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Pre Christian gravesite discovered in Carinthia

May, 14 2011

Austrian Independent

Builders assigned to construct a new railroad in Carinthia found what is believed to be an ancient gravesite.

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More on Stone Age cold case baffles scientists

May, 14 2011

Science News

TOUGH CALL Stone tools, such as the one shown here from different angles, found at a more than 30,000-year-old site near the Arctic Circle might have been made by Neandertals, ancient people or even a recently proposed Neandertal relative, scientists say. Neandertals, or possibly ancient people, took polar express

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Mysterious Ancient Rock Carvings Found Near Nile

May, 14 2011

Live Science

Here a rock etched with patterns forming a crescent moon and orb, an example of another piece of rock art discovered at Wadi Abu Dom in northern Sudan. An archaeological team in the Bayuda Desert in northern Sudan has discovered dozens of new rock art drawings, some of which were etched more than 5,000 years ago and reveal scenes that scientists can't explain.

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Sorbs: relics of the Ostsiedlung

May, 14 2011

Discover Magazine

Relics of a lost race? One of the issues which I have been exploring and mulling over the past year and a half on this weblog has been the idea that population movements were much more extensive in the past than we have thought until late.

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Prehistoric Cave Art Discovered in Basque Country

May, 14 2011

National Geographic

Unlike many other caves, Askondo can still be entered by the same passage used by the painters of the cave. Image courtesy Diputacion Foral de Vizcaya. In a locally well known cave near an industrial town in Spain, researchers have unexpectedly discovered faint images of horses and hand prints dating back some 25,000 years.

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On Prehistoric Supercontinent of Pangaea, Latitude and Rain Dictated Where Species Lived

May, 14 2011

Science Daily

Reptile precursor. The skull of the procolophonid Hypsognathus was found in Fundy basin, Nova Scotia, which was hotter and drier when it was part of Pangaea. Mammals, needing more water, chose to live elsewhere. (Credit: Image courtesy of Brown University) More than 200 million years ago, mammals and reptiles lived in their own separate worlds on the supercontinent Pangaea, despite little geographical incentive to do so.

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Byzantine Mosaic Unearthed in Syria

May, 14 2011

Global Arab Network

Byzantine Mosaic Unearthed in Syria Excavation Department at Idleb Antiquities Directorate unearthed a mosaic painting dating back to the Byzantine Era at Deir Sounbol Church in al Zawieh Mountain in Syria according to SANA.

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Archaeological digs on Georgian Azerbaijani border to start in autumn

May, 14 2011

News Az

Archaeological digs on Georgian Azerbaijani border to start in autumn Archaeological digs on the Georgian Azerbaijani border in the place where fragments of a column were revealed will start in autumn.

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Glastonbury Abbeys pottery link to Dark Ages

May, 12 2011

BBC

Ralegh Radford and Linda Witherill excavated Glastonbury Abbey in 1954 Pottery fragments from an excavation archive of Glastonbury Abbey have shown the site dates back to the Dark Ages, which is later than previously thought.