Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Archaeology Classes on the Oxford Experience summer school 2024

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Tom Quad, Christ Church, Oxford University – image David Beard The Oxford Experience summer school is held at Christ Church, Oxford.  Partic...
Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Ice Age Hunters in Europe Weren't One People but Multiple Cultures, Study Discovers

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The Venus of Brassempouy: One of the earliest known realistic representations of a human face. From the Gravettian, probably made 26,000 to ...

Excavated dolmen in Sweden one of the oldest in Scandinavia

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The chamber under excavation. East side mold removed. The plastic tubes are samples for environmental DNA. Credit: Karl-Göran Sjögren Last s...

Enormous Storegga Tsunami Wiped Out Communities In Stone Age Britain

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  A research team from the University of York has discovered there was a large population decline in northern Britain at the same time when ...

3000-Year-Old Shipwreck Emerges From Bottom of Mediterranean Sea

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Ancient shipwreck from the Mediterranean Sea. Credit: Philippe Groscaux / Mission Adriboats / CNRS / CCJ The Zambratija, the oldest boat in ...
Thursday, January 25, 2024

Hoard of Bronze Age jewelry discovered in Poland was part of ancient water burial ritual, study finds

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A selection of Bronze Age jewelry found at a dry lake bed in Poland. (Image credit: A. Piasecka; Antiquity Publications Ltd.) Archaeologists...
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...