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If I had to pick the hottest topic in paleoanthropology right now, I’d say it’s the origin and early evolution of our genus, Homo. Researchers know quite a bit about our australopithecine predecessors (Lucy and her ilk) and about later phases of Homo’s evolution. But the dawn of our lineage is cloaked in mystery. One question experts have long puzzled over is whether Homo split into multiple lineages early on, or whether the known early Homo fossils all belong to a single lineage. To that end, new discoveries made at the site of Koobi Fora in northern Kenya—one of the Leakey’s longtime fossil hunting grounds—are said to settle that matter in favor of multiple lineages. But some critics disagree.
As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end. " Foucault, Michel
A MAN who is leading a dig at a site in Monmouth says he's found evidence to dispute claims by a UK goverment minister who claimed remains there were not Bronze Age.
AboutMyAreaArchaeology Course AnnouncedAboutMyAreaI set up Archaeo-schools last year to provide projects aimed at engaging school children in their heritage and history through Archaeology.
In November 2011, when Chris Birks Archaeology excavated a trial trench in Great Ellingham, Norfolk, on the site of a future housing development, little did they know that they were about to uncover one of the biggest Romano-British burial sites in the region.
The eponymous archaeologist and his team stumbled upon several in situ burials and isolated artefacts confirming that a cemetery extended in to the development site.
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Archaeologists from the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology in Cairo (IFAO) have discovered a roughly 5,000-year-old pharaonic solar boat in an expedition in Abu Rawash, west of the Egyptian capital, the antiquities ministry said on Wednesday.The antiquities minister, Mohammed Ibrahim, said the funerary boat was up to 5,000 years old. "It goes back to the era of Pharaoh Den, one of the First Dynasty kings," he said in a statement.
A three-year study into a set of manuscripts compiled and written by one of Britain’s earliest feminist figures has revealed new insights into how women challenged male authority in the 17th century.
About 1,800 years ago, at a time when China was breaking apart into three warring kingdoms, a warrior was laid to rest. Buried in a tomb with domed roofs, along with his wife, he was about 45 years old when he died. Their skeletal remains were found inside two wooden coffins that had rotted away. Archaeologists don't know their names but, based on the tomb design and grave goods, they believe he was a general who had served one or more of the country's warring lords, perhaps Cao Cao and his son Cao Pi.
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With a rod through its ribs and its teeth pulled—just to be safe—a 700-year-old suspected vampire has escaped the crypt in Bulgaria.
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Archaeologists believe they have found the remains of a medieval village in Herefordshire.
Excavation work began a week ago on land in the Brockhampton Estate, near Bromyard and experts say it gives a glimpse of rural 13th Century life.
COOPERS FERRY, Idaho (AP) — Archaeological digs along the lower Salmon and North Fork Clearwater rivers are expanding what scientists know about the prehistory of the Pacific Northwest and may help revolutionize what is known about the first people...
As shells rip through ancient citadels and artifacts go missing, experts worry some damage may be beyond repair.
At least one shell barreled through a tower, splintering a centuries-old door and punching a hole through the stone entryway. After the shelling, a video posted online showed armored vehicles patrolling the citadel perimeter as infantry entered the gates.
Last winter I submitted an article to the Anthropology Graduate student journal at the University of Edinburgh, The Unfamiliar, to be included in their second issue. I chose to write about drawing conventions in MoLAS archaeology, particularly the uncertain edge.
Until this point the line had been steady, confident, true. The sandy, shelly deposit curved left, then right, was truncated by a later fire pit, and then continued west-ward and my pencil recorded all of the contours in a perfect 1:20 centimeter representation. But then the deposit lost its hard, defining edge, feathering out, getting mixed and lost in an interface with the underlying dirt. Where did the sandy shelly deposit stop?
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Archaeologists conducting excavations in the northwestern province of Çanakkale’s Ayvacık district have discovered hairpins thought to be over two millennia old, proving that ancient societies also had a pronounced desire to “look good,” according to researchers. “The hairpins show us that there was a high demand for them in ancient times. Maybe their existence shows us that there was a small atelier for hair pin production here,” said Professor Nurettin Arslan of Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, the head of the excavations, adding that women of the age placed great importance in being well-groomed and stylish.
Powerful figures from the late Iron Age through to the end of the Vikings were drawn to a sandy plain on South Uist, according to archaeologists. Bornais, on the west side of the island, has the remains of a large farmstead and a major Norse settlement. The area has produced large numbers of finds, including what have been described as exotic items from abroad. Green marble from Greece, ivory from Greenland and bronze pins from Ireland have been among the finds. A piece of bone marked with an ogham inscription, an ancient text that arrived in Scotland from Ireland, was also found.
Petra isn't Jordan's only ancient treasure, say hello to Jerash!
One of the other things from the backlog that I wanted to talk about was what looks like a case of media misattribution. I want to stress straight away that I didn't see the TV program in question—I've never owned … Continue ...
Azusa Pacific archaeologist returns home after search of ancient site in IsraelPasadena Star-NewsAn Azusa Pacific University archaeologist found "promising" artifacts during an initial survey of the ruins of a Biblical era city in Israel.
Nikolas Gestrich UCL Institute of Archaeology
This paper is in response to a discussion following Moshenska's 2009 paper, "What is Public Archaeology," published in the first issue of this journal. Moshenska proposed a model for breaking down the various parts of archaeology into marketable commodities, arguing that the relationship between the various interested groups could be understood as an economic relationship of supply and demand. My aim here is not to question this model. Rather, I would like to call into discussion the ethical and economic implications of understanding and presenting archaeological practice in this way.
Although our DNA is unique, it also contains the history of our family lineage and carries the genetic history of ancestors down through the generations. Now, researchers from Tel Aviv University (TAU) and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have shown it is also possible to use it as a map to your past.
To help revive nation’s struggling tourism industry, archaeologists are reopening tombs to the public.
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Two Bronze Age bodies found on a Scottish island are actually made from six people, a new study reveals.
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A century after Robert Falcon Scott's expedition to the South Pole, his ship Terra Nova has been located off Greenland.
From their religious classification to the clues they provide archaeologists about Ireland’s chieftains and kings, here’s your guide to Irish relics.
This is first physical evidence of a grisly practice during ancient war.
The archaeologists have unearthed the skeletal remains of 16 human hands buried in four pits in Egypt.
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