News Round Up

BAC KAN, VIETNAM—The Vietnam News Agency reports that tools made of stones taken from the beds of streams and rivers, as well as the bones of pigs, monkeys, hedgehogs, and deer, were discovered in Puong Cave, which is in the mountains of northern…

COLUMBUS, OHIO—According to a Haaretz report, a team of researchers led by Clark Spencer Larsen of Ohio State University analyzed remains unearthed at the 9,000-year-old site of Çatalhöyūk, where as many as 8,000 people are thought to have lived in…

SEVILLE, SPAIN—According to a report in Cosmos Magazine, archaeologists led by Marta Cintas-Peña and Leonardo García Sanjuán of the University of Seville reviewed more than 500 Neolithic burials at 21 archaeological sites on the Iberian Peninsula.…

This week, Brenna Frasier from Saint Mary’s University, Nova Scotia and Vicki Szabo from Western Carolina University joined Dr Ingrid Mainland at the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute to examine the collection of…

This week, Brenna Frasier from Saint Mary’s University, Nova Scotia and Vicki Szabo from Western Carolina University joined Dr Ingrid Mainland & Martin Carruthers at the UHI Archaeology Institute to examine the collection of whalebone artefacts…

Welcome back everyone to the daily blog for The Cairns excavations from me, Martin Carruthers the site director! It’s absolutely fantastic to back on site and be able to share our findings with you once more. Each day of the… Continue reading →

Introducing an epic tale The story of the ancient city of Troy, and of the great war that was fought over it, has been told for some 3,000 years. Spread by travelling storytellers, it was cast into powerful words by the Greek poet Homer as early as…

3,000 years ago, the ancient Greek poet Homer told the story of the ill-fated city of Troy and the great Trojan War in his powerful epic, the Iliad. This mythical tale of love and war has  captured imaginations ever since. You can read more about…

MARKUŠOVSKÝ, SLOVAKIA—The Slovak Spectator reports that the base of a circular tower thought to date to the end of the thirteenth or beginning of the fourteenth centuries has been discovered at Markušovský Castle, which is located in eastern…

NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR, CANADA—Archaeological investigation ahead of water and sewer maintenance work in the city of St. John’s has revealed a collection of 79 human teeth and other artifacts dating back to the nineteenth century, according to a…

GREENVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA—According to a report in The Charlotte Observer, researchers led by Charles Ewen of East Carolina University were investigating the colonial-era port of Brunswick Town when they discovered a cache of artifacts under the…

The University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute and ORCA Archaeology teamed up with Robert Gordon University to begin a series of collaborative projects using advanced digital technology to record heritage across Orkney. On the…

EDMONTON, CANADA—Science Magazine reports that Katherine Latham of the University of Alberta examined the remains of 136 pet dogs, 19 sled dogs, and 241 modern wolves to study a spinal condition zooarchaeologists have traditionally used to determine…

SLIGO, IRELAND—The Leitrim Observer reports that a team of researchers led by Marion Dowd and James Bonsall of the Institute of Technology Sligo conducted geophysical surveys at the Carrowmore megalithic complex, which is located in the north of…

MONTREAL, CANADA—According to the CBC, scientists at the University of Montreal have confirmed that 21 sets of human remains recovered from a beach on Quebec’s Gaspé Peninsula belonged to Irish immigrants killed when Carricks of Whitehaven sank in…

I’m finally at the end of my internship here at ADS, which has flown by. I’ve learned a lot and have been able to appreciate some of the intricacies of what goes on behind the scenes at an organisation such as ADS. I started off working on the…

DURHAM, NEW HAMPSHIRE—The New Hampshire Union Leader reports that a team of archaeologists led by Meghan Howey of the University of New Hampshire is excavating the site of a house originally constructed in the 1630s by Ambrose Gibbons and eventually…

READING, ENGLAND—BBC News reports that four crannogs in northwestern Scotland have been dated to the Neolithic period by archaeologists Duncan Garrow of the University of Reading and Fraser Sturt of the University of Southampton. It had been…

CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND—According to an iNews report, an analysis of food and human remains unearthed at the site of Portus, Rome’s maritime port, has revealed that laborers living between the second and fifth centuries A.D. enjoyed a diet similar to…

A tattooed torso from Pompey is doing good things in the community Local community groups in Portsmouth are set to benefit from a colourful legacy to a highly successful tattoo exhibition held last year. This full-sized handcrafted, painted tattooed…