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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Linmere, Bedfordshire, UK, have discovered 25 monumental pits in what has become a nationally important prehistoric site. The site date
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A number of sophisticated non-invasive nuclear and accelerator techniques were used to provide information about the origin and age of an Australian Aboriginal
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A total of 80 bronze artifacts dated to the Late Bronze Age, with a total weight of around 20 kilograms were unearthed by
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Sometimes, you don't have to go far to make an incredible archeological discovery, but few of us expect to find something of historical
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Armenia have discovered ruins of a 3,000-year-old bakery. A Polish-American archaeology team made the find in Metsamor, where the researchers
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Stone tools bear microscopic evidence of ancient plant technology, according to a study published June 30, 2023 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - A man digging in his garden was more than surprised when he discovered a skeleton. A human jawbone with several teeth left turned
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The El Gigante rockshelter in western Honduras is among only a handful of archaeological sites in the Americas that contain well-preserved botanical remains
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Analysis of data from dozens of foraging societies around the world shows that women hunt in at least 79% of these societies, opposing
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A 2,000-year-old fresco discovered on the wall of a house in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii depicts what could be described as
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - For decades archaeology has been trying to explain how and why humans went from being exclusively hunter-gatherers to producing food, adopting agriculture and
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A large Roman marble head has been discovered at the bottom of Lake Nemi in the Lazio region of Italy 30 km (19
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A recent expedition by an archaeology team from the Universities of Auckland and Canterbury to Enderby in the Auckland Island archipelago plans to
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The new discovery of ancient stone artifacts at an underwater spring off the Western Australia Pilbara coast has confirmed the location is a
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An airborne laser scanning study has led to the surprising discovery of an ancient, unknown Maya city hidden deep in the jungle in
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Conny Waters - AncientPages - People have long believed in the existence of vampires. Ancient people were convinced these scary blood-sucking creatures were extremely dangerous. Accounts of vampires
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Tormod Fjeld was hiking with his family in the Moss area when they stopped for a rest break near a boulder, Viken County
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Markings on a cave wall in France are the oldest known engravings made by Neanderthals, according to a study published June 21, 2023,
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Dutch archaeologists have unearthed a remarkable ancient structure that has been nicknamed the Stonehenge of the Netherlands". Scientists say the intriguing 4,000-year-old structure
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Jan Bartek - AncienyPages.com - Measuring just 6 centimeters wide and 8 centimeters long, the magnitude and exceptionality of the discovery has left the European archaeological community flabbergasted.
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Three 1850-year-old stone ossuaries have been retrieved in an operation carried out to prevent antiquity looting near Kafr Kanna in Galilee. Photography by
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Ancient Tribal earth ovens built long before the Egyptian pyramids are being excavated as part of the first archeological project made public by
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists report the discovery of an ancient pendant that may have the oldest carving of a penis ever unearthed. The stone was found
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Digital modelling of legendary fossil’s soft tissue suggests Australopithecus afarensis had powerful leg and pelvic muscles suited to tree dwelling, but knee muscles
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The face of a 16-year-old woman buried near Cambridge (UK) in the 7th century with an incredibly rare gold and garnet cross (the
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - While repairing an old sewer pipe under the road in Erling Skakkes gate 9 in Trondheim, Norway, archaeologists carried out an urgent survey
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new study shows that social disintegration and violent conflict played a crucial role in shaping the population dynamics of early farming societies in
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Were anatomically modern humans the only ones who knew how to turn bone into tools? A discovery by an international team at the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The earliest-known evidence of freshwater fishing by ancient Alaskan people was discovered by a team of researchers led by University of Alaska Fairbanks.
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - It was during the winter of 2022, archaeologists conducted excavations in two areas at Framlingham Road, Laxfield, Suffolk. The site, showing the evaluation
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - At our recent Taylor Wimpey excavation at Bidwell West, Bedfordshire, our Milton Keynes field team have uncovered a medieval timber-framed building and a series of medieval enclosure ditches.
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Mikołajki, Poland, have made a surprising discovery. Researchers announced they had encountered an unusual archaeological object providing traces of prehistoric
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Previous archaeological excavations in Jersey revealed Neanderthals visited La Cotte de St Brelade, a coastal cave for over 100,000 years. The cave was
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating site Stöð on Stöðvarfjörður in East Iceland have found a small stone carved with a Viking Ship. This little find may
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - No one knows what happened when we, Homo sapiens, first encountered the Neanderthals. But we know we met. We know that for thousands
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A very rare 3,000-year-old sword has been found in Bayern, Germany. The sword from the Middle Bronze Age is still in such good
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A 2,000-year-old skull unearthed in a tomb may offer evidence ancient Romans were the first to breed dogs with flat faces. Examination of
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Hundreds of human skulls and mandibles recovered from the Crenshaw site in southwest Arkansas are the remains of ancestors of the Caddo Nation
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AncientPages.com - The earliest people who lived in North America shared the landscape with huge animals. On any day these hunter-gatherers might encounter a giant, snarling saber-toothed cat
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution shows that a condition known as Dupuytren's disease is partly of Neanderthal origin. Researchers have long known
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