Monday, October 08, 2012

Archaeological site secures funding from Lottery fund

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A project that will reveal thousands of years of Northamptonshire’s archaeology and heritage has taken a major step forward following an...

Neolithic discovery: why Orkney is the centre of ancient Britain

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Long before the Egyptians began the pyramids, Neolithic man built a vast temple complex at the top of what is now Scotland. Robin McKie vi...

'Significant' finds at Crossrail site

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Excavations at Tottenham Court Road [Credit: Crossrail]   The UK’s largest archaeology programme has uncovered its first Bronze Age ...

Divers return to ancient Greek 'computer' wreck site

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Main Antikythera mechanism fragment. The mechanism consists of a complex system of 32 wheels and plates with inscriptions relating to t...

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Das Grab "V3" aus dem frühbronzezeitlichen Gräberfeld von Geitzdendorf, NÖ (Foto: Urgeschichtemuseum Niederösterreich) Eine...

Mammoth carcass found in Siberia

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A well-preserved mammoth carcass has been found by an 11-year-old boy in the permafrost of northern Siberia. The remains were discove...
Friday, October 05, 2012

Who Mastered Fire?

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Mannequin of a Tautavel Man—would he have had known how to make fire? Photo credit by Eric Cabanis/AFP/Getty Images. The...

Bronze Age transport route 'found during Crossrail dig'

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Wood found during excavation work for Crossrail could be evidence of a 3,500-year-old Bronze Age transport route through London, exper...

Byzantine coins found at Bulgarian monastary site

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Some of the 101 Byzantine coins found at the monastery in Veliki Preslav [Credit: Sofia Globe]   Archaeologists working at the site o...

Early Byzantine pithos found by Turkish farmer

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The early Byzantine pithos was unearthed by a farmer while picking melons [Credit: Hurriyet/AA] A farmer who was picking watermelons...

The Greyfriars Project

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The University of Leicester and Leicester City Council, in association with the Richard III Society, ha...
Thursday, October 04, 2012

Vikings Project Curator

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Job Description: The British Museum Prehistory and Europe Department Pr...

Oxford Experience on Facebook

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The Oxford Experience - an Oxford University summer school that offers many courses in archaeology and history - now has a Facebook sit...

Stonehenge life-sized Neolithic homes to be built

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A contract to build three life-sized Neolithic homes at Stonehenge in Wiltshire has been put out to tender.  English Heritage is invi...

Project exposes dark past of city buildings

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Project officer Jane Harrison  THE Kassam Stadium is no stranger to the prayers of pleading football fans.  But for hundreds ...

Conservation work suggested for Lochindorb Castle

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The ruined stronghold of a notorious 14th Century lord who was known as the Wolf of Badenoch could be in line for conservation work. ...

War of the Roses experts hope to commission historic hunt for location of Battle of Barnet

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Local historian Mike Noronha (right) inspects a model renactment of the Battle of Barnet A medieval battle that to...

Neolithic dentists?

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A 6,500-year-old tooth packed with beeswax could represent the earliest evidence of a dental filling, newly-published research has anno...

Methane Emissions Can Be Traced Back to Roman Times

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The isotope curve shows that the emissions of the greenhouse gas methane had several peaks in the last 2,100 years. 1: During Roman ti...

Return to Antikythera: Divers revisit wreck where ancient computer found

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Site where oldest computer lay for thousands of years may yield other treasures and even another Antikythera mechanism In 1900, Greek spo...