Archaeology
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6.7KOldest Neanderthal wood tools in the Iberian Peninsula discovered
Archaeological excavations at Aranbaltza site in the Basque Country coast (Northern Spain), have revealed several episodes of neandertal occupations with preserved wooden...
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3.0KSpear points prove early inhabitants liked to travel
Careful examination of numerous fluted spear points found in Alaska and western Canada prove that the Ice Age peopling of the Americas...
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6.5KArchaeologist discovers Cornish barrow site
An Archaeologist at The Australian National University (ANU) has discovered a prehistoric Bronze-Age barrow, or burial mound, on a hill in Cornwall...
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7.2KGlastonbury: archaeology is revealing new truths about the origins of British Christianity
New archaeological research on Glastonbury Abbey pushes back the date for the earliest settlement of the site by 200 years – and...
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5.5KWe’re mapping wartime shipwrecks to explore the past – and help develop green energy projects
Wartime shipwrecks such as the USS Juneau – recently discovered in the Pacific Ocean by philanthropist Paul Allen and his team – are of...
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9.0KArchaeology shines light on 6,000 years of history
A Roman trade distribution centre, an abandoned medieval village and three prehistoric monuments are among nationally significant archaeological discoveries uncovered by the...
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7.0KParts of the Amazon thought uninhabited were actually home to up to a million people
Parts of the Amazon previously thought to have been almost uninhabited were really home to thriving populations of up to a million...
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6.8KSkilled female potters travelled around the Baltic nearly 5000 years ago
Was it the fine pottery itself, or the artisans who made it, that moved around the Baltic Sea region during the Corded...
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10.4KMysterious head of a pharaoh discovered by Swansea Egyptologist
Swansea University Egyptology lecturer Dr Ken Griffin has found a depiction of one of the most famous pharaoh's in history Hatshepsut (one...
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6.9KFrom the pyramids to Stonehenge – were prehistoric people astronomers?
Ever since humans could look up to see the sky, we have been amazed by its beauty and untold mysteries. Naturally then,...
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8.3KHow we recreated a lost African city with laser technology
Now the same technology which located those Mayan cities has been used to rediscover a southern African city that was occupied from...
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8.7KAgriculture initiated by indigenous peoples, not Fertile Crescent migration
Small scale agricultural farming was first initiated by indigenous communities living on Turkey's Anatolian plateau, and not introduced by migrant farmers as...
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7.7KHair was dyed for first time as part of funeral rituals, study shows
Archaeologists from the University of Granada have carried out excavations in the Biniadris Cave located on the Balearic Island of Menorca, uncovering...
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8.1KNew Radiocarbon Dates shed light on changes in Iron Age Society in Orkney
The Cairns archaeology dig is situated on a wild and wind-swept cliff above Windwick Bay in South Ronaldsay, Orkney.
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14.5KAncient Nubia (present-day Sudan): In the footsteps of the Napata and Meroe kingdoms
The archaeological site of Sedeinga is located in Sudan, a hundred kilometres to the north of the third cataract of the Nile,...
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5.3KHuman dispersion through southern Europe in Early Pleistocene
Geochronologists from the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) have led a study published in the journal Quaternary Geochronology about the...
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11.1K‘War junk’ left behind in Finnish Lapland by Germans is valuable cultural heritage to locals
The experience of the Second World War in Lapland was starkly different from the war experience elsewhere in Finland. Germans held the...
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8.1KArchaeology: Pots, people and knowledge transfer
In the Late Neolithic, a new style of pottery appears among the grave goods buried with the dead in many parts of...
