Sunday, January 31, 2021

UNE SÉPULTURE COLLECTIVE À SAINT-DOULCHARD (CHER)

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À Saint-Doulchard, l'Inrap a mis au jour une sépulture collective du Néolithique récent contenant une quarantaine de défunts, un type de...

Earth used to be cooler than we thought, which changes our math on global warming

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Earth was cooler than we thought 6,000 years ago.Gerd Altmann/Pixabay A long-standing mystery about the Holocene has a potential solution. T...
Saturday, January 30, 2021

Seahenge, Norfolk: The ancient Bronze Age circle that lay hidden for 4,000 years

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The sacred 4000 year old site of Seahenge exposed briefly by the shifting sands on the Norfolk coast near Hunstanton. Credit: Alamy Stock Ph...
Friday, January 29, 2021

Early Bronze Age Necropolis Unearthed In Brittany

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View of the necropolis of rue du Plateau [Credit: S. Blanchet, Inrap] From October 2020, a team from Inrap has been carrying out an excavati...
Monday, January 25, 2021

Ancient Greek Statues Unearthed from Tomb East of Athens

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Two ancient Greek statues depicting female figures were uncovered from inside a burial tomb east of Athens, the Greek Ministry of Culture an...

How many early human species existed on Earth?

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(Image: © Jose A. Bernat Bacete via Getty Images) We Homo sapiens didn't used to be alone. Long ago, there was a lot more human diversit...

Exploring the Stonehenge Landscape

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The Stonehenge Landscape is an estate managed by the National Trust in Wiltshire, England, covering 2100 acres within UNESCO’s Stonehenge, A...
Saturday, January 23, 2021

New Stone Age: Discovery of massive island ritual site where people gathered 5,500 years ago

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The previously unknown large Neolithic ritual site has been found on the Isle of Arran.  The discovery of a cursus monument site at Tormore ...

Rare 5,000-year-old crystal dagger is uncovered in Prehistoric Iberian megalithic tomb that may have been used by a high-ranking person to gain 'magical powers'

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Ancient tools that once belonged to prehistoric civilizations have been found all over the world, but a discovery in Spain is unlike those t...
Friday, January 22, 2021

Objects suggest Europeans used standardized money 4,000 years ago

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Bronze ribs, pictured, as well as rings, axe blades and other objects, suggest people in Central Europe were using standardized currency at ...
Monday, January 18, 2021

Iron Age Village Discovered In Essex

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Aerial view of the site showing the roundhouses [Credit: Oxford Archaeology East] The remains of an Iron Age village have been found at Tye ...
Sunday, January 17, 2021

Iron Age skeletons uncovered during Navenby dig

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  Two Iron Age skeletons have been discovered during excavation works in Lincolnshire. The bones were uncovered at separate archaeological s...
Thursday, January 14, 2021

Searching for the people of Doggerland

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  This hammerstone was recently found off the coast of Norfolk. CREDIT: University of Bradford Around 8,150 years ago, a sudden shift in the...

A warty pig painted on a cave wall 45,500 years ago is the world's oldest depiction of an animal

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  The world's oldest known figurative artwork has been discovered in a cave in Indonesia -- an endearing image of a warty pig. Archaeolo...
Tuesday, January 5, 2021

Iron Age Settlement With Large Roundhouses and Roman Trinkets Found in the UK

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  The footprints of some of the Iron Age roundhouses (vans at top for scale). Photo: Oxford Archaeology East Over the course of 2020, a patc...
Monday, December 21, 2020

Early humans may have survived the harsh winters by hibernating

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The site at Sima de los Huesos was a mass grave 400,000 years ago. Photograph: César Manso/AFP/Getty Images Bears do it. Bats do it. Even Eu...
Monday, December 14, 2020

Neolithic Scotland: the Big Picture and Detailed Narratives in 2020

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Rhind Lectures 2020 December 18 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm The Scottish Neolithic clearly fascinated Alexander Henry Rhind and he made important, a...
Thursday, December 10, 2020

Child's Bones Buried 40,000 Years Ago Solve a Longstanding Neanderthal Mystery

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We don't know whether it was a boy or a girl. But this ancient child, a Neanderthal, only made it to about two years of age. This short ...
Wednesday, December 9, 2020

'Mystery' pit skeleton found during Bishop's Stortford digs

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The skull and collarbone of the body had collapsed into the remains of its ribs, while the rest of the body fell into the pit OXFORD ARCHAEO...
Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Melting ice patch in Norway reveals large collection of ancient arrows

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  An arrow from c. AD 700 as it was found lying on the stones in the scree, close to the melting ice. Credit: Innlandet Fylkeskommune A team...