Monday, September 30, 2024

Excavation of prehistoric tomb expected to start

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The excavation of the prehistoric site is expected to start on Monday An archaeological excavation of a prehistoric tomb in Alderney is due ...
Sunday, April 7, 2024

How hard working 'Lady of the Little Orme' was years ahead of her time

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This 5,500-year-old skeleton named Blodwen on display at Amgueddfa Llandudno Museum  (Image: Amgueddfa Llandudno Museum) The roles of men an...
Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Bones Reveal Bog Man's Secret Life Before His Violent End in a Foreign Land

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Vittrup man's teeth reveal his maritime origins. Arnold Mikkelsen/Fischer et al., PLOS One, 2024) Violently bludgeoned to death and left...

11,000-year-old Stone Age structure discovered underwater

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  Researchers have found a prehistoric man-made stone wall that could be dating back some 11,000 years just off the coast of modern-day Germ...

4,000-year-old copper dagger found in Poland

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A rare copper dagger dating back more than 4,000 years has been discovered in a forest near Jarosław, southeastern Poland. Shaped like a fli...
Monday, February 19, 2024

These Ancient Remains and Relics Reveal Poland’s Bronze Age Rituals

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Though the lake near Papowo Biskupie is now drained and dry, nearby lakes (including Lake Starogrodzkie in Poland’s Chełmno County) provide ...

Stone Age 'megastructure' under Baltic Sea sheds light on strategy used by Paleolithic hunters over 10,000 years ago

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Northern and Central Europe in the Late Upper Palaeolithic (white areas = ice-co Archaeologists have identified what may be Europe's old...
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...