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Heritage Daily is an independent online archaeology magazine, dedicated to the heritage and historical sector. We identified the need for a central resource offering the latest archaeological news, journals, articles and press releases.

Heritage

April 1, 2013 0 Comments

City’s Link to D-Day

Seventy years ago, a Wakefield firm of shop-fitters and joiners made a unique contribution to D-Day – by building Landing Craft, despite being located equidistant from the East and West Coast, and over a mile from the nearest river!

Archaeology

March 31, 2013 0 Comments

Truth about ‘controversial’ Bennachie colonists

They were a band of squatters who set up a community on the foot of the North-East’s most famous peak in the 19th century and were the source of much local debate at the time, but surprisingly little is known about the Bennachie Colonists.

Palaeontology

March 31, 2013 0 Comments

The placodonts are fellow Europeans

Placodonts were among the first marine reptiles. With their trademark crushing teeth, they fed on shellfish and crustaceans.

Natural World

March 31, 2013 0 Comments

CU study provides new evidence ancient asteroid caused global firestorm on Earth

A new look at conditions after a Manhattan-sized asteroid slammed into a region of Mexico in the dinosaur days indicates the event could have triggered a global firestorm that would have burned every twig, bush and tree on Earth and led to the extinction of 80 percent of all Earth’s species, says a new University of Colorado Boulder study.

Archaeology

March 30, 2013 2 Comments

Bones of the victims at Roman Herculaneum

Are human remains the archaeology of death or the archaeology of life? This strange paradox stated in Pearson (1999), addresses that the surviving bones, tissues and skin are more likely to reveal information about a person’s life, not a person’s death.

Natural World

March 26, 2013 0 Comments

A tiny grain helps reveal the history of a rock

Rutile is used in ceramics and paints, but is particularly useful for finding out about the history of a rock.

Natural World

March 26, 2013 0 Comments

Decoding the genetic history of the Texas longhorn

The study of the genome of the Longhorn and related breeds tells a fascinating global history of human and cattle migration.

Archaeology

March 26, 2013 0 Comments

Operation Nightingale – Two worlds collide!

My association with Operation Nightingale goes back to the very beginning, to a sunny August day in 2011 ‘recky-ing’ our maiden site, the early Iron Age ‘East Chisenbury’ midden on the Salisbury Plain military training area in Wiltshire. Written by James Spry

Archaeology

March 26, 2013 0 Comments

Artifacts Shed Light on Social Networks of the Past

Researchers studied thousands of ceramic and obsidian artifacts from A.D. 1200-1450 to learn about the growth, collapse and change of social networks in the late pre-Hispanic Southwest.

Palaeontology

March 26, 2013 0 Comments

What a bunch of dodos!

A catastrophic mass extinction of birds in the Pacific Islands followed the arrival of the first people

Heritage

March 25, 2013 1 Comment

New Light on Waterloo. An interview with Erwin Muilwijk

With the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo approaching, many historians have been inspired to look again at the events of 18 June 1815 – a battle which is perhaps the most written about, but also perhaps the least studied.

Archaeology Videos

March 24, 2013 0 Comments

The ‘Culture’ Conundrum?

Welcome to Questions of Doom. In this series, we answer your questions about Archaeology and our shared heritage. Today, we

Archaeology

March 23, 2013 2 Comments

RIP Time Team, you were a national treasure

Let’s celebrate the memory of a show that charmed and educated through bejumpered boffins at toil in soil

Archaeology

March 23, 2013 2 Comments

Stone ships show signs of maritime network in Baltic Sea region 3,000 years ago

In the middle of the Bronze Age, around 1000 BC, the amount of metal objects increased dramatically in the Baltic Sea region.

Archaeology

March 23, 2013 0 Comments

Lost and found, the first find of an early human artwork

A 14,000-year-old engraved reindeer antler is possibly the first piece of early human art ever found.

Palaeoanthropology

March 23, 2013 0 Comments

Skulls of early humans carry telltale signs of inbreeding, study suggests

Buried for 100,000 years at Xujiayao in the Nihewan Basin of northern China, the recovered skull pieces of an early human exhibit a now-rare congenital deformation that indicates inbreeding might well have been common among our ancestors, new research from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Washington University in St. Louis suggests.

Palaeontology

March 23, 2013 0 Comments

Before Dinosaurs’ Era, Volcanic Eruptions Triggered Mass Extinction

More than 200 million years ago, a massive extinction decimated 76 percent of marine and terrestrial species, marking the end of the Triassic period and the onset of the Jurassic.

Archaeology

March 15, 2013 0 Comments

14th Century burial ground discovered in central London

Archaeologists working on the UK’s largest infrastructure project, Crossrail, have discovered an historical burial ground in central London.

Palaeoanthropology

March 14, 2013 0 Comments

Middle Pleistocene Teeth Adds Discussion of Evolutionary Course in Asian Hominins

Although a relatively large number of late Middle Pleistocene hominins have been found in East Asia, these fossils have not been consistently included in current debates about the origin of anatomically modern humans (AMHS), and little is known about their phylogenetic place in relation to contemporary hominins from Africa and Europe as well as to Upper Pleistocene hominins.

Palaeontology

Two individuals of Harrimania planktophilus, a modern enteropneust (harrimaniid) worm. Proboscis to the left. Total length of a relaxed and uncoiled animal is approximately 32 mm. Photo: C.B. Cameron, Université de Montréal

March 14, 2013 0 Comments

Phallus-shaped fossil pushes record of enteropneusts back 200 million years

Christopher Cameron of the University of Montreal’s Department of Biological Sciences and his colleagues have unearthed a major scientific discovery – a strange phallus-shaped creature they found in Canada’s Burgess Shale fossil beds, located in Yoho National Park. The fossils were found in an area of shale beds that are 505 million years old.

Archaeology

March 14, 2013 0 Comments

Ancient Chinese coin found on Kenyan island by Field Museum expedition

A joint expedition of scientists led by Chapurukha M. Kusimba of The Field Museum and Sloan R. Williams of the University of Illinois at Chicago has unearthed a 600-year-old Chinese coin on the Kenyan island of Manda that shows trade existed between China and east Africa decades before European explorers set sail and changed the map of the world.

Archaeology

Significant find: After thousands of years the Egyptian sun dial was brought back to light (Image: University of Basel).

March 14, 2013 1 Comment

One of the world’s oldest sun dials dug up in Valley of the Kings

During archaeological excavations in the Kings’ Valley in Upper Egypt a team of researchers from the University of Basel found one of the world’s oldest ancient Egyptian sun dials.