Stone Pages Archaeo News: November 2007 Archives

November 2007 index:

3 November 2007: Study of ancient skeletons found in Vanuatu; More than fifty headless skeletons have been unearthed in one of the oldest Pacific Islander cemeteries in the world. The individuals were members of a socially complex society, traveling between...
: 3000 years of Iranian history wiped out overnight; The destruction of one of the biggest historical sites in the Chahar-Mahal Bakhtiari province by the Ministry of Road and Transportation was reported by the Persian service of ISNA on...
: Stolen Neolithic artifacts returned to Greece; A stolen collection of about 100 artifacts dating from more than 8,000 years ago - including what may be very early human portraits - has been returned from Germany to...
: Ancient Welsh skeleton was 'even older'; The Red Lady of Paviland, discovered in a cave on Gower (Wales) in the 1820s may be 4,000 years older than previously thought. Scientists say more accurate tests date the...
: Tracing ancient pottery in Mississippi; A Mississippi State University anthropologist will use a $46,000 national grant to employ a new non-destructive method for tracing Southeastern prehistoric pottery and other artifacts to their sources. MSU associate...
: Iron Age chain discovered in Shetland; A 2,000-year-old bronze Iron Age chain has been discovered during consolidation work at the ancient Scatness settlement (Shetland, Scotland). The chain, with 20 double links and the remains of possibly...
: Prehistoric artefacts unearthed in Maryland; Five thousand years ago, a stand of oaks was a place where Native Americans came to gather quartz and make tools. Now, archaeologists are working feverishly to learn all they...
: Dig uncovers ancient Aboriginal dwellers; New archaeological evidence, published in October in the journal Australian Aboriginal Studies, reveals that Aboriginal people visited the Watarrka Plateau, south-west of Alice Springs (Australia), 13,000 years ago. Archaeologists Dr June Ross...
: Hazelnut shell pushes back date of Orcadian site; A charred hazelnut shell recovered during the excavations at Longhowe in Tankerness (Orkney, Scotland), earlier this year, has been dated to 6820-6660 BCE. Although Orkney has plenty of indications of...
17 November 2007: Excavation of the settlement near Stonehenge continues; Archaeologists working near Stonehenge have uncovered what they believe is the largest Neolithic settlement ever discovered in Northern Europe. Remains of an estimated 300 houses are thought to survive under...
: Race is on to excavate Bronze Age barrow; Archaeologists are in a race against time to excavate a 4,000-year-old burial ground discovered just 20ft from a crumbling cliff edge. The Bronze Age barrow was unearthed at Peacehaven Heights,...
: Bronze Age child found at school; The rare remains of a Bronze Age child have been discovered by archaeologists carrying out a dig at a Suffolk school (England). Culford School, in Culford, near Bury St Edmunds,...
: Archeologists unearth 4,000-year-old temple in Peru; Archeologists in Peru have unearthed a 4,000-year-old temple on the country's northern coast, making it one of the oldest discoveries of its kind in the Americas. Archeologist Walter Alva said...
: Neolithic Vinca was a metallurgical culture; Recent excavations at an ancient settlement – part of the Vinca culture which was one of Europe's biggest prehistoric civilizations – point to a metropolis with a great degree of...
: Prehistoric hunters' camp site found in Russia; Archaeologists have found a 15,000 year-old hunters' camp site from the Paleolithic era near Lake Evoron in Russia's Far East, a source in the Khabarovsk archaeology museum said. "The site...
: Cocoa used as early as 1000 BCE; Chemical and archaeological evidence has pushed back the earliest known use of cacao, the key ingredient of chocolate, by 500 years. The chemical compound, theobromine, which only occurs in the...
: Tides turn up child's Bronze Age remains; Hight tides and winds that have battered the Northumberland coast (England) served up a burial mystery for archaeologists. Erosion by the sea and weather has revealed what seems to be...
: Dig reveals 3,000 year old Vietnamese artifacts; Archaeologists have unearthed hundreds of stone and earthenware artifacts believed to be nearly 3,000 years old on the Sa Huynh culture on the An Hai islet on the Con Dao...
: Theory explains the fall of ancient Argaric people; One of Western Europe's earliest known urban societies may have sown the seeds of its own downfall, a study suggests. Mystery surrounded the fall of the Bronze Age Argaric people...
: Bronze Age barrow found in North Yorkshire; The first evidence of a Bronze Age settlement in Dewsbury has been uncovered at a sewage works in Earlsheaton (North Yorkshire, England). The dig, which is being carried out at...