All posts tagged "archaeological"
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1.4KChemistryGeologists assist in solving the mystery of a gold treasure
The Carambolo Treasure is an assemblage of gold items of the first millennium BCE, whose origin has for about 50 years been...
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1.9KArchaeologyPurdue archaeologists on ancient horse find in Nile River Valley
An ancient horse burial at Tombos along the Nile River Valley shows that a member of the horse family thousands of years...
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4.0KArchaeologyRare German U-boat found in Skagerrak
Sea War Museum Jutland in Thyborøn, Denmark has made a new sensational discovery during its continued registration of shipwrecks in the North...
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7.6KHeritageAnalysing the famous ‘mosaico de los amores’, one of the largest and best preserved Roman mosaic floors of the Iberian peninsula
An interdisciplinary research team is currently analysing the famous mosaic ‘mosaico de los amores’. This is one of the largest and best...
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11.0KArchaeologyMajor International Archaeology Projects Commence in Orkney
The island of Rousay in Orkney is renowned for the wealth of its archaeology; so much so that it is known as...
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14.3KPalaeoanthropologyNeanderthals and Homo sapiens coexisted for less than 1000 years in the Cantabrian Region
Neanderthals and Homo sapiens could not have coexisted for more than a millennium in the Cantabrian Region, which reduces significantly the possibilities for interaction...
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8.8KHeritage13,000-year-old human footprints found off Canada’s Pacific coast
Human footprints found off Canada's Pacific coast may be 13,000 years old, according to a study published by Duncan McLaren and colleagues...
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6.5KArchaeologyArchaeologist 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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7.0KArchaeologyParts 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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6.8KArchaeologySkilled 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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10.4KArchaeologyMysterious 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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6.9KArchaeologyFrom 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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8.3KArchaeologyHow 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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3.9KHeritageFirst evidence of live-traded dogs for Maya ceremonies
Ashley Sharpe, an archaeologist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, and colleagues combined clues from carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and strontium...
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5.5KAnthropologyFish accounted for surprisingly large part of the Stone Age diet
New research at Lund University in Sweden can now show what Stone Age people actually ate in southern Scandinavia 10 000 years...
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8.7KArchaeologyAgriculture 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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5.1KCommunity & ProjectsThe Junior Archaeologists of Western Australia Goes Global!
The Junior Archaeologists Club of Western Australia is leading the way in inspiring the next generation of heritage professionals to protect our...
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7.7KArchaeologyHair 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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7.8KHeritageResearchers add 700 years to Malta’s history
Researchers at Queen’s University Belfast have discovered that the first people to inhabit Malta arrived 700 years earlier than history books indicate.
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8.1KArchaeologyNew 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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22.7KAnthropologyNew forensic analysis indicates bones were Amelia Earhart’s
Bone measurement analysis indicates that the remains found on a remote island in the South Pacific were likely those of legendary American...
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14.5KArchaeologyAncient 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,...
