Stone Pages Archaeo News: January 2019 Archives

January 2019 index:

15 January 2019: Beast-faced carvings found at Chinese prehistoric settlement; The distinctive, often beastly, patterns found on classical Chinese bronzeware may be thousands of years older than first thought, archaeologists said after finding similar designs carved into the stone walls...
: Bid to build replica Iron Age tower in Scotland; An archaeological charity is pushing ahead with an ambitious plan to construct a full-size replica of an Iron Age broch in Scotland. Caithness Broch Project has launched a crowdfunding campaign...
: Hoard of Copper Age axes discovered in Bulgaria; A hoard of 6,500-year-old Copper Age axes and ax hammers - Europe's largest such find so far - has been discovered by accident near the town of Polkovnik Taslakovo, in...
: Ancient couple found in Harappan grave; Between 4500 and 2500 BCE, the bodies of a couple, believed to be married, were placed carefully side by side - with the the man's face turned toward the woman...
16 January 2019: Bronze Age cremation pit uncovered in Scotland; The discovery of what appears to be a Bronze Age cremation pit under the centre of Cupar (Fife, Scotland) has been hailed as an archaeological find of national importance. Cremated...
: 'Incredibly rare' find in a submerged prehistoric forest; Archaeologists have found evidence of early human activity at a submerged prehistoric forest in the Western Isles (Scotland). Lionacleit in Benbecula is one of more than 20 recorded sites of...
18 January 2019: Tests find human skull age exceeds 10,000 years; A human skull found about 1,000 kilometres north of Beijing in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region near China's border with Russia is more than 10,000 years old. A carbon-14 dating...
19 January 2019: Early Human Presence In Alaska; Genetic evidence shows that the first peoples of the Americas emerged from a group descended from East Asians and ancient North Eurasians before becoming isolated beginning around 23,000 to 20,000...
: First evidence that ancient Europeans were hunting mammoths; About 25,000 years ago, ice age hunters in what is now Poland threw a light spear known as a javelin at a mammoth. Now, the discovery in Kraków (Poland) of...
: New excavation season at a prehistoric settlement in the Urals; Archaeologists from Goethe University will be returning to the Urals for further research work. In collaboration with researchers from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and Russian colleagues, they want to find...
21 January 2019: 'Ancient' Scottish stone circle found to be replica; A stone circle in Aberdeenshire (Scotland) initially thought to be thousands of years old has been identified as a modern replica. An investigation into the site at the parish of...
: What the 'Nebra Sky Disk' tells us about ancient Germans; Twenty years ago, a stunning Bronze Age artifact was discovered in an eastern German forest. The subject of a new book, it reveals how people once saw the world -...
28 January 2019: Megalithic park planned for central India; An archaeological park has been proposed on a five hectare site near Nagpur in central India, where excavations of 3 out of around 50 megalithic stone circles began in November...
: Bronze Age Mongolia; Assuming that early nomadic pastoralists would have been healthier than sedentary people, archaeologists analysed the skeletal remains of 25 individuals excavated from burial mounds in northern Mongolia dating mostly to...
: Neolithic diets in southeastern Europe; When farming became established across Europe in the Neolithic, most people preferred to eat meat and dairy products from domesticated animals rather than the aquatic resources more typical of the...
: Early dogs helped humans hunt; A study of animal bones from an 11,500 year old settlement in northeast Jordan suggests that humans and dogs hunted animals together. Dogs were domesticated by humans as early as...
30 January 2019: Iron Age warrior grave discovered in Northern Iran; Iranian officials say the body of a forty-year-old man and his weapons dating back to 3,000 years ago have been discovered in Rostamabad near Rasht in northern Gilan province (Iran)....
: People from Africa may have crossed the Strait of Gibraltar 4000 years ago; Ancient people from sub-Saharan Africa may have crossed the Strait of Gibraltar into current-day Spain 1300 years earlier than we thought. A genetic analysis of human samples is the first...
: Ancient humans colonized diverse environments in Southeast Asia and Oceania; A new study reviews the palaeoecological information associated with hominin dispersals into Southeast Asia and Oceania throughout the Pleistocene (1.25 Millions years ago to 12,000 years ago). Our species' ability...
: Neolithic carved 'drums' gave Stonehenge measurements; A set of highly decorated chalk cylinders, carved in Britain more than 4,000 years ago and known as the Folkton drums, could be ancient replicas of measuring devices used for...
: Faces of ancient Europeans re-created by forensic artist; About 5,600 years ago, a 20-year-old woman was buried with a tiny baby resting on her chest, a sad clue that she likely died in childbirth during the Neolithic. This...
: Archaic humans moved into Siberian cave 100,000 years earlier than thought; Over the course of five years, multi-disciplinary teams of scientists from the UK, Russia, Australia, Canada and Germany worked on a detailed investigation to date the archaeological site of Denisova...