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Welcome to HeritageDaily, an academic journal and online magazine featuring the latest archaeology news and archaeological press releases from across the globe. Archaeology is the study of human activity in the past, primarily through the recovery and analysis of the material culture and environmental data that they have left behind, which includes artifacts, architecture, biofacts and cultural landscapes (the archaeological record).

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December 10, 2012 0 Comments

Gladiator general’s tomb falls victim to Italy’s austerity cuts

On its discovery in 2008, it was hailed as one of the most significant Roman finds in decades. Digging down between the railway line and mechanics’ workshops where the Tiber winds its way north out of Rome, archeologists found the remains of a 45ft high structure fronted by four columns.

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Lair of King Tongmyong’s Unicorn Reconfirmed by DPRK in North Korea

Pyongyang, November 29 (KCNA) — Archaeologists of the History Institute of the DPRK Academy of Social Sciences have recently reconfirmed a lair of the unicorn rode by King Tongmyong, founder of the Koguryo Kingdom (B.C. 277-A.D. 668).

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December 7, 2012 0 Comments

Debate still rages over date of Thera eruption

During the height of the Greek Bronze Age, a volcano erupted on the ancient Greek island of Thera (modern Santorini). The violent eruption sent six times more magma and rock into the Earth’s atmosphere than the notorious Krakatoa eruption in 1883. Robyn Antanovskii

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Roman Signifer in battle posture.
December 7, 2012 0 Comments

Classics professor unearths archaeological clues about ancient Roman vineyards

A Florida State University classics professor whose decades of archaeological work on a remote hilltop in Italy have dramatically increased understanding of the ancient Etruscan culture is celebrating yet another find.

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December 5, 2012 0 Comments

Africa’s Homo sapiens were the first techies

The search for the origin of modern human behaviour and technological advancement among our ancestors in southern Africa some 70 000 years ago, has taken a step closer to firmly establishing Africa, and especially South Africa, as the primary centre for the early development of human behaviour.

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December 4, 2012 1 Comment

A Late Iron Age helmet found near Canterbury

A rare prehistoric helmet has been unearthed on farmland outside Canterbury. The helmet, made of bronze and dating to the first century BC, was discovered by an amateur metal detectorist. Andrew Richardson, then our Finds Manager, takes up the story.

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November 29, 2012 0 Comments

UMass Amherst Researchers Use Biomarkers from Prehistoric Human Feces to Track Settlement and Agriculture

For researchers who study Earth’s past environment, disentangling the effects of climate change from those related to human activities is a major challenge, but now University of Massachusetts Amherst geoscientists have used a biomarker from human feces in a completely new way to establish the first human presence, the arrival of grazing animals and human population dynamics in a landscape.

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November 29, 2012 0 Comments

An engraved stone artifact found at the Shuidonggou Paleolithic site, northwest China

The origin and dispersal of modern humans and modern human behavior are key interests in Paleolithic archaeology and anthropology.

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November 29, 2012 0 Comments

Cheers! One of world’s earliest ‘micro-breweries’ found

Archaeologists working in Western Cyprus are raising a glass to the discovery of a Bronze Age ‘micro-brewery’, one of the earliest ever found.

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November 29, 2012 0 Comments

URI, IAA archaeologists discover shipwrecks, ancient harbor on coast of Israel

A team of archaeologists from the University of Rhode Island, the Israel Antiquities Authority, and the University of Louisville have discovered the remains of a fleet of early-19th century ships and ancient harbor structures from the Hellenistic period (third to first century B.C.) at the city of Akko, one of the major ancient ports of the eastern Mediterranean.

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Roman Signifer in battle posture.
November 28, 2012 0 Comments

University of Leeds joins the hunt for Spitfires

University of Leeds geophysics expertise will be called in to help with the final stage of Lincolnshire aviation enthusiast David Cundall’s bid to locate buried Spitfires in Myanmar.

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November 28, 2012 0 Comments

Ancient Iraq revealed

Jason Ur, the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, is breaking new ground with a Harvard-led archaeological project in the war-torn nation of Iraq. He is focusing on a 3,200-square-kilometer region around Irbil, the capital of the Kurdish region in northern Iraq, for signs of ancient cities and towns, canals, and roads.

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November 27, 2012 0 Comments

Wargaming Announces Financial Backing of Burma Spitfires Expedition

Wargaming, the creator of the award-winning games World of Tanks, World of Warplanes and the upcoming World of Warships, announced today that they are fully underwriting aircraft enthusiast David Cundall’s efforts to recover the British Spitfires reportedly buried in Burma at the end of World War II.

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November 26, 2012 0 Comments

Sanctuary and Volunteer Maritime Heritage Divers Confirm Identity of Key Largo Shipwreck

NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries has identified the remains of an early 20th century shipwreck in Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary to be those of the British steamship Hannah M. Bell.

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November 26, 2012 0 Comments

King Croesus’s golden brooch to be returned to Turkey

Lydian Hoard treasure in shape of winged seahorse, sold to pay gambling debts and replaced with a fake, to be taken home

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November 26, 2012 0 Comments

Trent Students Dig Up History and Inspiration in Central America

“Trent University has been conducting archaeological research in the Maya lowlands, especially Belize, since the 1970s,” reports Dr. Paul Healy, professor of Anthropology and Archaeology. “We’ve offered students truly rare opportunities almost annually to participate in Maya research at 1000 year-old sites such as Pacbitun, Caledonia, Caracol, Cahal Pech, and for the past 15 years, at Minanha, under the direction of Dr. Gyles Iannone.”

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November 23, 2012 0 Comments

Investigating the Home Front 1914-1918

The material remains of the First World War on the British Home Front will be investigated by researchers at the University of Bristol and the University of York, thanks to £39,500 funding from English Heritage.

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A11
November 23, 2012 0 Comments

Unearthing the past on A11 dualling

Flint workings from primitive tools dating back to 4,000BC have been uncovered during archaeological digs along the route for the Highways Agency’s A11 dualling and improvement scheme in Suffolk.

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November 23, 2012 0 Comments

Skulls, longbows, arrows … and nitcombs! Science sheds light on life aboard Tudor warship

Tudor skulls, bones, longbows, arrows and nitcombs were among the array of artefacts examined by Bishopston Comprehensive School pupils as Swansea University academics showed how 21st century technology is shedding new light about life aboard the 16th century warship The Mary Rose.

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November 22, 2012 0 Comments

Sanyo Maru pearling ship to be explored

The wreck of a rare Japanese pearling mother ship off the Northern Territory coast is currently being explored in the northern territories Australia.

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November 22, 2012 0 Comments

Sequencing of pig genome could reveal clues about early human movement

An international team of scientists, including researchers at Durham University, have revealed the genetic code of pigs for the first time, providing new insights into their domestication and the movements of early humans.

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November 21, 2012 0 Comments

Anthropologist suggests Mediterranean islands inhabited much earlier than thought

Anthropologist Alan Simmons of the University of Nevada has published a perspective piece in the journal Science suggesting that the Mediterranean islands were inhabited far earlier than has been thought.

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