This week, archaeologists excavating an enigmatic Neolithic site in central Turkey have uncovered a “House of the Dead” containing human remains, and much more.| The Debrief
Archaeologists excavating a Neolithic site in central Turkey believe that they have uncovered a “House of the Dead” containing human remains.| The Debrief
Archaeologists in France have uncovered Neolithic burial pits, offering rare evidence of early organized violence in Europe.| The Debrief
Archaeologists at Çatalhöyük, one of the most important sites in central Türkiye, have unearthed new evidence of ritual activity that sheds light on early town life and spiritual practices. The site, located on the edge of the Konya Plain near the modern city of Konya, was occupied from 7100 to 5950 BCE and is commonly […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
Around 10,000 years ago, human groups experienced one of the most important changes in the history of humanity: the shift from gathering and hunting to farming. The transition, typically known as the Neolithic Revolution, began in the Fertile Crescent in the Middle East and later spread to Europe. Archaeologists and geneticists have debated for decades […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
A 5,000-year-old cow tooth has yielded new evidence linking Stonehenge to Wales and shedding light on how the ancient monument’s huge stones could have been moved across Britain. The finding comes from a Neolithic cow jawbone that was discovered in 1924 beside the south entrance of Stonehenge. The bone had gone unremarked for many years […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
A recent study published in L’Anthropologie explains the symbolic meaning of the ibex in ancient Near Eastern and Iranian cultures and how this mountain goat became entangled in fertility, femininity, and cosmology across millennia. The ibex (Capra aegagrus), a wild goat native to Europe, Asia, and northeastern Africa, was materially and religiously significant during prehistoric […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
A new study led by IPHES-CERCA and published in Scientific Reports provides evidence of 5,700-year-old human cannibalism in El Mirador cave, Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain. The research shows that the event occurred in the context of a violent clash between Late Neolithic herder communities. The remains of at least eleven individuals—children, adolescents, and adults—were […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
Cotswold Archaeology: As work began on the first phase of excavations on the western edge of Fordingbridge, Hampshire, just outside the New Forest National Park, exciting finds started to appear. Investigation revealed an extensive Iron Age and Roman rural settlement which was previously unknown. However, it is one of the very first discoveries that provided much excitement… Read More » The post Making an impression at Fordingbridge appeared first on Cotswold Archaeology.| Cotswold Archaeology
DNA from Çatalhöyük reveals a female-centered society with matrilineal lineage and rich burial rites for women over 9,000 years ago.| Archaeology News Online Magazine
Usually, you can’t touch Stonehenge, so I visited other megaliths.| Tim Covell
Sadly we have to pass the news that on August 2, Prof. em. Harald Hauptmann passed away. Professor Hauptmann was the former director of the Istanbul Department at the German Archaeological Institute, and, what many people may not be aware of, played a unique role in the initiation of excavations and research at Göbekli Tepe. … Continue reading In memory of Harald Hauptmann (1936-2018)| The Tepe Telegrams
(A longer and more extensive version of this text was originally published recently: O. Dietrich, J. Notroff, L. Dietrich, Masks and Masquerade in the Early Neolithic: A view from Upper Mesopotamia, Time and Mind 11:1, 2018, 3-21 [external link].) Among early prehistoric masks, those from the Judean Hills and Desert [external link] can be considered … Continue reading Behind the Mask: Early Neolithic miniature masks (and one larger-than-life example) from Göbekli Tepe (and beyond).| The Tepe Telegrams
Türkiye’s Gobekli Tepe has long been considered the world’s oldest settlement, an extraordinary outlier. Here,… The post Boncuklu Tarla: The Town Older than Gobekli Tepe appeared first on Historic Mysteries.| Historic Mysteries
Creevykeel Court Tomb is a cursed Neolithic site. Ghosts haunt its stones, said to be the resting place of giants, and strange lights have been seen at night.| Historic Mysteries
A Journey to Avebury is the name of a short silent film made by Derek Jarman made in 1971. Shot in wobbly Super 8, and saturated with burnt orange hues, it has an otherworldly eldritch atmosphere t…| East of Elveden
Almost exactly a year ago-- one journey around the sun-- my dear friend Asia Suler (of One Willow Apothecaries) and I began the collaboration that would become WEFT. In the mountains of Appalachia where Asia lives, the wild violets and irises were up, and she dreamt and then brewed up a potent violet elixir, purple with the medicine of those dark petals, stirred over the stovetop to the hymns of Hildegard Von Bingen. With the intuitive dreaming unique to her old heart, Asia then began addin...| The Gleewoman's Notes