The popular perception of archaeology is a team of dusty individuals in wide-brimmed hats unearthing treasures from a pharaoh’s tomb or an ancient collection of Native American artifacts. Archaeology is that, but it is also a social science that utilizes information from other disciplines to inform and enhance archaeological data and to provide input to [...]
The recovery of a mysterious wooden pole at the bottom of Lake Huron is fuelling excitement among U.S. and Canadian researchers that they have found more evidence of a “lost world” of North American caribou hunters from nearly 10,000 years ago. The scientists believe that these prehistoric Aboriginal People – who would have been among [...]
Discovery of the necklace of the ancestor of the Mayan- Señor de la Greca – Lord of the Fret Design, the Return to the ancestor at Tak’alik Ab’aj. This is the latest finding at the ancient city of Tak’alik Ab’aj. Tak’alik Ab’aj fulfilled for almost two millenniums, a rich and vigorous role in Mesoamerican history. [...]
The excavation works carried out by the national expedition working at the site of the southern Roman bathhouses in the archaeological city of Bosra has unearthed several archaeological finds dating back to various historical eras. Member of the expedition, Alaa al-Saleh said that the finds include a channel made of basalt stones and parts of [...]
The Ministry of Communications and Works, Department of Antiquities, announces the completion of the eighteenth excavation season at the Medieval Sugar Mill of Kolossi, in Limassol District. The excavations, which lasted for four weeks, from 31st of October until 25th of November 2011, were under the direction of the Curator of Antiquities, Dr. Marina Solomidou-Ieronymidou, [...]
The Cultural Heritage and Landscape research team of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) has discovered an encastellated mediaeval village beside the castle of Arganzón. The location, which was occupied in the IX or X centuries, can be considered a town of considerable importance, given it was built in a “castellated” style, one in [...]
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