Researchers at the University of Sheffield have developed a method of sourcing obsidian artefacts that takes only 10 seconds – dozens of times faster than the current methods – with a handheld instrument that can be used ...
Archaeology
Sep 9, 2013
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New findings from an archaeological excavation led this winter by Dr. Erez Ben-Yosef of Tel Aviv University's Jacob M. Alkow Department of Archaeology and Near Eastern Cultures prove that copper mines in Israel thought to ...
Archaeology
Sep 3, 2013
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Archaeologists from the Universities of Cambridge and Cardiff are currently undertaking their third, and final, round of excavations at Ham Hill, Britain's biggest Iron-Age hill fort.
Archaeology
Sep 2, 2013
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Matthew Go, a 20-year-old Simon Fraser University archaeology undergraduate student in the Faculty of Environment, can now add priestess-tomb discoverer to his list of accomplishments on his résumé.
Archaeology
Aug 30, 2013
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Greece's Culture Ministry has warned against "overbold" speculation that an ancient artificial mound being excavated could contain a royal Macedonian grave or even Alexander the Great.
Archaeology
Aug 22, 2013
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The discovery in Peru of another tomb belonging to a pre-Hispanic priestess, the eighth in more than two decades, confirms that powerful women ruled this region 1,200 years ago, archeologists said.
Archaeology
Aug 22, 2013
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New finds demonstrate: Neandertals were the first in Europe to make standardized and specialized bone tools—which are still in use today.
Archaeology
Aug 12, 2013
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The raw materials for ancient glass beads found in former Rhaetian settlements in Bavaria clearly did not originate from this region. This is the conclusion following an analysis of the beads at the TRIGA research reactor ...
Archaeology
Aug 12, 2013
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Jewelry, pieces of ships, medieval ice skates, centuries-old skulls—some fascinating pieces of London's history aren't in museums, but underground.
Archaeology
Aug 8, 2013
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Archaeologists have unearthed a mysterious coffin-within-a-coffin near the final resting place of Richard III.
Archaeology
Jul 29, 2013
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