Norfolk Broads: Bronze Age evidence 'everywhere '

Proof of Bronze Age activity can be found throughout the whole of the Norfolk Broads, archaeologists claim.

After being uncovered by Soviet archaeologists, ancient mysteries revealed in Turkmen desert sands

By: Igor Sasin

MARY (AFP).- Over four millennia ago, the fortress town of Gonur-Tepe might have been a rare advanced civilisation before it was buried for centuries under the dust of the Kara Kum desert in remote western Turkmenistan.

Investigating Bronze Age stone ships on Gotland

In the middle of the Bronze Age, around 1000 BCE, the quantity of metal artefacts traded in the Baltic Sea region increased dramatically. Around that same time, a new type of monument appeared along the coasts; stones set on edge and arranged in the form of ships, built by the maritime culture involved in that same metal trade.

Snowy landscape reveals Wales' forgotten ancient remains

Archaeologists have discovered ancient remains after they were "brought back to life" by the snow covering the landscape.

Settlements dating back 4,000 years were only found because just the right amount of snow fell on the countryside.

Behind the ancient hedge

Article created on Thursday, January 17, 2013 from ScienceNordic

The hedge around your property marks the boundary between what’s mine and what’s yours and the idea for this division is actually an ancient one.

Lake Sediments Help Scientists Trace 7,000 Years Of Mining, Metal Use In China

June 20, 2008 — A new geochemical study illuminates 7,000 years of mining and metal use in central China and links these trends to fluctuations in airborne pollution during the Bronze Age and other military and industrial periods in Chinese history. The study could help scientists better assess the accumulative environmental effects of human activity in the region since prehistory times.

Charles Higham: The dating game and the saga of Ban Chiang

Very early in my archaeological career, I encountered an intense debate on the chronology of the earliest Neolithic in the Near East. It was rather like the race to the Pole: who had the earliest date? The English champion was the redoubtable Dame Cathleen Kenyon, her American adversary was Robert Braidwood. It was a case of Jericho v. Jarmo. I never imagined that I would one day find myself involved in a similar situation. Yet this is how our subject advances, by constant probing, questioning, and refining.