Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Ancient humans may have started hunting 2 million years ago

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Notches on a bone left by human butchering activity Jennifer A. Parkinson, Thomas W. Plummer, James S. Oliver, Laura C. Bishop Ancient human...

When the Vikings Crossed the Atlantic

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Remains of Viking settlement (Wolfgang Kaehler/Alamy Stock Photo) When a settlement at L’Anse aux Meadows, at the northern tip of Newfoundla...

Neolithic cattle site could change understanding of what beef meant to people of Ireland

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Credit: University College Dublin An archaeological site in Dublin with an unusually large collection of cattle remains could potentially ch...
Tuesday, January 11, 2022

Archaeologists stunned by lost Anglo-Saxon church unearthed along HS2 route

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The Norman Conquest of 1066 saw the invasion and occupation of England by an army of thousands of Normans, Bretons, Flemish and French troop...

Roman town’s remains found below Northamptonshire field on HS2 route

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A 10-metre-wide Roman road was uncovered during the excavation of a wealthy trading settlement, known as Blackgrounds, in Northamptonshire. ...
Monday, January 10, 2022

Viking sites in Scotland: These are 13 areas with Nordic history you should visit in Scotland

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1. Shetland It's hard to imagine Viking plunderers rampaging up that serene beach. But The Shetland Isles were the first part of Scotlan...

3,000-Year-Old Remains Of Badass Women Warriors Found In Armenian Cemetery

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More than three millennia ago, across the Mediterranean and Near East, society collapsed. Previously stable dominant empires and civilizatio...

Archeologists long believed that ancient graves were robbed all over Europe, but here’s why they’re wrong

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Grave from France where the individual was moved around before he fully decomposed. Éveha-Études et valorisations archéologiques/G Grange, A...

North European Funeral and Burial Rites in the Early Middle Ages

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Anglo-Saxons were often buried with everything they would need after death. In this case the dead woman’s family thought she would need her ...

The Sun & the Moon in Norse Myth

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In Norse mythology, the Sun and the Moon appear as personified siblings pulling the heavenly bodies and chased by wolves, or as plain object...

Hunter-Gatherer Sites in Sweden Yield Metalworking Artifacts

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LULEÅ, SWEDEN—Evidence of metalworking some 2,000 years ago by hunter-gatherers has been discovered at two archaeological sites in northeast...

Along Hadrian’s Wall, ancient Rome’s temples, towers, and cults come to life

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Punctuated with the remains of a milecastle (small fort), Hadrian’s Wall stretches over hilly terrain near Haltwhistle in Northumberland, En...

England After Rome: Angles and Saxons

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Great Britain was more adversely affected by the fall of Rome than any other region, as invaders from Northern Europe took advantage of the...
Monday, December 20, 2021

Vikings may have fled Greenland to escape rising seas

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An account of a wedding that took place at this former church in 1408 is the last written record from the Norse occupation of Greenland. In ...

Brutal Viking Ritual Called 'Blood Eagle' Was Anatomically Possible, Study Shows

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Man lying on his belly with another man using a weapon on his back. (Stora Hammar Stone) Famed for their swift longboats and bloody incursio...

Five ice-age mammoths unearthed in Cotswolds after 220,000 years

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Sir David Attenborough with some of the mammoth bones found in the gravel quarry near Swindon. Photograph: Julian Schwanitz/BBC/Windfall Fil...

Galloway Hoard yields another exciting discovery

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A rare rock crystal jar found wrapped in textiles as part of the Galloway Hoard, which dates back to around the year 900, has been conserved...

Plans for new home refused due to site potentially housing Anglo-Saxon remains

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The site of the proposed house sits between the A179 and the road leading to The Fens (Image: Google) Councillors have refused plans for a n...

Neanderthals Changed Ecosystems 125,000 Years Ago – Were Not “Primal Hippies

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Hunter-gatherers caused ecosystems to change 125,000 years ago. These are the findings of an interdisciplinary study by archaeologists from ...
Sunday, December 19, 2021

Ancient sheep poop reveals an unknown population on Faroe Islands before Vikings

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The bed of this lake on the Faroese island of Eysturoy contains sediment from 500 AD that documents the first arrival of sheep and humans. T...