Prehistoric Archaeology Blog

The Prehistoric Archaeology Blog is concerned with news reports featuring Prehistoric period archaeology. If you wish to see news reports for general European archaeology, please go to The Archaeology of Europe Weblog.

Monday, November 15, 2021

12 Types Of Extinct Human Species And How They Differ

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Today, Homo sapiens are the only type of humans on Earth. However, we modern humans are just the most recent of many other human species tha...
Wednesday, September 29, 2021

A Danish man found buried treasure from the Iron Age using a metal detector, just hours after turning it on for the first time

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  Gold medallions, coins, and jewelry comprise an Iron Age hoard that a rookie metal detectorist recently discovered in Denmark. Conservat...
Monday, September 27, 2021

Whence the White Horse of Uffington?

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  The White Horse of Uffington, a spectacular chalk figure on an English hillside, challenges the very idea of “heritage” as an unbroken l...

Was 536 AD the worst year in history?

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  Archaeologists working in Bacho Kiro Cave earlier this year. Image: Tsenka Tsanova, MPI-EVA Leipzig, License: CC-BY-SA 2.0 Europe was con...
Thursday, August 5, 2021

Spanish cave art was made by Neanderthals, study confirms

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  . A general view (left), medium close-up (middle) and extreme close up of a partly coloured stalagmite tower in the Spanish cave of Ardale...

Long-Lost Fragment of Stonehenge Gives Unprecedented Glimpse Inside Ancient Monument

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Sample of the core from Stone 58 (British Geological Survey) "We have CT-scanned the rock, zapped it with X-rays, looked at it under va...

New findings unveil a missing piece of human prehistory

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IMAGE: GEOGRAPHICAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION OF NEWLY SAMPLED INDIVIDUALS A joint research team led by Prof. FU Qiaomei from the Institute ...
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...
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David Beard MA, FSA, FSA Scot
I am a freelance archaeologist and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland specializing in the medieval period. I have worked as a field archaeologist for the Department of Environment (Northern Ireland) and the Museum of London. I have been involved in continuing education for many years and have taught for the University of Oxford Department for Continuing Education (OUDCE) and the Universities of London, Essex, Ulster, and the London College of the University of Notre Dame, and I was the Archaeological Consultant for Southwark Cathedral. I am the author of and tutor for an OUDCE online course on the Vikings, and the Programme Director and Academic Director for the Oxford Experience Summer School.
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