Saturday, December 20, 2008

VIDEO: "Viking Horse" Has 2 More Gaits

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Brought to the island by Vikings, the Icelandic horse does two gaits (besides walk, trot, and gallop) that no other horse does. Watch the vi...

University of Oxford Online Courses in Archaeology

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Cave paintings, castles and pyramids, Neanderthals, Romans and Vikings - archaeology is about the excitement of discovery, finding out about...

Archaeological discovery: Earliest evidence of our cave-dwelling human ancestors

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A research team led by Professor Michael Chazan, director of the University of Toronto's Archaeology Centre, has discovered the earliest...

Two Medieval Hoards Discovered in Historical Centre of Moscow

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A unique hidden treasure consisting of 11 Russian coins of the epoch of Vasily the Blind (Vasily Tyomny) has been found during archeological...

Reading Bones to Unlock Mysteries of the Evolution of Hunting and Warfare

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Read any good bones lately? Visiting biological anthropologist Jill Rhodes has, and they may provide some of the earliest evidence of when m...

Wie das Wasser nach Xanten kam

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Was Archäologen der Außenstelle Xanten des LVR-Amtes für Bodendenkmalpflege im Rheinland vermutet und seit einigen Wochen durch Grabungen un...

Seltener Bleibarrenfund vor der Küste von Ibiza

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Kölner Wissenschaftler vermutet Rüstungsgüter für Karthago Einem Wissenschaftler des Archäologischen Instituts der Universität zu Köln, Dr. ...
Friday, December 19, 2008

Library Thing

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( I am very grateful to Christine of the Mirabilis blog whose posting on Library Thing first brought the site to my attention .) Library Th...

Earth's Original Ancestor Was LUCA, Not Adam Nor Eve

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Here's another argument against intelligent design: An evolutionary geneticist from the Université de Montréal, together with researcher...

Medieval music brought back to life

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Music from a medieval manuscript that has not been heard since the 15th century has been brought back to life, thanks to researchers at The ...

Four-storey hotel to be built opposite Hampton Court

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A four-storey river-front hotel is to be built opposite Hampton Court Palace despite vocal objections from the heritage lobby and historian ...

Passage graves from an astronomical perspective

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Passage graves are mysterious barrows from the Stone Age. New research from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen indicat...
Thursday, December 18, 2008

DNA is recovered from ancestral snack

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WE MAY soon find out exactly what our ancestors ate when they sat down to dinner. The discovery that DNA can be extracted from ancient cooke...

Three marble heads excavated at archaeological site Stibera

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Three marble heads - one of an adult man, the other of a woman and the third one of a young boy - are the latest discovery unearthed during ...

London Archaeologist Archive Released

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The Archaeology Data Service and the London Archaeologist Association are pleased to announce the online availability of London Archaeologis...

Ancient Mass Graves of Soldiers, Babies, Found in Italy

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More than 10,000 graves containing ancient amphorae, "baby bottles," and the bodies of soldiers who fought the Carthaginians were ...

Farmer digs up ancient sanctuary in Italy

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A farmer working his land south of Rome dug up hundreds of artifacts from a 2,600-year-old sanctuary, but ran afoul of police when he tried ...
Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Prehistoric settlement uncovered

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An unknown prehistoric settlement has been revealed during archaeological work in East Taunton, Somerset. The dig was commissioned by Somers...

Battlefield relics could rewrite Roman history

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ARCHAEOLOGISTS say the history books about Roman legions in Europe will have to be revised following the "sensational" discovery o...
Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Predecessor of Cows, The Aurochs, Were Still Living In The Netherlands Around AD 600

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Archaeological researchers at the University of Groningen have discovered that the aurochs, the predecessor of our present-day cow, lived in...