Archaeology

70,000 Years Ago, Late Pleistocene Humans Were Techies Too

While the origins of modern behavior will never be known, new discovery about  technological advancement among our ancestors in southern Africa some 70,000 years ago, has taken a step closer to firmly establishing Africa, and especially South Africa, as a ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 5 2012 - 12:30pm

Tremper Mound Pipestone Answer Found, But Two More Questions Arise

Archaeologist William Mills found a treasure-trove of carved stone pipes in southern Ohio a century ago- buried almost 2,000 years earlier. The Native American site became famous as Tremper Mound. Mills said the pipes had been carved from local stone and ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 18 2012 - 12:49pm

Ancient Desert City Of Petra Used Terrace Farming, Complex Channels To Grow Crops

A team of archaeologists has made discoveries of extensive water management and agricultural production in and around the ancient desert city of Petra, located in present-day Jordan.  Successful terrace farming of wheat, grapes and possibly olives resulte ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 2 2013 - 2:04pm

Farming In Stone Age Europe Arrived With Immigrants

Europeans may not like immigrants from the east now, but that is where Stone Age Europe got its agriculture, and thus an origin of Western civilization, according to new data resulting from a study of the teeth of prehistoric farmers and the hunter-gather ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 11 2013 - 6:30pm

Mithraic Mysteries And The Elephant's Tomb In Carmona

The Carmona necropolis in Spain is a collection of funeral structures built between 200 B.C. and 200 A.D. One of them is known as the Elephant's Tomb because a statue in the shape of an elephant was found in the interior of the structure. ...

Article - News Staff - May 10 2013 - 10:23am

Medieval Dunwich: Britain's Atlantis Revealed

Using advanced underwater imaging techniques, one of the most detailed analysis ever of the archaeological remains of the lost medieval town of Dunwich- 'Britain's Atlantis'- have been revealed. ...

Article - News Staff - May 10 2013 - 11:00am

The Atlantean Triangle

The Atlantean Triangle Atlantis is i n the news once more, and then some, so I thought I'd cash in on it analyse the stories scientifically to see what is being claimed. ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - May 11 2013 - 9:14am

Agriculture May Have Been In Xincun China 5,000 Years Ago

In Europe, the arrival of the farmers who replaced Mesolithic hunter-gatherers happened in force 9,000 years ago but it was happening elsewhere prior to that. In Syria, there is even evidence of scientific trait selection in grains in 10,000 B.C. but in o ...

Article - News Staff - May 19 2013 - 10:53am

The Ascent Of Man: Why Did Our Early Ancestors Walk Upright?

Archaeologists think they have some responses for the hypothesis that our early forebears were forced out of the trees and onto two feet when climate change reduced tree cover. Our earliest ancestors changed from tree dwelling quadrupeds to upright bipeds ...

Article - News Staff - May 26 2013 - 1:33pm

Mysterious 60,000 Ton Monument Found Beneath The Sea Of Galilee

The Sea of Galilee, located in the North of Israel, has numerous significant archaeological sites and an ancient structure underneath the waves adds to its mysteries. The cone-shaped monument, approximately 230 feet in diameter, 39 feet high, and weighing ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 10 2013 - 11:07am