Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Earlier this year our Kemble fieldwork team undertook a small excavation at the edge of Claverham village, North Somerset, for Newland Homes. The excavation area was immediately adjacent to the 19th-century manor house of Court De Wyck,
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Not all archaeological discoveries reach the press. There are intriguing finds made by people who did not report their curious discoveries to the media or authorities. They later revealed their findings to family members, friends, or
AncientPages.com – To most people, complex technologies separate modern humans from their ancestors who lived in the Stone Age, thousands or hundreds of thousands of years ago. In today’s fast changing world, older technologies, even those from a few years
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A new decorated stela has been found in context, in the 3000-year-old funerary complex of Las Capellanías, in Cañaveral de León (Huelva, south-west of Spain). It is thought that late prehistoric stelae in Iberia were created to
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – An international team of scientists have discovered a huge spike in radiocarbon levels 14,300 years ago by analyzing ancient tree-rings found in the French Alps. Tree rings of a buried subfossil tree in the
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Some of nature’s mysteries have kept scientists busy for decades—for example, the processes that drive evolution. The question of whether certain differences between and within species are caused by natural selection or by chance processes
AncientPages.com – When and how humans first settled in the Americas is a subject of considerable controversy. In the 20th century, archaeologists believed that humans reached the North American interior no earlier than around 14,000 years ago. But our new research found
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – One can easily imagine how impressive the 19-meter-long Gjellestad Viking ship must have been before being destroyed. In 2018 archaeologists made an incredible discovery in Norway. Using high-resolution georadar, scientists unearthed a giant Viking ship, a
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Vikings understood the importance and benefits of trading and exchanging often in the selling and buying of goods. During the Viking Age, people established commercial hubs where visitors from distant lands came to buy or
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists propose a psychological phenomenon where people see meaningful forms in random patterns, such as seeing faces in clouds, may have stimulated early humans to make cave art. Ortho-images (orthorectified image accounting for distortions in
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Use-wear analysis of grinding tools unearthed at the site of Jebel Oraf in the Nafud desert, shows that the artifacts were used during the Neolithic time. It sheds new light on the subsistence and lifestyle
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – New research reaffirms that human footprints found in White Sands National Park, NM, date to the Last Glacial Maximum, placing humans in North America thousands of years earlier than once thought. In September 2021, scientists
