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Plague in humans ‘twice as old’ but didn’t begin as flea-borne, ancient DNA...
New research using ancient DNA has revealed that plague has been endemic in human populations for more than twice as long as previously thought. The study suggests that ancestral plague would have been...
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Bronze Age stilt houses unearthed in East Anglian Fens
Archaeologists have revealed exceptionally well-preserved Bronze Age dwellings during an excavation at Must Farm quarry in the East Anglian fens that is providing an extraordinary insight into domestic...
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Most complete Bronze Age wheel to date found at Must Farm near Peterborough
Archaeologists working at Must Farm, a Bronze Age site near Peterborough, have uncovered a 3,000-year-old wheel, the first and largest complete example ever to be discovered in Britain. The find,...
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Latest archaeological finds at Must Farm provide a vivid picture of everyday...
Archaeologists have made remarkable discoveries about everyday life in the Bronze Age during their ten-month excavation of 3,000-year-old circular wooden houses at Must Farm in Cambridgeshire, a site...
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Rice farming in India much older than thought, used as 'summer crop' by Indus...
Latest research on archaeological sites of the ancient Indus Civilisation, which stretched across what is now Pakistan and northwest India during the Bronze Age, has revealed that domesticated rice...
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Unusually sophisticated prehistoric monuments and technology revealed in the...
New work at the settlement of Dhaskalio, the site adjoining the prehistoric sanctuary on the Cycladic island of Keros, has shown this to be a more imposing and densely occupied series of structures...
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Ancient faeces reveal how ‘marsh diet’ left Bronze Age Fen folk infected with...
New research published today in the journal Parasitology shows how the prehistoric inhabitants of a settlement in the freshwater marshes of eastern England were infected by intestinal worms caught from...
View ArticleResearch reveals ‘cosy domesticity’ of prehistoric stilt-house dwellers in...
Detailed reports on thousands of artefacts pulled from “Britain’s Pompeii” reveals the surprisingly sophisticated domestic lives of Bronze Age Fen folk, from home interiors to recipes, clothing,...
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