Levänluhta jewellery links Finland to a European exchange network
A recently completed study indicates that the material of the jewellery found together with human remains at the Levänluhta water burial site originates in southern
Tag : Archaeology
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Angkor Wat archaeological digs yield new clues to its civilization’s decline
Cambodia’s famous temple of Angkor Wat is one of the world’s largest religious monuments, visited by over 2 million tourists each year.
Early Iron Age cultures in Burgundy appropriated Mediterranean products and feasting practices
Early Iron Age cultures in eastern France imported Mediterranean pottery, as well as olive oil and wine, and may have appropriated Mediterranean feasting practices, according
Retracing ancient routes to Australia
New insights into how people first arrived in Australia have been revealed by a group of experts brought together to investigate the continent's deep history.
Archaeological mystery solved with modern genetics
Researchers at the University of Tokyo conducted a census of the Japanese population around 2,500 years ago using the Y chromosomes of men living on
Fresh look at mysterious Nasca lines in Peru
A scientific approach has been used to re-identify huge birds etched into the desert plains of southern Peru around 2,000 years ago.
Climate change had significant impact on Amazon communities before arrival of Europeans
Climate change had a significant impact on people living in the Amazon rainforest before the arrival of Europeans and the loss of many indigenous groups,
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Planet Knowledge, the free to watch video on demand channel is available to UK audiences on Youview and Freeview.
Trophies made from human skulls hint at regional conflicts around the time of Maya civilization’s mysterious collapse
Two trophy skulls, recently discovered by archaeologists in the jungles of Belize, may help shed light on the little-understood collapse of the once powerful Classic Maya
New statistical formulas for assigning sex to fossils
The CENIEH researcher Adrián Pablos is co-author of a paper which offers a methodology for assigning the sex to fossils of Homo sapiens and opens
The origins of cannabis smoking: Marijuana use in the first millennium BC
A chemical residue study of incense burners from ancient burials at high elevations in the Pamir Mountains of western China has revealed psychoactive cannabinoids. This
Diet at the docks: Living and dying at the port of ancient Rome
Portus Romae was established in the middle of the first century AD and for well over 400 years was Rome's gateway to the Mediterranean.
Rising sea levels destroyed evidence of shell middens at many prehistoric coastal sites
Archaeological remains of coastal occupation in the form of shell middens are commonly found on today's shorelines, and evidence for shellfish as a food source
Must Farm – Living in the Bronze Age
Must Farm, an extraordinarily well-preserved Late Bronze Age settlement in Cambridgeshire, in the East of England, drew attention in national and international media in 2016
Aerial laser surveys have identified the archaeological remains of ancient cities in Cordoba, Spain.
On the land where Cordoba is located in the 21st century, two cities coexisted in the past, each on a hill.
Dramatic change in ancient nomad diets coincides with expansion of networks across Eurasia
A meta-analysis of dietary information recorded in the bones of ancient animals and humans recovered from sites scattered across the Eurasian steppe, from the Caucasus
Ancient DNA from Roman and medieval grape seeds reveal ancestry of wine making
A grape variety still used in wine production in France today can be traced back 900 years to just one ancestral plant, scientists have discovered.
Details of first historically recorded plague pandemic revealed by ancient genomes
An international team of researchers has analyzed human remains from 21 archaeological sites to learn more about the impact and evolution of the plague-causing bacterium Yersinia
DNA from 31,000-year-old milk teeth leads to discovery of new group of ancient Siberians
Two children's milk teeth buried deep in a remote archaeological site in north eastern Siberia have revealed a previously unknown group of people lived there
Hoard of the rings: Unusual rings are a novel type of Bronze Age cereal-based product
Strange ring-shaped objects in a Bronze Age hillfort site represent a unique form of cereal-based product, according to a study by Andreas G. Heiss of the
Angkor Wat archaeological digs yield new clues to its civilization’s decline
Cambodia’s famous temple of Angkor Wat is one of the world’s largest religious monuments, visited by over 2 million tourists each year.
Misreading the story of climate change and the Maya
Carbon dioxide concentrations in Earth’s atmosphere have reached 415 parts per million – a level that last occurred more than three million years ago, long before the