A Large ‘Tableman’ Sheds Some Light On People’s Fun And Games In Medieval Bedfordshire
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – At our recent Taylor Wimpey excavation at Bidwell West, Bedfordshire, our Milton Keynes field team have uncovered a medieval timber-framed building and a series of medieval enclosure ditches. From one of these, they recovered a large ‘tableman’ (gaming piece). Image credit: Cotswold Archaeology. The gaming piece, which has a diameter of nearly 6cm, is made […]
Unusual Archaeological Object Reveals Traces Of Prehistoric Settlements Mikołajki
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating in Mikołajki, Poland, have made a surprising discovery. Researchers announced they had encountered an unusual archaeological object providing traces of prehistoric and late Medieval settlements. The Warmia and Mazury Conservator of Monuments announced archaeologists, during excavations in the city center at Orzyszowa Street, discovered a granite stele that […]
History Of Bread: Basic Food Of Man In Ancient And Contemporary Cultures Around The World
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Bread has been known for millennia though its authentic history is lost in time. It is the primary food of man in almost all cultures worldwide. The folklore surrounding bread was pᴀssed down through oral tradition, hieroglyphics found in ancient Babylonia and Egyptian tombs, and old records about bread left […]
New Clues Why Neanderthals Visited La Cotte de St Brelade In Jersey 250,000 Years Ago
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Previous archaeological excavations in Jersey revealed Neanderthals visited La Cotte de St Brelade, a coastal cave for over 100,000 years. The cave was of great importance to the Neanderthals, and it was considered a special place. La Cotte à la Chèvre, a small cave near Grosnez on the north coast. […]
Why Are Medieval Manuscripts Full Of Doodles Of Snail Fights?
AncientPages.com – The doodles found in the margins of very old manuscripts are often just as interesting as the content of the manuscripts themselves. One such example is the frequently recurring – and extremely odd – image of knights warring against snails. From the late 13th century through to the 15th century, images of knights fighting snails […]
New Armoured Dinosaur Discovered On Isle Of Wight
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A new armored dinosaur, known as an ankylosaur, has been described and named for Prof Paul Barrett of the Natural History Museum. Vectipelta barretti was discovered in the WesSєx formation on the Isle of Wight and represents the first armored dinosaur from the dinosaur Isle to be described in 142 […]
Small Stone Carved With A Viking Ship May Be Oldest Picture Ever Found In Iceland
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating site Stöð on Stöðvarfjörður in East Iceland have found a small stone carved with a Viking Ship. This little find may be a big archaeological discovery as it seems this is the oldest picture ever found in Iceland. The stone was discovered inside a longhouse that is believed […]
![The Tupí-Guaraní languages used in this study (in green) and the Tupían (non-TG) Awetí (in blue), and Mawé (in red), along with the distribution of the TG archaeological record (black dots). Prepared by the authors with QGIS 3 [29], based on based on public domain data and raster images from “Natural Earth”, including data from [30–32] and an unpublished database by Corrêa and Noelli. Credit: PLOS ONE (2023). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0272226](https://top.szone.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/indigenouslanguages14.jpg)
Origin Of Indigenous Languages – Kinships Of Tupí-Guaraní Language Family In S. America
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com -University of Tübingen computational linguist investigates kinships of the Tupí-Guaraní language family using methods from molecular biology. A new study indicates that one of the largest of the indigenous language families in Latin America originated in the sixth century BCE in the basin of the Rio Tapajós and Rio Xingu, near […]
New Details On Neanderthals – Revealed By Museum Exhibition In Norway
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – No one knows what happened when we, Homo sapiens, first encountered the Neanderthals. But we know we met. We know that for thousands of years we lived side by side in Europe and Asia. And we know we had children together. So you’re probably carrying around a bit of Neanderthal […]
Extraordinarily Well-Preserved 3,000-Year-Old Octagonal Sword Unearthed In Germany
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A very rare 3,000-year-old sword has been found in Bayern, Germany. The sword from the Middle Bronze Age is still in such good condition that it almost still shines. Archaeologists have been excavating in Närdlingen, a town in the Donau-Ries district in Swabia, Bavaria, where they discovered the two-and-a-half-foot-long sword […]