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Old map of Avesbury and the nearby hillfort Recent field work at the town of Amesbury , specifically in Blink Meadow, has resulted in i...

As you may know, in the continent we don't even bother anymore about copper or basic metallurgy to define the Chalcolithic (Copper and ...

New archaeological evidence from South Lanarkshire push back the first colonization of Scotland to c. 14,000 years ago, quite earlier tha...

I just discussed again the genetic sweep that apparently has happened in Europe after the Neolithic strongly favoring the selection of alle...

By now I'm sure that the vast majority of readers of this blog, if not all, have already read the news about the Happisburg footprints,...

Somehow I missed this important study on the Neolithic and Chalcolithic demographics of Europe, as inferred from the archaeological record ...

Stimulated by the discussion at another entry , yesterday I made a little graph, almost a mnemonic, on the demographics of Northern Europea...

I am getting updated with a rather long backlog, so I will speed things up placing here in nearly telegraphic style the informative snippet...

(CC by Jeffrey Pfau ) The spiritual relevance of Amesbury may well stem from a much older time than Neolithic or Chalcolithic. Recent r...

The small village of Walton (Powys, Wales) was, it seems, long ago a ceremonial center for the ancient peoples of Britain between 3800 and...

An area holding a dense concentration of stones with engraved "cup marks" has been unveiled near Evanton , Scotland. The discov...

One of the arrowheads found Archaeologists have found the remains of people living at Didcot (Oxfordshire, England) some 9000 years ago...

A small Epipaleolithic hamlet has been discovered this Summer at Lunt Meadows, near Sefton ( Merseyside County , which also includes the ...

From The Heritage Journal : Henge to be tarmacked! When we say tarmacked we mean treated like Tarmac plc would – utterly destroyed f...

Not much to see yet but archaeologists seem quite certain that they have located a structure which could be a Neolithic temple near Truro ,...

Orknejar reports on a 3D video-animation of this important megalithic monument, considered a major piece of which was probably a major rel...

And again a quick look to many things which have been showing up around the Net these last few days: Neanderthal society Bryan Hayden ...

My deepest apologies to readers of this blog but I'm not really dedicated these last weeks and I'm not really sure when I'll be ...

Franchthi cave Most are very interesting news that may deserve their own entries but I do not feel like writing so much right now: ...