News Round Up

Somerset House is putting its exhibition celebrating the remarkable mushroom – and all the progressive, poetic and psychedelic wonder it evokes – online for you to enjoy at home Did you know that before she was famous for her drawings and stories…

From John Logie Baird’s early experimental ‘televisor’ to the precursors to today’s hi-tech hi-def devices, we’ve mined the excellent Science Museum Group’s collection online to chart the history of the TV through the ages 1930s Baird ‘Tin box’…

BRISTOL, ENGLAND—According to a statement released by the University of Bristol, Iron Age hunter-gatherers living in the highlands of what is now the central South African country of Lesotho may have kept small numbers of livestock. The hunter-…

DAVIS, CALIFORNIA—A recent study of crumbled bits of bone tools in museum collections suggests that Neanderthals chose the rib bones of animals from the cattle family, such as bison and aurochs, to make lissoirs, a type of tool used to work animal…

DAVIS, CALIFORNIA—A recent study of crumbled bits of bone tools in museum collections suggests that Neanderthals chose the rib bones of animals from the cattle family, such as bison and aurochs, to make lissoirs, a type of tool used to work animal…

Imperial War Museums acquire the bullet-riddled jacket of a pilot shot down during the evacuation of Dunkirk Still bearing the shrapnel holes that nearly ended his life over the English Channel during the evacuation of Dunkirk on May 29 1940, Group…

LEIPZIG, GERMANY—BBC News reports that a tooth and bone fragments recovered from northern Bulgaria’s Bacho Kiro Cave have been identified as the remains of modern humans and directly dated to between 46,000 and 41,000 years ago by researchers from…

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Charlotte Observer reports that the wreckage of USS Nevada has been found resting under more than 15,000 feet of water in the Pacific Ocean by a team of researchers from SEARCH Inc. and Ocean Infinity. The battleship, which was…

MEXICO CITY, MEXICO—Mexico News Daily reports that a team of researchers including Luis Alberto Martos López of Mexico’s National Autonomous University have dated charcoal samples collected from the remains of 14 ancient bonfires in a flooded cave…

An archaeological project on Alderney has uncovered information about the labour and concentration camp of Sylt that once stood on the island, shedding light on the lives of prisoners during the Nazi occupation of the Channel Islands in the Second…

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS—According to a Science Magazine report, a new genetic study of ancient human remains unearthed in the highlands and coastal regions of Peru’s Central Andes Mountains indicates that some 9,000 years ago, groups that lived in…

LOZOVAC, CROATIA—Croatia Week reports that an artillery weapon was found in a defensive wall in a tower at the fourteenth-century site of Nečven fortress, which is located in southern Croatia’s Krka National Park. The bronze object, known as a…

VIENNA, AUSTRIA—A new study suggests the process of malting creates lasting changes to grain cell structure that could help archaeologists identify microscopic evidence of beer consumption in the archaeological record, according to a Science News…

LYASKOVETS, BULGARIA—Archaeology in Bulgaria reports that archaeologist Kalin Chakarov of the Regional Museum of History in Veliko Tarnovo and his team conducted a rescue excavation of a Thracian burial mound in north-central Bulgaria. The mound…

Lead pollution produced by 12th-century mines in Britain can be seen in Alpine ice cores, new research reports – directly mirroring historical records and demonstrating the impact of political events of the time. The post 12th-century lead pollution…

The print Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura) by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849), better known as ‘The Great Wave’ is famous throughout the world. First published in 1831, the woodblock print has inspired generations of artists – one…

The only complete original building still standing at Camp Nelson in Jessamine County, Kentucky, is a sizeable house built around 1850 for the just-married Oliver Perry and his bride, the former Fannie Scott, whose family owned the land on which the…

During the Civil War, soldiers were able to send pictures of themselves home for the first time in history. Therefore, it was not surprising to find that photographs were being taken at Camp Nelson. Prior to his recent excavations, Camp Nelson…

EXETER, ENGLAND—According to a statement released by the University of Exeter, an examination of bones and bone fragments led by archaeologist Oliver Creighton indicates that arrows shot from medieval longbows inflicted small entry and large exit…

BUCHAREST, ROMANIA—According to a Romania-Insider report, a mass grave dating to the eighteenth century has been found in western Romania by a team of researchers from West University of Timişoara. The grave holds the remains of six adults and one…