Sunday, March 21, 2021

Experts Say First Pre-Human Lived in Northern Greece-Balkan Area

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7.2 million-year-old tooth from “Graecopithecus,” found in Azmaka, Bulgaria. Credit:  Jochen Fuss, Nikolai Spassov, David R. Begun, Madelain...
Saturday, March 13, 2021

Scientists Have Unlocked the Secrets of the Ancient 'Antikythera Mechanism'

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IMAGE: WIKIMEDIA (LEFT), © 2020 TONY FREETH (RIGHT) A digital model has revealed a complex planetarium on the ancient device's face. “Un...

Ancient Greek Antikythera Mechanism recreated by scientists

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New model reveals display of 2,000 year-old mechanical device used by the ancient Greeks to predict astronomical events (Tony Freeth/UCL/PA)...
Thursday, March 11, 2021

Prehistoric Tombs Discovered in Southern Poland

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KRAKOW, POLAND—According to a report in The First News, a megalithic cemetery has been discovered by archaeologist Jan Bulas, who first spot...

These Bronze Age women were more powerful than we thought

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The Almoloya archaeological site is in southeastern Spain. Archaeologists working at an ancient complex in southeastern Spain say women prob...
Tuesday, March 2, 2021

Pottery Residues Offer Clues to Malta’s Prehistoric Menu

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(Courtesy Davide Tanasi) RABAT, MALTA—The Times of Malta reports that researchers led by Davide Tanasi of the University of South Florida an...

Hominid Footprints on Crete Could Change Evolutionary Theory For Good

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Hominid footprints in the stone of Crete could change evolutionary theory altogether. Credit: The Conversation. He was not looking for homin...
Sunday, February 28, 2021

Rare Bronze Age spearhead discovered intact in Jersey

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The piece was dated from the remains of the wood shaft it was attached to JERSEY HERITAGE A rare and complete metal spearhead dating back th...

The World’s Oldest Woman Doesn’t Look Like You’ve Been Told

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Almost 50 years ago, on a Sunday morning in late November 1974, a team of archaeologists in Ethiopia unearthed a 3 million-year-old skeleton...
Saturday, February 20, 2021

Moustache on Wimpole Estate statue linked to '1st Century trends'

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It is believed the figure could represent Cernunnos, the Celtic god of fertility NATIONAL TRUST/OXFORD ACHAEOLOGY A tiny statue's mousta...

Reversal of Earth's magnetic poles may have triggered Neanderthal extinction -- and it could happen again

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During this time, Earth's inhabitants would have been subjected to some dazzling displays -- northern and southern lights, caused by sol...

Zombie infection threat as country unlocks 50,000-year-old viruses

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Russia is seeking to unlock unknown prehistoric viruses up to 50,000-years-old by extracting biological material from carcasses of ancient a...
Thursday, February 18, 2021

Hundreds of stone age tools found on Denbighshire housing site

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An archaeological dig was carried out before building could begin JEZ HEMMING An archaeological dig at a site earmarked for housing has unco...

Long-Lost Neanderthal Tooth Reveals a Surprising Unknown Link to Modern Humans

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(Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London/Blinkhorn, et al., 2021) In 1928, the renowned British archaeologist, Dorothy Garrod, excava...
Sunday, February 14, 2021

Have archaeologists found another Skara Brae on Orkney?

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Skara Brae on Orkney. People lived at the Neolithic settlement from around 3,250 BC. Archaeologists may have discovered another Skara Brae a...

Dramatic discovery links Stonehenge to its original site – in Wales

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 Prof Alice Roberts in front of Stonehenge for a BBC Two documentary: The Lost Circle Revealed to be screened on Friday. Photograph: Barney ...

Ancient stone circle discovered in Wales could have been dismantled and rebuilt as Stonehenge

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Archaeologists believe the stone circle could have been dismantled and rebuilt / PA Archaeologists made an “astonishing breakthrough” with t...

The Origin of Modern Humans Cannot Be Traced to Any One Single Point in Time or Space

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From left to right, the skulls of Homo erectus, Homo heidelbergensis, Homo neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens. (NHM) Homo sapiens today look ...
Saturday, February 13, 2021

Researchers suggest Stonehenge’s first stone circle was transplanted from Welsh hillside

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Waun Mawn during excavation in 2018, viewed from the north. The stone circle sits on the side of a hill, with distant views of Ireland to th...
Wednesday, February 10, 2021

Evidence St Kilda was inhabited 2,000 years ago

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Getty Images Glasgow-based Guard Archaeology carried out the archaeological excavations between 2017 and 2019. The work was done ahead of a ...