Prehistoric Archive
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Ancient burial cloth reveals Bronze Age trade connections
Posted on October 2, 2012 | No CommentsA piece of nettle cloth retrieved from Denmark's richest known Bronze Age burial mound Luseh -
Housekeeping, Neandertal-Style: Hearth Placement and Midden Formation in Kebara Cave (Israel)
Posted on September 12, 2012 | No CommentsThe interpretation of Neandertal life ways has probably never been as polarized as it is today. At one extreme are many archaeologists and biological anthropologists, and quite a few geneticists, who see Neandertals as belonging to a species other than our own, most often a decidedly inferior one in terms of both behavior and cognitive wherewithal -
Determining the Sexual Identities of Prehistoric Cave Artists using Digitized Handprints
Posted on September 9, 2012 | No CommentsThe sexual identities of human handprints inform hypotheses regarding the roles of males and females in prehistoric contexts. -
The catastrophic extinction of North American mammoths and mastodonts
Posted on September 8, 2012 | No CommentsArchaeological and theoretical evidence reviewed here indicates that Clovis-era foragers exterminated mammoths and mastodonts in North America around 11,000 radiocarbon years ago. -
9,500-year-old stone figurines discovered in Israel
Posted on September 5, 2012 | No CommentsThe two figurines are of a ram and a wild bovine, and point to the existence of a cultic belief in the region in the New Stone Age. They might have been used good-luck statues to ensure a successful hunt. -
The Neanderthal dead: exploring mortuary variability in Middle Palaeolithic Eurasia
Posted on August 16, 2012 | No CommentsThe question of whether or not Neanderthals buried their dead has received considerable attention over the last few decades and has played a central role in exploring the similarities and differences between Neanderthals and early anatomically modern humans. -
Paleolithic paintings in Spain are over 40000 years old
Posted on June 15, 2012 | No CommentsPaleolithic paintings in El Castillo cave in Northern Spain date back at least 40,800 years -
Earliest musical instruments over 40,000 years old
Posted on June 1, 2012 | No CommentsThe first modern humans in Europe were playing musical instruments and showing artistic creativity as early as 40,000 years ago, according to new research from Oxford and T -
Stonehenge and its people: thoughts from medicine
Posted on May 31, 2012 | No CommentsThis paper considers the nature of Stonehenge and other Neolithic sites from an unusual perspective, that of medicine. -
The Stonehenge Riverside Project: exploring the Neolithic landscape of Stonehenge
Posted on May 21, 2012 | No CommentsStonehenge is a national symbol, recognised throughout the world, and interpreted in different ways by a variety of constituencies, from Druids to New Age enthusiasts.
