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Archaeo News Podcast 224

5th February 2013 In collaboration with Stonepages, British Archaeological Jobs Resource and Past Horizons Headlines Clovis culture not wiped out by comet Oldest stone hand axes unearthed Early sweet...

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Swiss dolmen reveals rituals of the Neolithic

A sensational archaeological discovery has been made in the region of  Bern, Switzerland, consisting of a communal dolmen grave dating back to over 5,000 years, containing 30 bodies and Neolithic...

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Did overhunting lead to domestication?

A new study on the populations of wild cattle and boars in the Levant Valley by Nimrod Marom, Guy Bar-OzLaboratory of Archaeozoology, University of Haifa, Israel has been published in PLOSone online...

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Archaeo News Podcast 225

Archaeo News Podcast 225 10th February 2013 In collaboration with Stonepages, British Archaeological Jobs Resource and Past Horizons Headlines Californian rock carvings recovered after theft Native...

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Confirmation that Near East farmers bring agriculture to Europe

Archaeologists have long  debated how farming spread into Europe; the first agrarian societies appeared in the 7th millennium BCE, attested by one of the earliest farming sites of Europe, discovered in...

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Archaeo News Podcast 226

Archaeo News Podcast 226 24th February 2013 In collaboration with Stonepages, British Archaeological Jobs Resource and Past Horizons Headlines Amazing find in Dartmoor Bronze Age grave Prehistoric...

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The Knowth macehead: a Neolithic marvel | Irish Archaeology

T his stunning flint macehead was found deep within the darkest recesses of the great Neolithic passage tomb at Knowth, Co. Meath. Hidden for millennia, it was discovered in 1982 during an excavation...

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Archaeo News Podcast 227

Archaeo News Podcast 227 11th March 2013 In collaboration with Stonepages, British Archaeological Jobs Resource and Past Horizons Headlines Dig in Micronesia pushes settlement back 3400 years Evolution...

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Afterlife of Early Neolithic houses in the Polish lowlands

First farmers on the Polish Lowland The transition to farming on the Polish Lowland, which is a part of the North European Plain, was a complex process lasting over a millennium. This is partly due to...

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Archaeo News Podcast 228

24th March 2013 In collaboration with Stonepages, British Archaeological Jobs Resource and Past Horizons Headlines Maize was key in early Andean civilisation Police return smuggled Neolithic artefacts...

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Archaeology Podcast 229

Archaeo News Podcast 229 8th April 2013 In collaboration with Stonepages, British Archaeological Jobs Resource and Past Horizons Headlines ANCIENT CORNISH MONUMENT THREATENED BY CATTLE TROVE OF...

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Searching for fertiliser use in the Neolithic

Researchers from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have spent many years studying the remains of a Neolithic community in Karleby outside the town of  Falköping. Apart from trying to identify the...

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Archaeo News Podcast 230

Archaeo News Podcast 230 1st May 2013 In collaboration with Stonepages, British Archaeological Jobs Resource and Past Horizons Headlines • BRONZE AGE EVIDENCE IN THE NORFOLK BROADS • FLINT-KNAPPING CAN...

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New geoglyphs of the Jordanian Harrat

  Fig. 1. Map of the Harrat in Syria, Jordan and northern Saudi Arabia. Stephan F.J. Kempe1, Ahmad Al-Malabeh2 1: Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany; 2: Hashemite University Zarka, Jordan The...

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Archaeo News Podcast 231

Archaeo News Podcast 231 24th May 2013 In collaboration with Stonepages, British Archaeological Jobs Resource and Past Horizons Headlines • BEAKER BURIAL GROUND UNCOVERED IN SCOTLAND • INDUS...

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Archaeo News Podcast 232

Archaeo News Podcast 232 6th June 2013 In collaboration with Stonepages, British Archaeological Jobs Resource and Past Horizons Headlines Iron in ancient Egyptian relics came from space Early...

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Archaeo News Podcast 233

Archaeo News Podcast 233 30th June 2013 In collaboration with Stonepages, British Archaeological Jobs Resource and Past Horizons Headlines Rare Greek Neanderthal site found Bahrain preserves its...

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Transition to farming simultaneous across most of Fertile Crescent

A rich assemblage of fossils and artefacts in the foothills of the Zagros Mountains in Iran has revealed that the early inhabitants of the region began cultivating cereal grains for agriculture between...

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Late Palaeolithic burial found in southeast France

Since March 2013, a team of INRAP archaeologists have been investigating at Cuges-les-Pins, the scene of a development project commissioned by the urban community of Aubagne and Etoile in southeastern...

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Evidence of Pre-Pottery Neolithic in Saudi Arabia

Pre-Pottery Neolithic assemblages are best known from the fertile areas of the Mediterranean Levant  with most research focussed on the internal cultural dynamics of the ‘core area’ of what is known...

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