Monday, July 27, 2020

3,000-year-old house remains unearthed in Belgium

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Credit: Aron Archaeological Research Agency Sebastiaan Augustin of Aron, the organisation that is carrying out the archaeological proje...
Sunday, July 26, 2020

Well-preserved mammoth skeleton found in Siberian lake

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Russian scientists are working to retrieve the well-preserved skeleton of a woolly mammoth, which has some ligaments still attached to it...
Friday, July 24, 2020

Subterranean Scans Reveal New Mysteries at an Ancient Irish ‘Fort’

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The hilltop remains of Navan Fort, an Iron Age site that a new paper argues has a broader history than previously thought. O'DRISCOLL...
Wednesday, July 22, 2020

New light cast on Scotland's Bronze Age mountain dwellers on Arran

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Radiocarbon dating of a piece of burnt wood found at the site in Glen Rosa has concluded that the house was occupied around 1,400BC. Pict...

Scientists find new evidence of massive tsunami that devastated ancient Britain in 6200BC

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The North Sea, Storegga underwater landslide event run-out, associated deposit locations and core ELF001A [Credit: Gaffney et al. 2020]...

The clues to ancient humans hidden beneath the sea

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Submerged in eleven metres of water sits a landscape that could contain tantalising clues to Britain’s earliest farmers. It’s also at ser...

Iron Age Butter Identified in Scotland

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(Courtesy of The Scottish Crannog Centre) According to a report in The Scotsman, researchers have recovered a 2,500-year-old wooden dis...
Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Neolithic “Venus of Egerszeg” Unearthed in Hungary

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ZALAEGERSZEG, HUNGARY—Hungary Today reports that researchers from the Göcsej Museum unearthed a fragment of a 6,500-year-old figurine at ...

6500-Year-Old Statuette ‘Venus of Egerszeg’ Showcased

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Archaeologists at the Göcsej Museum found fragments of a 6,500-year-old idol, an artistically detailed female clay statue from the Lengye...

Neanderthal extinction in Western Mediterranean area not caused by climate change

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Stalagmites are ecellent paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental archives [Credit: O. Lacarbonara] The study, published in Nature Ecolo...

Attard's 3000-year-old cart ruts covered to be 'preserved'

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These ancient cart ruts have been buried under the new road being built in Attard despite appeals to incorporate them into the project, a...
Monday, July 20, 2020

Archaeologists discover evidence of Iron Age settlement at housing site in St Neots

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Archaeology dig at Wintringham Park in St Neots reveals evidence of Iron Age Evidence of the Iron Age, including 17 ancient roundhouses...

New research shows climate was the key factor impacting the movement of the first farmers across Europe

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The four major axes of expansion of the Neolithic migration, with key dates noted [Credit: University of Roehampton] The research, a...

Navan Fort: Researchers believe 'huge' religious structures found

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Archaeologists believe they have uncovered evidence of Iron Age Temples and other religious complexes. COMPARATIVE KINGSHIP PROJECT/QUE...

Klima war der Schlüsselfaktor bei der Ausbreitung der ersten Bauern in Europa

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Die vier Hauptausdehnungsachsen der neolithischen Migration in Europa. Karte: University of Roehampton Das Forschungsteam stellte eine ...

Late Neolithic Monument

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(Anthony Murphy) Brú na Bóinne, or the Palace of the Boyne, on Ireland’s east coast, features an astounding concentration of prehistori...

Evidence of Iron Age temples uncovered at Navan Fort

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Archaeologists believe they have uncovered evidence of Iron Age temples and residences of early kings of Ulster at Navan Fort. Archae...
Tuesday, July 7, 2020

Prehistoric ocher mine in Mexico delights archaeologists

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A diver collecting samples in the ocher mine An ancient ocher mine discovered in submerged caves on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula has ...

Australian scientists discover ancient underwater Aboriginal sites

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Australia’s first underwater archaeological sites off its west coast dating to more than 7,000 years ago will help with the understanding...
Saturday, July 4, 2020

11,000-year-old mine in underwater cave surprises archaeologists

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A diver examines stones stacked into a pile by ancient miners who extracted ocher pigment at La Mina, a site deep inside a cave in Yucatá...