Wednesday, June 20, 2018

New technique provides accurate dating of ancient skeletons

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EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF HUMAN GENETICS—Milan, Italy: Interest in the origins of human populations and their migration routes has increased gr...

Enigmatic Stone Balls from 5,000 Years Ago Continue to Baffle Archaeologists

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The 3D models of the carved balls of stone, including the spiral-carved Towie ball (center), are now posted online.  Credit: National Mus...

Archaeologists in Cambridgeshire find graves of two men with legs chopped off

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‘Somebody really, really didn’t like these guys,’ says Jonathan House, archaeologist with the Mola Headland Infrastructure team.  Photo...

How to decorate like a Viking

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Grand Designs, Viking edition. A new report recreates some of the colours used by Vikings to decorate their houses, including ochre and c...

DNA study reveals fate of Irish women taken by Vikings as slaves to Iceland

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The Sea Stallion from Glendalough, a reconstructed Viking ship [Credit: Eric Luke] The mapping of DNA from some of the settlers who col...

Anger at bird hide damage to Neolithic burial site

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The hide, which has toppled over, was constructed on an ancient burial cairn PAUL CAMPBELL A makeshift bird hide has been built on th...
Monday, June 18, 2018

Inscribed seventh-century window ledge unearthed at Tintagel

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The slate ledge was found during excavations of Tintagel Castle in Cornwall, a site associated with the stories of King Arthur. Photograp...

Large-scale whaling in north Scandinavia may date back to 6th century

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Top: a board-game piece made from whalebone at the end of the 6th century CE, found in Gnistahögen near Uppsala, Sweden (photograph by ...

Bedfordshire's first Roman town wall unearthed in Sandy

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Items discovered by Les Capon and his team include the skeleton of a woman, a funeral pyre, Roman rubbish and a pottery kiln Archaeolog...

Possible discovery of prehistoric settlement near Thurso

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Archaeologists are to make further investigations of the structures found ORKNEY RESEARCH CENTRE FOR ARCHAEOLOGY A community archaeol...
Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Imperial Roman villa found near Milvian Bridge

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Credit: ANSA An Imperial Roman villa has been found along the banks of the Tiber near the Milvian Bridge, archaeologists said Tuesday. ...

Detection of invisible elements in ancient rock engravings

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Detailed picture of a bovine animal after applying the methodology  [Credit: Aroa Gutiérrez Alonso] Two researchers from Universidad ...

MISE AU JOUR D’UNE VILLA DE L’ANTIQUITÉ

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À Vire (Calvados), l’Inrap conduit depuis la fin du mois de février 2018 une fouille d’envergure, sur prescription de l’Etat (Drac Norman...

Hidden writing in ancient desert monastery manuscripts

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Fr Justin is helping to share online the historic manuscripts in an ancient Sinai monastery For a monk who lives in the Sinai desert in...
Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Why the next big archaeological discovery may not come out of the ground

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Keith Kintigh speaks at the Coalition for Archaeological Synthesis launch.  Photo courtesy of Keith Kintigh Keith Kintigh has seen th...

South Downs skeleton 'executed 1,000 years ago'

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The well-preserved skeleton, thought to be from the 11th Century, was found during excavations in the South Downs A man whose remains w...

3,000-year-old Bronze Age oak road to be preserved in Co Westmeath

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Bronze Age track at Mayne Bog: when Westland Horticulture uncovered it in 2005 the National Monuments Service did not issue a preservatio...

When prehistoric man lived around Glasgow

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The Cochno Stone at Faifley was excavated in 2015 and 2016 and then reburied to protect it from damage. PIC: John Devlin/TSPL. Prehisto...

Oldest Bubonic Plague Genome Decoded

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Double burial of the two plague victims in the Samara region, Russia  [Credit: V.V. Kondrashin and V.A. Tsybin; Spyrou et al.  Nature...

Woolly mammoth bone discovered on shore near Stranraer

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The discovery was made on the shore near Stranraer SOLWAY FIRTH PARTNERSHIP A bone believed to have come from a woolly mammoth has be...