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Bronze Age treasure unearthed in Surrey

19.07.2008 18:14    stonepages.com
A Coroner has ruled that a hoard of ancient bronze ingots found on farmland near Dorking (Surrey, England) are treasure. Nick Green, who is a member of the East Surrey Search and...


Construction damages prehistoric site in Indiana

19.07.2008 18:14    stonepages.com
About an acre of one of Indiana's most significant prehistoric sites was destroyed by bulldozing. Located a mile or so from Lebanon's bricked and antique shop-lined main thoroughfare, the Pfeffer...

Search for first Americans to plunge underwater

19.07.2008 18:14    stonepages.com
C. Andrew Hemmings, research associate of the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory (TARL) at The University of Texas at Austin, will lead an underwater archeological expedition in the Gulf of Mexico...

6,000-year-old knife unearthed in Florida

19.07.2008 18:14    stonepages.com
It started out as a simple plan to erect a pavilion-like shelter at Safety Harbor (Florida, USA). Then it became an archeology dig. A city crew erecting the shelter stumbled...

Wollemi Wilderness yields its ancient secrets

19.07.2008 18:14    stonepages.com
There is a ridge and a creek in the heart of the 500,000-hectare Wollemi Wilderness (New South Wales, Australia) which are so remote they have never been officially named by...

Prehistoric underwater forest explored in Scotland

19.07.2008 18:14    stonepages.com
Underwater archaeologists are taking to Loch Tay (Perthshire, Scotland) to try to uncover more about a submerged prehistoric woodland. The stumps of about 50 trees were discovered in 2005 -...

Cavemen and their relatives in the same village after 3,000 years

19.07.2008 18:14    stonepages.com
Two Germans share the longest proven family tree in the world. The men, Manfred Huchthausen and Uwe Lange, had known each other from living in the same village. But they...

Early irrigation farming traced in ancient Yemen

19.07.2008 18:14    stonepages.com
In the remote desert highlands of southern Yemen, a team of archaeologists have discovered new evidence of ancient transitions from hunting and herding to irrigation agriculture 5,200 years ago. As...

Syrian settlement dates back to 5,000 BCE

19.07.2008 18:14    stonepages.com
A number of round buildings that are eight and half meters high and date back to 5,000 BCE were discovered al-Hasaka governorate, 650 kilometres northeast of Damascus (Syria). Abdul Massih...

Stonehenge centre ready for 2012 Olympics?

19.07.2008 18:14    stonepages.com
Ambitious plans for a world-class visitor centre for Stonehenge may have dwindled to a world-class prefab, but both English Heritage and the government pledged it would be built in time...

Henge unearthed in the grounds of an Oxford college

19.07.2008 18:14    stonepages.com
Archaeologists excavating a mass grave in the grounds of an Oxford (England) college uncovered what could be a monument dating back 5,000 years. The team unearthed between 30 and 40...

Ancient finds at a British bus station dig

19.07.2008 18:14    stonepages.com
Stone Age pits containing tools and pottery have been uncovered during work on a new bus station in Warwickshire (England). Digs for the bus station in Warwick started in early...

Anthropologist Helps Unravel Mummy Mystery

19.07.2008 17:58    sciencedaily.com
Anthropologists are in the process of unraveling a mummy bundle found in Peru's historic Huaura Valley. The mummy is believed to have been an elite member of the Chancay culture, a civilization that thrived in the central coast of Peru

Big Brains Arose Separately in Multiple Primate Groups

19.07.2008 02:21    news.nationalgeographic.com
The trend toward larger brains relative to body size developed independently in isolated groups of primates, according to a new fossil analysis.
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