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This Could Be the Earliest Evidence of Human Warfare Yet

The grisly discovery of 27 people who were killed 10,000 years ago provide the earliest known evidence of human warfare yet. How and when did human warfare emerge? That’s a question philosophers have been…

Cheese Was Food Of the Gods for Britain’s Neolithic Henge Builders

Archaeologists at Durrington Walls say that pots found in residential areas were used for cooking meat, while pottery in ceremonial areas were used for cheese and dairy. Cheese. We all love cheese and many…

Bronze Age Sauna Discovered in Scotland

A sauna? In Scotland? Well I never! It does sound bizarre, but it’s not the only evidence that ancient people heated water with hot rocks and steamed themselves together. The island of Westray in…

Archaeologists find another enormous monument UNDERNEATH superhenge

It’s 1,640 feet in diameter, surrounded by a 54ft wide ditch and a 3ft high bank… and it’s been hiding a secret for thousands of years: a row of 90 massive standing stones. Just…

Archaeologists Unearth a 7,000 Year Old Massacre

The discovery of a mass grave in Germany shows that 7,000 years ago, attackers killed 26 victims, including children, systematically breaking their shins before dumping them in a pit. So were early Neolithic farmers…

What archaeologists really want to know about Stonehenge’s Big Sister

Marden Henge is 10 times bigger than Stonehenge. But most people have never heard of it. Why Stonehenge was built is still a mystery. How the the giant stones were transported almost defy belief….

How green were the first cities?

Believe it or not, increased biodiversity could be a sign that an early urban settlement was forming. We often think of sprawling urbanism as bringing death to the countryside. All that concrete and industry…
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Neolithic Bling! What jewellery tell us about the spread of innovation

A study into early Neolithic bracelets & bead types has been used to map the spread of agriculture in Europe. This week DigVentures explores the evidence behind this, and wonders what modern material culture…

A Guide to the UK’s Best Car Park Archaeology

Here’s where you can park your car above some really great archaeology. There are over 6,000 multi-storey car parks in the UK. I don’t know how many there are in total, but 100,000 seems…

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Neolithic Bowhunting Was a Social Activity in Spain’s La Draga

A study of some of Europe’s oldest hunting bows suggests that 7,000 years ago, early farmers were mostly using them just for fun. Hmm. So how do you tell whether people were doing something…

How Ireland Started Dairy Farming – 6,000 Years Ago

As dairy farmers across Europe anxiously await the lifting of EU milk quotas in April this year, new research from the University of Bristol, UK has revealed the antiquity of dairy farming in a…

10 Photos Taken While Flying Over Iron Age Hillforts Covered in Snow

Buzzing over the landscape in a light aircraft is a brilliant way to spot archaeological features. In the snow, they stand out even more. Here’s 10 of Britain’s most impressive Iron Age hill forts…

Francis Pryor asks: How are Sheep Relevant to Life – and Archaeology?

DigVentures is pleased as punch to have an original blog to share with our readers from the one, the only, the mighty Francis Pryor. As an accomplished archaeologist, author, personality and general man-about-town, we’re…

A Woman’s Place is in the Cave

As Virginia Woolf once wrote “For most of history, Anonymous was a woman,” though recent analysis of Upper Palaeolithic cave art suggest that she may not be quite right. New studies of prehistoric handprint…

The Neolithic Housing Boom… and Bust

It’s often said that if we don’t learn the lessons of the past, we’re doomed to repeat them in the future. That’s been a running theme in British politics this week, as the coalition…

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