Stone Pages Archaeo News: February 2022 Archives

February 2022 index:

5 February 2022: Iron age hillfort for sale in England; Hillforts are among the most striking monuments in northern Europe, built and occupied from about 900 to 100 BCE, when societies were defined by tribal territories. About 250 kilometres west-southwest...
: Stonehenge Exhibition at the British Museum; The UK's first major exhibition focusing on the story of Stonehenge opens next month at the British Museum in London, promising to place the monument in its wider social, cultural,...
: Arctic hunter-gatherers were advanced ironworkers; Excavations at Sangis, 1,000 kilometres north-northeast of Stockholm near the Gulf of Bothnia, uncovered a rectangular iron-smelting furnace comprised of stone slabs with one open side, and holes in the...
: 3,000-year-old cemetery found in Henan; A two-year excavation at a more than 3,000 year old late Shang Dynasty settlement in the Henan Province of central China, around 500 kilometres south-southwest of Beijing, has revealed 18...
: Mesolithic scraper, Neolithic axe found in southern India; A Mesolithic scraper and a Neolithic celt have been found in Tamil Nadu, on the southern tip of India. The Mesolithic chert scraper is 4 centimetres long and 4.5 centimetres...
: Ancient pottery found in Jersey; A nearly complete late Bronze Age pottery vessel has been found in fields intended for a new hospital on the island of Jersey, one of the Channel Islands off the...
: Cosquer Cave replica opens this summer; 37 years after its discovery, a replica of the prehistoric Cosquer cave is scheduled to open on June 4th, offering a simulated experience of the most inaccessible of the decorated...
: Ancient Mediterranean tsunami; Researchers have excavated the remains of a young man killed by a tsunami about 3,600 years ago, following the eruption of a volcano on the Aegean island of Santorini, roughly...
: Horned helmets of the Bronze Age; Horned helmets are found in three places in Europe: Scandinavia, southern Iberia, and Sardinia. Horned helmet imagery has a complex history, with Levantine roots in the Late Bronze Age Mediterranean....
: Turkish Neolithic statuette - a man or a woman?; There is a Neolithic and Chalcolithic site in the central Turkish region of Anatolia, known as Catalhoyuk. Excavations first began in 1958 and this first phase continued through until 1965,...
: Is this the oldest example of a burial in Africa?; Back in the day, archaeologists could only rely on fairly basic technology to help them with dating. Then, in the 20th Century, as technology became more sophisticated, so did the...
: Fire scorches ancient Neolithic stones in Kent; Deep in the Kent (UK) countryside is an ancient wood known locally as Walderslade Wood. This area is rich in Stone Age artefacts (over 25 sites within a 4.5 km...