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It's your funeral: The eco burial movement gathers ground
Natural burial is often thought of as a green option that takes place in the countryside for non-religious people, but according to researchers at the University of Sheffield, that is only part of the story. view more (2009-03-09)
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)
4,000 Year Old Archer With Golden Earrings
The richest Early Bronze Age burial in Britain has been found by astonished archaeologists. The grave of a mature man was found near Amesbury, Wiltshire and contains far more objects than any other burial of this date, about 2,300 BC. He has been identified as an archer on the basis of stone arrow heads and stone wristguards that protected the arm... view more... (2002-05-15)
Archaeological mystery in the Yorkshire Dales
A prehistoric burial site in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales - unique in the North of England - has been unearthed by a team of archaeologists from the University of Leeds. view more (2003-01-02)
Circulation of 'disaster myths' in Haiti could hinder appropriate disposal of bodies
Myths about the infectious disease threat posed by dead bodies could lead to insensitive and inappropriate treatment of victims' bodies following the floods in Haiti, and need to be checked, according to a public health researcher who has studied the potential risks at length. view more (2004-09-30)
Typhoid fever led to the fall of Athens
Scientists have for many years debated the cause of the Plague of Athens. Analysis carried out by Manolis Papagrigorakis and colleagues using DNA collected from teeth from an ancient Greek burial pit points to typhoid fever as the disease responsible for this devastating epidemic. view more (2006-01-24)
Remarkable double burial
Archaeologist P.W. van den Broeke discovered this remarkable grave last summer when he was excavating a small Iron Age burialground. C-14 dating has pinpointed the burial in the fifth century BC. In the region cremations were predominant in this period. But for a short span of time some deceased were inhumated. The Iron Age burialground of Lent,... view more... (1999-03-18)
Discovery of the oldest remains of a woman who died in childbirth
In ancient times, female death rates were particularly high and generally related to problems in maternity, such as complications during pregnancy, childbirth or the period of breast-feeding. However, in most cases this link has only been established from indirect data, such paleodemographic data and ethnographic references, or based on the poor... view more... (2004-10-06)
Where climate is made in a greenhouse world
New scientific results for the Late Cretaceous greenhouse indicate radically different climatic mechanisms operating about 75-90 million years ago compared to the ones that control today's climate. view more (2006-06-02)
Evidence from ancient European graves raises questions about ritual human sacrifice
A fascinating new paper from the June issue of Current Anthropology explores ancient multiple graves and raises the possibility that hunter gatherers in what is now Europe may have practiced ritual human sacrifice. view more (2007-05-30)
The Privilege Of Sharing A Grave With A Horse
Maria Otchir-Gorjaeva, archaeologist at Kalmyk Institute for Social, Economic and Law Studies, has studied horse harness of the 6th-4th centuries B.C. She believes that this equipment is of considerable importance and helps to better understand the culture of those, who used to inhabit the vast expanses of Eurasian steppe. Horses were of a most... view more... (2002-06-17)
Korean mummies may provide clues to combat hepatitis B
Mummies that have recently been unearthed in South Korea may provide clues on how to combat hepatitis B. view more (2007-07-26)
Getting Power From Enemy`S Skull
The archaeologists at Komi Institute of Language, Literature and History worked at the burial-mound Shihovskoy - a cemetery with the square of 3000 square kilometer, aging back to the Iron Age. The archaeologists have excavated seven graves, they date three of them back to the first centuries A.D. These are not very big square pits, where people... view more... (2002-10-25)
Gifted 12 Year Old to Meet 1200 Year Old Norfolk Resident
Oliver Banks, a gifted 12 year old from Spalding, Lincolnshire, will meet a 1200 year old ancestor in Sedgeford, Norfolk and learn about how people lived in the distant past as part of an outreach event run by the National Academy of Gifted and Talented Youth (NAGTY), based at the University of Warwick, on 7th April 2004. 15 students aged 12 to 15... view more... (2004-04-05)
Ancient tomb sheds new light on Egyptian colonialism
In approximately 1550 B.C., Egypt conquered its southern neighbor, ancient Nubia, and secured control of valuable trade routes. view more (2006-05-18)
University of Leicester geologists demonstrate extent of ancient ice age
Geologists at the University of Leicester have shown that an ancient Ice Age, once regarded as a brief 'blip', in fact lasted for 30 million years. view more (2009-06-17)
Agencies must win trust of locals to contain Marburg and Ebola outbreaks
Outbreaks of filovirus haemorrhagic fevers (FHFs) such as those caused by the Ebola and Marburg viruses can only be controlled if agencies have the support and trust of local communities, according to two papers just published in the online edition of the Journal of Infectious Diseases as part of a special supplement on filovirusues. view more (2007-10-30)
Oldest evidence of leprosy found in India
A biological anthropologist from Appalachian State University working with an undergraduate student from Appalachian, an evolutionary biologist from UNC Greensboro, and a team of archaeologists from Deccan College (Pune, India) recently reported analysis of a 4000-year-old skeleton from India bearing evidence of leprosy. view more (2009-05-27)
Scientists say climate change mitigation strategies ignore carbon cycling processes of inland waters
In the paper, The Boundless Carbon Cycle, published in the September issue of Nature Geoscience, scientists from the University of Vienna, Uppsala University in Sweden, University of Antwerp, and the U.S. based Stroud™ Water Research Center argue that current international strategies to mitigate manmade carbon emissions and address climate... view more... (2009-09-02)
Our Ancestors Did Not Suffer From Caries, But Took Drugs
When coming across ancient vessels the archaeologists first of all search for any remnants inside. As a rule, the vessels are crammed full with soil, the analysis of which can help to learn about the content of the vessel. In the course of excavation of burial mounds in Kalmykia Natalia Shishlina (State Historic Museum) collected a lot of soil... view more... (2002-09-26)
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