Thursday, January 30, 2020

Neanderthals May Have Trekked 2,000 Miles to Siberia

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Chagyrskaya Cave in Siberia's Altai Mountains, where researchers uncovered Neanderthal stone blades that resemble tools excavated in ...

Jersey 'drowned landscape' could yield Ice Age insights

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The team will base themselves at Seymour Tower, an 18th Century offshore fortification UCL Archaeologists are planning an ambitious s...
Wednesday, January 29, 2020

UN SITE DU HAUT MOYEN ÂGE ET UNE OCCUPATION MÉSOLITHIQUE À PONTARLIER

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À Pontarlier (Doubs), l'Inrap a mené une fouille archéologique préventive sur le site des Gravilliers, dans le cadre de l'aménage...
Monday, January 27, 2020

2019 excavation results of the Paphos Agora Project

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Credit: Dept. of Antiquities, Republic of Cyprus The Department of Antiquities, Ministry of Transport, Communications and Works, has an...
Friday, January 24, 2020

Triple Copper Age burial discovered in Croatia

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Credit: Lovas Archaeological Project While excavating one of the trenches in the highest part of Kovači in 2019, we discovered a triple...

Grave of elite Bronze Age man from Poland reconstructed

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The mysterious prince, although in fact he was not a member of royalty, but a local elite,  was about 20-30 years oldand massively buil...
Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Roman Coin Found in Northern Norway May Redraw Historic Trade Map

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The Roman coin was found only 15 centimetres deep in the soil; it dates back to the time of Emperor Marcus Aurelius and is the northernmo...

Council calls for archaeological digs before former Notcutts plans move forward

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Plans have been submitted to develop the former Notcutts site in Ardleigh into a horse stable centre Picture: GOOGLE MAPS Essex County ...
Thursday, January 16, 2020

Neanderthals went underwater for their tools

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Clam shells (stock image). Credit: © Vatchara / Adobe Stock Neanderthals collected clam shells and volcanic rock from the beach and c...

Arctic island woolly mammoth shows strongest evidence yet of human slaughter and butchering

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The extinct mammoth remains were dated by radiocarbon analysis to 21,000 years of age by the Jikei University School of Medicine in Tokyo...

Always counterclockwise

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IMAGE: AERIAL PHOTO OF THE EXCAVATION AREA OF AN EARLY NEOLITHIC SETTLEMENT NEAR VRÁBLE IN SLOVAKIA. CREDIT: © NILS MÜLLER-SCHEESSE H...
Wednesday, January 15, 2020

The advanced toolmakers of Olduvai Gorge

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Olduvai Gorge is one of the world's most important sites for human origins research. Credit: NOEL FEANS / FLICKR As far back as ...

Divers to retrieve Bronze Age artefacts from Swiss lake

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Erosion is causing the piles to topple and wash away  [Credit: Archaologischer Dienst des Kantons Bern, Daniel Steffen] Archaeologist...

How 3,500-year-old ‘entrance to another world' was uncovered near Peterborough

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Archaeologist made a bizarre discovery (Image: YOUTUBE) AN ARCHAEOLOGIST was stunned when he uncovered a 3,500-year-old “entrance to an...

DÉCOUVERTE D'UNE AGGLOMÉRATION ET D'UN IMPORTANT SANCTUAIRE GAULOIS DANS LE MAINE-ET-LOIRE

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À Allonnes, les archéologues de l'Inrap ont découvert une importante agglomération gauloise du IIe-Ier siècle avant notre ère, et so...
Sunday, January 12, 2020

New evidence reveals what inspired ancient stone circles on Isle of Lewis

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The Callanish Standing Stones on the Isle of Lewis. Picture: Contributed A massive lightning strike which hit the Isle of Lewis more th...
Saturday, January 11, 2020

The Iceman from British Columbia

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The knife with its sheath Human remains from the ice have always received a lot of public interest. Almost everyone has heard about Ötz...

Immer im Uhrzeigersinn: Rätsel frühneolithischer Hausausrichtungen gelöst

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Frühneolithische Häuser während der Ausgrabung. Foto: N. Müller-Scheeßel Menschliches Verhalten wird von vielen Dingen beeinflusst, die...

How the extinction of ice age mammals may have forced us to invent civilisation

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Wikimedia Commons/Cloudordinary, CC BY-SA Why did we take so long to invent civilisation? Modern Homo sapiens first evolved roughly 250...

Three generations of ancient Amazon women warriors found in Russian tomb

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Excavations of the burial sites belonging to the Amazon warrior women. For the first time, researchers have uncovered the remains of fo...