Tag: archaeologist news
Ancient bones reveal 2 whale species lost from the Mediterranean Sea
wo thousand years ago the Mediterranean Sea was a haven for two species of whale which have since virtually disappeared from the North Atlantic, a new study analysing ancient bones suggests.
New 3D images shed light on lives of ancient Sherford communities
Archaeological reconstructions reveal how early Devon settlers lived, worked and thrived during the Early Bronze Age
The best radiocarbon-dated site in all recent Iberian prehistory
Members of the department of Prehistory and Archaeology of the University of Seville have published a study that includes 130 radiocarbon datings, obtained in...
Organic components of Levantine rock art investigated for the first time with massive DNA and protein analysis techniques
The aim of the project was to identify the organic binding agents and the bacterial communities of the sites through omic technologies, that is, those that study the totality of genes, organisms or proteins.
Ancient DNA testing solves 100-year-old controversy in Southeast Asian prehistory
Two competing theories about the human occupation of Southeast Asia have been debunked by ground-breaking analysis of ancient DNA extracted from 8,000 year-old skeletons.
Bronze hand attributed to a Roman God Jupiter Dolichenus unearthed at Vindolanda.
Vindolanda’s archaeologists, assisted by a team of volunteers from around the world, were only a few weeks into to the excavation season when a remarkable artefact was uncovered in the top layers of the northern Severan ditch fill, some 1.5 meters below the modern-day ground level.