Steel Was Already Being Used In Europe 2,900 Years Ago – New Study
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A study by an international and interdisciplinary team headed by University of Freiburg archaeologist Dr. Ralph Araque Gonzalez from the Faculty of Humanities has proven that steel tools were already in use in Europe around 2,900 years ago. Using geochemicalanalyses, the researchers were able to prove that stone stelae on […]
2.37-Meter Sword And Unusual Shield Mirror Unearthed In Ancient Mound In Japan
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists have discovered a 2.37-meter sword and an unusual Bronze Age mirror in Japan. The find was made in the prehistoric Tomio Maruyama burial mound in the ancient capital of Nara. An X-ray pH๏τo of an iron sword unearthed from an ancient burial mound in Nara is seen at the […]
A Bronze Age Food Vessel Unearthed During A High Street Demolition 42 Years Ago Has Gone On Display At A Nearby Museum
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A 5,000-year-old container, discovered behind a butcher’s shop, is being exhibited at Kirkcaldy Galleries having been recently conserved by experts. Conservation has been completed as part of a wider project to find out more about the human remains and objects found on Kirkcaldy High Street in June 1980. Archaeologists from […]
Analysis Of Ancient Tools Challenges Long-Held Ideas About What Drove Major Changes In Ancient Greek Society
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A modern scientific analysis of ancient stone tools is challenging long-held beliefs about what caused radical change on the island of Crete, where the first European state flourished during the Bronze Age: the Minoan civilization. About 3,500 years ago, Crete underwent significant cultural transformations, including the adoption of a new […]
Unique Bronze Age Fortress Discovered In Galway, Ireland
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – While carrying out fieldwork in the Burren lowlands east of Gort in Co Galway, Ireland archaeologist Michael Gibbons discovered a remarkable Bronze Age Fortress. Gibbons says the ancient fortress he stumbles upon in the rural Galway park is one of the most extraordinary monuments of probable Bronze Age in Ireland. […]
Fascinating 3,000-Year-Old Artifacts Found At Herne Bay, Kent, UK
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating in Kent, UK have made some interesting finds, and the oldest of them date back to the Bronze Age. The discovery was made at Hillborough on the outskirts of Herne Bay, where according to lead archaeologist Richard Greatorex the presence of a medieval whistle suggests people in 1000 […]
Scientists Can Finally Answer What Bronze Age Daggers Were Used For
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – First appearing in the early 4th millennium BCE, copper-alloy daggers were widespread in Bronze Age Europe including Britain and Ireland. Yet archaeologists have long debated what these objects were used for. As daggers are often found in weapon-rich male burials, or “warrior graves,” many researchers speculated that they were primarily ceremonial […]
Ancient DNA Reveals Bronze Age Women Altered Genetic Landscape Of Orkney
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – An international team led by researchers at the University of Huddersfield has used ancient DNA to rewrite the history of the Orkney islands to show that Orkney actually experienced large-scale immigration during the Early Bronze Age, which replaced much of the local population. Orkney is world-famous for its archaeological heritage. […]
Mycenaean Culture Used Lignite For Their Kilns 3,000 Years Ago – Surprising Discovery Reveals
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The Mycenaean culture in Bronze Age Greece is not only famous for works of art such as the “Gold Mask of Agamemnon”, but also for the beginning of export-oriented mᴀss production of elaborately made ceramic vessels and bronzes, such as swords and vessels. An international team led by LMU archaeologist […]
Hundreds Of Exceptional Bronze Age Artifacts Discovered In France Were Probably Offerings
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists in France have unearthed hundreds of exceptional Bronze Age artifacts that were most likely offerings. The still-well-preserved 3,00-year-old artifacts include jewelry and weapons that were found at the prehistoric site in Gannat in Allier. Some of the Bronze Age items have “already been analyzed, revealing women’s or children’s jewelry, […]