July 2011
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ICEMAN'S 'GIRLFRIEND' FOUND... →
Italian workers building an addition to a kindergarten have unearthed a well preserved female skeleton who might be relatively contemporaneous with Ötzi, the Iceman mummy discovered 20 years ago in a melting glacier in South Tyrol.
The “Lady of Introd” or “Ötzi’s girlfriend,” as the skeleton was nicknamed in Italy, was found in the tiny Alpine village of Introd, in the...
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UK's 'oldest' open-air cemetery discovered in... →
Somerset was the site of the UK’s oldest open-air cemetery, the county council says.
Recent radiocarbon dating of two skulls found at a sand quarry in Greylake nature reserve near Middlezoy in 1928 revealed them to be 10,000 years old…
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Live Chat: The Science of Mummies →
In the past 30 years, scientists have made incredible discoveries about ancient mummies, from the tombs of Egypt to Ötzi the Iceman. How did early cultures mummify their dead and why did they do it? What can these studies tell us about ancient diseases and how they spread? And what does the future hold for mummy research?
Click the link for further details of the live chat at 3 p.m. EDT on...
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Britsh Association for Bioarchaeology and... →
This association aims to draw together all areas of analysis of human remains and the study of human bioarchaeology. It is aimed at all individuals, at any level and membership is warmly welcomed from private individuals as well as those in units, universities, museums, and local societies.
For more info, click here…
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York Museums Trust Blog - Roman burial site... →
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WatchRoyal Mint plague pits talk by Jelena Bekvalac, Centre for Human Bioarchaeology, Museum of London, October 19th
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Archaeological News: Woman’s skeleton found at... →
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Curled up in her burial pit with her amber beads, an ancient woman’s remains show our ancestors farmed a lush Norfolk valley thousands of years earlier than previously believed.
Archaeologists confirmed the significance of the discovery yesterday as work got under way for the summer season…
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Archaeological News: Earliest Europeans Were... →
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The 32,000-year-old human remains reveal incriminating cut marks.
Early humans wore jewelry and likely practiced cannibalism, suggest remains of the earliest known Homo sapiens from southeastern Europe.
The remains, described in PLoS One, date to 32,000 years ago and represent the…
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Archaeological News: Attenborough discovery solves... →
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A 130-year-old murder mystery was finally solved on Tuesday, when English TV presenter David Attenborough made an interesting discovery at the bottom of his garden. Attenborough (pictured), whose brother Richard played a man obsessed with dinosaur bones in Jurassic Park, made a very real…
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Human Sacrifice Found in Maya City Sinkhole
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The bones of six humans—including two children—jade beads, shells, and stone tools are among the Maya “treasures” recently found in a water-filled cave off a sinkhole at the famous archaeological site of Chichén Itzá in Mexico, archaeologists say.
The ancient objects are most likely related to a ritual human sacrifice during a time when water levels were lower,...
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Evidence of ritual killings in moors graves - Main... →
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Published on Friday 24 June 2011 06:00
Gruesome new evidence has been uncovered of ritual killings in ancient mass graves on the North York Moors.
The findings are from a number of human skeletons dating back to the last century BC which have baffled experts for decades after being discovered in the Ryedale Windypits, a series of underground geological limestone fissure caves on...
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