Thursday, August 01, 2013

Roman skeletons discovered in Gloucester

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The discovery has been called one of the most significant in recent years About 40 skeletons have been uncovered by archaeologists at ...

Archaeology: The milk revolution

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When a single genetic mutation first let ancient Europeans drink milk, it set the stage for a continental upheaval. In the 1970s, archa...

Diocletian’s palace gets laser facelift

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Conservators in Croatia have completed a ten-year project to remove more than 1,700 years of grime from the courtyard of the palace of the ...

The Day of Archaeology

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On Tuesday, 30 July Lorna Richardson gave an extremely interesting talk entitled “The Day of Archaeology: using Internet technology t...
Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Two Neolithic-Era Burial Halls Discovered in UK Countryside

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Archaeologists from the University of Manchester and the Herefordshire Council have unearthed the remains of two large halls that were c...

2 6,000-year-old 'halls of the dead' unearthed, in UK first

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The remains of two large 6000-year-old halls, each buried within a prehistoric burial mound, have been discovered by archaeologists from Th...

Find helps scientists map waves of migration across the continents

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The discovery of an “early modern human” dating from 40,000 years ago in a cave outside Beijing, and a comparison of the individual’s DNA w...
Monday, July 29, 2013

COFFIN-WITHIN-A-COFFIN FOUND AT RICHARD III SITE

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A rchaeologists have unearthed a mysterious coffin-within-a-coffin near the final resting place of Richard III. The University of Leice...

3D Virtual Dig: a 3D Application for Teaching Fieldwork in Archaeology

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Archaeology is a material, embodied discipline; communicating this experience is critical to student success. In the context of lower-div...

Medieval Mansion Found at U.K. Construction Site

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It sounds like a case for Sherlock Holmes: a 900-year-old medieval manor mysteriously vanishes, only to be uncovered later by British ar...

10,000 year old mesolithic hut recreated

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Archaeologists from University College Dublin have built a replica of a Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age house on the Belfield campus to bett...

Search for link between mammoth bones and early hunters

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Researchers at the University of Kansas have been digging for clues that would tie the remains of a 15,500-year-old mammoth discovered in w...
Saturday, July 27, 2013

Traces of 'lost village' found in Nottinghamshire

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Experts say the presence of Medieval pottery suggests the presence a community that possibly dates from before the Norman conquest Rem...

Possible Saxon bread oven found in Norfolk

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A 1,300-year-old bread oven could have been discovered by a group of volunteer archaeologists in Norfolk. The suspected oven could have ...
Friday, July 26, 2013

Dig at Kent university's Iron Age site

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A site which experts believe could be an Iron Age settlement is being excavated on land where the new Turing College at the University o...

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During a recent excavation beneath the streets of London, archaeologists found a total of 1,500 human bodies, many buried hastily in a w...

Roman mosaic may lie beneath Chester’s Dewa Experience building

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ARCHAEOLOGISTS says there is the tantalising prospect of a Roman mosaic beneath the Dewa Roman Experience premises in the city centre. A ...

Viking Jewelry Unearthed in Denmark

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A copper alloy piece of jewelry found at a Viking-age site in Denmark shows an animal figure with a beadlike chain around its neck. Se...

Archaeologists Excavate Ancient Roman Capital in Macedonia

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A lthough the ancient site known as   Stobi  in central Macedonia has been the subject of numerous excavations and research over the past...

Archaeological finds reveal prehistoric civilization along Silk Road

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Archaeologists have unearthed relics that suggest prehistoric humans lived along the Silk Road long before it was created about 2,000 years...