Stone Pages Archaeo News: May 2009 Archives

May 2009 index:

5 May 2009: 10 weeks studying Seahenge; More than a decade since it was discovered on a Norfolk beach (England), a new course offers the opportunity to investigate some of the controversies surrounding Seahenge. It might not...
: Skara Brae opened to public; Visitors to the Neolithic village of Skara Brae on Orkney (Scotland) will be offered a glimpse inside the ancient homes for the first time. The 5,000-year-old buildings can normally only...
: Neanderthals babies didn't do the twist; Giving birth is more difficult - and dangerous - for modern humans than for any other primate. Not only do human mothers have to push out babies with unusually big...
: Archaeologists planning for Iran's largest rescue excavation; The Iranian Center for Archaeological Research (ICAR) is currently planning a rescue excavation project at the Seimareh Dam reservoir area in western Iran's Ilam Province. Forty areas in the region...
: A link between ancient Wales and the Mediterranean?; Welsh people are needed for DNA tests to prove their distant ancestors moved from the Mediterranean to north west Wales as migrant workers 4,000 years ago. Participants will be asked...
: Artifacts from 3700 BCE unearthed in Texas; UTSA Center for Archaeological Research (CAR) researchers are examining artifacts they recently discovered that date from 3700 BCE to 600 CE. The artifacts were discovered during a three-month dig at...
: 85,000-year-old villages found in UAE; New archaeological discoveries in Sharjah's Jebel Fayah (United Arab Emirates) showed that human settlements existed in the area over 85,000 years ago. Excavation work was carried out as part of...
: Ancient Indus script may encode language; An ancient script that's defied generations of archaeologists has yielded some of its secrets to artificially intelligent computers. Computational analysis of symbols used 4,000 years ago by a long-lost Indus...
: Researchers solve the mystery of Maltese tracks; The mystery of how 2ft deep tracks were cut into the rock of Malta has been a puzzle for years. Now Professor Derek Mottershead, of the university's geography department, has...
: Vandal damage to cave paintings in Lybia; Some time around the middle of April, in an area of the Libyan Sahara on the Algerian frontier known as Tadrart Acacus, seven cave paintings from the Neolithic era, dating...
: China's earliest known carving found; Chinese archaeologists say they have identified the country's earliest known carving - a deer antler sculpted into the shape of a bird - dating back 12,000 to 15,000 years. The...
: DNA confirms Native Americans descended from a single group; For decades, researchers have been using a growing volume of genetic data to debate whether ancestors of Native Americans emigrated to the New World in one wave or successive waves,...
: Archaeologist bemoans looting in Arkansas; Artifacts of prehistoric people who lived in Arkansas (USA) are being excavated by professionals who are trying to piece together more of the story of those who once lived here....
: Bid to return ancient treasure to Anglesey; Ancient artefacts, more than 2,000 years old, should be brought back to Anglesey (Wales) claims an island politician. A large hoard of Iron Age materials were discovered in Llyn Cerrig...
: Ancient Cornish tomb saved for the future; Caerwynnen Quoit - also known as the Giant's Frying Pan and Pendarves Quoit - look like little more than a pile of rubble today, and is situated in a field...
: Major dig at earliest Scots site; A big archaeological dig is taking place at the site in South Lanarkshire where the earliest evidence of human beings in Scotland was found. The Biggar Archaeology Group is beginning...
: Historians told of Neolithic finds in Northumberland; New Thoughts on Ancient Northumberland was the title of Paul Frodsham's lecture at Morpeth Antiquarian Society. Mr Frodsham was the Northumberland National Park archaeologist for 15 years until 2007. His...
: Face of the first European reconstructed by scientists; Forensic artist Richard Neave used skull and jawbone fragments found in a cave to build the face of the first anatomically-modern human to live in Europe. It belonged to a...
10 May 2009: Archaeologists uncover ancient site in Maryland; County archaeologists searching for clues about Native American settlements in what became Anne Arundel County (Maryland, USA) have hit a trove of pottery, arrowheads and perhaps even the remnants of...
: 'Hobbit' foot like no other in human fossil record; An international team of paleoanthropologists, anatomists and archeologists have published the first scientific analysis of the foot of Homo floresiensis, the fossil found in Indonesia in 2003 and popularly referred...
: Ancient artifact unearthed in Massachusetts; It's tough for Marshall Hayum to look like the swashbuckling movie archeologist Indiana Jones. After all, this youngster is just 5 years old. Yet it wasn't 'Indy,' but Marshall who...
: Prehistoric spear tip found in Slovenia; Slovenian archeologists have found a wooden spear tip believed to be between 38,000 and 45,000 years old, in a river near the capital Ljubljana. "A spear tip made of wood...
: World's oldest beads older than previously thought; A team of archaeologists has uncovered some of the world's earliest shell ornaments in a limestone cave in Eastern Morocco. The researchers have found 47 examples of Nassarius marine shells,...
: Five-year plan for Maltese megalithic temples; Heritage Malta is asking for feedback to a draft management plan for the megalithic temples that outlines the conservation challenges and the objectives for the next five years. Among the...
: Prehistoric cave found in southwest China; A group of construction workers have accidentally stumbled upon a prehistoric cave underneath a Buddhist temple in southwest China's Guizhou Province, archaeologists said. The stone structure, containing hundreds of mammal...
: Mesolithic tool unearthed by 9-year-old schoolboy; Prehistoric flint tools were a surprise discovery at an archaeological dig run by TV presenter Julian Richards at a school in Shaftesbury (Dorset, England). Three trenches were dug in fields...
: New visitor centre opens at Creswell Crags; It may have been around for millions of years, but Creswell Crags (on the border between Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, England) has often remained something of a mystery to generations of...
: Prehistoric trans-Atlantic crossings: fact or fiction?; When German adventurer Dominque Görlitz set out from New York harbor in July of 2007 to prove that a voyage in a traditional Bolivian reed boat from New Jersey to...
: Controversy over cleaning of ancient art in Utah; An archaeologist claims someone has been secretly cleaning a Utah tourist attraction. If so, the mysterious high-pressure washes may be damaging world-famous rock art in Nine Mile Canyon. A tourist-friendly...
: Evidence of prehistoric humans in India; Clear evidence of the existence of prehistoric humans in Thanjavur region (India) has been identified in the archaeological excavations undertaken by Tamil University. The excavations carried out in the past...