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(PhysOrg.com) -- Archaeologists studying a 7,000-year-old site in what is now south-west Germany have found evidence suggesting that more than 500 people may have been the victims of cannibalism. http://www.physorg.com/news179393799.html Other Sciences Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:30:02 EST news179393799 New research at the University of Leicester has identified scores of Sicilian temples built to face the rising Sun, shedding light on the practices of the Ancient Greeks. http://www.physorg.com/news178370030.html Other Sciences Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:20:48 EST news178370030 More than a year into an excavation project of the men's gymnasium that was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake, Stanford university archaeologist Laura Jones' team has unearthed evidence suggesting why the newly complete building collapsed so spectacularly while so many other structures survived the violent temblor. http://www.physorg.com/news177061460.html Other Sciences Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:20:06 EST news177061460 Archaeologists at Atlanta's Fernbank Museum of Natural History have discovered unprecedented evidence that helps map Hernando de Soto's journey through the Southeast in 1540. No evidence of De Soto's path between Tallahassee and North Carolina has been found until now, and few sites have been located anywhere. http://www.physorg.com/news176636443.html Other Sciences Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:41:38 EST news176636443 Archaeologists surveying the world's oldest submerged town have found ceramics dating back to the Final Neolithic. Their discovery suggests that Pavlopetri, off the southern Laconia coast of Greece, was occupied some 5,000 years ago -- at least 1,200 years earlier than originally thought. http://www.physorg.com/news174906146.html Other Sciences Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:03:06 EST news174906146 Contestants on TV shows like Top Chef and Hell's Kitchen know that their meat-cutting skills will be scrutinized by a panel of unforgiving judges. Now, new archaeological evidence is getting the same scrutiny by scientists at Tel Aviv University and the University of Arizona. http://www.physorg.com/news174740646.html Other Sciences Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:05:00 EST news174740646 Archaeologists have unveiled the remains of a revolving banquet room built by the Roman emperor Nero, who ruled between 54 and 68 BC and was famed for his depraved and extravagant lifestyle, a statement said Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news174154217.html Other Sciences Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:20:16 EST news174154217 (PhysOrg.com) -- Archaeologists have released an artist`s impression of what a second stone circle found a mile from Stonehenge might have looked like. http://www.physorg.com/news174035874.html Other Sciences Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:10:01 EST news174035874 (AP) -- Archaeologists have discovered a smaller prehistoric site near Britain's famous circle of standing stones at Stonehenge. http://www.physorg.com/news173774861.html Other Sciences Sat, 03 Oct 2009 07:48:25 EST news173774861 British archaeologists have discovered the ruins of an arena built early in the third century BC outside Ostia, the ancient imperial port 25 kilometres (16 miles) from Rome, the team leader said Friday. http://www.physorg.com/news173710969.html Other Sciences Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:30:08 EST news173710969 The world's largest living lizard species, the Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis), is vulnerable to extinction and yet little is known about its natural history. New research by a team of palaeontologists and archaeologists from Australia, Malaysia and Indonesia, who studied fossil evidence from Australia, Timor, Flores, Java and India, shows that Komodo Dragons most likely evolved in Australia and dispersed westward to Indonesia. http://www.physorg.com/news173515666.html Other Sciences Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:40:03 EST news173515666 (AP) -- Archaeologists on Tuesday unveiled what they think are the remains of Roman emperor Nero's extravagant banquet hall, a circular space that rotated day and night to imitate the Earth's movement and impress his guests. http://www.physorg.com/news173459540.html Other Sciences Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:30:06 EST news173459540 A skeleton, found at one of the most important, but least understood, Roman sites in Britain is puzzling experts from The University of Nottingham. http://www.physorg.com/news172234674.html Other Sciences Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:58:29 EST news172234674 (AP) -- Israeli archaeologists have uncovered one of the earliest depictions of a menorah, the seven-branched candelabra that has come to symbolize Judaism, the Israel Antiquities Authority said Friday. The menorah was engraved in stone around 2,000 years ago and found in a synagogue recently discovered by the Sea of Galilee. http://www.physorg.com/news171910228.html Other Sciences Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:00:01 EST news171910228 (PhysOrg.com) -- A team of archaeologists has come one step closer to unravelling the mystery of how the famous statues dotting the landscape of a tiny Pacific island acquired their distinctive red hats. http://www.physorg.com/news171546695.html Other Sciences Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:52:08 EST news171546695 (AP) -- Archaeologists digging in Jerusalem have uncovered a 3,700-year-old wall that is the oldest example of massive fortifications ever found in the city, the Israel Antiquities Authority said Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news171118233.html Other Sciences Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:40:05 EST news171118233 A prehistoric water-filled cave in the Dominican Republic has become a "treasure trove" with the announcement by Indiana University archaeologists of the discovery of stone tools, a small primate skull in remarkable condition, and the claws, jawbone and other bones of several species of sloths. http://www.physorg.com/news169791467.html Other Sciences Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:40:01 EST news169791467 (PhysOrg.com) -- Archaeologists have discovered a spectacular Early Bronze Age grave at the Scottish Royal centre at Forteviot. http://www.physorg.com/news169221235.html Other Sciences Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:54:51 EST news169221235 (PhysOrg.com) -- Research on human remains from Kent`s Cavern in Devon has led scientists to believe that humans from the Mesolithic period (after the Ice Age) may have engaged in complex ritualistic burial practices, and possibly cannibalism. http://www.physorg.com/news168867939.html Other Sciences Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:46:18 EST news168867939 Archaeologists said Thursday they had unearthed the ruins of a villa believed to be the birthplace of a Roman Emperor who reigned almost 2,000 years ago. http://www.physorg.com/news168803433.html Other Sciences Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:40:01 EST news168803433 (AP) -- Archaeologists have found five well-preserved Roman shipwrecks deep under the sea off a small Mediterranean island, with their cargo of vases, pots and other objects largely intact, officials said Friday. http://www.physorg.com/news167720761.html Other Sciences Sat, 25 Jul 2009 06:06:43 EST news167720761 The use of tools by hominins - the primate group which includes humans (Homo) and chimpanzees and bonobos (Pan) - has been extensively researched by archaeologists and primatologists, both of who manifest the relevance of tool-use in understanding technology and the origins of human behaviour. http://www.physorg.com/news166968105.html Other Sciences Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:02:06 EST news166968105 (PhysOrg.com) -- The hairpin may have held a woman's hair back long ago, but now it holds a wealth of information. http://www.physorg.com/news166455180.html Other Sciences Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:33:39 EST news166455180 (AP) -- Israeli archaeologists have uncovered an ancient quarry where they believe King Herod extracted stones for the construction of the Jewish Temple 2,000 years ago, the Israel Antiquities Authority said Monday. The archaeologists believe the 1,000-square-foot (100-square-meter) quarry was part of a much larger network of quarries used by Herod in the city. http://www.physorg.com/news166115501.html Other Sciences Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:30:01 EST news166115501 Excavations in the summer of 2008 at the sites of Hohle Fels and Vogelherd produced new evidence for Paleolithic music in the form of the remains of one nearly complete bone flute and isolated small fragments of three ivory flutes. http://www.physorg.com/news165069257.html Other Sciences Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:40:02 EST news165069257 (AP) -- Archaeologists have discovered a water well in Cyprus that was built as long as 10,500 years ago, and the skeleton of a young woman at the bottom of it, an official said Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news165070153.html Other Sciences Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:50:02 EST news165070153 (AP) -- China plans to excavate more of the life-size terracotta warriors at the famed ancient tomb of the country's first emperor. http://www.physorg.com/news163835459.html Other Sciences Wed, 10 Jun 2009 06:51:22 EST news163835459 A prehistoric complex including two 6,000-year-old tombs representing some of the earliest monuments built in Britain has been discovered by a team led by a Kingston University archaeologist. Dr Helen Wickstead and her colleagues were stunned and delighted to find the previously undiscovered Neolithic tombs, also known as long barrows at a site at Damerham, Hampshire. http://www.physorg.com/news163737692.html Other Sciences Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:42:45 EST news163737692 (AP) -- Archaeologists digging on Jerusalem's Mount of Olives have discovered a nearly 3,000-year-old jar handle bearing ancient Hebrew script, a find significantly older than most inscribed artifacts unearthed in the ancient city, an archaeologist said. The Iron Age handle is inscribed with the Hebrew name Menachem, which was the name of an Israelite king and is still common among Jews. http://www.physorg.com/news162054117.html Other Sciences Wed, 20 May 2009 16:02:51 EST news162054117 (AP) -- Archaeologists and volunteers armed with special flares will fan out over part of the Four Corners region on Saturday to study how early Navajos could have used smoke signals to warn against invaders. http://www.physorg.com/news161676295.html Other Sciences Sat, 16 May 2009 07:05:23 EST news161676295