Monday, June 17, 2019

Britain’s Atlantis: Evidence of Stone Age human activity found beneath North Sea

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Archaeologists have found evidence of ancient human activity on Britain’s very own “Atlantis”.  Scientists investigating a drowned Stone ...

Anglesey archaeology: Bronze Age cairn dig at Bryn Celli Ddu

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Bryn Celli Ddu burial chamber is aligned to the sun and is lit during the summer solstice AERIAL-CAM An excavation is under way on th...
Sunday, June 16, 2019

Archaeologists uncover megalithic monument thought to be unlike any found in Ireland to date

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IT Sligo Archaeology students Jazmin Scally Koulak and Eugene Anderson sieving the soil at Carrowmore excavation AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCA...
Thursday, June 13, 2019

Artificial islands older than Stonehenge stump scientists

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A diver holds a Neolithic (ca. 3,500 B.C) Ustan vessel found near a crannog (artificial island)  in Loch Arnish, Scotland. PHOTOGRAPH B...
Friday, June 7, 2019

DNA from 31,000-year-old milk teeth leads to discovery of new Ice Age population of big game hunters

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The DNA was recovered from the only human remains discovered during the era – two tiny milk teeth ( Russian Academy of Sciences ) A new...
Thursday, June 6, 2019

Prehistoric stone engraved with horses found in France

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A generated image of the prehistoric sandstone plate and its engraving DENIS GLIKSMAN/INRAP A stone believed to be about 12,000 years...
Wednesday, June 5, 2019

Africa’s first herders spread pastoralism by mating with foragers

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INHERITING HERDING  Ancient DNA indicates that early African herders started mating with hunter-gatherers more than 5,000 years ago. Here...
Monday, June 3, 2019

The Birdman of Siberia: sensational finds in the heart of Russia puzzle scientists

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Two unique burials of the Odinov culture (early Bronze) were unearthed last year at the Ust-Tartas site in Novosibirsk region. Inside o...

17 amphorae from the 3rd century BC discovered off Cannes

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Credit: Marc Langleur A campaign of underwater archaeological excavations has uncovered 17 amphorae dating from the 3rd century BC at a...
Sunday, June 2, 2019

Whipworm eggs found in 8000-year-old human coprolites. Andrew Masterson reports.

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Archaeologists carefully excavating the neolithic village. SCOTT HADDOW Researchers picking though 8000-year-old human faeces have id...
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...