Evolution axe goes on display
(PhysOrg.com) -- A flint hand axe that helped reveal the very ancient age of humankind goes on display at the Natural History Museum October 2009.
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Ancient tombs discovered by Kingston University-led team
A prehistoric complex including two 6,000-year-old tombs representing some of the earliest monuments built in Britain has been discovered by a team led by a Kingston University archaeologist. Dr Helen Wickstead and her colleagues ...
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Jun 9, 2009
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Origins of Pompeii-style artefacts examined at ISIS
(PhysOrg.com) -- Roman artefacts which are nearly two thousand years old with similarities to ancient remains found at Pompeii in Italy will be examined at the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s ISIS neutron source ...
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Feb 20, 2009
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Ra-Pict prototyping bringing archaeology alive
3D scanners, 3D printers and even new smartphone technology is being used by University of Aberdeen archaeologists to enhance teaching and public engagement of the discipline.
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Nov 3, 2023
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Who owned this Stone Age jewellery? New forensic tools offer an unprecedented answer
An international team of researchers has recovered DNA from the owner of a deer-tooth pendant that was buried inside a remote Siberian cave for tens of thousands of years.
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May 6, 2023
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What to do if you find fossils or artifacts
Six years ago, grazier Robert Hacon was driving around his cattle property in outback Queensland when he drove over what he thought was a cow skull.
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Oct 13, 2021
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Authentication and repatriation of a ceremonial shrunken head from the US to Ecuador
A ceremonial tsantsa—or shrunken head—was authenticated and repatriated to Ecuador in 2019, after it had been discovered amongst stored exhibits at Mercer University. The history of the artefact and the process of its ...
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May 10, 2021
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Unique Bronze Age find just south of Alingsås
A unique Bronze Age find was made on 8 April in a wooded area just to the south of the town of Alingsås. Following an archaeological examination by among others Johan Ling, Professor of Archaeology at the University of Gothenburg ...
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May 3, 2021
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Boxgrove: How we found Europe's oldest bone tools, and what we learned about their makers
Boxgrove in Sussex, England, is an iconic, old stone age site. This is where the oldest human remains in Britain have been discovered—fossils of Homo heidelbergensis. Part of an exceptionally preserved 26km-wide ancient ...
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Aug 13, 2020
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A 300,000-year-old, nearly complete elephant skeleton from Schöningen
Elephants ranged over Schöningen in Lower Saxony 300,000 years ago. In recent years, remains of at least ten elephants have been found at the Palaeolithic sites situated on the edges of the former opencast lignite mine. ...
Archaeology
May 19, 2020
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