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New computer dating technology changing the history of Britain

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a new study called Gathering Time published this month, archaeologists from English Heritage and Cardiff University have been able to create an accurate timeline of the first 700 years of ...

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created Jun 07, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Neolithic Britain revealed

A new dating technique has given the first detailed picture of life in Stone Age Britain, more than 5000 years ago.

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created Jun 07, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Stone Age remains are Britain's earliest house

Archaeologists working on Stone Age remains at a site in North Yorkshire say it contains Britain's earliest surviving house. A team from the Universities of Manchester and York reveal today that the home dates to at least ...

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created Aug 10, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Ancient tombs discovered by Kingston University-led team

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 ...

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created Jun 09, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 1




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A look at how entrepreneurship and innovation will lead to future job creation in North Africa

It has been nearly a year since an uprising in Tunisia over unemployment and the soaring cost of living ended years of dictatorship. Today, as the county struggles to rebuild, what many do not know is that behind the scenes ...

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created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Will the English language ever die?

These cultural conventions are indicative of how a language impacts the worldview of the people who speak it. In Martu, an Aboriginal language from Western Australian, black and all dark colours are maru or maru-maru while ...

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created Oct 24, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 39

Allowing native language in school benefits Mexican-American students, researcher finds

A new University of Missouri study shows that Mexican-American students who identify and practice speaking their native language have higher grades than those who are put in English-only environments in their schools.

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created Sep 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The changing landscape of England

History will be brought alive, thanks to a unique project exploring how the landscape changed and developed in a period spanning the mid Bronze Age to the Normans.

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created Aug 03, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Probing Question: Do we romanticize the Amish?

The clip clopping of horse hooves on a country lane. Barefoot children in straw hats and bonnets. Black buggies, barn raisings, and tables laden with pickles, casseroles and shoofly pie. These are the images ...

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created Apr 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 4

Early 1800s painting of Huntsville's Monte Sano Mountain rediscovered

(PhysOrg.com) -- A 19th-century painting depicting a scene of early settlers on Huntsville’s Monte Sano Mountain was recently rediscovered and restored to its original brilliance and depth by representatives ...

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created Apr 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists trace violent death of Iron Age man

(PhysOrg.com) -- An Iron Age man whose skull and brain was unearthed during excavations at the University of York was the victim of a gruesome ritual killing, according to new research.

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created Mar 29, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Unlocking the secrets of Heritage Smells

Clues to the condition of museum exhibits and antique objects are to be revealed in a research project led by the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow- with the use of technology for 'sniffing' artefacts.

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created Mar 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cannons found in Panama believed to be from Sir Henry Morgan shipwrecks

Archaeologists have recovered six cannons from the ships of Welsh privateer Sir Henry Morgan, the first artifacts found in Panama to be linked to the man who remains a legend there, the team said Monday.

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created Mar 01, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Ancient cities sprung from marshes, researcher finds

For more than a century, archaeologists have believed that ancient Mesopotamian cities – places like Uruk and Ur – were born along the banks of the great rivers of the Middle East and depended mainly on irrigation ...

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created Feb 24, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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