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Volunteers help identify hundreds of undiscovered prehistoric barrows
More than 6,500 volunteers have supported the accurate identification of approximately 1,000 prehistoric burial mounds in the Netherlands in just four months, proving the value of involving volunteers in archaeology.
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Research team helps community document skeletal remains found on historic 'poor farm'
On a bright autumn afternoon, a plain wooden box crafted by a local cabinet shop containing skeletal remains was returned to its final resting place during a simple reburial ceremony in Brentwood. Researchers and students ...
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Oct 10, 2024
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Assessment of damaged archaeological sites suggests they require individual protection concepts
An analysis of the damage to archaeological sites documented after a heavy rainfall event in July 2021 in parts of Germany shows that several factors increase the risk of damage to archaeological sites due to heavy rainfall ...
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Oct 10, 2024
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Archive tells of cracking ancient Greek language
A retired Classics professor from Texas has donated a collection of papers to the University of Cincinnati detailing the deciphering of an ancient Greek language that baffled generations of scholars.
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Oct 10, 2024
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Advanced technology discovered under Neolithic dwelling in Denmark
Railroad construction through a farm on the Danish island of Falster has revealed a 5,000-year-old Neolithic site hiding an advanced technology—a stone paved root cellar.
Fossils and fires: Insights into early modern human activity in the jungles of Southeast Asia
Studying microscopic layers of dirt dug from the Tam Pà Ling cave site in northeastern Laos has provided a team of Flinders University archaeologists and their international colleagues with further insights into some of ...
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Oct 9, 2024
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Microscopic study of milk teeth reveals mystery of Iberian culture newborns buried inside homes
A UAB study in collaboration with the UVic-UCC and the ALBA synchrotron concludes that the Iberian culture newborns buried within domestic spaces died of natural causes, such as complications during labor or premature births, ...
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Oct 9, 2024
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Underwater caves yield clues that may help explain early expansion of Homo sapiens into Mediterranean islands
Archaeological surveys led by scientists at Washington University in St. Louis suggest that coastal and underwater cave sites in southern Sicily contain important new clues about the path and fate of early human migrants ...
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Oct 9, 2024
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Experimental archaeology sheds light on skill and technique in Bronze Age spear combat
How can we tell whether and how a prehistoric weapon was used? How can we better understand the dexterity and combat skills involved in Bronze Age spear fighting?
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Oct 8, 2024
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With advanced scanning technique, confiscated Iron Age Iranian swords proven to be pastiches
For the first time, an imaging method has been used to investigate Iron Age bronze Iranian swords, revealing significant modern modifications that prove the weapons have been altered to increase their commercial value in ...
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Oct 8, 2024
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Tunisian snail remains provide insights on a possible 7700-year-old local food tradition
A new study by Dr. Ismail Saafi from the Aix-Marseille Université provides details on the discovery of cooked snail remains at Kef Ezzahi in northern Tunisia. The snail remains, dating back approximately 7710 years, are ...
Sacrificial burial confirms Scythians' eastern origins
Archaeologists have uncovered evidence for sacrificial funerary rituals at the Early Iron Age burial mound of Tunnug 1 in Tuva, Siberia, indicating that the horse-riding Scythian culture, best-known from Eastern Europe, originated ...
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Oct 7, 2024
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Geologists reconstruct ecosystems of northern Africa where the first hominins arrived
Alfonso Benito Calvo, a geologist at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), is part of the international team that has just published a paper in the journal Nature Communications about ...
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Oct 7, 2024
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Archaeologists use metabolites in bones to identify smokers from centuries ago
A team of archaeologists and historians at the University of Leicester used metabolites found in bones from people who lived hundreds of years ago to determine if they had been smokers. In their study published in the journal ...
Archaeologists shed light on the Tartessos culture's sustainable construction skills
An international team of researchers have conducted groundbreaking research at the Casas del Turuñuelo site in Guareña, Badajoz, Spain. Their work is published in the journal Scientific Reports.
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Oct 4, 2024
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Centuries ago, the Maya storm god Huracán taught that when we damage nature, we damage ourselves
The ancient Maya believed that everything in the universe, from the natural world to everyday experiences, was part of a single, powerful spiritual force. They were not polytheists who worshipped distinct gods but pantheists ...
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Oct 3, 2024
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Accept our king, our god, or else: The senseless 'requirement' Spanish colonizers used
Across the United States, the second Monday of October is increasingly becoming known as Indigenous Peoples Day. In the push to rename Columbus Day, Christopher Columbus himself has become a metaphor for the evils of early ...
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Oct 2, 2024
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The Indigenous artists keeping ancient rock art traditions alive
A new project is assessing the influence of ancient rock art on the modern art of Indigenous peoples in Central Asia and Canada, revealing its importance to reclaiming cultural identities.
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Oct 1, 2024
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Archaeologists develop system to produce unique names for Stone Age skeletons and mummies
When we talk about the Stone Age today, we usually focus on people and their personal stories—like the well-known glacier man "Ötzi." This is possible because the latest scientific methods in archaeology provide insights ...
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Oct 1, 2024
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Retracing walrus ivory trade of Viking Age reveals early interactions between Europeans and Indigenous North Americans
By examining ancient walrus DNA, an international research team led by Lund University in Sweden have retraced the walrus ivory trade routes of the Viking Age. They found that Norse Vikings and Arctic Indigenous peoples were ...
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Sep 30, 2024
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