Friday, April 3, 2020

Fossil skull reveals new overlap between ancient human species

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The Homo erectus skullcap known as DNH 134 is causing a rethink of the human evolution timelineAndy Herries, Jesse Martin and Renaud Joan...
Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Virtual Visits to Sites and Museums

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Self-isolating and bored? You can find a list of Virtual Visits to Sites and Museums at: http://emas-archaeology.org/useful-websites...
Monday, March 30, 2020

Two of Europe’s Biggest Cairns are About to Be Buried in Trash

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Two of the biggest European cairns are facing destruction in the World Heritage city of Maulbronn, Germany. If it happens, the prehistori...
Saturday, March 28, 2020

How Stone Age humans unlocked the glucose in plants

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Ground stones were a 'major evolutionary success' as they allowed people to unlock the energy in plants by making flour.  Image...

Neanderthals ate sharks and dolphins

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There is evidence of the intensive and long-term exploitation of marine food resources at Figueira Brava JOAO ZILHÃO Neanderthals were ...

HABITATS ET SÉPULTURES DU NÉOLITHIQUE AU HALLSTATT À BRÉVIANDES (AUBE)

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À​ Bréviandes (Aube), une fouille de l’Inrap a livré des habitats et des sépultures du Néolithique ancien jusqu’au Néolithique récent. La...

Cave find shows Neanderthals collected seafood, scientists say

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A reconstruction of a Neanderthal created for the Natural History Museum in London.  Photograph: Richard Gray/Alamy Neanderthals mad...

German archaeologists unearth massive mammoth tusk

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Bavarian authorities announced Friday evening that archeologists had found an unusually large, ice-age mammoth tusk during an excavation ...
Thursday, March 26, 2020

Tests to determine age of Cerne Abbas Giant

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Cerne Abbas Giant Archaeologists are hoping to establish the age of an ancient naked figure sculpted into a chalk hillside. Soil samp...
Saturday, March 21, 2020

Trnava archaeologists made a 6,000-year-old discovery Čítajte viac: https://spectator.sme.sk/c/22359494/trnava-archaeologists-made-a-6000-year-old-discovery.html

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Ceramic fragments found under the fortification wall prove the skilfulness of the Lengyel culture. Archaeologists discovered in Trnava...

Fine-tuning radiocarbon dating could 'rewrite' ancient events

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A human femur, thought to be from medieval times, being sampled for carbon dating [Credit: James King-Holmes/Science Photo Library] R...
Thursday, March 19, 2020

Oldest Circular Structure Discovered – and It’s Made of Mammoth Bones

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25,000-year-old mammoth bone structure, Kostenki, Russia: 12.5 meters in diameterA.E. Dudin Mysterious bone circle built 25,000 years a...
Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Investigating a pre-Roman oil press

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The oil press under excavation Excavations near Ferrandina in southern Italy, an area rich in sites dating from the Iron Age to the Luc...

The tooth enamel of the Atapuerca hominids grew faster than in modern humans

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The CENIEH has conducted the first study which tackles counting the two types of enamel growth lines, in Lower Pleistocene and Middle Ple...
Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Mysterious bone circles made of mammoth remains help explain how man survived Ice Age

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The majority of the bones found at the site are from mammoths. A total of 51 lower jaws and 64 individual mammoth skulls were used to con...

Mysterious Ice Age structure made from hundreds of mammoth bones discovered in Russia

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Around 25,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers used the bones from 60 mammoths to build a large circular structure in Russia. And no one kno...

Fife farmer, 80, to face trial accused of carving path through ancient Angus standing stones site

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Forfar Sheriff Court An 80-year-old Fife farmer has denied damaging standing stones in a nationally important Neolithic or Bronze Age A...
Monday, March 16, 2020

Historic Welsh sites to be protected by vandalism patrols

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Archaeologist Tomos Jones says pieces of Preseli bluestone have been put up for sale online Plans to tackle heritage crime have been ex...
Saturday, March 14, 2020

Whale Bone Genetics and the Extraordinary Closure of a Broch

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The Cairns and the sea. Looking across Windwick Bay.  Photo: Bobby Friel @Takethehighview New DNA results shed light on Iron Age use ...

How AI could help translate the written language of ancient civilizations

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The OI began archaeological expeditions to the ancient city of Persepolis in the 1930s, where the uncovered tens of thousands clay tablet...