100-year-old fruit cake among the artefacts from Cape Adare
Made by Huntley & Palmers, the fruit cake is still wrapped in paper and encased in the remains of a tin-plated iron alloy tin.
Made by Huntley & Palmers, the fruit cake is still wrapped in paper and encased in the remains of a tin-plated iron alloy tin.
Earth Sciences
Aug 14, 2017
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The question of when people first arrived in Australia has been the subject of lively debate among archaeologists, and one with important consequences for the global story of human evolution. Australia is the end point of ...
Archaeology
Jul 20, 2017
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A mummified, ancient, Egyptian cat is among a host of artefacts from the University of Aberdeen museums' collections that have been captured using 3-D imaging software so they can be shared around the world.
Archaeology
Mar 31, 2017
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Artisanal interpretation of ceramics from the Bronze Age shows that a nine-year-old child could be a highly skilled artisan. This was one of the discoveries presented in a new thesis from Lund University in Sweden. The thesis ...
Archaeology
May 12, 2016
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A student who took part in a field trip to Southern California has discovered 2000 year-old Native American spear and arrow points.
Archaeology
Apr 26, 2016
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What do ancient artefacts, fragments from celestial bodies, microchips and gunshot residue have in common? Their innermost secrets can all be unveiled with the same method. Rutherford backscattering spectrometry (RBS) uses ...
General Physics
Dec 23, 2015
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Archaeological concepts such as the real, virtual, and authentic are becoming increasingly unstable as a consequence of archaeological artefacts and assemblages being digitalised, reiterated, extended and distributed through ...
Archaeology
Oct 29, 2015
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A report from the U.N. cultural agency released Monday concludes that a shipwreck found off northern Haiti could not be the Santa Maria, the lost flagship from Christopher Columbus' first voyage to the Western Hemisphere, ...
Archaeology
Oct 6, 2014
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Chemists of Radboud University Nijmegen have found that a uniquely shaped enzyme that has never been seen before in biology is real: two interlocked ring structures, known as catenanes . The results have been published early ...
Materials Science
Jun 17, 2013
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A new method of sourcing the origins of artefacts in high definition is set to improve our understanding of the past.
Archaeology
May 22, 2013
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