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Artifacts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - This beautiful little key was recently recovered by our Kemble field team from a Newland Homes site near Claverham, North Somerset. Medieval key from Court De
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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
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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).
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Research into ancient hunter-gatherer populations of the Iberian Peninsula has mainly focused on coastal regions, with relatively little investigation into the inland. A classic
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have found evidence suggesting the ancient use of ochre in Africa and Europe indicates that body painting, clothing decoration, and tattooing may
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - While investigating a site at the southern edge of the Nefud desert in Saudia Arabia, archaeologists discovered remarkable ancient life-sized engravings of extinct
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - More than 10,000 Pre-Columbian archaeological sites likely rest undiscovered throughout the Amazon basin, estimates a new study. Geographical distribution of known and newly
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - During the ongoing restoration works of Esna Temple in Luxor , the Egyptian-German archaeologists additionally uncovered more original reliefs and engravings on the
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Evolution
AncientPages.com - Our species, Homo sapiens, migrated out of Africa multiple times – reaching the Levant and Arabia between 130,000 and 70,000 years ago, as exemplified by human fossils
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The remains of human bones with cutmarks, breaks and human chewing marks found across northern Europe show that some human groups living around
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists are puzzled by 5,000-year-old bear bones found on the Unalaska and Amaknak Islands in the Aleutians, Alaska. The ancient bones have been
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Cave of Letters in the Judean Desert, Israel, was discovered many years ago by Bedouin of the Ta`amireh tribe. When the cave
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Agriculture in Syria started with a bang 12,800 years ago as a fragmented comet slammed into the Earth's atmosphere. The explosion and subsequent
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A rare 2,500-year-old Scythian bone sceptre has been found in a grave by archaeologists excavating in the prehistoric salt mining and urban center
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Um Al-Qaab archaeological site in Abydos in Sohag Governorate, Egypt, have discovered hundreds of 5,000-year-old well-preserved wine jars and grave
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The cuneiform tablet unearthed in the Hittite city of Samuha points to the connection with the famous temple of the Goddess Sausga (also
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Interpersonal violence was a consistent part of life in ancient hunter-gatherer communities on the Atacama Desert coast of northern Chile, according to a
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - While searching for a missing gold ring with a metal detector, a family in Norway found, to their big surprise, something entirely different
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A Koine Greek inscription paraphrasing Psalms 86 was discovered by archaeologists at the site of Hyrcania Fortress in the Judean Desert. Adorned with
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have unearthed a Roman cosmetics shop in the marketplace in the ancient city of Aizanoi, Turkey. Famous for its well-preserved temple of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Glacial archaeologists working in Norway have once again discovered fascinating ancient artifacts under the ice. Near a mountain pass, not far from Norway's
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have discovered and analyzed the first direct evidence of basketry among hunter-gatherer societies and early farmers in southern Europe (9,500 and 6,200
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have found a 2,300-year-old tomb of a Greek courtesan (hetaira – in Ancient Greek) in a burial cave in Jerusalem. The cremated
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A remarkable archaeological breakthrough has been made with excavating and restoring rooms in the pyramid of Sahura, which is located in Abusir. The
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Birds were an important source of food for hunter-gatherer communities in Upper Mesopotamia at the beginning of the Neolithic period, around 9,000 years
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