Tuesday, July 25, 2023

Zahnanalyse ermöglicht neue Erkenntnisse zur Bevölkerungsentwicklung in Südwestdeutschland von der Steinzeit bis zur Eisenzeit

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Bestattungen des Endneolithikums und der Frühbronzezeit, wie dieses vor wenigen Jahren in Heilbronn entdeckte Hockergrab der Schnurkeramik, ...

Neue Erkenntnisse zur Populationsgeschichte des dritten bis ersten Jahrtausends v. Chr. in Südwestdeutschland

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  Landesamt für Denkmalpflege, Senckenberg und Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen testen neue Methode zur menschlichen Zahnanalyse 11.07.23...
Monday, July 24, 2023

Earliest glass workshop north of the Alps discovered

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Credit: Antiquity (2023). DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2023.80 After 20 years of above-ground surveys, archaeologists have excavated the famous Iron Ag...
Thursday, July 6, 2023

Archaeology A Norwegian Dad Hiking With His Family Discovered a Rock Face Covered With Bronze Age Paintings

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It's the first time this type of painting has been found regionally. A man on a hike with his family in the countryside outside of Oslo,...
Thursday, June 22, 2023

Archaeologists unearth 4,000-year-old ‘Stonehenge of the Netherlands’

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The Tiel sanctuary featured a solar calendar that was used to determine important events including festivals and harvest days, say archaeolo...

‘It stands over us like a giant’s dining table’: on the trail of the UK’s ancient stones

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One of Cornwall’s most recognisable megaliths … Lanyon Quoit. Photograph: Alamy No longer just for solstice, a new type of tourism means the...
Tuesday, June 20, 2023

Burnt Mound Complex Dated To Bronze Age - Uncovered At Suffolk Site

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  The site, showing the evaluation trenches and excavation areas. Image credit: Cotswold Archaeology In Area 1, the remains of a Bronze Age ...

Northumbria University forensic scientist uncovers earliest known example of burials among human ancestors

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Figure 3: Artist’s reconstruction of the burial of an adult Homo naledi found in Feature 1 from the Dinaledi Chamber. Images from Berger et ...

Violent Conflict Played A Crucial Role In Early Farming Societies In Neolithic Europe – New Study

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  Cave painting of a battle between archers, Cueva del Roure, Morella la Vella, Castellón, Valencia, Spain. Image credit: Eduardo Hernández ...
Tuesday, May 2, 2023

Tiny Bead, Found In Bulgaria, Is World's Oldest Gold

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Every year, we discover something about our history on the planet through excavations around the world. In one such excavation, archaeologis...

Researchers discover what triggered Earth's last ice age

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At the beginning of the last ice, local mountain glaciers grew and formed large ice sheets, like the one seen here. (CREDIT: Creative Common...

The puzzle of Neanderthal aesthetics

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Surprising new insights into the minds of this extinct human species suggest they may have been far more cultured than their outdated brutis...
Friday, April 28, 2023

Neanderthals Built Boats And Sailed 100,000 Years Ago – Long Before Modern Humans

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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Maritime history dates back thousands of years, och there is no doubt many ancient civilizations had excelle...

Archaeologists Discover Ancient Necropolis Near Parisian Train Station

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Researchers uncovered 50 burials dated to roughly the second century C.E. © Camille Colonna / INRAP Residents of Lutetia buried their dead a...
Sunday, April 23, 2023

Who Were the Neanderthals & Why Are They Important to Modern Humans?

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Since their discovery in 1856, the Neanderthals have been stereotyped as brutish characters, devoid of the complexities that make modern hum...
Monday, April 17, 2023

Archaeologists identify a Palaeolithic bone tool workshop in Spanish cave

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Image Credit : Antiquity A study of a partition made from rocks in the El Mirón Cave has led to archaeologists identifying it as a Palaeolit...
Thursday, April 13, 2023

Bone fragment reveals humans wore leather clothes 39,000 years ago

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This piece of bone from 39,600 years ago has multiple puncture marks on it that seem to have been made by puncturing leather An analysis of ...

People were using psychedelic drugs in Bronze Age Europe, study finds

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Es Càrritx is a grotto on Minorca, an island off the coast of eastern Spain, that's home to a Bronze Age burial site. (Research Group in...

Who Was Ötzi the Iceman?

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(Credit:Zigres/Shutterstock) Ötzi the Iceman is the oldest mummy ever found. Learn what scientists now know about the famous ancient human. ...

The Antikythera Mechanism: the mysterious ancient machine that should not exist?

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 The Antikythera mechanism is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic artifacts from ancient Greece. This ancient machine, discovered in t...