Thursday, April 29, 2021

Citizen archaeologist discovers ancient ‘logboat’ in the Boyne Valley

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Citizen archaeologist Anthony Murphy (pictured) appears to have found another potentially significant discovery in the Boyne Valley - a logb...

'Miracle' cave in South Africa may be the earliest known human dwelling EVER found, 1.8million-year-old stone tools suggest

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The team explored layers deep within the ancient cave and were able to successfully establish the shift from Oldowan tools, sharp flakes and...

Is This 10,000-Year-Old Carving Europe’s Oldest Known Depiction of a Boat?

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Arock carving discovered in Norway may be one of Europe’s earliest examples of art depicting a boat, reports Garry Shaw for the Art Newspape...

The Cave Where Vikings Offered Sacrifices To Stop The Apocalypse

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The Surtshellir Cave in Iceland was discovered to be a trove full of Middle Eastern artifacts, and the location was used by the Vikings as a...

Archeologists discover remains of Viking rituals in Iceland

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Volcano has erupted in Iceland near Reykjavik (photo credit: REUTERS) A site dating back to the Viking age, approximately 300 meters beyond ...
Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Vikings created a massive boat in this volcanic cave to ward off the apocalypse

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Archaeologists found that the Vikings constructed this boat-shaped structure out of rocks. Inside the structure the Vikings burned animal bo...

Boat-Shaped Viking Structure Found in Icelandic Cave

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© Kevin P. Smith PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND—Live Science reports that a team of researchers led by Kevin Smith of Brown University has investi...
Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Viking metalwork craft and expertise evolved from 8th to 9th century

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Credit: CC0 Public Domain The evolution of metalwork expertise and craftsmanship developed by Viking craftspeople in Denmark in the 8th and ...

Early bronze age tomb uncovered near Marlborough

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James Cameron at the site of the tomb in East Kennett (left) and exposed lintel at the tomb (right)  A rare archeological find has been unea...

Mesolithic Double Burial Discovered In France

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Mesolithic tomb of Casseneuil being cleared [Credit: Frederic Prodeo, Willford O'yl, Inrap] The Mesolithic covers a period of 5,000 year...

Gold ring from Civil War era unearthed in Manx field

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The ring will go on display at the Manx Museum in Douglas from Saturday - MNH A gold and crystal mourning ring thought to have connections t...

Lidl store builds glass floor to showcase 11th century Viking ruins

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The store opened in 2020 (RTE news/YouTube) A Lidl supermarket in Dublin has put on a show for amazed shoppers, installing glass panels in b...

Which Skills Were Valued in Early Neolithic Europe?

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YORK, ENGLAND—According to a statement released by the University of York , a recent review of stone tools recovered from early Neolithic ...

Swan Songs

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Courtesy Filip Ondrkál) Bronze lamp, four views From 1881 to 1890, in locations including modern Slovakia, Hungary, Italy, and Bosnia and He...

Gladiator arena from Roman era unearthed in Turkey

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 An aerial view shows the Roman-era arena poking out of a hilly area in Mastaura, Turkey. (Image credit: Courtesy of Assoc. Prof. Mehmet Umu...

3D scanning gives new insight into 275-year-old Jacobite battlefield

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Lidar technology has allowed experts to create a map of the Culloden battlefield, where the last pitched battle on British soil occurred in ...

Little Foot fossil shows early human ancestor clung closely to trees

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Little Foot was discovered in the 1990s in a cave in South Africa and is the most intact ancient skeleton of any human ancestor. Credit: Pau...
Sunday, April 18, 2021

“Mixing between modern humans and archaic hominins was a common phenomenon.”

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Kutubu island in Papua New Guinea. Different ancient humans encountered each other in this region.Marc Dozier Around 45,000 years ago, anato...
Saturday, April 17, 2021

Ancient human migration into Europe revealed via genome analysis

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The Bacho Kiro cave in Bulgaria. The research is based on analysis of several ancient human remains – including a whole tooth and bone fragm...

How new discoveries in west Africa could rewrite pre-history

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Archaeology in West Africa could rewrite the textbooks on human evolution. Our species, Homo sapiens, rose in Africa some 300,000 years ago....