Neanderthals ate sharks and dolphins (BBC News 03/26/20)
Neanderthals were eating fish, mussels and seals at a site in present-day Portugal, according to a new study.
Ancestor of all animals identified in Australian fossils (Phys.org 03/24/20)
A team led by UC Riverside geologists has discovered the first ancestor on the family tree that contains most familiar animals today, including humans.
Tests undertaken to determine age of Cerne Abbas Giant (itv.com 03/23/20)
Archaeologists are attempting to determine for the first time the age of the mysterious Cerne Abbas Giant.
AIA Announces 2021 Gold Medal Award Winner (Archaeological Institute of America 03/20/20)
The AIA’s Gold Medal Committee has selected Dr. Katherine M.D. Dunbabin, as the 2021 recipient of the Institute’s Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement.
Pyramid-shaped stupa sheds new light on our rich past (The Daily Star 03/20/19)
For the first time, a group of archaeologists have unearthed a pyramid-shaped stupa in the country.
Summary of the 2020 campaign in the Qubbet el-Hawa Necropolis (Aswan, Egypt)
Since 2008, the University of Jaen has been excavating in the necropolis where the highest officials of Egypt’s southernmost province were buried between 2200 and 1800 BC. This province, whose capital was located on the island of Elephantina, played a very important role in the history of Egypt, as it was the border between Egypt…
Archaeologists discover giant Ice Age mammoth bone structure (Heritage daily 03/18/20)
Archaeologists have announced the discovery of a giant Ice Age structure built from the remains of at least 60 mammoths at the Kostenki-Borshevo archaeological complex.
The ‘dolia’ in Roman wine settlements
Archaeometric characterization of Roman dolia from the northeast of Hispania Citerior-Tarraconensis The ‘dolia’ and wine production From the end of the 2nd and beginning of the 1st century BC, the province of Hispania Citerior (called Tarraconensis after the territorial organisation of the Emperor Augustus) was characterised by the development of a production system based mainly…
Our commitment to archaeology and paleontology in these difficult times
From the Palarq Foundation we want to support all the teams of archaeology and paleontology. To those people who have travelled to the countries where the sites are located and who are carrying out their work at a great distance from home. To the teams that have seen their campaign plans cut short for the…
Student discovers 5,000-year-old sword hidden in Venetian monastery (LiveScience 03/11/20)
It’s one of the oldest swords ever found