Stone Age tombs in Scotland reveal 'webs of descent' among male relatives An analysis of DNA from Stone Age skeletons buried in Scotland reveals how people organized the burial of their dead.

📰 'Webs of descent': ancient DNA analysis of skeletons in Neolithic Scotland reveals how people organised the burial of their dead

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Plague outbreaks in the Early Modern period hit working youths the hardest Excavations beneath Basel’s Stadtcasino uncovered graves from the 17th century, including plague burials. Analysis by researchers at the University of Basel shows that it was primarily young people…

📰 Excavations in Basel 🇨🇭 uncover 17th century plague burials, indicating those who fell victim to the disease were predominantly young people from lower social strata

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Revived Nubian royal robes shed light on prestige and authority in a lost Christian kingdom A recent archaeological project has physically reconstructed the ceremonial dress of medieval Nubian royalty and clergy, offering a rare glimpse into how clothing shaped and communicated authority in…

📰 Reconstruction of the ceremonial dress of medieval Nubian royalty and clergy signify the complex relationship between the Church and state in Christian Nubia

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A building fit for a council, not a king Digging at the ancient Mayan city of Ucanal, in Guatemala, Christina Halperin finds evidence of a new kind of political architecture that reflect a shift away from divine rule over 1,000 years ago.

📰 Evidence of a new kind of political architecture at #Maya Ucanal, Guatemala, reflects a shift away from divine rule to more consensus-based leadership over 1000 years ago

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A mound on a small Norwegian island contains a pre-Viking-era ship burial that matches the Sutton Hoo graves in England in age Beneath a huge mound of earth measuring 62 meters in diameter and more than 12 meters in its original height, on the small island of Leka, off the Norwegian coast, a team of archaeologists discovered…

📰 Pre-Viking-Age ship burial in Norway is one of the oldest in Scandinavia, providing a chronological bridge between earlier English ship burials, such as Sutton Hoo, and later Viking ones

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What did Pompeii smell like before it burned? Ash from Roman incense burners indicate families burned tree resins from thousands of miles away.

📰 What did Pompeii smell like?

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The Aromas of Pompeii’s Household Altars An international team of researchers from the University of Zurich, LMU and further partners investigated ash residues from incense burners. The substances they discovered show that Pompeii was part of a global trade network.

📰 'Sacrifice Before the Cataclysm: The Aromas of Pompeii’s Household Altars'

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📰 Uranium-thorium dating of coral buildings in French Polynesia could "revolutionise the study of undocumented architecture"

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Two archaeologists excavating a large mass of metal objects, including several large iron rings (tyres) and a cauldron.

The discovery and recording of the Melsonby Hoards has been voted @currentarchaeology.bsky.social's Rescue Project of the Year 🏺

Congratulations to everyone involved! Read about the team's findings in the newly published #AntiquityResearch 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

‘Coral houses’ are dotted throughout the Pacific. Now scientists know exactly when they were built The results reveal new patterns in how Pacific societies shaped their built environment after European contact.

‘Coral houses’ are dotted throughout the Pacific. Now scientists know exactly when they were built

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A Bronze Age Loom Sheds New Light on Mediterranean Textile Practices This 3,500-year-old warp-weighted loom was surprisingly preserved by a fire that destroyed multiple buildings in an ancient Iberian settlement

📰 3,500-year-old loom, preserved by fire, sheds light on Bronze Age textile production

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How archaeology is preserving evidence of the Yahidne war crime Archaeology is not just a powerful tool for revealing insights into the ancient past, but it can also be applied to more recent events. In a new paper published in the journal Antiquity, scientists…

📰 Archaeological techniques help document and preserve evidence of the 2022 Yahidne war crime in Ukraine

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10,000-year-old settlement challenges traditional views on the origins of sedentary life Archaeologists working in southeastern Türkiye have uncovered a 10,000-year-old settlement that may reshape current theories about how and when humans began living in permanent communities. The site,…

📰 10,000-year-old settlement uncovered in Mardin province, Türkiye may reshape our understanding of the origins of sedentary life

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A complete Bronze Age loom with carbonized wood found in Alicante reveals how textiles were made 3,500 years ago The image we usually have of Prehistory rarely includes looms. Stone tools, pottery, or bones tend to take center stage in museums, while wood, plant fiber, and cloth—materials that are perishable by…

📰 3500-year-old textile workshop preserved by fire opens a window into understanding the 'textile revolution' of the Bronze Age

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📰 Melsonby Hoards "are reshaping understanding of wealth, technology and ritual practices in ancient Britain"

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1,900-year-old double Scythian burial in Ukraine contains toxic red mineral A double burial in Ukraine of two women from the Late Scythian culture contains a toxic red mineral, but exactly why it was used remains a mystery.

📰 Red pigment made from cinnabar, found for the first time in a Late Scythian burial, may have been used as decoration or to slow decay.

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A 10,000-Year-Old Settlement Discovered in Türkiye Could Rewrite the Origins of Sedentary Life and Civilization A team of archaeologists from Mardin Artuklu University, in southeastern Türkiye, has brought to light one of the most important discoveries for understanding the origins of civilization in northern…

📰 Epipalaeolithic (12-10,000 BC) settlement discovered in south-eastern Anatolia, outside the Tigris valley, has big implications for the origins of sedentary life

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Isotopes reveal how social status shaped diet in medieval England Isotope analysis reveals that social status and wealth had a profound impact on diet in medieval England, showing that people from different social groups in medieval Cambridge ate markedly different…

📰 Isotope analysis reveals how social inequality can be read in our bones, shedding light on how wealth and status impacted diet in medieval England

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This Ancient Roman Game Board Was a Mystery. Researchers Used A.I. to Figure Out How to Play The limestone oval is carved with a dark, thin rectangle on which ancient people repeatedly moved game pieces

📰 Over a century after its discovery, researchers may have found a way to play an unknown ancient Roman boardgame

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Cracking the Code of Peru’s Serpent Mountain - Archaeology Magazine Discovering the true origins of an enigmatic mile-long pattern in Peru’s coastal desert

📰 'Return to Serpent Mountain' 🏺 #ArchaeologyNews

#AntiquityResearch features in the latest issue of @archaeologymag.bsky.social, presenting a new interpretation of the enigmatic Andean monument Monte Sierpe (Band of Holes)

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AI helps archaeologists solve a Roman gaming mystery Researchers used AI-driven virtual players to test more than 100 rule sets, matching gameplay to wear patterns on a Roman limestone board.

📰 Innovative new approach to calculate the ruleset of an ancient Roman board game could help work out the rules of other "lost" games from the past

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Medieval Diets Varied by Social Status in England, Study Finds - Medievalists.net New isotope research reveals how social status shaped medieval diets in England, showing differences between friars, townspeople, rural residents, and hospital burials.

📰 Chemical signatures preserved in human bones show how social inequality in medieval England could be "measured at the dinner table" 🍽️

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Map of the sea between north-west Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) and the island cluster of Kitsissut, showing possible routes early seafarers could have taken to reach the islands, the shortest of which is 52.7km.

📰 The first people in the High Arctic were masterful seafarers 🛶 #ArchaeologyNews

🏺 #AntiquityResearch features in @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social's 'Quirks and Quarks' section, alongside a newly-discovered planetary system and elephant whiskers!

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A Roman Board Game Found in Ancient Coriovallum Rewrites the History of Strategy Games A grayish limestone slab, measuring 21 by 14.5 centimeters, found in the subsoil of the Dutch city of Heerlen and kept for decades in the storage rooms of the local museum, has revealed a playful…

📰 The identification of a unique board game from the Roman Netherlands has big implications for our understanding of ancient games

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Ancient seafarers helped shape Arctic ecosystems Humans might have been sailing the sea between Greenland and Canada as long as it’s been unfrozen, archaeological evidence suggests

📰 New research indicates people were sailing the open waters between Greenland and Canada for 4,500 years, shaping Arctic ecosystems from the start.

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📰 Ancient seafaring technology helped prehistoric people cross a hazardous High Arctic channel

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Semiyarka: a special steppe site | The Past Archaeologists are exploring a unique Bronze Age settlement in the heart of Kazakhstan’s grasslands.

📰 "Semiyarka: a special steppe site"
Large-scale settlement and metallurgy on the Kazakh steppe may have been a "short-lived social experiment" in sedentism by Bronze Age nomads.

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📰 Was the iconic ancient Egyptian temple complex of Karnak "risen from water like a creation myth"?

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An unusual ornament from Domasław named a “unique artefact” The oldest, the largest and the most important – this is how the annual “Archaeological Sensations” awards are described. They constitute a yearly summary of scientific discoveries organised by the…

📰 #AntiquityResearch listed as one of @archeologiazywa.bsky.social's “Archaeological Sensations” of the year!

The research explored beetle body parts in an Early Iron Age Polish cemetery, finding they were strung into ornaments and used as funerary offerings 🏺

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Roman urbanism was bad for Brits health - University of Reading Analysis of skeletal remains from England before and during Roman occupation confirms theories that the population’s health declined during this period, but only in the urban centres.

📰 'Roman urbanism was bad for Brits' health'

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