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With no passports, Vikings filed grooves into their teeth for ID

Metro UK 19 Apr 2024
Filed teeth of the individuals found on the Swedish isle of Gotland (Picture. Current Swedish Archaeology/Lisa Hartzell/SHM) ... The authors wrote ... More Trending ... Read More Stories ... The research was published in the journal Current Swedish Archaeology. MORE .
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Excavations uncover Aegean bronze mirror at Hal Sultan Tekke

Heritage Daily 18 Apr 2024
Archaeologists have uncovered an Aegean bronze mirror during excavations at Hal Sultan Tekke, Cyprus. Hal Sultan Tekke is a Late Bronze Age harbour city and cemetery on the south-eastern coast of Cyprus ... Wiley ... M ... Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 43.
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Thousands of years ago, people lived in a massive lava tube

Metro UK 18 Apr 2024
... and with further investigation, they present a key source of archaeological information about the history of human occupation in Arabia.’. The findings were published in the journal PLoS One.
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The Alaca Höyük meteoric dagger

Heritage Daily 17 Apr 2024
The study concluded the dagger was produced using meteoric iron, which was confirmed in a 2017 geochemical analysis published in the Journal of Archaeological Science.
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Did Homo Erectus Have Language, Build Boats, And Sail Across Oceans?

IFL Science 17 Apr 2024
Advertisement. First appearing in the archaeological record around 2 million years ago, H. erectus spread through Eurasia before disappearing a little over 100,000 years ago ... Advertisement ... The study is published in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal. .
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Medieval hermit’s home reveals huge surprise

Metro UK 17 Apr 2024
The prehistoric henge at Crowland (Picture. The Anchor Church Field Project). Archaeologists have accidentally unearthed a monumental prehistoric henge in Crowland, Lincolnshire ... The findings have been published in the Journal of Field Archaeology ... ....
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Oldest City Found on a Pacific Island Was Constructed in 300 AD in Tonga

Ancient Origins 16 Apr 2024
... form and that the processes of urbanization began prior to state development,” the study authors wrote in a new article about their study appearing in the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory.
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LiDAR reveals first Pacific cities founded in AD 300

Heritage Daily 16 Apr 2024
A new study, published in the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory has provided new evidence to suggest that the first Pacific cities were founded in AD 300, 700 years earlier than previously thought.
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Long-Lost Remains Of Ancient City In South Pacific Rewrite History

IFL Science 16 Apr 2024
This is 700 years earlier than previously thought,” lead study author Phillip Parton, PhD scholar of archaeology at the ... The study is published in the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory.
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Archaeologists were looking for a saint but found a Stone Age surprise

Metro UK 16 Apr 2024
The prehistoric henge at Crowland (Picture. The Anchor Church Field Project). Archaeologists have accidentally unearthed a monumental prehistoric henge in Crowland, Lincolnshire ... The findings have been published in the Journal of Field Archaeology ... ....
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Lynx found at bottom of Roman era pit, along with four dogs, mystifies archaeologists

Phys Dot Org 15 Apr 2024
A team of archaeologists at the Institute of Archaeology, HUN-REN Research Center for the Humanities, in ... Stature and archaeological interpretations, International Journal of Osteoarchaeology (2024).
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New Study Links Decline and Fall of Ancient Teotihuacan to Earthquakes

Ancient Origins 15 Apr 2024
The reasons for the decline and abandonment of the mighty Mesoamerican city-state of Teotihuacan in the seventh century AD have long remained a mystery ... However, a new study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science ... (Wangkun Jia/Adobe Stock).
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Pacific cities found to be much older than previously thought

Phys Dot Org 11 Apr 2024
The study used aerial laser scanning to map archaeological sites on the island of Tongatapu in Tonga and has been published in the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory.
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Are Toro Muerto's Petroglyphs in Peru Hallucinogenic Visions in Stone?

Ancient Origins 10 Apr 2024
/ Cambridge Archaeological Journal) ... However, the latest research published in Cambridge Archaeological Journal, challenges these notions, drawing parallels with the artistic motifs of the Tukano people of the Colombian rainforest.
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Archaeologists have new explanation for Otzi the Iceman’s tattoos

The Mercury News 10 Apr 2024
The study, published in the European Journal of Archaeology on March 13, reviewed existing literature on Ötzi’s tattoos and drew on present-day experiments replicating ancient tattooing techniques.
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