Stone Pages Archaeo News: Iberian peninsula Archives

Index of news related to Iberian peninsula

18 January 2022: Horned helmets of the Bronze Age
6 January 2022: Conserving the submerged dolmen of Guadalperal
6 December 2021: Mercury poisoning in Copper Age Iberia
5 December 2021: Iberian dolmen was painted red
23 January 2021: Scientists solve 5,000-year-old murder
26 December 2020: Some tasks specialised according to gender almost 4,000 years ago
: Early humans may have survived the harsh winters by hibernating
24 January 2020: Study suggests two megalithic cultures were separate groups
15 December 2019: Were Neolithic rock axeheads used as currency?
5 December 2019: Stone Age artists mesmerised by horses
30 November 2019: Did Neanderthals make eagle talon necklaces?
6 September 2019: Drought reveals long lost megaliths in Spain
23 August 2019: Largest known Iberian-era building discovered
30 January 2019: People from Africa may have crossed the Strait of Gibraltar 4000 years ago
23 February 2018: Cave Art in the Basque country
21 February 2018: Giant handaxes and prehistoric Europeans
8 November 2017: Prehistoric cave paintings discovered in Spain
7 November 2017: Late Neolithic burials in Spain reveal surprising differences
19 January 2017: Neanderthals associated with Chatelperronian tool technology
19 December 2016: Were Neanderthals religious?
16 December 2016: Early humans began cooking over 800,000 years ago
25 November 2016: People consumed milk and cheese 9,000 years ago
23 August 2016: First Bell Beaker earthwork enclosure found in Spain
6 July 2016: Neolithic livestock pens in Spain
1 July 2016: Prehistoric tombs enhanced astronomical viewing?
: No game was too big to hunt for Stone Age man
2 June 2016: Cave art found deep underground in Spain
2 May 2016: Fossils from Spain earliest genetic evidence of Neanderthals
28 January 2016: Neolithic tomb in Spain reveals community in life and death
5 January 2016: Early human dispersal into Spain through Gibraltar
12 October 2015: Petroglyph in Spain marks when Atlantic and Mediterranean cultures met
3 October 2015: Another sign of Neanderthal intelligence and resourcefulness
28 September 2015: Common origins of Neolithic farmers in Europe
24 September 2015: Neolithic tomb in Spain replaced with picnic table
2 July 2015: Was this the first recorded murder?
15 May 2015: Iron Age artifacts found in a megalithic site in Spain
12 May 2015: Traces of flowers on a Palaeolithic tomb are found
5 May 2015: Extra molar identified for the first time in an Atapuerca hominid
4 May 2015: Altamira cave paintings under threat again
1 April 2015: Unearthing an Iron Age Sanctuary in the Mediterranean
19 February 2015: Neanderthals disappeared from the Iberian Peninsula earlier than elsewhere
2 February 2015: Ancient humans from Atapuerca cave ate dog, wild cat, fox and badger
10 October 2014: Bronze Age palace and grave goods discovered in Spain
27 August 2014: Humans were eating snails 30,000 years ago
6 August 2014: Spain tests limited visits to Altamira cave
1 August 2014: Territory of Upper Palaeolithic groups defined by flint
1 July 2014: Neanderthals may have had plants in their diet
3 June 2014: Traces of early use of fire found in Spain
2 June 2014: Prehistoric hunting scenes unearthed in Spanish cave
20 May 2014: Thieves destroy ancient rock painting in Spain
15 April 2014: Prehistoric DNA paints more complex picture of human evolution
13 April 2014: New insights on ancient Portuguese horse engraving
1 April 2014: European hunter-gatherers had blue eyes and dark skin
16 March 2014: Sound and prehistoric art in caves
10 March 2014: Altamira cave paintings opened to the public
16 February 2014: Dating refined for Atapuerca site
19 December 2013: Neanderthal DNA reveals interbreeding in early human species
9 December 2013: Hominin DNA baffles experts
21 October 2013: Women left their handprints on ancient cave walls
13 May 2013: Neanderthals were right handed
23 February 2013: Earlier Neanderthal demise suggested
13 October 2012: Neanderthal trove in Madrid
22 September 2012: Early cannibalism tied to territorial defence?
5 August 2012: First evidence of Palaeolithic art
19 July 2012: Oldest Neolithic bow discovered in Europe
14 July 2012: Ancient European hunter-gatherer groups were 'highly mobile'
27 June 2012: Iberian paintings are Europe's oldest cave art
31 May 2012: Prehistoric twins discovered in Spain
18 February 2012: Climate change - Holocene style
11 February 2012: First Neanderthal paintings on a Spanish cave?
1 January 2012: Pendant could be the oldest found at open-air digs in Spain
18 December 2011: Brain structures separate us from Neanderthals
14 December 2011: Economic crisis saves Spanish ancient sites
13 November 2011: Art hints prehistoric men pierced their privates
17 October 2011: Saving Altamira cave
10 October 2011: One of the oldest handles in the history of archaeology
23 September 2011: 'The Girl from the Lozoya Valley'
: An early understanding of tides - Part 2
20 September 2011: Stone with 1,200 prehistoric engravings uncovered in Portugal
16 August 2011: 25,000-year-old pendant unearthed in Spain
9 July 2011: 8,000-year-old dog tomb discovered in Portugal
20 May 2011: More on prehistoric cave art discovered in Basque Country
5 May 2011: 25,000-year-old cave paintings discovered in Spain
11 April 2011: Earliest evidence for magic mushroom use in Europe
23 December 2010: New insight into Neanderthal family groupings
18 December 2010: Bronze Age man with broken neck found in Spain
20 October 2010: The origins of compassion
2 October 2010: Excavation of an Iron Age necropolis in central Spain
6 September 2010: Cavemen accused of wiping out cave bears
23 August 2010: Megalithic monuments were built within short periods of time
: Ancestral human cannibals in Spain
12 August 2010: Neanderthal's sleeping chamber discovered in Spain
28 June 2010: Common ancestor not yet found
22 June 2010: Ancient bones reveal that Neanderthals hunted lions
15 June 2010: Controversy over decision to reopen Altamira caves
24 May 2010: New science project on the historical heritage of the Pyrenees
17 April 2010: Religious beliefs may have originated Palaeolithic art
16 April 2010: Neanderthals and modern humans in Spain
16 February 2010: Sea levels erratic during latest Ice Age
: Cattle and humans evolved side-by-side
1 February 2010: Last Neanderthals in Europe died out 37,000 years ago
24 January 2010: Search for an ancient settlement in Southern Spain
10 January 2010: Neanderthal 'make-up' containers discovered
29 December 2009: Evidence of first settlers found in the Sierra Helada
3 December 2009: Duck meals from the Pleistocene
11 October 2009: Cave paintings more than 20,000 years old found in Spain
12 September 2009: Also women were cave painters
5 September 2009: Europe's oldest axes discovered
22 August 2009: Spanish prehistoric sites in danger
15 August 2009: Neanderthals didn't like Brussels sprouts
8 August 2009: Engraved map from 14,000 years ago discovered in Spain
1 August 2009: New device traces archaeological finds fast
29 June 2009: The first Europeans were cannibals
: Prehistoric European cave artists were female
1 June 2009: Ancient tombs being restored in Mallorca
16 March 2009: Priorities for the conservation of the Côa Valley rock art
10 March 2009: Experts try to decipher ancient Iberian language
3 January 2009: Competition led to Neanderthal extinction, study shows
: European Neanderthals had ginger hair and freckles
14 December 2008: Late Neanderthals and modern human contact in Spain
13 October 2008: Prehistoric cave paintings took up to 20,000 years to complete
4 October 2008: Ancient burial site saved in Spain
21 September 2008: Prehistoric agriculture in Spain was unsustainable
31 March 2008: 'First European' is 1.2 million years old
17 November 2007: Theory explains the fall of ancient Argaric people
28 October 2007: Some Neanderthals were 'flame-haired'
26 August 2007: Signs of a prehistoric garbage dump in a cave
7 August 2007: Vandals destroy 8,000-year-old artwork in Spain
: San Fulgencio's excavations of Iberian temple
7 May 2007: Climate changes caused the Neanderthal extinction?
27 February 2007: Freeze 'condemned Neanderthals'
15 January 2007: Excavations at the prehistoric site of Castanheiro do Vento
19 August 2006: Spanish forest fires char Stone Age art
30 May 2006: Motorway is threatening an ancient stone circle in Spain
20 January 2006: Early Spanish sculpture to return to town
17 March 2005: Castanheiro do Vento excavation campaign 2005
8 October 2004: The oldest remains of a woman who died in childbirth
24 June 2004: Short Course on Documenting and Presenting Rock Art
11 June 2004: Satellite images 'show Atlantis' in Spain
3 April 2004: Builders of ancient tombs followed sun and stars
1 August 2003: Genetics helps scientists determine Basque origins
4 June 2003: Bones of cavemen warriors found in Spain
13 January 2003: The oldest burial object?
29 February 2000: 4º Curso Intensivo da Rede Europeia de Arqueologia
5 August 1998: 1998 International Rock-Art Congress