Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Stonehenge ‘risks losing world heritage status because of road project’

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Stonehenge faces the risk of being “de-listed” as a Unesco world heritage site if plans for a nearby road project featuring a tunnel go ahea...

Environmental stress rather than genetics influenced height differences in early Neolithic people: Study

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Migrations of early farmers into Europe. Credit: Nature Human Behaviour (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41562-023-01756-w The difference in height bet...
Monday, December 11, 2023

Who Were the First Modern Humans To Settle in Europe? Scientists Shed New Light

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A new study examines the early migration of humans to Europe, focusing on a study of 36,000-year-old skull fragments from Crimea. These find...

'Beautifully made' Bronze Age gold torc fragment found at Erpingham

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A tiny, twisted fragment of a gold torc made thousands of years ago has been uncovered by a metal detectorist. The "beautifully made...
Friday, December 8, 2023

Ancient finds at Wisley interchange

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Archaeologists have been having a field day on Balfour Beatty’s £317m M25 junction improvement project in Surrey. For more than a year now B...
Thursday, December 7, 2023

Humanity’s oldest art is flaking away. Can scientists save it?

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Ancient humans painted scenes in Indonesian caves more than 45,000 years ago, but their art is disappearing rapidly. Researchers are trying ...
Wednesday, December 6, 2023

Take a Virtual Tour of the Lascaux Cave Paintings

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The Lascaux Caves enjoyed a quiet existence for some 17,000 years. Then came the summer of 1940, when four teens investigated what seemed to...

Closer look at the Menga dolmen shows it was one of the greatest engineering feats of the Neolithic

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The capstone C-5 in Cerro de la Cruz Quarry #2. Drawing: Moisés Bellilty under guidance of José Antonio Lozano Rodríguez and Leonardo García...
Wednesday, November 29, 2023

This 3,000-Year-Old Stone Slab Found in Spain Is Upending Ideas About Ancient Gender Roles

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Archaeologists have uncovered an unusual stone slab during excavations at Las Capellanías, a 3,000-year-old funerary complex in southern Spa...
Sunday, November 26, 2023

Forty slaughtered horses mark site of ancient mass sacrifices

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Remains of horses and also some cattle bore evidence of ceremonial killings. Credit: Construyendo Tarteso 2.0 Mass animal sacrifice is somet...

3,000-Year-Old Bronze Age Arrow is Discovered at Melting Ice in Norway

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he arrow has a quartzite arrowhead on a birch shaft. (Photo: Espen Finstad/Secrets of the Ice) Climate change is impacting temperatures arou...

Momentous Discovery Shows Neanderthals Could Produce Human-Like Speech

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La Chapelle-aux-Saints 1, one of the Neanderthal skulls scanned for the study. (Eunostos/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0) Our Neanderthal co...
Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Newly discovered underwater temple of Aphrodite leaves everyone in wonder and awe

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Cover Image Source: Facebook | Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities History never ceases to amaze us and there is much out there that is stil...
Thursday, November 9, 2023

Neolithic Mass Grave May Offer Evidence of Large-Scale Warfare

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(Fernández-Crespo et al. 2023, Scientific Reports) VALLADOLID, SPAIN—According to a statement released by the Nature Publishing Group, a tea...
Wednesday, November 8, 2023

Massive Nordic Bronze Age Meeting Age Hall Discovered In Germany

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The ancient hall was discovered during excavations of the area surrounding the “King’s Grave” in Seddin, northwest of Berlin. Archaeologists...
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...