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Medieval hillfort discovered in Poland’s Włodawa Forest reveals 244 artifacts from the 10th–13th centuries
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (513+ words) Medieval hillfort discovered in Poland's W'odawa Forest reveals 244 artifacts from the 10th13th centuries'Archaeology News Online Magazine Medieval hillfort discovered in Poland's W'odawa Forest reveals 244 artifacts from the 10th13th centuries A field survey in spring 2024 brought archaeologists to the site for closer inspection....
Medieval monastery remains discovered beneath Borken’s historic center in Germany
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (325+ words) Archaeologists have been working for months in the historic center of Borken, where a new health center and Caritas building are planned in the Brinkerhof quarter. Before construction begins, teams from the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe and a private excavation firm examined…...
How ancient communities adapted their diets and farming strategies in prehistoric Poland
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (298+ words) How ancient communities adapted their diets and farming strategies in prehistoric Poland'Archaeology News Online Magazine How ancient communities adapted their diets and farming strategies in prehistoric Poland Archaeologists and bioarchaeologists have reconstructed three thousand years of diet and economy in…...
60,000-year-old ostrich eggshell engravings reveal humanity’s earliest geometric designs
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (222+ words) 60,000-year-old ostrich eggshell engravings reveal humanity's earliest geometric designs'Archaeology News Online Magazine 60,000-year-old ostrich eggshell engravings reveal humanity's earliest geometric designs More than 60,000 years ago, groups of Homo sapiens in southern Africa carved patterns into ostrich eggshells. Archaeologists have recovered…...
Mesolithic burials in Sweden show ancient fur and feather headgear uncovered by new microscopic analysis
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (335+ words) Mesolithic burials in Sweden show ancient fur and feather headgear uncovered by new microscopic analysis'Archaeology News Online Magazine Mesolithic burials in Sweden show ancient fur and feather headgear uncovered by new microscopic analysis A new study of the Late Mesolithic…...
Greek inscription found in Syria’s Great Mosque of Homs may reveal lost Temple of the Sun in ancient Emesa
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (295+ words) Greek inscription found in Syria's Great Mosque of Homs may reveal lost Temple of the Sun in ancient Emesa'Archaeology News Online Magazine Greek inscription found in Syria's Great Mosque of Homs may reveal lost Temple of the Sun in ancient…...
40,000-year-old European engravings reveal structured sign systems, study finds
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (372+ words) More than 40,000 years ago, people in Europe carved repeated lines, dots, notches, and crosses into tools and small sculptures. A new study argues these sequences were not random decoration. They formed structured sign systems with a measurable capacity to encode…...
Old Kingdom tombs with 160 pottery vessels discovered at Qubbet el Hawa, Egypt
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (270+ words) Archaeologists working at Qubbet el Hawa in Aswan have uncovered a new group of rock-cut tombs dating to the Old Kingdom, around 2686 to 2181 BCE. The Egyptian mission from the Supreme Council of Antiquities found the tombs during the current excavation…...
9,000-year-old evidence of dairy use discovered in Iran’s Zagros Mountains
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (289+ words) A recent study published in Nature Human Behaviour presents direct evidence of dairy consumption in the Zagros during the seventh millennium BCE. The research team included scholars from French and Iranian institutions who examined pottery fragments and human remains from…...
Oldest indigo-dyed textiles and nålbinding technique found in Bronze Age Anatolia
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (385+ words) Excavations at Beycesultan H'y'k in western Turkey have produced two small pieces of fabric from the Bronze Age. They were found between 2016 and 2018 in layers damaged by fire. The settlement lies near modern "ivril in Denizli Province and dates to…...