Saturday May 29th 2004, 9.30-5.00
Archaeological Research in Progress 2004: North East Scotland
Organised by the Council for Scottish Archaeology, and staged jointly with the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, this day long conference in Aberdeen will focus on the many exciting projects that are currently taking place in the north east of Scotland.
Further details can be found on the Archaeological Events Diary
Friday, April 30, 2004
Nones at Merton Priory
Sunday 2nd May 3.00pm
Nones will be held in Merton Priory Chapter House, under Merantun Way, behind the Savacentre, Colliers Wood. Tube - Colliers Wood
Arranged by the Friends of Merton Priory
Further Information
Roman dig
VOLUNTEERS are invited to take part in a dig on the site of the largest known stone bridge in Roman Britain.
Work will take place near Corbridge, Northumberland, with the help of a £303,500 Heritage Lottery Fund grant, this summer. Keeper of field archaeology Margaret Snape will give a lecture on the project at 12.30pm on Wednesday, at Segedunum Roman fort, Wallsend, North Tyneside
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Atlantis “discovered” – near Cyprus
Explorers are reportedly claiming to have found the lost and fabled city of Atlantis – somewhere off the Mediterranean island of Cyprus.
According to reports in many of today’s newspapers, an American team has found an archaeological site in the sea between Cyprus and the north coast of Africa, about a mile below sea level.
Travel Mole
Saxon remains unearthed
ARCHAEOLOGISTS busy digging at a churchyard in Cricklade have unearthed some Saxon artefacts.
The team of three, from Border Archaeology in Herefordshire, have spent the last couple of weeks creating a 750mm deep trench in St Sampson's Churchyard.
This is Cirencester
Computer helps map ancient Rome
Progress has been made in piecing together the Forma Urbis Romae, a map of Rome carved into stone slabs about AD 210 but later broken into fragments.
BBC News
Earliest fire sheds light on hominids
Ancient hearths unveiled as nearly 800 millennia old.
You could travel back 790,000 years and still find someone to light your fire: archaeologists have collected evidence that early humans mastered fire much earlier than previously thought.
Nature
Charred remains may be earliest human fires
Archaeologists in Israel may have unearthed the oldest evidence of fire use by our ancestors.
The site, on the banks of the Jordan River, dates to about 790,000 years ago. There are older sites in Africa, but the evidence from these is much more hotly contested.
New Scientist
Early human fire mastery revealed
Human-like species migrating out of their African homeland had mastered the use of fire up to 790,000 years ago, the journal Science reports.
The evidence, from northern Israel, suggests species such as Homo erectus may have been surprisingly sophisticated in their behaviour.
BBC News
Man's First Fire in 790,000BC
Humans lit their first fire half a million years earlier than scientists thought, new research claims. Archaeologists say they have found the world's oldest fireplace in Israel. They have dated burnt seeds, wood and flint to around 790,000 years ago. That was around the time humans first appeared in Europe.
Megalithic Portal
Charred remains may be earliest human fires
Archaeologists in Israel may have unearthed the oldest evidence of fire use by our ancestors.
The site, on the banks of the Jordan River, dates to about 790,000 years ago. There are older sites in Africa, but the evidence from these is much more hotly contested.
Mirabilis
Thursday, April 29, 2004
Neanderthals reached full adulthood at the age of 15
Neanderthal man grew up faster than his modern-day cousins and probably reached full adulthood at 15 years of age, scientists have found.
An extensive study of Neanderthal teeth dating back from about 130,000 to 28,000 years ago has found that these early humans developed more quickly than previously realised.
Independent
Study: Neanderthals matured faster than humans
ROANOKE, Virginia (AP) -- If you think your kids grow up fast, consider this: A new study suggests that Neanderthal children blazed through adolescence and on average reached adulthood at age 15.
CNN.com
Neanderthals were 'adults by 15'
The Neanderthals reached adulthood at the tender age of 15 according to a report in the journal Nature.
French and Spanish researchers analysed growth records preserved in the teeth of Neanderthals, modern humans and two other human species.
BBC News
How humans put the bite on Neanderthals
Evidence that the life of Neanderthal man was short and probably nasty, is published today. The research also provides evidence that our ancestors were responsible for their demise writes Roger Highfield, Science Editor of The Telegraph.
Megalithic Portal
Wednesday, April 28, 2004
Festival of Beltain
With the burning of a wicker man
Saturday 1st May 2004
starting at 6.30pm
Butser Ancient Farm
Further information
'Noah's Ark is found'
SCIENTISTS believe they have spotted the wreckage of Noah's Ark on Mount Ararak where The Bible says it landed after the Great Flood.
Satellite photos taken last year show the remains of a manmade structure close to the summit of the peak in Eastern Turkey.
Daniel P McGivern of Shamrock - The Trinity Corporation, which took the pictures, said: "These new photos unequivocally show a man-made object.
The Sun
Noah's Ark quest heads for Turkey
American and Turkish explorers are hoping to discover traces of Noah's Ark on the slopes of Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey.
A joint expedition of 10 explorers from both countries intends to trek up the 5,346m (17,820ft) mountain in July.
BBC News
LOTTERY CASH TO HELP SECURE FUTURE OF 'AGINCOURT' CHURCH
Crusaders worshipped there, soldiers bound for Agincourt prayed there and the crew of the Titanic is commemorated there, but since it was devastated by a second world war bomb, Holyrood Church in Southampton has been a ruin.
Now, thanks to a £670,000 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, essential repairs and improvements in interpretation will help secure the future of this historic building.
24 Hour Museum News
Shedding light on Romans in Sussex
Artefacts dating back to 900BC could be dug up when archaeologists start exploring farmland in East Sussex.
Up to 15 people will excavate a small plot of land in Eastbourne in September looking for evidence of Roman or medieval occupation.
Permission has been given by the farmer landowner to hand-dig the two-trench site off King's Drive, near Eastbourne District General Hospital.
This is Brighton & Hove
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