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(Phys.org) -- New research led by the University of Reading has revealed that finds at Glastonbury Abbey provide the earliest archaeological evidence of glass-making in Britain. http://phys.org/news255689036.html Other Sciences Tue, 08 May 2012 09:44:27 EST news255689036 The popular perception of archaeology is a team of dusty individuals in wide-brimmed hats unearthing treasures from a pharaoh's tomb or an ancient collection of Native American artifacts. http://phys.org/news255018689.html Other Sciences Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:32:54 EST news255018689 (PhysOrg.com) -- A unique ‘wing’ shaped building discovered close to the ancient capital of the Iceni in Norfolk is mystifying archaeologists. http://phys.org/news247393325.html Other Sciences Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:22:21 EST news247393325 By presenting a new interpretation of a Maya hieroglyphic verb, Gerardo Aldana, associate professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at UC Santa Barbara, has revised the understanding of one of the longest-studied texts in Maya archaeology. Aldana's research appears in his new book, "Tying Headbands or Venus Appearing: New Translations of k'al, the Dresden Codex Venus Pages and Classic Period Royal 'Binding' Rituals" (Archaeopress, 2011). http://phys.org/news241114637.html Other Sciences Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:17:25 EST news241114637 The UK mainland's first fully intact Viking boat burial site has been discovered by archaeologists working in the Scottish Highlands. http://phys.org/news238219449.html Other Sciences Wed, 19 Oct 2011 05:04:31 EST news238219449 Research at the University of Liverpool has found that periods of rapid fluctuation in temperature coincided with the emergence of the first distant relatives of human beings and the appearance and spread of stone tools. http://phys.org/news235820946.html Other Sciences Wed, 21 Sep 2011 10:49:39 EST news235820946 Archaeologists have long known that Yavneh-Yam, an archaeological site between the Israeli cities of Tel Aviv and Ashdod on the Mediterranean coast, was a functioning harbor from the second millennium B.C. until the Middle Ages. Now Tel Aviv University researchers have uncovered evidence to suggest that the site was one of the final strongholds of Early Islamic power in the region. http://phys.org/news235274921.html Other Sciences Thu, 15 Sep 2011 03:09:10 EST news235274921 The remains of a 2000-year-old Roman port have been discovered in south Wales by archaeologists from the University. http://phys.org/news233399664.html Other Sciences Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:14:35 EST news233399664 Nibbling by herbivores can have a greater impact on the width of tree rings than climate, new research has found. The study, published this week in the British Ecological Society's journal Functional Ecology, could help increase the accuracy of the tree ring record as a way of estimating past climatic conditions. http://phys.org/news230954547.html Biology Wed, 27 Jul 2011 03:02:46 EST news230954547 Warfare, triggered by political conflict between the fifth century B.C. and the first century A.D., likely shaped the development of the first settlement that would classify as a civilization in the Titicaca basin of southern Peru, a new UCLA study suggests. http://phys.org/news230829330.html Other Sciences Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:15:51 EST news230829330 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new report published in the International Journal of Nautical Archaeology shows that Roman fishing ships may have used a pumping system to supply oxygenated water to an onboard fish tank. Due to a lack of refrigeration, historians have long assumed that Roman ships caught fish and delivered it locally before the fish rotted, but this new discovery would have enabled them to keep the fish alive and transport them to buyers throughout the Mediterranean. http://phys.org/news226578335.html Other Sciences Mon, 06 Jun 2011 11:26:13 EST news226578335 (PhysOrg.com) -- In a new documentary soon to air on BBC, space archaeologist Sarah Parcak from the University of Alabama in Birmingham shares her recent discovery in the relatively new field of space archaeology. With the use of satellites and infra-red imaging, Parcak and her team have discovered 17 lost pyramids, over 1,000 tombs and 3,000 ancient settlements in Egypt. http://phys.org/news225602098.html Other Sciences Thu, 26 May 2011 06:20:01 EST news225602098 A galaxy of colourful animal and human sketches adorn the caves in the rocky hills of this arid wilderness in northern Somalia, home to Africa's earliest known and most pristine rock art. http://phys.org/news222933843.html Other Sciences Mon, 25 Apr 2011 07:04:47 EST news222933843 Thousands of years ago, our ancestors gave up foraging for food and took up farming, one of the most important and debated decisions in history. http://phys.org/news218745094.html Other Sciences Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:31:45 EST news218745094 The research brings together archaeology and anthropology expertise at the University of Bristol with the latest computer modelling techniques developed at the University of Leeds. http://phys.org/news218111923.html Other Sciences Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:39:02 EST news218111923 Discovered by archaeologists in 1952, a 28-foot-high stone tower discovered on the edge of the town of Jericho has puzzled scientists ever since. Now, 11,000 years after it was built, Tel Aviv University archaeologists at the ancient site Tel Jericho are revealing new facts about the world's first "skyscraper." http://phys.org/news217168327.html Other Sciences Thu, 17 Feb 2011 12:32:22 EST news217168327 (PhysOrg.com) -- With one arm raised and a determined scowl, the figure looks ready to march right off his carved tablet and into the history books. If only we knew who he was - corn god? Tribal chief? Sacred priest? http://phys.org/news216922930.html Other Sciences Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:22:46 EST news216922930 (PhysOrg.com) -- An archaeology team led by the University of Birmingham and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archaeology in Austria discovered a major ceremonial monument less than one kilometre away from the iconic Stonehenge. http://phys.org/news215718095.html Other Sciences Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:42:03 EST news215718095 When German archaeologists discovered bones in the tomb of Queen Eadgyth in Magdeburg Cathedral, they looked to Bristol to provide the crucial scientific evidence that the remains were indeed those of the English royal. Dr. Alistair Pike in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology tells Hannah Johnson how tiny samples of tooth enamel proved the identity of a Saxon queen. http://phys.org/news209989351.html Other Sciences Fri, 26 Nov 2010 10:22:46 EST news209989351 Egyptian archaeologists have discovered a sphinx-lined road in Luxor that led to the temple of Mut, the ancient goddess worshipped as a mother, the culture minister said on Monday. http://phys.org/news209065629.html Other Sciences Mon, 15 Nov 2010 18:20:08 EST news209065629 Cornell archaeologists are helping to rewrite the early prehistory of human civilization on Cyprus, with evidence that hunter-gatherers began to form agricultural settlements on the island half a millennium earlier than previously believed. http://phys.org/news206809113.html Other Sciences Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:50:01 EST news206809113 A rare bronze signet ring with the impression of the face of the Greek sun god, Apollo, has been discovered at Tel Dor, in northern Israel, by University of Haifa diggers. http://phys.org/news204196083.html Other Sciences Mon, 20 Sep 2010 10:10:06 EST news204196083 Archaeology has a long-standing tradition in protecting areas on land. But there is little attention to cultural monuments at the sea-shore and under water. To help locating these artifacts, meteorologist Marianne Nitter has introduced the concept of "climate-space." Inspired by the term "landscape room," this concept enables archaeologist to convey and incorporate abstract meteorological phenomena into the field of archaeology. http://phys.org/news201429613.html Space & Earth Thu, 19 Aug 2010 09:40:47 EST news201429613 Sharon Herbert and her team were wrapping up their dig at the Tel Kedesh site in Israel, sweeping the site in the 140-degree heat, when a student showed University of Michigan doctoral instructor Lisa Cakmak what he first thought was a gold candy wrapper. http://phys.org/news201194559.html Other Sciences Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:22:49 EST news201194559 Unfortunately, when ancient kings sent letters to each other, their post offices didn't record the sender's return address. It takes quite a bit of super-sleuthing by today's archaeologists to determine the geographical origin of this correspondence -- which can reveal a great deal about ancient rulers and civilizations. http://phys.org/news200229766.html Other Sciences Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:40:03 EST news200229766 Steering clear of crocodiles and navigating around massive submerged trees, a team of divers began mapping some of the 25 freshwater pools of Cara Blanca, Belize, which were important to the ancient Maya. In three weeks this May, the divers found fossilized animal remains, bits of pottery and - in the largest pool explored - an enormous underwater cave. http://phys.org/news199023690.html Other Sciences Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:21:51 EST news199023690 Prehistoric man enjoyed a primitive version of cinema, according to Austrian and British researchers, who are currently seeking to recreate these ancient visual displays. http://phys.org/news197033960.html Other Sciences Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:40:05 EST news197033960 (AP) -- A great wooden steamship that sank more than a century ago in a violent Lake Michigan storm has been found off the Milwaukee-area shoreline, and divers say the intact vessel appears to have been perfectly preserved by the cold fresh waters. http://phys.org/news196654183.html Other Sciences Fri, 25 Jun 2010 03:10:15 EST news196654183 The body was found in a small, graffiti-stained tunnel. Robbery was likely not the motive, as his possessions and cash were found with him. http://phys.org/news196344454.html Other Sciences Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:40:01 EST news196344454 An Austrian archaeological team has used radar imaging to determine the extent of the ruins of the one time 3,500-year-old capital of Egypt's foreign occupiers, said the antiquities department Sunday. http://phys.org/news196314761.html Other Sciences Mon, 21 Jun 2010 04:53:56 EST news196314761