A new study, published in the Sage Journal, casts doubt on the popular theory of why Cahokia was abandoned. Cahokia was the largest urban settlement of the Mississippian culture, a…
Category: Archaeology
Excavation uncovers traces of how ancient Britons adapted to the Roman conquest
Archaeologists from Bournemouth University (BU) have been excavating several Iron Age settlements near the village of Winterborne Kingston in southern England. The team has uncovered 2,000-year-old burial pits containing the…
Archaeologists find Roman defensive wall built to trap Spartacus
A team of archaeologists, led by Dr. Paolo Visona of the University of Kentucky, have discovered a Roman defensive wall built to trap Spartacus in south-central Calabria, southern Italy. Most…
Study establishes revised radiocarbon dating of the Kyrenia shipwreck
A new study, published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE, has applied new radiocarbon calibration techniques to date the Kyrenia shipwreck. The Kyrenia is an ancient Greek merchant ship discovered…
New study upends prevailing theory on transportation of Stonehenge bluestones
A new study, published in the Quaternary Newsletter journal, suggests that the Bristol Channel was a glacial transport route. This is evidenced by a large glacial erratic discovered in Limeslade…
Byzantine bucket pieces found at Sutton Hoo excavation
Archaeologists have unearthed missing fragments of the Bromeswell bucket, a 6th-century Byzantine artefact first discovered at Sutton Hoo, England, during the 1980s. As part of a two-year research project, excavations…
Archaeologists unearth significant religious treasure
Archaeologists from the University of Innsbruck have uncovered a 1,500-year-old reliquary during excavations of a hilltop settlement in southern Austria. The settlement is located on the summit of Burgbichl, a…
Study reveals West Sussex’s lost kingdom
A new study, led by archaeologists from UCL Archaeology South-East, has revealed evidence of a lost medieval kingdom in West Sussex, England. Following the collapse of Roman Britain, the British…
LiDAR identifies lost settlements in the forests of Campeche
Archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) have identified ancient settlements in the forests of Campeche using LiDAR. Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR), is a method of…
Golden primrose among new discoveries at Auckland Castle
Archaeologists from the Auckland Project are conducting excavations at Auckland Castle to unearth the home of Sir Arthur Haselrig, a leader of the Parliamentary opposition to Charles I. Haselrig fought…
