600,000-Year-Old Finds Reveal Canterbury Was Home To Britain’s Earliest Humans
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeological discoveries made on the outskirts of Canterbury, Kent (England) confirm the presence of early humans in southern Britain between 560,000 and 620,000 years ago, making it one of the earliest known Paleolithic sites in northern Europe. The breakthrough, involving controlled excavations and radiometric dating, comes a century after stone tool artifacts were […]
Archaeologists Discover Over 100 Ancient Settlements North Of Hadrian’s Wall
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Hadrian’s Wall, also known as Picts’ Wall, Vallum Hadriani (in Latin), or simply the Roman Wall, is one of the most impressive Roman remains in Britain and the ancient site is investigated by archaeologists who keep finding artifacts in the region. Hadrian’s Wall was built by the emperor Hadrian who […]
Ancient DNA Study Reveals Surprise About Britain’s Bronze Age – What Happened On The Orkney Islands?
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A new comprehensive study of ancient human remains taken from a cemetery at a site called the Links of Noltland has revealed surprises about Britain’s Bronze Age and explains why Bronze Age artifacts are rare on the Orkney Islands. The results of the study challenge existing understandings of Bronze Age […]
Ancient DNA Has Traced Large-Scale Migrations Into Bronze Age Britain And The Emergence of The Celtic Language
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A major new study of ancient DNA has traced the movement of people into southern Britain during the Bronze Age. In the largest such analysis published to date, scientists examined the DNA of nearly 800 ancient individuals. The new study, led by the University of York, Harvard Medical School, and […]
DNA Study Sheds New Light On Ancient Britain’s Language, Ancestry, Kinship, Milk
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – New research revealing a major migration to the island of Great Britain offers fresh insights into the languages spoken at the time, the ancestry of present-day England and Wales, and even ancient habits of dairy consumption. The findings are described in Nature by a team of more than 200 international […]