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Monday, November 08, 2010

Items found in Monmouth shed light on Mesolithic man

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The discovery of artefacts during gas mains excavations in Monmouth has helped illustrate how the River Wye supported a Stone Age camp. Arch...
Sunday, November 07, 2010

Megalithic tomb’s secrets revealed after 5,500 years

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Flint tools from the dawn of time and an ancient blue glass bead have been uncovered by archaeologists excavating a portal tomb in Northern ...

Were the Romans more energy efficient than we are?

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According to Eon, we could learn a lot from the Romans about energy efficiency. To coincide with the launch of their new website which appar...

Luftwaffe spy photo reveals lost Tudor garden

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Grass rings in photograph of Lyveden New Bield's grounds reveal historically important labyrinth, says English Heritage A German spy pho...

House of the Gladiators collapses in Pompeii

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A house in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii has collapsed, raising concerns about Italy's state support for its archaeological heritage...

World's oldest axe found in Australia

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Archaeologists have discovered a piece of a stone axe in far northern Australia, which they believe is the oldest of its kind to have been f...

Five things archaeologists can learn from PRINCE2

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I've written about PRINCE2 before. The choice to use the PRINCE2 project management methodology has to be made at corporate level; it i...

Pompeii ruin collapses amid claims site mismanaged

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A 2,000-year-old ancient Roman house used by gladiators before fighting to the death has collapsed in the buried city of Pompeii, further fu...

Beer Lubricated the Rise of Civilization, Study Suggests

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May beer have helped lead to the rise of civilization? It's a possibility, some archaeologists say. Their argument is that Stone Age far...

Language and toolmaking evolved together, say researchers

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Evolutionary advance saw stone-age humans master the art of hand-toolmaking and paved the way for language to develop Stone-age humans maste...

Historical find at Leighton Buzzard golf course

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An archaeological treasure has been unearthed on a golf course in Bedfordshire. A quern stone was found by greenkeepers at Leighton Buzzard ...

Große Keltenausstellung 2012

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2012 kommen die Kelten nach Stuttgart. In einer Koproduktion wird vom 15. September 2012 bis 17. Februar 2013 die wohl größte Kelten-Ausstel...

Pompeii collapse prompts charges of official neglect

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Archaeologists, commentators and opposition politicians accused Italy's government of neglect and mismanagement on Sunday over the colla...

Pompeiians Flash-Heated to Death—"No Time to Suffocate"

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The famous lifelike poses of many victims at Pompeii—seated with face in hands, crawling, kneeling on a mother's lap—are helping to lead...
Monday, November 01, 2010

Bronze Age hoard found intact in Essex field

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Archaeologists have unearthed a collection of Bronze Age axe heads, spear tips and other 3,000-year-old metal objects buried in an Essex fie...

Digger finds Neolithic tomb complex

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Archaeologists on Orkney are investigating what is thought to be a 5,000-year-old tomb complex. A local man stumbled on the site while using...
Sunday, October 31, 2010

How 5000-yr-old Neolithic men painted their homes

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London, Oct 30 : A new research has revealed that our ancestors from 5,000 years ago painted their homes to brighten up their places too. Th...

New study finds headless skeletons in ancient cemetery were Romans

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Eighty headless skeletons unearthed between 2004 and 2005 from an ancient English cemetery in the city of York or the then Roman capital Ebo...

Scientists issue call to action for archaeological sites threatened by rising seas

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global warming cause sea levels to rise as predicted in coming decades, thousands of archaeological sites in coastal areas around the world ...
Saturday, October 30, 2010

Armenian archeologists: 5,900-year-old skirt found

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An Armenian archaeologist says that scientists have discovered a skirt that could be 5,900-year-old. Pavel Avetisian, the head of the Instit...
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David Beard MA, FSA, FSA Scot
I am a freelance archaeologist and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland specializing in the medieval period. I have worked as a field archaeologist for the Department of Environment (Northern Ireland) and the Museum of London. I have been involved in continuing education for many years and have taught for the University of Oxford Department for Continuing Education (OUDCE) and the Universities of London, Essex, Ulster, and the London College of the University of Notre Dame, and I was the Archaeological Consultant for Southwark Cathedral. I am the author of and tutor for an OUDCE online course on the Vikings, and the Programme Director and Academic Director for the Oxford Experience Summer School.
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