Stone Pages Archaeo News: June 2008 Archives

June 2008 index:

28 June 2008: Burnt bones hint at Stonehenge story; Stonehenge may have been a burial ground for an ancient elite family, British researchers said. New radiocarbon dates of human remains excavated from the ancient stone monument in southwest England...
: 5000-year-old anthropomorphic figures found in Peru; A team of archaeologists headed by Ruth Shady has discovered a number of anthropomorphic figures believed to be some five thousand years old near the district of Vegueta in the...
: Iron Age home unearthed in Northumberland; Opencast operations have revealed the remains of at least 50 Iron Age homes in Northumberland (England). The remnants of the roundhouses, in a two-hectare area enclosed by a ditch and...
: Prehistoric mass grave found in Germany; Durham University-led researchers say that genetic evidence from 34 skeletons from a prehistoric mass grave in southwest Germany dating back to around 5000 BCE shows the deaths were the result...
: Ancient stone tools discovered in South Carolina; Archaeologists have unearthed two ancient stone tools in an archaeological dig in Allendale County, (South Carolina, USA), a rare find that could provide more information about how early Americans lived....
: 4000-year-old tombs discovered in China; 4000-year-old tombs have been discovered in Shanghai (China). Five tombs with skulls and human remains as well as pottery and animal bodies were excavated from the northwestern corner of an...
: Neolithic camp found at a Welsh quarry; Archaeologists have begun excavating a quarry near Wrexham (North Wales) after evidence of a Neolithic settlement was uncovered. The exciting discovery was made at Tarmac's Borras Quarry, off Holt Road,...
: 7,000 years of mining traced in China; A new geochemical study makes light on 7,000 years of mining and metal use in central China and links these trends to fluctuations in airborne pollution during the Bronze Age...
: Oldest wheat found in Çatalhöyük; A series of DNA analyses conducted on ancient wheat samples have led scientists to conclude that the oldest known wheat was grown in Çatalhöyük, a Neolithic settlement in southern Anatolia...
: Thousands mark summer solstice at Stonehenge; Some 30,000 people celebrated the summer solstice as dawn broke at Stonehenge in Wiltshire (England). Druids, hippies and sun-worshippers were among those who gathered to watch the sun rise at...
: Damaged dolmenoid cist burial found in India; A dolmenoid cist burial in a damaged condition relating to the megalithic age was spotted in a plot at Choozhiyampara near Vallikode in Palakkad district (Kerala, Southern India). The cist...
: Group mulls future of ancient mound site in Ohio; Ohio Historical Society officials are considering the possible transfer of a 2,000-year-old American Indian earthworks site in central Ohio to the National Park Service because more money is needed to...
: Britain's last Neanderthals more sophisticated than thought; An archaeological excavation at a site near Pulborough, West Sussex (England), has thrown remarkable new light on the life of northern Europe's last Neanderthals. It provides a snapshot of a...
: Neolithic burial site unearthed on the Isle of Man; Neolithic remains which cast new light on the Isle of Man's earliest known inhabitants have been uncovered at the airport's new runway project. The 5,000-year-old artefacts were found by workers...
: Paris is 3,000 years older than first thought; Paris has long been known to be a very old city but its history as a settlement has just been extended by more than 3,000 years. An archaeological dig moves...
: Exciting find at an ancient Scottish homestead; Archaeologists and volunteers working at a Perthshire forest (Scotland) claim to have uncovered a 'very exciting' find. Excavations have revealed a stone entrance to the Black Spout enclosure, which workers...
: 5,000-year-old jewellery workshop uncovered in Cyprus; Archaeologists have uncovered was appears to have been a jewellery workshop during excavations at the 5,000-year old Souskiou-Laona settlement (Cyprus). According to the Antiquities Department, a dense concentration of the...
: Archaeologists to demonstrate ancient brewing; Last summer two Irish archaeologists proposed a theory which made worldwide headlines. They suggested that one of the most common archaeological monuments in the Irish landscape may have been used...