Sunday, September 29, 2019

Did a common childhood illness take down the Neanderthals?

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MAGE: THIS ILLUSTRATION SHOWS THE STRUCTURE OF THE EUSTACHIAN TUBE IN NEANDERTHAL MAN AND IT'S SIMILARITY TO THE HUMAN INFANT. BROO...
Saturday, September 28, 2019

Somerset human remains 'as old as Cheddar Man'

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The human remains were found to be as old as Britain's oldest complete skeleton, the Cheddar Man SOUTH WEST HERITAGE TRUST Two bo...
Thursday, September 26, 2019

Historic find suggests bottle-feeding not a modern phenomenon

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A reconstruction of a baby being fed using a vessel.  Photograph: Helena Seidl da Fonseca/PA Babies from prehistoric cultures were fe...

Prehistoric babies fed animal milk in bottles

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Prehistoric family scene ARCHOLOGIEDERSCHWEIZ Prehistoric babies were bottle-fed with animal milk more than 3,000 years ago, according ...
Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Neanderthal footprints found in France offer snapshot of their lives

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The excavation site of the footprint layer in Le Rozel, France.  Photograph: Dominique Cliquet/AFP/Getty Images Scientists find 257 p...

Giving birth two million years ago was 'relatively easy'

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Human childbirth can be a long, painful, drawn-out process, needing assistance  and sometimes taking days. GETTY IMAGES Human childbi...
Monday, September 16, 2019

Earliest direct evidence of milk consumption

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The evidence comes from dental plaque from Neolithic remains SOPHY CHARLTON / DORSET COUNTY MUSEUM Scientists have discovered the ea...
Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Ancient Tombs Unearthed in Nemea, Greece Shed Light on Mycenaean Civilization

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Aerial view of the road and the chamber of the two tombs in the eastern part of the Mycenaean cemetery at Aidonia, along with the tombs f...
Monday, August 12, 2019

Archaeology Dig to start at Iron Age site in Caithness

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Aerial view of the Swartigill site. Photo: Bobby Friel @Takethehighview The University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institu...
Sunday, August 11, 2019

Ancient Greek skull found in Turkey shows evidence of neurosurgery performed 2,200 years ago

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Credit: AA Archaeologists carrying out excavations at the ancient Greek city of Euromus dating to the 5th century BC, in the area now o...

‘Perhaps the most important isotope’: how carbon-14 revolutionised science

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A photographic reproduction of the Turin shroud.  Photograph: Jorge Guerrero/AFP/Getty Images The discovery that carbon atoms act as ...
Thursday, August 8, 2019

Archaeologists discover almost 40 new monuments close to Newgrange

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The site of one of the newly discovered monuments found near Newgrange.  Credit: University College Dublin A team from University Col...
Monday, August 5, 2019

Archaeologists find rare Stone Age graves in Germany

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Archaeologists have discovered 25 rare Stone Age graves in the district of Borde, north of the city of Magdeburg in eastern Germany, acco...

The road to Scandinavia's bronze age: Trade routes, metal provenance, and mixing

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The geographic origins of the metals in Scandinavian mixed-metal artifacts reveal a crucial dependency on British and continental Europea...

Bronze Age children’s cemetery uncovered near Kilcreggan

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Sandra Kelly was uncovering a stone coffin yesterday Archaeologists have uncovered a series of graves dating back over 3,000 years at a...
Thursday, August 1, 2019

Standing stones uncovered near important archaeological site

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This view of the site shows the alignment of the standing stones that have been found. (SBMA-ARIA SA.) Six aligned standing stones h...
Monday, July 29, 2019

Slovakia/Thousands of years old traces of human presence found in Tatra cave

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Source: Prof. Paweł Valde-Nowak Researchers including Polish archaeologists discovered 14-15 thousand years old traces of human presenc...

10,000-year-old engraved 'pebble' found near Rome said to be earliest known lunar calendar

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The 10,000-year-old pebble which is believed to be the oldest lunar calendar in the world [Credit: Sapienza Universita di Roma] The old...
Sunday, July 28, 2019

Finds from Celtic grave found in Zurich analyzed

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Reconstruction of the grave with tree coffin [Credit: Amt für Städtebau, City of Zurich] The tree coffin burial of a Celtic woman, whic...

Seltene Brandgräber aus der Steinzeit bei Wedringen

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Im Zuge des Neubaus der Ortsumfahrung bei Wedringen, Ortsteil von Haldensleben, Ldkr. Börde, führt das Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Ar...