Archaeology News

Posted June 24, 2008:

• Ancient Fort Opens New Chapter In First Nations' History

Posted June 16, 2008:

• Leicestershire Burial Mounds Reveal Ancestral Insights

Posted June 10, 2008:

• New Research Refutes Myth Of Pure Scandinavian Race
• 'Cursus' Is Older Than Stonehenge: Archeologists Step Closer To Solving Ancient Monument Riddle

Posted May 28, 2008:

• Authentic Viking DNA Retrieved From 1,000-Year-Old Skeletons

Posted May 25, 2008:

• Is Indy Chasing A Fake? Two Well-Known Crystal Skulls Did Not, After All, Come From Ancient Mexico

Posted May 24, 2008:

• New Statistical Method Reveals Surprises About Our Ancestry

Posted May 21, 2008:

• Ancient Amphibian: Debate Over Origin Of Frogs And Salamanders Settled With Discovery Of Missing Link

Posted May 9, 2008:

• New Evidence From Earliest Known Human Settlement In The Americas

Posted April 30, 2008:

• Ancient Sunflower Fuels Debate About Agriculture In The Americas

Posted April 25, 2008:

• Freshwater Herring Had Salty Origin

Posted April 18, 2008:

• Unearthing Clues Of Catastrophic Earthquakes

Posted April 11, 2008:

• Ancient DNA: Reconstruction Of The Biological History Of A Human Society
• Archaeologist Helps Community By Keeping African Artifacts In Africa

Posted April 8, 2008:

• Tiny Bug Found In Grand Canyon Region Cave Suggests Big Biodiversity

Posted April 4, 2008:

• Is Globalization as Old as the Earth?

Posted April 3, 2008:

• Scientists Reshape Y Chromosome Haplogroup Tree Gaining New Insights Into Human Ancestry
• Pre-Clovis Human DNA Found In 14,300-Year-Old Feces In Oregon Cave Is Oldest In New World

Posted March 29, 2008:

• How Were The Egyptian Pyramids Built?

Posted March 24, 2008:

• Genetic Study Of Latin Americans Sheds Light On A Troubled History

Posted March 22, 2008:

• Floating A Big Idea: Ancient Use Of Rafts To Transport Goods Demonstrated

Posted March 21, 2008:

• Early Americans Arrived Thousands of Years Earlier Than Previously Believed

Posted March 18, 2008:

• Gold Scroll Discovered: Earliest Evidence Of Jewish Inhabitants In Austria

Posted March 15, 2008:

• Exploring A 'Lost' City Of The Mycenaeans

Posted March 13, 2008:

• Domestication Of The Donkey May Have Taken A Long Time

Posted March 12, 2008:

• Evidence Of Ice Age Hunters: 28 Palaeolithic Handaxes Found In North Sea

Posted March 5, 2008:

• Giant Fossil Bats Out Of Africa, 35 Million Years Old

Posted February 29, 2008:

• Enormous Jurassic Sea Predator, Pliosaur, Discovered In Norway
• What Caused Westward Expansion In The United States?

Posted February 28, 2008:

• Centuries-Old Maya Blue Mystery Finally Solved

Posted February 27, 2008:

• Vikings With Vanity: Vivid Colors, Flowing Silk, Fashionable Until Advent of Christianity

Posted February 26, 2008:

• Excavations In Iran Unravel Mystery Of 'Red Snake'

Posted February 21, 2008:

• Most Detailed Global Study Of Genetic Variation Completed

Posted February 19, 2008:

• Cleopatra's Cosmetics And Hammurabi's Heineken: Name Brands Far Predating Modern Capitalism

Posted February 18, 2008:

• Egypt's Earliest Agricultural Settlement Unearthed

Posted February 13, 2008:

• Thousands Of Humans Inhabited New World's Doorstep For 20,000 Years

Posted February 12, 2008:

• Viking Blood Courses Through Veins Of Many A Northwest Englander

Posted February 11, 2008:

• Archaeologists Discover Roman Fort In Cornwall, England

Posted February 8, 2008:

• Mummy Lice Found In Peru May Give New Clues About Human Migration

Posted February 6, 2008:

• Globetrotting Black Rat Genes Reveal Spread Of Humans And Diseases

Posted February 3, 2008:

• Archaeologist 'Strikes Gold' With Finds Of Ancient Nasca Iron Ore Mine In Peru

Posted January 28, 2008:

• New Discoveries At The Ash Altar Of Zeus Offer Insights Into Origins Of Ancient Greece's Most Powerful God

Posted January 15, 2008:

• Columbus May Have Brought Syphilis To Europe From New World

Posted January 9, 2008:

• Ancient Cave Bears Were As Omnivorous As Modern Bears

Posted January 7, 2008:

• Plate Tectonics May Grind To A Halt, Then Start Again

Posted January 5, 2008:

• New Report On First Death By Spearing In Australia

Posted January 2, 2008:

• Riddle Of The Jade Jewels Reveals Vast Trade Arena

Posted December 25, 2007:

• Unknown Monumental Building Of Herod The Great (73-4 BC) Unearthed

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