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- Viking Quiz
- How Scandinavian is Scotland?
- Scientists Discover Some Keys to Human Brain Evolution
- Skeletons under patio
- Proposal for Archaeological Research Centre for Uist to be looked at
- Violent knights feared posttraumatic stress
- Framework Archaeology Heathrow Terminal 5 Excavation Archive
- Historic Cwmbran finds declared treasure
- Ireland’s earliest surviving example of a timber framed house
- Weir complex and medieval quay the latest archaeological finds in Galway bay
- 'Witch's cottage' unearthed near Pendle Hill, Lancashire
- Pendle witches pogrom haunts water workers after find of mummified cat
- Archaeologists unearth 7th-century house in Yorkshire Dales
- New study of Western Isles' sand dune-buried artefacts
- Russian scientists to clone woolly mammoth
| Posted: 08 Dec 2011 07:09 AM PST What do you know about the Vikings? Try this online quiz. It loads 10 randomly selected questions from a large database, so each time that you return to the site you get a different set of questions. You can find the Viking Quiz here…Viking Quiz  |
| Posted: 08 Dec 2011 06:04 AM PST The Scottish government is exploring closer links with Nordic nations in the event of independence, reports have suggested. But just how similar is Scotland to its northern neighbours? They don't make bridies in Bergen or Tunnock's Tea Cakes in Torsby. Nor is Hakkebøf half as popular in Hamilton or Helensburgh as it is in Hvidovre. But the North Sea which separates Scotland from Scandinavia could become slightly less of a divide if political leaders in Edinburgh have their way. Read the rest of this article...  |
| Scientists Discover Some Keys to Human Brain Evolution Posted: 08 Dec 2011 12:33 AM PST The questions surrounding why and how the human brain has evolved over the past six million years as compared to other primates in the evolutionary timeline have been central in the discussions of human origins research for many years. When and how did this happen? Some possible clues may have emerged as a result of new research by an international team of scientists in China and Germany, suggesting that changes in the activity levels of certain genes of the human brain during brain development may have been the cause, and that these changes were controlled by key regulatory molecules called microRNAs. As reported in the open-access journal PLoS Biology, the researchers analyzed brain genetic activity in humans, chimpanzees and macaques across their lifetimes, beginning with newborns. They targeted two key brain regions: the cerebellum, which controls movement, and the prefrontal cortex, which plays a major role in cognitive behavior, such as abstract thought, innovation and social interaction. What they found was that the human gene activity displayed a markedly different pattern during individual life-time human brain development from that of chimpanzee and macaque primate counterparts. Moreover, the distinquishing patterns were most pronounced in the prefrontal cortex, where, for example, genes showing the human-specific changes were four times as numerous as those showing the chimpanzee-specific changes. Many of the genes showing the human-specific patterns were identified as having neural functions, suggesting a connection to cognitive development. Read the rest of this article...  |
| Posted: 08 Dec 2011 12:29 AM PST A COUPLE were shocked to discover a number of bodies under their patio during construction work at their home in Ratley last week. Builders were digging up the patio of keen historians Stephen and Nicky West when the discovery of at least four bodies was made and the couple promptly called archaeology experts from Warwickshire County Council. The archaeologists identified the remains as the bodies of two adult females, a young male and a child aged between ten and 12. It was determined that the find was of considerable historic importance and that any foul play had taken place a very long time ago. An archaeological survey was carried out and radiocarbon dating showed the remains date back to about 650-820AD, known as the middle Saxon period. Read the rest of this article...  |
| Proposal for Archaeological Research Centre for Uist to be looked at Posted: 08 Dec 2011 12:27 AM PST The Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund, managed by the Museums Association, has awarded one of six grants, from a total of 118 applications, to the Comhairle. Museum nan Eilean and the Archaeology Service received £85,000 to develop research into the Udal archaeological collections and investigate potential for an Archaeological Resource Centre on North Uist. The grant will enable the Archaeology Service to work with the North Uist Development Company to develop and secure the necessary funding for an innovative research project which will ensure that the Udal Collections are finally thoroughly researched and a final report produced. It will also enable a feasibility study into an Archaeological Resource Centre on the island of North Uist and the social, academic and economic impacts it would yield not only locally but nationally. Read the rest of this article...  |
| Violent knights feared posttraumatic stress Posted: 08 Dec 2011 12:26 AM PST Medieval knights are often depicted as bloodthirsty men who enjoyed killing. But that is a completely wrong picture, new research shows. The knights did not kill just because they wanted to, but because it was their job – precisely like soldiers today. Nor were the Middle Ages as violent as we think, despite their different perception of violence compared to ours. "Modern military psychology enables us to read medieval texts in a new way – giving us insight into the perception of violence in the Middle Ages in the general population and the use of lethal violence by knights," says Thomas Heebøll-Holm of the SAXO Institute at the University of Copenhagen, who researches the perception of violence in the late Middle Ages. Read the rest of this article...  |
| Framework Archaeology Heathrow Terminal 5 Excavation Archive Posted: 08 Dec 2011 12:24 AM PST Framework Archaeology is a Joint Venture agreement between Oxford Archaeology (OA) and Wessex Archaeology (WA) to provide archaeological services to BAA. Given the potential scale of some of BAA's projects, the joint venture enables Framework Archaeology to draw on the full resources of both OA and WA, including site staff, specialist managers, administrative support, and technical facilities. This combination of resources (totalling over 300 staff) considerably reduces risk for both our client and us, and provides Framework Archaeology with a wider skills base. Framework Archaeology is committed to a particular archaeological philosophy developed by BAA's archaeological consultants, Gill Andrews and John Barrett. This is concerned with understanding how people inhabited past landscapes: archaeology as a study of people rather than deposits or objects. This approach is at the heart of the Archaeological Policy adopted by the BAA Main Board. Framework projects are thus academically driven but undertaken within a commercial environment. In order to fulfil the approach a Framework Archaeology recording system has been developed and is now in operation on all Framework Projects. It places great emphasis on interpretation in addition to recording, and developing a historical narrative as the site is excavated (Andrews, Barrett & Lewis 2000). Read the rest of this article...  |
| Historic Cwmbran finds declared treasure Posted: 08 Dec 2011 12:22 AM PST TREASURE dating from the late Bronze Age was found in a Cwmbran field, an inquest in Newport was told yesterday. The plain pegged spearhead fragment and the single runner casting jet were found by David Harrison while metal detecting in Llantarnam in March last year. A casting jet is a plug of metal which fits into a mould and is knocked out when the object is completed. Read the rest of this article...  |
| Ireland’s earliest surviving example of a timber framed house Posted: 08 Dec 2011 12:20 AM PST Dendrochronological analysis is expected to conclude that the timber structure at Chapel Lane, Parnell Street, Ennis, dates back to the late 16th century. The house was first inspected in 2008 by Clare County Council's Conservation Officer, who recommended that the property undergo structural repair work. Following detailed technical analyses by the National Monuments Service, officials from Ennis Town Council and Consulting Conservation Engineers, it was concluded that the structure was unstable and represented a danger to the general public. Read the rest of this article...  |
| Weir complex and medieval quay the latest archaeological finds in Galway bay Posted: 08 Dec 2011 12:18 AM PST AN EXTENSIVE tidal weir complex close to Barna and a late medieval quay on Mutton Island have become the latest in a series of recent archaeological finds in Galway Bay. The finds are "transforming our knowledge" of a "neglected aspect" of Connacht's maritime history, according to Connemara archaeologist Michael Gibbons. The tidal weir complex in Rusheen Bay, to the west of the city, is visible at low tide and appears as a series of stone rapids across a fast-flowing tidal race mouth, Gibbons says. Read the rest of this article...  |
| 'Witch's cottage' unearthed near Pendle Hill, Lancashire Posted: 08 Dec 2011 12:15 AM PST Engineers have said they were "stunned" to unearth a 17th Century cottage, complete with a mummified cat, during a construction project in Lancashire. Archaeologists brought in by United Utilities to survey the area found the building under a grass mound. Read the rest of this article...  |
| Pendle witches pogrom haunts water workers after find of mummified cat Posted: 08 Dec 2011 12:13 AM PST Jacobean era's infamous witchcraft trials recalled after reservoir repairs at Pendle Hill dig out cottage with bricked-up feline Forlorn traces of England's most notorious pogrom against witches appear to have been unearthed by water engineers engaged in humdrum improvements to a Pennine reservoir. A buried cottage with a sealed room and a mummified cat bricked up in a wall has been discovered in the heart of the "witching country" of Pendle in Lancashire. Read the rest of this article...  |
| Archaeologists unearth 7th-century house in Yorkshire Dales Posted: 07 Dec 2011 03:00 PM PST Humanity's long attachment to Yorkshire has notched up another piece of early evidence with the discovery of the first 7th-century house to be recorded in the Dales national park. Volunteer archaeologists dug down into an outcrop of stones on the flanks of Ingleborough fell, one of the Three Peaks famous for walks and marathon runs, where settlements were thought to exist but none had been excavated owing to shortages of time, expertise and funds. The team revealed two chamber rooms with charcoal remains and pieces of chert, a hard flint knapped in ancient times to make tools. Carbon-dating of the charcoal has placed the use of the building at between AD660 and AD780, when Anglo-Saxon kingdoms were consolidating in northern England. Read the rest of this article...  |
| New study of Western Isles' sand dune-buried artefacts Posted: 07 Dec 2011 02:58 PM PST New research is being carried out on artefacts recovered from a site where evidence was found for every age from the Neolithic to the 20th Century. Some of the evidence at the site on North Uist was preserved by wind-blown sand dunes. Archaeologist Ian Crawford excavated Udal between 1963 and 1995. Read the rest of this article...  |
| Russian scientists to clone woolly mammoth Posted: 07 Dec 2011 02:56 PM PST Scientists from Russia and Japan are undertaking a Jurassic Park-style experiment to bring the woolly mammoth out of extinction. The team claim that the cloning could be complete within the next five years. But others have cast doubt on whether such a thing is possible. Read the rest of this article...  |
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