Stone Pages Archaeo News: February 2006 Archives

February 2006 index:

1 February 2006: New flats may threaten Scottish standing stone; An ancient standing stone may be set to share its field with thousands of building blocks. Developers plan to build 21 new flats near the site of the rural relic...
: Dog graves show ancient humans cared; One of the most extensive surveys of the earliest known dog burials suggests humans domesticated canines much later than other studies show. The survey, which suggests domestication occurred between 13,000...
: Ancient stone houses uncovered by a bushfire in Australia; A bushfire at Tyrendarra (Victoria, Australia) last month has unearthed some of the biggest Aboriginal stone houses ever seen in Gunditjmara land. Undocumented sites have been uncovered including a village...
3 February 2006: Bronze Age burial site unearthed on Rathlin Island; Human remains dating back almost 4,000 years have been uncovered on Rathlin Island off the County Antrim (Northern Ireland) coast. Senior archaeologists are investigating the remains of a man who...
4 February 2006: Grant to share Lake District's archaeological wonders; One of North England's richest archaeology areas – boasting over 6,500 sites – is being thrown open for widespread exploration, thanks to a £171,000 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund....
: Henges conservation plan comes under fire; Groups campaigning to stop quarrying around Thornborough Henges (North Yorkshire, England) have slammed a recently published conservation plan. TimeWatch is disappointed with the proposed Thornborough Henges Conservation Plan announced last...
: Alpine ice man may have been sterile; Oetzi, the prehistoric man frozen in a glacier for 5,300 years, could have been infertile, a new study suggests. Genetic research, published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, also...
: Archaeology lectures at Sligo Institute; A series of public archaeology lectures will be held at Institute of Technology Sligo (co. Sligo, Ireland), some of which are organised by the Sligo Field Club. Two of the...
: High Court decision day in M3-Tara case is 1st March; Mr Justice Thomas Smyth of the Irish High Court will give his decision on the M3 motorway case on 1st March next, following a seven-day hearing. Campaigner Vincent Salafia is...
12 February 2006: 3000-year-old prayer house discovered in Iran; Discovery of a fire temple and prayer house with an urban architectural plan belonging to the Iron Age for the first time n Qoli-Darvish historical site near Qom as well...
: Thronborough henges saga is approaching its final chapter; The application to increase quarrying operations near the Thornborough Henges Neolithic site in North Yorkshire (England) will be determined at a planning meeting of North Yorkshire County Council on February...
: Early chiefdoms offer clues to modern wealth, study says; When human ancestors gave up a nomadic way of life to farm the land, they gathered in small communities where they could share some of their skills. These early societies,...
: Irish Bronze Age settlement will not halt road; An ancient Bronze-Age settlement believed to be 4,000 years old has been uncovered in the direct path of the Carlow bypass (Ireland). The discovery was unearthed on a farm this...
: Stonehenge road debate prompts fresh bust-up; Controversial improvements for the A303 past Stonehenge have already cost British taxpayers a cool £14.1m even though not so much as an inch of new road has been built. The...
: Bronze Age mourners used flowers; The practice of placing floral tributes on graves may date back 4,000 years, research in west Wales suggests. Archaeologists have been examining a Bronze Age burial mound on the Black...
: Axe head excites experts; Amateur archaeologists in Angus (Scotland) have stumbled across what is thought to be a burial ground dating back thousands of years. What they first believed to be a long-gone settlement,...
: Xi'an museum of the Neolithic to reopen; The museum of the Banpo Ruins, the largest and best-preserved prehistoric settlement ever discovered in China, will reopen on April 1 after renovations, the curator has said. The protection hall...
19 February 2006: Researcher seeks secrets of Kennewick Man; Ground to the bone, the teeth of the famous fossil skeleton, Kennewick Man, look as if they've spent a lifetime gnashing rocks. But it's from these worn choppers that Thomas...
: French caver makes historic find; An amateur French caver has discovered prehistoric cave art believed to date back 27,000 years - older than the famous Lascaux paintings. Gerard Jourdy, 63, said he found human and...
: Archeologists discover 6000-year-old burial ground in Israel; Archeologists uncovered dozens of ancient tombs at a Highway 6 construction site near Kiryat Gat (Israel). The find yielded a treasure trove of ancient artifacts, including pottery, statues and jewelry...
: Stone Age artists are getting older; Recent discoveries in Italy and Germany have pushed back the age of Stone Age art in Europe by several millennia. Cave painting from near Verona and carved animal figures from...
: Thornborough henges may mirror Orion's belt; The Thornborough henges (North Yorkshire, England) have been recognised as being almost 1,000 years older than the pyramids of Giza. Researchers at Newcastle University have found the site is one...
: Ancient cave art full of teenage graffiti; Many art historians and anthropologists believe Paleolithic cave wall art was done by accomplished shaman-artists, but mixed in with the finer paintings are graffiti-like scenes of sex and hunting. Using...
: Prehistoric engravings and tools discovered in India; Archaeologists in Jharkhand's Basadera village (India) have discovered a huge stone engraved into the shape of tools, believed to have been used by prehistoric men. The findings have been termed...
: Expansion of Cahokia Mounds is just ahead; The Illinois Historic Preservation Agency is looking to expand the Cahokia Mounds State Historical Site (USA) by purchasing more of the original land that encompassed the ancient city. At the...
: Rock Art Weekend at the University of Bristol; The Archaeology & Anthropology Department at the University of Bristol (England) is hosting two rock art symposia over one weekend in May. Saturday 6 May 2006 (10 AM - 8...
: Prehistoric caves discovered in Iran; Archeological excavations in Qasr'e Shirin in Kermanshah Province (Iran) led to the discovery of 35 historical sites belonging to the Neolithic epoch (6500 BCE) and Chalcolithic period (5000-3000 BCE). Two...
: Greek hiker finds prehistoric pendant; A Greek hiker found a 6,500-year-old gold pendant in a field and handed it over to authorities, an archaeologist reported. The flat, roughly ring-shaped prehistoric pendant probably had religious significance...
: Solemn reburial for ancient remains; There's a little slice of Bell County, north of Belton (Texas, USA), that has a story to tell. The story is one of Indians, arrowheads, an amateur archaeologist, a tight-knit...
: Circle henge unearthed in Cornwall; A circle henge has been uncovered by archaeologists in Cornwall (England). The 5,000 year-old site was discovered during work on the A30 bypass at Goss Moor, between Indian Queens and...
21 February 2006: Thornborough henges quarry plans rejected; Campaigners are rejoicing after controversial plans to extend a quarry near the Thornborough henges in North Yorkshire (England) were rejected by councillors. It is almost two years since Tarmac first...
26 February 2006: Eagle deposits post-date tomb construction by 1,000 years; Almost 641 sea-eagle bones, the remains of at least eight birds, were found inside the Isbister cairn and earned the South Ronaldsay site (Orkney Islands, Scotland) its nickname - The...
: Cahokia Mounds gets $837,800 for preservation; The Cahokia Mounds State Historical Site (Illinois, USA) says it is inching closer to its goal of preserving one of the world's most precious archeological gardens. The site was awarded...
: First Americans may have been European; The first humans to spread across North America may have been seal hunters from France and Spain. This runs counter to the long-held belief that the first human entry into...
: Ancient people may have followed 'Kelp Highway' to America; Ancient humans from Asia may have entered the Americas following an ocean highway made of dense kelp. The new finding lends strength to the 'coastal migration theory,' whereby early maritime...
: Archaeologists in Jordan discover Bronze and Iron Age remains; Archaeologists found a skeleton and other remains dating to the Bronze and Iron Ages in the Jordan Valley. A team from Jordan and Greece discovered the skeleton along with 'with...
: 8,000-year-old drill to make fire found in China; Chinese archaeologists said that parts of an instrument to make fire, dating back to 8,000 years ago, have been found in east China's Zhejiang Province. The relics, made of bones...
: Neolithic henge found in Herefordshire; A Neolithic henge has been discovered in rural Herefordshire (England). The discovery was made in Stapleton, and represents a 'first' for this southeastern county. The find was made by experts...
: 6,000-year old earthenware pieces unearthed in China; Archaeological experts discovered a large number of earthenware pieces on a cliff by the side of Qishui River in Qixian county, Baoji of Shaanxi province. The discovered pieces and the...
: Prehistoric settlement may lie beneath peat in North Uist; An ancient settlement may lie beneath peat at the site of a new road in North Uist (Western Isles, Scotland), it has emerged, prompting a team of archaeologists to carry...
: Radiocarbon review rewrites European prehistory; The ancestors of modern man moved into and across Europe, ousting the Neanderthals, faster than previously thought, a new analysis of radiocarbon data shows. Rather than taking some 7,000 years...
: Worship of phoenix may have started 7,400 years ago in China; New archaeological discoveries show that the worship of the phoenix by ancient Chinese can be dated back as early as 7,400 years ago in central China. A large amount of...
: Cambridgeshire dig reveals 2,000 years of history; Thousands of years of history have been uncovered at a major archaeological dig in St Neots (Cambridgeshire, England). From Iron Age relics to medieval ground works a record of the...
: Exhibition: Spirits of the Stones; A touring exhibition by Annabel Carey of batiks featuring stone circles in England, Scotland and Wales, which began at the Marischal Museum, Aberdeen in November 2003 reaches the Royal Cornwall...
: Now protect Thornborough henges for all time; Campaigners are calling for more protection to ge given to the ancient site at Thornborough, north of Ripon (North Yorkshire, England), after quarry giant Tarmac announced it would challenge a...
: 3,000-year-old cliff painting found in SW China; Chinese archaeologists have discovered a cliff painting dating back 3,000 years along the Jinsha River in southwestern Yunnan Province, an expert has confirmed. A team of three discovered the painting...