Thursday, April 30, 2020

Study traces spread of early dairy farming across Western Europe

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Pottery from the Verson archaeological site (France), analyzed in the research [Credit: Annabelle Cocollos, Conseil Departemental du Ca...

The British Museum is displaying 4 million items from its collection online

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Photograph: The Lewis Chessmen. © The Trustees of the British Museum Got some browsing time on your hands? Load up the British Museum’s...

Archaeology breakthrough: 'Impossible discovery of world's oldest shipwreck' exposed

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Archaeology news: The world’s oldest shipwreck dating from 400BC of ancient Greek origin ARCHAEOLOGISTS were stunned when they stumbled...

Evidence of Late Pleistocene human colonization of isolated islands beyond Wallace's Line

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Maps showing the location of the sites studied within Wallacea. Asitau Kuru, Lene Hara, Matja Kuru 1 and 2 (Timor), Makpan, and Tron Bon ...
Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Skeletal damage hints some hunter-gatherer women fought in battles

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Skeletons of two people buried in an ancient tomb in Mongolia include a woman (left) who may have been a horse-riding, bow-and-arrow-wiel...

Iron Age jewellery found in Shropshire declared treasure

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The medieval brooch dates from 1200 - 1300AD Image copyright BRITISH MUSEUM'S PORTABLE ANTIQUITIES SCHEME An Iron Age ring and a...

Alte Genome deuten auf Parallelgesellschaften in der Schweizer Steinzeit hin

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Der Dolmen von Oberbipp im Kanton Bern von oben: Dort befindet sich eine der großen, in die Untersuchung einbezogenen Fundstätten.  Fot...
Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Late Bronze Age Copper Discs Recovered from Black Sea

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(Courtesy Miroslav Klasnakov) Archaeology in Bulgaria reports that disc-shaped copper ingots have been recovered from a Late Bronze Age...
Monday, April 27, 2020

Could bringing Neanderthals back to life save the environment? The idea is not quite science fiction

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A Neanderthal tomb burial near the village of La Chapelle-aux-Saints in France. Author James Bradley asks: what would it mean if the deep...
Sunday, April 26, 2020

Diverse livelihoods helped resilient Iron Age Levanluhta people survive a climate disaster

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Levanluhta is among the most unique archaeological sites, even on a global scale. Bones belonging to nearly a hundred individuals who die...

Scientists Have Recreated Medieval Battles to Solve Debate Over Ancient Bronze Swords

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(Hermann et al., Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 2020) Bronze swords made from copper and tin aren't the most robust o...

A famous hillside chalk figure has been adorned with a face mask.

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The ancient figure is thought to have been unofficially altered on Friday KEVIN KNIGHT A famous hillside chalk figure has been adorne...

Controversial Discovery Says Origins of Human Language Existed 25 Million Years Ago

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(SolStock/E+/Getty Images) A structure critical to our brain's core language pathway, found only in humans and apes, has now also b...
Saturday, April 25, 2020

300,000-year-old throwing stick documents the evolution of hunting

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Hunters on the Schöningen lakeshore likely used the throwing stick to hunt waterbirds. Homo heidelbergensis used wooden weapons to hunt...

Neanderthal DNA Tracked in Icelanders’ Genomes

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(Astrid Reitzel, Aarhus University) According to a statement released by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, a team...

Archaeologists Had a Sword Fight for Science, Also Because Sword Fights Are Fun

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HERMANN ET AL. / JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL METHOD AND THEORY After decades of debate and assumptions, archaeologists have picked up the...

Your guide to Britain’s prehistoric stone circles

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Did you know that Stonehenge is undeniably a stone circle – but it’s not a henge. How do you tell the difference? David Musgrove talks to...

Study Suggests Tooth Shapes Can Track Genetic Relationships

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(Photo: Peter Jammernegg/© Katerina Harvati/ University of Tübingen)TÜBINGEN According to a statement released by the University of Tüb...
Friday, April 24, 2020

Unearthed Ancient British chieftain and probable shaman reveal secrets about old burial rituals

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Historic England Exclusive: The key evidence for his high status is the unusually fine material buried with him for his journey to the ...

Scaredy Cats

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(blickwinkel / Alamy Stock Photo)Lioness Imagine a scene where a troop of ape-like human ancestors a little more than four feet tall, w...