Study finds humans were making fire 400,000 years ago, far earlier than once thought

Archaeologists in Britain say they have found the earliest known evidence of deliberate fire-making, dating to around 400,000 ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN

Archaeologists Digging Beneath Britain’s Houses of Parliament Discover 6,000-Year-Old Flint Artifacts and a 2,000-Year-Old Roman Altar Fragment

During restorations at the Palace of Westminster in London, excavations have revealed a trove of historic objects, the oldest ...

Roman occupation brought new diseases to Britain, archaeologists find

Lead in urban Roman infrastructure may have led to long-term impacts on the population’s health, scientists say ...
techtimes

Archaeologists Unearth Some of the Largest Prehistoric Stone Artifacts in Britain

Archaeologists from the UCL Institute of Archaeology have made a significant discovery in Kent, unearthing some of the largest stone artifacts from prehistoric times in Britain. The excavations, ...
ZME Science on MSN

Archaeologists Reveal Ancient, Single-Log Boats Used to Navigate Prehistoric England

Flag Fen Archaeology Park sits in the midst of a unique Bronze Age landscape east of Peterborough, in England. Some 3,500 ...
Ancient Origins

Secrets of Britain’s Largest Prehistoric Structure Emerge at Durrington Walls

The circular arrangement of pits forms a boundary over two kilometers wide, enclosing more than three square kilometers around the Durrington Walls henge and Woodhenge monuments. Each pit measures up ...
The Independent

Ancient and rare British coins taken as ‘spoils of war’ by Romans found in Dutch field

Dozens of ancient coins believed to have been stolen by Roman troops during the conquest of Britain have been unearthed in a Dutch field. The 44 gold coins bearing the inscription of AD40 British ...
Nature

Field Archæology in Great Britain

A NEW report, the "Survey and Policy of Field Research in the Archaeology of Great Britain. 1: The Prehistoric and early Historic Ages to the Seventh Century A.D.", has recently been published by the ...
JSTOR Daily

The Christian Church in Roman Britain: A Synthesis of Archaeology

Archaeology of the early Church invariably entails a consideration of its works of art. However, the nature of such a church is almost impossible to objectify (indeed, is often defined by way of its ...
Nature

The Archæology of Roman Britain

THIS is a book which was badly needed indeed. The literature of Roman Britain is highly specialised, difficult of access, and extremely technical. Mr. Collingwood has aimed at supplying the elementary ...
Archaeology

Domestic Grain DNA Discovered in Mesolithic Britain

COVENTRY, ENGLAND—A submerged archaeological site off the southern coast of England has yielded DNA from 8,000-year-old wheat. At the time, Mesolithic Britons were hunter-gatherers, but the DNA, ...
Archaeology

Britain’s Oldest Cremated Human Bone Discovered

ESSEX, ENGLAND—It had been thought that the nomadic hunter-gatherers of Britain’s Mesolithic period may have abandoned their dead, but a deposit containing cremated human bone was uncovered by a team ...