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Dartmoor Bronze Age burial remains Xrayed in Salisbury

April, 27 2012

BBC

The burial cist was excavated at Whitehorse Hill on Dartmoor in August 2011 Early Bronze Age remains from a burial site in Dartmoor National Park will be Xrayed at Salisbury District Hospital.

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Inhabitants of Madrid ate elephants meat and bone marrow 80,000 years ago

April, 27 2012

EurekAlert

Researchers have found cut and percussion marks in elephant bones in the site of Preresa Humans that populated the banks of the river Manzanares (Madrid, Spain) during the Middle Palaeolithic (between 127,000 and 40,000 years ago) fed themselves on pachyderm meat and bone marrow. This is what a Spanish study shows and has found percussion and cut marks on elephant remains in the site of Preresa (Madrid).

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Moles dig up buried treasure where human trowels are banned

April, 27 2012

Guardian UK

English Heritage keeps a careful watch as volunteers sift through hundreds of molehills on a fortress site near the Roman wall

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Artist of Running Satyr is probable author of unearthed vase fragments with erotic scenes

April, 27 2012

Focus News Agency

Artist of Running Satyr is probable author of unearthed vase fragments with erotic scenes There are erotic scenes in Ancient Greece, but never are they so big and expressive and made by such a good artist, archeologist Dimitar Nedev said in an interview with FOCUS News Agency, referring to the vase fragments unearthed in the coastal city of Sozopol during excavations.

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Genes reveal secrets of ancient Peruvian families

April, 27 2012

MSNBC

Ancient chullpas, or vertical funeral towers, are yielding insights into ancient Peruvian famlies. They buried their dead in 'chullpas,' structures resembling vertical tombs

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200 ancient forts found in Chinese mountains

April, 27 2012

Tajikistan News

In a discovery that has baffled Chinese archaeologists, more than 200 ancient fortresses have been found in a mountainous region in the northern part of the country.

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Early human meat eating led to early weaning and higher population growth

April, 26 2012

Popular Archaeology

Study results suggest early human carnivory was correlated to early weaning, leading to increased population growth and spreading across the globe.

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Salford scientists reveal the sound of Stonehenge

April, 26 2012

Guardian UK

Bits missing. But when it was all in place, there'd have been booms, rumbles, echoes and reverberations. Photograph: Jason Hawkes/Getty Whatever went on there, it would have impressed the ancient Britons. Even if it was only whispering.

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Swedish Stonehenge? Ancient Stone Structure Spurs Debate

April, 26 2012

Live Science

An ancient megalithic structure shaped like a ship in Sweden seems to have a similar geometry to Stonehenge, and may have been used as an astronomical calendar, one scientist says. Ancient Scandinavians dragged 59 boulders to a seaside cliff near what is now the Swedish fishing village of Kaseberga.

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Furness Abbey grave yields treasures of a prosperous medieval abbot

April, 26 2012

Guardian UK

English Heritage curator Susan Harrison with the crozier discovered at Furness Abbey. Photograph: Tony Bartholomew/English Heritag/PA Curators hail discovery of the first crozier excavated in Britain in 50 years and remarkable ring in grave that had escaped robbers