The first farmers of Europe (Heritage Daily 31/08/21)
A research team from the University of Bern has managed to precisely date pile dwellings on the banks of Lake Ohrid in the south-western Balkans for the first time
New archeological discoveries in Australia highlight lack of protections for submerged Indigenous sites (Phys.org 30/08/21)
New archeological research highlights major blind spots in Australia’s environmental management policies, placing submerged Indigenous heritage at risk.
A Neanderthal hunting camp in the center of the Iberian Peninsula (Phys.org 26/08/21)
Abel Moclán, a researcher at CENIEH, is the lead author of a paper published in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews which undertook a zooarchaeological and taphonomic study of the Neanderthal Navalmaíllo Rock Shelter site (Pinilla del Valle, Madrid), some 76,000 years old, whose results indicate that these Neanderthals mainly hunted large bovids and cervids
Ancient woman’s DNA provides first evidence for the origin of a mysterious lost culture: The Toaleans (Phys.org 26/08/21)
In 2015, archaeologists from the University of Hasanuddin in Makassar, on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, uncovered the skeleton of a woman buried in a limestone cave. Studies revealed the person from Leang Panninge, or “Bat Cave,” was 17 or 18 years old when she died some 7,200 years ago
Neanderthals Spanish cave art was made by Neanderthals, study confirms (The Guardian 08/2/2021)
Study says pigments on cave stalagmites were applied through ‘splattering and blowing’ more than 60,000 years ago
Archaeologists discover new urban precinct in Egyptian settlement of Marea (Heritage Daily 27/07/21)
Archaeologists excavating the ancient port settlement and cemetery of Marea in Egypt have discovered a complex urban precinct
Roman road discovered in the Venice lagoon (Phys.org 22/07/21)
The findings suggest that extensive settlements may have been present in the Venice Lagoon centuries before the founding of Venice began in the fifth century
Ancient ‘sunken city’ discovered in Egypt (CNN 20/07/21)
Divers have discovered rare remains of a military vessel in the ancient sunken city of Thônis-Heracleion — once Egypt‘s largest port on the Mediterranean — and a funerary complex illustrating the presence of Greek merchants
As little as 1.5% of our genome is ‘uniquely human’ (Live Science 16/07/21)
The rest is shared with ancient human relatives such as Neanderthals
Anglo-Saxon cave could be UK’s ‘oldest domestic interior’ (BBC 15/07/21)
A near-complete Anglo-Saxon cave house, that is believed to date from the early ninth century and could have been home to a king, has been identified
An archaeological study reveals new aspects related to plant processing in a Neolithic settlement in Turkey (EurekAlert 13/07/21)
Researchers have discovered at the site of Çatalhöyük (Anatolia, Turkey) a wide variety of hitherto unknown wild resources
Climate changed the size of our bodies and, to some extent, our brains (Heritage Daily 11/07/21)
An interdisciplinary team of researchers, led by the Universities of Cambridge and Tübingen, has gathered measurements of body and brain size for over 300 fossils from the genus Homo found across the globe
