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Ancient Aboriginal skull suggests head reshaping practice
26 Jul 2010 at 4:10am
11,000 years ago a tall and solidly built Aboriginal man lived a hard life. His bones reveal he had arthritis in his jaw, multiple breaks in both forearms and a...

Prehistoric settlement discovered in Bulgaria
26 Jul 2010 at 4:09am
Bulgarian archaeologists have found what has been described as a wealthy 8000-year-old town close to the Danube city of Ruse. The town, which flourished between 5,800 BCE and 5,500 BCE...

Great deal of prehistoric findings unearthed in Syria
26 Jul 2010 at 4:08am
The American- Dutch archaeological expedition working at the site of Tal Om al-Mara, 50 kms to the east of Aleppo (Syria), has unearthed two archaeological tombs dating back to the...

Remains of ancient Mexican woman suggest diverse migration
26 Jul 2010 at 4:08am
A scientific reconstruction of one of the oldest sets of human remains found in the Americas appears to support theories that the first people who came to the hemisphere migrated...

Swiss find may be oldest evidence of dog domestication
26 Jul 2010 at 4:05am
A jaw fragment found in a Swiss cave comes from the earliest known dog, according to scientists who analyzed and radiocarbon-dated the fossil to a period between 14,100-14,600 years ago....


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Easter Aquorthies
29 Jul 2010 at 2:40pm
This is a lovely recumbent stone circle, situated on the false crest of a hill just outside Inverurie in Aberdeenshire.

Hill of Tara
29 Jul 2010 at 1:01pm
Earthworks and Passage Grave in Co. Meath. Before the commercialisation of Newgrange to a kind of Neolithic Mall, this was the most celebrated of Irish sites, yet rather disappointing now.The earthworks are of Iron Age date but are not the remains of banqueting halls etc. that Romantic songs might lead us to expect.

Rampur cemetery
29 Jul 2010 at 12:28pm
Barrow Cemetery in India

Puy Durand menhir
29 Jul 2010 at 12:01pm
Puy Durand Menhir, just to the north of Avrillé in Vendée

Swinton Druid's Temple
29 Jul 2010 at 11:18am
Modern Stone Circle in Yorkshire (North). New Swinton Hall is a mile or so to the west of Masham, near Ilton. It was built by the owner himself, William Danby (1752 - 1833). His next project was the labour intensive work of creating another Stonehenge, with a shilling a day paid to the workers.


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