019

Analysis of the Palaeolithic diet shows no social divisions in food consumption

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Credit: University of Granada The study of the human diet in Palaeolithic times is currently among the research areas generating the g...
Friday, May 17, 2019

Chewing gums reveal the oldest Scandinavian human DNA

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Masticate being examined [Credit: Natalija Kashuba/Stockholm University] The first humans who settled in Scandinavia more than 10,000 y...

Fossil teeth push the human-Neandertal split back to about 1 million years ago

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CROWNING ROOTS An analysis of hominid tooth evolution, including specimens from Spanish Neandertals (top row), pushes back the age of a c...

Bronze Age Caernarfon bypass find 'could be canoe'

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If proven to be a canoe the timber would be a "rare find", according to experts WELSH GOVERNMENT Work on a bypass in Gwyned...

Bronze age burial uncovered at Orkney sub station site

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The cist archaeologists have uncovered lies on top of a glacial mound ORCA ARCHAEOLOGY Archaeologists have discovered a Bronze age b...
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...