The ancestors of modern man moved into and across Europe, ousting the Neanderthals, faster than previously thought, a new analysis of radiocarbon data shows.
Rather than taking some 7,000 years to colonize Europe from Africa, the reinterpreted data shows the process may only have taken 5,000 years, scientist Paul Mellars from Cambridge University said in the science journal Nature on Wednesday.
"The same chronological pattern points to a substantially shorter period of chronological and demographic overlap between the earliest ... modern humans and the last survivors of the preceding Neanderthal populations," he wrote.
Neolithic site wins reprieve from diggers
Conservationists in Yorkshire today won their fight to save the prehistoric site of Thornborough Henges from a gravel extraction scheme, writes Martin Wainwright
It seems careless to overlook Britain's largest prehistoric site for the best part of 1,000 years - but that it what has happened in the case of the threat to the Thornborough Henges.
The country only woke up at the 11th hour, thanks to a determined group of enthusiasts in Yorkshire who networked remorselessly to get every conservation group on their side.
The most interesting part is that it was never recognized as an actual site until it was viewed aerially.
Pompeii Premise fulfilled. . .for once China's "Pompei" reproduces rural life 2,000 years ago
An ancient village which was buried underground more than 2,000 years ago has been unearthed in Neihuang County, central China's Henan Province, Chinese archaeologists announced on Monday.
The Sanyangzhuang ruins were excavated in the old course of the Yellow River, the second longest waterway in China. The only intact ruins of an ancient village so far discovered in China, said Xu Pingfang, a famous archaeologist of archaeological studies of the Han and Tang dynasties (618-907).
They tell vividly the scenes of production and life in rural areas in the late Western Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-24 A.D.), said Xu,also president of the Archaeological Society of China.
Hard to tell, but it appears to have been buried in a flood that was not violent enough to wash everything away, just cover it up.
A few links on KV63 from Aayko at the EEF
The University of Memphis website dedicated to KV63 speaks of 7 wooden coffins in the cache:
http://academic.memphis.edu/egypt/kv63.html
With photos of the crew.
Also the KV63 website has now photos of the KV10/KV63 team:
http://www.kv-63.com/pages/1/index.htm
A new page on the website of Dr Hawass:
"A Concealed Cachet in Luxor!! February 2006"
http://guardians.net/hawass/news/a_concealed_cachet_in_luxor.htm
Not much new info, but with fine photos of the shaft
which have not appeared elsewhere, I think. I presume that
the 3rd photo shows the "8 holes" mentioned in the
SCA press release.
[URL submitted by Lynn Harvey (om@anthemion.com)]
A blog of a grad student (Sharon Nichols), who worked
at the KV63 site, with her personal impressions:
http://www.karyben.blogspot.com/