Archaeology News

Radiocarbon dates show the origins of megalith graves and how they spread across Europe

HeritageDailyFebruary 14, 2019

by HeritageDailyFebruary 14, 201902708

How did European megalith graves arise and spread? Using radiocarbon dates from a large quantity of material, an archaeologist at the University of Gothenburg has

Archaeology Tech & Engineering

‘X-ray gun’ helps researchers pinpoint the origins of pottery found on ancient shipwreck

HeritageDailyFebruary 11, 2019

by HeritageDailyFebruary 11, 201902321

About eight hundred years ago, a ship sank in the Java Sea off the coast of the islands of Java and Sumatra in Indonesia.

Archaeology

Spanish researchers have identified a new archaeological site with cave art in Andalusia

HeritageDailyFebruary 1, 2019

by HeritageDailyFebruary 1, 201907505

The interdisciplinary work carried out by researchers from the Universities of Seville, Cordoba, Huelva and Murcia on the Las Ventanas cave (Granada) has made it

Archaeology Politics

UK Government announces new plans to protect treasure finds

HeritageDailyFebruary 1, 2019

by HeritageDailyFebruary 1, 201903183

Plans to widen the definition of treasure so more archaeological finds can be protected for the nation have been outlined by the government today.

Archaeology

Aerial Photographs Reveal Hidden Irish Archaeological Sites

HeritageDailyJanuary 30, 2019

by HeritageDailyJanuary 30, 201905516

The National Monuments Service in Ireland is using high resolution aerial photography from Bluesky to map and investigate a giant 4,500 year old Henge.

Archaeology

Aberdeenshire stone circle initially thought to be thousands of years old identified as modern replica

HeritageDailyJanuary 25, 2019

by HeritageDailyJanuary 25, 201901737

What was thought to be a newly-identified stone circle, thousands of years old, has turned out to be a replica just a couple of decades

Archaeology

Remains of Captain Matthew Flinders discovered at HS2 site in Euston

HeritageDailyJanuary 25, 2019

by HeritageDailyJanuary 25, 201903074

Archaeologists working on the HS2 project in St. James’s burial ground, Euston have discovered the remains of Captain Matthew Flinders, the Royal Navy explorer who

Archaeology

What happened 4,000 years ago in the Urals?

HeritageDailyJanuary 18, 2019

by HeritageDailyJanuary 18, 2019015795

Archaeologists from Goethe University will be returning to the Urals for further research work.

Archaeology

11,500-year-old animal bones in Jordan suggest early dogs helped humans hunt

HeritageDailyJanuary 16, 2019

by HeritageDailyJanuary 16, 201903134

11,500 years ago in what is now northeast Jordan, people began to live alongside dogs and may also have used them for hunting, a new

Archaeology

New insights into what Neolithic people ate in southeastern Europe

HeritageDailyJanuary 16, 2019

by HeritageDailyJanuary 16, 201903374

New research, led by the University of Bristol, has shed new light on the eating habits of Neolithic people living in southeastern Europe using food

Archaeology

3,000-year-old eastern North American quinoa discovered in Ontario

HeritageDailyJanuary 15, 2019January 15, 2019

by HeritageDailyJanuary 15, 2019January 15, 201905813

A mass of charred seeds found while clearing a home construction site in Brantford, Ontario, has been identified as ancient, domesticated goosefoot (C. berlandieri spp.

Archaeology

Circular economy: ancient populations pioneered the idea of recycling waste

HeritageDailyJanuary 10, 2019January 10, 2019

by HeritageDailyJanuary 10, 2019January 10, 201902462

The circular economy is typically seen as the progressive alternative to our wasteful linear economy, where raw materials are used to make the products that feed today’s

Archaeology

Why archaeology is so much more than just digging

HeritageDailyJanuary 7, 2019

by HeritageDailyJanuary 7, 201905466

It’s our experience that most people think archaeology mainly means digging in the dirt.

Archaeology

Archaeological discovery yields clues to how our ancestors may have adapted to their environment

HeritageDailyJanuary 3, 2019January 3, 2019

by HeritageDailyJanuary 3, 2019January 3, 201903811

During the Stone Age ancestral humans lived with a variety of animal species along what was an area of wetlands in the middle of the

Archaeology

Powerful Icelandic Vikings were buried with stallions

HeritageDailyJanuary 2, 2019January 2, 2019

by HeritageDailyJanuary 2, 2019January 2, 201904865

Archaeologists in Iceland have for decades examined the remains of more than 350 graves from the Viking Age. In approximately 150 of these, teeth or

Archaeology

Rare 2000 year old figurine among finds of an archaeological dig on the Wimpole Estate in Cambridgeshire

HeritageDailyDecember 18, 2018

by HeritageDailyDecember 18, 201805762

An archaeological dig at the National Trust’s Wimpole Estate in Cambridgeshire has uncovered a Late Iron Age to Early Roman (c.100 BC – 150AD) rural

Archaeology

Ancient Japanese pottery includes an estimated 500 maize weevils

HeritageDailyDecember 18, 2018

by HeritageDailyDecember 18, 201803586

Researchers have discovered an ancient Japanese pottery vessel from the late Jomon period (4500-3300 BP) with an estimated 500 maize weevils incorporated into its design.

Archaeology

Satellite data exposes looting

HeritageDailyDecember 17, 2018

by HeritageDailyDecember 17, 201803306

More than 2,500 years ago, horse riding nomads expanded their cultural realm throughout the Eurasian steppe from Southern Siberia to Eastern Europe.

Archaeology

Top 10 Archaeological Discoveries of 2018

HeritageDailyDecember 14, 2018December 14, 2018

by HeritageDailyDecember 14, 2018December 14, 2018026627

HeritageDaily's list of the 10 most prominent archaeological discoveries to hit the headlines in 2018

Archaeology

Rethinking the history related to indigenous sites in northeast North America

HeritageDailyDecember 7, 2018

by HeritageDailyDecember 7, 201804650

After radiocarbon dating of plant matter, wood and wood charcoal, scientists estimate that the presumed histories of several key indigenous sites in Canada, as relates

Archaeology

Mote of Urr excavation published after 65 years

HeritageDailyDecember 4, 2018

by HeritageDailyDecember 4, 2018010923

The results of Brian Hope-Taylor’s excavation of the Mote of Urr have been published 65 years after it was excavated.

Archaeology

New archaeological site revises human habitation timeline on Tibetan plateau

HeritageDailyNovember 30, 2018

by HeritageDailyNovember 30, 201803485

Human ancestors first set foot on the interior of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau around 30,000-40,000 years ago, according to new research by scientists from the Chinese

Category : Archaeology

Radiocarbon dates show the origins of megalith graves and how they spread across Europe

‘X-ray gun’ helps researchers pinpoint the origins of pottery found on ancient shipwreck

Spanish researchers have identified a new archaeological site with cave art in Andalusia

UK Government announces new plans to protect treasure finds

Aerial Photographs Reveal Hidden Irish Archaeological Sites

Aberdeenshire stone circle initially thought to be thousands of years old identified as modern replica

Remains of Captain Matthew Flinders discovered at HS2 site in Euston

What happened 4,000 years ago in the Urals?

11,500-year-old animal bones in Jordan suggest early dogs helped humans hunt

New insights into what Neolithic people ate in southeastern Europe

3,000-year-old eastern North American quinoa discovered in Ontario

Circular economy: ancient populations pioneered the idea of recycling waste

Why archaeology is so much more than just digging

Archaeological discovery yields clues to how our ancestors may have adapted to their environment

Powerful Icelandic Vikings were buried with stallions

Rare 2000 year old figurine among finds of an archaeological dig on the Wimpole Estate in Cambridgeshire

Ancient Japanese pottery includes an estimated 500 maize weevils

Satellite data exposes looting

Top 10 Archaeological Discoveries of 2018

Rethinking the history related to indigenous sites in northeast North America

Mote of Urr excavation published after 65 years

New archaeological site revises human habitation timeline on Tibetan plateau

Roman Sex, Sexuality, Slaves and Lex Scantinia

Archaeologists discover bread that predates agriculture by 4,000 years

Was Cleopatra beautiful? The archaeological evidence

Half the population of the Viking-town Sigtuna were migrants

Georadar detects a Viking ship in Norway

Merging neutron stars

Exceptional new titanosaur from middle Cretaceous Tanzania: Mnyamawamtuka

Biocolonizer species are putting the conservation of the granite at Machu Picchu...

Macaque fossils discovered at the bottom of the North Sea

Research suggests life thrived on Earth 3.5 billion years ago