Thursday, April 29, 2021

Citizen archaeologist discovers ancient ‘logboat’ in the Boyne Valley

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Citizen archaeologist Anthony Murphy (pictured) appears to have found another potentially significant discovery in the Boyne Valley - a logb...

'Miracle' cave in South Africa may be the earliest known human dwelling EVER found, 1.8million-year-old stone tools suggest

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The team explored layers deep within the ancient cave and were able to successfully establish the shift from Oldowan tools, sharp flakes and...

Is This 10,000-Year-Old Carving Europe’s Oldest Known Depiction of a Boat?

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Arock carving discovered in Norway may be one of Europe’s earliest examples of art depicting a boat, reports Garry Shaw for the Art Newspape...
Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Early bronze age tomb uncovered near Marlborough

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James Cameron at the site of the tomb in East Kennett (left) and exposed lintel at the tomb (right)  A rare archeological find has been unea...

Mesolithic Double Burial Discovered In France

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Mesolithic tomb of Casseneuil being cleared [Credit: Frederic Prodeo, Willford O'yl, Inrap] The Mesolithic covers a period of 5,000 year...

Which Skills Were Valued in Early Neolithic Europe?

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YORK, ENGLAND—According to a statement released by the  University of York , a recent review of stone tools recovered from early Neolithic c...

Swan Songs

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Courtesy Filip Ondrkál) Bronze lamp, four views From 1881 to 1890, in locations including modern Slovakia, Hungary, Italy, and Bosnia and He...

Little Foot fossil shows early human ancestor clung closely to trees

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Little Foot was discovered in the 1990s in a cave in South Africa and is the most intact ancient skeleton of any human ancestor. Credit: Pau...
Sunday, April 18, 2021

“Mixing between modern humans and archaic hominins was a common phenomenon.”

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Kutubu island in Papua New Guinea. Different ancient humans encountered each other in this region.Marc Dozier Around 45,000 years ago, anato...
Saturday, April 17, 2021

Ancient human migration into Europe revealed via genome analysis

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The Bacho Kiro cave in Bulgaria. The research is based on analysis of several ancient human remains – including a whole tooth and bone fragm...

How new discoveries in west Africa could rewrite pre-history

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Archaeology in West Africa could rewrite the textbooks on human evolution. Our species, Homo sapiens, rose in Africa some 300,000 years ago....

The secret world of underwater archaeology

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The Cosquer Cave's impressively well-preserved Stone Age paintings were only discovered in 1991. Researchers are always finding new trea...

Russia Looking To Clone And Resurrect 3,000-Year-Old Ancient Siberian Warriors

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PA/Russian Geological Society/vk.com Russia’s defence minister has revealed his aspirations to clone ancient royal warriors and their horses...

Ancient 'untouched' tomb discovered on Dingle Peninsula

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The tomb was uncovered in recent days during land improvement works being carried out by a farmer An ancient tomb, described by archaeologis...
Thursday, April 8, 2021

'Exciting' Stone Age discoveries in the Cairngorms

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University of Aberdeen students at work to unearth the traces of the stone age inhabitants of the Cairngorms - UPPER DEE TRIBUTARIES PROJECT...

Details of prehistoric Galloway heartland discovered during work on A75 go online

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The Iron Age structure uncovered by archaeologists during excavtion work on the new A75 bypass at Dunragit. Details of a prehistoric Gallowa...
Tuesday, April 6, 2021

Dig reveals 6,000-year-old salt hub in North Yorkshire

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Excavations at the archeological site near Loftus in North Yorkshire Neolithic people were manufacturing salt in Britain almost 6,000 years ...

Analysis of ancient bones reveals Stone Age diet details

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Human skull of Mollet III at Serinyà from the ancient excavation. Fish was not on the menu of the hunter-gatherers of southern Europe 27,000...

Megaliths With Geometrical Engravings Found In France

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Southern view of the megalithic sector under excavation [Credit: Florent Notier, Inrap] In 2018, in the commune of Massongy, a team of Inrap...
Tuesday, March 30, 2021

Burrowing Bunnies in Wales Unearth Trove of Prehistoric Artifacts

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The site of the rabbit burrow has apparently been occupied by different groups over the millennia. (Richard Brown and Giselle Eagle / WTSWW)...