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 | The widespread view of Neanderthals as cognitively inferior to early modern humans is challenged by new research from the University of Bristol published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. ...> Full Article |
New research at the University of Leicester has identified scores of Sicilian temples built to face the rising Sun, shedding light on the practices of the Ancient Greeks.
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 | The world's oldest known submerged town has been revealed through the discovery of late Neolithic pottery. The finds were made during an archaeological survey of Pavlopetri, off the southern Laconia coast of Greece. ...> Full Article |
Archaeologists surveying the world's oldest submerged town have found ceramics dating back to the Final Neolithic. Their discovery suggests that Pavlopetri, off the southern Laconia coast of Greece, was occupied some 5,000 years ago -- at least 1,200 years earlier than originally thought.
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 | A skeleton, found at one of the most important, but least understood, Roman sites in Britain is puzzling experts from the University of Nottingham. ...> Full Article |
Researchers from the Teruel-Dinópolis Joint Palaeontology Foundation have compared an Allosauroidea tooth found in deposits in Riodeva, Teruel, with other similar samples. The palaeontologists have concluded that this is the largest tooth of a carnivorous dinosaur to have been found to date in Spain.
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Research which finally proves that bones found in Shropshire, England, provide the most geologically recent evidence of woolly mammoths in Northwestern Europe publishes today in the Geological Journal. Analysis of both the bones and the surrounding environment suggests that some mammoths remained part of British wildlife long after they are conventionally believed to have become extinct.
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The oldest submerged town in the world is about to give up its secrets -- with the help of equipment that could revolutionize underwater archeology.
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Discovery in Turkey comes from major Iron Age site
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 | Archaeologists have dug up a mystery worthy of Indiana Jones, one that includes a tomb, skeletons and burial rites with both Christian and pagan elements. ...> Full Article |
 | A team of archaeologists have saved a Bronze Age building on Shetland from destruction by the sea... by moving it brick by brick to a safe new location. ...> Full Article |
 | Modern computing to help archaeologists understand ancient knowledge transfer and how it will help future computational systems ...> Full Article |
 | A complete mandible of Homo erectus was discovered at the Thomas I quarry in Casablanca ...> Full Article |
An archaeological excavation at a site near Pulborough, West Sussex, has thrown remarkable new light on the life of northern Europe's last Neanderthals. It provides a snapshot of a thriving, developing population - rather than communities on the verge of extinction.
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 | Archeologists have come a step closer to solving the 285-year-old riddle of an ancient monument thought to be a precursor to Stonehenge. ...> Full Article |
 | Excavation shows how ancient cemetery was reused by successive communities ...> Full Article |
New researchers suggests that neighbouring tribes from prehistoric times were prepared to brutally kill their male rivals to secure their women.
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 | Excavations Turn Up Vivid Remains of Stone Age Life ...> Full Article |
 | The humble cod may be about to have its biggest impact on history since sparking "war" with Iceland in 1972. ...> Full Article |
 | Nearly every town and village in Britain was once a stomping ground for dinosaurs, a surprisingly high number of which may have originated here in the country which first discovered them, according to the first major review of Britain's dinosaur history. ...> Full Article |
An archaeological dig in Cambridge has uncovered surprising ancient remains and the foundations of the world's largest telescope of the late Victorian era.
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 | Scientists classify fossil as last known ancestor of humans and Neanderthals ...> Full Article |
 | An amazing collection of 28 flint hand-axes, dated by archaeologists to be around 100,000 years-old, have been unearthed in gravel from a licensed marine aggregate dredging area 13km off Great Yarmouth. ...> Full Article |
 | Vivid colors, flowing silk ribbons, and glittering bits of mirrors - the Vikings dressed with considerably more panache than we previously thought. The men were especially vain, and the women dressed provocatively, but with the advent of Christianity, fashions changed, according to Swedish archeologist Annika Larsson. ...> Full Article |
 | A 40,000-year-old tooth has provided the first direct proof that Neanderthals moved from place to place in their lifetimes. ...> Full Article |
 | Arsenic poisoning did not kill Napoleon in Saint Helena, as affirmed by a new meticulous examination performed at the laboratories of the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) in Milano-Bicocca and Pavia, together with the University of Milano-Bicocca and the University of Pavia. ...> Full Article |
 | Time Magazine has named a study by Oxford researchers, using new dating techniques on a human skull to help find out where our most recent common ancestor came from, as one of the Top 10 Scientific Discoveries of the Year. ...> Full Article |
 | Scientists studying ancient fish bones in Scandinavia have discovered that warm-water species like anchovies and black sea bream that once thrived in Danish waters during a prehistoric warm period are now returning. Some cold-water species, such as cod, were also abundant during this period, having benefited from a lower fishing effort. ...> Full Article |
 | The oldest known buried remains in Britain are 29,000 years old, archaeologists have found - 4,000 years older than previously thought. The findings show that ceremonial burials were taking place in western Europe much earlier than researchers had believed. ...> Full Article |
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