Stone Pages Archaeo News: September 2019 Archives

September 2019 index:

1 September 2019: 'Birdman' shaman burial found in Siberia; Archaeologists from the Novosibirsk Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology (Siberia, Russia) are trying to unravel the meaning behind a recent mysterious find at the Ust-Tartas archaeological site in Western Siberia....
: Ancient bricklayers used sophisticated techniques; Deep within the Al Ain UNESCO World Heritage Site in Abu Dhabi (UAE), archaeologists have been discovering that our ancestors may have employed more sophisticated building techniques than we have...
: Azilian Culture art found in Southern France; INRAP is the short form name of an impressive organisation called the National Institute of Preventive Archaeological Research. Although their origins are in France, they operate worldwide but it is...
: Stone Age 'Atlantis' discovered under North Sea; At the time of the last Ice Age, the glacial melt led to enormous increases in sea levels. This meant that relatively flat coastal areas were prone to be lost...
: Was this Britain's Bronze Age Pompeii?; During the late Bronze Age, between 1,100 BCE and 800 BCE, a settlement was built in the wetlands near Whittlesey, to the east of Peterborough (UK). The settlement comprised wooden...
: 6,000 year old dart tip found in Canadian heritage park; Every year for the past nine years archaeological students from the University of Saskatchewan in Canada have been conducting field schools in the Wanuskewin Heritage Park, near Saskatoon, specifically an...
: Evidence of cereal production found in Bronze Age Austria; The Austrian Archaeological Institute has recently been carrying out excavations on a hill fort called Stillfried an der March, located at the crossroads of two major trade routes and which...
: Standing stones may hold answer to 60 year old dolmen mystery; Sion is a cantonal capital in southwest Switzerland. 58 years ago, in 1961, several dolmens and 30 anthropomorphic engraved stelae had been uncovered in the nearby Petit-Chasseur district. Although initially...
2 September 2019: Rare prehistoric stones discovered in central France; In a first of its kind discovery in the region, around 30 prehistoric monoliths and a human skeleton have been found in a 150-metre-long excavation in central France ahead of...
: Unknown monuments identified close to Newgrange; Around 40 previously unknown monuments have been identified in a survey of the Bru na Boinne area close to Newgrange, about 40 kilometres north-northwest of Dublin (Ireland). Researchers want to...
3 September 2019: Stone Age camp discovered in far north of Scotland; Remains of a Stone Age camp that was inhabited in the far north of Scotland around 8,000 years ago have been discovered during the upgrade of a notorious stretch of...
: 4000-year-old neolithic petroglyph found in Indian forest; Three teachers on an expedition to Silanaiyakkanur forest discovered a 4,000-year-old neolithic petroglyph of a bull engraved on the surface of a boulder. Archaeologist R Parthiban said, "Six months ago,...
4 September 2019: People arrived in North America earlier than previously thought; Stone tools and other artefacts from the Cooper's Ferry site on the Salmon River in western Idaho, about 600 kilometres east-southeast of Seattle, support the hypothesis that initial human migration...
6 September 2019: Middle Stone Age hunter-gather camp found in northern Scotland; Work to improve a notorious hairpin bend on the A9 near a scenic viewpoint about 90 kilometres north-northeast of Inverness at Berriedale Braes revealed evidence of a Mesolithic camp including...
: Neolithic decorated stone discovered in Orkney; Archaeological excavations of well-preserved and sophisticated complex of stone buildings began at Ness of Brodgar (Orkney, Scotland) more than 15 years ago. The site was built and occupied more than...
: Stone platform discovered at Trethevy Quoit; A geophysical survey earlier this year in the field around Trethevy Quoit in Cornwall, southwest England, recorded a number of below-ground anomalies which were targeted through excavation. The largest hidden...
: Drought reveals long lost megaliths in Spain; Low water levels in a reservoir on the River Tagus near Peraleda de la Mata, about 160 kilometres west-southwest of Madrid, have revealed the long submerged Grand Dolmen of Guadalperal....