News Round Up

TOKYO, JAPAN—The Asahi Shimbun reports that Rikai Sawafuji of the University of the Ryukyus, Shintaroh Ueda of the University of Tokyo, and their colleagues analyzed samples of tartar from the teeth of 13 people who were buried in what is now…

NEW YORK, NEW YORK—According to a statement released by New York University, researchers Michael D. Purugganan, Rafal M. Gutaker, and their colleagues combined information about the genomes of more than 1,400 varieties of rice with geographical,…

Excavations at Barrow Clump, Figheldean, by English Heritage in 2003–2004, were designed to ascertain the extent of damage to a round barrow caused by the activity of badgers. In this book, the illustrations alone, which depict the pre-barrow soil…

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MANCHESTER, ENGLAND—According to a statement released by the University of Manchester, Joan Taylor of King’s College London, Marcello Fidanzio of the Faculty of Theology of Lugano, and Dennis Mizzi of the University of Malta have conducted a new…

RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA—According to a statement released by the University of California, Riverside, biogeographer Janet Franklin and her international team of colleagues investigated the possible ecology of a land area the size of Ireland known as…

OSLO, NORWAY—Live Science reports that Sveinung Rotevatn, Norway’s Minister of Climate and Environment, announced that the 65-foot Gjellestad ship will be excavated in order to protect what is left of it from being destroyed by fungus. The Viking…

As a mere ‘worked stone specialist’, it was with some trepidation that I took on the task of reviewing a book dealing with matters striking at the very heart of Romanesque art scholarship. The Medieval Academy of America saw the establishment of a…

Now housed in the Prince’s Palace in Copenhagen, the National Museum of Denmark has one of the oldest established collections of prehistoric artefacts in the world. It dates back to King Frederik VI, who set up Den Kongelige Commission til Oldsagers…

Zeugma – now a name to conjure with. Site of a bridge across the Euphrates, connecting the Mediterranean to Persia and, by way of the Silk Road, inland Asia. For those in the know, this Roman town possessed mosaics equal to those at ancient Antioch’…

Over recent decades, developments in radiocarbon dating techniques have revolutionised our ability to establish the age of archaeological material and to interpret the past (see CA 359). In this month’s Science Notes we will be exploring how, thanks…

JENA, GERMANY—According to a statement released by the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Corentin Bochaton of the University of Bordeaux identified eight vertebrae from boa snakes among artifacts recovered from three…

PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA—CNN reports that Kevin Hatala of Chatham University and his colleagues have analyzed more than 400 footprints in 17 trackways at the site of Engare Sero in northern Tanzania. The footprints were found in volcanic mudflow…

RHYNIE, SCOTLAND—BBC News reports that many more people may have lived at the site of an ancient hillfort on eastern Scotland’s Tap O’Noth than previously thought. Gordon Noble of the University of Aberdeen said that the original settlement on the…

Archaeological investigations at a moated site near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, have shed light on the original extent of the medieval enclosure, as well as uncovering material spanning the 12th century almost to the present day. The post…

Location Rome in Latium, central Italy, is the capital of the Roman Empire. The great city is said to have been founded by Romulus, who was raised with his brother Remus by a she-wolf. He was a descendant of the prince Aeneas, who escaped his home…

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL—According to a Haaretz report, Gil Haklay of the Israel Antiquities Authority and Avi Gopher of Tel Aviv University employed a computer algorithm to analyze the design of Göbekli Tepe, a temple complex in southeastern Anatolia…

EXETER, ENGLAND—The Guardian reports that eight volunteers working with landscape archaeologist Chris Smart of the University of Exeter have spotted 30 previously unknown Roman settlements, more than 200 miles of roads, 20 prehistoric burial mounds…

KYOTO, JAPAN—The Asahi Shimbun reports that researchers from the Kyoto City Archaeological Research Institute uncovered a castle wall and moat to the southeast of the Kyoto Imperial Palace. The structure is thought to have been completed by the…

A possible 14th-century shrine adorned with medieval carvings has been discovered in a cave following a landslip near Guildford. The post Medieval carvings found in cave near Guildford appeared first on Current Archaeology.