Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Ancient remains from reindeer hunting and a forgotten trail in the Norwegian mountains found by glacial archaeologists

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If you want to kill a reindeer with a bow and arrow you have to get as close to the animal as you possibly can. You probably can’t be furthe...
Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Ground-breaking DNA study finds Vikings weren’t all Scandinavian

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Researchers have shown that not all Vikings were from Scandinavia.  (CREDIT: Lorado/Getty via VCG) Invaders, pirates, warriors – the history...
Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Child’s tooth ‘earliest known evidence of modern humans in western Europe’

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The fossil of a child’s tooth is the earliest known evidence of modern humans in western Europe researchers say. The discovery of the molar ...

Roman fort damaged by suspected illegal metal detecting

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Experts are investigating suspected illegal metal detecting at a Roman fort. Historic Environment Scotland (HES) said it is working with pol...

Climate change threatens Hadrian's Wall treasures in England

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Archaeologists at Hadrian's Wall in northern England say global warming could soon ruin undiscovered Roman artefacts. Nineteen hundred y...
Sunday, February 06, 2022

Viking Age boat burials: a history of research

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Oseberg Viking ship Viking Age boat burials: a history of research Paper by Luna Polinelli Given online by the Iceland Society of Archaeolog...
Thursday, February 03, 2022

Six-year-old Anglo-Saxon boy who lived in Cambridgeshire 1,400 years ago was infected with plague, meningitis and septic arthritis when he died.

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Analysis of the remains of a six-year-old Anglo-Saxon unearthed in Cambridgeshire revealed that the poor boy had plague , meningitis and sep...
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...