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Mary Rose skeletons studied by Swansea sports scientists

March, 26 2012

BBC

Sports scientists are studying the skeletons from the Mary Rose wreck to discover which were archers Skeletons recovered from the wreck of a King Henry VIII's warship the Mary Rose are being studied to discover more about life in the 1500s.

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Vikings carried mice to colonies

March, 26 2012

Independent UK

Mice hitched a ride with Vikings to mount their own invasions in the 10th century, research has shown.

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Bulgarian Archaeologists Claim Oldest Monastery in Europe

March, 26 2012

Novinite

The ancient shrine at the St. Athanasius monastery in Bulgaria's Stara Zagora region. Photo by BGNES Bulgarian archaeologists have uncovered what they believe is the oldest Christian monastery in Europea near the village of Zlatna Livada in southern Bulgaria.

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Prehistoric Human Hunters the Cause of Giant Herbivore Extinction in Australia, Says Study

March, 26 2012

Popular Archaeology

Artist's depiction of a giant Pleistocene period mammal in Australia. Nobu Tamura, Wikimedia Commons It was the human hunter, not a changed climate, that led to the extinction of the giant Pleistocene herbivores of Australia and a transformed ecological landscape at least 40,000 years ago.

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Franciscan monk remains unearthed at roadworks site

March, 26 2012

STV

Resurfacing work halted at St Andrews after suspected 15th century remains discovered

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Prehistoric antler hammerhead and human skeleton unearthed in Burren

March, 26 2012

Irish Times

A leading archaeologist has described the discovery of what is a likely prehistoric antler hammerhead at a Burren cave as hugely exciting.

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Madagascar Founded By Women

March, 26 2012

Discovery

The discovery negates a prior theory about how the island was first found.

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Satellites Expose 8,000 Years of Lost Civilization

March, 26 2012

Scientific American

Archaeologists have developed a large scale method and mapped some 14,000 settlement sites in northeastern Syria. The effort could uncover long term trends in urban activity

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Neolithic horned cairns near Caithness wind farm scanned

March, 26 2012

BBC

An image created by AOC Archaeology of one of the seven horned cairns A wind farm developer has paid for archaeologists to scan a cluster of seven Neolithic horned cairns near to where 21 turbines will be erected.

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Butchered sloth bone lends more evidence to early North American settlement

March, 26 2012

Montreal Gazette

A Canadian scientist's analysis of ancient animal remains found in Ohio including the leg bone of an extinct giant sloth believed to have been butchered by an Ice Age hunter more than 13,000 years ago has added weight to a once controversial argument that humans arrived in North America thousands of years earlier than previously believed.

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