Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Meet Denny, The Only Human Hybrid Remains Ever Unearthed

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A few finger bone fragments are all that is left of Denny. Image credit: Brown et al., Scientific Reports, 2016 (CC BY 4.0) The bones of “De...
Monday, October 23, 2023

Scientists reveal the cause of 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...

‘A Neolithic feat of engineering’: Orkney dig reveals ruins of huge tomb

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Fourteen skeletons were found in one of six rooms surrounding the main chambeer at the site. Photograph: National Museums Scotland ‘A Neolit...

‘Orkney dig reveals ruins of huge tomb’

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Staff and students from the UHI Archaeology Institute with Professor Vicki Cummings during a visit to the excavation site in September 2023....
Saturday, October 14, 2023

Neanderthals Hunted Lions with Spears, and New Research Reveals How They Might Have Done It

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A 48,000-year-old lion skeleton found in a cave in modern-day Germany has provided researchers with new evidence of early predator hunting b...

A Horse Is a Horse?

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Nearly 25 years ago, a team working in Hohle Fels Cave in southern Germany’s Swabia region unearthed a small piece of carved ivory they beli...
Thursday, September 28, 2023

'Very rare' Iron Age arrow with quartzite tip uncovered from melting ice after 3,500 years

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The newly discovered arrow has a quartzite arrowhead that was attached to a birch shaft.  (Image credit: Espen Finstad/secretsoftheice.com) ...
Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Talk about striking gold! Britain's oldest coin hoard is discovered in Buckinghamshire dating back 2,173 years - and experts say it could be worth £30,00

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A metal detectorist has uncovered Britain's oldest hoard of gold coins dating back 2,173 years. Stephen Eldridge found the 12 Iron Age p...

British Museum asks public and experts to help recover stolen artefacts

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The British Museum has asked the public to help identify and recover ancient artefacts that have gone missing from its collection. Last mont...
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...