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Bronze Age findings unearthed near Moscow

24.11.2009 18:39    stonepages.com
Evidence of human activity dating back 3,000 years ago has been reported in New Jerusalem monastery near Russian capital Moscow. "Archaeologists have found ceramics produced back in the Bronze Age,...
Bronze Age findings unearthed near Moscow



Ancient hunters not to blame for driving mammoths to extinction

24.11.2009 18:39    stonepages.com
Woolly mammoths and other large, lumbering beasts faced extinction long before early humans perfected their skills as spearmakers, scientists say. The prehistoric giants began their precipitous decline nearly 2,000 years...
Ancient hunters not to blame for driving mammoths to extinction

Hunters' remains earliest known in Scotland

24.11.2009 18:39    stonepages.com
Scotland's foremost amateur archaeologist, Tam Ward of Biggar Archaeology Group, was guest speaker at the November meeting of Lanark and District Archaeological Society. The subject of Tam's talk was about...
Hunters' remains earliest known in Scotland

Early humans may have been 'hobbits', scientists say

24.11.2009 18:39    stonepages.com
Since its 2003 discovery on the Indonesian island of Flores, the Homo floresiensis (nicknamed 'hobbit' because it only grew to be about three feet tall) has caused scientists across the...
Early humans may have been 'hobbits', scientists say

Valley in Jordan irrigated for 13,000 years

24.11.2009 18:39    stonepages.com
Dutch researcher Eva Kaptijn succeeded in discovering - based on 100,000 finds - that the Zerqa Valley in Jordan had been successively inhabited and irrigated for more than 13,000 years....
Valley in Jordan irrigated for 13,000 years


Indus Valley's civilisation 'had first sophisticated exchange system'

24.11.2009 18:39    stonepages.com
The Indus Valley's Bronze Age civilisation may have developed the world's first sophisticated system of wage labour, financial exchange and measurement, a Canadian mathematician has discovered. According to a new...
Indus Valley's civilisation 'had first sophisticated exchange system'

Protest over hill fort land sale in Britain

24.11.2009 18:38    stonepages.com
Hundreds of people have staged a protest on land near a British Iron Age hill fort in a bid to stop it being sold and keep it in public ownership....
Protest over hill fort land sale in Britain

Archaeologists to study Bronze Age barrow in West Sussex

24.11.2009 18:38    stonepages.com
Archaeologists are to study a Bronze Age barrow in a corner of a sand quarry site at Minsted, near Stedham (West Sussex, England). West Sussex County Council has given consent...
Archaeologists to study Bronze Age barrow in West Sussex

Ancient stone moved from archaeological site in Cyprus

24.11.2009 18:38    stonepages.com
Police officers in Cyprus are investigating what they believe to be the attempted theft of a giant 2,000-year-old standing stone, which was been removed from the archaeological site in Pissouri....
Ancient stone moved from archaeological site in Cyprus

Europe's largest rondel enclosures unearthed in Bohemia

24.11.2009 18:38    stonepages.com
Czech archaeologists have uncovered four prehistoric rondel enclosures (a type of circular prehistoric earthworks enclosure), two of which are the largest in Europe, within an unprecedented extensive research accompanying the...
Europe's largest rondel enclosures unearthed in Bohemia

Expert says ancient art was 'an instinct'

24.11.2009 18:38    stonepages.com
Images pecked in stone hundreds to thousands of years ago could be for religious reasons, to mark territories or simple doodles such as those still made today by children and...
Expert says ancient art was 'an instinct'

Additional details on 'dugong' prehistoric ritual site

08.11.2009 08:20    stonepages.com
About 6 week ago, we published an article about the discovery of the oldest known place of worship dedicated to the dugong, or sea cow, on an island just north...

Oregon caves yield evidence of continent's first inhabitants

08.11.2009 08:20    stonepages.com
Archaeologists claim to have found the oldest known artefact in the Americas, a scraper-like tool in an Oregon cave (USA) that dates back 14,230 years. The tool shows that people...
Oregon caves yield evidence of continent's first inhabitants

Ancient weapons factory unearthed in Leicestershire

08.11.2009 08:20    stonepages.com
Archeologists have unearthed an 8,000-year-old weapons factory in Britain. The find, near Melton, is the biggest ever mid-Stone Age discovery in Leicestershire (England), with fingernail-sized flint pieces, burned animal bones...
Ancient weapons factory unearthed in Leicestershire

Iron Age burial mound found in the Netherlands

08.11.2009 08:19    stonepages.com
Archaeologists have found the Iron Age burial mound of a wealthy man in Noord Brabant, the second major find within a cluster of earthworks and other remains near the town...
Iron Age burial mound found in the Netherlands

Prehistoric burial ground discovered on Skye

08.11.2009 08:19    stonepages.com
A prehistoric burial ground has been discovered on Skye (Inner Hebrides, Scotland). Six slab-lined graves and six cremation pits have been unearthed on the excavation site close to Armadale pier...
Prehistoric burial ground discovered on Skye

Novice metal detector man discovers treasure hoard in Scotland

08.11.2009 08:19    stonepages.com
A Iron Age treasure hoard has been unearthed by a safari park keeper using a metal detector for the first time. David Booth was 'stunned' when he found several 2000-year-old...
Novice metal detector man discovers treasure hoard in Scotland

Chinese challenge to 'out of Africa' theory

08.11.2009 08:19    stonepages.com
The discovery of an early human fossil in southern China may challenge the commonly held idea that modern humans originated out of Africa. Jin Changzhu and colleagues of the Institute...
Chinese challenge to 'out of Africa' theory

Father and son cleared of illegal treasure hunting in England

08.11.2009 08:19    stonepages.com
A father and son team of treasure hunters who were accused of illegally removing 3000 year old artefacts from an Uttlesford estate (Essex, England) while acting as metal detecting 'nighthawks',...
Father and son cleared of illegal treasure hunting in England

Nazcas' destruction of forests caused downfall

04.11.2009 16:23    stonepages.com
An ancient civilisation brought about its own demise by destroying forests which kept its delicate ecosystem in balance, according to researchers who claim the discovery has important implications for the...
Nazcas' destruction of forests caused downfall

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