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Life 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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Maps

Dunwich – 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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Biology

First ancient syphilis genomes decoded

An international research team, including scientists from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, the University of Tübingen, the...

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Natural History

The 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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Tech & Engineering

Stone 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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Archaeology

Swedes have been brewing beer since the Iron Age

Archaeologists at Lund University in Sweden have found carbonised germinated grains showing that malt was produced for beer brewing as early as...

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Archaeologist

Montana burial site answers questions about early humans

Scientists have shown that at the Anzick site in Montana - the only known Clovis burial site - the skeletal remains of...

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Heritage

Illegal 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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Archaeology

Archaeologists 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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Natural History

Large-scale whaling in north Scandinavia may date back to 6th century

The intensive whaling that has pushed many species to the brink of extinction today may be several centuries older than previously assumed....

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Biology

Oldest bubonic plague genome decoded

An international team of researchers led by the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History has analyzed two 3,800-year-old Y. pestis genomes...

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Anthropology

Late 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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Chemistry

Scientists 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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Archaeology

Pacific 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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Tech & Engineering

Cornell 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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Heritage

10 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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Archaeologist

Old 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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Biology

The genes from Icelanda’s first settlers reveal the origin of their population in detail

In just over 1,000 years, Icelanders have gone through numerous changes in their gene pool, to the extent that Iceland's first settlers,...

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Archaeologist

Hats 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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Heritage TV

Micro-CT scans show 2,100-year-old ‘hawk’ mummy a stillborn baby

A tiny Egyptian mummy long believed to be that of a hawk is actually a rare example of a near-to-term, severely malformed...

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Anthropology

Ancient tooth shows Mesolithic ancestors were fish and plant eaters

Previous analysis of Mesolithic skeletal remains in this region has suggested a more varied Meditteranean diet consisting of terrestrial, freshwater and marine...