News Round Up

Jersey and Guernsey are famous for their prehistoric archaeology, but the smaller Channel Island of Sark is less well known. Since 2004, though, Barry Cunliffe has been striving to bring the stories of its earliest inhabitants to light. Lying closer…

JENA, GERMANY—According to a Cosmos Magazine report, an international team of researchers examined the ratios of stable nitrogen and carbon isotopes in collagen and dental enamel samples obtained from the remains of some 130 individuals who were…

MUNAKATA, JAPAN—The Asahi Shimbun reports that Izumi Nakai of Tokyo University of Science conducted a fluorescent X-ray analysis of a fragment of a cut glass bowl unearthed at Japan’s Munakata Taisha shrine. The results of the testing suggest the…

ORKNEY, SCOTLAND—The Scotsman reports that recent storms have exposed human remains at Newark, an ancient Pictish cemetery site on Orkney’s southeastern coast. The cemetery is thought to have been used from A.D. 550 to 1450, and contains four or…

Excavations at the Courtauld Institute of Art at Somerset House, London, have uncovered a cesspit belonging to one of the luxurious medieval mansions that used to exist in this area. The post Medieval remains under Somerset House appeared first on…

COUNTY MEATH, IRELAND—According to a report in The Irish Times, a sonar study funded by the Royal Irish Academy and conducted by Stephen Davis and Annalisa Christie of University College Dublin and Kieran Westley of the University of Ulster has…

CLEARWATER, FLORIDA—The Tampa Bay Times reports that contract archaeologists used ground-penetrating radar to search a parking lot in west-central Florida ahead of a construction project and found 44 possible graves. In 1954, some 350 graves were…

NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT—Science News reports that researchers led by mechanical engineer Madhusudhan Venkadesan of Yale University suggest the transverse tarsal arch, the curve across the width of the human foot, may have helped hominins to walk and…

VENICE, ITALY—According to an ANSA report, a 5,000-year-old sword has been identified in a collection of medieval objects held in a monastery museum on the island of San Lazzaro by Vittoria Dall’Armellina of Ca’Foscari University of Venice and Ivana…

The grave of a late Iron Age or early Roman ‘warrior’, who had been laid to rest with a sword and spear, has been discovered in Walberton, West Sussex. The post Walberton’s ‘warrior’ burial appeared first on Current Archaeology.

BLUFFTON, SOUTH CAROLINA—Bluffton Today reports that researchers led by archaeologist Katie Epps have found two rows of burned bricks, burned glass, rubble, and stone blocks resembling columns that may be traces of buildings burned to the ground by…

YORK, ENGLAND—The Press reports that a previously unknown Roman road has been found by conservators working under the York Guildhall, a structure originally built in the mid-fifteenth century A.D. along the River Ouse. Investigation of the road…

YORK, ENGLAND—The Press reports that a previously unknown Roman road has been found by conservators working under the York Guildhall, a structure originally built in the mid-fifteenth century A.D. along the River Ouse. Investigation of the road…

LONDON, ENGLAND—According to a BBC News report, conservators uncovered a 360-year-old passageway in the House of Commons that was closed off during the Victorian era, briefly opened in the 1950s, and then sealed off and forgotten behind thick…

HALTERN AM SEE, GERMANY—Live Science reports that conservators discovered an ornate dagger and its sheath within a rusty lump recovered from a cemetery near the site of a Roman military camp in Germany. Bettina Tremmel of the Westphalie Department…

FLANDERS, BELGIUM—According to a Brussels Times report, an unexploded aerial bomb dating to the Second World War was discovered by construction workers in eastern Belgium, near the Dutch border. Some 150 people in the area were evacuated as a…

MEXICO CITY, MEXICO—Agence France-Presse reports that Mexican officials have handed over a sculpture seized by customs officers at the airport in Mexico City to Aminu Iyawa, Nigeria’s ambassador to Mexico. Specialists from Mexico’s National…

TAMIL NADU, INDIA—OpIndia reports that workers in southeastern India uncovered a sealed brass pot during the renovation of Jambukeswarar Temple, which is situated on Srirangam Island at the point where the Kaveri River splits in two. The temple is…

Dan Kendall, Curator at the National Space Centre, offers a bite-sized history of food in space In space, food is a critical factor for mission success. If you’re going to send humans into space, you’d better well feed them. Obviously. But back in…

Dan Kendall, Curator at the National Space Centre, offers a bite-sized history of food in space In space, food is a critical factor for mission success. If you’re going to send humans into space, you’d better well feed them. Obviously. But back in…