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June 30, 2011 0 Comments

British Museum remains UK’s top attraction for fourth year running

Amid celebrations, staff are having to clean kiss marks off the display cases of museum’s latest heavenly exhibition

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June 30, 2011 1 Comment

Findings show human ancestor older than previously thought

Modern humans never co-existed with Homo erectus—a finding counter to previous hypotheses of human evolution—new excavations in Indonesia and dating

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June 29, 2011 0 Comments

The Death Of British Archaeology?….. Not quite yet.

The positions available to archaeologists diminishes all the time, yet people around the world still hear the calling of the

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June 29, 2011 0 Comments

Archaeologists furious over councillor’s ‘bunny huggers’ jibe

Tory council leader threatened to overturn principle that developers must pay for archaeological excavation

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June 29, 2011 0 Comments

Undergraduate research fires salvo in simmering scientific controversy

A Washington State University student’s undergraduate research is challenging a widely held assumption on the best way to analyze old

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June 27, 2011 0 Comments

What the Romans can teach us about refugees

The disastrous battle of Adrianople shows that treating asylum seekers badly cannot end well

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June 23, 2011 1 Comment

Should we clone Neanderthals?

Given reliable technology, could it ever be ethical to bring our prehistoric relatives back from the dead?

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June 22, 2011 0 Comments

Cutting edge training developed the human brain 80 000 years ago

Advanced crafting of stone spearheads contributed to the development of new ways of human thinking and behaving. This is what

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June 22, 2011 0 Comments

The Ancients’ Greatest Hits The Music Of Ghosts: The Greeks: Part 1.

Music is a cognitive recognition of the primitive elements in all of us, the exact same primitive elements that have existed all through our evolution, love, greed, loss, jealousy, hate.

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June 21, 2011 0 Comments

Hadrian’s Wall dig unearths Roman refugee camp

Team finds hundreds of unusual buildings likely to have housed natives seen as traitors by tribes in what is now Scotland

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June 21, 2011 0 Comments

Badge dug up in field is medieval treasure

Scrap of twisted silver found by metal detector in Lancashire will be part of British Museum’s exhibition of reliquaries

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June 20, 2011 1 Comment

Did climate change cause Greenland’s ancient Viking community to collapse?

Our changing climate usually appears to be a very modern problem, yet new research from Greenland published in Boreas, suggests that the AD 1350 collapse of a centuries old colony established by Viking settlers may have been caused by declining temperatures and a rise in sea-ice.

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June 19, 2011 0 Comments

Human evolution: the long, winding road to modern man

Professor Chris Stringer tells how conflicting theories and new discoveries have shaped our understanding of humanity’s past – and of how narrow the line is between survival and failure

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June 17, 2011 0 Comments

Broadgate centre not worth listing, says culture secretary, paving way for UBS

Jeremy Hunt refuses to protect 1980s complex in City of London, enabling British Land to build new HQ for investment bank UBS

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June 16, 2011 0 Comments

Impington – Unearths 2000 years of history

As part of the redevelopment of the Unwins Nursey, an archaeological excavation was undertaken which discovered almost 2000 years of history, from the Romans through to Iron Age remains beneath their feet in the village of Impington in Cambrige UK.

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June 15, 2011 0 Comments

British Museum wins Art Fund prize

Britain’s biggest prize for museums has been awarded to the biggest of them all – the British Museum, which won for its BBC-partnered A History of the World, a series charting the millennia through 100 objects.

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June 15, 2011 0 Comments

The Origin of Our Species by Chris Stringer – review

The Cro-Magnons were the creators of the cave paintings at Lascaux and Altamira – the ice age hunter gatherers whose art astounds us (“We have learned nothing,” said Picasso, after seeing Lascaux).

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June 15, 2011 0 Comments

Shock and awe: Nijmegen helmet gives Carlisle museum a boost

Tullie House – which missed out on Crosby Garrett helmet – says saga has helped secure display items

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June 15, 2011 0 Comments

Hebrew University cave researchers explore stream-filled cavern at entrance to Jerusalem

Hebrew University of Jerusalem researchers have conducted an initial survey of what appears to be an important, ancient water source

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June 14, 2011 0 Comments

New study supports Darwin’s hypothesis on competition between species

A new study provides support for Darwin’s hypothesis that the struggle for existence is stronger between more closely related species

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June 14, 2011 0 Comments

BBC Television centre sell-off Q&A

The whys, whats, wheres and hows of the BBC’s sell-off of Television Centre

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June 14, 2011 0 Comments

Science explains ancient copper artifacts

Northwestern University researchers ditched many of their high-tech tools and turned to large stones, fire and some old-fashioned elbow grease to recreate techniques used by Native American coppersmiths who lived more than 600 years ago.