Monday, March 18, 2019

Mary Rose crew 'was from Mediterranean and North Africa'

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The Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth's Historic Dockyard houses a cross section of the ship's hull as well as thousands of artefact...

Archaeologists discovered a flintstone workshop of Neanderthals in the southern Poland; it is approx. 60,000 years old

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Researchers discovered a flint workshop of Neanderthals in Pietraszyno (Silesia). According to scientists, it is the first such large wor...

Ancient switch to soft food gave us an overbite—and the ability to pronounce ‘f’s and ‘v’s

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An ancient woman from Romania shows an edgeto-edge bite (left). A Bronze Age man from Austria had a slight overbite (right). D. E. BLASI ...

Artificial intelligence for the study of sites

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Three examples of the different types of notches  [Credit: A. Moclán] An experimental study led by researcher Abel Moclán, from the ...

Ancient migration transformed Spain's DNA

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Bronze Age burials: Iberia saw a dramatic genetic shift during this period L BENITEZ DE LUGO ENRICH - JOSE LUIS FUENTES SANCH A migra...

Neandertaler und moderne Menschen hatten ähnliche Speisezettel

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Knochen aus Spy geben Aufschluss über Ernährung und Mobilität der dortigen Neandertaler. Foto: Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Science...

Anglo-Saxon gold pendant found in Norfolk declared treasure

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The gold pendant would have belonged to a "high status woman", like the famous Winfarthing Pendant COURTESY OF THE PORTABLE A...
Thursday, March 14, 2019

Hominids may have hunted rabbits as far back as 400,000 years ago

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BUNNY TRAIL  Fossils from southern European sites indicate that ancient relatives of humans hunted small, fast animals as early as around...

Researchers find a piece of Palaeolithic art featuring birds and humans

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A tracing of the engraved figures over the stone [Credit: University of Barcelona] It is not very common to find representations of sce...

Stonehenge was 'hub for Britain's earliest mass parties'

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Pigs were the main food at the feasts and were brought from as far away as Scotland and the North East of England to Stonehenge ENGLISH...

HABITATS DE L’ÂGE DU BRONZE, SILOS ET RITUELS GAULOIS À FAUX-FRESNAY

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À Faux-Fresnay, dans la Marne, une équipe d’archéologues de l’Inrap a découvert des vestiges de deux villages de l’âge du Bronze et de l’...

In Europa lebten im frühen Jungpaläolithikum im Schnitt nur 1.500 Menschen

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Mit einem an der Universität zu Köln entwickelten Protokoll können die Forscherinnen und Forscher des Sonderforschungsbereiches 806 ...
Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Home of 7th Century princess unearthed in Coldingham

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The dig concentrated on ground around Coldingham Priory in the Borders DIGVENTURES/AERIAL-CAM Archaeologists believe they have found ...

'Hobbit' human story gets a twist, thanks to thousands of rat bones

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The limestone cave of Liang Bua, on the Indonesian island of Flores, is widely known as the hobbit cave, the site where the surprisingl...
Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Unique Medieval Burial Found In Sicily

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This medieval man's skeleton, bearing marks of stab wounds, was found facedown in a shallow pit in Sicily  [Credit: Emanuele Canzon...

Yes, That Viking Warrior Buried with Weapons Really Was a Woman

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An illustration of what the female warrior may have looked like. Credit: Drawing by Tancredi Valeri; Copyright Antiquity Publications L...

Second Rare Roman Coin Hoard Found In Warwickshire

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Coins from Year of the Four Emperors and pot found in Warwickshire  [Credit: Warwickshire County Council] Warwickshire museum service...

University of Cambridge release trove of aerial photos of Wales

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A series of aerial photographs which form part of a collection labelled the "historical Google Earth" show the changing face of...

Neolithic skull found by Thames 'mudlarkers'

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The frontal bone was radiocarbon dated to 3,600 BC MUSEUM OF LONDON Here's a piece of history pulled from the muddy banks of the Ri...

St Michan's, Dublin: Vandals decapitate 800-year-old crusader

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The crusader's head was "severed from his body and taken away" An 800-year-old "crusader" from a crypt in a Dub...