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19 April 2011
Archaeologists working in Derbyshire have this month reported the discovery of a mass grave on an Iron Age hill fort....
19 April 2011
It looks like diggers have found what could be one of the largest archaeological sites in England. And it’s been hidden...
17 April 2011
Researchers have found evidence to suggest that life evolved on land much earlier than previously thought...
15 April 2011
Killer dinosaurs may have hunted mainly under cover of darkness.
27 February 2011
The bones of people who died up to a hundred years ago are being used in the development of new treatments for chronic...
16 January 2011
The problem of how we might feed the earth’s population in the future has come under further scrutiny this week with...
14 November 2010
As any parents, aunties or uncles know full well, kids get much more tired out simply walking around than adults do,...
24 October 2010
Archaeologists working a several sites across Europe have found evidence that our stone age ancestors were more partial...
17 September 2010
Stone-tipped arrows thought to be 64,000 years old have been found in the Sibundu Cave in South Africa. Lyn Wadley...
17 August 2010
The wreck of a 19th Century British ship has been found in the frigid waters of northern Canada.
17 August 2010
Britain's oldest house was unearthed in Yorkshire. Identified by radiocarbing dating to be from 8,500BC, it is 500...
17 August 2010
Doomsday book of 1066 can be seen online at www.pase.ac.uk
17 August 2010
The earliest evidence of tool-use by human ancestors has been found in Ethiopia.
15 August 2010
Duncan Howitt-Marshall and Diana O'Carroll discuss the repatriation and reburial of the head of Yagan, the...
15 August 2010
Diana O'Carroll and Duncan Howitt Marshall discuss the discovery of tortoise bones at Stafford Castle - the...
17 July 2010
The head of an aboriginal warrior has been re-burried after it was taken from its homeland 177 years ago.
17 July 2010
The leg bone of a tortoise has been found at Stafford castle in Staffordshire, dating to the late 19th Century.
20 June 2010
Research has shown that one of the deadliest strains of malaria travelled with early humans as they left Africa and...
06 June 2010
New archaeological evidence suggests human ancestors gave up their vegetarian diet and began feasting on land and...
10 May 2010
This week has seen the sequencing of the Neanderthal genome, which helps to answer some puzzles - did humans and...
10 April 2010
A new species of early human has been described this week – Australopithecus sediba. And it looks like it’s a key...
05 March 2010
This week archaeologists have described the discovery of some of the earliest evidence for advanced human thought....
14 February 2010
Surprising as it sounds, scientists at the University of Copenhagen have decoded the genome sequence of an ancient...