April 2018 index:
13 April 2018
- Reconstructing an ancient lethal weapon
- Research recently carried out by the University of Washington (USA) has shed remarkable insight into the hunting skills of hunter-gatherers of the post Ice Age Pleistocene Artic of 12,000 BCE....
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- Proposed tunnel under Stonehenge raises new fears
- In the UK, as part of the Government's planning policy, any matters which may affect the public on large scale projects has to be published as a 'Public Consultation' to...
17 April 2018
- Skilled potters travelled around the Baltic nearly 5000 years ago
- Corded Ware pottery is an innovation over earlier Stone Age pottery, mixing broken pottery with the clay. Researchers at the University of Helsinki have now mapped the routes of pottery...
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- 5,000-year-old shoe found in Switzerland
- The Stone Age lake-dwellings on the shores of lakes near Zurich are some of the most important archaeological sites in Europe. During recent excavations in the Greifensee at Maur, divers...
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- Island-hopping most likely route to Australia
- The First Australians were among the world's earliest ocean explorers, undertaking a 2,000 kilometre migration through Indonesia at least 65,000 years ago. Research published earlier this year highlights the most...
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- Untouched Bronze Age barrow discovered in Cornwall
- An Archaeologist with the Australian National University has discovered a prehistoric Bronze Age burial mound on a hill in Cornwall overlooking the English Channel. The barrow dates to around 2,000...
19 April 2018
- Oldest known human footprints in North America
- Footprints left in wet clay around 13,000 years ago by two barefoot adults and a child were recently unearthed by anthropologists on Calvert Island in British Columbia, Canada - the...
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