Saturday, July 24, 2021

Why could Stonehenge be stripped of world heritage site status?

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Unesco says Stonehenge will be put on its danger list unless plans for the A303 road tunnel are changed. Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty Images...
Wednesday, July 21, 2021

The final meal of the famous 'bog man' revealed: Tollund Man feasted on porridge and fish before being killed as a ritual sacrifice 2,400 years ago, study reveals

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The amazingly well-preserved head of the Tollund Man - a man who lived during the 4th century BC Tollund Man's gut contents had been ana...
Saturday, June 26, 2021

Broxmouth Hillfort: Study reveals clues ancient people kept loved-ones mundane keepsakes

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One of the graves at the site Pic: Broxmouth Project Archive  They were a people who lived almost two thousand years ago, who would have bee...

Scientists found fossils from a new species of human that’s 130,000 years old

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Scientists from Israel stumbled upon an unexpected discovery while studying fossilized pieces of bone dug up near a cement plant. The fragme...

Massive human head in Chinese well forces scientists to rethink evolution

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Chinese researchers have called the skull, found in Harbin in the north, Homo longi, or ‘Dragon man’, but other experts are more cautious ab...

New mystery human species discovered in Israel

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Archaeologists also found tools, butchered animal bones and evidence of a campfire at the Nesher Ramla excavation site. Photo / Yossi Zaidne...

New prehistoric human unknown to science discovered in Israel

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Skull found at the site among other items at Nesher Ramla. (photo credit: DR. YOSSI ZAIDNER) Hebrew U and Tel Aviv University researchers fo...
Tuesday, May 4, 2021

Unique Bronze Age find just south of Alingsås

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Credit: Mats Hellgren A unique Bronze Age find was made on 8 April in a wooded area just to the south of the town of Alingsås. Following an ...
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...