When we broke ground at Showell Nurseries, just outside Chippenham, we expected to uncover a few scattered prehistoric features. What we found instead was a rich, multi-phase barrow cemetery, revealing Bronze Age burial practices and beliefs that have helped to illuminate the lives (and deaths) of those who lived here around 4,000 years ago. Barrow… Read More »| Cotswold Archaeology
Archaeologists in eastern Germany have unearthed one of Saxony’s most significant Bronze Age discoveries. Uncovered in the suburb of Klein Neundorf in Görlitz, the 310 pieces of bronze date to the 9th century BCE. They weigh over 16 kilograms and constitute the largest Bronze Age discovery ever in Upper Lusatia and the second largest in […]| 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
More than 3,000 years ago, in the port city of Ugarit on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean, the scribes inscribed a song in the Hurrian language on a clay tablet. The Hymn to Nikkal is the earliest known musical score found to date. A recent study suggests that this brief composition could be of […]| Archaeology News Online Magazine
My guests today are archaeologists Chris Wakefield from the Cambridge Archaeological Unit of Cambridge University Rachel Ballantyne from McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, and they are here to tell me about an absolutely amazing site close to Peterborough that tell … Continue reading →| British Food: A History
The colours of human skin, eyes and hair in living people across the world are determined by variants of genes (alleles) found at the same place on a chromosome. Since chromosomes are inherited from both… More| Earth-logs
There is another detail that recurs on many stones, almost the only exception to the otherwise crude depiction of the heroes’ bodies. Time and again, the fingers of the warrior-hero’s hands are shown outstretched, explicit and bigger than-life-size. His hands seem to matter more than any other part of his body, perhaps because they were […]| Dojo Darelir, the School of Xenograg the Sorcerer
There's something extraordinary about walking up the avenue towards this 5,000-year-old circle of stones| The Hazel Tree
Between fields of grain and potatoes in the middle of Germany, about 18km south east of Magdeburg, near the town of Schönebeck, lies one of the most important archaeological landscapes in Germany. The post Germany’s Stonehenge? appeared first on World Archaeology.| World Archaeology
In the 1990s, an aerial photograph captured a circular feature in the fields near the village of Pömmelte, Germany, sparking the beginning of an extraordinary archaeological endeavour. The feature proved to be the remains of a henge monument built around 2350 BC. Although its uprights were fashioned from timber rather than rock, the monument displayed a number of tantalising similarities to Stonehenge in Britain. One area of overlap is that both sites lay within much wider ritual landscapes....| World Archaeology
Cotswold Archaeology: In 2018 and 2019 we excavated along a new 6km long pipeline between Childrey Warren and Wantage in Oxfordshire. The new route ran within the distinctive landscape of the Vale of the White Horse towards the foot of the Berkshire Downs. It travelled in a north-east to south-west direction, crossing gently rolling hills and agricultural… Read More » The post Mesolithic antlers, Roman family cemeteries, and Saxon surprises: Archaeology along the Childrey Warren Pipeline a...| Cotswold Archaeology
Cotswold Archaeology: In 2022 and 2023, Cotswold Archaeology’s Milton Keynes field team conducted archaeological excavations at a site to the west of Northampton. A particularly interesting artefact found in the fill of a ditch was this fired clay spindle whorl. Spindles are textile tools consisting of a straight rod which is often weighted at either the bottom,… Read More » The post You spin me right round baby, right round: Iron Age spindle whorl from Land West of Northampton appeared ...| Cotswold Archaeology
DC goes back to the drawing board under the guiding hand of Mark Waid to further rewrite the history of their universe.| Bounding Into Comics
This is about the only successful qpAdm model that I can find for the pair of Early Bronze Age (EBA) females from Yassitepe, Turkey, using a decent set of outgroups and markers. I wouldn't take it too literally, but it does suggest a potentially significant level of European ancestry, including some steppe ancestry, in these Yassitepe individuals. TUR_Aegean_Yassitepe_EBA| Eurogenes Blog
Far out in the wild steppe of Mongolia, carved rocks dot the landscape. Dated to the Bronze Age, nobody knows who carved the Mongolian Deer Stones, or why.| Historic Mysteries
The stunning Mold Gold Cape is from a forgotten time, hidden in a grave at the heart of the Hill of the Goblins. But who was buried there in such finery?| Historic Mysteries
Archaeologists have unearthed a large Bronze Age burial mound surrounded by Iron Age cremation burials in Petershagen-Windheim, Germany.| ArchaeologyNews Online Magazine
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