Below we highlight some of the most compelling archaeological discoveries of the year, and as a bonus, some of the most interesting findings in human genomics and paleoanthropology. These discoveries are not ranked, but feel free to let us know in the comments which finding you thought was the...
15, 2023. (Xinhua/Li He) Young people are particularly enthralled by the rich contents of traditional Chinese culture, and Zeng is no exception. During her twelfth-grade year, she visited an iron-production relics site in Quanzhou, southeast China's Fujian Province, via a summer camp ...
July 10th: The weather here on the Bering Sea has been pretty brisk but the Nunalleq crew works rain or shine six days a week. We want to save whatever we can from the site before it is lost to the combined forces of climate change. But the discoveries are many and the spirits high...
The men, Dominique Goerlitz and Stefan Erdmann, were joined by a third German, a filmmaker who accompanied them to document their "discoveries." The men were allowed to enter the inner chambers of the Great Pyramid at Giza normally off-limits to the public and restricted to authorized ...
It covers a vast area of nearly 34 square kilometers and features more than 50 sites around the Mojiao Mountain site, including villages, tombs and altars from which a great number of delicate jade wares have been unearthed. These discoveries are among the most powerful pieces of evidence prov...
Archaeological discoveries made over the last 50 years, especially those relating to the cist graves and chamber tombs of Macedonia, have provided evidence of the high level reached by Greek painting during the transitional phase from the Classical to the Hellenistic age in terms of space rendering...
Bellezza, J. V. (2001).Antiquities of Northern Tibet: Archaeological Discoveries on the High Plateau, Adroit Press, New Delhi. Google Scholar Bellezza, J. V. (2008).Zhang Zhung: Foundations of Civilization in Tibet. A Historical and Ethnoarchaeological Study of the Monuments, Rock Art, Texts...
The following picture shows an example of aerial photography, together with an inset sketch of what turned out to be Iron Age enclosures. Later archaeological excavations made some incredible discoveries. Sadly, the quest for gravel, meant that this site was completely destroyed by quarrying. But ...
Secondly, most site discoveries occurred over a long period of time and seldom was the result of systematic research. Therefore, we are not certain of the representativity of our sites for the actual (pre)historical situation. Despite this, it is noteworthy that the number of briquetage sites...
In this review I have focused almost entirely on work published since 2000 with only a few exceptions where reference to earlier research is needed to set the stage for recent work. This review follows a basic chronological sequence, from recent discoveries related to the earliest known inhabitants...