Richard the III – The Evidence Unearthed
University of Leicester researchers have released a wealth of evidence that led to their conclusion in the discovery of Richard III. This includes DNA analysis, radiocarbon dating and skeletal examination data.
What Happened to Dinosaurs’ Predecessors After Earth’s Largest Extinction 252 Million Years Ago?
What Happened to Dinosaurs’ Predecessors After Earth’s Largest Extinction 252 Million Years Ago?
Solved: riddle of ancient Nile kingdom’s longevity
Researchers have solved the riddle of how one of Africa’s greatest civilisations survived a catastrophic drought which wiped out other famous dynasties.
Search at historic church site of Richard III burial continues
Dig team to investigate 600-year old stone coffin and to learn more about Church that housed a King.
Gindiana Bones: Spitfires in Burma
Our resident Archaeological legend is fresh, (well not so much fresh as gin soaked) from his explorations in the grounds
For ancient Maya, a hodgepodge of cultural exchanges
The ancient Maya civilization of Mesoamerica may have developed its unique culture and architecture via contact with many other groups—not just exclusive contact with the Olmec people or on its own, without any outside influences, as researchers have debated. According to a new study, the formal plazas and pyramids at Ceibal, an ancient Maya site in Guatemala, probably arose from broad cultural exchanges that took place across southern Mesoamerica from about 1,000 to 700 BCE.
New excavations indicate use of fertilizers 5,000 years ago
Researchers from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have spent many years studying the remains of a Stone Age community in Karleby outside the town of Falköping, Sweden.
Archaeologists unearth new information on origins of Maya civilization
Archaeologists unearth new information on origins of Maya civilization
How changing body shape affected balance and posture during the evolution of dinosaurs
Credit : Royal Veterinary College Research published on 24 April 2013 from The Royal Veterinary College, in the journal Nature,
Museum find proves exotic ‘big cat’ prowled British countryside a century ago
The rediscovery of a mystery animal in a museum’s underground storeroom proves that a non-native ‘big cat’ prowled the British countryside at the turn of the last century.
Ancient Earth crust stored in deep mantle
Scientists have long believed that lava erupted from certain oceanic volcanoes contains materials from the early Earth’s crust. But decisive evidence for this phenomenon has proven elusive. New research from a team including Carnegie’s Erik Hauri demonstrates that oceanic volcanic rocks contain samples of recycled crust dating back to the Archean era 2.5 billion years ago. Their work is published in Nature.
Significant collection of prehistoric metalwork discovered at Iron Age site – along with gaming pieces
Archaeologists from the University of Leicester have uncovered one of the biggest groups of Iron Age metal artefacts to be found in the region- in addition to finding dice and gaming pieces.
First World War soldiers finally laid to rest
The remains of 2 First World War soldiers have finally been laid to rest nearly 100 years after they were killed in action.
A Chinook helicopter airlifted one of the RAF’s historic aircraft to a new jet museum
A Chinook helicopter airlifted one of the RAF’s historic aircraft to a new jet museum
Margaret Thatcher’s Legacy To Archaeology Undone By Her Heirs
The Government of Margaret Thatcher played a crucial, if unwitting, role in the development of modern UK Archaeology. Yet as former UK Prime Minister is buried in London her Conservative heirs in the governing coalition are busy undoing her Government’s system for protecting archaeology and the environment in the planning process. Andy Brockman reflects on this unexpected legacy.
DNA evidence of Richard III
University of Leicester geneticist Dr Turi King found a match between DNA from the skeleton and two direct descendents of Richard III on the female line.
Richard III may have gone through painful medical treatments to ‘cure’ his scoliosis
Richard III may have gone through very painful treatments for his spinal deformity, according to University of Leicester researcher
The Lost Spitfires of Burma – The anatomy of a legend
In January 2013 the World’s media watched as a crack team of historians, archaeologists and geophysicists assembled by global game company Wargaming.net, set out to solve the mystery of the lost squadron of Spitfires which, according to aviation enthusiast David Cundall, were buried by Allied Forces at airfields in Burma at the end of the Second World War.
Towards the origin of America’s first settlers
The most supported traditional hypothesis points out that the earliest well-established human culture in the North American continent were the Clovis, a population of hunters who arrived about 13,000 years before present from North-East Asia through the Bering Strait, and scattered over the continent.
Roman Eternal Expansion: Dream, Folly – or Necessity?
The Roman Empires was one of the largest, longest lasting and most important states in human history.
Iceman Ötzi had bad teeth
For the first time, researchers from the Centre for Evolutionary Medicine at the University of Zurich together with colleagues abroad have been able to provide evidence of periodontitis, tooth decay and accident-related dental damage in the ice mummy ‘Ötzi’.
Team reports on abuse of students doing anthropological fieldwork
College athletes are not the only ones who sometimes suffer at the hands of higher ups. A new report brings to light a more hidden and pernicious problem – the psychological, physical and sexual abuse of students in the field of biological anthropology working in field studies far from home.