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Apr. 27, 2022 — Hunter-gatherers made use of open woodland conditions in the millennia before Stonehenge monuments were built, according to a new ...
Apr. 29, 2022 — Four thousand years before Stonehenge was constructed, land within the World Heritage Site was covered by open woodland, with meadow-like clearings, inhabited by grazing animals and hunter-gatherers, ...
May 19, 2022 — Study of ancient faeces found at a settlement thought to have housed builders of the famous stone monument suggests that parasites got consumed via badly-cooked cow offal during epic winter ...
Mar. 1, 2022 — New analysis has identified how the design of Stonehenge may have represented a calendar, helping people track a solar year of 365.25 days calibrated by the alignment of the solstices. Although it ...
Feb. 7, 2022 — An international team has used ancient DNA to rewrite the history of the Scottish Orkney islands to show that Orkney actually experienced large-scale immigration during the Early Bronze Age, which ...
Mar. 10, 2021 — Sediment samples and Optically Stimulated Luminescence help determine age of jars of one of South East Asia's most important archaeological ...
May 5, 2021 — The first civilisations to build monumental palaces and urban centres in Europe are more genetically homogenous than expected, according to genomes gathered from archaeological sites around the ...
Jan. 20, 2021 — In the Early Bronze Age of Europe, ancient people used bronze objects as an early form of money, even going so far as to standardize the shape and weight of their currency, according to a new ...
Aug. 18, 2021 — The field of Archaeogenetics has substantially contributed to a better understanding of how the movement and admixture of people across Europe during the Neolithic and Bronze Ages shaped genetic ...
June 10, 2021 — A team used dendrochronology and a form of radiocarbon dating called 'wiggle-matching' to pinpoint, with 95% probability, the years in which an ancient wooden structure's two main ...
