Stone Pages Archaeo News: March 2010 Archives

March 2010 index:

16 March 2010: Irish port must be moved to avoid ancient tombs; A proposed deepwater container port at Bremore in north Co Dublin (Ireland) may be moved farther north to Gormanston, Co Meath, to avoid encroaching on a Neolithic complex of passage...
: Homo sapiens may have reached India 74,000 years ago; Newly discovered archaeological sites in southern and northern India have revealed how people lived before and after the colossal Toba volcanic eruption 74,000 years ago. The research team, led by...
: Virtual Stonehenge launched online; Wiltshire is now on the virtual map, as Heritage Key have just unveiled a 3D virtual Stonehenge web experience. Heritage Key is an online community aimed at those with an...
: Irish ring fort may have held Bronze Age sports arena; A mysterious ring fort in Co Tipperary (Ireland) holds 'massive potential for discoveries' according to archaeologists who have carried out the first survey of the site. Their initial findings suggest...
: Scientists turn migration to the Americas theory on its head; Two U.S. scientists have published a radical new theory about when, where and how humans migrated to the New World, arguing that the peopling of the Americas may have begun...
: Additional details on recent discoveries made at Stanton Drew; Last January we reported that archaeologists found the outline of a burial mound dated from nearly 1000 years before the stone circles at Stanton Drew (Somerset, England). The discovery...
: Neolithic stone circles and alignments discovered in Syria; Dr. Robert Mason, an archaeologist with the Royal Ontario Museum, discovered an ancient landscape of stone circles, stone alignments and what appear to be corbelled roof tombs in Syria. From...
: Engraved eggs suggest early symbolism; Many researchers think that the capacity for symbolic behaviors - such as art and language - is the hallmark of our species. A team working in South Africa has now...
: Discovery of an Irish ring fort puts roadworks on hold; Thousands of years ago Irish Neolithic men and women were hunting wild game with flint arrows in the hills overlooking what is now Ballymena (Co Antrim, Northern Ireland). Now they're...
: Four Iron Age roundhouses discovered in Scotland; Experts believe they have discovered another Iron Age power centre in Moray (Grampian, Scotland). National Museums of Scotland curator Dr Fraser Hunter said investigations at a field at Burghead have...
: Prehistoric remains block broadband plan in Ireland; A telecommunications mast which would provide Internet broadband access to a scenic area of Kerry (Ireland) would be a 'new alien intrusion' on a very beautiful and almost pristine landscape....
: Bronze Age sites discovered in Pakistan; The Italian archaeological mission in Pakistan has discovered a large number of Buddhist sites and rock shelters in Kandak and Kota valleys of Barikot in Swat in the North West...
: Kerala's megalithic monuments linked to the Mediterranean?; A wide range of megalithic burials recently discovered in some northern districts of Kerala (India) during a research project have thrown light on possible links between the Mediterranean and Kerala...
: 'Double burial' practiced for 4,500 years in Mexico; According to the first known evidence of 'double burials,' ancient people in what is now Mexico routinely dug up decomposing bodies and took off their arms, legs, and heads, then...
: Prehistoric axes unearthed in Cuba; A new archeological discovery of prehistoric tools in the area surrounding the Cedro Lagoon in the province of Villa Clara (Cuba) is giving rise to new theories of the existence...
: Ancient tribal meeting ground found in Australia; Australian archaeologists have uncovered what they believe to be the world's southernmost site of early human life, a 40,000-year-old tribal meeting ground. The site appears to have been the last...
: Spring equinox sunrise at Loughcrew; The Irish Office of Public Works will have staff in attendance at Cairn T, Loughcrew (Co Meath, Ireland) on the mornings of Saturday the 20th of March, Sunday the 21st...