FROM RADIO NETHERLANDS WORDWIDE
People may well have been roaming the land we now call the Netherlands for far longer than was assumed until recently. There is evidence to suggest that the country was home to the forebears of the Neanderthals. Amateur archaeologist Pieter Stoel found materials used by the oldest inhabitants in the central town [...]
FROM GLOBAL ARAB NETWORK
Tal Bokrous is a sample of the first agricultural village built according to the architectural style of the Stone Age in Deir Ezzor, (432 kms northeast of Damascus, Syria).
The site is the only archaeological discovery at the Middle Euphrates Region which belongs to the booming phase of the Neolithic era.
The Neolithic era [...]
FROM THISISBRISTOL.CO.UK
Ask anyone in Bristol to name an ancient stone circle, and 90 per cent of people will probably say Stonehenge. A few of the wider-read sorts might mention Avebury. But remarkably, few will say the words Stanton Drew.
While Wiltshire’s two landmark sites are known worldwide, Bristol’s own major neolithic stone circle goes largely unnoticed.
But [...]
FROM THE WESTERN TELEGRAPH
A bronze age gold lock ring found in a north Pembrokeshire field was officially declared treasure by Pembrokeshire Coroner, Mark Layton, today (Thursday).
The ring, the first to be found in south and west Wales, was discovered in March 2009 by Trystan Johns, from Rhydlewis. Trystan is a member of Pembrokeshire Prospectors and [...]
FROM THE WESTMORELAND GAZETTE
ARCHAEOLOGISTS in the Duddon Valley have uncovered over 3,000 previously unrecorded historic sites after a four-year survey of the area.
The Duddon Valley Local History Group, in partnership with the Lake District National Park Authority, found ring-cairns that could date back to the Bronze Age.
Two of the most exciting finds uncovered in the [...]
ORIGINAL ARTICLE AT THE IRISH TIMES
A MYSTERIOUS ring fort in Co Tipperary holds “massive potential for discoveries” according to archaeologists who have carried out the first survey of the site.
Their initial findings suggest that the site may have been used for Bronze Age sporting contests in an arena that is the ancient equivalent of Semple [...]
FROM NEW YORK TIMES
Early humans, possibly even prehuman ancestors, appear to have been going to sea much longer than anyone had ever suspected.
That is the startling implication of discoveries made the last two summers on the Greek island of Crete. Stone tools found there, archaeologists say, are at least 130,000 years old, which is considered [...]
READ ORIGINAL ARTICLE by Owen Jarus AT THE INDEPENDENT
For Dr. Robert Mason, an archaeologist with the Royal Ontario Museum, it all began with a walk last summer. Mason conducts work at the Deir Mar Musa al-Habashi monastery, out in the Syrian Desert. Finds from the monastery, which is still in use today by monks, date [...]
One of the world’s oldest shipwrecks has been discovered off the coast of Devon after lying on the seabed for almost 3,000 years.
ARTICLE by Jasper Copping FROM TELEGRAPH.CO.UK
The trading vessel was carrying an extremely valuable cargo of tin and hundreds of copper ingots from the Continent when it sank.
Experts say the “incredibly exciting” discovery provides [...]
Recently, there have been quite a few archaeological revelations coming to light from the result of a wildfire that swept the moors of Fylingdales, N. Yorkshire. One of the items discovered is a “unique” carved stone, thought to be 4,000 years old. An article about the stone (from CULTURE 24) is below but before reading that, [...]
PLEASE READ ORIGINAL ARTICLE AT ARCHAEOLOGY EXCAVATIONS
Archaeologists working on a rescue excavation in Westray have discovered a “mysterious” Neolithic structure at one of the county’s most important sites.
The announcement this week, followed the conclusion of a successful rescue excavation, led by Historic Scotland, at the Links of Noltland.
The project aimed to learn everything possible about [...]
Brewing Up a Civilization
By Frank Thadeusz READ ORIGINAL ARTICLE AT DER SPIEGEL
Did our Neolithic ancestors turn to agriculture so that they could be sure of a tipple? US Archaeologist Patrick McGovern thinks so. The expert on identifying traces of alcohol in prehistoric sites reckons the thirst for a brew was enough of an incentive to [...]
ORIGINAL ARTICLE AT VIEWZONE.COM
Emerging archaeology in a new study highlighted by the Old Temples Study Foundation suggests that sound and a desire to harness its effects may have been equally important as vision in the design of humankind’s earliest ancient temples and monumental buildings.
Sarasota, FL (PRWEB) December 1, 2009 — Six-thousand-year-old ancient temples are giving [...]
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In November 12th 1955, as Albert Miller took a walk through his Pennsylvania property, named Meadowcroft, he noticed a freshly dug groundhog hole. Upon seeing the disturbed earth, the amateur archaeologist saw a chance to confirm his theory that Native Americans once lived on his land. He expanded the hole until he [...]
THIS ARTICLE FROM THE BBC NEWS CHANNEL
Archaeologists have unearthed what they say could be a prehistoric Bronze Age burial site in central Oxford.
Experts say important chiefs may have been laid to rest at the site of the former Radcliffe Infirmary.
Land around the River Thames, known as the River Isis as it passes through Oxford, was [...]
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