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Fire and water reveal new archaeological dating method
Scientists at The University of Manchester have developed a new way of dating archaeological objects - using fire and water to unlock their 'internal clocks'. view more (2009-05-20)
Ancient Human Occupation of Britain
The University of Bradford's Department of Archaeological Sciences is taking part in a five-year study looking at when people first arrived in Britain, and the factors that led to their survival or local extinction. view more (2003-03-20)
Clovis-age overkill didn't take out California's flightless sea duck
Clovis-age natives, often noted for overhunting during their brief dominance in a primitive North America, deserve clemency in the case of California's flightless sea duck. New evidence says it took thousands of years for the duck to die out. view more (2008-03-18)
A Try To Revise The Age Of The Turin Shroud Failed
The Shroud of Turin is a famous catholic church relic. Christians consider it as a sacred thing. Authenticity of the Shroud was always in doubt. First it was mentioned in historical sources only in the middle of 14th century and this dating was confirmed by radiocarbon dating. In 1998 three laboratories at Oxford (UK), Arizona (USA) and Zurich... view more... (2002-11-10)
Top finds on Bolivian highlands
Finnish scientists discovered the most significant relics of antiquity in recent Bolivian history. view more (2004-10-29)
Earliest Human Remains Reveal A Bloody End
University of Leicester archaeologists discover the earliest human remains from Leicestershire Analysis of human remains found during archaeological work carried out by University of Leicester Archaeological Services has established that they are the earliest remains ever to be found in the county - and that they met with violent deaths! Experts... view more... (2004-03-29)
Luminescence Dating, a new method of age determination
Physicists and geoscientists join forces in a Dutch research centre. Luminescence dating is a new technology for the determination of the age of sediments such as sand. At the Netherlands Centre for Luminescence Dating (NCL), physicists and geoscientists join forces to use and improve this new method. The foundation of the NCL will be celebrated... view more... (2003-03-19)
Johns Hopkins team discovers statue of Egyptian queen
A Johns Hopkins University archaeological expedition in Luxor, Egypt, has unearthed a life-sized statue, dating back nearly 3,400 years, of one of the queens of the powerful king Amenhotep III. view more (2006-01-25)
Combing the past for clues on hair degradation
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Dutch archaeologists uncover earliest Egyptian temple
The ground plan of the earliest of these temples is unlike anything previously discovered in Egypt, and no other sites are known where a similar series of temples was built one on top of the other and which date back so far. The archaeologists do not yet know which gods were worshipped in the temples. In the third-earliest, they discovered about a... view more... (2000-01-18)
New understanding of human sacrifice in early Peru
A study published in the August/October issue of Current Anthropology, reports on new archaeological evidence regarding the identities of human sacrifice victims of the Moche society of Peru. view more (2005-08-26)
Desecrating St Pancras
The Council for British Archaeology (CBA) deplores the decision by Rail Link Engineering to cut back the time available for archaeological work on the site of the former St Pancras burial ground in London and to continue the removal of the human graves with mechanical diggers. This work, undertaken as part of the construction of the Channel Tunnel... view more... (2002-11-26)
New Ways of Looking at Old Lead in the Yorkshire Dales
Finds show that lead has been mined and smelted in Yorkshire since the Roman period, throughout the Medieval period, and up to the early years of this century. While old lead mines are easily found, early lead smelting sites are more elusive. Smelting areas have been identified, by a combination of finds of smelting wastes (slag) on the surface,... view more... (1999-01-05)
Archaeologists Attempt To Reveal Secrets Of Buddha
Archaeologists at the University of Bradford are on the verge of discovering the mysterious origins of one of the world~s greatest religions. Dr Robin Coningham and Dr Armin Schmidt, of the Department of Archaeological Sciences, and their team are in Nepal excavating the remains of Tilaurakot, the hometown of Gautama Siddhartha, who was the Buddha... view more... (2000-12-19)
Satisfaction with life in middle age
Satisfaction with life in middle age can depend on how high people's self esteem is and how good their relationship is with their current spouse or partner. But there are other factors, such as the age at which they first had sex, or how romantic they are. These are some of the results of a 25 year study by Charles T. Hill of Whittier College,... view more... (2001-06-25)
Satisfaction with life in middle age
Satisfaction with life in middle age can depend on how high people's self esteem is and how good their relationship is with their current spouse or partner. But there are other factors, such as the age at which they first had sex, or how romantic they are. These are some of the results of a 25 year study by Charles T. Hill of Whittier College,... view more... (2001-06-22)
Radiocarbon dates reveal that New Guinea art is older than thought
When the de Young Museum reopens in a new, earthquake-resistant building in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park next Saturday, Oct. 15, it will debut what curators consider the largest and most important private collection of New Guinea art in the world. view more (2005-10-13)
Hidden depths of Rutland Water brought to surface
Analysis of archaeological findings from Rutland Water, one of Europe’s largest man-made reservoirs, reveal the river valley was inhabited by hunter-gatherers 6,000 years before the growth of villages found today. The Archaeology of Rutland Water is a new book exploring the depth of history at the popular landmark in Britain’s smallest... view more... (2001-02-09)
The earliest Australians
One of the really big challenges in anthropology is to date accurately the arrival of humans in the different continents. New results, to be published in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Quaternary Science, show that humans arrived in Australia a lot earlier than was previously thought. view more (2002-01-22)
Underwater exploration seeks evidence of early Americans
Where the first Americans came from, when they arrived and how they got here is as lively a debate as ever, only most of the research to date has focused on dry land excavations. view more (2009-07-10)
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