The Thrills of Rediscovering Ancient Greece While Touring Modern Athens
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Ancient people carved mysterious symbols near dinosaur footprints
Dinosaur footprints and rock carvings, both highlighted with dashed lines, at the Serrote do Letreiro site in BrazilLeonardo Troiano/ National Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage, Brazil
Mysterious rock…
Medieval horses buried in London had far-flung origins
International trade may have helped medieval elites acquire the best horses for jousting tournamentsPRISMA ARCHIVO / Alamy
Horses owned by the elite in medieval England were probably imported from continental Europe,…
Theoretical Foundations for Archaeological Pedagogy with Digital 3D, Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed…
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Archaeology is inherently a visual and spatial discipline and thus we should strive to center student learning within visual and spatial media. Apart from museum…
Amazingly preserved Bronze Age village reveals life in ancient England
An intact hafted axe found under one of the structures that burnt down at the Must Farm siteCambridge Archaeological Unit
The remains of a Bronze Age settlement in eastern England have been exquisitely preserved…
Amazingly preserved Bronze Age village reveals life in ancient England
An intact hafted axe found under one of the structures that burnt down at the Must Farm siteCambridge Archaeological Unit
The remains of a Bronze Age settlement in eastern England have been exquisitely preserved…
Human brains have been mysteriously preserved for thousands of years
The 1000-year-old brain of an individual excavated from a churchyard in Ypres, Belgium. The folds of the tissue, which are still soft and wet, are stained orange with iron oxidesAlexandra L. Morton-Hayward
A study of…
Human brains have been mysteriously preserved for thousands of years
The 1000-year-old brain of an individual excavated from a churchyard in Ypres, Belgium. The folds of the tissue, which are still soft and wet, are stained orange with iron oxidesAlexandra L. Morton-Hayward
A study of…
Ukraine may have been first part of Europe colonised by early humans
Korolevo quarry in Ukraine, one of the oldest hominin sites in EuropeRoman Garba
Molecular dating has revealed that an area in Ukraine was occupied by humans 1.4 million years ago, making it one of the oldest hominin…
Ancient Iberians Ingested Red Dust Loaded With Mind-Altering Mercury
Bridget Alex
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Crypt review: Alice Roberts on murder and mayhem in the Middle Ages
Above and below: London’s Crossrail excavations unearthed victims of the Black DeathMOLA/Getty Images
CryptAlice Roberts (Simon & Schuster)
ANOTHER year, another really good book from archaeologist Alice Roberts.…
Archaeology of Northern Europe: Difference between revisions – Wikipedia
Archaeological region and period
The archaeology of Northern Europe studies the prehistory of Scandinavia and the adjacent North European Plain,
roughly corresponding to the territories of modern Sweden, Norway, Denmark, northern…
Ancient bronze hand may offer clue to the origins of Basque language
An ancient bronze hand found at Irulegi in northern SpainJuantxo Egana
Inscriptions found on a 2000-year-old metal hand may be written in a language related to modern-day Basque. If this interpretation is correct, it…
When does a bone become a fossil?
A reconstruction of the skull of a Homo naledi childBrett Eloff Photography/Wits University
This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your…
Dogs and horses buried with Iron Age people may have been beloved pets
Remains of a dog and a baby girl laid to rest at Seminario Vescovile near Verona, ItalyLaffranchi et al. (CC-BY 4.0)
Late Iron Age people in northern Italy were sometimes buried with their dogs or horses – possibly…
Submerged wall could be the largest Stone Age megastructure in Europe
Graphical reconstruction of the stone wall as a hunting structure in a glacial landscapeMichał Grabowski
A low stone wall nearly a kilometre long has been found 21 metres below the surface of the Baltic Sea off the…
Submerged wall could be the largest Stone Age megastructure in Europe
Graphical reconstruction of the stone wall as a hunting structure in a glacial landscapeMichał Grabowski
A low stone wall nearly a kilometre long has been found 21 metres below the surface of the Baltic Sea off the…
A New Project Uses Isotopes to Pinpoint the Birthplaces of the Enslaved
While digging a trench for the renovation of a local performing arts center in 2013, construction workers in Charleston, South Carolina, made a startling discovery: human bones. The crew called the police and…
Humans first reached China thousands of years earlier than we thought
The first members of our species to reach China might have entered the region from the northEsteban De Armas / Alamy
Modern humans were living in what is now China by 45,000 years ago. The finding means our species…
Mammoth tusk tool may have been used to make ropes 37,000 years ago
A carved piece of ivory possibly used by ancient humans to make ropesConard et al, Sci. Adv. 10, eadh5217 (2024)
A 37,000-year-old piece of mammoth ivory with four carved holes found in a cave in Germany was a tool…
Modern humans were already in northern Europe 45,000 years ago
Early European humans may have hunted mammoths in a frozen landscapeDorling Kindersley/Getty Images
When modern humans first began settling in Europe, they went straight to the cold north. A challenging excavation in…
Thirteen Discoveries Made About Human Evolution in 2023
Ryan McRae and Briana Pobiner
The year 2023…
The 2023 discoveries that made us rethink the story of human evolution
Stone age paintings in Chauvet cave in FranceFine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images
This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your…
The US needs to do more to preserve its ancient sites
IN OCTOBER, the US Department of Homeland Security made an urgent announcement. New barriers and roads were needed along the Texas-Mexico border – but construction was impeded by federally mandated surveys and…
Traces of cannabis found in pre-modern human bones for the first time
A femur, one of the bones that held traces of cannabisGaia Giordano, Mirko Mattia, Michele Boracchi, et al.
The first evidence of cannabis discovered in archaeological skeletal remains comes from bones of people…
How did Paranthropus, the last of the ape-people, survive for so long?
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IT ISN’T often that an esteemed professor sets out to investigate a scientific discovery made by a 15-year-old boy, but in 1938 Robert Broom made an exception. The…
Did Homo naledi bury its dead? Debate rages over human relative
Homo naledi coexisted with Homo sapiens, but had a smaller brainXinhua/Shutterstock
The much-publicised claim that a species of small-brained ancient human buried its dead and produced rock art is completely…
The archaeological finds that show art is far older than our species
IF YOU have ever marvelled at the accomplishment of Stone Age cave artists, you are in good company. In 1940, on visiting Lascaux cave in southern France, Pablo Picasso supposedly said: “Since Lascaux, we have…
Earliest known war in Europe was a Stone Age conflict 5000 years ago
Human remains from 5000 years ago buried at San Juan ante Portam Latinam in SpainJ. I. Vegas
Stone Age people were fighting small-scale wars in Europe over 5000 years ago, earlier than thought. The conflicts took…
Humans caught more diseases after we domesticated animals
The bones of a person buried in a “plague pit” in London in the 14th centuryLefteris Pitarakis/ AP / Alamy
DNA from the bones and teeth of 1300 people who died up to 37,000 years ago has revealed what infectious…
People around Europe have eaten seaweed for thousands of years
Sea lettuce is an edible alga found on coastlines around EuropeSeaphotoart / Alamy
People in coastal areas across Europe have been eating seaweed for thousands of years, traces of algae on their teeth have revealed.…
Student uses AI to decipher word in ancient scroll from Herculaneum
The Greek word for “purple” has been extracted from a Herculaneum scrollVesuvius Challenge
Almost 2000 years after they were buried by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, scrolls from a library in the…
Neanderthals hunted cave lions with spears and made use of their pelts
Illustration of Neanderthals butchering a freshly killed cave lionJulio Lacerda/NLD
Neanderthals sometimes hunted now-extinct big cats called cave lions, which were larger than modern lions. The finding is some of…
Early humans lived in Ethiopian highlands 2 million years ago
Illustration of a Homo erectus child with her mother in the Ethiopian highlandsDiego Rodriguez Robredo
Ancient humans were living in the highlands of what is now Ethiopia as early as 2 million years ago. A reanalysis…
The Amazon may contain thousands of undiscovered ancient structures
Earthworks made by ancient societies have been found throughout the Amazon rainforestDiego Lourenço Gurgel
There are probably more than 10,000 undiscovered pre-Columbian archaeological sites hidden in the Amazon,…
An ancient Roman who died in Pompeii has had their genome sequenced
The ancient town of Pompeii was buried under hot volcanic ash in AD 79, but DNA still survives in the bones of the people who died in…
Ocean Time Capsules | Ocean Today
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JIM DELGADO:
The way archaeology works is often times it gives us information that isn’t in the history books. In some cases, there are no history books. Ancient cultures didn’t write…
Journey Through Time | Ocean Today
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JIM DELGADO:
In my career, I’ve been able to find a great deal. I’ve seen ancient ships from a time when the Mediterranean was an expanding area of different cultures from ancient Egypt…
What is Maritime Archaeology? | Ocean Today
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JIM DELGADO:
My name’s Jim Delgado, and I’m a maritime, or underwater, archaeologist.
Maritime archaeology is the study, from what people leave behind, of how we as human…
Adventures of a Maritime Archaeologist (Ocean Today)
So much of history has really been tightly kept in a little box that archaeology is now cracking open. I started in archaeology when I was fourteen.
Explore With Us | Ocean Today
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JIM DELGADO:
When I first started as a maritime archaeologist, you would go out in a boat, you would take a look at a spot on the land and another spot, and if they lined up right, you’d…
Protect the Past | Ocean Today
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JIM DELGADO:
There is good news for people that want to protect the oceans. And that is marine protected areas, but in particular, in the United States, it’s National Marine Sanctuaries.…
FIELD REPORT | Every Full Moon
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Dr. George Divoky:
Things have gotten much warmer very quickly in the Arctic after a period of gradual increases in temperature.
I’m Dr. George Divoky, I’m Director of…
Finding history: The discovery of two lost shipwrecks in Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary
By Elizabeth Weinberg
November 2017
Beneath the waves of Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary lies an underwater museum. In this section of Lake Huron, nestled up against the…
Stone Age Europeans may have gathered to watch animations by the fire
The campfire was a social hub for ancient humans, and a virtual reality investigation suggests that the flickering light may have…