Radio Netherlands

People may well have been roaming the land we now call the Netherlands for far longer than was assumed until recently. There is evidence to suggest that the country was home to the forebears of the Neanderthals. Amateur archaeologist Pieter Stoel found materials used by the oldest inhabitants in the central town of Woerden. These artefacts were shown to be at least 370,000 years old, which takes us back to long before the time of the Neanderthals.

Discovery News

Called "non destructive carbon dating," the method basically prevents the removal of a sample of the object.

Daily Reflector

Small waves lapped over Nathan Henry's rubber boots as the underwater archaeologist stood among the stubby hull timbers of what could be the oldest shipwreck on the North Carolina coast.

The Examiner

Archaeologists believe that many Native American cultures were obsessed with death and the hereafter. The most obvious evidence is the abundance of burial mounds containing human remains with grave openings.

NPR

There's a plan afoot among evolutionary scientists to launch a big new project to look back in time and find out how climate change over millions of years affected human evolution.

Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies

Archaeologists will be teaming up with the Kermanshah University of Science and Technology to carry out an archaeological research on the World Heritage Site of Bistun to unearth a settlement date back to the third Iranian dynasty, the Arsacids (Parthians: 248 BCE 224 CE), reported the Persian service of ISNA on Wednesday.

Science News

A new member of the human evolutionary family has been proposed for the first time based on an ancient genetic sequence, not fossil bones. Even more surprising, this novel and still mysterious hominid, if confirmed, would have lived near Stone Age Neandertals and Homo sapiens.

Dayton Daily News

This is Tim Matney's 14th year at an archaeological dig in Southeast Turkey.

Scientific Frontline

The study of Mesozoic birds and the dinosaur bird transition is one of the most exciting and vigorous fields in vertebrate paleontology today. A newly described bird from the Jehol Biota of northeast China suggests that scientists have only tapped a small proportion of the birds and dinosaurs that were living at that time, and that the rocks still have many secrets to reveal.

Daily Mail

Palaeontologists have revealed ancient fossilised faeces which they believe points to an ancient fight to the death between a shark and a crocodile millions of years ago.