News Round Up

Dendrochronology (dating timbers by analysing tree-rings) is a vital weapon in the archaeological arsenal, and one that is often mentioned in CA. This month’s ‘Science Notes’ features a new approach, using stable isotopes, which could help date…

RASHT, IRAN—According to a Tehran Times report, deputy provincial tourism chief Vali Jahani announced the discovery of pottery and glassware beneath Islamic-era tombs during a restoration project at northern Iran’s Safi Mosque, one of the oldest…

QUITO, ECUADOR—La Prensa Latina reports that researchers from Canada’s University of Calgary have handed over to Ecuador 166 crates of human remains and artifacts belonging to the Valdivia culture, including a type of well-known ceramic figurine…

JENA, GERMANY—Cosmos Magazine reports that an international team of researchers led by Michelle Langley of Griffith University has identified bow-and-arrow technology, tools that may have been used to make clothing, and decorative beads among the…

PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC—Ahram Online reports that Czech Minister of Culture Lubomir Zaorálek handed over an artifact seized by Czech officials to Saeed Hindam, Egyptian ambassador to the Czech Republic. The pottery vessel is thought to date to Egypt’…

EDMONTON, CANADA—According to a statement released by the University of Alberta, archaeologist Robert Losey and his colleagues uncovered 2,000-year-old artifacts that may have been parts of reindeer harnesses at Ust’-Polui, a site in northern…

JENA, GERMANY—According to a statement released by the Max Planck Society for the Science of Human History, molecular paleopathologist Kirsten Bos and her colleagues looked for DNA evidence of disease in human remains discovered in a fifteenth-…

BURGAS, BULGARIA—The Sofia Globe reports that 14 ritual pits dated to about the fifth century B.C. are being excavated at a construction site on southern Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast. At least ten additional pits have also been found. Miroslav…

EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND—According to a statement released by Historic Environment Scotland, Coralie Mills of the South East Scotland Oak Dendrochronology Project has studied the timber frame of the five-story bell tower at St. Giles’ High Kirk. Built in…

LINGJING, CHINA—Courthouse News reports that a bird figurine carved from a heat-blackened piece of animal bone radiocarbon dated to 13,500 years ago has been identified at the site of Lingjing in central China. Zhanyang Li of Shandong University and…

Location The bustling city of Thebes, which is known to the locals as ‘Waset’, lies around 800 kilometres (500 miles) south of the Mediterranean on the banks of the river Nile. Thebes is the main city of ‘Upper Egypt’, the southern region of the…

The National Lottery Heritage Fund has launched an emergency package of support to protect heritage sites and organisations during the COVID-19 outbreak. The post Heritage Emergency Fund launched appeared first on Current Archaeology.

PARIS, FRANCE—According to a statement released by France’s National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), an international team of scientists led by Olivia Munoz discovered a monumental triangular platform measuring about 115 feet long in northern…

LONDON, ENGLAND—BBC News reports that 144 timbers, postholes, and artifacts uncovered last year at a construction site in east London may be the remains of The Red Lion, an early Elizabethan outdoor stage with galleried seating whose exact location…

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL—According to an Agence France Presse report, researchers led by Gideon Shelach-Lavi of Hebrew University of Jerusalem used drones and high-resolution satellite images to map the 460-mile-long Northern Line of the Great Wall of…

A Second World War landing craft, originally reported to have sunk near the Isle of Man, has been found off the coast of Wales. The discovery was made by researchers from Bournemouth University and Bangor University as part of a research project…

BARKERVILLE, CANADA—Archaeologist Dawn Ainsley is examining garbage dating back to the late nineteenth century from a site next to what was the home of the Doy Ying Low Chinese restaurant in Barkerville Historic Town and Park, according to a CBC…

LISACUL, IRELAND—The Irish Independent reports that a 12-year-old boy discovered the remains of a wooden longboat while wading in a lake in north-central Ireland’s County Roscommon. The vessel may have been built as early as the Neolithic period or…

CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND—Cosmos Magazine reports that researchers from the University of Cambridge and Ghent University mapped the remnants of the ancient city of Falerii Novi with advanced ground-penetrating radar towed behind a quad bicycle. Founded in…

CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND—Cosmos Magazine reports that researchers from the University of Cambridge and Ghent University mapped the remnants of the ancient city of Falerii Novi with advanced ground-penetrating radar towed behind a quad bicycle. Founded in…