News Round Up

MEXICO CITY, MEXICO—Mexico News Daily reports that researchers from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History uncovered the foundations of a dwelling and parts of other structures dated to between A.D. 1350 and 1519 in what was the…

The colour and decadence of fin de siècle Montmartre comes to Bath with an exhibition of original posters by Toulouse-Lautrec and his contemporaries Quite apart from the drinking, carousing and the copious cabarets, fin de siècle Montmartre in Paris…

George Eliot’s hometown displays her handwritten manuscript of Middlemarch to round off her 200th birthday celebrations The British Library’s copy of Middlemarch consists of four of George Eliot’s handwritten notebooks containing the final, revised…

In his introduction, W B Bartlett denies he is making any attempt to write a ‘definitive history’ of the great sweep of the Viking Age. Instead, his aim is simply to explore some of the key events and figures involved. But, despite this modest…

KIEL, GERMANY—According to a statement released by Kiel University, a Slovak-German research team has developed a technique to study Neolithic settlements based upon the alignment of buildings over time. Archaeologist Nils Müller-Scheeßel of Kiel's…

PARIS, FRANCE—Science News reports that archaeologists are among the more than 200 researchers in the Association of Scientists in Service of the Restoration of Notre Dame of Paris, France’s National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS), and the…

YAKUTSK, RUSSIA—The Siberian Times reports that the butchered remains of a woolly mammoth discovered on eastern Siberia’s Kotelny Island have been dated to 21,000 years ago by scientists at Tokyo’s Jikei University School of Medicine. Kotelny Island…

The Hayward ventures deep into the forest for a wide-ranging exhibition of key works of art that re-imagine how we think about trees Visitors to the Hayward Gallery’s new homage to the world of trees will encounter images of Colombian rainforests,…

The Hayward ventures deep into the forest for a wide-ranging exhibition of key works of art that re-imagine how we think about trees Visitors to the Hayward Gallery’s new homage to the world of trees will encounter images of Colombian rainforests,…

The Museum of London is to open a Dub Reggae record shop as part of a celebration of Dub in the capital A speaker stack from one of London’s leading reggae sound systems, a working custom-built record shop and images, memories and voices from the…

Ailsa Mainman’s Anglian York encapsulates the allure and the frustration of researching this period in the city. Following the near silence of the 5th and 6th centuries, York blossoms from the 600s in written sources, emerging as the ecclesiastical…

GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA—Live Science reports that William Keegan of the Florida Museum of Natural History and Ann Ross of North Carolina State University analyzed the structure of 103 skulls unearthed in the Caribbean, Florida, and Panama, and…

CANTERBURY, ENGLAND—Alastair Key of the University of Kent and his colleagues experimented with raw materials employed by toolmaking hominins who lived in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge, and found that our human ancestors were making complex decisions…

MEXICO CITY, MEXICO—According to a report in The Guardian, fluorescent X-ray chemical analysis conducted by scientists at the National Autonomous University of Mexico has revealed that a four-pound gold bar, unearthed in downtown Mexico City during…

Berryfields, situated to the north-west of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, is a site rich in history. Akeman Street, an important Roman road, runs past its southwestern edge, the Roman roadside settlement of Fleet Marston is located in the area, and…

GIFU, JAPAN—The Asahi Shimbun reports that a stone wall uncovered at Gifu Castle may have been built by feudal lord Oda Nobunaga, who is remembered for attempting to unify Japan and ruling over much of the island of Honshu. The castle was first…

BENSON, MINNESOTA—Forum News Service reports that the remains of a World War II pilot have been identified as U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. William J. McGowan by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency through dental records, anthropological analysis,…

MORGANTOWN, WEST VIRGINIA—According to a statement released by West Virginia University, geographers Kristen de Graauw and Amy Hessl are using tree-ring dating of samples of wood taken from historic log structures to study forest ecology in the…

Beguiling treasures of the medieval world are to go on show to help tell the story of Thomas Becket and his murder in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170 The spectacular rise and fall of the medieval Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket, is filled with…

Beguiling treasures of the medieval world are to go on show to help tell the story of Thomas Becket and his murder in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170 The spectacular rise and fall of the medieval Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket, is filled with…