All posts tagged "archaeology blogs"
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16.8KArchaeologistOfficial launch of public database of ‘at risk’ archaeological sites
It is hoped that the database will drive awareness of the scale of the problem and help governments, NGOs, and other regional...
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18.1KArchaeologistThree-thousand-year-old axes found in farmer’s field in mid-Norway
Some 3,000 years ago, 24 axes were cached in Stjørdal municipality, about 44 km east of Trondheim. They’re now seeing the light...
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21.7KArchaeologistCan houses die? Iron-age to Viking longhouses were burned and buried
From the Bronze Age until the Viking Age, burial mounds could be placed on top of the remains of three-aisled longhouses. The...
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18.6KArchaeologistWorld War One Battlefield Tunnels Discovered Under Salisbury Plain
Archaeologists working in Wiltshire have identified a unique network of First World War tunnels under Salisbury Plain.
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11.3KArchaeologistDigital app brings to life one of Scotland’s key prehistoric settlement sites
A new online digital resource has been launched to bring to life one of Scotland's most important prehistoric settlement landscapes.
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18.1KArchaeologistMedieval priest discovered in elaborate grave 700 years after his death
The remains of a medieval priest who died 700 years ago have been uncovered in an elaborate grave.
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11.3KArchaeologistFantastic eggs and where to find them
Archaeologists and scientists from the Universities of Bristol and Durham and the British Museum are using cutting edge technology to crack a...
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11.6KArchaeologistPrecision chronology sheds new light on the origins of Mongolia’s nomadic horse culture
According to new research, nomadic horse culture -- famously associated with Genghis Khan and his Mongol hordes -- can trace its roots...
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13.9KArchaeologistWe’re closer to learning when humans first daubed arrows with poison
Exactly when did human beings start tipping their weapons with poison to hunt prey? This is a question at the forefront of...
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17.2KArchaeologistPrehistoric alpine farming in the Bernese Oberland
The people in Switzerland were on the move in the High Alps and running alpine pastures 7,000 years ago and therefore much...
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13.7KArchaeologistCrete’s Late Minoan tombs points way to early European migration
Researchers at the University of Huddersfield have visited Rethymnon in Crete, to collect samples from the late Bronze Age Necropolis of Armenoi,...
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11.6KArchaeologistResearchers uncover prehistoric art and ornaments from Indonesian ‘Ice Age’
Griffith University archaeologists are part of a joint Indonesian-Australian team that has unearthed a rare collection of prehistoric art and ‘jewellery’ objects...
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14.9KArchaeologistArchaeologist explains innovation of ‘fluting’ ancient stone weaponry
Approximately 13,500 years after nomadic Clovis hunters crossed the frozen land bridge from Asia to North America, researchers are still asking questions...
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12.3KArchaeologistNew archaeological evidence throws light on efforts to resist ‘the living dead’
A new scientific study of medieval human bones, excavated from a deserted English village, suggests the corpses they came from were burnt...
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15.2KArchaeologistSteppe migrant thugs pacified by Stone Age farming women
Research suggests that large demographic changes during the first part of the Bronze Age happened as a result of massive migrations of...
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14.1KArchaeologistEgyptian ritual images from the Neolithic period
Egyptologists at the University of Bonn discovered rock art from the 4th millennium BC during an excavation at a necropolis near Aswan...
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12.0KArchaeologistA new perspective on the European colonization of Asia
In the past, researchers have paid limited attention to this fact, which has led to a dearth of modern anthropological, historical and...
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17.6KArchaeologistThe Upper Palaeolithic Beads of Aquitaine
The Upper Palaeolithic is best understood period of the Old Stone Age, beginning shortly after the extinction of Homo neanderthalensis and the...
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11.9KArchaeologistFish, selective hunting strategies and a delayed-return lifestyle among ancient foragers
A unique trove of bone material from the 9,200 year old coastal settlement Norje Sunnansund in Blekinge, Sweden, has revealed that surpisingly...
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83.4KArchaeologistDiscovery of widespread platinum may help solve Clovis people mystery
No one knows for certain why the Clovis people and iconic beasts -- mastodon, mammoth and saber-toothed tiger - living some 12,800...
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11.9KArchaeologistAncient peoples shaped the Amazon rainforest
An international team of ecologists and social scientists has shown in a new study published 3 March in the journal Science that...
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32.9KArchaeologistUncovered after 2,000 years: gold torcs fit for an Iron Age queen
Found by two metal detectorists in a Staffordshire field, the Leekfrith torcs are a spectacular example of late Iron Age jewellery and...
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