Saturday, December 19, 2009

University of Oxford Online Courses in Archaeology

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The University of Oxford Online Courses in Archaeology are taking bookings for 2010. Courses descriptions and application forms can be found...

Newport's medieval ship model is taking shape

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A model replica of Newport's medieval ship will soon be complete thanks to an innovative manufacturing process perfected at Cardiff Univ...

Science's breakthrough of the year: Uncovering 'Ardi'

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The research that brought to light the fossils of Ardipithecus ramidus, a hominid species that lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Et...

Human Ancestors Were Homemakers

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In a stone-age version of "Iron Chef," early humans were dividing their living spaces into kitchens and work areas much earlier th...

Ancient Greek Artifact Pulled Out of Mediterranean Sea

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Archaeologists pulled a section of an ancient Egyptian pylon out of the Mediterranean seabed on Thursday in Alexandria. The ruin was discove...
Friday, December 18, 2009

Davy Jones's lock-up

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Underwater robots can help study the world’s shipwrecks, a trove of information about the past, more easily and cheaply A SHIPWRECK is a cat...

Experts bid to decode Roman altar

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A PAIR of German computer experts are hoping to decode part of South Shields's history by setting their sights on a mysterious Roman alt...

2010 preview: Arise, Neanderthal brother

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Do we have a little Neanderthal in us? That's not a reference to your behaviour at the end-of-year office party, but to the genes of our...

York Archaeological Trust take over running of Micklegate Museum on City Walls

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A NEW era has dawned for York’s City Walls after the owners of the Jorvik Centre took possession of the keys of Micklegate Bar. York Archaeo...

Stone Age Pantry: Archaeologist Unearths Earliest Evidence of Modern Humans Using Wild Grains and Tubers for Food

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The consumption of wild cereals among prehistoric hunters and gatherers appears to be far more ancient than previously thought, according to...

Bones find from abandoned village 'show tough life of medieval women'

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The fearsome northern woman of legend and cliche, broadchested and with a frying pan poised to whack sense into her man, has proved to have ...

Medieval Nora Battys uncovered

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THE age of equality, it seems, dates back to the medieval era if the lives of peasant women in a famous Yorkshire settlement are anything to...

Marsh Archaeology Award 2009 Winner Announced

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The winner of the 2009 Marsh Archaeology Award was announced earlier today by the Council for British Archaeology at the end of a session on...

Medieval Peasants grew the best grapes, study finds

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Scientists in Cambridge have discovered that a lowly grape variety grown by peasants – but despised by noblemen – during the Middle Ages was...

How did King Harold die at the Battle of Hastings

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A recent article is challenging the notion that the Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson was killed by an arrow to the eye during the famous Ba...

Spanish dig fails to find grave of poet Lorca

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Excavations aimed at finding the remains of Spanish poet and dramatist Federico Garcia Lorca have drawn a blank, officials say. The dig prod...
Thursday, December 17, 2009

Find in southern France puts humans in Europe 200,000 earlier

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Experts on prehistoric man are rethinking their dates after a find in a southern French valley that suggests our ancestors may have reached ...

Merovingian and Carolingian burial sites discovered near Paris

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A team of French archaeo-anthropologists have discovered two burial sites dating from the Early Middle Ages in Noisy-le-Grand, a suburb of P...

Restoration of Medieval Monastery in Bulgaria to Begin Next Year

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Restoration of the St Michael the Archangel Monastery near the Bulgarian town of Trun will begin next year, Trun Mayor Stanislav Nikolov sai...

Climate Change Does Not Always Lead to Conflict

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The climate change that took place in Mesopotamia around 2000 BC did not lead to war, but in fact led to the development of a new shared ide...