600-year-old skeleton mystery at Fermanagh crannog site

Mystery surrounds a 600-year-old skeleton found at the site of an archaeological dig in County Fermanagh.

The crannog - a man made island settlement - is situated on a site where the new A32 Cherrymount link road in Enniskillen will be built.

The Archaeology of a Renown(ed) Hopewell Mound Center - Mound City

When you arrive at the threshold of Mound City in Chillicothe, the view before you is, as its name suggests, reminiscent of a cityscape. The dense cluster of mounds surrounded by a low earthen wall is, however, not a place where ancient Native Americans lived. Instead, it is one of the greatest concentrations of mortuary ceremonialism in the ancient Americas.

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.