Stone Pages Archaeo News: October 2007 Archives

October 2007 index:

9 October 2007: Neanderthals roamed as far as Siberia; DNA extracted from skeletal remains has shown that Neanderthals roamed some 2000 kilometres further east than previously thought. Researchers say the genetic sequence of an adolescent Neanderthal found in southern...
: Ancient Saharian shepherds were artists; "The creators of rock drawings in Dakhla were shepherds. They lived about 8 – 5,000 years ago" – said Prof. Michał Kobusiewicz from the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology at...
: Irish Minister makes order to protect fort near Tara; Irish Minister for the Environment John Gormley has used his powers under the National Monuments Acts to make a temporary preservation order for Rath Lugh, a prehistoric promontory fort associated...
: Ancient metal workshop found in Serbia; Serbian archaeologists found evidence of what could be the oldest metal workshop in all of Europe. According to National Museum archaeologist Dušan Šljivar, experts found a "copper chisel and stone...
: Orkney find points to Scotland's earliest settlement; They may look like just a collection of broken stones, but the finds made in a field in Orkney might be evidence of the earliest settlement in Scotland. Two flint...
: Boats to be built Bronze Age style; Underwater archaeologists in Perthshire (Scotland) are set to embark on a massively ambitious project to build a pair of huge logboats, similar to those created locally during the Bronze Age....
: Rotherwas Ribbon protesters' charges dropped; The case against six people detained after protesting at a British council meeting has been discontinued. The six were arrested at a meeting of Hereford County Council in July when...
: Suspected prehistoric burial found in Texas; Jon Lohse, an archaeologist with Texas State University's Center for Archaeological Studies says an extremely rare metal arrow point isn't the only thing that he has found near the proposed...
: Learn how ancient people cooked; Clay pots. Stones with holes in the center. Large, open hearths with cast-iron pots. Pits filled with roasting game. Each of these cooking techniques will be part of an archaeology...
: Discovery of a Neolithic village in Iran; Sounding works in order to delimit the area of Chough Tepe in Mazandaran province (Iran), has resulted in identifying architectural layers. Based on historical evidence, archeologists give the possibility that...
: TV crew joins the dig of an Iron Age hill fort; County archaeologists have spent months digging the dirt at Credenhill Park Wood (Herefordshire, England). But they were given a helping hand by the Time Team TV crew, who spent a...
17 October 2007: Follow in 385,000-year-old human footsteps; Want to walk in the footsteps of the early humans? Tourists in Italy can do almost just that starting last weekend, after footpaths believed to have been left up to...
: Ancient tomb of young lovers unearthed in Turkey; Archaeologists discovered the tomb of a young couple locked in an embrace during their work in Hakemi Use in the Bismil district of the southeastern province of Diyarbakır (Turkey). Archaeologists...
: Ancient human migrations in the Pacific Region; A new study by Kevin Pope of Geo Eco Arc Research and John Terrell of The Field Museum adds insight into the migration of anatomically modern humans out of Africa...
: Monolith raises questions about ancient mexican culture; Deep in the Huastec jungle (Mexico) the enormous carved stone monolith stands, suspended over the pool of water where a team of archaeologists discovered it. A powerful woman stands at...
: World's oldest wall painting unearthed in Syria; French archaeologists have discovered an 11,000-year-old wall painting underground in northern Syria which they believe is the oldest in the world. The 2 square-meter painting, in red, black and white,...
: Archaeological website launch; A new website will be created to promote archaeological objects in Dumfries and Galloway region (Scotland) - thanks to a £40,000 cash injection. Under the Recognition Scheme funded by the...
: Vandals target Long barrow in Lancashire; A 5,000 year old monument has been targeted by vandals in Lancashire (England). A prominent spiral-shaped design has been carved into the ancient Pike Stones - a long barrow burial...
: BBC4 to unearth Silbury Hill's history; Coast presenter Neil Oliver will explore the interior of the largest man-made mound in Europe in a one-off documentary for BBC4. In Lion Television's Silbury Hill, the archaeologist will team...
: Mysterious carved stone found at Whitby Abbey; Experts are studying a carved stone recently uncovered on Whitby Abbey Headland in North Yorkshire (England) to see if it represents the first Bronze Age artefact from the site. St...
: Texan prehisoric site under threat; Michael Collins, an archaeological researcher at the University of Texas (USA), has spent the past 16 years studying artifacts from a patch of Williamson County to uncover a prehistoric society...
: Searching for ancient shores in Michigan; Pulling her hand back through a pile of dirt, student Claire Kitzman forced sand through a sifting screen, revealing a tiny piece of chipped rock lodged between the bars of...
: Prehistoric skull found at Malibu construction site; A human skull unearthed at a construction site in the Malibu (California, USA) has been officially declared a prehistoric Native American find, and the wheels have been put in motion...
21 October 2007: 7,000 year-old statue discovered in Moravia; Czech Archaeologists have uncovered a part of a half-meter high statue of a woman nearly 7,000 years old in the country, which was called 'a find of the century'. Experts...
: 'National monuments' found on Irish hill; The campaign by the Irish Hill of Allen Action Group in relation to the quarrying of the hill by Roadstone took a new twist last week, with the claim that...
: Remains unearthed on a Welsh burial mound; The Brownslade Barrow Project 2004-06, run by the South Pembrokeshire Ranges Recording Advisory Group (Wales), unearthed an archaeological monument on a Bronze Age burial mound. More than 1000 bone fragments,...
: End of excavations at Galabar Dam; Archeological excavations behind Galabar dam in Zanjan province (Iran) wrapped up after four and half months continual effort in the region. Discovering of more than 30 graves and burial gifts...
: Alaskan tribes to receive prehistoric remains; Human remains estimated to be more than 10,000 years old that were found in a cave in the Tongass National Forest (USA) rightfully belong to the southeast Alaska Tlingit tribes,...
28 October 2007: Artefacts from the Neoltihic uncovered in Syria; Along with the 11,000-year-old wall painting recently discovered in northern Syria, archaeologists have uncovered a series of startling artefacts. Carved stone tools, flints, seed-grinding implements and brick-grinding stones have been...
: New ideas about migration from Asia to Americas; Do the ancestors of Native Americans derive from only a small number of 'founders' who trekked to the Americas via the Bering land bridge? How did their migration to the...
: Ancient clay remedies are studied; U.S. scientists are investigating the efficacy of a French clay that was used for thousands of years to kill several kinds of disease-causing bacteria. "There are very compelling reports of...
: Some Neanderthals were 'flame-haired'; Evidence from ancient DNA indicates that at least some of the Neanderthals who roamed Europe until around 30,000 years ago had fair skin and red hair. It has long been...
: Unlocking the secrets of Silbury Hill; Archaeologists are unlocking the secrets of Silbury Hill, Europe's tallest man-made mound and one of Britain's greatest historical mysteries. Researchers have long been mystified as to why the giant prehistoric...
: Save Pendarves Quoit; Pendarves Quoit, also known as Carwynnen Quoit, is a Bronze Age Burial Chamber located in West Cornwall (England). The site is in a collasped condition and stands on private setaside...
: Follow in the footsteps of Iron Age woodsmen; Fancy weaving your way through ancient woodland where wolves and wildcats prowled, and Iron Age woodsmen tramped their way back to their hill fort? This is the new adventure that...
: Rare chance to see Neolithic site in Orkney; After its Neolithic and Bronze Age inhabitants moved out, the prehistoric village of the Links of Noltland lay untouched until 1978, when the Orkney site (Scotland) was first excavated. The...
: Farming from 6,000 years ago in Lincolnshire; Evidence of the farming methods of hunter-gatherers from more than 6,000 years ago have surfaced in Washingborough (Lincolnshire, England). Rare criss-crossed ploughing tracks were uncovered before the construction of new...