Inhabitants of Madrid' ate elephants' meat and bone marrow 80,000 years ago
Humans that populated the banks of the river Manzanares (Madrid, Spain) during the Middle Palaeolithic (between 127,000 and 40,000 years ago) fed themselves on pachyderm meat and bone marrow. This is what a Spanish study shows and has found percussion and cut marks on elephant remains in the site of Preresa, Madrid.
18th Century shipwreck under the world trade center, new york
Archaeologists have now analysed the date and structure of the timbers of the 18th century shipwreck found under the ruins of New York's World Trade Center.
Well preserved 5th century AD ship found in istanbul
Another merchant vessel, this time "exquisitely preserved" has been found at the Yenikapi Marmaray excavations in Istanbul.
Bronze Age Mummies from scotland made from jigsaw of body Parts
Two of the skeletons found at Cladh Halan, South Uist, Scotland in 2001 were made up from a number of people, according to new research.
Previous studies have shown that the bodies were mummified and kept as mummies centuries before they were buried inside the Bronze Age houses 3000 years ago.
Neolithic Cosmology: A carving of a Comet
Was Halley’s Comet visible in the skies above Orkney in the later Neolithic, say around 3000BC to 2500 BC? The archaeologists at the Ness of Brodgar have just uncovered what they call a “Comet Stone”, which bears a good resemblance to Halley's Comet. It was found last Friday (12 August) in Structure Ten and it features a circle with three slightly diverging lines trailing after it. Tweet me at archaeology_ws if you know.
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