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Have I Just Found a Stone Tool? How to Tell if Your “Worked Stone” Is the Real Deal

Stone tools are among the most insightful links to our prehistoric past. Pick up a piece of worked flint, and you're holding something someone shaped with their own hands thousands of years ago. But how can you be sure that what you've found is a tool, and not just a bit of broken stone that looks like one?

Community archaeologists unearth lost Saxon cemetery and evidence of Bronze Age rituals in the Quantock Hills

Community dig finds evidence of life, death, and ritual activity spanning 1,500 years – including a monumental earthwork with three Bronze Age jars buried in its base.

The results are in: Radiocarbon dates from the Boyne Valley are totally Neolithic!

Thanks to our crowdfunders, we sent four samples from our dig in the Boyne Valley for radiocarbon dating. Now, the results are back from the lab and they're fascinating!
Caerfai promontory fort photographed from the air

Were Romans ever at Caerfai? Radiocarbon dating reveals a surprising truth in Pembrokeshire

It’s well known that the Romans covered most of Wales, building new forts as well as re-using old ones. But did they ever take control of Caerfai – one of the most impressive surviving Iron Age hillforts along the Pembrokeshire coast? Radiocarbon dating may have finally provided the answer…

‘Prehistoric farming settlement’ found on North York Moors

A community excavation led by DigVentures has unearthed post-holes and artefacts thought to date from the Neolithic, Bronze Age, and Roman periods.

Dorset ‘mega henge’ may have been built in as little as 35 years

New dating evidence from Mount Pleasant site suggests it was constructed in decades, not centuries

Sardinia’s prehistoric chamber tombs (Domus de Janas)

They're over 5000 years old, and locally known as 'fairy houses'

The Archaeology of Beer

It’s a five-pint problem

Food residues on 8,000 year old pottery reveal what people ate in Southeast Europe

Chemical analyses have allowed archaeologists to see how prehistoric diets changed.

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Ancient DNA adds new details to life of Bronze Age woman in Scotland

Her family arrived in Britain a few generations before she was born.

Pictish Coppersmith’s Greasy Handprints Found All Over Ancient Anvil

Archaeologists have discovered an ancient anvil that still bears a greasy handprint from the Pictish coppersmith who used it. Archaeologists on the Isle of Rousay, Orkney, have been carrying out emergency excavations at an…

Archaeologists Find That One Of The World’s Earliest Villages Had A ‘Community Hall’

A new study demonstrates that even the world’s earliest agricultural settlements had the Neolithic equivalent of a village hall. The advent of agriculture took place in the Near East over 10,000 years, and sparked…

Amazing Artefacts: This 14,000 Year Old Toy Might Be The World’s First Animation

The internet has fallen in love with this small bone disc marked with a deer on each side. It was made at least 14,000 years ago and when it spins, it looks like the…

Archaeologists Say They’ve Found One Of The World’s Oldest Crayons

Get your colouring books out! Archaeologists say they may have discovered one of the earliest examples of a ‘crayon’ – possibly used by people 10,000 years ago for applying colour to animal skins or…

Why Do These Little Cups Keep Showing Up In Britain’s Bronze Age Burials?

  Accessory cups, incense cups, funerary cups, chafing cups, pygmy cups… archaeologists call these enigmatic little pots all sorts of things. Found in Bronze Age burials all over Britain, the truth is we still…

Amazing Artefacts: The Hindsgavl Dagger

An exquisite piece of stonecraft from Denmark

Winter Solstice At Newgrange Will Be Broadcast Live Online For All To See

A shaft of light will enter the 5,000 year old tomb at sunrise and illuminate it spectacularly. Don’t miss your chance to see it… Just make sure you pray for clear skies! Newgrange (Sí…

Archaeologists Are Intrigued By These 5,000 Year Old Small Carved Stones

Why did Stone Age people carve images of the sun, fields, and spider webs onto small, flat stones? Danish archaeologists have found over 300 small carved stones, covered with motifs made by Neolithic people…

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