News Round Up

A project to survey the prehistoric landscape around the Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides has revealed evidence of other stone circles hidden beneath the peat, including one with evidence of a large lightning strike in its…

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA—BBC News reports that researcher Damien Finch of the University of Melbourne used ancient mud wasps’ nests to date the so-called Gwion style of rock art found in northwestern Australia. Finch noted that, while encasing insect…

TULSA, OKLAHOMA—KMBZ Radio reports that Oklahoma officials plan to investigate an anomaly consistent with a mass grave that was detected during a geophysical survey of a Tulsa cemetery. The team members think the pit may hold the remains of African…

TULUM, MEXICO—According to a statement released by the Public Library of Science, Wolfgang Stinnesbeck of the University of Heidelberg and his colleagues examined a set of 9,900-year-old bones recently recovered from the underwater Chan Hol Cave,…

In this column Joe Flatman looks at the diverse array of sites and landscapes that CA has visited on the Isle of Wight over the years. The post Excavating the CA archive: the Isle of Wight appeared first on Current Archaeology.

Two decades of archaeological research have shed vivid light on an Anglo-Saxon community that lived at Bamburgh 1,400 years ago, revealing a surprisingly diverse population. With the findings now presented in a detailed ‘digital ossuary’, what has…

North of Inverness lies the evocatively named ‘Black Isle’ – a fertile peninsula that has hosted human activity for 10,000 years. Since 2017, community excavations have uncovered a wealth of finds from rare Mesolithic antler objects to a monumental…

YORK, ENGLAND—According to a statement released by the University of York, scientist Oliver Craig and his colleagues analyzed residues on prehistoric pottery fragments recovered from archaeological sites along the Amur River in eastern Russia and…

CHAPELLE DOM HUE, GUERNSEY—BBC News reports that a skeleton discovered on the island of Guernsey may have belonged to a sailor in Britain’s Royal Navy who died around 1760, based upon radiocarbon dating and leather buttons found in the grave. “One…

Archaeologists have recovered the first intact egg from Roman Britain among other unusual finds during investigations in Buckinghamshire. The post First intact Roman-era egg recovered appeared first on Current Archaeology.

MATSUE, JAPAN—According to a report in The Asahi Shimbun, dark lines on one side of a three- and one-half inch-long piece of stone may be Chinese kanji characters written some 2,000 years ago, although scientists caution that infrared imaging has…

OLOMOUC, CZECH REPUBLIC—Radio Prague International reports that archaeologists are working to preserve a waterlogged wood-lined well discovered in 2016 during road construction. Analysis of the growth rings in the oak used to line the structure…

HONOLULU, HAWAII—CNN reports that 113 objects, including royal orders, military accessories, historic documents, photographs, and a helmet plate worn by a volunteer in the Prince’s Own, a Hawaiian artillery unit, have been returned to Iolani Palace…

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The Florence Nightingale Museum is moving beyond the Crimean War to celebrate the 200 year anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale Beyond her famous exploits transforming nursing care for wounded soldiers in Scutari during the Crimean War,…

The Florence Nightingale Museum is moving beyond the Crimean War to celebrate the 200 year anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale After her famous exploits transforming nursing care for wounded soldiers in Scutari during the Crimean War,…

ATHENS, GREECE—According to The Greek Reporter, archaeologists led by Christos Doumas have uncovered objects at the site of Akrotiri thought to have been in use in the sixteenth century B.C., when a volcano erupted and buried the Minoan Bronze Age…

KEMPTON, TASMANIA—Mirage News reports that a team of archaeologists and students from the University of Tasmania unearthed a solitary cell at Picton Road Station, where 150 convicts lived while building a 125-mile-long road connecting the towns of…

ATHENS, GREECE—Traces of a building have been discovered at the Asclepeion of Epidaurus, according to The Greek Reporter. In antiquity, people traveled to Epidaurus, which is located on the Peloponnesian Peninsula of southern Greece, to seek cures…

PORT ANGELES, WASHINGTON—According to a Peninsula Daily News report, several human bones were spotted by hikers on the banks of an eroding beach trail about two miles from the site of a 2,700-year-old Klallam fishing village known as Tse-whit-zen.…