Although Stonehenge may be the most famous of Europe's megaliths, it's far from the only one: There are about 35,000 of these mysterious stone structures throughout the continent.
Archaeology
Feb 12, 2019
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A much debated ancient human skull from Mongolia has been dated and genetically analysed, showing that it is the earliest modern human yet found in the region, according to new research from the University of Oxford. Radiocarbon ...
Archaeology
Jan 30, 2019
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New research by an international team raises questions about the timing and nature of early interactions between indigenous people and Europeans in North America.
Archaeology
Dec 6, 2018
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University of Wyoming researchers contributed to a study that begins to fill in the knowledge gap of whether human societies grow and decline at the same rate and at the same time.
Archaeology
Sep 18, 2018
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Radiocarbon dating is a key tool archaeologists use to determine the age of plants and objects made with organic material. But new research shows that commonly accepted radiocarbon dating standards can miss the mark—calling ...
Archaeology
Jun 5, 2018
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A team of archaeologists, led by Cat Jarman from the University of Bristol's Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, has discovered that a mass grave uncovered in the 1980s dates to the Viking Age and may have been a ...
Archaeology
Feb 2, 2018
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Using the largest set of radiocarbon dates ever obtained from a single Maya site, archaeologists have developed a high-precision chronology that sheds new light on patterns leading up to the two major collapses of the ancient ...
Archaeology
Jan 23, 2017
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The timing of the first entry of humans into North America across the Bering Strait has now been set back 10,000 years.
Archaeology
Jan 16, 2017
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A new technique, developed at ANSTO's Centre for Accelerator Science, has made it possible to produce some of the first reliable radiocarbon dates for Australian rock art in a study just published online in The Journal of ...
Archaeology
Dec 7, 2016
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University of Utah anthropologists counted the number of carbon-dated artifacts at archaeological sites and concluded that a population boom and scarce food explain why people in eastern North America domesticated plants ...
Other
Aug 2, 2016
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