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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The face of a 16-year-old woman buried near Cambridge (UK) in the 7th century with an incredibly rare gold and garnet cross (the

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new study shows that social disintegration and violent conflict played a crucial role in shaping the population dynamics of early farming societies in

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The earliest-known evidence of freshwater fishing by ancient  Alaskan people was discovered by a team of researchers led by University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - At our recent Taylor Wimpey excavation at Bidwell West, Bedfordshire, our Milton Keynes field team have uncovered a medieval timber-framed building and a series of medieval enclosure ditches.

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -  Previous archaeological excavations in Jersey revealed Neanderthals visited La Cotte de St Brelade, a coastal cave for over 100,000 years. The cave was

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating site Stöð on Stöðvarfjörður in East Iceland have found a small stone carved with a Viking Ship. This little find may

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -  A very rare 3,000-year-old sword has been found in Bayern, Germany. The sword from the Middle Bronze Age is still in such good

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Hundreds of human skulls and mandibles recovered from the Crenshaw site in southwest Arkansas are the remains of ancestors of the Caddo Nation

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution shows that a condition known as Dupuytren's disease is partly of Neanderthal origin. Researchers have long known

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists report discovering an "incredibly rare"  Roman tomb near London Bridge Station, UK. Last year, archaeologists found very largest Roman mosaics at the

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating at the site of the A40 Science Transit park & ride at Eynsham, Oxfordshire, UK, have made some interesting discoveries. During

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - As an archaeologist, you can expect to find some surprises everywhere. That's what happened during recent excavations on a hill in Tystberga outside

AncientPages.com - The French archaeologist Ludovic Slimak has spent the past 30 years rummaging fields and caves from the Horn of Africa to the Artic Circle, and, of

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com -  Everyone goes to the toilet, but it's not a subject we often discuss. Have you ever wondered how people in the past went