Bronze Age

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• SOURCE: Newsweek
  6-29-18
  

  Ritual Child Sacrifice Uncovered in Bronze Age Turkey

  Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that at least 11 children and young people were killed as a result of ritualistic sacrifice between 3100 and 2800 B.C.E.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  6-3-16
  

  The Excavation Transforming Great Britain

  The discovery of a three-thousand-year-old settlement at Must Farm is reshaping the view of Britain’s Bronze Age.

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• SOURCE: BBC
  1-12-16
  

  Bronze Age houses uncovered in Cambridgeshire are Britain's 'Pompeii'

  Archaeologists say they have uncovered Britain's "Pompeii" after discovering the "best-preserved Bronze Age dwellings ever found" in the country.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  11-24-15
  

  Solved: the mystery of Britain’s Bronze Age mummies

  Turns out the Egyptians weren't the only ones who mummified their dead.

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• SOURCE: Science Nordic
  6-14-15
  

  History rewritten: Europeans were “born” in the Bronze Age

  DNA from 101 Bronze Age skeletons shows that Europeans came from nomadic tribes who invaded during the Bronze Age.

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• SOURCE: phys.org
  10-9-14
  

  Greek Bronze Age ended 100 years earlier than thought, new evidence suggests

  Conventional estimates for the collapse of the Aegean civilization may be incorrect by up to a century, according to new radiocarbon analyses.

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• SOURCE: Phys.org
  2-26-14
  

  Decline of Bronze Age 'megacities' linked to climate change

  Scientists from the University of Cambridge have demonstrated that an abrupt weakening of the summer monsoon affected northwest India 4,100 years ago.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10-23-13
  

  Pollen Study Points to Drought as Culprit in Bronze Age Mystery

  Climate change-triggered drought may be the culprit.

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• SOURCE: Sci-News
  9-27-13
  

  8,000 Year Old Evidence of Human Activity Found in Alps

  Excavations in the Parc National des Écrins reveal evidence of Mesolithic humans.

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• SOURCE: History Extra
  9-13-13
  

  Researchers go into battle to test Bronze Age weapons

  Researchers at Newcastle University bring a new meaning to LARPing.

• SOURCE: Telegraph (UK)
  6-4-13
  

  Bronze age boats found in Cambridgeshire

  A fleet of eight prehistoric boats deliberately sunk thousands of years ago has been discovered in a Cambridgeshire quarry.The vessels, including one which is almost nine metres long, are the largest group of Bronze Age boats ever found in one site in the UK.Many are still well-preserved and one is even able to float after 3,000 years buried in the site on the outskirts of Peterborough.Others display intricate carvings and have handles carved from oak tree trunks for lifting them out of the water. Traces of a fire lit on the surface of one boat to cook the day's catch were also found....

• SOURCE: BBC News
  3-22-13
  

  Cambridge dig unearths 'thriving' Roman settlement

  An archaeological dig in Cambridge has revealed the site's history from the Bronze Age to its role in World War II.Excavation of the site in the north-west of the city began in October, ahead of a large-scale University of Cambridge development. Roman roads and World War II practice trenches were amongst the discoveries. Christopher Evans of Cambridge Archaeological Unit said: "Something that is going to be vibrant in the future was also vibrant in the past."...

• SOURCE: SciDaily
  03-21-13
  

  Stone Ships Show Signs of Maritime Network in Baltic Sea Region 3,000 Years Ago

  In the middle of the Bronze Age, around 1000 BC, the amount of metal objects increased dramatically in the Baltic Sea region. Around the same time, a new type of stone monument, arranged in the form of ships, started to appear along the coasts. New research from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden shows that the stone ships were built by maritime groups....

• SOURCE: StoPage
  2-22-13
  

  Amazing find in Dartmoor Bronze Age grave

  A rare discovery dating back 4,000 years has been described as the most significant find on Dartmoor (Devon, England), and has given archaeologists a glimpse into the lives of the people who once lived there.  The undisturbed bronze age granite cist uncovered in 2011 in a peat bog on White Horse Hill revealed the first organic remains ever found on the moor, and a hoard of about 150 beads, including two amber beads. Previously only eight beads in total had been found on the moor.... 

• SOURCE: PopuArch
  2-20-13
  

  Syrian violence threatens ancient treasures

  Aleppo's medieval covered market has already been gutted by fires which also ripped through the city's Umayyad mosque. Illegal excavations have threatened tombs in the desert town of Palmyra and the Bronze Age settlement of Ebla, and Interpol is hunting a 2,700-year-old statue taken from the city of Hama. In a country which also boasts stunning Crusader castles, Roman ruins and a history stretching back through the great empires of the Middle East to the dawn of human civilisation, the task of safeguarding that heritage from modern conflict is a daunting responsibility....

• SOURCE: CCTV
  1-24-13
  

  Japan's oldest bronze comma-shaped bead unearthed in Tottori

  OSAKA, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- A team of Japanese archaeologists has found a bronze comma-shaped bead, which is believed to be the oldest of its kind in the country's history, in the western Japanese city of Tottori, local press reported on Thursday.The metal curved bead, dating back to the early sixth century, was excavated from one of the tombs built in the early sixth 6 century at the Matsubara No. 10 Mound in the city according to the daily Mainichi Shimbun....