Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Winter solstice: Explore these new 3D scans of passage tomb megalithic art

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  A TREASURE TROVE of megalithic art imagery from a recently uncovered passage tomb is being released to mark the winter solstice. The Dowth...

Video: Marking the winter solstice at Maeshowe chambered cairn

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With its south-westerly facing entrance,perhaps Maeshowe’s best known attribute is its  orientation towards the setting sun around midwinter...
Monday, December 19, 2022

Bog Body Discovered in Denmark

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STENLØSE, DENMARK—Live Science reports that human and animal bones, as well as an unpolished flint ax head, were recovered from what was onc...

U.K. Archaeologists Say That Ancient Tools Discovered Around Stonehenge Point to a More Advanced Society Than Previously Known

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Archaeologists at the University of Leicester have just re-examined five 4,000-year-old tools like flint cups and Neolithic axes that have p...
Monday, October 31, 2022

Sex with humans – not climate change, disease or war – spelled the end for Neanderthals, scientists believe

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They began to encounter each other around 60,000 years ago across Europe and Asia but within 20,000 years, Neanderthals had died out The dem...

Six recent discoveries that have changed how we think about human origins

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Scientific study of human evolution historically reassured us of a comforting order to things. It has painted humans as as cleverer, more in...
Monday, October 24, 2022

Norwich timber henge burnt in Neolithic winter solstice excavated

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The late Neolithic to Bronze Age monument is close to many other prehistoric sites, including burial barrows and mines A 5,000-year-old timb...

500,000-Year-Old Tools In Polish Cave May Have Belonged To Extinct Hominid Species

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Flint artifacts from the Tunel Wielki cave, made half a million years ago possibly by Homo heildelbergensis. Image credit: M. Kot The findin...

Ancient DNA reveals the social lives of the oldest known family group

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Neanderthal is an insult still lobbed about to suggest someone is dim-witted and out of touch. The more we learn about our Stone Age cousins...
Saturday, October 22, 2022

Arab DNA Shows Route of Early Human Migration from Africa

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Recent studies on Arab DNA confirmed what researchers have believed for many years, but hadn’t been able to prove definitively. Testing sugg...

The first horse herders and the impact of early Bronze Age steppe expansions into Asia

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The Eurasian steppes reach from the Ukraine in Europe to Mongolia and China. Over the past 5000 years, these flat grasslands were thought to...
Wednesday, July 6, 2022

How Literate Were the Ancient Celts?

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The ancient Celts are commonly viewed as primitive barbarians, at least in comparison to the Greeks and the Romans. One of the reasons for t...
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...