Stone Pages Archaeo News: January 2008 Archives

January 2008 index:

6 January 2008: France racing to save Lascaux cave paintings; The French government is taking emergency action to rescue the celebrated cave paintings of the Lascaux caverns from a fungus. Archeological experts have begun applying a fungicide to halt the...
: Neanderthals stitched too little too late; Neanderthals probably froze to death in the last ice age because rapid climate change caught them by surprise without the tools needed to make warm clothes, finds new research. Ian...
: Dwarf gene discovery: explanation for 'hobbit' species?; In a discovery that could help boost understanding of a rare type of dwarfism, researchers announced that they have found a genetic culprit for the condition. But in addition to...
: The Rollrights damaged again; A Site Inspector for the Heritage Action group visited the Rollrights (Oxfordshire, England) on 29th December 2007. He reported that following the recent fire damage there, some follow-up damage and...
: Ancient artifacts unearthed in Florida; Kristy Mickwee is part of a University of West Florida archaeology team surveying 168 acres of the Falling Waters State Park in Chipley (Florida, USA). During the past few weeks,...
13 January 2008: Storm over house plan for Avebury; Conservationists and locals all agree that that the dilapidated Bonds Garage, and the fleet of second hand vans that surrounds it, are an eyesore that does no credit to the...
: Controversial scrub clearance at Old Sarum; Dog walkers at Old Sarum (Wiltshire, England) have begun a campaign to save a number of young trees from the chainsaw. They claim scrub clearance work ordered by English Heritage...
: Study points to 500 BCE Kerala maritime activity; Kerala (southwestern India), may have had maritime contacts with far off lands as far back in time as 500 BCE or even earlier, archaeological studies now suggest. The Kerala Council...
: Tongan site dated oldest in Polynesia; Using pottery shards, archaeologist David Burley says they have confirmed Nukuleka, just east of Tonga's capital, Nuku'alofa, is Polynesia's birthplace. The confirmation comes as something of a blow for Samoa...
: Ancient Miami circle will remain buried; Nine years ago, an array of people rose up to save the Miami Circle, a 2,000-year-old artifact that many embraced as America's own Stonehenge. But today, the Circle — a...
: The Pleiades carved by prehistoric people in the Alps; Two groups of man-made cup markings carved on a pair of boulders found in the Italian Alps may represent the Pleiades star cluster, according to the archaeo-astronomer Guido Cossard. The...
19 January 2008: Pattanam dated to 1st millennium BCE; The radiocarbon analysis at the Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, has put the antiquity of Pattanam (Kerala, India) to the first millennium BCE. What is more, the studies suggest that the...
: Giant concentric stone circle unearthed in Italy; Last July excavations for the new Sant'Anna hospital in San Fermo della Battaglia, near Como (Italy), revealed a double concentric circle of ancient stones. Thought to date back to 3000...
: Newly discovered ancient coffin destroyed in Yemen; The excavation operations at al-Asibia area of Ibb province (Yemen) have revealed a stone grave and bronze coffin in a marble-walled room dating back to the Himyarite period (850 BCE-525...
: Prehistoric collection discovered after relic hunter's death; An unusual collection of over 3,000 archaeological items was discovered two years ago in a Prague apartment (Czech Republic) whose owner died in a fire. Archaeologists who have examined the...
: Ancient Peruvians cultivated crops 10,000 years ago; Archaeologists have long thought that people in the Old World were planting, watering, weeding, and harvesting for a good 5,000 years before anyone in the New World did such things....
: 2,500-year-old sword excavated from Chinese tomb; Chinese archaeologists have discovered an elaborately-made sword, which they believe is 2,500 to 2,600 years old, in an ancient tomb in the eastern province of Jiangxi. "It is reckoned as...
: Bronze Age site found in Cambridge; Archaeologists in Cambridge (England) have unearthed the first hard evidence that an area of the city was occupied during the Bronze Age. The remains were found during a dig at...
: Recent findings and excavations in Çatalhöyük; Çatalhöyük Research Project Director Ian Hodder says goddess icons do not, contrary to assumptions, point to a matriarchal society in Çatalhöyük (Turkey). Findings in Çatalhöyük show that men and women...
: Genetic study suggests Polynesians descended from East Asians; The ancestors of today's Polynesians and Micronesians were probably East Asians who quickly island-hopped through Near Oceania—what is now Australia, New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands—a new genetic study suggests....
: Return of prehistoric human remains in Malaysia; Malaysian Culture, Arts and Heritage Minister Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim will leave for England next week to secure the return of prehistoric Cha Cave (Gua Cha) human skeletons currently...