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October 6, 2020
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Anglo-Saxon Warlord Found by Detectorists Could Redraw Map of Post-Roman Britain

Oct. 5, 2020 — A discovery by a metal detectorist on club outing proved to be a significant burial with the remains of an imposing warlord, along with ...

A Tale of Two Cesspits: DNA Reveals Intestinal Health in Medieval Europe and Middle East

Oct. 5, 2020 — Analysis of 14th-15th century latrines in Jerusalem and Riga, Latvia identifies some of the microbes resident in the guts of these pre-industrial ...

Danish King Got Enshrined in His Own Clothes, Appeared With His Brothers' When Examined

Oct. 1, 2020 — Scientific analysis solve puzzle about the age and destiny of precious silk textiles from AD ...

Chromium Steel First Made in Ancient Persia, Study Finds

Sep. 23, 2020 — Chromium steel -- similar to what we know today as tool steel -- was first made in Persia, nearly a millennium earlier than experts previously thought, according to a new ...
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Hyksos, 15th Dynasty Rulers of Ancient Egypt, Were an Internal Takeover

July 15, 2020 — The Hyksos, who ruled during the 15th Dynasty of ancient Egypt, were not foreign invaders, but a group who rose to power from within, according to a new ...

New Method Solves Old Mystery: Hafnium Isotopes Clinch Origin of High-Quality Roman Glass

July 9, 2020 — Archaeological glass contains information about the movement of goods and ancient economies, yet the understanding of critical aspects of the ancient glass industry is fragmentary. Until now, it has ...

First Confirmed Underwater Aboriginal Archaeological Sites Found Off Australian Coast

July 1, 2020 — Ancient submerged Aboriginal archaeological sites await underwater rediscovery off the coast of Australia, according to a ...

New Zealand's Ancient Monster Penguins Had Northern Hemisphere Doppelgangers

June 30, 2020 — New Zealand's monster penguins that lived 62 million years ago had doppelgangers in Japan, the USA and Canada, a new study has ...

Non-Tobacco Plant Identified in Ancient Pipe for First Time

June 26, 2020 — People in what is now Washington State were smoking Rhus glabra, a plant commonly known as smooth sumac, more than 1,400 years ago. The discovery marks the first-time scientists have identified ...

Massive Prehistoric Circle Near Stonehenge

June 22, 2020 — Archaeologists have discovered a major new prehistoric monument only a short distance away from Stonehenge. Fieldwork and analysis have revealed evidence for 20 or more massive, prehistoric shafts, ...

Seafood Helped Prehistoric People Migrate out of Africa

June 16, 2020 — A study has examined fossil reefs near to the now-submerged Red Sea shorelines that marked prehistoric migratory routes from Africa to Arabia. The findings suggest this coast offered the resources ...

Origins of the Beloved Guinea Pig

June 16, 2020 — New research sheds light on guinea pig domestication and how and why the small, furry animals became distributed around the ...

Radiocarbon Dating Pins Date for Construction of Uyghur Complex to the Year 777

June 8, 2020 — Dating archaeological objects precisely is difficult, even when using techniques such as radiocarbon dating. Using a recently developed method, based on the presence of sudden spikes in carbon-14 ...

DNA Increases Our Understanding of Contact Between Stone Age Cultures

June 5, 2020 — What kind of interactions did the various Stone Age cultures have with one another? In a new interdisciplinary study, researchers have combined archaeological and genetic information to better ...

Ancient DNA Provides New Insights Into the Early Peopling of the Caribbean

June 4, 2020 — According to a new study by an international team of researchers from the Caribbean, Europe and North America, the Caribbean was settled by several successive population dispersals that originated on ...

New Papua New Guinea Research Solves Archaeological Mysteries

June 4, 2020 — New research which 'fills in the blanks' on what ancient Papuan New Guineans ate, and how they processed food, has ended decades-long speculation on tool use and food stables in the ...

Pinpointing the Origins of Jerusalem's Temple Mount

June 3, 2020 — Integrating radiocarbon dating and microarchaeology techniques has enabled more precise dating of the ancient Wilson's Arch monument at Jerusalem's Temple Mount, according to a new ...

Ancient Genomes Link Subsistence Change and Human Migration in Northern China

June 1, 2020 — Northern China is among the first centers in the world where agriculture developed, but its genetic history remains largely unknown. Researchers have now analyzed 55 ancient genomes from China, ...

Genomic Analysis Shows Long-Term Genetic Mixing in West Asia Before World's First Cities

May 28, 2020 — Scientists analyzed DNA data from 110 skeletal remains in West Asia dated 3,000 to 7,500 years ago. The study reveals how a high level of human movement in West Asia during the Neolithic to late ...

Miniature Rock Art Expands Horizons

May 26, 2020 — Archaeologists have discovered some of the most detailed examples of rare, small-scale rock art in the form of miniature stencils in a rockshelter traditionally owned by the Marra people. The ...

Cahokia's Rise Parallels Onset of Corn Agriculture

May 14, 2020 — Corn cultivation spread from Mesoamerica to what is now the American Southwest by about 4000 B.C., but how and when the crop made it to other parts of North America is still debated. In a new study, ...

Beads Made of Boa Bones Identified in Lesser Antilles

May 14, 2020 — Today Boa snakes have a patchy distribution in the islands that form the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean Sea, but the constrictors are nearly absent from archaeological deposits in the region. ...

Pofatu: A New Database for Geochemical 'Fingerprints' of Artefacts

May 13, 2020 — Due to the improvement and increased use of geochemical fingerprinting techniques during the last 25 years, the archaeological compositional data of stone tools has grown exponentially. The Pofatu ...

Geometry Guided Construction of Earliest Known Temple, Built 6,000 Years Before Stonehenge

May 12, 2020 — Researchers have now used architectural analysis to discover that geometry informed the layout of Göbekli Tepe's impressive round stone structures and enormous assembly of limestone pillars, ...
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