Mixing the ancient and the new—preserving rock art at the touch of a button
Some of the world's most ancient art could be protected with a new app designed by Newcastle University heritage and software experts.
Some of the world's most ancient art could be protected with a new app designed by Newcastle University heritage and software experts.
Archaeology
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A new study by scientists at the University of York has shed new light on the use of mollusc shells as personal adornments by Bronze Age people.
Archaeology
Jun 17, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Archaeologists from the University of York say a virtually intact Late Roman well discovered near Heslington, on the outskirts of the city, may have had significance in contemporary local agricultural cycles ...
Archaeology
Jul 9, 2013
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A new technique to identify the type of shell used to make early, decorative beads could help archaeologists understand more about early human trading.
Archaeology
Jul 2, 2014
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The use of unmanned aerial vehicles—drones—to document and monitor a ravaged landscape on the Dead Sea Plain in Jordan for the past three years reveals that looting continues at the site, though at a measurably reduced ...
Archaeology
Feb 14, 2016
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An international team of archaeologists has uncovered the earliest example of the use of a bridle bit with an equid (horse family) in the Near East. The discovery provides first evidence of the use of the bit (mouth piece) ...
Archaeology
May 16, 2018
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A UAB study using a Big Data approach to analyze settlement dynamics reveals that communities of the central-eastern Iberian Peninsula existing 4,000 years ago deployed "escape economies," using enrockment and segmentation ...
Archaeology
Sep 28, 2022
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White coat with black spots: almost every child knows "Lilla Gubben" the horse of Pippi Longstocking. But what about the popularity of spotted and speckled horses (so called leopard complex spotting) during the last millennia? ...
Biotechnology
Dec 8, 2014
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New excavations on the remote island of Keros reveal monumental architecture and technological sophistication at the dawn of the Cycladic Bronze Age.
Archaeology
Jan 18, 2018
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The British and Irish countryside is often celebrated for its wealth of unique places of heritage, significance and interest. But not many people know that this heritage includes thousands of ancient panels of neolithic art, ...
Archaeology
Dec 20, 2017
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