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1 day ago · New research offers evidence that humans did not inhabit the island of Timor until around 44,000 years ago, suggesting it was not part of the original migration route from Southeast Asia to Australia
2 days ago · So write the authors of Must Farm pile-dwelling settlement, a two-volume monograph recently published by the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research (see ‘Further information’ on p.26). The books set out the illuminating insights that have been gleaned from a late Bronze Age settlement at Must Farm in Cambridgeshire.
2 days ago · Read the original scholarly article about this research in Antiquity. To read about pre-Viking human settlement and sheep husbandry in the Faroe Islands, go to " Letter from the Faroes: Lost ...
4 days ago · A new discovery of artifacts, recovered from a 2,000-year-old burial mound, shows off this little-known society’s sophistication and its deep connections to the ancient Silk Road. Featuring a ...
4 days ago · Carrying on from last week's environmental archaeology post, another member of our environmental archaeology team, Martha, is here to tell us a few more things about what we’re finding on site, and what it all means. Archaeobotany, simply put, is the study of plant remains recovered from archaeological sites.
3 days ago · Off the field, archaeology benefits from myriad other technologies. A ceramic profiler quickly illustrates the shapes of artifacts, 3-D printing visualizes and analyzes structures, and capture technology allows archeologists to archive 3-D images.
5 days ago · Kerma was a Bronze Age culture ( c. 2500–1500 bce) located in what is today Sudan and southern Egypt. It is one of the earliest complex societies in Africa and, at its height, rivaled Ancient Egypt. The ancient Kerma culture spans the Pre-Kerma, examining the settlements and cemeteries of this ancient culture during the Pre-Kerma (3500–2500 ...
