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- Langstone Harbour Saxon logboat in Portsmouth display
- Northampton archaeologists find man who could be 1,600-years-old
- Part Ape, Part Human
- Carving found in Gower cave could be oldest rock art
| Langstone Harbour Saxon logboat in Portsmouth display Posted: 26 Jul 2011 08:58 AM PDT A 1,500-year-old logboat found buried in the mudflats of a harbour in Hampshire has gone on display. The Saxon boat excavated from Langstone Harbour in 2003 can be seen in an exhibition at Portsmouth City Museum. The hollowed out oak tree formed a wooden canoe, which was probably used by local people around 500 AD. Read the rest of this article...  |
| Northampton archaeologists find man who could be 1,600-years-old Posted: 26 Jul 2011 08:52 AM PDT ARCHAEOLOGISTS from Northampton have discovered human remains which could be more than 1,600 years old. The team from Northamptonshire Archaeology discovered the remains of a man while they were carrying out investigations on a building site. A small piece of pottery found alongside the crouched skeleton was used to date the burial to somewhere between the years 43 and 410 – suggesting the body is Roman. Read the rest of this article...  |
| Posted: 26 Jul 2011 08:51 AM PDT A new ancestor emerges from the richest collection of fossil skeletons ever found. Lee Berger is standing in a death trap, smiling. It is a hole in the ground about 25 miles northwest of Johannesburg, in a ridged brown valley where herds of giraffes occasionally parade between stands of trees. The red-rock walls of the pit are higher than Berger's head, and steep enough in spots to make a scramble up, or down, rather daunting. Some two million years ago, the hole was a great deal deeper, with no possibility of escape for any creature that fell in. This accounts for the trove of fossils Berger is finding, which in turn accounts for his upbeat mood. He leans over a red boulder near the pit bottom, tracing a white-colored protrusion with his fingers. "It looks like part of an arm," he says. "That means we've found another individual." Read the rest of this article...  |
| Carving found in Gower cave could be oldest rock art Posted: 26 Jul 2011 08:49 AM PDT An archaeologist believes a wall carving in a south Wales cave could be Britain's oldest example of rock art. The faint scratchings of a speared reindeer are believed to have been carved by a hunter-gatherer in the Ice Age more than 14,000 years ago. The archaeologist who found the carving on the Gower peninsula, Dr George Nash, called it "very, very exciting." Experts are working to verify the discovery, although its exact location is being kept secret for now. Read the rest of this article...  |
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