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11-06-2013 08:00 by Administrator
Taforalt Cave, NW Morocco
Professor Nick Barton's article 'Earliest symbolism and cemeteries in prehistoric North Africa' can be read in the Awards in Focus section of the Leverhulme Trust website, a showcase of recent awards made by the Trust.
You can see the article here:
Read more … Article by Professor Nick Barton - Leverhulme Trust
24-05-2013 23:36 by Administrator
New work supported by the Fell Fund has been undertaken to document and photographically record the interior of a cave on the Atlantic coast of Morocco utilising the method of RTI photography (Reflectance Transformation imaging) and 360 object rotation photography
Read more … Morocco Caves Project
05-02-2013 14:48 by Administrator
Since the 1990s, scholars have believed that around 35,000 years ago the last of the Neanderthals sought refuge in southern Iberia, in an area known as Spain today. However, new dating evidence on fossilised bones from sites in the region (based on work undertaken by Dr Rachel Wood and Professor Thomas Higham at the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit) suggests that the fossils could be 15,000 years older than previously thought.
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19-10-2012 23:55 by Administrator
A new series of radiocarbon measurements from Japan's Lake Suigetsu will give scientists a more accurate benchmark for dating materials, especially for older objects, according to a research team that included Oxford University's Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit.
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10-10-2012 14:04 by Administrator
The Victorian archaeologist General Pitt-Rivers is world-famous for his development of modern scientific archaeology, but the earliest archaeological collections that he made have never been studied. The Pitt Rivers Museum, where these artefacts are held, has been awarded £76,654 by Arts Council England’s Designation Development Fund to document this important early material.
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18-06-2012 00:00
New dating evidence supports claims that bones found under a church floor in Bulgaria may be of John the Baptist, who is described in the Bible as a leading prophet and relative of Jesus Christ.
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01-05-2012 09:59 by Administrator
Satellite images have revealed that a network of ancient rivers once coursed their way through the sand of the Arabian Desert, leading scientists to believe that the region experienced wetter periods in the past.
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