Egyptologists at the University of Bonn discovered rock art from the 4th millennium BC during an excavation at a necropolis near Aswan in Egypt. The paintings were engraved into the rock in the form of small dots and depict ...
Archaeology
Mar 22, 2017
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Were there any women around in the Palaeolithic Era? If popular culture is any guide you'd think not. And even archaeology itself has a long way to go to address a deeply ingrained bias towards men.
Archaeology
Feb 24, 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
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The "most important Neolithic cup and ring marked rock art panel in Europe", which was unearthed for the first time in 50 years near a housing estate on the outskirts of Glasgow, has been reburied to protect the national ...
Archaeology
Sep 23, 2016
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The "most important Neolithic cup and ring marked rock art panel in Europe" is being unearthed for the first time in 50 years on the edge of a housing estate in Clydebank near Glasgow.
Archaeology
Sep 8, 2016
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Humans have been exploiting bees as far back as the Stone Age, according to new research from the University of Bristol published in Nature today.
Archaeology
Nov 11, 2015
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Principal Research scientist David Fink in the Institute for Environmental Research is one of a number of scientists featured in a new video released by the Kimberley Foundation of Australia that highlights an exciting project ...
Archaeology
Oct 2, 2015
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Australia is home to one of the world's great art treasures in the form of hundreds of thousands of rock art sites scattered throughout the country.
Archaeology
Jul 7, 2015
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Life imitates art. And sometimes science does the same.
Earth Sciences
Jan 8, 2015
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Latest research on the oldest surviving rock art of Southeast Asia shows that the region's first people, hunter-gatherers who arrived over 50,000 years ago, brought with them a rich art practice.
Archaeology
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