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Jane i]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/archaeologist-of-the-year-2026-nominees/Tue, 02 Dec 2025 15:14:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/archaeologist-of-the-year-2026-nominees/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/shells-found-in-spain-could-be-among-oldest-known-musical-instruments/Tue, 02 Dec 2025 06:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/shells-found-in-spain-could-be-among-oldest-known-musical-instruments/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/archaeologists-say-they-have-proof-humans-carved-huge-pits-near-stonehenge/Thu, 27 Nov 2025 15:02:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/archaeologists-say-they-have-proof-humans-carved-huge-pits-near-stonehenge/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/dna-reveals-stone-age-teenager-as-chewer-of-10500-year-old-gum/Sun, 23 Nov 2025 21:26:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/dna-reveals-stone-age-teenager-as-chewer-of-10500-year-old-gum/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/rosemary-church-obituary/Sun, 23 Nov 2025 18:33:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/rosemary-church-obituary/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/rare-bronze-and-iron-age-log-boats-reveal-details-of-cambridgeshire-prehistory/Fri, 14 Nov 2025 01:01:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/rare-bronze-and-iron-age-log-boats-reveal-details-of-cambridgeshire-prehistory/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archive-palaeolithic-kent-and-sussex/Thu, 06 Nov 2025 18:10:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archive-palaeolithic-kent-and-sussex/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-429-on-sale-now/Thu, 06 Nov 2025 17:28:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-429-on-sale-now/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-429/Thu, 06 Nov 2025 17:28:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-429/ Around 130 dodecahedra have been found across the northern Roman Empire, but the purpose of these ornate objects is unknown, and few have been recovered from datable contexts in modern excavations. An important exception forms the focus of an exhibition exploring the archaeology of Potter Hill, Lincolnshire. Carly Hilts visited the displays and spoke t]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-multi-sided-story/Thu, 06 Nov 2025 09:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-multi-sided-story/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/archaeologists-discover-how-oldest-american-civilisation-survived-a-climate-catastrophe/Wed, 05 Nov 2025 14:50:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/archaeologists-discover-how-oldest-american-civilisation-survived-a-climate-catastrophe/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/bigger-on-the-inside/Wed, 29 Oct 2025 20:02:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/bigger-on-the-inside/ For reasons which the blog more or less makes clear, if you read back over the doldrums, hiatuses, shortage of news and posts about industrial action, despite having had a secure academic appointment in a top]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-big-whats-going-on/Tue, 21 Oct 2025 21:39:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-big-whats-going-on/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/it-would-be-wonderful-the-team-hoping-to-unearth-cornwalls-stonehenge/Sun, 12 Oct 2025 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/it-would-be-wonderful-the-team-hoping-to-unearth-cornwalls-stonehenge/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/why-its-worth-taking-a-wider-look-at-biarchal-cultures-letters/Fri, 10 Oct 2025 18:23:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/why-its-worth-taking-a-wider-look-at-biarchal-cultures-letters/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archive-palaeolithic-norfolk-and-suffolk/Tue, 07 Oct 2025 19:14:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archive-palaeolithic-norfolk-and-suffolk/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-battlefield-hit-by-hs2-and-planning-rules-letter/Tue, 07 Oct 2025 18:41:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-battlefield-hit-by-hs2-and-planning-rules-letter/ On 30 September 1820, the cornerstone for a new Anglican church was laid in Blackburn town centre. Consecrated the following year, St Peter’s had been built to help accommodate the Lancashire town’s rapidly growing popu]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-people-of-st-peters/Tue, 07 Oct 2025 17:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-people-of-st-peters/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/new-orleans-couple-discovers-ancient-roman-grave-marker-in-their-yard/Tue, 07 Oct 2025 11:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/new-orleans-couple-discovers-ancient-roman-grave-marker-in-their-yard/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-428-on-sale-now/Mon, 06 Oct 2025 16:04:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-428-on-sale-now/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-428/Mon, 06 Oct 2025 16:04:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-428/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/was-prehistory-a-feminist-paradise/Sun, 05 Oct 2025 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/was-prehistory-a-feminist-paradise/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/country-diary-just-how-low-can-a-stone-circle-go-sara-hudston/Thu, 02 Oct 2025 06:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/country-diary-just-how-low-can-a-stone-circle-go-sara-hudston/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/its-incredibly-exciting-ancient-canoe-unearthed-after-hurricane-ian-stormed-through-florida/Sun, 28 Sep 2025 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/its-incredibly-exciting-ancient-canoe-unearthed-after-hurricane-ian-stormed-through-florida/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/new-research-may-rewrite-origins-of-the-book-of-kells-says-academic/Fri, 26 Sep 2025 07:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/new-research-may-rewrite-origins-of-the-book-of-kells-says-academic/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/tunnel-vision-how-israel-is-using-archaeology-to-win-us-support-for-goals/Thu, 25 Sep 2025 06:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/tunnel-vision-how-israel-is-using-archaeology-to-win-us-support-for-goals/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/name-in-print-xxxii-priests-around-manresa/Thu, 18 Sep 2025 15:39:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/name-in-print-xxxii-priests-around-manresa/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/rocks-on-train-tracks-strand-900-machu-picchu-tourists-amid-protest/Wed, 17 Sep 2025 03:31:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/rocks-on-train-tracks-strand-900-machu-picchu-tourists-amid-protest/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/monty-pythons-flying-research-reading/Mon, 15 Sep 2025 14:54:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/monty-pythons-flying-research-reading/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/archaeologists-scramble-to-evacuate-gaza-artefacts-threatened-by-israeli-strike/Thu, 11 Sep 2025 22:17:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/archaeologists-scramble-to-evacuate-gaza-artefacts-threatened-by-israeli-strike/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/people-gathered-for-great-meat-feasts-at-end-of-british-bronze-age-study-shows/Wed, 10 Sep 2025 06:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/people-gathered-for-great-meat-feasts-at-end-of-british-bronze-age-study-shows/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archive-roman-st-albans/Thu, 04 Sep 2025 17:11:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archive-roman-st-albans/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-427/Thu, 04 Sep 2025 12:53:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-427/ Han Li, MOLA’s Senior Building Material Specialist, works to reconstruct some of the
thousands of fragments of Roman frescos that have been recovered
from the site of The Liberty in Southwark. IMAGE: © MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology)
Recent excavations in Southwark have uncovered one of the largest collections of painted Roman wall plaster ever found in London. Carly Hilts spoke to Han Li about ongoing efforts to piece this 2]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/if-walls-could-talk/Thu, 04 Sep 2025 12:33:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/if-walls-could-talk/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/forget-tomb-raider-and-uncharted-theres-a-new-generation-of-games-about-archaeology-sort-of/Wed, 03 Sep 2025 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/forget-tomb-raider-and-uncharted-theres-a-new-generation-of-games-about-archaeology-sort-of/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/archaeologists-in-peru-discover-3d-mural-that-could-date-back-4000-years/Tue, 02 Sep 2025 12:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/archaeologists-in-peru-discover-3d-mural-that-could-date-back-4000-years/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archive-roman-lincoln/Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:27:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archive-roman-lincoln/ Who was buried in the passage tombs of Neolithic Ireland? For centuries, many thought that these monuments were the final resting places of a ruling elite, and in 2020 this seemed to be confirmed by ancient DNA analysi]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-game-of-tombs/Thu, 21 Aug 2025 03:59:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-game-of-tombs/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-426/Fri, 08 Aug 2025 22:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-426/ The first research excavation to take place at Wroxeter in more than 30 yea]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/revealing-roman-wroxeter/Thu, 03 Jul 2025 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/revealing-roman-wroxeter/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archive-roman-cirencester/Thu, 03 Jul 2025 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archive-roman-cirencester/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-425-on-sale-now/Thu, 03 Jul 2025 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-425-on-sale-now/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-425/Thu, 03 Jul 2025 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-425/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/fields-and-farmsteads-organising-the-early-roman-frontier-region-in-south-yorkshire/Thu, 05 Jun 2025 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/fields-and-farmsteads-organising-the-early-roman-frontier-region-in-south-yorkshire/ Last month’s visit to Chester/Deva got me of Roman Britain. I have previously visited Silchester/Calleva (CA 337, April 2018), Wroxeter/Viroconium (CA 338, May 2018), and London (CA 416, November 2024), but what about other Roman towns and cities? Going through the CA archive, I realised that I touched on Colchester/Camulodunum’s greatne]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archive-roman-colchester/Thu, 05 Jun 2025 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archive-roman-colchester/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-424-on-sale-now/Thu, 05 Jun 2025 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-424-on-sale-now/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-424/Thu, 05 Jun 2025 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-424/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/bjrn-weiler-and-jinty-nelson/Sat, 10 May 2025 17:43:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/bjrn-weiler-and-jinty-nelson/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archives-roman-chester/Thu, 01 May 2025 13:19:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archives-roman-chester/ North of Lewes in East Sussex, the Upper Ouse Valley is home to an archaeological landscape rich with Roman remains, including evidence of in]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-roman-landscape-revealed-celebrating-20-years-of-the-culver-archaeological-project/Thu, 01 May 2025 13:17:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-roman-landscape-revealed-celebrating-20-years-of-the-culver-archaeological-project/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-423-on-sale-now/Thu, 01 May 2025 13:15:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-423-on-sale-now/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-423/Thu, 01 May 2025 13:15:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-423/ My column this month is on one of the least-known ‘great sites’ of all: Offa’s Dyke, the linear earthwork that stretches along the Welsh/English border. Most people know Hadrian’s Wall, and a fair few the Antonine Wall, but how many of us can say that we are familiar with Offa’s Dyke, either t]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archives-offas-dyke/Thu, 03 Apr 2025 16:23:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archives-offas-dyke/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/warhorse-discovering-the-archaeology-of-a-medieval-revolution/Thu, 03 Apr 2025 16:22:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/warhorse-discovering-the-archaeology-of-a-medieval-revolution/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-422-on-sale-now/Thu, 03 Apr 2025 16:22:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-422-on-sale-now/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-422/Thu, 03 Apr 2025 16:22:00 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+0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-420-on-sale-now/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/fields-of-gold-understanding-the-snettisham-hoards/Fri, 03 Jan 2025 10:58:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/fields-of-gold-understanding-the-snettisham-hoards/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archives-fishbourne-roman-palace/Fri, 03 Jan 2025 10:58:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archives-fishbourne-roman-palace/ From long-buried metalwork to long-buried stories, we next examine what archives and archaeology can tell us about female experiences]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-419-on-sale-now/Fri, 03 Jan 2025 10:58:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-419-on-sale-now/ From long-buried metalwork to long-buried stories, we next examine what archives and archaeology can tell us about female experiences]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-419/Fri, 03 Jan 2025 10:58:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-419/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/fit-for-an-emperor-excavating-a-monumental-building-in-roman-carlisle/Thu, 05 Dec 2024 12:10:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/fit-for-an-emperor-excavating-a-monumental-building-in-roman-carlisle/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archives-star-carr/Thu, 05 Dec 2024 12:10:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archives-star-carr/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-418-on-sale-now/Thu, 05 Dec 2024 12:10:00 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Spons]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/archaeologist-of-the-year-2025-nominees/Mon, 02 Dec 2024 09:53:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/archaeologist-of-the-year-2025-nominees/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/from-samarkand-to-sutton-hoo-exploring-the-impact-of-the-silk-roads-on-early-medieval-britain-and-ireland/Thu, 07 Nov 2024 16:46:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/from-samarkand-to-sutton-hoo-exploring-the-impact-of-the-silk-roads-on-early-medieval-britain-and-ireland/ We t]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-417-on-sale-now/Thu, 07 Nov 2024 16:46:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-417-on-sale-now/ We t]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-417/Thu, 07 Nov 2024 16:46:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-417/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archives-london-ii/Thu, 07 Nov 2024 16:43:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archives-london-ii/ I’m sorry that I have to answer this during a phase of hiatus. The problem is that I signed up for extra work from the EU, because for complex reasons my household is down to one income at the moment, and the deadlines turned out, once contract was signed, to be near-immediate and nigh-impossible. At the same time, most of my weekends are going on helping relatives clear my mother’s house whi]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/absence-under-overload/Sun, 20 Oct 2024 18:19:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/absence-under-overload/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/illuminating-the-imaginative-worlds-of-sutton-houses-17th-century-schoolgirls/Fri, 04 Oct 2024 12:13:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/illuminating-the-imaginative-worlds-of-sutton-houses-17th-century-schoolgirls/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-416-on-sale-now/Fri, 04 Oct 2024 12:13:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-416-on-sale-now/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-416/Fri, 04 Oct 2024 12:13:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-416/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archives-london-i/Fri, 04 Oct 2024 12:12:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archives-london-i/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/medievalist-in-north-wales-vii-older-stones/Sat, 28 Sep 2024 12:56:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/medievalist-in-north-wales-vii-older-stones/ Entrance to the Archivo de la Corona d’Aragón in 2011, where if I’d been able to sp]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/correction-v-unifred-less-beloved/Sun, 22 Sep 2024 19:46:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/correction-v-unifred-less-beloved/ It was only the most incidentally personal history that had led us to Dolwyddelan,]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/medievalist-in-north-wales-vi-finding-the-wrong-welsh-bridge/Sat, 07 Sep 2024 23:14:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/medievalist-in-north-wales-vi-finding-the-wrong-welsh-bridge/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/unearthing-ancient-tweeddale/Thu, 05 Sep 2024 14:10:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/unearthing-ancient-tweeddale/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archives-the-channel-islands-and-the-isle-of-man/Thu, 05 Sep 2024 14:10:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archives-the-channel-islands-and-the-isle-of-man/ We remain in Scotland for a special ‘News Focus’ about Stonehenge. Yes, you read that right – recently published scientific research]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-415-on-sale-now/Thu, 05 Sep 2024 14:04:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-415-on-sale-now/ We remain in Scotland for a special ‘News Focus’ about Stonehenge. Yes, you read that right – recently published scientific research]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-415/Thu, 05 Sep 2024 14:04:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-415/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/number-crunching-a-byzantine-papyrus/Sun, 01 Sep 2024 15:58:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/number-crunching-a-byzantine-papyrus/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/augustinian-dovekeeping-in-medieval-wales/Mon, 26 Aug 2024 21:50:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/augustinian-dovekeeping-in-medieval-wales/ You know, of course, that I am interested in frontiers, and in recent years I have been trying to spread my reading on them away f]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/further-protochronism-cold-war-vs-hot-war/Mon, 19 Aug 2024 00:31:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/further-protochronism-cold-war-vs-hot-war/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/welsh-castles-for-next-time/Sat, 10 Aug 2024 19:54:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/welsh-castles-for-next-time/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/count-ermengol-i-of-urgell-was-a-bad-man-by-some-standards/Sun, 04 Aug 2024 23:26:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/count-ermengol-i-of-urgell-was-a-bad-man-by-some-standards/ ‘Once in a blue moon’ is a phrase used to e]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/stonehenge-and-the-moon/Thu, 01 Aug 2024 16:04:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/stonehenge-and-the-moon/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archives-the-ridgeway/Thu, 01 Aug 2024 16:03:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archives-the-ridgeway/ Three articles then spotlight a trio of very different site visits from June and July (we also have a News Focus drawing on a recent trip]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-414-on-sale-now/Thu, 01 Aug 2024 16:02:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-414-on-sale-now/ Three articles then spotlight a trio of very different site visits from June and July (we also have a News Focus drawing on a recent trip]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-414/Thu, 01 Aug 2024 16:02:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-414/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-welsh-church-diversion/Mon, 29 Jul 2024 00:19:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-welsh-church-diversion/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/once-as-tourist-once-as-prisoner/Mon, 22 Jul 2024 00:41:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/once-as-tourist-once-as-prisoner/ Avebury. I know I am not the only one to hold this site in high affection. Even on its busiest days, the circle there is rarely too crowded since it is so spread out, and, if you have the time, you can easily head out into the larger landscape.
AVEBURY VILLAGE AND HENGEThe Stone Circles at Avebury made the ‘Context’ in CA 332.
For many people, Avebury means the Neolithic stone circle locate]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archives-wiltshire-iv/Thu, 04 Jul 2024 16:11:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archives-wiltshire-iv/ A community excavation in the small village of Minety has found a Roman tile kiln, which marked its products with a series of stamped letters. As the investigation, led by Cotswold Archaeology, revealed, this industry was of more than just local importance – and with another season of digging set to take place this summer, Neil Holbrook and Peter Warry report on the story so far.Overlooking the community excavations at Brandier Farm]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/building-roman-cirencester-and-beyond/Thu, 04 Jul 2024 16:10:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/building-roman-cirencester-and-beyond/ We then travel to early medieval Ipswich, where analysis of bone- and antler-working evidence has shed vivid light on the evolution of this craft within a single settlement – with some Viking Age surprises thrown in.Next come the results of a Leicestershire excavation from the 1990s, recent]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-413-on-sale-now/Thu, 04 Jul 2024 16:09:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-413-on-sale-now/ We then travel to early medieval Ipswich, where analysis of bone- and antler-working evidence has shed vivid light on the evolution of this craft within a single settlement – with some Viking Age surprises thrown in.Next come the results of a Leicestershire excavation from the 1990s, recent]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-413/Thu, 04 Jul 2024 16:09:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-413/ This is the start of the footpath which leads…
&helli]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/medievalist-in-north-wales-ii-post-roman-hillfort-use/Mon, 01 Jul 2024 00:33:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/medievalist-in-north-wales-ii-post-roman-hillfort-use/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/egyptian-scribes-suffered-work-related-injuries-study-says/Thu, 27 Jun 2024 17:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/egyptian-scribes-suffered-work-related-injuries-study-says/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/fossil-of-neanderthal-child-with-downs-syndrome-hints-at-early-humans-compassion/Wed, 26 Jun 2024 21:25:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/fossil-of-neanderthal-child-with-downs-syndrome-hints-at-early-humans-compassion/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/stonehenge-likely-to-be-put-on-world-heritage-danger-list-over-tunnel-plan/Tue, 25 Jun 2024 18:16:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/stonehenge-likely-to-be-put-on-world-heritage-danger-list-over-tunnel-plan/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/prehistory-under-our-football-pitches-bronze-age-finds-excavated-from-cardiff-sports-field/Tue, 25 Jun 2024 07:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/prehistory-under-our-football-pitches-bronze-age-finds-excavated-from-cardiff-sports-field/ ('This is Hildegard the cat of Carlisle in the hours before the day when she was alive and dead')
The hours between this and the last one got pretty bad, and your blogger is feeling above averagely terrible even a couple of days on. Normal writing will resume next week. Thankyou for your understanding. Also, forgive me if I don’t reply to comments on this post.]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/requiescat/Sun, 23 Jun 2024 15:18:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/requiescat/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/they-had-no-idea-it-was-caligula-bronze-bust-of-roman-emperor-found/Sun, 23 Jun 2024 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/they-had-no-idea-it-was-caligula-bronze-bust-of-roman-emperor-found/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/does-a-cave-beneath-pembroke-castle-hold-key-to-fate-of-early-britons/Sat, 22 Jun 2024 11:20:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/does-a-cave-beneath-pembroke-castle-hold-key-to-fate-of-early-britons/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/easter-island-study-casts-doubt-on-theory-of-ecocide-by-early-population/Fri, 21 Jun 2024 20:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/easter-island-study-casts-doubt-on-theory-of-ecocide-by-early-population/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/letter-unlocking-the-past-prehistoric-anti-theft-technology/Fri, 21 Jun 2024 13:03:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/letter-unlocking-the-past-prehistoric-anti-theft-technology/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/beach-buried-by-eruption-of-mount-vesuvius-reopens-to-public-after-restoration/Wed, 19 Jun 2024 19:16:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/beach-buried-by-eruption-of-mount-vesuvius-reopens-to-public-after-restoration/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/sir-john-boardman-obituary/Wed, 19 Jun 2024 18:12:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/sir-john-boardman-obituary/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/oldest-wine-ever-discovered-in-liquid-form-found-in-urn-with-roman-remains/Tue, 18 Jun 2024 15:08:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/oldest-wine-ever-discovered-in-liquid-form-found-in-urn-with-roman-remains/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-young-viscounts-birthday-party/Mon, 17 Jun 2024 00:11:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-young-viscounts-birthday-party/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/north-yorkshire-landmark-has-finest-view-but-did-it-also-have-a-nazi-spy/Fri, 14 Jun 2024 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/north-yorkshire-landmark-has-finest-view-but-did-it-also-have-a-nazi-spy/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/maya-twins-myth-may-have-influenced-child-sacrifices-study-suggests/Thu, 13 Jun 2024 14:53:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/maya-twins-myth-may-have-influenced-child-sacrifices-study-suggests/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/barry-kemp-obituary/Wed, 12 Jun 2024 13:39:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/barry-kemp-obituary/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/nicholas-molyneux-obituary/Mon, 10 Jun 2024 18:23:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/nicholas-molyneux-obituary/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/sharks-murder-and-a-neolithic-spaceship-the-mysteries-of-irelands-new-national-parks/Mon, 10 Jun 2024 08:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/sharks-murder-and-a-neolithic-spaceship-the-mysteries-of-irelands-new-national-parks/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/smallest-known-great-ape-which-lived-11m-years-ago-found-in-germany/Fri, 07 Jun 2024 20:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/smallest-known-great-ape-which-lived-11m-years-ago-found-in-germany/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-412-on-sale-now/Thu, 06 Jun 2024 18:25:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-412-on-sale-now/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-412/Thu, 06 Jun 2024 18:25:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-412/ Such was the vibrancy of this material assemblage, there was a sense upon excavat]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/must-farm-revisited/Thu, 06 Jun 2024 18:24:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/must-farm-revisited/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archives-wiltshire-iii/Thu, 06 Jun 2024 18:23:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archives-wiltshire-iii/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/medievalist-in-north-wales-i-castell-dolbadarn/Sat, 01 Jun 2024 09:22:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/medievalist-in-north-wales-i-castell-dolbadarn/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/scientists-have-discovered-a-50000-year-old-herpes-virus-and-perhaps-how-modern-humans-came-to-rule-the-world-jonathan-kennedy/Thu, 30 May 2024 17:03:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/scientists-have-discovered-a-50000-year-old-herpes-virus-and-perhaps-how-modern-humans-came-to-rule-the-world-jonathan-kennedy/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/detectorist-unearths-bronze-age-hoard-after-getting-lost-on-treasure-hunt/Thu, 30 May 2024 12:39:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/detectorist-unearths-bronze-age-hoard-after-getting-lost-on-treasure-hunt/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/imc-through-a-screen-the-international-medieval-congress-for-2021/Wed, 29 May 2024 01:27:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/imc-through-a-screen-the-international-medieval-congress-for-2021/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/remains-of-horses-buried-2000-years-ago-found-in-central-france/Tue, 28 May 2024 19:24:00 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Mary&rsqu]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/fragments-of-mercian-memorial/Sun, 19 May 2024 23:23:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/fragments-of-mercian-memorial/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/scientists-find-buried-branch-of-the-nile-that-may-have-carried-pyramids-stones/Thu, 16 May 2024 18:42:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/scientists-find-buried-branch-of-the-nile-that-may-have-carried-pyramids-stones/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/bad-numbers-by-karl-ferdinand-werner/Sat, 11 May 2024 22:13:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/bad-numbers-by-karl-ferdinand-werner/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/neolithic-site-in-orkney-to-be-reburied-after-20-years-of-excavation/Sat, 11 May 2024 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/neolithic-site-in-orkney-to-be-reburied-after-20-years-of-excavation/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/teacher-finds-stone-with-ancient-ogham-writing-from-ireland-in-coventry-garden/Wed, 08 May 2024 13:02:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/teacher-finds-stone-with-ancient-ogham-writing-from-ireland-in-coventry-garden/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/call-for-port-extension-to-be-halted-as-genocide-remains-are-found-on-namibias-shark-island/Mon, 06 May 2024 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/call-for-port-extension-to-be-halted-as-genocide-remains-are-found-on-namibias-shark-island/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/you-struggled-with-my-film-fantastic-alice-rohrwacher-and-her-riotous-new-tomb-raiding-tale/Mon, 06 May 2024 09:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/you-struggled-with-my-film-fantastic-alice-rohrwacher-and-her-riotous-new-tomb-raiding-tale/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/what-could-the-roman-dodecahedron-have-been-used-for/Sun, 05 May 2024 15:01:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/what-could-the-roman-dodecahedron-have-been-used-for/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/not-what-the-textbooks-usually-mean-by-manuscript-illustration/Sun, 05 May 2024 00:02:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/not-what-the-textbooks-usually-mean-by-manuscript-illustration/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/is-this-the-answer-to-the-roman-dodecahedron-puzzle-that-has-archaeologists-stumped-letter/Fri, 03 May 2024 19:33:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/is-this-the-answer-to-the-roman-dodecahedron-puzzle-that-has-archaeologists-stumped-letter/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-villa-unveiled/Fri, 03 May 2024 18:45:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-villa-unveiled/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/alex-hooper-obituary/Fri, 03 May 2024 17:07:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/alex-hooper-obituary/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/leprosy-passed-between-medieval-squirrels-and-humans-study-suggests/Fri, 03 May 2024 17:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/leprosy-passed-between-medieval-squirrels-and-humans-study-suggests/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/second-renaissance-tech-uncovers-ancient-scroll-secrets-of-plato-and-co/Fri, 03 May 2024 15:05:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/second-renaissance-tech-uncovers-ancient-scroll-secrets-of-plato-and-co/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archives-wiltshire-ii/Fri, 03 May 2024 13:48:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archives-wiltshire-ii/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/solar-storms-ice-cores-and-nuns-teeth-the-new-science-of-history-podcast/Fri, 03 May 2024 06:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/solar-storms-ice-cores-and-nuns-teeth-the-new-science-of-history-podcast/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-411-on-sale-now-2/Thu, 02 May 2024 19:29:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-411-on-sale-now-2/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-411-on-sale-now/Thu, 02 May 2024 19:29:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-411-on-sale-now/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-411/Thu, 02 May 2024 19:29:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-411/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/when-the-milkman-sparked-a-local-panic-brief-letters/Wed, 01 May 2024 18:48:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/when-the-milkman-sparked-a-local-panic-brief-letters/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/dorset-auction-house-withdraws-egyptian-human-skulls-from-sale/Wed, 01 May 2024 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/dorset-auction-house-withdraws-egyptian-human-skulls-from-sale/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/mary-greenacre-obituary/Tue, 30 Apr 2024 21:33:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/mary-greenacre-obituary/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/five-skeletons-found-under-wolfs-lair-home-of-hermann-gring-in-poland/Tue, 30 Apr 2024 18:48:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/five-skeletons-found-under-wolfs-lair-home-of-hermann-gring-in-poland/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/mysterious-roman-dodecahedron-to-go-on-display-in-lincoln/Mon, 29 Apr 2024 12:02:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/mysterious-roman-dodecahedron-to-go-on-display-in-lincoln/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/lost-civilisations-make-good-tv-but-archaeologys-real-stories-hold-far-more-wonder-flint-dibble/Sun, 28 Apr 2024 08:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/lost-civilisations-make-good-tv-but-archaeologys-real-stories-hold-far-more-wonder-flint-dibble/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/seminar-clxxxii-john-of-niki-on-persecution/Sat, 27 Apr 2024 09:56:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/seminar-clxxxii-john-of-niki-on-persecution/ So, if you’re still reading after all this time, I want to firstly to thank you for that; thankyou all, you are my reassurance that I have some kind of an interested public at times when this is otherwise hard to determine. Secondly, I want to say something very brief by way of outline about what was behind this hiatus; and then thirdly I want to reflect, likewise briefly, on the utility of this blog. And then I want to get another post up pront]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/some-of-whats-been-going-on/Fri, 26 Apr 2024 19:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/some-of-whats-been-going-on/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/rare-lunar-event-to-shed-light-on-stonehenges-links-to-the-moon/Mon, 15 Apr 2024 08:32:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/rare-lunar-event-to-shed-light-on-stonehenges-links-to-the-moon/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/its-plain-elitist-anger-at-greek-plan-for-5000-private-tours-of-acropolis/Mon, 15 Apr 2024 06:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/its-plain-elitist-anger-at-greek-plan-for-5000-private-tours-of-acropolis/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/banquet-room-with-preserved-frescoes-unearthed-among-pompeii-ruins/Thu, 11 Apr 2024 17:10:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/banquet-room-with-preserved-frescoes-unearthed-among-pompeii-ruins/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/great-barrier-reef-discovery-overturns-belief-aboriginal-australians-did-not-make-pottery-archaeologists-say/Tue, 09 Apr 2024 22:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/great-barrier-reef-discovery-overturns-belief-aboriginal-australians-did-not-make-pottery-archaeologists-say/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/christies-withdraws-greek-vases-from-auction-over-links-to-convicted-dealer/Tue, 09 Apr 2024 19:05:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/christies-withdraws-greek-vases-from-auction-over-links-to-convicted-dealer/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/silver-coin-boom-in-medieval-england-due-to-melted-down-byzantine-treasures-study-reveals/Tue, 09 Apr 2024 01:01:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/silver-coin-boom-in-medieval-england-due-to-melted-down-byzantine-treasures-study-reveals/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/stephen-mitchell-obituary/Sun, 07 Apr 2024 18:18:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/stephen-mitchell-obituary/ Smallhythe Place, a National Trust property in Kent, is home to a picturesque timber-framed house with enigmatic origins, while the surrounding landscape preserves unique traces of a medieval shipbuilding centre t]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/romans-royal-ships-and-a-rural-retreat/Thu, 04 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/romans-royal-ships-and-a-rural-retreat/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archives-wiltshire-i/Thu, 04 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archives-wiltshire-i/ construction of an offshore windfarm have opened a]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-410-on-sale-now/Thu, 04 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-410-on-sale-now/ construction of an offshore windfarm have opened a]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-410/Thu, 04 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-410/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/explorers-unlock-the-mystery-of-pirate-king-henry-avery-who-vanished-after-huge-heist-at-sea/Sat, 30 Mar 2024 16:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/explorers-unlock-the-mystery-of-pirate-king-henry-avery-who-vanished-after-huge-heist-at-sea/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/truth-behind-the-myths-amazon-warrior-women-of-greek-legend-may-really-have-existed/Sun, 24 Mar 2024 08:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/truth-behind-the-myths-amazon-warrior-women-of-greek-legend-may-really-have-existed/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/bronze-age-objects-from-pompeii-of-the-fens-to-go-on-display/Wed, 20 Mar 2024 06:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/bronze-age-objects-from-pompeii-of-the-fens-to-go-on-display/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/shells-from-captain-cooks-final-voyage-saved-from-skip/Tue, 12 Mar 2024 07:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/shells-from-captain-cooks-final-voyage-saved-from-skip/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/crypt-by-alice-roberts-review-resurrecting-the-past/Thu, 07 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/crypt-by-alice-roberts-review-resurrecting-the-past/ A major new exhibition at the British Museum shows what life was like for the men, women, and children associated with the Roman military machine – and those they encountered through campaign and conquest. Carly Hilts visited to learn more.The Roman army as we know it, has its origins in the reign of the first emp]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/legion/Thu, 07 Mar 2024 11:57:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/legion/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archives-gloucestershire/Thu, 07 Mar 2024 11:50:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archives-gloucestershire/ demolition of a place that hosted one of my first forays into journalism. While working on The Cambridge
Studen]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-409-on-sale-now/Thu, 07 Mar 2024 10:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-409-on-sale-now/ demolition of a place that hosted one of my first forays into journalism. While working on The Cambridge
Studen]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-409/Thu, 07 Mar 2024 10:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-409/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ancient-stone-tools-found-in-ukraine-offer-oldest-evidence-of-human-presence-in-europe/Wed, 06 Mar 2024 22:13:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ancient-stone-tools-found-in-ukraine-offer-oldest-evidence-of-human-presence-in-europe/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/battle-to-save-pristine-prehistoric-rock-art-from-vast-new-quarry-in-norway/Sat, 02 Mar 2024 16:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/battle-to-save-pristine-prehistoric-rock-art-from-vast-new-quarry-in-norway/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/archaeologists-find-pompeii-fresco-depicting-greek-mythological-siblings/Fri, 01 Mar 2024 18:31:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/archaeologists-find-pompeii-fresco-depicting-greek-mythological-siblings/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/long-buried-atlas-statue-raised-to-guard-temple-of-zeus-in-sicily-once-more/Thu, 29 Feb 2024 13:32:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/long-buried-atlas-statue-raised-to-guard-temple-of-zeus-in-sicily-once-more/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/highway-to-horror-14-wrecked-slavers-ships-are-identified-in-bahamas/Sun, 25 Feb 2024 10:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/highway-to-horror-14-wrecked-slavers-ships-are-identified-in-bahamas/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-neolithic-miracle-readers-favourite-ancient-uk-sites/Fri, 23 Feb 2024 08:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-neolithic-miracle-readers-favourite-ancient-uk-sites/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/very-rare-clay-figurine-of-mercury-discovered-at-roman-site-in-kent/Fri, 23 Feb 2024 06:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/very-rare-clay-figurine-of-mercury-discovered-at-roman-site-in-kent/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/solar-storms-ice-cores-and-nuns-teeth-the-new-science-of-history/Tue, 20 Feb 2024 06:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/solar-storms-ice-cores-and-nuns-teeth-the-new-science-of-history/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ancient-faces-brought-back-to-life-at-scottish-museum-video/Sat, 17 Feb 2024 20:44:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ancient-faces-brought-back-to-life-at-scottish-museum-video/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ancient-faces-brought-back-to-life-at-scottish-museum/Sat, 17 Feb 2024 18:06:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ancient-faces-brought-back-to-life-at-scottish-museum/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/egypt-scraps-plan-to-restore-cladding-on-one-of-three-great-pyramids-of-giza/Fri, 16 Feb 2024 18:22:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/egypt-scraps-plan-to-restore-cladding-on-one-of-three-great-pyramids-of-giza/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/david-hawkins-obituary/Thu, 15 Feb 2024 20:40:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/david-hawkins-obituary/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/stone-age-wall-found-at-bottom-of-baltic-sea-may-be-europes-oldest-megastructure/Mon, 12 Feb 2024 21:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/stone-age-wall-found-at-bottom-of-baltic-sea-may-be-europes-oldest-megastructure/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/roman-egg-found-in-aylesbury-still-has-contents-after-1700-years/Mon, 12 Feb 2024 20:13:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/roman-egg-found-in-aylesbury-still-has-contents-after-1700-years/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/country-diary-this-chalky-old-city-gets-under-your-boots-nicola-chester/Wed, 07 Feb 2024 06:30:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/country-diary-this-chalky-old-city-gets-under-your-boots-nicola-chester/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ai-helps-scholars-read-scroll-buried-when-vesuvius-erupted-in-ad79/Mon, 05 Feb 2024 15:07:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ai-helps-scholars-read-scroll-buried-when-vesuvius-erupted-in-ad79/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/flat-packed-furniture-for-the-next-life-roman-funerary-bed-found-in-london/Mon, 05 Feb 2024 11:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/flat-packed-furniture-for-the-next-life-roman-funerary-bed-found-in-london/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/incredibly-rare-discovery-reveals-bedbugs-came-to-britain-with-the-romans/Sat, 03 Feb 2024 12:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/incredibly-rare-discovery-reveals-bedbugs-came-to-britain-with-the-romans/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-408-on-sale-now/Thu, 01 Feb 2024 17:28:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-408-on-sale-now/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-408/Thu, 01 Feb 2024 17:28:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-408/ BRISTOLAt one point or another, virtually the entire history of Bristol has been explored in the pages of Current Archaeology, from its medieval origins to its later history as a port city with major links to the transatlantic slave industry]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archive-somerset-part-ii/Thu, 01 Feb 2024 17:22:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archive-somerset-part-ii/ Last summer, excavations at Warham Camp – a monumental Iron Age enclosure in north Norfolk – revealed intriguing cl]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/warham-camp/Thu, 01 Feb 2024 17:21:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/warham-camp/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/their-heads-were-nailed-to-the-trees-what-was-life-and-death-like-for-roman-legionaries/Mon, 29 Jan 2024 06:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/their-heads-were-nailed-to-the-trees-what-was-life-and-death-like-for-roman-legionaries/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/forging-new-history-high-end-iron-age-smithy-unearthed-in-oxfordshire/Sun, 28 Jan 2024 13:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/forging-new-history-high-end-iron-age-smithy-unearthed-in-oxfordshire/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/race-against-time-to-unlock-secrets-of-erebus-shipwreck-and-doomed-arctic-expedition/Sat, 27 Jan 2024 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/race-against-time-to-unlock-secrets-of-erebus-shipwreck-and-doomed-arctic-expedition/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/hunter-gatherers-were-mostly-gatherers-says-archaeologist/Wed, 24 Jan 2024 20:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/hunter-gatherers-were-mostly-gatherers-says-archaeologist/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/british-museum-reveals-bumper-haul-of-treasures-found-by-the-public/Tue, 23 Jan 2024 20:53:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/british-museum-reveals-bumper-haul-of-treasures-found-by-the-public/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ancient-chewing-gum-sheds-light-on-stone-age-teenagers-diet/Tue, 23 Jan 2024 18:25:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ancient-chewing-gum-sheds-light-on-stone-age-teenagers-diet/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/engraving-on-2000-year-old-knife-thought-to-be-oldest-runes-in-denmark/Mon, 22 Jan 2024 13:54:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/engraving-on-2000-year-old-knife-thought-to-be-oldest-runes-in-denmark/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/hiatus-im-afraid/Sun, 21 Jan 2024 22:52:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/hiatus-im-afraid/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/absolutely-amazing-1800-year-old-shattered-roman-arm-guard-is-reconstructed-from-100-pieces/Sun, 21 Jan 2024 08:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/absolutely-amazing-1800-year-old-shattered-roman-arm-guard-is-reconstructed-from-100-pieces/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/country-diary-a-drowned-land-in-plain-sight-jan-miller/Fri, 19 Jan 2024 06:30:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/country-diary-a-drowned-land-in-plain-sight-jan-miller/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/remains-of-lost-bronze-age-tomb-discovered-in-county-kerry-in-ireland/Thu, 18 Jan 2024 19:01:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/remains-of-lost-bronze-age-tomb-discovered-in-county-kerry-in-ireland/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/valley-of-lost-cities-that-flourished-2000-years-ago-found-in-amazon/Thu, 11 Jan 2024 21:26:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/valley-of-lost-cities-that-flourished-2000-years-ago-found-in-amazon/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/penelope-rogers-obituary/Thu, 11 Jan 2024 12:38:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/penelope-rogers-obituary/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/people-come-to-touch-the-walls-fears-for-istanbuls-crumbling-byzantine-past/Sat, 06 Jan 2024 08:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/people-come-to-touch-the-walls-fears-for-istanbuls-crumbling-byzantine-past/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-407-on-sale-now/Thu, 04 Jan 2024 12:38:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-407-on-sale-now/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-407/Thu, 04 Jan 2024 12:38:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-407/ With one of the UK’s oldest commercial units recently celebrating its 50th birthday, Carly Hilts spoke to its founding director, Tom Hassall, and current CEO, Ken Welsh, about how the archaeological profession has changed over th]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/oxford-archaeology-at-50/Thu, 04 Jan 2024 12:09:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/oxford-archaeology-at-50/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archive-somerset-part-i/Thu, 04 Jan 2024 11:39:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archive-somerset-part-i/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/jo-johnsons-new-domesday/Mon, 01 Jan 2024 11:44:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/jo-johnsons-new-domesday/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/we-have-a-lot-of-cracks-swedes-seek-to-save-vasa-warship-again/Wed, 27 Dec 2023 05:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/we-have-a-lot-of-cracks-swedes-seek-to-save-vasa-warship-again/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/christmas-downtime/Sat, 23 Dec 2023 19:30:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/christmas-downtime/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/national-trust-archaeologists-find-medieval-gift-token-in-norfolk/Mon, 18 Dec 2023 20:55:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/national-trust-archaeologists-find-medieval-gift-token-in-norfolk/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/bad-lessons-from-roman-handouts/Sun, 17 Dec 2023 19:09:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/bad-lessons-from-roman-handouts/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/seminar-clxxxi-avoiding-colonisation-with-medievalism/Sat, 16 Dec 2023 00:01:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/seminar-clxxxi-avoiding-colonisation-with-medievalism/ The discovery of an anonymous shipwreck off the coast of Sussex set archaeologists on the trail of a 350-year- old mystery. Mark Beattie-Edwards reports on efforts to identify the sunken vessel and to protect its hi]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-klein-hollandia/Thu, 07 Dec 2023 11:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-klein-hollandia/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archive-dorset/Thu, 07 Dec 2023 11:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archive-dorset/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-406-on-sale-now/Thu, 07 Dec 2023 11:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-406-on-sale-now/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-406/Thu, 07 Dec 2023 11:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-406/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-roman-forts-near-hadrians-wall-are-full-of-historical-riches-and-the-climate-crisis-is-destroying-them-richard-hobbs/Mon, 04 Dec 2023 10:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-roman-forts-near-hadrians-wall-are-full-of-historical-riches-and-the-climate-crisis-is-destroying-them-richard-hobbs/ I think this story begins in Oxford, although it doesn’t stay there long. At the time I was teaching in Oxford the History syllabus’s foundation was two sets of "papers", one in British History, covering the sceptred isles of my birth (in theo]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-forgotten-effort-of-decolonization/Sun, 03 Dec 2023 23:31:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-forgotten-effort-of-decolonization/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/rescue-project-of-the-year-2024-nominees/Fri, 01 Dec 2023 10:07:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/rescue-project-of-the-year-2024-nominees/ Picts: scourge of Rom]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/book-of-the-year-2024-nominees/Fri, 01 Dec 2023 10:07:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/book-of-the-year-2024-nominees/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/research-project-of-the-year-2024-nominees/Fri, 01 Dec 2023 10:06:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/research-project-of-the-year-2024-nominees/ Voting closes on 5 February and all the winners of the Current Archaeology Awards will be announced on 24 February as part of Current Archaeology Live! 2024. Click here to find out more about the event.Once you’ve made your selection from the nominees below, click here to cast your vote.Andre]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/archaeologist-of-the-year-2024-nominees/Fri, 01 Dec 2023 10:06:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/archaeologist-of-the-year-2024-nominees/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/seminar-clxxx-rehabilitating-the-carolingian-priest/Sun, 26 Nov 2023 20:47:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/seminar-clxxx-rehabilitating-the-carolingian-priest/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/piltdown-man-remains-exposed-as-fake-archive-1953/Thu, 23 Nov 2023 07:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/piltdown-man-remains-exposed-as-fake-archive-1953/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-dogheads-explained/Sat, 18 Nov 2023 23:28:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-dogheads-explained/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/mummy-dearest-priceless-egyptian-treasures-go-on-display-at-australian-museum-in-sydney/Fri, 17 Nov 2023 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/mummy-dearest-priceless-egyptian-treasures-go-on-display-at-australian-museum-in-sydney/ Heidelberg Universitätsbibliothek Cod. Pal. Grace. 18 fol. 96v, showing "Isaac" Tzetzes offering his Scholia in Lycophronis to Christ, this misnamed 13th-century depiction be]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/seminars-clxxvii-clxxix-animals-in-byzantium-christians-under-islam-byzantines-in-israel/Sun, 12 Nov 2023 23:31:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/seminars-clxxvii-clxxix-animals-in-byzantium-christians-under-islam-byzantines-in-israel/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/luxury-london-tower-near-remains-of-shakespearean-theatre-opens/Mon, 06 Nov 2023 16:23:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/luxury-london-tower-near-remains-of-shakespearean-theatre-opens/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/up-to-50000-roman-coins-discovered-off-coast-of-sardinia/Mon, 06 Nov 2023 14:52:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/up-to-50000-roman-coins-discovered-off-coast-of-sardinia/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/i-said-yes-to-too-many-things/Sat, 04 Nov 2023 17:36:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/i-said-yes-to-too-many-things/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/large-scale-warfare-occurred-in-europe-1000-years-earlier-than-previously-thought/Thu, 02 Nov 2023 21:41:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/large-scale-warfare-occurred-in-europe-1000-years-earlier-than-previously-thought/ Located off the south coast of Ynys Môn (Anglesey), Llanddwyn Island was home to a small monastic community for more than 1,000 years. Now a decade of archaeological investigations have shed vivid light on this remote religious community, documenting the remains of a 12th-century church and its surrounding landscape. George Nash, Philip Dell,]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/uncovering-a-lost-landscape/Thu, 02 Nov 2023 10:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/uncovering-a-lost-landscape/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archive-devon/Thu, 02 Nov 2023 10:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archive-devon/ the colourful dahlia festivals that saw crowds of up to 10,000 people flocking to the site in the 184]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-405-on-sale-now/Thu, 02 Nov 2023 10:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-405-on-sale-now/ the colourful dahlia festivals that saw crowds of up to 10,000 people flocking to the site in the 184]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-405/Thu, 02 Nov 2023 10:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-405/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/very-much-like-us-festival-reveals-secrets-of-building-stonehenge/Wed, 01 Nov 2023 06:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/very-much-like-us-festival-reveals-secrets-of-building-stonehenge/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/from-the-sources-xix-charles-the-bald-does-not-admit-blame/Sun, 29 Oct 2023 22:24:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/from-the-sources-xix-charles-the-bald-does-not-admit-blame/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/cold-war-satellite-images-reveal-hundreds-of-unknown-roman-forts/Thu, 26 Oct 2023 06:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/cold-war-satellite-images-reveal-hundreds-of-unknown-roman-forts/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ancient-rock-carvings-revealed-by-receding-amazon-waters-amid-drought/Tue, 24 Oct 2023 23:29:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ancient-rock-carvings-revealed-by-receding-amazon-waters-amid-drought/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/callous-reckless-unethical-scientists-in-row-over-rare-fossils-flown-into-space/Sun, 22 Oct 2023 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/callous-reckless-unethical-scientists-in-row-over-rare-fossils-flown-into-space/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/seminars-clxxiv-clxxvi-crusaders-cistercians-and-more-at-leeds/Sun, 22 Oct 2023 00:19:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/seminars-clxxiv-clxxvi-crusaders-cistercians-and-more-at-leeds/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-neolithic-feat-of-engineering-orkney-dig-reveals-ruins-of-huge-tomb/Sat, 21 Oct 2023 16:11:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-neolithic-feat-of-engineering-orkney-dig-reveals-ruins-of-huge-tomb/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/were-at-a-tipping-point-mission-to-save-identity-of-greeces-cyclades-isles/Fri, 20 Oct 2023 06:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/were-at-a-tipping-point-mission-to-save-identity-of-greeces-cyclades-isles/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/justice-for-neanderthals-what-the-debate-about-our-long-dead-cousins-reveals-about-us-podcast/Fri, 20 Oct 2023 06:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/justice-for-neanderthals-what-the-debate-about-our-long-dead-cousins-reveals-about-us-podcast/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-first-eyes-to-see-this-florida-workers-find-19th-century-shipwreck/Wed, 18 Oct 2023 18:26:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-first-eyes-to-see-this-florida-workers-find-19th-century-shipwreck/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/seaweed-was-common-food-in-europe-for-thousands-of-years-researchers-find/Tue, 17 Oct 2023 17:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/seaweed-was-common-food-in-europe-for-thousands-of-years-researchers-find/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/gold-lucky-charms-or-rusty-nails-on-the-hunt-with-italys-detectorists/Sun, 15 Oct 2023 06:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/gold-lucky-charms-or-rusty-nails-on-the-hunt-with-italys-detectorists/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/researchers-use-ai-to-read-word-on-ancient-scroll-burned-by-vesuvius/Thu, 12 Oct 2023 18:38:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/researchers-use-ai-to-read-word-on-ancient-scroll-burned-by-vesuvius/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/colourful-beauty-of-parthenon-marbles-revealed-in-scientific-analysis/Wed, 11 Oct 2023 01:01:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/colourful-beauty-of-parthenon-marbles-revealed-in-scientific-analysis/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/coin-hoard-that-could-be-linked-to-glen-coe-massacre-found-under-fireplace/Mon, 09 Oct 2023 13:09:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/coin-hoard-that-could-be-linked-to-glen-coe-massacre-found-under-fireplace/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/archaeologists-uncover-rare-18th-century-cold-bath-under-bath-assembly-rooms/Mon, 09 Oct 2023 01:01:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/archaeologists-uncover-rare-18th-century-cold-bath-under-bath-assembly-rooms/ Dramatically lit but photographically incompetent]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-short-and-partial-tour-of-the-castles-of-lady-anne-clifford/Sat, 07 Oct 2023 23:05:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-short-and-partial-tour-of-the-castles-of-lady-anne-clifford/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/new-mexico-footprints-are-oldest-sign-of-humans-in-americas-research-shows/Fri, 06 Oct 2023 15:11:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/new-mexico-footprints-are-oldest-sign-of-humans-in-americas-research-shows/ In CA 388 we asked, ‘what are hillforts for?’, and Toby Driver’s new book Hillforts of Iron Age Wales has some suggestions.]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/power-of-place/Thu, 05 Oct 2023 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/power-of-place/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archive-northern-ireland/Thu, 05 Oct 2023 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archive-northern-ireland/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-404-on-sale-now/Thu, 05 Oct 2023 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-404-on-sale-now/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-404/Thu, 05 Oct 2023 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-404/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/rare-medieval-cheddar-brooch-found-in-somerset-field-to-go-on-display/Tue, 03 Oct 2023 10:13:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/rare-medieval-cheddar-brooch-found-in-somerset-field-to-go-on-display/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/country-diary-the-most-beautiful-monuments-on-a-moor-not-short-of-them-mark-cocker/Tue, 03 Oct 2023 06:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/country-diary-the-most-beautiful-monuments-on-a-moor-not-short-of-them-mark-cocker/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/digging-rendlesham-through-the-screen/Sun, 01 Oct 2023 16:20:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/digging-rendlesham-through-the-screen/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/pictish-pandemic-road-trip-part-viii-and-final/Wed, 27 Sep 2023 22:51:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/pictish-pandemic-road-trip-part-viii-and-final/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/enough-is-enough-us-looted-treasures-unit-faces-accusations-over-credit/Tue, 26 Sep 2023 11:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/enough-is-enough-us-looted-treasures-unit-faces-accusations-over-credit/ Anscari M. Mundó
So, in 1983 the immensely learned and influential Catalan palaeographer and liturgist, as well as sometime monk, Anscari Mu]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/from-the-sources-xviii-a-lost-letter-from-a-caliph/Mon, 25 Sep 2023 22:20:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/from-the-sources-xviii-a-lost-letter-from-a-caliph/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/uk-and-france-to-investigate-dunkirk-shipwrecks-from-second-world-war/Wed, 20 Sep 2023 18:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/uk-and-france-to-investigate-dunkirk-shipwrecks-from-second-world-war/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/oldest-wooden-structure-discovered-on-border-of-zambia-and-tanzania/Wed, 20 Sep 2023 17:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/oldest-wooden-structure-discovered-on-border-of-zambia-and-tanzania/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/egyptian-treasures-bound-for-melbourne-as-ngv-announces-2024-blockbuster-pharaoh-exhibition/Wed, 20 Sep 2023 03:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/egyptian-treasures-bound-for-melbourne-as-ngv-announces-2024-blockbuster-pharaoh-exhibition/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/justice-for-neanderthals-what-the-debate-about-our-long-dead-cousins-reveals-about-us/Tue, 19 Sep 2023 06:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/justice-for-neanderthals-what-the-debate-about-our-long-dead-cousins-reveals-about-us/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ancient-crafts-that-are-well-worth-preserving-letter/Mon, 18 Sep 2023 18:55:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ancient-crafts-that-are-well-worth-preserving-letter/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/pictish-pandemic-road-trip-part-vii/Sun, 17 Sep 2023 01:34:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/pictish-pandemic-road-trip-part-vii/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/anu-museum-to-hand-back-stolen-2500-year-old-vase-to-italy/Thu, 14 Sep 2023 17:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/anu-museum-to-hand-back-stolen-2500-year-old-vase-to-italy/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/archaeology-world-mourns-damian-evans-who-discovered-medieval-cities-near-angkor-wat/Thu, 14 Sep 2023 11:44:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/archaeology-world-mourns-damian-evans-who-discovered-medieval-cities-near-angkor-wat/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/from-the-archive-a-scandal-in-oxford-the-curious-case-of-the-stolen-gospel-podcast/Wed, 13 Sep 2023 06:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/from-the-archive-a-scandal-in-oxford-the-curious-case-of-the-stolen-gospel-podcast/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/blogging-the-medieval-frontier/Sat, 09 Sep 2023 20:21:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/blogging-the-medieval-frontier/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/metal-detectorist-makes-norways-gold-find-of-century/Thu, 07 Sep 2023 17:21:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/metal-detectorist-makes-norways-gold-find-of-century/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-403-on-sale-now/Thu, 07 Sep 2023 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-403-on-sale-now/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-403/Thu, 07 Sep 2023 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-403/ A collaborative project has brought to light the lives of a 19th-century community living and working in Fewston, North Yorkshire. Among their number were many childre]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/tired-beyond-all-telling/Thu, 07 Sep 2023 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/tired-beyond-all-telling/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archive-county-durham-and-tyne-amp-wear/Thu, 07 Sep 2023 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archive-county-durham-and-tyne-amp-wear/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ground-penetrating-radar-how-the-discovery-of-clandestine-anomalies-could-reveal-buried-truths/Thu, 07 Sep 2023 05:06:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ground-penetrating-radar-how-the-discovery-of-clandestine-anomalies-could-reveal-buried-truths/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/early-human-ancestors-turned-stones-into-spheres-on-purpose-study-suggests/Wed, 06 Sep 2023 17:25:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/early-human-ancestors-turned-stones-into-spheres-on-purpose-study-suggests/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/archaeologists-uncover-complete-neolithic-cursus-on-the-isle-of-arran/Mon, 04 Sep 2023 06:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/archaeologists-uncover-complete-neolithic-cursus-on-the-isle-of-arran/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/we-cant-take-any-of-this-for-granted-gazas-fight-to-keep-its-treasures-safe-at-home/Sun, 03 Sep 2023 11:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/we-cant-take-any-of-this-for-granted-gazas-fight-to-keep-its-treasures-safe-at-home/ The steep side of a hillfort, it being]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/pictish-pandemic-road-trip-part-vi/Sat, 02 Sep 2023 09:15:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/pictish-pandemic-road-trip-part-vi/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/scent-of-eternity-scientists-recreate-balms-used-on-ancient-egyptian-mummy/Thu, 31 Aug 2023 17:09:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/scent-of-eternity-scientists-recreate-balms-used-on-ancient-egyptian-mummy/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/stone-age-dartmoor-viewpoint-uncovered-by-archaeologists/Wed, 30 Aug 2023 16:43:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/stone-age-dartmoor-viewpoint-uncovered-by-archaeologists/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/grieving-wordsworth-found-solace-in-poignant-shipwreck-treasure-after-brothers-death/Sun, 27 Aug 2023 12:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/grieving-wordsworth-found-solace-in-poignant-shipwreck-treasure-after-brothers-death/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/nobody-was-expecting-it-british-museum-warned-reputation-seriously-damaged-and-treasures-will-take-decades-to-recover/Sat, 26 Aug 2023 18:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/nobody-was-expecting-it-british-museum-warned-reputation-seriously-damaged-and-treasures-will-take-decades-to-recover/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/revival-of-stonehenge-road-tunnel-plan-triggers-new-legal-challenge/Sat, 26 Aug 2023 15:10:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/revival-of-stonehenge-road-tunnel-plan-triggers-new-legal-challenge/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/something-for-peter-linehan/Sat, 26 Aug 2023 13:29:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/something-for-peter-linehan/ Obverse of the Knocknagael Boar Stone, in Inverness Cit]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/pictish-pandemic-road-trip-part-v/Mon, 21 Aug 2023 00:48:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/pictish-pandemic-road-trip-part-v/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/bedroom-used-by-slaves-found-by-archaeologists-near-pompeii/Sun, 20 Aug 2023 13:57:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/bedroom-used-by-slaves-found-by-archaeologists-near-pompeii/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/otzi-the-iceman-had-receding-hairline-and-dark-skin-tone-study-reveals/Wed, 16 Aug 2023 17:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/otzi-the-iceman-had-receding-hairline-and-dark-skin-tone-study-reveals/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/roman-fragments-offer-glimpse-of-emperor-hadrians-daily-events-calendar/Tue, 15 Aug 2023 15:31:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/roman-fragments-offer-glimpse-of-emperor-hadrians-daily-events-calendar/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/us-university-discovers-142-year-old-observatory-buried-on-campus/Mon, 14 Aug 2023 17:05:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/us-university-discovers-142-year-old-observatory-buried-on-campus/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-possible-revision-of-the-history-of-the-islamic-conquest-of-iberia/Sat, 12 Aug 2023 22:40:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-possible-revision-of-the-history-of-the-islamic-conquest-of-iberia/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/uk-experts-fear-losing-access-to-ice-age-mammoths-cotswolds-site-to-uae/Sat, 05 Aug 2023 16:18:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/uk-experts-fear-losing-access-to-ice-age-mammoths-cotswolds-site-to-uae/ The target for the morning!
That is to say, it’s a huge hill, but as with many a hu]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/pictish-pandemic-road-trip-part-iv/Sat, 05 Aug 2023 01:54:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/pictish-pandemic-road-trip-part-iv/ After last month’s column on Cumbria, I now head east into neighbouring Northumberland. Current Archaeology’s coverage of the county is perplexing – plenty, of course, on ‘the Wall’ (see my own dedicated column]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archive-northumberland/Thu, 03 Aug 2023 09:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archive-northumberland/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-402-on-sale-now/Thu, 03 Aug 2023 09:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-402-on-sale-now/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-402/Thu, 03 Aug 2023 09:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-402/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/beyond-birdoswald/Thu, 03 Aug 2023 09:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/beyond-birdoswald/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/national-gallery-of-australia-hands-back-ninth-century-cambodian-sculptures-it-believes-were-stolen/Wed, 02 Aug 2023 17:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/national-gallery-of-australia-hands-back-ninth-century-cambodian-sculptures-it-believes-were-stolen/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/kate-fielden-obituary/Mon, 31 Jul 2023 19:04:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/kate-fielden-obituary/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/some-very-early-europeans/Sat, 29 Jul 2023 02:39:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/some-very-early-europeans/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ancient-roman-ship-carrying-hundreds-of-jars-discovered-off-italian-coast-video/Fri, 28 Jul 2023 16:18:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ancient-roman-ship-carrying-hundreds-of-jars-discovered-off-italian-coast-video/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ancient-roman-cargo-ship-found-on-bottom-of-mediterranean/Fri, 28 Jul 2023 14:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ancient-roman-cargo-ship-found-on-bottom-of-mediterranean/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-short-lived-guide-to-saving-the-earth-brief-letters/Thu, 27 Jul 2023 19:34:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-short-lived-guide-to-saving-the-earth-brief-letters/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/emperor-neros-lost-theatre-found-under-site-of-hotel-in-rome/Thu, 27 Jul 2023 18:01:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/emperor-neros-lost-theatre-found-under-site-of-hotel-in-rome/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/isles-of-scilly-remains-are-iron-age-female-warrior-scientists-say/Thu, 27 Jul 2023 07:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/isles-of-scilly-remains-are-iron-age-female-warrior-scientists-say/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/pictish-pandemic-roadtrip-part-iii/Sat, 22 Jul 2023 13:34:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/pictish-pandemic-roadtrip-part-iii/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/earth-review-chris-packham-steps-confidently-into-david-attenboroughs-shoes/Mon, 17 Jul 2023 23:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/earth-review-chris-packham-steps-confidently-into-david-attenboroughs-shoes/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/hugely-exciting-and-rare-neolithic-polishing-stone-found-in-dorset/Fri, 14 Jul 2023 06:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/hugely-exciting-and-rare-neolithic-polishing-stone-found-in-dorset/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/from-the-sources-xvii-more-pavians-destroying-important-peoples-houses/Fri, 14 Jul 2023 00:33:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/from-the-sources-xvii-more-pavians-destroying-important-peoples-houses/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/giant-sloth-pendants-indicate-humans-settled-americas-much-earlier-than-thought/Wed, 12 Jul 2023 18:53:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/giant-sloth-pendants-indicate-humans-settled-americas-much-earlier-than-thought/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/bronze-age-wooden-comb-could-be-oldest-discovered-in-uk/Wed, 12 Jul 2023 14:03:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/bronze-age-wooden-comb-could-be-oldest-discovered-in-uk/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/acropolis-now-crisis-as-soaring-visitor-numbers-overwhelm-greek-treasure/Sun, 09 Jul 2023 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/acropolis-now-crisis-as-soaring-visitor-numbers-overwhelm-greek-treasure/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/pictish-pandemic-roadtrip-part-ii/Sun, 09 Jul 2023 12:07:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/pictish-pandemic-roadtrip-part-ii/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/giant-300000-year-old-handaxes-unearthed-in-kent/Thu, 06 Jul 2023 09:22:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/giant-300000-year-old-handaxes-unearthed-in-kent/ PHOTO: Darryl Owen / Time Team
The Knights Hospitaller were forged in the fury of the Crusades, providing protection, hospitality, and medical care for travellers in the Holy Land, and building fundraising communities back in Britain. Few of these sites have been excavated in detail, but Time Team have been investigating a Shropshire example. Carly Hilts spo]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/lost-orders/Thu, 06 Jul 2023 09:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/lost-orders/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archive-cumbria/Thu, 06 Jul 2023 09:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archive-cumbria/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-401-on-sale-now/Thu, 06 Jul 2023 09:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-401-on-sale-now/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-401/Thu, 06 Jul 2023 09:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-401/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/does-chatgpt-think-the-academy-got-hacked/Tue, 04 Jul 2023 08:59:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/does-chatgpt-think-the-academy-got-hacked/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/discovery-of-up-to-25-mesolithic-pits-in-bedfordshire-astounds-archaeologists/Mon, 03 Jul 2023 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/discovery-of-up-to-25-mesolithic-pits-in-bedfordshire-astounds-archaeologists/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/pictish-pandemic-roadtrip-part-i/Sun, 02 Jul 2023 20:57:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/pictish-pandemic-roadtrip-part-i/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/archaeologists-hunt-for-burial-site-of-famous-19th-century-elephant-in-gloucestershire/Sun, 02 Jul 2023 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/archaeologists-hunt-for-burial-site-of-famous-19th-century-elephant-in-gloucestershire/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/champagne-charlie-at-the-crematorium/Thu, 29 Jun 2023 19:14:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/champagne-charlie-at-the-crematorium/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/pompeii-fresco-find-possibly-depicts-2000-year-old-form-of-pizza/Tue, 27 Jun 2023 18:23:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/pompeii-fresco-find-possibly-depicts-2000-year-old-form-of-pizza/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/pompeii-fresco-depicts-what-might-be-the-precursor-of-pizza-video/Tue, 27 Jun 2023 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/pompeii-fresco-depicts-what-might-be-the-precursor-of-pizza-video/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/why-a-piece-of-ancient-pot-and-a-scrap-of-virgils-poetry-speak-to-us-down-the-ages-charlotte-higgins/Sat, 24 Jun 2023 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/why-a-piece-of-ancient-pot-and-a-scrap-of-virgils-poetry-speak-to-us-down-the-ages-charlotte-higgins/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/rare-find-of-24-ancient-bronzes-in-tuscany-goes-on-display-in-rome/Fri, 23 Jun 2023 06:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/rare-find-of-24-ancient-bronzes-in-tuscany-goes-on-display-in-rome/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/french-cave-markings-said-to-be-oldest-known-engravings-by-neanderthals/Wed, 21 Jun 2023 20:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/french-cave-markings-said-to-be-oldest-known-engravings-by-neanderthals/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/archaeologists-unearth-4000-year-old-stonehenge-of-the-netherlands/Wed, 21 Jun 2023 19:46:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/archaeologists-unearth-4000-year-old-stonehenge-of-the-netherlands/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/virgil-quote-found-on-fragment-of-roman-jar-unearthed-in-spain/Wed, 21 Jun 2023 15:48:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/virgil-quote-found-on-fragment-of-roman-jar-unearthed-in-spain/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/et-tu-caesar-legendary-site-of-dictators-murder-now-open-to-rome-tourists/Tue, 20 Jun 2023 16:42:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/et-tu-caesar-legendary-site-of-dictators-murder-now-open-to-rome-tourists/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/did-the-academy-ever-get-hacked/Mon, 19 Jun 2023 14:20:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/did-the-academy-ever-get-hacked/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ancient-britons-built-stonehenge-then-vanished-is-science-closing-in-on-their-killers-jonathan-kennedy/Mon, 19 Jun 2023 11:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ancient-britons-built-stonehenge-then-vanished-is-science-closing-in-on-their-killers-jonathan-kennedy/ Day 2 of indefinite strike at @leedsucu
Today alongside @unisontheunion as well as our NHS colleagues. Grateful for the solidarity – especially from students & glad to see @ITV highlighting the situation at Leeds last evening. #ucuRISING #oneofusallofushttps://t.co/RdUn7JlnIZ pic.twitter.com/b9tby1YV5V
— Dr Franziska Kohlt(@frankendodo) June 16, 2023I know how bo]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/trouble-at-tmill-and-im-on-tv-again-because-of-it/Fri, 16 Jun 2023 23:23:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/trouble-at-tmill-and-im-on-tv-again-because-of-it/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/almost-still-shines-3000-year-old-sword-unearthed-in-germany/Fri, 16 Jun 2023 19:38:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/almost-still-shines-3000-year-old-sword-unearthed-in-germany/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/astonishing-roman-tomb-unearthed-near-london-bridge-station/Tue, 13 Jun 2023 13:41:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/astonishing-roman-tomb-unearthed-near-london-bridge-station/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/oldest-carved-piece-of-wood-to-be-found-in-britain-dates-back-6000-years/Wed, 07 Jun 2023 07:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/oldest-carved-piece-of-wood-to-be-found-in-britain-dates-back-6000-years/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/sudan-officials-fear-for-historical-artefacts-threatened-by-fighting/Mon, 05 Jun 2023 11:08:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/sudan-officials-fear-for-historical-artefacts-threatened-by-fighting/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-400-on-sale-now/Thu, 01 Jun 2023 10:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-400-on-sale-now/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-400/Thu, 01 Jun 2023 10:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-400/ To help mark the milestone of Current Archaeology 400, editor Carly asked me to delve into the archives for a bumper edition of my column, in order to tell the story of archaeology in the UK across the lifespan of the magazine – both where it’s been and where it’s going. This was a challenge tha]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-400-issues-of-current-archaeology/Thu, 01 Jun 2023 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-400-issues-of-current-archaeology/ As CIfA’s code of conduct states, ‘fuller understanding of the past provided by archaeology is part of society’s common heritage and it should be available to everyone’. So, how can we make sure that archaeology is accessible to as many people as possible? Lisa Westcott Wilkins co]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/deep-impact/Thu, 01 Jun 2023 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/deep-impact/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/in-apology-and-explanation/Tue, 30 May 2023 17:34:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/in-apology-and-explanation/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/oldest-evidence-of-plague-in-britain-found-in-4000-year-old-human-remains/Tue, 30 May 2023 17:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/oldest-evidence-of-plague-in-britain-found-in-4000-year-old-human-remains/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/dame-rosemary-cramp-obituary/Sun, 28 May 2023 18:40:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/dame-rosemary-cramp-obituary/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/you-can-see-the-joy-in-their-faces-the-project-digging-up-the-past-to-improve-teenagers-wellbeing/Sun, 28 May 2023 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/you-can-see-the-joy-in-their-faces-the-project-digging-up-the-past-to-improve-teenagers-wellbeing/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ancient-vase-repatriated-from-uk-to-greece-faces-fresh-forgery-claim/Wed, 24 May 2023 17:02:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ancient-vase-repatriated-from-uk-to-greece-faces-fresh-forgery-claim/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/romans-lend-me-your-shears-empire-brought-hair-removal-to-britain-says-english-heritage/Wed, 24 May 2023 07:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/romans-lend-me-your-shears-empire-brought-hair-removal-to-britain-says-english-heritage/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/south-china-sea-shipwrecks-give-clues-about-historic-silk-road-trade-routes/Wed, 24 May 2023 02:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/south-china-sea-shipwrecks-give-clues-about-historic-silk-road-trade-routes/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/lockdown-antiquarianism-ii-castercliff-hill-fort/Sat, 20 May 2023 14:05:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/lockdown-antiquarianism-ii-castercliff-hill-fort/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/first-records-of-human-kissing-may-date-back-1000-years-earlier-than-estimated/Thu, 18 May 2023 20:08:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/first-records-of-human-kissing-may-date-back-1000-years-earlier-than-estimated/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/scientists-find-oldest-known-evidence-of-humans-in-europe-using-fires-to-cook/Thu, 18 May 2023 14:14:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/scientists-find-oldest-known-evidence-of-humans-in-europe-using-fires-to-cook/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/pompeii-dig-finds-skeletal-remains-dating-back-to-vesuvius-earthquake/Tue, 16 May 2023 13:52:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/pompeii-dig-finds-skeletal-remains-dating-back-to-vesuvius-earthquake/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/remains-of-two-men-thought-to-have-died-in-pompeii-volcano-earthquake-discovered-video/Tue, 16 May 2023 13:24:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/remains-of-two-men-thought-to-have-died-in-pompeii-volcano-earthquake-discovered-video/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/seminar-clxxiii-lockdown-conferring-on-a-friendly-scale/Mon, 15 May 2023 00:22:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/seminar-clxxiii-lockdown-conferring-on-a-friendly-scale/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/what-lies-beneath-meet-the-real-life-metal-detectorists/Sun, 14 May 2023 11:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/what-lies-beneath-meet-the-real-life-metal-detectorists/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/queen-cleopatra-review-the-idea-that-you-need-a-white-actor-is-utterly-insidious/Wed, 10 May 2023 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/queen-cleopatra-review-the-idea-that-you-need-a-white-actor-is-utterly-insidious/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/some-of-the-first-humans-in-the-americas-came-from-china-study-finds/Tue, 09 May 2023 18:59:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/some-of-the-first-humans-in-the-americas-came-from-china-study-finds/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/lockdown-antiquarianism-i-john-of-gaunts-castle/Mon, 08 May 2023 17:24:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/lockdown-antiquarianism-i-john-of-gaunts-castle/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/us-man-returns-antiquities-to-italy-after-reading-guardian-report-on-looted-relics/Mon, 08 May 2023 14:27:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/us-man-returns-antiquities-to-italy-after-reading-guardian-report-on-looted-relics/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/metal-detectorists-jailed-for-conspiring-to-sell-rare-anglo-saxon-coins/Thu, 04 May 2023 19:21:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/metal-detectorists-jailed-for-conspiring-to-sell-rare-anglo-saxon-coins/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-399-on-sale-now/Thu, 04 May 2023 13:22:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-399-on-sale-now/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-399/Thu, 04 May 2023 13:22:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-399/ Recent excavations on the south-western part of the Northumberland Coastal Plain have revealed an early Bronze Age ring-ditch with a remarkable sequence of human burials.]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/pontelands-prehistoric-past/Thu, 04 May 2023 12:46:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/pontelands-prehistoric-past/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archivethe-lowlands-and-the-borders/Thu, 04 May 2023 11:48:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archivethe-lowlands-and-the-borders/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/recovery-of-ancient-dna-identifies-20000-year-old-pendants-owner/Wed, 03 May 2023 20:15:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/recovery-of-ancient-dna-identifies-20000-year-old-pendants-owner/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/three-sections-of-roman-wall-in-city-of-london-given-protected-status/Wed, 03 May 2023 07:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/three-sections-of-roman-wall-in-city-of-london-given-protected-status/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/with-what-i-know-i-could-rule-the-world/Sun, 30 Apr 2023 21:44:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/with-what-i-know-i-could-rule-the-world/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/two-men-guilty-of-conspiring-to-sell-history-changing-anglo-saxon-coins-illegally/Thu, 27 Apr 2023 16:19:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/two-men-guilty-of-conspiring-to-sell-history-changing-anglo-saxon-coins-illegally/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/two-men-guilty-of-conspiring-to-sell-history-changing-anglo-saxon-coins/Thu, 27 Apr 2023 16:19:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/two-men-guilty-of-conspiring-to-sell-history-changing-anglo-saxon-coins/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/dawn-of-the-new-pagans-everybodys-welcome-as-long-as-you-keep-your-clothes-on/Thu, 27 Apr 2023 11:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/dawn-of-the-new-pagans-everybodys-welcome-as-long-as-you-keep-your-clothes-on/ The Aire Valley seen from the railway line between Cononley and Skipton in March 2020, photograph by your author, as are all others in this post except the two I’ve otherwise attr]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/return-to-carlisle/Sun, 23 Apr 2023 23:57:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/return-to-carlisle/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/john-ellis-jones-obituary/Sun, 23 Apr 2023 18:28:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/john-ellis-jones-obituary/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/will-they-fight-them-on-the-beaches-anger-as-cleethorpes-hits-detectorists-with-100-fines/Sat, 22 Apr 2023 17:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/will-they-fight-them-on-the-beaches-anger-as-cleethorpes-hits-detectorists-with-100-fines/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/hoard-of-1000-year-old-viking-coins-unearthed-in-denmark/Fri, 21 Apr 2023 15:06:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/hoard-of-1000-year-old-viking-coins-unearthed-in-denmark/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/london-museum-to-use-ai-to-let-visitors-walk-on-shakespeares-early-stage/Wed, 19 Apr 2023 16:58:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/london-museum-to-use-ai-to-let-visitors-walk-on-shakespeares-early-stage/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/roman-gateway-rebuilt-in-exact-spot-at-site-of-invasion-of-britain/Tue, 18 Apr 2023 07:01:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/roman-gateway-rebuilt-in-exact-spot-at-site-of-invasion-of-britain/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/lavish-ancient-roman-winery-found-at-ruins-of-villa-of-the-quintilii-near-rome/Mon, 17 Apr 2023 06:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/lavish-ancient-roman-winery-found-at-ruins-of-villa-of-the-quintilii-near-rome/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/dinosaur-skull-found-in-queensland-belonged-to-sauropod-that-roamed-almost-100m-years-ago/Wed, 12 Apr 2023 01:48:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/dinosaur-skull-found-in-queensland-belonged-to-sauropod-that-roamed-almost-100m-years-ago/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/mayan-ball-game-scoreboard-thought-to-be-over-1000-years-old-found-in-mexico/Wed, 12 Apr 2023 00:51:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/mayan-ball-game-scoreboard-thought-to-be-over-1000-years-old-found-in-mexico/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-lost-reputation-of-king-hugh-of-italy/Mon, 10 Apr 2023 14:06:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-lost-reputation-of-king-hugh-of-italy/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/wales-to-conserve-ruins-of-medieval-court-of-its-last-native-prince/Sat, 08 Apr 2023 08:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/wales-to-conserve-ruins-of-medieval-court-of-its-last-native-prince/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/bronze-age-people-took-hallucinogenic-drugs-in-menorca-study-reveals/Fri, 07 Apr 2023 12:02:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/bronze-age-people-took-hallucinogenic-drugs-in-menorca-study-reveals/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-398-on-sale-now/Thu, 06 Apr 2023 10:20:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-398-on-sale-now/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-398/Thu, 06 Apr 2023 10:20:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-398/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archivecentral-belt-and-the-borders/Thu, 06 Apr 2023 10:10:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archivecentral-belt-and-the-borders/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archivecentral-belt/Thu, 06 Apr 2023 10:10:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archivecentral-belt/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/at-the-edge-of-the-world/Thu, 06 Apr 2023 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/at-the-edge-of-the-world/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/benin-bronzes-made-from-metal-mined-in-west-germany-study-finds/Wed, 05 Apr 2023 20:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/benin-bronzes-made-from-metal-mined-in-west-germany-study-finds/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/empress-of-the-nile-by-lynne-olson-review-the-unsung-heroine-of-egyptology-unearthed/Sun, 02 Apr 2023 12:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/empress-of-the-nile-by-lynne-olson-review-the-unsung-heroine-of-egyptology-unearthed/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/violence-in-greece-over-efforts-to-preserve-ancient-heritage-of-mykonos/Sun, 26 Mar 2023 11:46:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/violence-in-greece-over-efforts-to-preserve-ancient-heritage-of-mykonos/ — Dr Aisha Walker#BeTheUnion #EnoughIsEnough (@aishawalker) March 21, 2023We are now firmly into 2020 in my blog blacklog, and that was, as you presumably remember, so very different a year that I amassed rather fewer stubs than usual and might even move through it mercifully quickly. For now, however, we’re in mid-February of that year, when an old friend who]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/digital-palaeography-come-of-age-not-quite-yet/Wed, 22 Mar 2023 10:44:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/digital-palaeography-come-of-age-not-quite-yet/ — Leeds University UCU (@leedsucu) March 20, 2023Long-term readers here will know the term ‘protochronism’, which I stole from an anthropologist friend of mine to cover the practice that so many historians have of finding something famously developed in a period or area more famous than one’s own, and then pointing out that one’s own actually did it first or better. I don’t l]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/habeas-corpus-before-magna-carta/Mon, 20 Mar 2023 19:43:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/habeas-corpus-before-magna-carta/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/australia-must-do-more-to-prevent-looting-and-destruction-of-underwater-heritage-report-says/Mon, 20 Mar 2023 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/australia-must-do-more-to-prevent-looting-and-destruction-of-underwater-heritage-report-says/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/kitchen-renovation-reveals-400-year-old-friezes-in-york-flat/Sun, 19 Mar 2023 18:11:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/kitchen-renovation-reveals-400-year-old-friezes-in-york-flat/ — Mark Taylor-Batty (@cupofassam) March 15, 2023We get very close now to both a resolution of the UK’s higher education industrial dispute and, more importantly right here and now, to the end of my backlogged content from 2019, neither of which seemed very likely even a short while ago, but in both cases, as the old and bitter calypso goes, “we ent arrive as yet”. So another thought from the tail end of that year, wh]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-different-adelaide-and-her-friends/Thu, 16 Mar 2023 16:30:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-different-adelaide-and-her-friends/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/remains-of-roman-aristocrat-unearthed-in-extraordinary-cemetery-near-leeds/Mon, 13 Mar 2023 13:03:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/remains-of-roman-aristocrat-unearthed-in-extraordinary-cemetery-near-leeds/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/oldest-known-reference-to-norse-god-odin-found-in-danish-treasure-trove/Wed, 08 Mar 2023 18:20:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/oldest-known-reference-to-norse-god-odin-found-in-danish-treasure-trove/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/folktale-becomes-reality-as-roman-altar-unearthed-at-leicester-cathedral/Tue, 07 Mar 2023 16:27:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/folktale-becomes-reality-as-roman-altar-unearthed-at-leicester-cathedral/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/sphinx-like-statue-and-shrine-discovered-in-southern-egypt/Mon, 06 Mar 2023 18:47:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/sphinx-like-statue-and-shrine-discovered-in-southern-egypt/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/name-in-print-xxxi-those-arent-folles/Sun, 05 Mar 2023 23:24:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/name-in-print-xxxi-those-arent-folles/ Spanning millennia and calling to mind Picasso and Brancusi at every turn, more than 200 treasures from ancient Crete, Cyprus and Sardinia reach directly to us through the wave-swept agesA baby crawls forward on stout little arms and legs. Head up, it aims for the future, light catching its plucky face and plump ears. It is a figure so instantly recognisable as to exist outside time, speaking directly to our present moment. Yet it is more than 3,000 years old.It is]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/islanders-the-making-of-the-mediterranean-review-art-of-extraordinary-intimacy/Sun, 05 Mar 2023 14:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/islanders-the-making-of-the-mediterranean-review-art-of-extraordinary-intimacy/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/new-analysis-of-ancient-human-protein-could-unlock-secrets-of-evolution/Sun, 05 Mar 2023 11:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/new-analysis-of-ancient-human-protein-could-unlock-secrets-of-evolution/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/treasures-from-new-digs-reveal-that-pompeii-is-far-from-frozen-in-time/Sat, 04 Mar 2023 18:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/treasures-from-new-digs-reveal-that-pompeii-is-far-from-frozen-in-time/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/startling-new-evidence-reveals-gladiators-fought-in-roman-britain/Sat, 04 Mar 2023 15:13:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/startling-new-evidence-reveals-gladiators-fought-in-roman-britain/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archivethe-hebrides/Fri, 03 Mar 2023 13:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archivethe-hebrides/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-397-on-sale-now/Thu, 02 Mar 2023 16:17:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-397-on-sale-now/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-397/Thu, 02 Mar 2023 16:17:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-397/ Last month’s CA reviewed an exhibition in Cirencester that features six ‘gladiator’ skeletons excavated in York. Struck by the fact that Cirencester has an impressive amphitheatre, but no direct evidence for theindividuals who may have fough]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/echoes-from-the-arena/Thu, 02 Mar 2023 12:34:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/echoes-from-the-arena/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/as-good-as-gold-why-toothpicks-and-hair-locks-are-the-new-treasure-kate-mavor/Wed, 01 Mar 2023 09:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/as-good-as-gold-why-toothpicks-and-hair-locks-are-the-new-treasure-kate-mavor/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ancient-texts-shed-new-light-on-mysterious-whale-behaviour-that-captured-imagination/Tue, 28 Feb 2023 21:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ancient-texts-shed-new-light-on-mysterious-whale-behaviour-that-captured-imagination/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/its-not-a-roman-dildo-its-a-drop-spindle-letter/Sun, 26 Feb 2023 19:51:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/its-not-a-roman-dildo-its-a-drop-spindle-letter/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/from-piltdown-man-to-anti-vaxxers-what-sciences-worst-hoaxes-can-teach-us/Sat, 25 Feb 2023 16:10:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/from-piltdown-man-to-anti-vaxxers-what-sciences-worst-hoaxes-can-teach-us/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/norfolks-mary-rose-remains-of-17th-century-shipwreck-go-on-display/Sat, 25 Feb 2023 15:04:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/norfolks-mary-rose-remains-of-17th-century-shipwreck-go-on-display/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/don-benson-obituary/Fri, 24 Feb 2023 12:15:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/don-benson-obituary/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-big-archaeological-digs-happening-up-in-the-sky/Thu, 23 Feb 2023 12:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-big-archaeological-digs-happening-up-in-the-sky/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/nicholas-david-obituary/Mon, 20 Feb 2023 18:40:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/nicholas-david-obituary/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/its-not-a-darning-tool-its-a-very-naughty-toy-roman-dildo-found/Mon, 20 Feb 2023 01:01:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/its-not-a-darning-tool-its-a-very-naughty-toy-roman-dildo-found/ — Leeds University UCU (@leedsucu) February 16, 2023The industrial relations situation between university employers and employees in the UK is getting increasingly surreal. On Friday, with more strikes called for n]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/stock-take-vii-research-i-cant-do/Sat, 18 Feb 2023 19:44:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/stock-take-vii-research-i-cant-do/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/change-to-treasure-law-will-keep-more-artefacts-in-uk-museums/Sat, 18 Feb 2023 11:18:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/change-to-treasure-law-will-keep-more-artefacts-in-uk-museums/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/discovery-of-4500-year-old-palace-in-iraq-may-hold-key-to-ancient-civilisation/Fri, 17 Feb 2023 15:40:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/discovery-of-4500-year-old-palace-in-iraq-may-hold-key-to-ancient-civilisation/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/british-architect-choice-for-controversial-revamp-of-athens-museum-of-museums/Thu, 16 Feb 2023 13:21:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/british-architect-choice-for-controversial-revamp-of-athens-museum-of-museums/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/golden-mummies-of-egypt-review-ancient-faces-meet-your-eye-across-millennia/Thu, 16 Feb 2023 01:01:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/golden-mummies-of-egypt-review-ancient-faces-meet-your-eye-across-millennia/ — Leeds University UCU (@leedsucu) February 15, 2023The industrial relations situation at my employers grows ever more Kafka-esque, to the extent where it’s probably not wise by now for me to make it c]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/he-should-comment-on-the-fact-that-their-latin-is-not-very-good/Wed, 15 Feb 2023 19:19:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/he-should-comment-on-the-fact-that-their-latin-is-not-very-good/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/for-some-of-the-gold-in-china/Mon, 13 Feb 2023 00:37:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/for-some-of-the-gold-in-china/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/discovery-of-3m-year-old-stone-tools-sparks-prehistoric-whodunnit/Thu, 09 Feb 2023 20:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/discovery-of-3m-year-old-stone-tools-sparks-prehistoric-whodunnit/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/metal-heads-the-thriving-detectorist-scene-digging-up-britains-past/Sun, 05 Feb 2023 16:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/metal-heads-the-thriving-detectorist-scene-digging-up-britains-past/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/half-man-half-bull-half-truth-mysteries-of-the-labyrinth-to-be-unveiled-at-last/Sat, 04 Feb 2023 16:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/half-man-half-bull-half-truth-mysteries-of-the-labyrinth-to-be-unveiled-at-last/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/irene-schwab-obituary/Fri, 03 Feb 2023 21:25:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/irene-schwab-obituary/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-396-on-sale-now/Thu, 02 Feb 2023 12:46:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-396-on-sale-now/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-396/Thu, 02 Feb 2023 12:46:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-396/ In the concluding part of our Orkney trilogy (see also CA 394 and 395), Carly Hilts reports on her visit to th]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-knowe-of-swandro/Thu, 02 Feb 2023 12:19:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-knowe-of-swandro/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archive-scotland-4/Thu, 02 Feb 2023 11:55:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archive-scotland-4/ — Leeds University UCU (@leedsucu) February 1, 2023It’s almost not news to say I’m on strike today, partly because there’s been so much of that on the blog in recent months but also because today, really, it might be quicker to say who isn’t. It might reasonably be said that something is wrong with the UK at the moment, and it is coming out in strikes the way a human body would]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/digenes-akrites-was-not-el-cid/Thu, 02 Feb 2023 00:06:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/digenes-akrites-was-not-el-cid/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/pit-find-in-germany-reveals-how-neanderthals-hunted-huge-elephants/Wed, 01 Feb 2023 22:10:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/pit-find-in-germany-reveals-how-neanderthals-hunted-huge-elephants/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/vikings-brought-their-animals-to-england-research-suggests/Wed, 01 Feb 2023 20:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/vikings-brought-their-animals-to-england-research-suggests/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/metal-detectorist-unearths-tudor-gold-pendant-linked-to-henry-viii-in-warwickshire/Tue, 31 Jan 2023 14:20:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/metal-detectorist-unearths-tudor-gold-pendant-linked-to-henry-viii-in-warwickshire/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/seminar-clxxii-regions-russia-and-robertians/Sun, 29 Jan 2023 22:33:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/seminar-clxxii-regions-russia-and-robertians/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/incredible-roman-bathers-gems-lost-2000-years-ago-found-near-hadrians-wall/Sat, 28 Jan 2023 15:15:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/incredible-roman-bathers-gems-lost-2000-years-ago-found-near-hadrians-wall/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/remarkable-eastbourne-shipwreck-identified-as-17th-century-dutch-warship/Fri, 27 Jan 2023 07:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/remarkable-eastbourne-shipwreck-identified-as-17th-century-dutch-warship/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/archaeologist-hails-possibly-oldest-mummy-yet-found-in-egypt/Thu, 26 Jan 2023 16:41:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/archaeologist-hails-possibly-oldest-mummy-yet-found-in-egypt/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/country-diary-a-floating-ghost-town-with-a-soaring-view-of-the-world-paul-evans/Thu, 26 Jan 2023 06:30:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/country-diary-a-floating-ghost-town-with-a-soaring-view-of-the-world-paul-evans/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/digital-scan-unwraps-secrets-of-mummy-from-2300-years-ago/Tue, 24 Jan 2023 06:15:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/digital-scan-unwraps-secrets-of-mummy-from-2300-years-ago/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/links-like-its-2009/Sun, 22 Jan 2023 18:03:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/links-like-its-2009/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/better-than-finding-gold-towers-remains-may-rewrite-history-of-english-civil-war/Sat, 21 Jan 2023 07:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/better-than-finding-gold-towers-remains-may-rewrite-history-of-english-civil-war/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/3d-medieval-puzzle-newport-ship-to-be-reassembled-from-2500-pieces-of-timber/Thu, 19 Jan 2023 16:08:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/3d-medieval-puzzle-newport-ship-to-be-reassembled-from-2500-pieces-of-timber/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/worlds-oldest-runestone-found-in-norway-archaeologists-say/Tue, 17 Jan 2023 19:01:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/worlds-oldest-runestone-found-in-norway-archaeologists-say/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/egbert-may-in-fact-have-been-there/Sun, 15 Jan 2023 23:49:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/egbert-may-in-fact-have-been-there/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/treasure-hunters-dive-for-mammoth-bones-in-new-yorks-east-river/Sun, 15 Jan 2023 14:22:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/treasure-hunters-dive-for-mammoth-bones-in-new-yorks-east-river/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/tom-felton-film-unearths-epic-story-of-female-archaeologist/Sun, 15 Jan 2023 10:25:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/tom-felton-film-unearths-epic-story-of-female-archaeologist/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/casa-dei-vettii-in-pompeii-reopens-after-20-years-in-pictures/Wed, 11 Jan 2023 11:44:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/casa-dei-vettii-in-pompeii-reopens-after-20-years-in-pictures/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/almost-at-war-shipwreck-hunters-battle-it-out-for-sunken-treasure/Tue, 10 Jan 2023 13:50:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/almost-at-war-shipwreck-hunters-battle-it-out-for-sunken-treasure/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/astonishing-pompeii-home-of-men-freed-from-slavery-reopens-to-public/Tue, 10 Jan 2023 12:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/astonishing-pompeii-home-of-men-freed-from-slavery-reopens-to-public/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-search-for-ourselves-shipwreck-becomes-focus-of-slavery-debate/Sun, 08 Jan 2023 06:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-search-for-ourselves-shipwreck-becomes-focus-of-slavery-debate/ Cover of Tony A]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/visiting-the-dead-king-at-driffield/Sat, 07 Jan 2023 22:51:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/visiting-the-dead-king-at-driffield/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-395-on-sale-now/Fri, 06 Jan 2023 00:20:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-395-on-sale-now/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-395/Fri, 06 Jan 2023 00:20:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-395/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/amateur-archaeologist-uncovers-ice-age-writing-system/Thu, 05 Jan 2023 12:33:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/amateur-archaeologist-uncovers-ice-age-writing-system/ Archaeological work just outside Northampton has uncovered a]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/harpoles-hidden-gem/Thu, 05 Jan 2023 10:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/harpoles-hidden-gem/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archive-scotland-3/Thu, 05 Jan 2023 10:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archive-scotland-3/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/spanish-police-find-hundreds-of-archaeological-artefacts-at-two-homes/Mon, 02 Jan 2023 13:54:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/spanish-police-find-hundreds-of-archaeological-artefacts-at-two-homes/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/how-to-defend-a-thesis-in-two-languages/Mon, 02 Jan 2023 13:36:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/how-to-defend-a-thesis-in-two-languages/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/out-of-africa-my-lifelong-mission-to-trace-the-origins-of-humanity/Sat, 31 Dec 2022 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/out-of-africa-my-lifelong-mission-to-trace-the-origins-of-humanity/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/unexpected-early-english-sculpture/Sat, 31 Dec 2022 14:54:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/unexpected-early-english-sculpture/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/two-big-noises-sadly-quieted/Wed, 28 Dec 2022 22:29:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/two-big-noises-sadly-quieted/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/young-sudanese-archaeologists-dig-up-history-as-west-knows-best-era-ends/Tue, 27 Dec 2022 13:35:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/young-sudanese-archaeologists-dig-up-history-as-west-knows-best-era-ends/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-second-front-fight-to-save-1000-year-old-caves-from-developers-in-ukraine/Sun, 25 Dec 2022 09:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-second-front-fight-to-save-1000-year-old-caves-from-developers-in-ukraine/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ancient-aboriginal-rock-art-destroyed-by-vandals-in-tragic-loss-at-sacred-sa-site/Wed, 21 Dec 2022 05:17:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ancient-aboriginal-rock-art-destroyed-by-vandals-in-tragic-loss-at-sacred-sa-site/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/pope-francis-orders-parthenon-marbles-held-by-vatican-be-returned-to-greece/Mon, 19 Dec 2022 01:51:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/pope-francis-orders-parthenon-marbles-held-by-vatican-be-returned-to-greece/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ross-thomas-obituary/Sun, 18 Dec 2022 16:37:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ross-thomas-obituary/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ukraines-museums-keep-watch-over-priceless-gold-in-bid-to-halt-russian-looters/Sun, 18 Dec 2022 09:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ukraines-museums-keep-watch-over-priceless-gold-in-bid-to-halt-russian-looters/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/archaeologists-say-find-near-stonehenge-is-ancient-goldsmiths-toolkit/Fri, 16 Dec 2022 01:01:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/archaeologists-say-find-near-stonehenge-is-ancient-goldsmiths-toolkit/ — Dr Eleanor Warren (@elmwarren) November 30, 2022Ladies and gentlemen, I have been a bit absent of recent days, nay, weeks, and I’m sorry. Even this is just a placeholder, to say that despite Action Short of Strike somehow I don’t seem to have more time but rather the reverse, that this semester was in theory lightly loaded but has still nearly]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/look-over-there-a-free-article/Tue, 13 Dec 2022 23:51:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/look-over-there-a-free-article/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/notre-dames-uncovered-tombs-start-to-reveal-their-secrets/Fri, 09 Dec 2022 19:25:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/notre-dames-uncovered-tombs-start-to-reveal-their-secrets/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/what-archaeologists-discovered-about-climate-change-in-prehistoric-england/Fri, 09 Dec 2022 07:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/what-archaeologists-discovered-about-climate-change-in-prehistoric-england/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/early-medieval-female-burial-site-is-most-significant-ever-discovered-in-uk/Tue, 06 Dec 2022 20:31:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/early-medieval-female-burial-site-is-most-significant-ever-discovered-in-uk/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/queensland-graziers-unearth-100m-year-old-plesiosaur-remains-likened-to-rosetta-stone/Tue, 06 Dec 2022 15:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/queensland-graziers-unearth-100m-year-old-plesiosaur-remains-likened-to-rosetta-stone/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/fossil-found-in-drawer-is-found-to-be-oldest-known-modern-lizard/Fri, 02 Dec 2022 20:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/fossil-found-in-drawer-is-found-to-be-oldest-known-modern-lizard/ Buckingham Palace has been the main London residence of the British monarch since 1837, when Queen Victoria]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/not-so-much-a-residence-as-a-tradition/Thu, 01 Dec 2022 11:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/not-so-much-a-residence-as-a-tradition/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archive-scotland-2/Thu, 01 Dec 2022 11:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archive-scotland-2/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-394-on-sale-now/Thu, 01 Dec 2022 11:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-394-on-sale-now/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-394/Thu, 01 Dec 2022 11:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-394/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/research-project-of-the-year-2023-nominees/Thu, 01 Dec 2022 09:55:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/research-project-of-the-year-2023-nominees/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/rescue-project-of-the-year-2023-nominees/Thu, 01 Dec 2022 09:55:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/rescue-project-of-the-year-2023-nominees/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/book-of-the-year-2023-nominees/Thu, 01 Dec 2022 09:54:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/book-of-the-year-2023-nominees/ Once you’ve made your choice, click here to cast your vote! Voting closes 1 February and all the winners of the Current Archaeology Awards will be announced on 25 February as part of Current Archaeology Live! 2023. Click here to find out more about the event.Sponsor of Archaeologist of the YearDav]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/archaeologist-of-the-year-2023-nominees/Thu, 01 Dec 2022 09:53:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/archaeologist-of-the-year-2023-nominees/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/another-slice-of-triceratops-barbara-did-the-fearsome-t-rexes-take-care-of-their-sick/Tue, 29 Nov 2022 16:28:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/another-slice-of-triceratops-barbara-did-the-fearsome-t-rexes-take-care-of-their-sick/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/coins-make-a-solid-case-for-the-existence-of-emperor-sponsian-letter/Sun, 27 Nov 2022 19:18:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/coins-make-a-solid-case-for-the-existence-of-emperor-sponsian-letter/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/venice-ii-further-down-and-further-out/Sun, 27 Nov 2022 19:11:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/venice-ii-further-down-and-further-out/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/lost-city-of-atlantis-rises-again-to-fuel-a-dangerous-myth/Sun, 27 Nov 2022 11:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/lost-city-of-atlantis-rises-again-to-fuel-a-dangerous-myth/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/forgotten-photos-show-how-kenyan-archaeologists-unearthed-secrets-of-their-own-country/Sun, 27 Nov 2022 11:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/forgotten-photos-show-how-kenyan-archaeologists-unearthed-secrets-of-their-own-country/ Staff are quite clearly in need of better pay and conditions @UniversityLeeds!
And the students support uspic.twitter.com/ekPOUZviMs
— Simon Moore (@Simon_C_Moore) November 24, 2022Yesterday and today, dear readers, I have been and am on strike again, because in short none of the promises that were made to stop me and my comrades striking last time have in the end been fulfilled, so we have had to com]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-sixth-century-swedish-mass-murder-mystery/Sat, 26 Nov 2022 01:27:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-sixth-century-swedish-mass-murder-mystery/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/pompeii-deploys-flock-of-hungry-sheep-to-keep-grass-short/Thu, 24 Nov 2022 15:07:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/pompeii-deploys-flock-of-hungry-sheep-to-keep-grass-short/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/long-lost-ancient-mural-rediscovered-in-northern-peru-after-more-than-a-century/Thu, 24 Nov 2022 11:30:00 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+0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/researchers-in-galicia-open-15th-century-tomb-to-test-columbus-link-theory/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/unchecked-deforestation-destroying-evidence-of-lost-amazon-civilisation/Tue, 22 Nov 2022 11:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/unchecked-deforestation-destroying-evidence-of-lost-amazon-civilisation/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/christies-cancels-t-rex-skeleton-auction-after-doubts-raised/Mon, 21 Nov 2022 16:25:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/christies-cancels-t-rex-skeleton-auction-after-doubts-raised/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-empire-strikes-back-in-ravenna/Sat, 19 Nov 2022 17:24:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-empire-strikes-back-in-ravenna/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/hand-of-irulegi-ancient-bronze-artefact-could-help-trace-origins-of-basque-language/Tue, 15 Nov 2022 17:40:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/hand-of-irulegi-ancient-bronze-artefact-could-help-trace-origins-of-basque-language/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/fish-fossils-show-first-cooking-may-have-been-600000-years-earlier-than-thought/Mon, 14 Nov 2022 19:21:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/fish-fossils-show-first-cooking-may-have-been-600000-years-earlier-than-thought/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/imprint-of-an-ostrogothic-arian-on-ravenna/Sun, 13 Nov 2022 16:52:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/imprint-of-an-ostrogothic-arian-on-ravenna/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/weve-been-troubled-by-nits-for-millennia-how-comforting-alice-okeeffe/Sun, 13 Nov 2022 09:30:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/weve-been-troubled-by-nits-for-millennia-how-comforting-alice-okeeffe/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/dead-wrong-victorians-mistaken-about-why-egyptians-mummified-bodies/Sat, 12 Nov 2022 16:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/dead-wrong-victorians-mistaken-about-why-egyptians-mummified-bodies/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/its-as-if-we-found-oil-tuscan-town-savours-discovery-of-spa-trove/Fri, 11 Nov 2022 15:56:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/its-as-if-we-found-oil-tuscan-town-savours-discovery-of-spa-trove/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/oldest-known-sentence-written-in-first-alphabet-discovered-on-a-head-lice-comb/Wed, 09 Nov 2022 05:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/oldest-known-sentence-written-in-first-alphabet-discovered-on-a-head-lice-comb/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/emeralds-elephants-and-eric-the-opalised-fossil-the-10-greatest-stones-in-art/Mon, 07 Nov 2022 17:39:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/emeralds-elephants-and-eric-the-opalised-fossil-the-10-greatest-stones-in-art/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/revisiting-sant-pau-del-camp/Sun, 06 Nov 2022 22:55:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/revisiting-sant-pau-del-camp/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-plot-thickens-new-study-reveals-complex-identity-of-ancient-britons/Sun, 06 Nov 2022 12:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-plot-thickens-new-study-reveals-complex-identity-of-ancient-britons/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-393-on-sale-now/Thu, 03 Nov 2022 13:12:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-393-on-sale-now/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-393/Thu, 03 Nov 2022 13:12:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-393/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archive-scotland/Thu, 03 Nov 2022 13:09:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archive-scotland/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/piecing-together-the-puzzle/Thu, 03 Nov 2022 13:08:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/piecing-together-the-puzzle/ The Gran Canale and San Simeone Piccolo, Venice, viewed from the exit of Santa Lucia station. The roads end beh]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-gilty-heart-of-venice/Mon, 31 Oct 2022 01:22:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-gilty-heart-of-venice/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/stories-from-a-medieval-graveyard-worms-wounds-and-wonky-toes-podcast/Thu, 27 Oct 2022 06:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/stories-from-a-medieval-graveyard-worms-wounds-and-wonky-toes-podcast/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/archaeologists-unearth-2700-year-old-rock-carvings-in-iraq/Wed, 26 Oct 2022 15:58:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/archaeologists-unearth-2700-year-old-rock-carvings-in-iraq/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/swedish-archaeologists-find-17th-century-warship/Mon, 24 Oct 2022 17:50:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/swedish-archaeologists-find-17th-century-warship/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/vikings-in-ninth-century-catalonia/Sun, 23 Oct 2022 23:26:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/vikings-in-ninth-century-catalonia/ Everything from lava paintings to cave perfumes via ceramic grenades feature in this exhibition: a glorious meditation on geology, early art and shamanic visionsIn the 2002 book The Mind in the Cave, South African archaeologist David Lewis-Williams explored a transitional episode in early human history: the urge to create art, to carve bone and soft stones, or smear a mix of fat and ochre on to rock walls. Why, asked Lewis-Williams, would early humans crawl along narrow s]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/hollow-earth-review-digging-deep-into-the-curious-history-of-caves-in-art/Fri, 21 Oct 2022 15:36:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/hollow-earth-review-digging-deep-into-the-curious-history-of-caves-in-art/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-medievalist-walk-through-paris/Sat, 15 Oct 2022 14:58:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-medievalist-walk-through-paris/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/hundreds-of-skeletons-found-beneath-old-pembrokeshire-department-store/Tue, 11 Oct 2022 13:17:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/hundreds-of-skeletons-found-beneath-old-pembrokeshire-department-store/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-treasures-of-crimea-review-ukraine-and-russias-war-over-ancient-gold/Mon, 10 Oct 2022 15:37:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-treasures-of-crimea-review-ukraine-and-russias-war-over-ancient-gold/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ancient-egypt-unleashed-how-the-gods-pharaohs-monsters-and-murderers-shattered-their-silence/Mon, 10 Oct 2022 07:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ancient-egypt-unleashed-how-the-gods-pharaohs-monsters-and-murderers-shattered-their-silence/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-conference-before-the-storm-leeds-international-medieval-congress-2019/Sun, 09 Oct 2022 20:25:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-conference-before-the-storm-leeds-international-medieval-congress-2019/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/endurance-will-decay-out-of-existence-unless-ship-is-raised-from-sea/Fri, 07 Oct 2022 13:07:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/endurance-will-decay-out-of-existence-unless-ship-is-raised-from-sea/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/lord-elgin-paid-no-british-customs-tax-on-parthenon-marbles-letters-suggest/Fri, 07 Oct 2022 13:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/lord-elgin-paid-no-british-customs-tax-on-parthenon-marbles-letters-suggest/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-392-on-sale-now/Thu, 06 Oct 2022 16:02:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-392-on-sale-now/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-392/Thu, 06 Oct 2022 16:02:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-392/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archive-northamptonshire/Thu, 06 Oct 2022 12:29:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archive-northamptonshire/ Ancient human DNA is revolutionising our ability to detect human migration that occurred hundreds of years ago. Joscha Gretzinger and Stephan Schiffels explain how these advances have transformed our understanding of the past.
Archaeogenetics – the study of ancient human DNA&]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/transformations-in-early-medieval-england/Thu, 06 Oct 2022 12:15:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/transformations-in-early-medieval-england/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/glenbank-shipwreck-finnish-vessel-that-sank-off-coast-of-western-australia-in-1911-found/Thu, 06 Oct 2022 00:34:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/glenbank-shipwreck-finnish-vessel-that-sank-off-coast-of-western-australia-in-1911-found/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/archaeologists-hail-dream-discovery-as-sarcophagus-is-unearthed-near-cairo/Sun, 02 Oct 2022 09:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/archaeologists-hail-dream-discovery-as-sarcophagus-is-unearthed-near-cairo/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/detective-work-in-tenth-century-crdoba/Sat, 01 Oct 2022 23:19:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/detective-work-in-tenth-century-crdoba/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/detective-work-in-ninth-century-crdoba/Sat, 01 Oct 2022 23:19:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/detective-work-in-ninth-century-crdoba/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-guardian-view-on-the-rosetta-stone-a-monument-to-code-breaking-editorial/Fri, 30 Sep 2022 19:02:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-guardian-view-on-the-rosetta-stone-a-monument-to-code-breaking-editorial/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/joyce-reynolds-obituary/Thu, 29 Sep 2022 18:10:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/joyce-reynolds-obituary/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/stonehenge-exhibition-highlights-similarities-between-ancient-british-and-japanese-cultures/Thu, 29 Sep 2022 08:01:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/stonehenge-exhibition-highlights-similarities-between-ancient-british-and-japanese-cultures/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/second-ancient-canoe-this-one-3000-years-old-found-in-wisconsin-lake/Mon, 26 Sep 2022 18:08:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/second-ancient-canoe-this-one-3000-years-old-found-in-wisconsin-lake/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/tutankhamuns-burial-chamber-may-contain-door-to-nefertitis-tomb/Mon, 26 Sep 2022 08:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/tutankhamuns-burial-chamber-may-contain-door-to-nefertitis-tomb/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/womens-history-in-my-alma-mater/Sat, 24 Sep 2022 20:16:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/womens-history-in-my-alma-mater/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/country-diary-amid-the-stone-circles-plant-life-is-thriving/Thu, 22 Sep 2022 06:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/country-diary-amid-the-stone-circles-plant-life-is-thriving/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/israeli-archaeologists-find-traces-of-opium-in-3500-year-old-pottery/Tue, 20 Sep 2022 15:41:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/israeli-archaeologists-find-traces-of-opium-in-3500-year-old-pottery/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ornate-byzantine-floor-mosaic-discovered-by-palestinian-farmer/Mon, 19 Sep 2022 14:01:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ornate-byzantine-floor-mosaic-discovered-by-palestinian-farmer/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/i-promise-you-this-hardly-ever-happens/Sat, 17 Sep 2022 21:13:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/i-promise-you-this-hardly-ever-happens/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/name-in-lights-xi/Sat, 10 Sep 2022 17:40:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/name-in-lights-xi/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-lost-king-review-frears-and-coogans-richard-iii-excavation-story-rewrites-its-own-history/Fri, 09 Sep 2022 23:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-lost-king-review-frears-and-coogans-richard-iii-excavation-story-rewrites-its-own-history/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/18m-year-old-tooth-of-early-human-found-on-dig-in-georgia/Fri, 09 Sep 2022 13:52:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/18m-year-old-tooth-of-early-human-found-on-dig-in-georgia/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/experience-i-uncovered-dinosaur-footprints-in-a-restaurant/Fri, 09 Sep 2022 11:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/experience-i-uncovered-dinosaur-footprints-in-a-restaurant/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/31000-year-old-skeleton-missing-lower-left-leg-is-earliest-known-evidence-of-surgery-experts-say/Wed, 07 Sep 2022 17:26:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/31000-year-old-skeleton-missing-lower-left-leg-is-earliest-known-evidence-of-surgery-experts-say/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/pakistans-monsoon-rains-threaten-world-heritage-site-of-mohenjo-daro/Tue, 06 Sep 2022 16:37:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/pakistans-monsoon-rains-threaten-world-heritage-site-of-mohenjo-daro/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/anglo-saxon-treasures-returning-home-for-north-east-heritage-venture/Mon, 05 Sep 2022 07:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/anglo-saxon-treasures-returning-home-for-north-east-heritage-venture/ Well, I am back and I made a promise, and so here is the post which was promised, in which as has happened here a few times before I sing Chris Wickham’s praises. This is not musing on the his classic works of the 1980s or even 1990s, however, because this post is reporting on the Eric Hobsbawm Memorial Lecture at Birkbeck, University of London, on 14th]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/seminar-cclxxi-feudalism-beats-capitalism-for-most-of-history/Sun, 04 Sep 2022 01:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/seminar-cclxxi-feudalism-beats-capitalism-for-most-of-history/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/royal-yacht-britannia-and-fountains-abbey-voted-top-uk-attractions/Sat, 03 Sep 2022 01:01:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/royal-yacht-britannia-and-fountains-abbey-voted-top-uk-attractions/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archive-staffordshire/Thu, 01 Sep 2022 20:29:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archive-staffordshire/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/archaeology-adrift-a-curious-tale-of-lego-lost-at-sea/Thu, 01 Sep 2022 17:24:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/archaeology-adrift-a-curious-tale-of-lego-lost-at-sea/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-391-on-sale-now/Thu, 01 Sep 2022 17:03:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-391-on-sale-now/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-391/Thu, 01 Sep 2022 17:03:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-391/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/jewish-remains-found-in-norwich-well-were-medieval-pogrom-victims-study/Tue, 30 Aug 2022 17:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/jewish-remains-found-in-norwich-well-were-medieval-pogrom-victims-study/ Well, here’s an idea I won’t use.]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-penance-a-picture-and-a-question/Tue, 30 Aug 2022 11:12:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-penance-a-picture-and-a-question/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/suspected-medieval-alehouse-unearthed-in-east-yorkshire/Sun, 28 Aug 2022 11:29:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/suspected-medieval-alehouse-unearthed-in-east-yorkshire/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/royal-row-erupts-over-steve-coogan-film-about-richard-iii/Sun, 28 Aug 2022 10:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/royal-row-erupts-over-steve-coogan-film-about-richard-iii/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ancient-glass-vessels-restored-after-beirut-blast-go-on-display-at-british-museum/Sat, 27 Aug 2022 22:23:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ancient-glass-vessels-restored-after-beirut-blast-go-on-display-at-british-museum/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/what-would-the-romans-say-a-brilliant-new-art-fort-brightens-up-hadrians-wall/Tue, 23 Aug 2022 08:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/what-would-the-romans-say-a-brilliant-new-art-fort-brightens-up-hadrians-wall/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/surely-youre-mistaken-ii/Sat, 20 Aug 2022 20:47:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/surely-youre-mistaken-ii/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/experience-i-unearthed-a-mammoth-from-the-ice-age/Fri, 19 Aug 2022 11:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/experience-i-unearthed-a-mammoth-from-the-ice-age/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/diy-fertiliser-may-be-behind-monks-parasite-torment-say-archaeologists/Fri, 19 Aug 2022 07:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/diy-fertiliser-may-be-behind-monks-parasite-torment-say-archaeologists/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/huge-megalithic-complex-of-more-than-500-standing-stones-discovered-in-spain/Thu, 18 Aug 2022 20:43:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/huge-megalithic-complex-of-more-than-500-standing-stones-discovered-in-spain/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/exhibition-documents-decline-of-cornwalls-launceston-castle/Thu, 18 Aug 2022 01:01:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/exhibition-documents-decline-of-cornwalls-launceston-castle/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/worm-eaten-shipwreck-of-captain-cooks-endeavour-under-threat-from-more-marine-animals/Tue, 16 Aug 2022 19:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/worm-eaten-shipwreck-of-captain-cooks-endeavour-under-threat-from-more-marine-animals/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/is-that-a-facehugger-how-the-monster-from-alien-turned-up-in-the-gulf-of-mexico/Tue, 16 Aug 2022 17:14:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/is-that-a-facehugger-how-the-monster-from-alien-turned-up-in-the-gulf-of-mexico/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/making-things-official-without-officials/Sun, 14 Aug 2022 22:31:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/making-things-official-without-officials/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/shipwreck-of-captain-cooks-endeavour-being-eaten-by-termites-of-the-ocean-expert-says/Sun, 14 Aug 2022 11:12:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/shipwreck-of-captain-cooks-endeavour-being-eaten-by-termites-of-the-ocean-expert-says/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/correction-the-voice-of-the-king-not-heard-where-i-said/Sat, 13 Aug 2022 23:04:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/correction-the-voice-of-the-king-not-heard-where-i-said/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/howard-carter-stole-tutankhamuns-treasure-new-evidence-suggests/Sat, 13 Aug 2022 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/howard-carter-stole-tutankhamuns-treasure-new-evidence-suggests/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/us-returns-to-cambodia-dozens-of-antiquities-looted-from-historic-sites/Tue, 09 Aug 2022 04:42:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/us-returns-to-cambodia-dozens-of-antiquities-looted-from-historic-sites/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/rulers-who-werent-kings-discussed-at-leeds/Sun, 07 Aug 2022 13:55:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/rulers-who-werent-kings-discussed-at-leeds/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/discoveries-in-pompeii-reveal-lives-of-lower-and-middle-classes/Sat, 06 Aug 2022 18:07:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/discoveries-in-pompeii-reveal-lives-of-lower-and-middle-classes/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/life-in-litter-mariana-castillo-deballs-remarkable-roman-rubbish/Fri, 05 Aug 2022 12:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/life-in-litter-mariana-castillo-deballs-remarkable-roman-rubbish/ Equally monumental in construction, though very different in nature, are the frontier fortifications of Hadrian’s Wall. How did the Romans source]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-390-on-sale-now/Thu, 04 Aug 2022 12:15:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-390-on-sale-now/ Equally monumental in construction, though very different in nature, are the frontier fortifications of Hadrian’s Wall. How did the Romans source]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-390/Thu, 04 Aug 2022 12:15:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-390/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archive-worcestershire-and-warwickshire/Thu, 04 Aug 2022 12:10:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archive-worcestershire-and-warwickshire/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/designed-to-enchant-the-great-dolmens-of-neolithic-northern-europe/Thu, 04 Aug 2022 12:10:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/designed-to-enchant-the-great-dolmens-of-neolithic-northern-europe/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/fears-over-building-works-at-afghan-buddhas-of-bamiyan-site/Tue, 02 Aug 2022 06:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/fears-over-building-works-at-afghan-buddhas-of-bamiyan-site/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/hms-invincible-excavating-a-georgian-time-capsule/Mon, 01 Aug 2022 15:21:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/hms-invincible-excavating-a-georgian-time-capsule/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-389-on-sale-now/Mon, 01 Aug 2022 13:56:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-389-on-sale-now/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-389/Mon, 01 Aug 2022 13:56:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-389/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archive-suffolk/Mon, 01 Aug 2022 13:31:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archive-suffolk/ The diversity of flora and fauna as we know them today and the substrate on which they thrive are
 thanks to a single species of algae that first went ashore more than 500 million years ago. This
and all other drawings in the publication ar]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-greening-ashore/Sun, 31 Jul 2022 18:18:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-greening-ashore/ Similar leaf types evolved independently in three species of plants found in cloud forests of Oaxaca,
 Mexico and three species of plants in similar environment in Chiapas, Mexico. This example of
 parallel evolution is one of several found by Yale-led scientists and suggests that evolutionmay be predictable []]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/plant-study-hints-evolution-may-be-predictable/Sun, 31 Jul 2022 18:18:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/plant-study-hints-evolution-may-be-predictable/ A warm-blooded mammal ancestor breathing out hot hair
in a frigid night [Credit: Luzia Soares]
This major difference with the cold-blooded reptiles underpins the ecological dominance of mammals in almost every ecosystem globally. Until now, it was not known exactly when endothermy originated in mammalian ancestry. A team of international scientists, inclu]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/mammals-were-not-the-first-to-be-warm-blooded/Sun, 31 Jul 2022 18:18:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/mammals-were-not-the-first-to-be-warm-blooded/ The study focused on the north plaza, an expanse at a low elevation that is almostalways inundated with water [Credit: Caitlin Rank]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/north-plaza-in-cahokia-was-likely-inundated-year-round-study-finds/Sun, 31 Jul 2022 17:53:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/north-plaza-in-cahokia-was-likely-inundated-year-round-study-finds/ Diver viewing a decorated Purbeck stone gravestone on the 13th century 'Mortar Wre]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/earliest-english-medieval-shipwreck-site-uncovered-off-dorset-coast/Sun, 31 Jul 2022 17:44:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/earliest-english-medieval-shipwreck-site-uncovered-off-dorset-coast/ Adelie penguin at Rothera Research Station [Credit: Billy Thurs]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/study-sheds-light-on-penguin-evolution/Sun, 31 Jul 2022 17:35:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/study-sheds-light-on-penguin-evolution/ Cranial endocast of a Palaeozoic lungfish [Credit: A Clement, Flinders University]
An international study, led by Flinders University in Australia, has compared detailed 3D models of cranial endocasts from six Paleozoic lungfish (Dipnoi) fos]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/prehistoric-fish-led-by-their-nose/Sun, 31 Jul 2022 17:31:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/prehistoric-fish-led-by-their-nose/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-hippo-and-the-hydra/Sun, 31 Jul 2022 17:25:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-hippo-and-the-hydra/ Artist's impression of Marmorerpeton wakei [Credit: Brennan Stokkermans]
The research team analyzed 166-million-year-old fossils of a type of animal called Marmorerpeton, found in Middle Jurassic rocks on the Isle of Skye.
They found that it has several key salamander traits, but is not part of the modern group of salamanders. Their results are reported in Proceeding]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/oldest-european-salamander-fossil-discovered-in-scotland/Sun, 31 Jul 2022 17:18:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/oldest-european-salamander-fossil-discovered-in-scotland/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/after-350-years-sea-gives-up-lost-jewels-of-spanish-shipwreck/Sun, 31 Jul 2022 11:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/after-350-years-sea-gives-up-lost-jewels-of-spanish-shipwreck/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/in-search-of-the-lost-parthian-city-of-natounia/Sat, 30 Jul 2022 19:08:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/in-search-of-the-lost-parthian-city-of-natounia/ Central Mayapan showing]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/new-research-demonstrates-connections-between-climate-change-and-civil-unrest-among-the-ancient-maya/Sat, 30 Jul 2022 18:54:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/new-research-demonstrates-connections-between-climate-change-and-civil-unrest-among-the-ancient-maya/ Credit: Univers]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/when-did-the-genetic-variations-that-make-us-human-emerge/Sat, 30 Jul 2022 18:39:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/when-did-the-genetic-variations-that-make-us-human-emerge/ Several species of copepods and one ostracod are shown here [Credit: NOAA]
Barely more than a millimeter long, the copepod Eurytemora affinis paddles its way through the coastal waters of oceans and estuaries around the world in large numbers -- mostl]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/evolving-to-outpace-climate-change-tiny-marine-animal-provides-new-evidence-of-long-theorized-genetic-mechanism/Sat, 30 Jul 2022 18:39:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/evolving-to-outpace-climate-change-tiny-marine-animal-provides-new-evidence-of-long-theorized-genetic-mechanism/ The lateral view of the skull unearthed from Red Dear Cave [Credit: Xueping Ji]
"Ancient DNA technique is a really powerful tool," Su says. "It tells us qu]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/dna-from-ancient-population-in-southern-china-suggests-native-americans-east-asian-roots/Sat, 30 Jul 2022 18:39:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/dna-from-ancient-population-in-southern-china-suggests-native-americans-east-asian-roots/ Dr Renaud Joannes-Boyau with a Homo Naledi tooth[Credit: Southern Cross University]The new study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, demonstrates that among the 23 specimens analyzed and potentially representing early Homo from southern Africa between 2.5 and 1.4]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/analysis-of-fossil-tooth-brings-to-light-earliest-humans-from-southern-africa/Sat, 30 Jul 2022 18:39:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/analysis-of-fossil-tooth-brings-to-light-earliest-humans-from-southern-africa/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/using-accurate-data-when-studying-human-evolution/Sat, 30 Jul 2022 17:55:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/using-accurate-data-when-studying-human-evolution/ Rhyacichthys guilberti [Credit: © Philippe Keith]
Gobies are one of the most species-rich groups of ocean and freshwater fish. Found throughout the world in around 2,300 species divided between eight families, the Gobioidei suborder is highly diverse. Understanding how, why, and when this dive]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/paleobiology-complex-family-relationships/Sat, 30 Jul 2022 17:55:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/paleobiology-complex-family-relationships/ Experts say illicit treasure hunters operate with near impunity in Albania[Credit: Gent Shkullaku/AFP]
Illicit treasure hunters operate with near impunity in the country, stirring outrage among archaeologists over the theft of priceless national heritage that feeds a global black market.
The government says]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/everywhere-they-dig-looters-hunt-antiquities-in-albania/Sat, 30 Jul 2022 17:55:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/everywhere-they-dig-looters-hunt-antiquities-in-albania/ Oregon State University fossil research has revealed an exquisite merger of art and science: a long-
stemmed flower of a newly described plant species encased in a 30-million-year-old tombtogether with a parasitic wasp [Credit: George Poinar Jr., Oregon State University]
"Based]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/entombed-together-rare-fossil-flower-and-parasitic-wasp-make-for-amber-artwork/Sat, 30 Jul 2022 17:55:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/entombed-together-rare-fossil-flower-and-parasitic-wasp-make-for-amber-artwork/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/500-million-year-old-fossilized-brains-of-stanleycaris-prompt-a-rethink-of-the-evolution-of-insects-and-spider/Sat, 30 Jul 2022 17:55:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/500-million-year-old-fossilized-brains-of-stanleycaris-prompt-a-rethink-of-the-evolution-of-insects-and-spider/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/greater-overturning-in-the-pacific-during-the-ice-age/Sat, 30 Jul 2022 17:29:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/greater-overturning-in-the-pacific-during-the-ice-age/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/medieval-pendant-with-three-lions-unveiled-ahead-of-womens-football-final/Sat, 30 Jul 2022 08:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/medieval-pendant-with-three-lions-unveiled-ahead-of-womens-football-final/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/luxurious-estate-and-mosque-uncovered-in-the-city-of-rahat-in-the-negev/Fri, 29 Jul 2022 18:09:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/luxurious-estate-and-mosque-uncovered-in-the-city-of-rahat-in-the-negev/ Arthur’s Stone [Credit: University of Manchester]
The experts are working in partnership with English Heritage, which looks after Arthur’s Stone in Herefordshire, to remove turf to expose and record particularly sensitive archaeological remains.
Arthur’s Stone is a Neolithic cha]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/archaeologists-carry-out-first-dig-at-tomb-linked-to-king-arthur/Fri, 29 Jul 2022 17:37:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/archaeologists-carry-out-first-dig-at-tomb-linked-to-king-arthur/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/new-finds-from-the-antikythera-shipwreck/Fri, 29 Jul 2022 12:19:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/new-finds-from-the-antikythera-shipwreck/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/unlocking-the-secrets-of-the-ancient-coastal-maya/Fri, 29 Jul 2022 12:18:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/unlocking-the-secrets-of-the-ancient-coastal-maya/ One participant of the study—who was naive to stone tools as well as any of their production
 techniques—uses the so-called bipolar technique. The resulting tool is seen centrally
 in the lower]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/early-stone-tools-were-not-rocket-science/Fri, 29 Jul 2022 11:56:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/early-stone-tools-were-not-rocket-science/ Guam (pictured) was one of the Pacific islands that scientists believe maintained a matrilocal
 population structure some 2,500 to 3,500 years ago [Credit: David Burdick, NOAA]
The work, described in the journal Science, reveals five previousl]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/new-genetic-research-on-remote-pacific-islands-yields-surprising-findings-on-worlds-earliest-seafarers/Fri, 29 Jul 2022 11:49:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/new-genetic-research-on-remote-pacific-islands-yields-surprising-findings-on-worlds-earliest-seafarers/ Israelite commander Barak depicted in the Huqoq synagogue mosaic[Credit: Jim Haberman]
The Huqoq Excavation]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavations-at-ancient-galilean-synagogue-uncover-intricate-mosaic-floor-panels-dating-back-nearly-1600-years/Fri, 29 Jul 2022 11:41:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavations-at-ancient-galilean-synagogue-uncover-intricate-mosaic-floor-panels-dating-back-nearly-1600-years/ Grave 69, of an adult male, on the island of Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov. Human and animal bone pendants
 were found together with an elk tooth pendant on the femurs. Most likely, they]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/human-bones-used-for-making-pendants-in-the-stone-age/Fri, 29 Jul 2022 11:28:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/human-bones-used-for-making-pendants-in-the-stone-age/ The skeletal remains were found in crouched positions in oval shaped pits[Credit: Bournemouth University]
The site, which consists of typical Iron Age round houses and storage pits was discovered by archaeology students last September in Winterborne Kingston, Dorset. It dates from around 100 years BC, well before the Roman in]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/2000-year-old-human-remains-and-animal-sacrifices-found-in-dorset/Fri, 29 Jul 2022 11:21:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/2000-year-old-human-remains-and-animal-sacrifices-found-in-dorset/ Credit: Emiliano Bruner
This work proposes evolutionary changes in attention associated with the origin of the human genus and in Neanderthals, although o]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/could-a-neanderthal-meditate/Fri, 29 Jul 2022 11:12:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/could-a-neanderthal-meditate/ Credit: Leiden University
New analyses of male-female goods
A team of chemical analysts, physical anthropologists and archaeologists studied the Elsloo grave]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/research-into-grave-goods-sheds-new-light-on-traditional-roles/Fri, 29 Jul 2022 11:08:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/research-into-grave-goods-sheds-new-light-on-traditional-roles/ Using pieces of a gallstone from a mummy from the 1500s, researchers have been able to reconstruct
 the E. coli genome [Credit: Division of Paleopathology of the University of Pisa]
E. coli is a major public health concern, causi]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/researchers-reconstruct-the-genome-of-centuries-old-e-coli-using-fragments-extracted-from-an-italian-mummy/Thu, 28 Jul 2022 18:54:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/researchers-reconstruct-the-genome-of-centuries-old-e-coli-using-fragments-extracted-from-an-italian-mummy/ From the amphorae to understanding the content; this multi-analytical analysis relied on
 archaeobotany and molecular identification [Credit: Louise Chassouant]
The authors examined three Roman period amphorae -- wi]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/underwater-jars-reveal-roman-period-winemaking-practices/Thu, 28 Jul 2022 18:51:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/underwater-jars-reveal-roman-period-winemaking-practices/ Maps of the study region: These were created in QGIS using the ASTER Global Digital Elevation
 Model v3 as a basemap [13]: (a) All TIB 8 settlements, with elevation data displayed using a
 topographic color ramp. Important locations are named, ancient (modern) names: Xanthos (Letoon),
 Balboura (Colkayig?), Myra (Demre),]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/new-study-shows-how-the-ancient-world-adapted-to-climate-change/Thu, 28 Jul 2022 18:45:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/new-study-shows-how-the-ancient-world-adapted-to-climate-change/ The four infant burials date from 1521 to 1620 [Credit: DSA INAH]
The National Institute of Anthropology and History said Monday the burials of children ranging from a newborn, to a girl aged between 6 and 8, were found in a working-class district just north of Mexico City’s historic center.]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/infant-burials-in-mexico-aztec-customs-lasted-post-conquest/Thu, 28 Jul 2022 18:39:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/infant-burials-in-mexico-aztec-customs-lasted-post-conquest/ Archaeologists work in the area of the Terme Stabiane inside the park near Naples, southern Italy,
 where the remains of a land tortoise dating back to some 2000 years ago were found[Credit: Pompeii Archaeological Park via AP]
The 14-centimeter l]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/tortoise-and-her-egg-found-in-new-pompeii-excavations/Thu, 28 Jul 2022 18:33:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/tortoise-and-her-egg-found-in-new-pompeii-excavations/ The map shows the relative influence of Upper Valais morphosyntactic features in the dialectsspoken in different regions of Switzerland [Credit: LASIG/EPFL]
Transposing methods fro]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/scientists-apply-genetic-methods-to-linguistics/Thu, 28 Jul 2022 18:23:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/scientists-apply-genetic-methods-to-linguistics/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/theories-on-socio-political-evolution-put-to-the-test/Thu, 28 Jul 2022 18:22:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/theories-on-socio-political-evolution-put-to-the-test/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/results-of-the-underwater-survey-off-aegean-islet-of-agios-petros-alonissos/Thu, 28 Jul 2022 18:13:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/results-of-the-underwater-survey-off-aegean-islet-of-agios-petros-alonissos/ A selection of handaxes discovered in the 1920s [Credit: University of Cambridge]
The breakthrough, involving controlled excavations and radiometric dating, comes a century after stone tool artifacts were first uncovered at the site.
The research, le]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/canterbury-suburbs-were-home-to-some-of-britains-earliest-humans/Thu, 28 Jul 2022 18:08:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/canterbury-suburbs-were-home-to-some-of-britains-earliest-humans/ Ancient pottery holds clues to the past lives, traditions, and movements of Indigenous people
 from the Caribbean Islands [Credit: Kristen Grace/Florida Museum]
Without clear road signs to indicate where nat]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/indigenous-communities-used-the-caribbean-sea-as-an-aquatic-highway/Thu, 28 Jul 2022 17:43:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/indigenous-communities-used-the-caribbean-sea-as-an-aquatic-highway/ Detail of an inscription to the 'Anonymous God'[Credit: Aleksandra Kubiak-Schneider]
Among the approx. 2,500 inscriptions in Aramaic on various architectural elements scattered around Palmyra, she found about 200 tex]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/mystery-of-anonymous-god-of-palmyra-solved/Thu, 28 Jul 2022 17:36:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/mystery-of-anonymous-god-of-palmyra-solved/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/1700-year-old-korean-genomes-show-genetic-heterogeneity-in-three-kingdoms-period-gaya/Thu, 28 Jul 2022 17:28:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/1700-year-old-korean-genomes-show-genetic-heterogeneity-in-three-kingdoms-period-gaya/ Archaeologists working in the shallow waters off Western Australia
[Credit: Jerem Leach, DHSC Project]
The original findings were made in a study published in 2020 in PLOS ONE, by a team of archaeologists and scientists from Flinders University, UWA, J]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/australias-first-marine-aboriginal-archaeological-site-questioned/Thu, 28 Jul 2022 17:21:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/australias-first-marine-aboriginal-archaeological-site-questioned/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/modern-herpes-variants-may-be-linked-to-bronze-age-kissing-study-finds/Wed, 27 Jul 2022 20:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/modern-herpes-variants-may-be-linked-to-bronze-age-kissing-study-finds/ Game pieces found in Ukraine [Credit: Natalia Khamaiko,National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine]
"The excavations were considered more of a routine examination. No one dared to believe that we']]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/old-norse-settlers-traded-walrus-ivory-with-kyiv/Wed, 27 Jul 2022 18:42:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/old-norse-settlers-traded-walrus-ivory-with-kyiv/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/i-can-only-stand-in-baffled-awe-as-my-husbands-novel-is-brought-to-life-on-film-rachel-cooke/Sat, 23 Jul 2022 17:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/i-can-only-stand-in-baffled-awe-as-my-husbands-novel-is-brought-to-life-on-film-rachel-cooke/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/weird-wonderful-rare-dig-at-arthurs-stone-writes-new-story-of-neolithic-site/Fri, 22 Jul 2022 07:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/weird-wonderful-rare-dig-at-arthurs-stone-writes-new-story-of-neolithic-site/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/cavers-find-pristine-mineshaft-frozen-in-time-for-200-years/Tue, 12 Jul 2022 07:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/cavers-find-pristine-mineshaft-frozen-in-time-for-200-years/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-jewish-garrison-town-in-carolingian-catalonia/Sun, 10 Jul 2022 22:23:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-jewish-garrison-town-in-carolingian-catalonia/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/we-take-it-for-granted-but-a-long-childhood-is-what-makes-us-earths-most-complex-animal-brenna-hassett/Sun, 10 Jul 2022 13:32:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/we-take-it-for-granted-but-a-long-childhood-is-what-makes-us-earths-most-complex-animal-brenna-hassett/ The Copped Hall Trust Archaeological Project (CHTAP) offers Archaeology Experience Weekends to absolute beginners who would like an opportunity to:Excavate on a ‘live’ site, where they can make an actual contribution to archaeological investigation, and handle real artefacts from that site.Learn about several geophysics techniques, including setting up the equipment, preparing the sur]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-copped-hall-trust-archaeological-project-chtap-archaeology-experience-weekends/Tue, 05 Jul 2022 12:31:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-copped-hall-trust-archaeological-project-chtap-archaeology-experience-weekends/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/great-auks-and-seal-headed-men-a-window-into-ice-age-provence/Sat, 02 Jul 2022 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/great-auks-and-seal-headed-men-a-window-into-ice-age-provence/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/germany-hands-over-two-benin-bronzes-to-nigeria/Fri, 01 Jul 2022 18:22:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/germany-hands-over-two-benin-bronzes-to-nigeria/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/peru-wildfire-threatens-machu-picchu-as-remote-location-hampers-efforts-to-control-blaze/Fri, 01 Jul 2022 01:19:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/peru-wildfire-threatens-machu-picchu-as-remote-location-hampers-efforts-to-control-blaze/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/early-human-ancestors-one-million-years-older-than-earlier-thought/Tue, 28 Jun 2022 23:10:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/early-human-ancestors-one-million-years-older-than-earlier-thought/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/gold-miner-in-canada-finds-mummified-35000-year-old-woolly-mammoth/Sun, 26 Jun 2022 20:14:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/gold-miner-in-canada-finds-mummified-35000-year-old-woolly-mammoth/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/gold-miner-in-canada-finds-mummified-35000-year-old-baby-woolly-mammoth/Sun, 26 Jun 2022 20:14:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/gold-miner-in-canada-finds-mummified-35000-year-old-baby-woolly-mammoth/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/witch-marks-and-rare-ice-age-art-why-you-should-visit-creswell-crags/Sun, 26 Jun 2022 15:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/witch-marks-and-rare-ice-age-art-why-you-should-visit-creswell-crags/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/solitude-and-awful-wildness-why-you-should-visit-castlerigg-stone-circle/Sat, 25 Jun 2022 08:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/solitude-and-awful-wildness-why-you-should-visit-castlerigg-stone-circle/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/pompeii-excavation-unearths-remains-of-pregnant-tortoise/Fri, 24 Jun 2022 14:53:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/pompeii-excavation-unearths-remains-of-pregnant-tortoise/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/inca-era-tomb-found-during-house-renovations-in-lima-video/Thu, 23 Jun 2022 14:35:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/inca-era-tomb-found-during-house-renovations-in-lima-video/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/inca-era-tomb-unearthed-beneath-home-in-perus-capital/Thu, 23 Jun 2022 12:54:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/inca-era-tomb-unearthed-beneath-home-in-perus-capital/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/marble-head-of-hercules-pulled-up-from-roman-shipwreck-site-in-greece/Tue, 21 Jun 2022 19:31:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/marble-head-of-hercules-pulled-up-from-roman-shipwreck-site-in-greece/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/why-not-syndicate-with-aci/Sun, 19 Jun 2022 23:11:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/why-not-syndicate-with-aci/ Palaeospondylus as reconstructed]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/palaeospondylus-long-standing-mystery-of-vertebrate-evolution-solved-using-powerful-x-rays/Sun, 19 Jun 2022 12:22:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/palaeospondylus-long-standing-mystery-of-vertebrate-evolution-solved-using-powerful-x-rays/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/mystery-of-waterloos-dead-soldiers-to-be-re-examined-by-academics/Sat, 18 Jun 2022 08:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/mystery-of-waterloos-dead-soldiers-to-be-re-examined-by-academics/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/rare-anglo-saxon-burial-site-found-along-hs2-route-video/Thu, 16 Jun 2022 18:34:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/rare-anglo-saxon-burial-site-found-along-hs2-route-video/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/amanda-claridge-obituary/Thu, 16 Jun 2022 18:23:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/amanda-claridge-obituary/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/stunning-anglo-saxon-burial-site-found-along-hs2-route/Thu, 16 Jun 2022 07:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/stunning-anglo-saxon-burial-site-found-along-hs2-route/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/seminars-cclxix-amp-cclxx-from-opposite-ends-of-the-mediterranean/Mon, 13 Jun 2022 00:15:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/seminars-cclxix-amp-cclxx-from-opposite-ends-of-the-mediterranean/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/im-certainly-open-to-criticism-david-wengrow-and-the-trouble-with-rewriting-human-history/Sun, 12 Jun 2022 16:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/im-certainly-open-to-criticism-david-wengrow-and-the-trouble-with-rewriting-human-history/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/mass-frog-burial-baffles-experts-at-iron-age-site-near-cambridge/Sun, 12 Jun 2022 12:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/mass-frog-burial-baffles-experts-at-iron-age-site-near-cambridge/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/wreck-of-340-year-old-sunken-royal-navy-warship-discovered-off-norfolk-coast-video/Fri, 10 Jun 2022 19:03:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/wreck-of-340-year-old-sunken-royal-navy-warship-discovered-off-norfolk-coast-video/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/wreck-of-royal-navy-warship-sunk-in-1682-identified-off-norfolk-coast/Fri, 10 Jun 2022 09:01:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/wreck-of-royal-navy-warship-sunk-in-1682-identified-off-norfolk-coast/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/65000-year-old-swiss-army-knife-proves-ancient-humans-shared-knowledge-research-says/Thu, 09 Jun 2022 11:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/65000-year-old-swiss-army-knife-proves-ancient-humans-shared-knowledge-research-says/ Cosquer Cave lies under the sea in a landscape of limestone near Marseilles[Credit: © Luc Vanrell]
Then they have to negotiate a 137-meter (yard) natural tunnel into the rock, passing through the mouth of the cave until they emerge into a huge cavern, much of it now submerged.
Three men died trying to disco]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/race-to-save-undersea-stone-age-cave-art-masterpieces/Tue, 07 Jun 2022 21:37:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/race-to-save-undersea-stone-age-cave-art-masterpieces/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/head-of-mayan-maize-god-discovered-in-mexico-after-1300-years/Tue, 07 Jun 2022 21:36:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/head-of-mayan-maize-god-discovered-in-mexico-after-1300-years/ Credit: Creuxnoir/Adobe Stock
The human sacrifice, typically of children, known as capacocha, was generally conducted in Incan society to celebrate major events like the birth of a royal, or a battle victory, said the international team of scientists, including those from Peru, Poland, and the US.
In the new study,]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/inca-children-drugged-with-cocaine-to-keep-them-calm-before-being-sacrificed-hair-and-nail-study-confirms/Tue, 07 Jun 2022 21:29:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/inca-children-drugged-with-cocaine-to-keep-them-calm-before-being-sacrificed-hair-and-nail-study-confirms/ Dr Margaret Maitland, Principal Curator of the Ancient Mediterranean at NationalMuseums Scotland, with the recently discovered Athenian]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/an-elite-education-discovery-of-an-ancient-athenian-ephebic-list/Tue, 07 Jun 2022 21:21:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/an-elite-education-discovery-of-an-ancient-athenian-ephebic-list/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/hellenistic-era-farmstead-uncovered-in-eastern-galilee/Tue, 07 Jun 2022 21:08:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/hellenistic-era-farmstead-uncovered-in-eastern-galilee/ The discovery of the two skeletons dates back to excavations between December, 1932 and February,
 1933 by the archaeologist Amedeo Maiuri [Credit: Gabriele Scorrano et.al]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/first-human-genome-sequenced-from-ancient-pompeii/Tue, 07 Jun 2022 21:08:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/first-human-genome-sequenced-from-ancient-pompeii/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ancient-graffiti-uncovered-in-vindolanda/Tue, 07 Jun 2022 21:08:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ancient-graffiti-uncovered-in-vindolanda/ Monumental tomb discovered in Berenike in the season of 2021/22[Credit: M. Gwiazda/PCMA UW]
Berenike is located in the Eastern Desert, on the Red Sea coast. This port city, founded in the 3rd century BCE by Ptolemy II, has been explored by a P]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/n-elite-tomb-with-complete-set-of-grave-goods-unearthed-in-berenike-egypt/Tue, 07 Jun 2022 21:07:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/n-elite-tomb-with-complete-set-of-grave-goods-unearthed-in-berenike-egypt/ Map of Italy indicating the Modena province and close up of Modena alta pianura and Apenine
 foothills with names of the sites mentioned in the text. The black ovals marks locations where
 environmental samples for strontium isotope baseline have been collected[Credit: Serena Sabatini et al., 2022]
Archaeologi]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/industrial-manufacturing-of-wool-and-wool-textiles-in-the-bronze-age-italy/Tue, 07 Jun 2022 21:07:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/industrial-manufacturing-of-wool-and-wool-textiles-in-the-bronze-age-italy/ The only almost complete Genyornis eggshell ever found. Located by N. Spooner, collected by G Miller,
 South Australia. Four puncture holes on the egg confirm it was predated by a scavenger marsupial
 [Credit: Gifford H. Miller]Burn marks discov]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/first-australians-ate-giant-eggs-of-huge-flightless-birds-ancient-proteins-confirm/Tue, 07 Jun 2022 21:07:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/first-australians-ate-giant-eggs-of-huge-flightless-birds-ancient-proteins-confirm/ Excavation area in Cueva de Ardales with evidence from the Middle Palaeolithic period[Credit: Ramos-Munoz et al., 2022]
Cueva de Ardales, a cave in Malaga, Spain, is famous for containing over 1,000 paintings and engravings made by prehisto]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/famous-rock-art-cave-in-spain-was-used-by-ancient-humans-for-over-50000-years/Tue, 07 Jun 2022 21:01:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/famous-rock-art-cave-in-spain-was-used-by-ancient-humans-for-over-50000-years/ Credit: Egypt. Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities
Dr. Mustafa Waziri, Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities and head of the mission, said that the cache contained 150 bronze statue]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/250-coffins-with-mummies-and-150-bronze-statues-found-in-saqqara/Tue, 07 Jun 2022 20:56:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/250-coffins-with-mummies-and-150-bronze-statues-found-in-saqqara/ The archaeological site of Kemune in the dried-up]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-3400-year-old-city-emerges-from-the-tigris-river/Tue, 07 Jun 2022 20:18:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-3400-year-old-city-emerges-from-the-tigris-river/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/hot-blooded-t-rex-and-cold-blooded-stegosaurus-chemical-clues-reveal-dinosaur-metabolisms/Tue, 07 Jun 2022 19:10:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/hot-blooded-t-rex-and-cold-blooded-stegosaurus-chemical-clues-reveal-dinosaur-metabolisms/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/decline-of-diatoms-due-to-ocean-acidification/Tue, 07 Jun 2022 18:49:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/decline-of-diatoms-due-to-ocean-acidification/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/corals-as-climate-archives/Tue, 07 Jun 2022 18:41:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/corals-as-climate-archives/ The images show the impressions of a collapsed cell-wall covering (a coccosphere) on the surfaceof a fragment of ancient organic matter (left) with the individual plates (coccoliths) enlarged toshow the exquisite preserva]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/discovery-of-ghost-fossils-reveals-plankton-resilience-to-past-global-warming-events/Tue, 07 Jun 2022 18:37:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/discovery-of-ghost-fossils-reveals-plankton-resilience-to-past-global-warming-events/ The tooth, from multiple angles [Credit: Fabrice Demeter et al., 2022]
The human tooth was chanced upon during an archaeological survey in a remote area of Laos. The scientists have sho]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ancient-tooth-unlocks-mystery-of-denisovans-in-asia/Tue, 07 Jun 2022 18:16:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ancient-tooth-unlocks-mystery-of-denisovans-in-asia/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/chickens-were-first-tempted-down-from-trees-by-rice-research-suggests/Mon, 06 Jun 2022 21:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/chickens-were-first-tempted-down-from-trees-by-rice-research-suggests/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/briton-given-15-years-in-iraqi-jail-for-smuggling-antiquities-to-appeal-verdict/Mon, 06 Jun 2022 19:36:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/briton-given-15-years-in-iraqi-jail-for-smuggling-antiquities-to-appeal-verdict/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-388-on-sale-now/Mon, 06 Jun 2022 14:38:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-388-on-sale-now/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-388/Mon, 06 Jun 2022 14:38:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-388/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/122-and-all-that-when-was-hadrians-wall-built/Mon, 06 Jun 2022 14:10:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/122-and-all-that-when-was-hadrians-wall-built/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/commemorating-hadrians-wall-searching-for-signs-of-a-2nd-century-celebration/Mon, 06 Jun 2022 13:42:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/commemorating-hadrians-wall-searching-for-signs-of-a-2nd-century-celebration/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archive-essex/Mon, 06 Jun 2022 12:41:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archive-essex/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/name-in-print-xxx-the-other-parcel-from-china/Mon, 06 Jun 2022 00:07:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/name-in-print-xxx-the-other-parcel-from-china/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/romans-ventured-deeper-into-wales-than-thought-road-discovery-shows/Sun, 05 Jun 2022 17:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/romans-ventured-deeper-into-wales-than-thought-road-discovery-shows/ I do hope some day to move away from what I think of my destructive mode of scholarship, where what I’m primarily doing is showing what I think people have got wrong. Still, one does find people getting things wrong, and even more occasionally]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/yare-caught/Sat, 04 Jun 2022 15:16:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/yare-caught/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/digital-mapping-reveals-network-of-settlements-thrived-in-pre-columbian-amazon/Thu, 02 Jun 2022 11:15:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/digital-mapping-reveals-network-of-settlements-thrived-in-pre-columbian-amazon/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/trove-of-ancient-egyptian-coffins-and-statues-found-at-cemetery-near-cairo/Tue, 31 May 2022 16:43:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/trove-of-ancient-egyptian-coffins-and-statues-found-at-cemetery-near-cairo/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/name-in-print-xxix-at-long-last-casserres/Sun, 29 May 2022 11:48:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/name-in-print-xxix-at-long-last-casserres/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/glasgow-archaeologists-dig-for-lost-treasures-from-1988-garden-festival/Sat, 28 May 2022 17:34:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/glasgow-archaeologists-dig-for-lost-treasures-from-1988-garden-festival/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/archaeologists-discover-ancient-mayan-city-at-mexico-construction-site/Fri, 27 May 2022 20:59:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/archaeologists-discover-ancient-mayan-city-at-mexico-construction-site/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/archaeologists-discover-ancient-maya-city-at-mexico-construction-site/Fri, 27 May 2022 20:59:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/archaeologists-discover-ancient-maya-city-at-mexico-construction-site/ The protected natural area of the Pego-Oliva marshlands[Credit: Asociacion RUVID]
The research has made it possible to map different stages of the flooding process of the coastal plains, between 9,000 and 7,300 years ago, which radic]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/study-reveals-impact-of-sea-level-rise-on-human-groups-during-mesolithic-and-neolithic-periods-in-western-mediterranean/Thu, 26 May 2022 20:23:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/study-reveals-impact-of-sea-level-rise-on-human-groups-during-mesolithic-and-neolithic-periods-in-western-mediterranean/ This complete Clovis point was recovered from the Powars II site[Credit: Spencer Pelton]
That makes the Powars II site at Sunrise in Platte County the oldest documented red ocher mine -- and likely the oldest known mine of any sort -- in all of North and Sou]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/research-confirms-eastern-wyoming-paleoindian-site-as-americas-oldest-mine/Thu, 26 May 2022 20:22:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/research-confirms-eastern-wyoming-paleoindian-site-as-americas-oldest-mine/ Herod's calcite-alabaster bathtub found in Kypros f]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/where-were-herod-the-greats-royal-alabaster-bathtubs-quarried/Thu, 26 May 2022 20:21:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/where-were-herod-the-greats-royal-alabaster-bathtubs-quarried/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/early-urbanism-found-in-the-amazon/Thu, 26 May 2022 20:18:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/early-urbanism-found-in-the-amazon/ The skull was recently carbon-dated to between 5,500 and 6,000 BC[Credit: Renville County Sheriff's Office]
The kayakers found the skull in the drought-depleted Minnesota River about 110 miles (180 kilometers) west of Minneapolis, Renville County Sheriff Scott Hable said.
Thinking it might be related to a missing]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/nearly-8000-year-old-human-skull-found-by-kayakers-in-minnesota-river/Thu, 26 May 2022 20:12:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/nearly-8000-year-old-human-skull-found-by-kayakers-in-minnesota-river/ Credit: Spiridon Bakas
Reconstructing objects according to archaeological data is one of the most important fields of modern historical science, specialists noted. By reconstructing artifacts of the past based on indirect data, scientists are able to]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/archaeologists-reconstruct-ancient-aryan-bow/Thu, 26 May 2022 20:08:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/archaeologists-reconstruct-ancient-aryan-bow/ Exceptionally well-preserved arrows from the Bronze Age have melted out of the Lopesfonna icepatch in Oppdal municipality in central Norway. They have intact lashing and p]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/climate-change-reveals-unique-artifacts-in-melting-ice-patches/Thu, 26 May 2022 19:52:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/climate-change-reveals-unique-artifacts-in-melting-ice-patches/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/scientists-reveal-how-seascapes-of-the-ancient-world-shaped-genetic-structure-of-european-populations/Thu, 26 May 2022 19:48:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/scientists-reveal-how-seascapes-of-the-ancient-world-shaped-genetic-structure-of-european-populations/ The prehistoric monument of Stonehenge in Wiltshire, UK[Credit: Adam Stanford]
Durrington Walls was a Neolithic settlement situated just 2.8km from Stonehenge, and dating from around 2500 BC, when much of the famous stone monument was constructed. It]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/prehistoric-feces-reveal-parasites-from-feasting-at-stonehenge/Thu, 26 May 2022 19:46:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/prehistoric-feces-reveal-parasites-from-feasting-at-stonehenge/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/paleontologists-have-discovered-the-jaws-of-a-rare-bear-in-taurida-cave/Thu, 26 May 2022 19:43:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/paleontologists-have-discovered-the-jaws-of-a-rare-bear-in-taurida-cave/ Etna volcano eruption, 12 January 2011 [Credit: gnuckx]
The enigmatic area of rock, which is located almost directly beneath the Hawaiian Islands, is one of several ultra-low velocity zones -- so-called because earthquake waves slow to a crawl as they pass through them.
The research, publis]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/puzzling-features-deep-in-earths-interior-illuminated/Thu, 26 May 2022 19:41:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/puzzling-features-deep-in-earths-interior-illuminated/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/previously-unknown-crocodile-species-lived-in-asia-39-million-years-ago/Thu, 26 May 2022 19:41:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/previously-unknown-crocodile-species-lived-in-asia-39-million-years-ago/ Rendering of the X-ray crystal structure of the 700-million-year-old ancestral steroid receptor (blue),
 bound to DNA, gray. Starting from this protein (and eig]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/genetic-predictability-steadily-erodes-during-evolution-new-study-shows/Thu, 26 May 2022 19:41:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/genetic-predictability-steadily-erodes-during-evolution-new-study-shows/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/important-genetic-origin-of-our-senses-identified/Thu, 26 May 2022 19:32:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/important-genetic-origin-of-our-senses-identified/ Life restoration of the dolphins described in this study: Kentriodon in the foreground, in the background
 a squalodelphinid (left) and a physeterid (right) chasing a group of]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/previously-unknown-dolphin-species-were-present-in-ancient-swiss-ocean/Thu, 26 May 2022 19:31:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/previously-unknown-dolphin-species-were-present-in-ancient-swiss-ocean/ Abstraction of experimentation carried out by UTM biologist Alex N. Nguyen Ba
[Credit: Alex N. Nguyen Ba]
Now, research by Alex N. Nguyen Ba, an assistant professor of biology at the Unive]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/new-insights-on-link-between-genetic-mutations-and-biological-evolution/Thu, 26 May 2022 19:31:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/new-insights-on-link-between-genetic-mutations-and-biological-evolution/ Credit: Leiden University
The image of simple Neanderthals has shifted considerably in recent decades. For long, this human species, which is thought to have disappeared some 40,000 years ago (after giving us some g]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/homo-sapiens-is-too-arrogant-call-us-homo-faber-the-toolmaker/Thu, 26 May 2022 19:25:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/homo-sapiens-is-too-arrogant-call-us-homo-faber-the-toolmaker/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-genetic-origins-of-the-worlds-first-farmers-clarified/Thu, 26 May 2022 19:23:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-genetic-origins-of-the-worlds-first-farmers-clarified/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-origin-of-life-a-paradigm-shift/Thu, 26 May 2022 19:21:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-origin-of-life-a-paradigm-shift/ Horses and Gers near Khoton (Syrgal) Lake near the Altai Mountains of Mongolia[Credit: N. Bayarkhuu, CC-BY 4.0]
Now, a new study in the journal PLOS ONE provides interdisciplinary support for connections between livestock dairying and the rise of social complexity in the eastern steppe. Using proteo]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/livestock-and-dairying-led-to-dramatic-social-changes-in-ancient-mongolia/Thu, 26 May 2022 19:20:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/livestock-and-dairying-led-to-dramatic-social-changes-in-ancient-mongolia/ Fossil of plagiolophus [Credit: Ghedoghedo/WikiCommons]
In collaboration with Dr. Gildas Merceron of the Universite de Poitiers, the UPV/EHU's Vertebrate Paleontology research group, led by Le]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/eocene-ungulates-were-very-selective-in-their-feeding/Thu, 26 May 2022 19:20:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/eocene-ungulates-were-very-selective-in-their-feeding/ Credit: SSPL via Getty Images
By analysing ancient DNA of the extinct eastern moa, researchers from the Department of Zoology found the giant birds altered their distribution as the climate warmed and cooled.
Lead author Dr Alex Verry says the species was spread across the eastern and southern South Island during the warmer Holocene period, but was restricted to the southern So]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/dna-provides-unique-look-at-moa-and-climate-change/Thu, 26 May 2022 19:20:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/dna-provides-unique-look-at-moa-and-climate-change/ Dr Judith Pardo Perez with the ichthyosaur skeleton [Credit: Alejandra Zuniga, 2010]
In an expedition led by the University of Magallanes (UMAG) in the Tyndall Glacier area of Chilean Patagonia during March and April 2022, within the boundaries of the Torres del Paine National Park, the intact remains were delicately collected using a]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/chiles-first-complete-ichthyosaur-recovered-from-a-glacier-in-patagonia/Thu, 26 May 2022 19:20:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/chiles-first-complete-ichthyosaur-recovered-from-a-glacier-in-patagonia/ A sculpture commemorates the Indigenous people of Uruguay in the capital of Montevideo.
 Archaeological evidence for human settlement of the area goes back]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ancient-dna-gives-new-insights-into-lost-indigenous-people-of-uruguay/Thu, 26 May 2022 19:20:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ancient-dna-gives-new-insights-into-lost-indigenous-people-of-uruguay/ Hyde900 will once again be putting on their annual community dig on the site of Hyde Abbey, the final resting place of Alfred the Great. Previous digs have uncovered the remains of the church and cloisters in the gardens of willing residents, who live in what was the Inner Close of the abbey. Finds include much of the materials of construction of the abbey, which was largely d]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/2022-hyde900-community-dig/Thu, 26 May 2022 18:37:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/2022-hyde900-community-dig/ Colemore is in the west of the South Downs National Park with a fascinating buried landscape of past rural settlement. Eleven seasons of excavations, test pits, desk-based research and geophysical survey reveal a complex settlement of enclosures and habitation dating mainly to the Romano-British (RB) with glimpses of the Iron Age (IA). Buildings include a ‘villa rustica’ with internal and external corridors, a possible tower at the sou]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/colemore-project-autumn-excavation/Thu, 26 May 2022 18:19:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/colemore-project-autumn-excavation/ This is not an ordinary field school – this is a ‘training field school’ where you will learn about all aspects of archaeological excavation and receive hands on training and learning from archaeological professionals in the heart of Sherwood Forest. As well as offering the best in archaeological training and support, the Field]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-sherwood-forest-archaeological-training-field-school/Thu, 26 May 2022 18:08:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-sherwood-forest-archaeological-training-field-school/ Join Mercian Archaeological Services CIC in the beautiful Leicester countryside for this week-long training excavation, which focuses on the teaching of archaeological excavation methods.As well as offering the very best in archaeological training and support, this training excavation is tailored towards enabling attendees to fulfil requirements of the Archaeological Skills Pa]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/welby-archaeological-training-excavation-2022/Thu, 26 May 2022 18:05:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/welby-archaeological-training-excavation-2022/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/bainbridge-archaeological-training-excavation-2022/Thu, 26 May 2022 18:02:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/bainbridge-archaeological-training-excavation-2022/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/topographic-survey-training-course-2022/Thu, 26 May 2022 17:55:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/topographic-survey-training-course-2022/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/pompeii-victims-genome-successfully-sequenced-for-first-time/Thu, 26 May 2022 17:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/pompeii-victims-genome-successfully-sequenced-for-first-time/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/roman-sculpture-up-for-auction-in-us-linked-to-disgraced-dealer/Tue, 24 May 2022 06:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/roman-sculpture-up-for-auction-in-us-linked-to-disgraced-dealer/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/seminars-cclxvii-amp-cclxviii-the-normans-return-to-leeds/Sun, 22 May 2022 23:26:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/seminars-cclxvii-amp-cclxviii-the-normans-return-to-leeds/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/human-skull-found-by-minnesota-kayakers-8000-years-old-experts-say/Sat, 21 May 2022 22:40:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/human-skull-found-by-minnesota-kayakers-8000-years-old-experts-say/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/stonehenge-builders-ate-undercooked-offal-ancient-faeces-reveals/Fri, 20 May 2022 07:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/stonehenge-builders-ate-undercooked-offal-ancient-faeces-reveals/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/rare-stone-circle-found-at-prehistoric-ritual-site-in-cornwall/Thu, 19 May 2022 01:01:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/rare-stone-circle-found-at-prehistoric-ritual-site-in-cornwall/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archive-hertfordshire/Wed, 18 May 2022 15:59:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archive-hertfordshire/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-387-on-sale-now/Wed, 18 May 2022 13:08:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-387-on-sale-now/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-387/Wed, 18 May 2022 13:08:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-387/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ancient-cave-art-how-new-hi-tech-archaeology-is-revealing-the-ghosts-of-human-history/Thu, 12 May 2022 10:49:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ancient-cave-art-how-new-hi-tech-archaeology-is-revealing-the-ghosts-of-human-history/ Right humerus of Faxinalipterus (UFRGS-PV-0927-T) which is quite different from the humerus of
 pterosaurs. Note the little projection of the deltopectoral crest (dpc), which in pterosaurs is much more
 developed. This is]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-new-225-million-year-old-reptile-from-brazil/Thu, 12 May 2022 10:38:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-new-225-million-year-old-reptile-from-brazil/ The fossil of Jurassic lizard Eichstaettisaurus [Credit: Jorge Herrera Flores]
There is con]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/researchers-discover-overlooked-jurassic-park-of-lizards/Thu, 12 May 2022 10:33:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/researchers-discover-overlooked-jurassic-park-of-lizards/ The Hawaiian bobtail squid (Euprymna scolopes) is a model system for studying
animal-bacterial symbiosis [Credit: Tom Kleindinst]
Now, scientists have dug into]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/squid-and-octopus-genome-studies-reveal-how-cephalopods-unique-traits-evolved/Thu, 12 May 2022 10:25:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/squid-and-octopus-genome-studies-reveal-how-cephalopods-unique-traits-evolved/ The Black Rat (Rattus rattus) is one of the most common of the world’s 56 Rattus species, and isalso known as the house, roof or ship rat. It is found throughout Africa, Asia, Australia,Europe and the Americas [Credit: © CSIRO]
The study - led by the University o]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/how-the-black-rat-colonized-europe-in-the-roman-and-medieval-periods/Thu, 12 May 2022 10:15:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/how-the-black-rat-colonized-europe-in-the-roman-and-medieval-periods/ Examples of the carcass consumption capabilities of Xenosmilus. Complete defleshing and frequent
 contact with bone resulting in bone breakage and deletion has been documented on scapulae (A),
 humeri (B), tibiae (C), ribs (D), femora (F), innominates (G), ulnae (E, H), and vertebrae (I),with a many of the latter completely fr]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/study-of-ancient-predators-sheds-light-on-how-humans-did-or-didnt-find-food/Thu, 12 May 2022 10:05:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/study-of-ancient-predators-sheds-light-on-how-humans-did-or-didnt-find-food/ This painting at the San Diego Natural History Museum by William Stout shows what the Archeocyon
 canid, center, would have looked like during the Oligocene era in what’s now San Diego[Credit: William Stout]
But long before the canines arrived here, there were predatory doglike canid species who hunted the grasslands and f]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/rare-fossil-of-ancient-dog-species-discovered-by-paleontologists/Thu, 12 May 2022 09:59:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/rare-fossil-of-ancient-dog-species-discovered-by-paleontologists/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/studying-wealth-inequality-in-animals-can-reveal-clues-about-how-their-societies-evolved/Thu, 12 May 2022 09:50:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/studying-wealth-inequality-in-animals-can-reveal-clues-about-how-their-societies-evolved/ The single-celled Paramecium bursaria hosts a symbiotic green algae that enables it to
 photosynthesize. This opens up new lifestyles for the otherwise heterotrophic species
[Credit: Anatoly Mikhaltsov via Wikimedia]
Okay, it's not exactly a lie, but modern]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/biologists-investigate-what-happens-when-traits-jump-between-branches-of-the-tree-of-life/Thu, 12 May 2022 09:24:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/biologists-investigate-what-happens-when-traits-jump-between-branches-of-the-tree-of-life/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/precipitation-helped-drive-distribution-of-alaska-dinosaurs/Thu, 12 May 2022 09:19:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/precipitation-helped-drive-distribution-of-alaska-dinosaurs/ Triceratops grazing on a magnolia tree next to cycas [Credit: Getty Images/Stocktrek Images]
To answer this question, a research team]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/dinosaur-extinction-changed-plant-evolution/Thu, 12 May 2022 09:09:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/dinosaur-extinction-changed-plant-evolution/ Credit: UC Davis
"It was one of the fastest warming events in Earth's history," said Isabel Montanez, distinguished professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of California, Davis.
Although]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/carbon-climate-change-and-ocean-anoxia-in-an-ancient-icehouse-world/Thu, 12 May 2022 09:03:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/carbon-climate-change-and-ocean-anoxia-in-an-ancient-icehouse-world/ Credit: Burke Museum
Burke Museum Research Associate Jeffrey Benca thinks about pollen year-round. His new paper in the journal Paleobiology investiga]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/fossilized-pollen-may-reveal-fingerprints-of-environmental-stress/Thu, 12 May 2022 08:57:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/fossilized-pollen-may-reveal-fingerprints-of-environmental-stress/ Princeton University researchers reported that unless greenhouse gas emissions are curbed, marine
 biodiversity could be on track to plummet to levels not seen since the extinction of the dinosaurs. The
&]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/unchecked-global-emissions-on-track-to-initiate-mass-extinction-of-marine-life/Thu, 12 May 2022 08:52:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/unchecked-global-emissions-on-track-to-initiate-mass-extinction-of-marine-life/ View of the gamma-ray sky [Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration]
Co-author of the study Associate Professor Roland Crocker said this particular gamma-ray signal—know]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/spinning-stars-shed-new-light-on-strange-signal-coming-from-galactic-center/Thu, 12 May 2022 08:45:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/spinning-stars-shed-new-light-on-strange-signal-coming-from-galactic-center/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/iron-age-boxer-statues-torsos-discovered-in-sardinian-necropolis/Sun, 08 May 2022 12:45:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/iron-age-boxer-statues-torsos-discovered-in-sardinian-necropolis/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/i-wept-with-joy-young-director-made-guardian-of-italys-temples-of-paestum/Sun, 08 May 2022 11:30:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/i-wept-with-joy-young-director-made-guardian-of-italys-temples-of-paestum/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ministers-accused-of-abandoning-uk-geologist-at-risk-of-execution-in-iraq/Thu, 05 May 2022 19:23:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ministers-accused-of-abandoning-uk-geologist-at-risk-of-execution-in-iraq/ The volcanic craters of Aniakchak II (left) and Thera (right) [Credit: Charlotte Pearson]
Charlotte Pearson, an associate professor in the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, is lead author of a new paper in PNAS Nexus that combines a mosaic of techniques to confirm the source of a volcanic eruption in 1628 B.C. While the eruption w]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/researchers-home-in-on-thera-volcano-eruption-date/Mon, 02 May 2022 21:35:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/researchers-home-in-on-thera-volcano-eruption-date/ Some amphorae were taken away by the looters [Credit: © P. Soubias CCJ/CNRS]
The ship, named Fort Royal 1, is thought to have sunk off the coast of Cannes on the French Riviera during the second century BC.
Divers tasked with the first official explorations of t]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/outrage-as-2200-year-old-shipwreck-looted-off-french-riviera/Mon, 02 May 2022 20:22:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/outrage-as-2200-year-old-shipwreck-looted-off-french-riviera/ Credit: Andalucía Regional Government
Archaeologists exploring the site – which was discovered amid the Roman ruins in the town of Osuna, 55 miles (90km) east of Seville – say the Phoenician-Carthaginian cemetery dates back to t]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/phoenician-necropolis-discovered-in-southern-spain/Mon, 02 May 2022 20:09:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/phoenician-necropolis-discovered-in-southern-spain/ Pottery workshop unearthed at Tibet Mutawah site [Credit: Egypt. Ministry of Antiquities]
Amphorae have a pointed bottom and were used for the transportation of various products, both liquid and dry, but mostly for wine by land or sea trade routes.
The workshop was discovered by an Egyptian]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/graeco-roman-pottery-workshop-found-in-alexandria/Mon, 02 May 2022 19:34:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/graeco-roman-pottery-workshop-found-in-alexandria/ (A) Site location (the map was generated by I.C. through QGIS v.3.16, https://qgis.org); (B) Aerial view
 of the site highlighting excavation areas A, B and C (source: Google Earth); (C) Copper-alloy daggers
 analyzed as part of the research. Specimen (1) no 1617; (2) no 2037; (3) no 175; (4) no 1707;(5) no 2041;]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/research-finally-answers-what-bronze-age-daggers-were-used-for/Mon, 02 May 2022 19:19:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/research-finally-answers-what-bronze-age-daggers-were-used-for/ Revolutionary War cannon raised from Savannah River in January 2022[Credit: Michael Jordan/US Army Corps of Engineers]
The mud- and rust-encrusted guns were discovered by accident. A dredge scooping sediment from the riverbed last]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/revolutionary-find-19-cannons-in-river-likely-sunk-in-1779/Mon, 02 May 2022 19:12:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/revolutionary-find-19-cannons-in-river-likely-sunk-in-1779/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/sampling-the-deep-graveyard-of-earths-earliest-crust/Mon, 02 May 2022 18:57:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/sampling-the-deep-graveyard-of-earths-earliest-crust/ Reptiles are particularly important in keeping insect populations in check[Credit: AFP/Mohd Rasfan]
Catastrophic declines in biodiversity across the world are increasingly seen as a threat to life on Earth—and as important as the interrelated menace of climate change.
Threats]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/over-21-of-reptile-species-at-risk-of-extinction/Mon, 02 May 2022 18:51:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/over-21-of-reptile-species-at-risk-of-extinction/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/could-the-blueprint-for-life-have-been-generated-in-asteroids/Mon, 02 May 2022 18:51:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/could-the-blueprint-for-life-have-been-generated-in-asteroids/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/dead-vikings-in-carlisle/Mon, 02 May 2022 00:12:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/dead-vikings-in-carlisle/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/prehistoric-women-were-hunters-and-artists-as-well-as-mothers-book-reveals/Fri, 29 Apr 2022 14:34:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/prehistoric-women-were-hunters-and-artists-as-well-as-mothers-book-reveals/ 3D models of aquatic tetrapods [Credit: S. Gutarra Díaz]
This study, published in Communications Biology, shows that big bodies help overcome the excess drag produced by extreme morphology, debunking a long-standing idea that there is an optimal body shape for low drag.
One important finding of this research is that th]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/large-bodies-helped-extinct-marine-reptiles-with-long-necks-swim-new-study-finds/Thu, 28 Apr 2022 20:51:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/large-bodies-helped-extinct-marine-reptiles-with-long-necks-swim-new-study-finds/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/giant-marine-reptiles-at-2800-meters-above-sea-level/Thu, 28 Apr 2022 20:51:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/giant-marine-reptiles-at-2800-meters-above-sea-level/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-prehistoric-forest-grows-in-brunei/Thu, 28 Apr 2022 20:25:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-prehistoric-forest-grows-in-brunei/ Bronze axe, Seima type [Credit: Simo Karisalo/Finnish National Board of Antiquities]
“Observations regarding the main prehistoric developments from linguistics, archaeology and genetics can now be legitimately combined. We have reason to believe that the spread of the Uralic languages beg]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/dramatic-events-in-demographics-led-to-the-spread-of-uralic-languages/Thu, 28 Apr 2022 20:10:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/dramatic-events-in-demographics-led-to-the-spread-of-uralic-languages/ A) Timeline of the Stonehenge landscape, including radiocarbon dates from Blick Mead andother significant Stonehenge World Heritage Archaeological Sites. B) A representationof the development of vegetation history at Blick Mead based]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/study-reveals-stonehenge-landscape-before-the-world-famous-monument/Thu, 28 Apr 2022 20:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/study-reveals-stonehenge-landscape-before-the-world-famous-monument/ The Antrim Plataeu, Northern Ireland [Credit: © Mike Simms, via Wikipedia]
There are numerous examples of past societies severely impacted by environmental changes, including climate change, natural disasters, and other dramatic ecologica]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/remote-ireland-community-survived-a-millennium-of-environmental-change/Thu, 28 Apr 2022 19:55:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/remote-ireland-community-survived-a-millennium-of-environmental-change/ Sediments formed in the Lisan lake during lake level highstand between ca 24.000 and 14.000 years
 ago. Today, these la]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/news-from-the-climate-history-of-the-dead-sea/Thu, 28 Apr 2022 19:39:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/news-from-the-climate-history-of-the-dead-sea/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/neanderthals-of-the-north/Thu, 28 Apr 2022 19:34:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/neanderthals-of-the-north/ The carbon isotopes in trees indicate changes in carbon assimilation for a given year, which in theUK relates to the amount of summer sunshine. The oxygen and hydrogen isotopes]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ancient-oak-trees-to-shed-light-on-the-climate-of-the-past-4500-years/Thu, 28 Apr 2022 19:26:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ancient-oak-trees-to-shed-light-on-the-climate-of-the-past-4500-years/ A fragment of the sphero-conical vessel that was identified as containing a possibly explosivematerial from Jerusalem [Credit: Robert Mason, Royal Ontario Museum]
Previous research into the diverse sphero-conical containers, which are within museums around the world, had identified that they were used for a variety of purposes, including]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ancient-hand-grenades-explosive-weapons-in-medieval-jerusalem-during-crusades/Thu, 28 Apr 2022 19:25:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ancient-hand-grenades-explosive-weapons-in-medieval-jerusalem-during-crusades/ Many villages in the Tibetan-Yi Corridor were isolated and inaccessible by car[Credit: Shengbin Li]
The Tibetan-Yi corridor (TYC), named after two main ethnic groups in the]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/genomic-study-reveals-complex-origins-of-people-living-in-tibetan-yi-corridor/Thu, 28 Apr 2022 19:22:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/genomic-study-reveals-complex-origins-of-people-living-in-tibetan-yi-corridor/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/terahertz-imaging-reveals-hidden-inscription-on-16th-century-lead-funerary-cross/Thu, 28 Apr 2022 19:08:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/terahertz-imaging-reveals-hidden-inscription-on-16th-century-lead-funerary-cross/ Palm bruchine tunnels on a fossil Coconut fruit of the Cerrejon Formation, Colombia[Credit: Penn State]
"We found this remarkable fossil coconut that has clear signs of insect tunneling," said L. Alejandro Giraldo, a graduate student in geosciences at Penn State. "After studyi]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/beetle-in-the-coconut-fossil-find-sheds-new-light-on-neotropical-rainforests/Thu, 28 Apr 2022 19:02:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/beetle-in-the-coconut-fossil-find-sheds-new-light-on-neotropical-rainforests/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/phoenician-harbour-in-sicily-revealed-to-be-religious-site-aligned-with-stars/Thu, 28 Apr 2022 09:35:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/phoenician-harbour-in-sicily-revealed-to-be-religious-site-aligned-with-stars/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/workers-discover-unprecedented-phoenician-necropolis-in-southern-spain/Tue, 26 Apr 2022 16:58:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/workers-discover-unprecedented-phoenician-necropolis-in-southern-spain/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/bridge-farm-roman-settlement/Tue, 26 Apr 2022 12:44:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/bridge-farm-roman-settlement/ This artist’s conception shows how double ridges on the surface of Jupiter’s moon Euro]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/explanation-for-formation-of-abundant-features-on-europa-bodes-well-for-search-for-extraterrestrial-life/Mon, 25 Apr 2022 21:02:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/explanation-for-formation-of-abundant-features-on-europa-bodes-well-for-search-for-extraterrestrial-life/ The Canaanite sculpture dating back to 2500 BC found in the Gaza Strip
[Credit: Palestinian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities]
The Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said the 22-centimeter (6.7-inch) tall limestone head is believed to represent the Canaanite goddess Anat and is estimated to be dated to around 2,500 B.C.
"Anat was the g]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/canaanite-sculpture-of-the-goddess-anat-discovered-in-the-gaza-strip/Mon, 25 Apr 2022 20:57:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/canaanite-sculpture-of-the-goddess-anat-discovered-in-the-gaza-strip/ Slate ri]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/friendship-ornaments-from-the-stone-age/Mon, 25 Apr 2022 20:49:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/friendship-ornaments-from-the-stone-age/ Credit: Egyptian Tourism and Antiquities Ministry
The Tourism and Antiquities Ministry said in a statement the temple ruins were found in the Tell el-Farma archaeological site in northwestern Sinai.
Tell el-Farma, also known by its ancient name Pelusium, dates back to the late Pharaonic period and was also used during Graeco-Roman and Byzantine time]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ruins-of-ancient-temple-dedicated-to-zeus-unearthed-in-sinai/Mon, 25 Apr 2022 20:44:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ruins-of-ancient-temple-dedicated-to-zeus-unearthed-in-sinai/ A pottery sherd from Brooker Island, east of PNG [Credit: Tracey Nearmy/ANU]
The new study makes clear the initial expansion of the Lapita people throughout Papua New Guinea was far greater than previously thought. The study,]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/discovery-sheds-light-on-why-the-pacific-islands-were-colonized/Mon, 25 Apr 2022 20:19:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/discovery-sheds-light-on-why-the-pacific-islands-were-colonized/ Cantabrian coast (N Iberian Peninsula) [Credit: Asier García Escárzag]
Current global climatic warming is having, and will continue to have, widespread consequences for human history, in the same way that environme]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/marine-mollusc-shells-reveal-how-prehistoric-humans-adapted-to-intense-climate-change/Mon, 25 Apr 2022 20:11:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/marine-mollusc-shells-reveal-how-prehistoric-humans-adapted-to-intense-climate-change/ The Green Sandstone Bed, (visible on bottom left), looking into the Stromatolite Valley, in the ancient
 Barberton Greenstone Belt in South Africa is the source a few tiny, 3.8-billion-year-old crystals
&n]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/earliest-geochemical-evidence-of-plate-tectonics-found-in-38-billion-year-old-crystal/Mon, 25 Apr 2022 20:04:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/earliest-geochemical-evidence-of-plate-tectonics-found-in-38-billion-year-old-crystal/ Fossilized spider from the Aix-en-Provence Formation in France seen in hand sample overlain with
 fluorescent microscopy image of the same fossil. Under normal lighting the spider fossil is hard to
 differentiate from the surrou]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/glowing-spider-fossils-prompt-breakthrough-study-of-how-they-were-preserved-at-aix-en-provence/Mon, 25 Apr 2022 19:52:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/glowing-spider-fossils-prompt-breakthrough-study-of-how-they-were-preserved-at-aix-en-provence/ An illustration featuring mammalian herbivores (green), omnivores (purple), invertivores (yellow) and
 carnivores (red). Each column includes mammal species lost in the past 2.58 million years (light
 shade); those expected to be lost in the near future (]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/humans-disrupting-66-million-year-old-feature-of-ecosystems/Mon, 25 Apr 2022 19:43:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/humans-disrupting-66-million-year-old-feature-of-ecosystems/ Artist’s reconstruction of the feathered pterosaur Tupandactylus, showing the feather
 types along the bottom of the headcrest: dark monofilaments and lighter-coloured
branched feathers [Credit: © Nicholls 2022]
The study, published in the journal Nature, was led by Universit]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/pterosaur-discovery-solves-ancient-feather-mystery/Mon, 25 Apr 2022 19:32:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/pterosaur-discovery-solves-ancient-feather-mystery/ A feast heading a calendar page for April in the Anglo-Saxon-manuscript 'cotton-ms-tiberius-b-v1_-c'[Credit: The British Lib]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/anglo-saxon-kings-were-treated-to-huge-barbecues-by-peasantry-new-study-argues/Mon, 25 Apr 2022 19:22:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/anglo-saxon-kings-were-treated-to-huge-barbecues-by-peasantry-new-study-argues/ The short-tailed albatross was brought to the brink of extinction by feather hunters
 in the early 20th Century [Credit: University of Leicester]
An international team of researchers, led by the University of Leicester, identified long-term patterns in the behavior of the short-tailed albatross (Phoebastria albatrus) in the]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/research-reveals-human-driven-changes-to-distinctive-foraging-patterns-of-the-short-tailed-albatross-in-north-pacific-ocean/Mon, 25 Apr 2022 19:05:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/research-reveals-human-driven-changes-to-distinctive-foraging-patterns-of-the-short-tailed-albatross-in-north-pacific-ocean/ Life on the platform margin of the Miaolingian Sea, North China, based on data
 from the Linyi Lagerstätte [Credit: YANG Dinghua]
The Linyi Lagerstätte provides a new window into the morpholo]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/linyi-lagersttte-a-new-window-on-cambrian-fauna-evolution/Mon, 25 Apr 2022 19:05:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/linyi-lagersttte-a-new-window-on-cambrian-fauna-evolution/ Riffle beetle larva [Credit: V. Baranov]
Most of the amber in Europe comes from the Baltic amber forest, which covered large areas of today's northern Europe 33-38 million]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/rare-beetle-larva-found-in-baltic-amber/Mon, 25 Apr 2022 18:58:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/rare-beetle-larva-found-in-baltic-amber/ Photograph showing ambient light levels and the position of replica plaquettes in relationto the fire (during experiment E) [Credit: Needham et al., 2022]
The]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/prehistoric-people-created-art-by-firelight-new-research-reveals/Mon, 25 Apr 2022 18:19:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/prehistoric-people-created-art-by-firelight-new-research-reveals/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/study-challenges-theories-of-earlier-human-arrival-in-americas/Mon, 25 Apr 2022 18:12:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/study-challenges-theories-of-earlier-human-arrival-in-americas/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/extreme-genetic-drift-in-the-maniq-hunter-gatherers-of-southern-thailand/Mon, 25 Apr 2022 18:03:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/extreme-genetic-drift-in-the-maniq-hunter-gatherers-of-southern-thailand/ Region: Midlands
Time period: Post Medieval
Accomm]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/hanwell-park-project/Mon, 25 Apr 2022 17:41:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/hanwell-park-project/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/new-clues-shed-light-on-pivotal-moment-in-the-great-pacific-migration/Fri, 22 Apr 2022 22:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/new-clues-shed-light-on-pivotal-moment-in-the-great-pacific-migration/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/scribes-who-knew-more/Mon, 18 Apr 2022 23:34:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/scribes-who-knew-more/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/an-open-air-neanderthal-habitat-more-than-120000-years-old-is-discovered-in-aspe-alicante/Mon, 18 Apr 2022 21:02:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/an-open-air-neanderthal-habitat-more-than-120000-years-old-is-discovered-in-aspe-alicante/ The ceramic pot with the coins after professional uncovering by employeesof Archäologie Baselland [Credit: Archaeology Baselland]
Daniel]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/rare-coin-hoard-from-constantines-reign-discovered-in-switzerland/Mon, 18 Apr 2022 20:45:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/rare-coin-hoard-from-constantines-reign-discovered-in-switzerland/ Pollen records suggest a large expansion of vegetation during the last 10,000 years[Credit: WUSTL]
Warmer temperatures brought plants -- and then came even warmer temperatures, according to new model simulations published in Science Advances.
Alexander Thompson, a postdoctoral research associate in earth and planetary s]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/changes-in-vegetation-shaped-global-temperatures-over-last-10000-years/Mon, 18 Apr 2022 18:21:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/changes-in-vegetation-shaped-global-temperatures-over-last-10000-years/ Pygmy hunter-gatherers in the Congo Basin [Credit: JMGRACIA100/Wikipedia]
New research in Current Anthropology by SFI's Luís Bettencourt and Scott Ortman, with co-authors José Lobo, Todd Whitelaw, Polly Wiessner, and Michael E. Smith, explores these dynamics and the conditions that might lead impermanent, spread-out]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/scaling-of-hunter-gatherer-camp-size-and-human-sociality/Mon, 18 Apr 2022 18:04:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/scaling-of-hunter-gatherer-camp-size-and-human-sociality/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-race-to-preserve-the-oven-bricks-of-the-tudor-warship-the-mary-rose/Mon, 18 Apr 2022 17:48:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-race-to-preserve-the-oven-bricks-of-the-tudor-warship-the-mary-rose/ Rhinos in Kenya [Credit: Nick Harvey Sky]
The research published today in journal, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, demonstrates that poaching combined with individual rhino's reproductive vari]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/black-rhino-extinction-risk-sharply-increased-by-killing-of-specific-female-rhinos/Mon, 18 Apr 2022 17:37:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/black-rhino-extinction-risk-sharply-increased-by-killing-of-specific-female-rhinos/ A grooming chain of adult female rhesus macaques on Cayo Santiago, an island off the coast of Puerto
 Rico. Researchers in the Platt labs have studied this group of free-ranging nonhuman primates for
 more than a decade. This]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/social-connections-influence-brain-structure-of-rhesus-macaques/Mon, 18 Apr 2022 17:31:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/social-connections-influence-brain-structure-of-rhesus-macaques/ Credit: University of Wollongong
An article published this week by the journal Nature, shows that the deep structure beneath Africa could be just 60 million years old—a fraction of the age previously supposed.
It was shown about 15 years ago that the largest volcanoes erupted over the last 300 million years coincide with the present-day location of these basal struc]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-earth-beneath-us-may-be-shifting-not-static/Mon, 18 Apr 2022 17:27:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-earth-beneath-us-may-be-shifting-not-static/ Centimeter-size pectinate-branching and parallel-aligned filaments composedof red hematite, some with twists, tubes and different kinds of hematite spheroids.These are the oldest microfossils on Earth, which lived on the sea-floor nearhydrothermal vents, and they metabolized iron, sulfur and carbon dioxide.Nuvvuagittuq Sup]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/diverse-life-forms-may-have-evolved-earlier-than-previously-thought/Mon, 18 Apr 2022 17:21:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/diverse-life-forms-may-have-evolved-earlier-than-previously-thought/ The red barrel sponge, Xestospongia muta — pictured here during collection trip in belize — harbour
a dense and diverse mi]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/researchers-find-a-genomic-time-machine-in-sea-sponges/Mon, 18 Apr 2022 17:13:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/researchers-find-a-genomic-time-machine-in-sea-sponges/ Artist's impression of a supermassive black hole that is inside the dust-shrouded core of a vigorously
 star-forming "starburst" galaxy. It will eventually become an extremely bright quasar once the dustis gone. The resea]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/hubble-sheds-light-on-origins-of-supermassive-black-holes/Mon, 18 Apr 2022 17:03:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/hubble-sheds-light-on-origins-of-supermassive-black-holes/ Large predatory fish are expected to lag behind temperature shifts due to food-web dynamics
[Credit: Gerald Schombs]
The new study, published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, presents a mixed pictur]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/climate-change-will-reshuffle-marine-ecosystems-in-unexpected-ways/Mon, 18 Apr 2022 16:57:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/climate-change-will-reshuffle-marine-ecosystems-in-unexpected-ways/ Cuckoo finch eggs laid by different females. Diversity of maternally inherited egg phenotypes withina single interbreeding species, the brood-parasitic cuckoo finch. Different cuckoo finch matrilines
 mimic the eggs of different host]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/scientists-crack-egg-forging-evolutionary-puzzle/Mon, 18 Apr 2022 16:53:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/scientists-crack-egg-forging-evolutionary-puzzle/ “The thing that is obviously missing from this, of cour]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/hildegard-of-carlisle/Sun, 17 Apr 2022 18:27:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/hildegard-of-carlisle/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/exhibition-of-pompeiis-sex-scenes-aims-to-decode-erotica/Sun, 17 Apr 2022 17:03:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/exhibition-of-pompeiis-sex-scenes-aims-to-decode-erotica/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/how-archery-was-vital-to-the-survival-of-early-humans/Sat, 16 Apr 2022 15:25:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/how-archery-was-vital-to-the-survival-of-early-humans/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/where-the-magic-happens-10-of-britains-most-mystical-sites/Sat, 16 Apr 2022 08:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/where-the-magic-happens-10-of-britains-most-mystical-sites/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/iraqs-ancient-buildings-are-being-destroyed-by-climate-change/Fri, 15 Apr 2022 13:44:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/iraqs-ancient-buildings-are-being-destroyed-by-climate-change/ The fossil found in North Dakota [Credit: BBC]
These ground-breaking discoveries could provide the first ever physical evidence that dinosaurs were]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/fossil-of-dinosaur-killed-in-asteroid-strike-found-scientists-claim/Thu, 14 Apr 2022 21:38:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/fossil-of-dinosaur-killed-in-asteroid-strike-found-scientists-claim/ During the dry season, evaporating water leaves behind trona crystals, which grow on the lakebedof Lake Magadi, the southernmost lake in the Kenyan Rift Valley. A drilling rig used in the study
 is seen tow]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/climatic-variability-might-not-drive-evolutionary-change-as-much-as-previously-thought/Thu, 14 Apr 2022 21:31:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/climatic-variability-might-not-drive-evolutionary-change-as-much-as-previously-thought/ Clonal spruce trees from Dalarna County in Sweden. A: Old Tjikko spruce with the oldest fossil
 remains dated 9.5 cal. kyr BP; B: Gu]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/spruce-trees-reconquered-sweden-10000-after-the-ice-age/Thu, 14 Apr 2022 21:23:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/spruce-trees-reconquered-sweden-10000-after-the-ice-age/ Scientific evidence has removed any lingering doubt that human activity is "unequivocably"responsible for global warming, says the IPCC [Credit: Pablo Cozzaglio/AFP]
Spread across 10,000 pages, these are the main takeaways from a trio of UN reports on climate change published i]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-uns-10000-page-red-alert-on-climate-change/Thu, 14 Apr 2022 21:18:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-uns-10000-page-red-alert-on-climate-change/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/earliest-record-of-the-maya-calendar-found-in-the-depths-of-guatemalan-pyramid/Thu, 14 Apr 2022 20:59:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/earliest-record-of-the-maya-calendar-found-in-the-depths-of-guatemalan-pyramid/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/early-human-habitats-linked-to-past-climate-shifts/Thu, 14 Apr 2022 20:52:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/early-human-habitats-linked-to-past-climate-shifts/ Reconstruction of Neolithic Catalhoyuk in southern Turkey (ca. 6500 BCE)[Credit: Brown University]
In The Origin of the State: Land Produc]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/study-sheds-new-light-on-the-origin-of-civilization/Thu, 14 Apr 2022 20:46:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/study-sheds-new-light-on-the-origin-of-civilization/ Collapsed stone structure at Zapatero site [Credit: Gabriel Easton]
Earthquakes happen when two tectonic plates rub together and rup]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/massive-earthquake-and-tsunami-wiped-out-hunter-gather-communities-in-atacama-desert-3800-years-ago/Thu, 14 Apr 2022 20:38:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/massive-earthquake-and-tsunami-wiped-out-hunter-gather-communities-in-atacama-desert-3800-years-ago/ Chimpanzee skull studied for conspecific recognition[Credit: KyotoU/Andre Goncalves]
But do chimpanzees show recognition and preferences in the case of conspecific skeletons: belonging to their own species? Previously, the scientific community has given little attention to thi]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/chimpanzees-show-signs-of-recognition-toward-skulls-of-their-own-species/Thu, 14 Apr 2022 20:23:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/chimpanzees-show-signs-of-recognition-toward-skulls-of-their-own-species/ Painting of a scientist working with human skeletal remains and ancient DNA[Credit: Marija Stojkovic]
"Recent studies tried to characterize the contribution of DNA to height," sa]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/first-european-farmers-heights-did-not-meet-expectations/Thu, 14 Apr 2022 20:18:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/first-european-farmers-heights-did-not-meet-expectations/ The Triceratops horridus Big John. (a) The complete restored skeleton; the fenestraanalyzed here is indicated by the white circle (courtesy of Ferrara A., and Briano I.).
(b) Detail of the skull (courtesy of Ferrara A., and Briano I.). (c) Detail ofthe fenestra:plaquelike dep]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/big-john-provides-evidence-of-triceratops-combat-injuries/Thu, 14 Apr 2022 20:12:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/big-john-provides-evidence-of-triceratops-combat-injuries/ Ichthyosaur [Credit: Esther van Hulsen]
Ichthyosaurs were marine reptiles living in the age of dinosaurs. Their fossils are found all over the world, and they are famous for having a fish-like shape resembling today's dolphins]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/fish-like-marine-reptile-buried-in-its-own-blubber-in-southern-germany-150-million-years-ago/Thu, 14 Apr 2022 20:08:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/fish-like-marine-reptile-buried-in-its-own-blubber-in-southern-germany-150-million-years-ago/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-new-three-metre-long-mesozoic-marine-reptile-discovered-in-china/Thu, 14 Apr 2022 20:02:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-new-three-metre-long-mesozoic-marine-reptile-discovered-in-china/ Magenta LH-Mg-10-16 trackway: (A) Cartography done in the field, (B) Scanned surface of the
 trackway, mounted from a set of color photos. (C) Color ramp, showing the depths in the legend(in cm). Scale, 1 meter [Credit:]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/injured-dinosaur-left-behind-unusual-footprints/Thu, 14 Apr 2022 19:56:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/injured-dinosaur-left-behind-unusual-footprints/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/extraordinary-ancient-tombs-and-statues-unearthed-beneath-notre-dame-cathedral/Thu, 14 Apr 2022 19:41:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/extraordinary-ancient-tombs-and-statues-unearthed-beneath-notre-dame-cathedral/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/tawnaghmore-deserted-village/Tue, 12 Apr 2022 19:26:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/tawnaghmore-deserted-village/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/york-divided-over-plan-for-new-roman-quarter-hotel-and-153-flats-included/Sun, 10 Apr 2022 07:45:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/york-divided-over-plan-for-new-roman-quarter-hotel-and-153-flats-included/ — LeedsUniUnison (@UoLUnison) March 25, 2022I initially wrote this in the middle of ten more days of industrial action over pensions, pay and terms of work in the English university sector, those following ten days last month and three days at the end of last year, and plenty more in previous years. Then I thought it’d better wait till]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/why-universities-are-not-giving-way-to-their-staff/Sat, 09 Apr 2022 15:05:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/why-universities-are-not-giving-way-to-their-staff/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-386-on-sale-now/Fri, 08 Apr 2022 17:51:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-386-on-sale-now/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-386/Fri, 08 Apr 2022 17:51:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/current-archaeology-386/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/back-to-the-future-visiting-time-teams-first-new-digs-in-a-decade/Fri, 08 Apr 2022 17:05:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/back-to-the-future-visiting-time-teams-first-new-digs-in-a-decade/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archive-berkshire/Fri, 08 Apr 2022 12:49:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/excavating-the-ca-archive-berkshire/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-population-hub-out-of-africa-explains-east-asian-lineages-in-europe-45000-years-ago/Thu, 07 Apr 2022 21:22:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-population-hub-out-of-africa-explains-east-asian-lineages-in-europe-45000-years-ago/ Participant of the study viewing the space [Credit: Lund University]
Unlike today, Roman houses were not a place of refuge from work. Work and daily activities wer]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/how-did-visitors-experience-the-domestic-space-in-pompeii/Thu, 07 Apr 2022 21:14:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/how-did-visitors-experience-the-domestic-space-in-pompeii/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/how-modern-european-populations-have-evolved-over-the-past-50000-years/Thu, 07 Apr 2022 21:07:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/how-modern-european-populations-have-evolved-over-the-past-50000-years/ Excavation of the 4,000-year-old boat wreck at Uruk[Credit: DAI/Julia Nador]
Near Uruk, in the archaeological buffer zone, ancient canals, fields a]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/4000-year-old-boat-salvaged-near-the-ancient-city-of-uruk/Thu, 07 Apr 2022 20:26:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/4000-year-old-boat-salvaged-near-the-ancient-city-of-uruk/ Credit: Unsplash
He'd been playing with the idea for the theme issue for some time, says De Dreu. For years, this Spinoza winner has been studyi]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-parallels-between-quarrelling-animals-and-humans/Thu, 07 Apr 2022 19:55:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-parallels-between-quarrelling-animals-and-humans/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/archaeological-field-workers-dont-get-enough-money-or-recognition-letter/Thu, 07 Apr 2022 19:13:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/archaeological-field-workers-dont-get-enough-money-or-recognition-letter/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/margaret-curtis-obituary/Thu, 07 Apr 2022 18:59:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/margaret-curtis-obituary/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/english-heritage-brings-to-life-corbridge-roman-towns-lost-edwardian-navvies/Thu, 07 Apr 2022 08:01:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/english-heritage-brings-to-life-corbridge-roman-towns-lost-edwardian-navvies/ The 'heads' of a contemporary coin, with a head of the god Bacchus, thatwas sampled as part of the project [Credit: University of Warwick]
Researchers at the University of Warwick and the University of Liverpool have an]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/analysis-of-roman-coins-uncovers-evidence-of-financial-crisis/Wed, 06 Apr 2022 18:55:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/analysis-of-roman-coins-uncovers-evidence-of-financial-crisis/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/researchers-use-skull-ct-scans-to-estimate-assigned-sex-at-birth/Wed, 06 Apr 2022 16:59:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/researchers-use-skull-ct-scans-to-estimate-assigned-sex-at-birth/ Layered ice in Burroughs crater on Mars, with imagery from THEMIS (left) and HiRISE (right panels).
 The i]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/mounds-of-ice-in-craters-give-new-insight-into-mars-past-climate/Wed, 06 Apr 2022 16:52:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/mounds-of-ice-in-craters-give-new-insight-into-mars-past-climate/ A lifesize cast of T. rex in the atrium of UC Berkeley's Valley Life SciencesBuilding shows how peculiarly short the dinosaur's forearms were, giventhat the creature was the most ferocious predator of its day
[Credit: Peg Skorpinski]
He would usually list a range of pal]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/t-rexs-short-arms-may-have-lowered-risk-of-bites-during-feeding-frenzies/Wed, 06 Apr 2022 16:51:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/t-rexs-short-arms-may-have-lowered-risk-of-bites-during-feeding-frenzies/ Kepler-186f was the first rocky planet to be found within the habitable zone, the region arounda host star where the temperature is right for liquid water [Credit: NASA]
Exoplanets are what planets are called when they orbit stars outside our own solar system, and the effort t]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/refined-space-weather-model-could-help-scientists-find-life-elsewhere/Wed, 06 Apr 2022 16:51:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/refined-space-weather-model-could-help-scientists-find-life-elsewhere/ Azimuthal anisotropy (black dashed lines showing the fast direction of wave speeds) in the mantle at
 200 km depth plotted on top of vertically polarized shear wave speed perturbations (dVsv) after20 iterations based on global azimuthally anisotropic adjoint tomography. The maximumpea]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/planet-scale-mri-high-resolution-illumination-of-earths-interior-down-to-the-planets-core/Wed, 06 Apr 2022 16:51:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/planet-scale-mri-high-resolution-illumination-of-earths-interior-down-to-the-planets-core/ Credit: Pexels
A new study has revealed that changes to ozone levels in the upper and lower atmosphere were responsible for almost a third of the warming seen in ocean waters bordering Antarctica in the second half of the 20th century.
The deep and rapid warming in the Southern Ocean affects its role as one of the main region]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ozone-may-be-heating-the-planet-more-than-we-realise/Wed, 06 Apr 2022 16:51:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ozone-may-be-heating-the-planet-more-than-we-realise/ Lake El´gygytgyn [Cred]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/million-year-old-arctic-sedimentary-record-sheds-light-on-climate-mystery/Wed, 06 Apr 2022 16:51:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/million-year-old-arctic-sedimentary-record-sheds-light-on-climate-mystery/ An ice core from the Greenland ice sheet [Credit: Tsutomu Uchida]
On the massive sheets of ice that stretch across Greenland and Antarctica, the temperature is so low that not even the summer sun can melt the snow deposited onto them. As the snow accumulates without melting and settles deeper into the ice sheet, it traps air from the atmos]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/argon-found-in-air-of-ancient-atmosphere/Wed, 06 Apr 2022 16:51:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/argon-found-in-air-of-ancient-atmosphere/ Plants with a non-functional AOP2 gene foster the coexistence of aphids and the aphids’ natural ene]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-single-gene-controls-species-diversity-in-an-ecosystem/Wed, 06 Apr 2022 16:51:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-single-gene-controls-species-diversity-in-an-ecosystem/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-human-genome-is-at-long-last-complete/Wed, 06 Apr 2022 16:50:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-human-genome-is-at-long-last-complete/ Brain size corrected for body size in extinct vs. extant species. (A) Log10 transformed endocast volume
 as a function of body mass, extinction status (extant: circles and filled regression line; extinct:
 triangles and dashed regression line) and taxonomic order. Blue:]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/mammals-with-larger-brains-were-more-likely-to-survive-extinction-in-late-quaternary/Wed, 06 Apr 2022 16:50:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/mammals-with-larger-brains-were-more-likely-to-survive-extinction-in-late-quaternary/ Crania and virtual endocasts inside the translucent cranium of the Paleocene mammal Arctocyon (left)
 and the Eocene mammal Hyrachyus (right) [Credit: Ornella Bertrand & Sarah Shelley]
For the first 10 million years after dinosaurs died out, mammals prioritised boosting their body size to adapt to radical shifts in the make-up of Earth&]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/mammals-put-brawn-before-brains-to-survive-post-dinosaur-world/Wed, 06 Apr 2022 16:50:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/mammals-put-brawn-before-brains-to-survive-post-dinosaur-world/ Complex T69, Bed II, Olduvai/I. de la Torre [Credit: CENIEH]
The Olduvai Gorge is known worldwide for its rich Lowe]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/direct-cosmogenic-nuclide-dating-of-olduvai-lithic-industry/Wed, 06 Apr 2022 16:50:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/direct-cosmogenic-nuclide-dating-of-olduvai-lithic-industry/ The United States returned a cache of smuggled ancient artifacts to Libya on Thursday asthe oil-rich Mediterranean country struggles to protect its ancient heritage agains]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/us-returns-smuggled-ancient-artifacts-to-libya/Wed, 06 Apr 2022 16:49:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/us-returns-smuggled-ancient-artifacts-to-libya/ Châtelperronian lithic assemblage: Aranbaltza II, US4b (Châtelperronian) archaeological materials.1) Complete thin Châtelperronian point; 2–4) Proximal fragments of thin Châtelperroni]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/tools-reveal-patterns-of-neanderthal-extinction-in-the-iberian-peninsula/Wed, 06 Apr 2022 16:49:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/tools-reveal-patterns-of-neanderthal-extinction-in-the-iberian-peninsula/ A new study of black-handed spider monkeys in Panama shows that they seek out and eat fruit that
&n]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/study-supports-drunken-monkey-hypothesis-humans-inherited-love-of-alcohol-from-primate-ancestors/Wed, 06 Apr 2022 16:49:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/study-supports-drunken-monkey-hypothesis-humans-inherited-love-of-alcohol-from-primate-ancestors/ Dating of tiny zircon crystals reveal the age of volcanic rocks in the Karoo province[Credit: Arto Luttinen]
Severe environmental crises led to a series of large-scale extinction events in the Jurassic period 178-186 million years (my]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/periodic-volcanism-triggered-multiple-jurassic-extinctions/Wed, 06 Apr 2022 16:49:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/periodic-volcanism-triggered-multiple-jurassic-extinctions/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/origins-of-the-avars-elucidated-with-ancient-dna/Wed, 06 Apr 2022 16:49:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/origins-of-the-avars-elucidated-with-ancient-dna/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/we-dig-willow-house/Wed, 06 Apr 2022 16:24:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/we-dig-willow-house/ It costs £300, or £50 a day. The price excludes accommodation and food but the site is a 10 minute walk from Stirl]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/kings-park/Wed, 06 Apr 2022 16:24:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/kings-park/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/dig-glengarnock-castle/Wed, 06 Apr 2022 16:24:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/dig-glengarnock-castle/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/dig-at-caerfai-promontory-fort/Wed, 06 Apr 2022 16:24:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/dig-at-caerfai-promontory-fort/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/st-guthlacs-hermitage-at-crowland/Wed, 06 Apr 2022 14:46:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/st-guthlacs-hermitage-at-crowland/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-lawn-lincoln-archaeology-field-school-2022/Wed, 06 Apr 2022 14:41:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-lawn-lincoln-archaeology-field-school-2022/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/lincoln-archaeology-field-school/Wed, 06 Apr 2022 14:41:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/lincoln-archaeology-field-school/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/mungo-man-and-mungo-lady-to-be-reburied-in-willandra-world-heritage-area-after-federal-decision/Wed, 06 Apr 2022 07:36:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/mungo-man-and-mungo-lady-to-be-reburied-in-willandra-world-heritage-area-after-federal-decision/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/murder-of-a-factoid-about-mallorca/Sat, 02 Apr 2022 23:54:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/murder-of-a-factoid-about-mallorca/ Evolution of simulated properties in the main Thesan run. Time progresses from left to right. The dark
 matter (top panel) collapse in the cosmic web]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/astronomers-reveal-remarkable-simulations-of-the-early-universe-from-the-dark-ages-through-first-light/Sat, 02 Apr 2022 12:41:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/astronomers-reveal-remarkable-simulations-of-the-early-universe-from-the-dark-ages-through-first-light/ View of Tombs in high altitudes. Excavated from Jierzankale site in Tashikuergan,Kashi region [Credit: Yan Xuguang, Kashi Daily]
However, the interflow and blending of these diverse populations in Xinjiang can be traced furthe]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/5000-year-population-history-of-xinjiang-brought-to-light-in-new-ancient-dna-study/Sat, 02 Apr 2022 12:40:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/5000-year-population-history-of-xinjiang-brought-to-light-in-new-ancient-dna-study/ Rugged eastern coast of Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia[Credit: University of Auckland]
In a unique transdisciplinary study of the Marquesan past, University of Auckland archaeologist Professor Melinda Allen, paleoentomologist Dr Nick Porch and paleobotanist Tara Lewis of Deakin University's]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-marquesas-islands-window-into-a-lost-world/Sat, 02 Apr 2022 12:32:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-marquesas-islands-window-into-a-lost-world/ Reconstruction of the extinct owl Miosurnia diurna perched in a tree with its las]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/first-fossil-of-a-daytime-active-owl-found-at-the-edge-of-the-tibetan-plateau/Sat, 02 Apr 2022 12:08:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/first-fossil-of-a-daytime-active-owl-found-at-the-edge-of-the-tibetan-plateau/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/evidence-of-massive-wildfires-in-india-145-million-to-100-million-years-ago/Sat, 02 Apr 2022 11:59:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/evidence-of-massive-wildfires-in-india-145-million-to-100-million-years-ago/ Credit: University of Aberdeen
Discovered in Cramond in 1975 they were originally thought to be victims of the plague or a s]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/isotopic-investigation-reveals-life-history-of-bog-bodies-in-scotland/Sat, 02 Apr 2022 11:35:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/isotopic-investigation-reveals-life-history-of-bog-bodies-in-scotland/ Past scents can be recovered from scent a]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/smells-like-ancient-society-scientists-find-ways-to-study-and-reconstruct-past-scents/Sat, 02 Apr 2022 11:28:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/smells-like-ancient-society-scientists-find-ways-to-study-and-reconstruct-past-scents/ A sponge on the sandy bottom of the ocean. Scientists are interested in the atmospheric levelof oxygen on Earth during earlier times because the evolution of life depends on availableoxygen. Ani]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/reevaluation-puts-mid-proterozoic-oxygen-levels-higher-than-previously-reported/Sat, 02 Apr 2022 11:20:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/reevaluation-puts-mid-proterozoic-oxygen-levels-higher-than-previously-reported/ Credit: University of Sydney
University of Sydney scientists have used the geological record of the deep sea to discover that past global warming has sped up deep ocean circulation.
This is one of the missing links for pre]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/global-warming-speeds-up-currents-in-the-oceans-abyss/Sat, 02 Apr 2022 11:20:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/global-warming-speeds-up-currents-in-the-oceans-abyss/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/rapid-glacial-advance-reconstructed-during-the-time-of-norse-occupation-in-greenland/Sat, 02 Apr 2022 11:06:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/rapid-glacial-advance-reconstructed-during-the-time-of-norse-occupation-in-greenland/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/british-museum-facing-legal-action-over-parthenon-marbles-3d-scan-refusal/Tue, 29 Mar 2022 11:32:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/british-museum-facing-legal-action-over-parthenon-marbles-3d-scan-refusal/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/robot-dog-called-in-to-help-manage-pompeii/Mon, 28 Mar 2022 19:01:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/robot-dog-called-in-to-help-manage-pompeii/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/chiles-archaeologists-fight-to-save-the-worlds-oldest-mummies-from-climate-change/Sat, 26 Mar 2022 11:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/chiles-archaeologists-fight-to-save-the-worlds-oldest-mummies-from-climate-change/ Spinosaurus hunting [Credit: Davide Bonadonna]
In a new paper, published in Nature, a group of palaeontologists have taken a different approach to decipher the lifestyle of long-extinct creatures: examining the density of their bones.
By analysing the density of spinosaurid bones and comparing them to other animals lik]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/dense-bones-allowed-spinosaurus-to-hunt-underwater/Fri, 25 Mar 2022 22:14:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/dense-bones-allowed-spinosaurus-to-hunt-underwater/ Arthropod (Naroia) [Credit: Dr Xiaoya Ma]
The Cambrian Explosion, more than 500 million years ago, saw the rapid spread of bilaterian species -- symmetrical along a central line, like most of today's animals (including humans). 
The 518-million-year-old Chengjiang Biota -- in Yunnan, south-west China -- is one of the oldest groups of animal fossils currently known to scie]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/modern-animal-life-could-have-origins-in-delta/Fri, 25 Mar 2022 22:07:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/modern-animal-life-could-have-origins-in-delta/ Example of ceramics that have been studied through the analysis of lipid residues and botanical
 micro-remains (phytoliths and starches) [Credit: Universitat Pompeu Fabra]
“Fatty molecules and microscopic remains from plants]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/leftovers-in-prehistoric-pots-let-scientists-peek-into-the-kitchen-of-the-bronze-age-indus-valley-civilization/Fri, 25 Mar 2022 21:59:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/leftovers-in-prehistoric-pots-let-scientists-peek-into-the-kitchen-of-the-bronze-age-indus-valley-civilization/ Machu Picchu, Peru [Credit: Roberto H., Unsplash]
More than 110 years after Bingham's first]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/study-reconsiders-name-of-perus-machu-picchu/Fri, 25 Mar 2022 21:46:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/study-reconsiders-name-of-perus-machu-picchu/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/last-of-the-giant-camels-and-archaic-humans-lived-together-in-mongolia-until-27000-years-ago/Fri, 25 Mar 2022 21:32:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/last-of-the-giant-camels-and-archaic-humans-lived-together-in-mongolia-until-27000-years-ago/ Belize rock shelter site [Credit: University of New Mexico]
According to the paper "South-to-north migration preceded the advent of intensive farming in the Maya region," published this week in Nature Communications and co-led by Prufer, excavations in Belize, along with ancie]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/migrants-from-south-carrying-maize-were-early-maya-ancestors/Fri, 25 Mar 2022 21:24:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/migrants-from-south-carrying-maize-were-early-maya-ancestors/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/rewriting-the-history-books-why-the-vikings-left-greenland/Fri, 25 Mar 2022 21:07:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/rewriting-the-history-books-why-the-vikings-left-greenland/ Credit: Curtin University
Lead author Curtin PhD graduate Dr Calum Peter Fox, from the WA-Organic and Isotope Geochemistry Centre (WA-OIGC) in Curtin's School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, said the research identified the other factors that contributed to a combination of stres]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/soil-erosion-and-wildfire-another-nail-in-coffin-for-triassic-era/Fri, 25 Mar 2022 21:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/soil-erosion-and-wildfire-another-nail-in-coffin-for-triassic-era/ Mantispa? damzenogedanica, general overview [Credit: V. Baranov]
Mantis lacewings (Mantispida) are among the most charismatic true lacewings. They are 5-47 mm long and have prominent grasping legs that act as snap traps for unsuspecting prey. These legs, also called raptorial, give]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/baltic-amber-reveals-a-lacewing-that-looks-like-a-praying-mantis/Fri, 25 Mar 2022 21:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/baltic-amber-reveals-a-lacewing-that-looks-like-a-praying-mantis/ Artist's impression of dinosaur extinction [Credit: James McKay]
The gases were ejected into the Earth’s atmosphere after a six-mile-wide asteroid hit what is now the Yucatan Peninsula, around 66 million years ago.
The research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in collaborat]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-sulphurous-end-for-the-dinosaurs-according-to-new-research/Fri, 25 Mar 2022 21:00:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/a-sulphurous-end-for-the-dinosaurs-according-to-new-research/ The sand dollar Mellitella stokesii [Credit: Rich Mooi (CC BY 4.0)]
The study suggests that modern echinoids emerged approximately 300 million years ago, survived the Permo-Triassic mass extinction event -- the most severe biodiversity crisis in Earth's history -- and rapidly diversified in its aftermath. These findin]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/study-reconsiders-early-evolution-of-sea-urchins/Fri, 25 Mar 2022 20:59:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/study-reconsiders-early-evolution-of-sea-urchins/ Biologist Michael Landis in Arts & Sciences developed a new method to measure the extent to which
 regional geographic f]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/new-model-predicts-how-geographic-features-influence-evolutionary-outcomes/Fri, 25 Mar 2022 20:59:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/new-model-predicts-how-geographic-features-influence-evolutionary-outcomes/ Marine sediments contain the microscopic shells of organisms called foraminifera that lived
 in the surface waters. The chemical comp]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/effects-of-ancient-carbon-releases-suggest-possible-scenarios-for-future-climate/Fri, 25 Mar 2022 20:06:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/effects-of-ancient-carbon-releases-suggest-possible-scenarios-for-future-climate/ The Hadza people of Tanzania rely on hunting wild game for meat, a task that requiresgreat skill in tracking, teamwork, and accuracy with a bow and]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/size-and-structure-of-hunter-gatherer-societies-driven-by-flows-of-information-and-energy/Fri, 25 Mar 2022 19:45:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/size-and-structure-of-hunter-gatherer-societies-driven-by-flows-of-information-and-energy/ Keep it up#OneOfUsAllOfUs pic.twitter.com/gZkQElcfPZ
— Jo Grady (@DrJoGrady) March 23, 2022Being on strike, again, I have time to write. This post has a silly title but a serious question, as became clear to me late in 2018 when, at t]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/where-do-viscounts-come-from-mummy/Thu, 24 Mar 2022 16:03:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/where-do-viscounts-come-from-mummy/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/machu-picchu-inca-site-has-gone-by-wrong-name-for-over-100-years/Wed, 23 Mar 2022 15:56:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/machu-picchu-inca-site-has-gone-by-wrong-name-for-over-100-years/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/wattle-used-for-tools-food-and-medicine-by-western-desert-traditional-owners-for-50000-years-study-shows/Tue, 22 Mar 2022 04:46:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/wattle-used-for-tools-food-and-medicine-by-western-desert-traditional-owners-for-50000-years-study-shows/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/name-in-print-xxviii-a-large-parcel-from-china/Mon, 21 Mar 2022 23:51:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/name-in-print-xxviii-a-large-parcel-from-china/ The skull of a basilosaurus, an ancient whale, is seen in Lima,Peru on March 17, 2022 [Credit: AFP]
"We have presented the new Peruvian basilosaurus, it is the complete skull of an archaic whale that lived 36 million years ago," paleontologist Mario Urbina, head of the team that discovered the skeleton, told AFP.
Urbina said the basi]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/36-million-year-old-whale-fossil-found-in-peruvian-desert/Mon, 21 Mar 2022 21:45:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/36-million-year-old-whale-fossil-found-in-peruvian-desert/ Dunkleosteus – one of the animals involved in the research [Credit: Nobu Tamura]
Almost all vertebrates are jawed vertebrates, including humans, first evolving more than 400 million years ago and distinguished by their teeth-bearing jaws. Humans owe their evolutionary success to the evolution of jaws, which allowed anim]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ancient-ancestors-evolved-to-be-strong-and-snappy/Mon, 21 Mar 2022 21:39:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ancient-ancestors-evolved-to-be-strong-and-snappy/ RNA molecules were incubated in water-in-oil droplets at 37 degrees Celsius for 5 hours. The solution
 was then diluted to one-fifth the concentration using new droplets conta]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/new-insight-into-the-possible-origins-of-life/Mon, 21 Mar 2022 21:31:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/new-insight-into-the-possible-origins-of-life/ Scientists at the LMU investigated the first stages of molecular evolution inside dew water droplets,
 to mimic the early moments of the origin of life on Earth [Credit: Braun/LMU]
One fundamental question in the field of the Origin of Life is how the first molecules of DNA replicated and evolved on the primordial Earth, more than 4 billio]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-first-stages-of-dna-evolution/Mon, 21 Mar 2022 21:21:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-first-stages-of-dna-evolution/ Map of archaeological potential, randomly selected sites: Archaeological potential was modeledon 90 randomly selected sites (white) and tested with 92 other sites (blue). The five classes of
 archaeological potential are coded from 1 (lowest potential) to 5 (highest potential)[Credit: Rob Rondeau et]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/new-computer-predictive-model-useful-in-identifying-ancient-hunter-gatherer-sites/Mon, 21 Mar 2022 21:12:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/new-computer-predictive-model-useful-in-identifying-ancient-hunter-gatherer-sites/ Skeleton of a male individual aged between 35 and 50 years old with cinnabar painting on the cranium
 [Cred]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-coloured-skeletons-of-atalhyk/Mon, 21 Mar 2022 21:04:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/the-coloured-skeletons-of-atalhyk/ Dr. El-Enany inspects a recently discovered tomb in Saqqara[Credit: Egypt. Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities]
Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Khaled El-Enany and the Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities Mostafa Waziri toured early on Thursday the excavation work carried out by an E]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/five-ancient-egyptian-tombs-discovered-in-saqqara/Mon, 21 Mar 2022 20:49:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/five-ancient-egyptian-tombs-discovered-in-saqqara/ Planimetry of El Zarzalejo, a Roman farm occupied betwee]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/an-archaeological-investigation-analyses-peasant-life-in-roman-spain/Mon, 21 Mar 2022 19:57:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/an-archaeological-investigation-analyses-peasant-life-in-roman-spain/ Credit: Getty Images
For many people, the mention of a volcanic eruption conjures up doomsday scenarios that include deafening explosions, dark ash billowing into t]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ancient-ice-reveals-scores-of-gigantic-volcanic-eruptions/Mon, 21 Mar 2022 19:48:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ancient-ice-reveals-scores-of-gigantic-volcanic-eruptions/ Selected pairs of modern and fossil leaves from a new, large dataset created
by a Penn State-led team of scientists [Credit: Penn State]
"The complexity of leaves is off the ch]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/from-museum-to-laptop-visual-leaf-library-a-new-tool-for-identifying-plants/Mon, 21 Mar 2022 19:37:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/from-museum-to-laptop-visual-leaf-library-a-new-tool-for-identifying-plants/ A ‘big-tank’ chamber of the Bushveld Complex (a) filled with a resident melt that crystallizes into
 the UG1 chromitite at the chamber floor as a 3D framework of touching chromite crystals[Credit: University of the Witwate]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/large-long-lived-and-entirely-molten-magma-chambers-once-existed-in-earths-crust/Mon, 21 Mar 2022 19:31:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/large-long-lived-and-entirely-molten-magma-chambers-once-existed-in-earths-crust/ Composite image showcasing the different aspects of sensory anatomy that can be extracted using
 nondestructive (here, μCT o]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/high-tech-approaches-reveal-the-evolution-of-whale-hearing/Mon, 21 Mar 2022 19:06:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/high-tech-approaches-reveal-the-evolution-of-whale-hearing/ An Arabian oryx in the Al-Wusta Wildlife Reserve, Oman[Credit: Gongora et al., 2022]
The Arabian oryx, a kind of antelope, became extinct in the wild in 1972 due to hunting and poaching. However, it continued to exist in captivity thr]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/staying-alive-arabian-oryx-style/Mon, 21 Mar 2022 18:58:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/staying-alive-arabian-oryx-style/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/research-shows-climate-cooling-affects-how-human-societies-thrive-or-decline/Mon, 21 Mar 2022 18:44:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/research-shows-climate-cooling-affects-how-human-societies-thrive-or-decline/ Moraine is left behind by the retreating Reindeer Glacier on September 8, 2021 near Kangerlussuaq,
 Greenland. 2021 marked one of the biggest ice melt years for Greenland in recorded history.
 Researchers from Denmark estimated that in July of that year enough ice melted on the Green]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ice-sheet-retreat-and-forest-expansion-turned-ancient-subtropical-drylands-into-oases/Mon, 21 Mar 2022 18:37:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/ice-sheet-retreat-and-forest-expansion-turned-ancient-subtropical-drylands-into-oases/ Around 2.3 billion years ago, oxygen began building up in the atmosphere, eventually reaching
 the life-sustaining levels we breathe today. A new hypothesis proposed by MIT scientistssuggests a mechanism for how this may have happened. Pict]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/microbes-and-minerals-may-have-set-off-earths-oxygenation/Mon, 21 Mar 2022 18:28:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/microbes-and-minerals-may-have-set-off-earths-oxygenation/ Pictured is a continuously spouting cauldron of near-boiling water, one of a dozen spanning a 10-acre
 geothermal field at Mangra in southern Tibet. Helium-isotope geochemistry shows it sits above
 the northern edge of the Indian plate 50 miles below, where India is underthrust]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/hot-springs-reveal-where-continental-plates-collide-beneath-tibet/Mon, 21 Mar 2022 18:17:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/hot-springs-reveal-where-continental-plates-collide-beneath-tibet/ Diegoalerus reconstruction [Credit: San Diego Natural History Museum]
"Today, the ability to eat an all-meat diet, also c]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/new-sabre-tooth-predator-precedes-cats-by-millions-of-years/Mon, 21 Mar 2022 18:05:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/new-sabre-tooth-predator-precedes-cats-by-millions-of-years/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/how-indigenous-burning-shaped-the-klamaths-forests-for-a-millennia/Mon, 21 Mar 2022 17:52:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/how-indigenous-burning-shaped-the-klamaths-forests-for-a-millennia/ In collaboration with Laboratoire des Science du Climat et de l’Environnement, France, the PICEteam has studied the ancient air trapped inside tiny air bubbles in an Antarctic ice core[Credit: S. Kipfstuhl, AWI]
Even under ice age conditions will pla]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/past-global-photosynthesis-reacted-quickly-to-more-carbon-in-the-air/Mon, 21 Mar 2022 17:42:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/past-global-photosynthesis-reacted-quickly-to-more-carbon-in-the-air/ — Mark Taylor-Batty (@cupofassam) March 19, 2022I’m sorry to have gone so silent after such an attempt to provoke debate here. I thought I was coming to the end of a period of strike action; instead, as you may already have seen, we were merely between bouts since the university em]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/metablog-xvii-upcoming-this-week/Mon, 21 Mar 2022 16:06:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/metablog-xvii-upcoming-this-week/https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/part-of-the-way-to-stonehenge-to-be-restored-to-how-ancient-pilgrims-saw-it/Mon, 21 Mar 2022 07:01:00 +0100https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/profession/archaeology/part-of-the-way-to-stonehenge-to-be-restored-to-how-ancient-pilgrims-saw-it/