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- Oxford Viking massacre revealed by skeleton find
- Iron Age people gave interiors of dwellings a decorative streak
- Stone Age toe could redraw human family tree
- Salme Yields Evidence of Oldest Sailing Ship in Baltic Sea
- Snails help date Britain's last three million years
| Oxford Viking massacre revealed by skeleton find Posted: 12 Aug 2011 07:24 AM PDT Evidence of a brutal massacre of Vikings in Oxford 1100 years ago has been uncovered by archaeologists. At least 35 skeletons, all males aged 16 to 25 were discovered in 2008 at St John's College, Oxford. Analysis of wound marks on the bones now suggests they had been subjected to violence. Archaeologists analysing the find believe it dates from 1002 AD when King Ethelred the Unready ordered a massacre of all Danes (Vikings) in England. Read the rest of this article...  |
| Iron Age people gave interiors of dwellings a decorative streak Posted: 12 Aug 2011 07:20 AM PDT Archaeologists in Saxony-Anhalt have discovered a 2,600-year-old wall painted in bright patterns. It reveals that Iron Age houses were not the drab constructions they were once thought to be. The State Museum for Prehistory in the eastern German city of Halle put part of the prehistoric clay wall on display on Monday. The wall was apparently part of a sprawling, Iron Age human settlement. Read the rest of this article...  |
| Stone Age toe could redraw human family tree Posted: 12 Aug 2011 07:18 AM PDT ON THE western fringes of Siberia, the Stone Age Denisova cave has surrendered precious treasure: a toe bone that could shed light on early humans' promiscuous relations with their hominin cousins. New Scientist has learned that the bone is now in the care of Svante Pääbo at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, who revealed the first genetic evidence of interbreeding between ancient humans and other hominins (New Scientist, 30 July, p 34). There are tantalising hints that the find strengthens the case for a third major group of hominins circulating in Eurasia at the same time as early humans and the Neanderthals. It might possibly even prove all three groups were interbreeding (see diagram). Read the rest of this article...  |
| Salme Yields Evidence of Oldest Sailing Ship in Baltic Sea Posted: 12 Aug 2011 07:15 AM PDT The ancient ship burial site in Salme on the island of Saaremaa still has some surprises in store. The archeological excavations in Salme, soon to be completed, have yielded evidence that the ship that had been buried with 35 warriors and nobles had a keel, which in turn leads to the conclusion that it used sails. This represents the earliest known use of sails on a vessel in the Baltic Sea region, reported ETV. Read the rest of this article...  |
| Snails help date Britain's last three million years Posted: 12 Aug 2011 07:02 AM PDT Scientists have built the most comprehensive timeline yet for working out the exact order in which geological and archaeological events happened in Britain over the last three million years. And they've done it using fossilised snails. Snail The mammoth 11-year project, published online in Nature, is the most comprehensive of its kind and clears up a number of archaeological and geological debates. Read the rest of this article...  |
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