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Rare Paintings of Prehistoric Life Revealed
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Submitted by Andy B on Wednesday, 13 March 2013 (972 reads)
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Museums  Fourteen rare Victorian paintings depicting early prehistoric life are now on display in a new exhibition about the birth of archaeology in Britain, curated by Mike Pitts and running at the Wellington Arch in Central London until the 21st of April. The paintings have never before benn displayed in public together, and were commissioned in 1869 by Sir John Lubbock - the archaeologist and MP who campaigned relentlessly for the protection and preservation of Britain's ancient monuments, and who eventually got his way despite objections from other powerful landowners.
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| An exhibition to mark 100 years of protecting the past running at the Wellington Arch in London until 21st April
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Secrets of the Stonehenge Skeletons, shown on UK Channel 4 TV
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Submitted by Andy B on Saturday, 09 March 2013 (1715 reads)
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Stonehenge  Analysis of 63 ancient human remains rewrites the story of Stonehenge. For centuries scientists and historians have argued over the meaning and purpose of Stonehenge. Now a research team led by the world-renowned archaeologist Professor Mike Parker Pearson believes it has finally solved many of the mysteries surrounding our greatest prehistoric monument, overturning the accepted view on what happened when Stonehenge was built, and what it was built for.
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Native Americans Northern Europeans More Closely Related Than Previously Thought
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Submitted by coldrum on Tuesday, 19 February 2013 (228 reads)
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Discoveries Using genetic analyses, scientists have discovered that Northern European populations -- British, Scandinavians, French, and some Eastern Europeans -- descend from a mixture of two very different ancestral populations. One related to Native Americans. This discovery helps fill gaps in scientific understanding of both group's ancestry, while providing an explanation for some genetic similarities among what would otherwise seem to be very divergent groups.
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| Northern Euopean original hunter-gathers Cousins of Americans. Middle Eastern Farmers later mixed in.
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Full laser scan for Stonehenge
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Submitted by Andy B on Wednesday, 10 October 2012 (4978 reads)
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Stonehenge  Stonehenge has been fully scanned using laser technology to search for hidden clues about how and why it was built. All visible faces of the standing and fallen stones, many of which are obscured by lichen, have been surveyed.
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| New axehead carvings identified and more evidence for the solstice function at Stonehenge. Professor Clive Ruggles: "This not only confirms the importance of the solstitial alignment at Stonehenge, but also shows unequivocally that the formal approach was always intended to be from the north-east, up the Avenue towards the direction of midwinter sunset."
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Human Genes Provide Clues to Rise and Spread of European Agriculture
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Submitted by coldrum on Tuesday, 02 October 2012 (368 reads)
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Discoveries  Did agriculture in Stone Age Europe rise and spread through the gradual transfer and diffusion of the farming idea from agriculturalists to hunter-gatherers, or was it brought as a package by migrating agriculturalists? Was agriculture introduced from south to north, as the archaeological record suggests, or did it come from a different direction?
A joint Swedish-Danish research team may have finally found some answers.
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| "The results suggest that agriculture spread across Europe in concert with a migration of people."
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Controversy in Mexico over changes to and use of Mayan palaces, Aztec pyramids
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Submitted by coldrum and bat400 on Friday, 28 September 2012 (1241 reads)
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Central America  Mexicans are taught to revere their pre-Columbian roots. So some archaeologists are outraged by what they view as the government’s failure to safeguard the nation’s Mayan palaces and Aztec pyramids.
A recent decision by the government to erect a glass-and-steel facade on a portion of the historic Fort of Guadalupe in Puebla in time for the Mexican independence celebrations was the last straw. Archaeologists occupied Mexico’s prestigious National Museum of Anthropology, telling visitors that taking liberties with federally protected buildings was becoming commonplace.
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| “Public archaeological sites are deteriorating. We are resisting this destruction.” Archaeologists Protest Use of Sites as Concert Venues and Construction Sites.
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Prehistoric Human Hunters the Cause of Giant Herbivore Extinction in Australia,
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Submitted by coldrum on Thursday, 13 September 2012 (366 reads)
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Environment  It was the human hunter, not a changed climate, that led to the extinction of the giant Pleistocene herbivores of Australia and a transformed ecological landscape at least 40,000 years ago.
According to the results of a recently completed study published in the March 23, 2012 issue of the journal Science, human hunters were largely responsible for the extinction of Pleistocene-age Australia’s giant herbivores around 40,000 years ago. The extinction, as a result, led to significant changes in the ecological landscape, a cause-and-effect relationship that runs counter to the popular climate-centered theory for ecology shifts suggested by many other scientists.
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| "Shortly after their arrival, small bands of hunters had a devastating effect on large animals,"
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Did Stone Age cavemen talk to each other in symbols?
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Submitted by coldrum on Tuesday, 11 September 2012 (2822 reads)
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Discoveries  Previously overlooked patterns in the cave art of southern France and Spain suggest man might have learned written communication 25,000 years earlier than we thought.
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| Twenty-Six specific signs are used repeatedly in these caves, created in the millennia when Europe went through the last great Ice Age
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Idaho Digs Indicate Man in Snake River Area 11-12000 Years Ago
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Submitted by coldrum and bat400 on Monday, 10 September 2012 (1024 reads)
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Digs  Oregon State University and University of Idaho digs in different parts of the Snake River drainage basin in Idaho are uncovering seasonal camps of early Americans dating to 12000 years ago. The tool finds tend to be Western Stemmed Points. The dates for these finds support a tool tradition contemporary or predating the Clovis tool tradition. An article from the Durango Herald is excerpted:
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| “Clovis people may have indeed come down through the ice-free corridor, but later, and they may have encountered a population in the West that was already established and holding down ground.”
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New evidence supporting theory of 13,000 year old extraterrestrial impact found
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Submitted by coldrum on Wednesday, 04 July 2012 (1413 reads)
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Discoveries  An 18-member international team of researchers has discovered melt-glass material in a thin layer of sedimentary rock in Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Syria. According to the researchers, the material – which dates back nearly 13,000 years – was formed at temperatures of 1,700 to 2,200 degrees Celsius, and was the result of a cosmic body impacting Earth.
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Jerimalai
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Submitted by bat400 on Tuesday, 26 June 2012 (1479 reads)
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Digs  Cave or Rock Shelter in East Timor. The remains found in Jerimalai Rock Shelter are the oldest evidence of occupation by modern humans on the islands that were the stepping stones from South-East Asia to Australia. People lived there at least 42 000 years ago.
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Deep-Sea Fishermen, see comment.
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Cow and woman found in Cambridgeshire Anglo-Saxon dig
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Submitted by Jackdaw1 on Tuesday, 26 June 2012 (1274 reads)
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Digs  Archaeologists excavating an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in Cambridgeshire say the discovery of a woman buried with a cow is a "genuinely bizarre" find.
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| "The cow burial is unique in Europe which makes this an incredibly exciting and important find. I don't think I'll find anything as significant as this again in my lifetime."
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Amazon was not all manufactured landscape pre-Europeans contact, scientists say
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Submitted by coldrum on Monday, 18 June 2012 (866 reads)
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South America  Population estimates for the Amazon basin just before Europeans arrived range from 2 to 10 million people. The newly reported reconstruction of Amazonian prehistory by Smithsonian scientist Dolores R. Piperno and colleagues suggests that large areas of western Amazonia were sparsely inhabited. This clashes with [a recent] belief that most of Amazonia, including forests far removed from major rivers, was heavily occupied and modified.
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| New evidence challenges the idea that the Amazon basin was densely inhabited before European arrival.
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Nearly 60 archeological sites unearthed near Rio
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Submitted by coldrum on Friday, 04 May 2012 (320 reads)
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South America Nearly 60 archeological sites dating back 6,000 years have been unearthed during construction of a road near Rio, Jandira Neto, who led the 40-member team of the Brazilian Archaeology Institute (IAB) that made the discovery. said Thursday.
The archeologists unearthed very old vestiges such as "sambaquis" (shell mounds) of the various population groups who were scattered along the coast of the Americas 8,000 to 6,000 years ago, 2,000-year-old burial urns and ceramic pipes of Tupi-Guarani indigenous people as well as 19th century European crockery.
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| Archeological bonanza causing a major headache for engineers of Rio state's public works in preparation for World Cup and Olympics.
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Google Earth to uncover the past: I search out prehistoric remains from my desk
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Submitted by coldrum on Thursday, 12 April 2012 (1857 reads)
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Discoveries  Archaeology is the study of the remains of the past but has long been predatory on the sciences and their ever-growing technologies. I was brought up as a student in 1970s Britain, when we learned of the wonderful revelations to be made through aerial viewing. Today we have astonishing virtual globes any one of us can use to explore many of the most remote and difficult places in the world. This was never clearer to me than during the past two years, when I began finding thousands of prehistoric sites in the Middle East … from my desk in Perth, Australia, using Google Earth.
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| Google Earth performs archaeological aerial reconnaissance in the Middle Eastern desert. David Kennedy, Professor, Classics & Ancient History at University of Western Australia.
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Young Mammoth likely butchered by humans
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Submitted by coldrum on Thursday, 05 April 2012 (856 reads)
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Discoveries A juvenile mammoth, nicknamed "Yuka" was found entombed in Siberian ice near the shores of the Arctic Ocean and shows signs of being cut open by ancient people. The remarkably well preserved frozen carcass was discovered in Siberia, and is believed to be at least 10,000 years old, if not older. If further study confirms the preliminary findings, it would be the first mammoth carcass revealing signs of human interaction in the region.
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Research reveals first evidence of hunting by prehistoric Ohioans
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Submitted by coldrum on Monday, 26 March 2012 (1000 reads)
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North America  Cut marks found on Ice Age bones indicate that humans in Ohio hunted or scavenged animal meat earlier than previously known. Ten animal bones in the collections of the Firelands Historical Society Museum in Norwalk, Ohio, from a Jefferson's Ground Sloth show evidence of butchering. This large plant-eating animal became extinct at the end of the Ice Age around 10,000 years ago.
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| 10000 years ago early Americans butchered 1.4-ton Sloth.
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Stone tools 'change migration story'
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Submitted by coldrum on Monday, 19 March 2012 (2767 reads)
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Discoveries  A research team reports findings of stone age tools suggesting humans came "out of Africa" earlier than has been thought.Geneticists estimate migration from Africa took place as recently as 60,000 years ago. But Oxford researchers say stone artefacts found in the Arabian Peninsula and India point to an exodus starting about 70,000 to 80,000 years ago - possibly earlier.
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| Update: - stone tools collected at several sites along a plateau in Oman, which date to roughly 106,000 years ago, match elongated cutting implements previously found at East African sites from around the same time
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Farmer fined €25,000 for destroying ringfort and part of a souterrain
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Submitted by jackdaw1 on Saturday, 03 March 2012 (4173 reads)
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Site Watch A 64-year-old farmer has been fined €25,000 (£21000 / $33000 approx) at the Circuit Criminal Court in Tralee, Ireland for destroying a 1,000-year-old ringfort, which was a protected national monument. In one of the first prosecutions of its kind to come before the courts, John O'Mahony pleaded guilty to carrying out work on the fort on his farm at Causeway in Co Kerry in February 2008, without notifying the National Monuments Service in advance.
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| In December 2011 it was speculated that he might be jailed for a maximum of five years. As a commenter has pointed out, €25,000 is 'petty cash for developers'. Please vote in our poll
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Ancient Poop Science: Inside the Archaeology of Palaeofaeces
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Submitted by Andy B on Monday, 13 February 2012 (11535 reads)
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Discoveries The invention of the toilet accomplished many good things, but it did rob us of the chance at immortality - through our poop. Ancient humans have revealed some of their greatest secrets through Palaeofaeces, the study of the waste they left behind.
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| I thought we would skip the image for this one...
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