Stone Pages Archaeo News: January 2021 Archives

January 2021 index:

7 January 2021: Ancient stone tower conserved in Scotland; The ruins of Ousdale Burn Broch, north of Helmsdale in Caithness (Scotland), had fallen into further disrepair over the past 130 years. A wall near the entrance to the broch...
: Prehistoric ivory items from Siberia; The skill of ivory softening was used more than 12,000 years ago to make tools - or decorations - that still puzzle modern science. A dozen solid elongated ivory bars...
: 2,000 pieces of plastic found at Iron Age site in Wales; Castell Henllys is the site of an Iron Age village in the Welsh Pembrokeshire Coast National Park. It was once home to a wealthy family that included a community of...
23 January 2021: Scientists solve 5,000-year-old murder; A fractured skull was found during an excavation at the archaeological site of Cova Foradada in northeastern Spain in 1999. The man was killed 5,000 years ago, but the cause...
: Earliest evidence for stone grinding tool; Stone gaming pieces have been found in the Tabun Caves at Mount Carmel National Park about 75 kilometres north of Tel Aviv. They are made from rocks using simple tools....
: Neolithic axe discovered in southern India; A Neolithic axe has been discovered around 175 kilometres south of Hyderabad. Dr E Sivanagireddy, archaeologist and CEO, Cultural Centre of Vijayawada and Amaravati, found the tool while on a...
: Remains of Iron Age village discovered in Essex; The remains of an Iron Age village has been found at Tye Green, about 70 kilometres northeast of London. Fieldwork suggests the site was important in the late Iron Age...
: Ice Age wolf domestication; Ancient northern Eurasian hunter-gatherers may have had a role in the early domestication of wolves 14,000 to 29,000 years ago. During winter, when the meat of game hunted by both...
: New hypothesis for origin of Amazonian Dark Earths; Amazonian Dark Earths (ADEs) are unusually fertile soils characterised by elevated concentrations of charcoal. Discovered decades ago in central Brazil, ADEs are regarded as a Pan-Amazonian phenomenon. Frequent occurrences of...
: The future for England's Rock Art website; The England Rock Art (ERA) website was originally launched in summer 2008 as a project to catalogue carvings in the Northumberland region. Since then it has been added to, principally...
: DNA reveals Asian migration and plague; Genomic data from the remains of 40 individuals in northeastern Asia reveals the region has a complex history of migrations. Around 8300 years ago there was a migratory event discernible...
: Teeth pendants speak of the elk's prominent status in prehistory; Roughly 8,200 years ago, the island of Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov in Lake Onega in the Republic of Karelia, Russia, housed a large burial ground where people of varying ages were...
: Ancient site in Orkney under threat from coastal erosion; The pandemic has stopped the race to save archaeological remains at Knowe of Swandro on the island of Rousay, Orkney (Scotland), which are being eaten away by rising tides and...
: Bronze Age hoards full of standardized objects; In the Early Bronze Age of Europe, ancient people used bronze objects as an early form of money, even going so far as to standardize the shape and weight of...
: Massive cursus monument discovered on a Scottish isle; The discovery of a cursus monument site at Tormore on the Isle of Arran (North Ayrshire), which is more than a kilometre long, is helping to reshape Neolithic history in...