http://www.popark.se Populär Arkeologi sv http://www.sydsvenskan.se/sverige/article1603685/En-meter-hogre-niva-for-tusen-ar-sedan.htmlRedan vikingarna seglade på den höga havsnivå som antas bli verklighet år 2100. Detta visar arkeologiska fynd och analyser. Sedan dess har havs­nivån sjunkit och stigit med hela två meters skillnad.– Förändringarna har gått fort, säger Anders Ödman. På bara hundra år har havsnivån förändrats en met... (antal ord: 524) http://www.svd.se/kultur/turkiet-kraver-tillbaka-kulturskatt_6804689.svdTurkiet kräver tillbaka en gravsten med världens äldsta notskrift från Danmark. Gravstenen har sedan 1966 funnits på Nationalmuseet i Köpenhamn, skriver Jyllandsposten. Enligt Nuri Aktakka, kultur-och turistchef i turkiska Aydin-provinsen, blev minnesstenen utsmugglad olovligen från Turkiet. Den upp... (antal ord: 121) http://www.skanskan.se/article/20120131/YSTAD/701309831/1162/-/vill-grava-ut-vid-ales-stenar-igenDet kan bli vidare utgrävningar vid Ales stenar i sommar. Privatforskaren Bob G Lind och hans kollegor har ansöker om att få sätta spaden i marken igen. Redan förra sommaren var den polske arkeologiprofessorn Vladislav Duczko på plats och grävde öster om den omdebatterade stenformationen. Utgrävning... (antal ord: 181) http://www.stonepages.com/news/#4702A team of Spanish and Russian archeologists has documented a series of seines and fish traps - on the banks of the River Dubna, 100 kilometres north of Moscow - which are more than 7,500 years old. The equipment, among the oldest in Europe, displays great technical complexity. The survey will aid in... (antal ord: 519) http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/december-2011/article/arabia-the-first-stop-for-modern-humans-out-of-africa-suggests-new-studyQuestions surrounding when and where early modern humans first migrated from Africa to populate the rest of the world have long been a focus of debate and study among scientists, where genetic research has played a key role. Now, recent genetic research study results have been released by an interna... (antal ord: 366) http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/01/30/climate-change-has-helped-bring-down-cultures/Humanity has weathered many a climate change, from the ice age of 80,000 years ago to the droughts of the late 19th century that helped kill between 30 and 50 million people around the world via famine. But such shifts have transformed or eliminated specific human societies, including the ancient Su... (antal ord: 437) http://www.icenews.is/index.php/2012/01/28/evidence-suggests-vikings-grew-grain-in-south-greenland/Archaeologists from the Danish national museum have finally succeeded in confirming that Erik the Red and his people could indeed brew beer in Greenland when they lived there.There has long been a question mark over whether or not the southern Greenlandic climate was warm enough in Viking times to g... (antal ord: 141) http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/december-2011/article/new-genetic-research-suggests-link-between-earliest-native-americans-and-southern-siberiaAncestors of the earliest Native Americans may indeed be traced to Asia, according to a recent genetic study conducted by the University of Pennsylvania and the Institute of Cytology and Genetics in Novosibirsk, Russia. The researchers, led by Theodore Schurr, an associate professor in Penn's Depart... (antal ord: 484) http://www.stonepages.com/news/#4703New published research from anthropologists at the University of Kent (UK) has scientifically supported for the first time the long held theory that early human ancestors across Africa, Western Asia and Europe engineered their stone tools. For over a century, anthropologists have debated the si... (antal ord: 349) http://www.livescience.com/18153-ancient-jade-tool-mystery.htmlThe discovery of a 3,300-year-old tool has led researchers to the rediscovery of a "lost" 20th-century manuscript and a "geochemically extraordinary" bit of earth.Discovered on Emirau Island in the Bismark Archipelago (a group of islands off the coast of New Guinea), the 2-inch (5-centimeters) ston... (antal ord: 697) http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/120127-stonehenge-ness-brodgar-scotland-science/On an island off Britain's northern tip, new discoveries suggest a huge Stone Age ritual complex is older than Stonehenge. But age is only the half of it. Researchers say the site may have in fact been the original model for Stonehenge and other later, better-known British complexes to the south. Fi... (antal ord: 952) http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/december-2011/article/study-reveals-possible-new-key-to-human-evolutionFor the first five years of life, human cognition slowly comes to fruition, receiving and storing information and experience from the environment and enabling humans to advance beyond the capabilities of their primate cousins, according to a study published online in Genome Research. An internation... (antal ord: 560) http://www.stonepages.com/news/#4704Brendan Foley, a marine archaeologist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA, and his colleagues at Greece's Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities, made a four-week survey of the waters around Crete last October as part of a long-term effort to catalogue large numbers of ancient shipwrecks in... (antal ord: 452) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-16829808A Viking axe head found in a Gloucestershire village could be evidence of a battle more than 1,100 years ago, according to archaeologists. The wrought iron object, found in Slimbridge in 2008, has now been identified as being of Viking origin. Historians say a band of Vikings sailed up the River Sev... (antal ord: 342)