Ritual intoxication in the Holy Land
Times of Israel reports on archaelogists puzzling out just *how* high Philistines were getting for religious reasons: In an upcoming symposium in Jerusalem’s Hebrew University, […]
archaeology
Fire exposes something really interesting on Montana’s plains – an unseen stone complex.
WesternDigs.org reveals what we now know about the ceremonial carvings hidden for centuries under the sod: Among the formations are two large effigies — or […]
An 800-year-old Viking note found. Written in runes on a slip of wood.
Science Nordic hails a medieval discovery in the heart of Odense, Denmark – a medieval runestick written by someone named Tomme: It isn’t easy to […]
Pocahontas was married here. In this church.
Well, sort of. Popular Archaeology traces the efforts now underway to rebuild the Jamestown church where Pocahontas was married: About five years after the footprint […]
Science Art: The Golden Horns of Gallehus.
These are two ancient horns, made of gold and engraved (or embossed) with runes and pictures that seem to tell a story. Or maybe just […]
Our cannibal roots.
Science Daily digs into new evidence that early humans enjoyed an occasional bite of early human: Gough’s Cave in Somerset was thought to have given […]
Pictish fort found off Aberdeen
BBC is reporting that University of Aberdeen researchers have got all het up over the thought that there are traces of all kinds of pre-Celtic […]
Drones for archaeology
PhysOrg has more on using drones… not just to find priceless historical sites, but to protect them from looters: With aerial photographs taken by a […]
A new dawn of humankind
A bit of a jawbone (and a bit of computer modeling) has given us a long-awaited glimpse of our new oldest ancestor: On 29 January […]
Faces of the sons of the Khans, in living color
CNTV reports on the discovery of Yuan Dynasty artwork – a trove of murals from the time when the Khans ruled: The tomb was discovered […]
Mystery stone might have unknown Anglo-Saxon writing.
Or, Live Science kinda sorta points out, it might not. But the thing sold as a “garden ornament” is certainly ancient and mysterious: The hefty […]
Recreating trepanation: how they poked holes in people’s heads (to heal them).
Siberian Times, the paper of record for the taiga, reports on the first successful reconstruction of ancient brain surgery: Neurosurgeons have been working with anthropologists […]
Stone Age man not more advanced than Neanderthals.
PhysOrg repeats a theme I’ve heard a lot lately – finding yet more evidence that Homo sapiens wasn’t really a step forward for Homo neanderthalensis: […]
Stone tools, stone lessons, stone words
Nature reports on new clues that we learned to talk by learning to cut meat: Here we present an experiment investigating the efficacy of transmission […]
Graffiti older than Neanderthals
Nature looks over some triangles – not unlike capital letter As – etched into a shell on Java and determines they were carved by Homo […]