Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Stonehenge Precursor Found? Island Complex Predates Famous Site

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On an island off Britain's northern tip, new discoveries suggest a huge Stone Age ritual complex is older than Stonehenge . But age ...

Dig yields evidence of ancient Byzantine harbour

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For 1,600 years, this city — Turkey’s largest — has been built and destroyed, erected and erased, as layer upon layer of life has thrived...
Monday, January 30, 2012

Call for archaeology volunteers

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Budding archaeologists are needed to help uncover the historical secrets hidden at a woodland site near Hastings. ...

Time team of Yearsley Moor are digging up its secrets

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Amateur archaeologists are digging through centuries of history on a wooded ridge overlooking Ampleforth in North Yorkshire. Roger Ratcli...

Find Roman history and Anglo Saxon remains under your feet

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BUDDING archaeologists need to pick up a trowel and get digging in their back gardens. A new project, funded by a £40,800 grant from th...

Drought reveals 1,600-year-old hidden port city in Turkey

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The ancient town of Bathonea continues to shed light on life as far back as the 2nd century BC Droughts are typically bad news, as they can...

Le Port englouti de Constantinople

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ARTE has a superb documentary about the excavations of the Theodosian port in Constantinople, discovered during the building of the Istanb...
Sunday, January 29, 2012

Arabia the First Stop for Modern Humans Out of Africa, Suggests New Study

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Q uestions surrounding when and where early modern humans first migrated from Africa to populate the rest of the world have long been a f...

The forgotten Mound of Down

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There are plenty of drumlins in County Down - but have you heard of the Mound of Down?  If not, that is probably because it has been hi...

Vikings Explore Hudson Bay

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Viking exploration of Hudson Bay will continue in 2013 when descendants of the first Viking voyagers to reach North America 1,000 years ...

Evidence suggests Vikings grew grain in south Greenland

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Archaeologists from the Danish national museum have finally succeeded in confirming that Erik the Red and his people could indeed brew b...

Archaeologists Excavate Ancient Populonia

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A team of archaeologists and students excavate the remains of a major Etruscan center in Italy. A team of archaeologists, students ...
Friday, January 27, 2012

Archaeology Courses at the Oxford Experience 2012

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The Oxford Experience Summer School 1 July to 11 August 2012 The 2012 Oxford Experience Programme is now online. The Oxford Exper...

Underwater archaeology: Hunt for the ancient mariner

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Armed with high-tech methods, researchers are scouring the Aegean Sea for the world's oldest shipwrecks. Brendan Foley peels his wetsu...

ASU center ensures access to archaeological data that otherwise may be lost

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Preserving archaeological information, facilitating access to a wide range of digital documents and data, and enhancing archaeological ...

Bones on Milton Keynes building site 'could be Roman'

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A set of bones discovered on a building site in Milton Keynes could be Roman, said a council archaeologist. The remains of more than o...

Lottery helps British Museum dig deep to save artefacts

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Heritage Lottery Fund pours £10m into 'biggest hole in Bloomsbury', site of museum's £135m extension It is still an enormous...
Thursday, January 26, 2012

Three-dimensional archaeology; recording, analysis and visualisation

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The programme for the CAA conference is now online . Entitled Three-dimensional archaeology; recording, analysis and visualisation , the se...

Mass grave belonged to Viking mercenaries

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The burial site, containing the bodies of 54 young men, was unearthed at Ridgeway Hill near Weymouth in 2009 ahead of the construction o...

Brooch treasure ‘owned by aristocratic child’

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A medieval silver brooch declared as treasure this week is likely to have belonged to a young Cumbrian aristocrat. The 13th century s...