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Horned helmets of the Bronze Age
Horned helmets are found in three places in Europe: Scandinavia, southern Iberia, and Sardinia. Horned helmet imagery has a complex history, with Levantine roots in the Late Bronze Age Mediterran...
Ancient Mediterranean tsunami
Researchers have excavated the remains of a young man killed by a tsunami about 3,600 years ago, following the eruption of a volcano on the Aegean island of Santorini, roughly...
Cosquer Cave replica opens this summer
37 years after its discovery, a replica of the prehistoric Cosquer cave is scheduled to open on June 4th, offering a simulated experience of the most inaccessible of the decorated...
Ancient pottery found in Jersey
A nearly complete late Bronze Age pottery vessel has been found in fields intended for a new hospital on the island of Jersey, one of the Channel Islands off the...
Mesolithic scraper, Neolithic axe found in southern India
A Mesolithic scraper and a Neolithic celt have been found in Tamil Nadu, on the southern tip of India. The Mesolithic chert scraper is 4 centimetres long and 4.5 centimetres...
3,000-year-old cemetery found in Henan
A two-year excavation at a more than 3,000 year old late Shang Dynasty settlement in the Henan Province of central China, around 500 kilometres south-southwest of Beijing, has revealed 18...
Fire scorches ancient Neolithic stones in Kent
Deep in the Kent (UK) countryside is an ancient wood known locally as Walderslade Wood. This area is rich in Stone Age artefacts (over 25 sites within a 4.5 km...
Is this the oldest example of a burial in Africa?
Back in the day, archaeologists could only rely on fairly basic technology to help them with dating. Then, in the 20th Century, as technology became more sophisticated, so did the...
Turkish Neolithic statuette - a man or a woman?
There is a Neolithic and Chalcolithic site in the central Turkish region of Anatolia, known as Catalhoyuk. Excavations first began in 1958 and this first phase continued through until 1965,...
Arctic hunter-gatherers were advanced ironworkers
Excavations at Sangis, 1,000 kilometres north-northeast of Stockholm near the Gulf of Bothnia, uncovered a rectangular iron-smelting furnace comprised of stone slabs with one open side, and holes...
Stonehenge Exhibition at the British Museum
The UK's first major exhibition focusing on the story of Stonehenge opens next month at the British Museum in London, promising to place the monument in its wider social, cultural,...
Iron age hillfort for sale in England
Hillforts are among the most striking monuments in northern Europe, built and occupied from about 900 to 100 BCE, when societies were defined by tribal territories. About 250 kilometres west-sout...
Conserving the submerged dolmen of Guadalperal
One of the most notable examples of megalithic architecture in the middle Tagus river basin, the megalithic complex of Guadalperal, in the Valdecañas reservoir about 180 kilometres west-southwes...
Landscape modification by last interglacial Neanderthals
Most examples relating hominin behavior to more detailed and continuous records of environmental change involve the transformation of late Pleistocene or early Holocene vegetation through the use...
Evidence of social beer consumption found in 7,000-year-old town
Israeli researchers have recently discovered the first evidence of social beer consumption following a find of cereal grains used to produce alcohol in a 7,000 year old town. This discovery...