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Vulva carved in bas-relief, Abri Castanet. Image Credit: (Raphaëlle Bourrillon)

37,000 year old Aurignacian rock art confirmed

May
15

Researchers working in southern France have determined that depictions of vulvas found on a huge block of limestone are among the earliest evidence of rock art

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Archaeo News Podcast 210

May
15

Stone Pages with BAJR presents a weekly podcast with the latest archaeology news, mainly related to prehistory, megalithic monuments and discoveries.

The upstream entrance of the cave of Mas d’Azil/cleaning of the upper archaeological layers. Images: © Marc Jarry / Inrap

Layer by layer: the Upper Palaeolithic at Mas d’Azil cave revealed

May
15

New archaeological works carried out inside Mas d’Azil cave, has revealed a long stratigraphical sequence of Upper Palaeolithic occupation

Ziyaret Tepe, Turkey. Image: John MacGinnis, University of Cambridge

Whisper from a forgotten language

May
14

Evidence for a forgotten ancient language which dates back more than 2,500 years to the time of the Assyrian Empire has been found by archaeologists working in Turkey

Scientists have used DNA analysis to gain important new insights into how human beings repopulated Europe as the Ice Age relaxed its grip. Image: Schnäggli (used under a CC BY-SA 3.0)

How Europe was repopulated as the Ice Age ended

May
14

Scientists have used DNA analysis to gain important new insights into how human beings repopulated Europe as the Ice Age relaxed its grip

Photochrom of the Lady Chapel, Glastonbury Abbey. The abbey was founded in the 7th century and enlarged in the 10th, before a major fire in 1184 destroyed the buildings. It was rebuilt and by the 14th century was one of the richest and most powerful monasteries in England.

Glastonbury Abbey excavations reveal Saxon glass industry

May
14

New research led by the University of Reading has revealed that finds at Glastonbury Abbey provide the earliest archaeological evidence of glass-making in SaxonBritain

Trepanned skull: Image courtesy of Plataforma SINC

Two trepanned skulls from the Middles Ages found in Spain

May
13

Two skulls with perforations, exhumed in Spain, have been dated to the 13th and 14th centuries – a period in which trepanation was not commonly practised

Cro Magnon, Spitzer Hall of Human Origins. Image: Wally Gobetz (Flickr, used under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)

Symbolism and social exchange leads to Homo Sapien expansion

May
13

The disappearance of Neanderthals still remains a mystery, but paleoanthropologists are increasingly understanding what allowed their evolutionary cousins, Homo sapiens, to conquer the planet

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Cambodia’s enigmatic burial rituals

May
12

Archaeologists and other specialists working in remote Cambodian mountains are shedding new light on the lost history of an unidentified people by studying their enigmatic burial rituals

Mayan site of Piedras Negras on the Usumacinta River, Guatamala. Image: Dayna Bateman (Flickr, used under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)

Mayan calendar found in Guatemala is oldest known

May
11

Paintings of the Mayan king and astronomical hieroglyphs unearthed in a room buried under a collapsed building

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