All posts tagged "archaeological"
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684ArchaeologyLife on the Edge – coastal storms and prehistoric hardship on North Uist
Newly published archaeological research from excavations undertaken at the Udal in North Uist reveals some of the hardships of life in Neolithic...
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1.3KMapsDunwich – The medieval town lost at sea
Dunwich is a quaint seaside village in Suffolk, England that can boast a fine pub, tea room and small beach popular with...
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961Natural HistoryThe lady’s ape: Extinct gibbon discovered in royal ancient Chinese tomb
A new genus and species of gibbon has been identified in the most unexpected of places - interred in the tomb of...
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2.6KTech & EngineeringStone tools from ancient mummy reveal how Copper Age mountain people lived
Stone tools found with a 5,300-year-old frozen mummy from Northern Italy reveal how alpine Copper Age communities lived, according to a study...
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4.9KHeritageIllegal trade in antiquities: a scourge that has gone on for millennia too long
Looting of artefacts has always been a sign of military might or economic power. Over millennia, conquering generals would take away with...
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6.9KArchaeologyArchaeologists excavate a prehistoric settlement in Northern Scotland
The community around Thurso were invited to take part in the latest archaeology event in the Caithness Broch Festival last week in...
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4.0KAnthropologyLate Pleistocene human mandibles from the Niah Caves may hint at ancient diets
Three human mandibles may provide new insight into the diet of Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers in Borneo, according to a study by Darren...
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6.4KChemistryScientists tracking the ‘life signature’ of Britain
The British Geological Survey has just released a new interactive web tool that maps out the geographical variation in the isotope signatures...
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5.3KArchaeologyPacific rats trace 2,000 years of human impact on island ecosystems
Chemical analysis of the remains of rats from archaeological sites spanning the last 2000 years on three Polynesian island systems has shown...
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8.5KTech & EngineeringCornell research illuminates inaccuracies in radiocarbon dating
Radiocarbon dating is a key tool archaeologists use to determine the age of plants and objects made with organic material. But new...
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10.9KHeritage10 Ukrainian Castles
Ukraine is a sovereign state in Eastern Europe that was once a key centre of East Slavic culture within the federation of...
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5.7KArchaeologistOld Maori village discovered by Otago archaeologists
A group of University of Otago archaeologists have uncovered the peripheries of a 14th century Māori village in Gisborne, New Zealand.
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8.3KArchaeologistHats on for Easter Island statues
How do you put a 13-ton hat on a giant statue? That's what a team of researchers is trying to figure out...
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6.6KArchaeologistRoman decapitated and crushed by block of stone while fleeing eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Pompeii
Pompeii was an ancient Roman town-city near modern Naples, Italy that was mostly destroyed and buried under 4 to 6 m (13...
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7.5KChemistryItaly’s oldest olive oil discovered in peculiar pot
Olive oil is a staple of Italian cuisine. It's been that way for thousands of years. And new chemical analysis conducted on...
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8.0KArchaeologistAlong Alaska’s Pacific coast, early humans could have migrated to the Americas
New dating of rocks and reanalysis of animal bones from islands along the shore of southeastern Alaska suggests that a narrow corridor...
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5.2KChemistryEarliest European evidence of lead pollution uncovered in the Balkans
New research from Northumbria University has revealed that metal-related pollution began in the Balkans more than 500 years before it appeared in...
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10.5KArchaeologistThe Roman dead: new techniques are revealing just how diverse Roman Britain was
New research has rubbished our perception of it as a region inhabited solely by white Europeans. Roman Britain was actually a highly multicultural...
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9.4KHeritage10 ancient pyramids around the world
A pyramid is a structure whose outer surfaces are triangular and converge to a single point at the top, making the shape...
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10.4KArchaeologistULB archaeologists dicover a 1,000-year-old-mummy in Peru
Researchers from the Université libre de Bruxelles's centre for archaeological research (CReA-Patrimoine) has announced the discovery of a well-preserved Inca mummy at...
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8.5KArchaeologistAncient mound builders carefully timed their occupation of coastal Louisiana site
A study of ancient mound builders who lived hundreds of years ago on the Mississippi River Delta near present-day New Orleans offers...
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5.9KTech & EngineeringPeople voyaged to Australia by boat more than 50,000 years ago
Researchers working to solve the mystery of how people first reached Australia have combined sophisticated deep-sea mapping, voyage simulation techniques and genetic...
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