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Tuesday, December 12, 2023
Stonehenge ‘risks losing world heritage status because of road project’
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Environmental stress rather than genetics influenced height differences in early Neolithic people: Study
Credit: Nature Human Behaviour (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41562-023-01756-w
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Monday, December 11, 2023
Who Were the First Modern Humans To Settle in Europe? Scientists Shed New Light
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'Beautifully made' Bronze Age gold torc fragment found at Erpingham
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Friday, December 8, 2023
Ancient finds at Wisley interchange
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Thursday, December 7, 2023
Humanity’s oldest art is flaking away. Can scientists save it?
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Wednesday, December 6, 2023
Take a Virtual Tour of the Lascaux Cave Paintings
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Closer look at the Menga dolmen shows it was one of the greatest engineering feats of the Neolithic
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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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Sunday, November 26, 2023
Forty slaughtered horses mark site of ancient mass sacrifices
Credit: Construyendo Tarteso 2.0
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3,000-Year-Old Bronze Age Arrow is Discovered at Melting Ice in Norway
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Momentous Discovery Shows Neanderthals Could Produce Human-Like Speech
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Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Newly discovered underwater temple of Aphrodite leaves everyone in wonder and awe
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Thursday, November 9, 2023
Neolithic Mass Grave May Offer Evidence of Large-Scale Warfare
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Wednesday, November 8, 2023
Massive Nordic Bronze Age Meeting Age Hall Discovered In Germany
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Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Meet Denny, The Only Human Hybrid Remains Ever Unearthed
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Monday, October 23, 2023
Scientists reveal the cause of Earth's last ice age
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‘A Neolithic feat of engineering’: Orkney dig reveals ruins of huge tomb
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‘Orkney dig reveals ruins of huge tomb’
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Saturday, October 14, 2023
Neanderthals Hunted Lions with Spears, and New Research Reveals How They Might Have Done It
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A Horse Is a Horse?
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Thursday, September 28, 2023
'Very rare' Iron Age arrow with quartzite tip uncovered from melting ice after 3,500 years
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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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British Museum asks public and experts to help recover stolen artefacts
The British Museum has asked the public to help identify and recover ancient artefacts that have gone missing from its collection.
Last month a member of staff was sacked and police launched an investigation after around 2,000 treasures were reported "missing, stolen or damaged" over a "significant" period of time.
The museum has now said most are Greek and Roman gems and jewellery, and shared pictures of similar items.
Sixty objects have been returned.
In a statement, the museum added that 300 more had been "identified and [are] due to be returned imminently".
Tuesday, July 25, 2023
Zahnanalyse ermöglicht neue Erkenntnisse zur Bevölkerungsentwicklung in Südwestdeutschland von der Steinzeit bis zur Eisenzeit
Bild: © Landesamt für Denkmalpflege im Regierungspräsidium Stuttgart
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Neue Erkenntnisse zur Populationsgeschichte des dritten bis ersten Jahrtausends v. Chr. in Südwestdeutschland
Landesamt für Denkmalpflege, Senckenberg und Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen testen neue Methode zur menschlichen Zahnanalyse
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Monday, July 24, 2023
Earliest glass workshop north of the Alps discovered
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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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Thursday, June 22, 2023
Archaeologists unearth 4,000-year-old ‘Stonehenge of the Netherlands’
Photograph: Municipality of Tiel/Reuters
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‘It stands over us like a giant’s dining table’: on the trail of the UK’s ancient stones
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Tuesday, June 20, 2023
Burnt Mound Complex Dated To Bronze Age - Uncovered At Suffolk Site
Image credit: Cotswold Archaeology
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Northumbria University forensic scientist uncovers earliest known example of burials among human ancestors
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Violent Conflict Played A Crucial Role In Early Farming Societies In Neolithic Europe – New Study
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Tuesday, May 2, 2023
Tiny Bead, Found In Bulgaria, Is World's Oldest Gold
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Researchers discover what triggered Earth's last ice age
At the beginning of the last ice, local mountain glaciers grew and formed large ice sheets, like the one seen here. (CREDIT: Creative Commons)
For quite some time, paleo-climate specialists have been perplexed by two enigmas: What was the origin of the ice sheets that defined the final ice age, and how could they expand so rapidly?
A fresh research conducted by the University of Arizona's experts suggests a plausible explanation for the swift expansion of the ice sheets that coated a considerable portion of the Northern Hemisphere during the last ice age. Furthermore, the study's findings may be applicable to other glacial periods in the Earth's past.
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The puzzle of Neanderthal aesthetics
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Friday, April 28, 2023
Neanderthals Built Boats And Sailed 100,000 Years Ago – Long Before Modern Humans
Archaeologists Discover Ancient Necropolis Near Parisian Train Station
© Camille Colonna / INRAP
Sunday, April 23, 2023
Who Were the Neanderthals & Why Are They Important to Modern Humans?
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Monday, April 17, 2023
Archaeologists identify a Palaeolithic bone tool workshop in Spanish cave
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Thursday, April 13, 2023
Bone fragment reveals humans wore leather clothes 39,000 years ago
People were using psychedelic drugs in Bronze Age Europe, study finds
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Who Was Ötzi the Iceman?
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The Antikythera Mechanism: the mysterious ancient machine that should not exist?
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Wednesday, April 12, 2023
Evidence of drug use during Bronze Age ritual ceremonies has been discovered in Europe for the first time
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