News Round Up

WROCLAW, POLAND—According to a Science in Poland report, an international team of researchers led by Mirosław Masojć of the University of Wroclaw's Institute of Archaeology has uncovered stone tools ranging in age from 500,000 to 60,000 years old in…

FINSTOWN, SCOTLAND—The Orcadian reports that an intact burial cist was discovered at a proposed construction site on the main island of Orkney by a team from the Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology (ORCA). A stone-lined box capped with a large,…

WILTSHIRE, ENGLAND—BBC News reports that a three-foot-long core removed from a sarsen stone at Stonehenge in 1958 has been handed over to researchers at English Heritage. The core was one of three removed when archaeologists found cracks in one of…

WARSAW, POLAND—Science in Poland reports that a young man buried some 1,200 years ago at the site of Huarmey in northern coastal Peru may have been a metallurgist, based upon the well-worn bronze saw, ax, knives, and chisels with bone handles…

GWYNEDD, WALES—Road construction in northwest Wales has uncovered three troughs under a burned Bronze Age mound, according to a BBC News report. In one of the troughs, archaeologists led by Jenny Emmett of Gwynedd Archaeological Planning Service…

CHIBA PREFECTURE, JAPAN—The Asahi Shimbun reports that a piece of a runner from a wooden sledge was discovered in the moat surrounding Hamanaga-Suga burial mound cluster, which is located near the eastern coast of the island of Honshu. The 1,400-…

Artists working with postcards from the 1960s onwards have largely been concealed and overlooked in the history of contemporary art. In this exhibition Cooper stresses that these cards are an artform in their own right, made by artists for a…

Over the last few months, ADS beavers have been busy in the background making much needed updated and improvements to our electronic submissions systems. Over the last couple of years, we have listened to your comments, digested the constructive…

BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA—New Scientist reports that Melanie Miller of the University of Otago and her colleagues detected traces of five psychoactive chemicals on a collection of drug paraphernalia discovered in a rock shelter in southwestern Bolivia.…

NORTHUMBERLAND, ENGLAND—Chronicle Live reports that a rectangular stone board for the game Ludus latrunculorum has been uncovered at Vindolanda, the site of a Roman fort located just south of Hadrian’s Wall in northern England. Two players would…

CAIRO, EGYPT—A cemetery dating to the Old Kingdom period has been discovered on the Giza Plateau, according to an Ahram Online report. Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said his team uncovered several tombs and…

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM—According to a report in The Brussels Times, routine archaeological investigations at a construction site in Brussels’ city center have uncovered the remains of a settlement along the river Senne that may be 1,400 years old. A…

EDGARTOWN, MASSACHUSSETS—According to a report in the Vineyard Gazette, researchers from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have recovered remnants of a World War II–era, Curtiss SB2C Helldiver-type bomber plane that crashed in the waters off…

MONTPELLIER, FRANCE—Science Magazine reports that a recent genetic survey shows that yams, a key crop in African agriculture, were first domesticated in the Niger River basin. A team led by France's Institute for Research and Development plant…

The British Museum is committed to curating human remains with care, respect and dignity. For more information on bioarchaeology and the curation of human remains at the British Museum please click here and for more information on the work of Daniel…

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK—According to a Science Magazine report, a new genetic study of horses, spanning a total of 42,000 years, has identified two new horse lineages, and suggests that speed in domestic horses has only been valued over the past 1,500…

NEW DELHI, INDIA—According to a report in The Daily Pioneer, an excavation led by SK Manjul of the Archaeological Survey of India has uncovered 4,000-year-old burials at the Harappan site of Sanauli, which is located on the bank of the River Yamuna…

VERACRUZ, MEXICO—Mexico News Daily reports that a fifteenth-century anchor has been found covered in sediment under about 40 feet of water off the coast of Veracruz by members of the Underwater Archaeology Project at the National Institute of…

Considered by some to be one of our most important collections of modern religious art, the Methodist Art Collection is currently being displayed across Leicester prior to a major conservation project Since its inception more than 50 years ago the…

A Fashion Museum exhibition shines a light on the treasures and fascinating stories from the 19th century Fashion Store There are hundreds of fascinating individual stories within the Fashion Museum collection. But the new display, Collection…