A 15,000-year-old painted limestone, from the Hohle Fels Cave, Swabian Jura. The shapes of the dots are symmetrical and executed precisely. The accuracy indicates that the dot rows were painted using a tool or stamp. On display at our branch museum urmu, Blaubeuren
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A 15,000-year-old painted limestone, from the Hohle Fels Cave, Swabian Jura. The shapes of the dots are symmetrical and executed precisely. The accuracy indicates that the dot rows were painted using a tool or stamp. On display at our branch museum urmu, Blaubeuren
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Bronze Age hilltop settlement and 2400 BCE farming evidence found in Northumberland Cheviot Hills
Archaeologists have documented a well-preserved聽Bronze Age聽hilltop settlement at Harden Quarry in the Cheviot Hills of northern England. The excavation took place inside Northumberland National Park ahead of a quarry extension. Results provide rare evidence for early farming and settlement in upland terrain...
More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/01/bronze-age-settlement-in-northumberland-cheviot-hills/
Bronze Age hilltop settlement and 2400 BCE farming evidence found in Northumberland Cheviot Hills
Archaeologists have documented a well-preserved聽Bronze Age聽hilltop settlement at Harden Quarry in the Cheviot Hills of northern England. The excavation took place inside Northumberland National Park ahead of a quarry extension. Results provide rare evidence for early farming and settlement in upland terrain...
More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/01/bronze-age-settlement-in-northumberland-cheviot-hills/
I rather liked this... not the usual type of story we get about things from fields - it's gentle and thoughtful.
Top marks for getting it in Farmer's Weekly too...
It ain't all 'treasure'...
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https://www.fwi.co.uk/farm-life/ancient-objects-uncovered-beneath-britains-farming-fields
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https://pandoc.org/index.html
Pandoc is a command-line tool for converting documents between markup formats. It helps standardize file formats and generate documents in multiple output formats. Free Software (GPLv3).
430,000-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found
Researchers working in southern Greece have identified the oldest known handheld wooden tools, dated to about 430,000 years ago. The objects came from Marathousa 1, a site in the Megalopolis Basin in the central Peloponnese. The area once held a lakeshore during the Middle Pleistocene, a period between about 774,000 and 129,000 years ago...
More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/01/430000-year-old-wooden-tools-marathousa/
Masters behind Nordic Bronze Age rock art and their social role
A doctoral dissertation at the University of Gothenburg has examined the social role of Nordic聽Bronze Age聽rock art in Bohusl盲n, Sweden, providing new insights into the people behind these carvings. Researchers have studied these images for over two centuries, but the identities and functions of their creators remained unclear..
More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/01/masters-behind-nordic-bronze-age-rock-art/
Masters behind Nordic Bronze Age rock art and their social role
A doctoral dissertation at the University of Gothenburg has examined the social role of Nordic聽Bronze Age聽rock art in Bohusl盲n, Sweden, providing new insights into the people behind these carvings. Researchers have studied these images for over two centuries, but the identities and functions of their creators remained unclear..
More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/01/masters-behind-nordic-bronze-age-rock-art/
430,000-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found
Researchers working in southern Greece have identified the oldest known handheld wooden tools, dated to about 430,000 years ago. The objects came from Marathousa 1, a site in the Megalopolis Basin in the central Peloponnese. The area once held a lakeshore during the Middle Pleistocene, a period between about 774,000 and 129,000 years ago...
More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/01/430000-year-old-wooden-tools-marathousa/
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https://pandoc.org/index.html
Pandoc is a command-line tool for converting documents between markup formats. It helps standardize file formats and generate documents in multiple output formats. Free Software (GPLv3).
An Etruscan vessel in the shape of Charun, the demon of death.
Dating around 400 BC.
On display at Antikensammlung M眉nchen
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An Etruscan vessel in the shape of Charun, the demon of death.
Dating around 400 BC.
On display at Antikensammlung M眉nchen
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