Wednesday, May 11, 2022

Experts uncover series of Stonehenge mystery monuments that could reveal secrets of the past

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New light on Stonehenge: Archaeological investigations in the area surrounding the famous ancient temple have discovered that prehistoric pe...
Wednesday, May 4, 2022

Author provided Ancient cave art: how new hi-tech archaeology is revealing the ghosts of human history

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Human figure (1.81m tall). (photograph by S. Alvarez; illustration by J. Simek/ Antiquity journal In terms of dating the findings, ancient p...

Ireland’s Earliest Inhabitants Were Black People With Blue Eyes

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Source: JUSTIN TALLIS / Getty Researchers are discovering new information about the earliest inhabitants of Ireland and some data suggests t...

Skeletal remains in Bronze Age Orkney cemetery suggest large influx of women from continental Europe

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Credit: Antiquity (2022). DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2021.185 A team of researchers affiliated with the University of Huddersfield in England reports...

Stonehenge exhibition explores parallels with Japanese stone circles

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the Ōyu Stone Circles in northern Japan. Photograph: handout They were separated by thousands of miles and the two sets of builders could no...

The new cutting edge tour of Orkney that takes users headfirst into 5,000 years of history

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The Neolithic settlement of Skara Brae is a highlight of any trip to Orkney. PIC: HES. Visitors to the Orkney Isles can now immerse themselv...
Tuesday, May 3, 2022

Priceless Ancient Greek Artifacts in Ukraine “Looted by Russia”

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Scythian golden gorytos, 4th century BC. Credit: VoidWanderer,  Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0/Wikipedia Officials in Ukraine ...

In a burial ground full of Stone Age men, one grave holds a 'warrior' woman

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Of 14 people buried at the monumental cemetery at Fleury-sur-Orne during the early Neolithic period whose ancient DNA was tested, only one w...
Wednesday, April 13, 2022

The Greek Origins of Marseille, France’s Oldest City

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The Greek origins of Marseille. Credit: Christophe.Finot, CC BY-SA 3.0/Wikimedia Commons The huge port city of Marseille in southern France ...

New Thoughts on the Peopling of Eurasia

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BOLOGNA, ITALY—According to a statement released by the University of Bologna, Leonardo Vallini, Luca Pagani, and Telmo Pievani of the Unive...
Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Child’s tooth ‘earliest known evidence of modern humans in western Europe’

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The fossil of a child’s tooth is the earliest known evidence of modern humans in western Europe researchers say. The discovery of the molar ...
Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Ancient humans may have started hunting 2 million years ago

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Notches on a bone left by human butchering activity Jennifer A. Parkinson, Thomas W. Plummer, James S. Oliver, Laura C. Bishop Ancient human...

Neolithic cattle site could change understanding of what beef meant to people of Ireland

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Credit: University College Dublin An archaeological site in Dublin with an unusually large collection of cattle remains could potentially ch...
Monday, January 10, 2022

3,000-Year-Old Remains Of Badass Women Warriors Found In Armenian Cemetery

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More than three millennia ago, across the Mediterranean and Near East, society collapsed. Previously stable dominant empires and civilizatio...

Hunter-Gatherer Sites in Sweden Yield Metalworking Artifacts

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LULEÅ, SWEDEN—Evidence of metalworking some 2,000 years ago by hunter-gatherers has been discovered at two archaeological sites in northeast...
Monday, December 20, 2021

Five ice-age mammoths unearthed in Cotswolds after 220,000 years

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Sir David Attenborough with some of the mammoth bones found in the gravel quarry near Swindon. Photograph: Julian Schwanitz/BBC/Windfall Fil...

Neanderthals Changed Ecosystems 125,000 Years Ago – Were Not “Primal Hippies

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Hunter-gatherers caused ecosystems to change 125,000 years ago. These are the findings of an interdisciplinary study by archaeologists from ...
Sunday, December 19, 2021

Get up close to Skara Brae with new 3D model of 5,000-year-old settlement

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The interior of House Seven at Skara Brae. Although this structure has been closed to the public since 2006, the new 3D model allows virtual...

The objects that help us understand Stonehenge

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Bronze Age sun pendant, 1000–800BC © The Trustees of the British Museum The British Museum’s major Stonehenge exhibition sees over 430 objec...

Early Humans May Have Transformed Their Surroundings

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(Leiden University) LEIDEN, THE NETHERLANDS—UPI reports that hundreds of butchered animal bones, some 20,000 stone artifacts, and evidence o...