http://www.stonepages.com/news/ Stone Pages Archaeo News is the leading resource for extensive and timely information about the most recent archaeological meetings, digs and breathtaking discoveries, mainly related to prehistoric and megalithic monuments. The Stone Pages is also the first online guide to European megaliths (including Stonehenge) and provides images, descriptions, folklore, panoramic views, forums, weblinks and tours. webmaster@stonepages.com http://www.stonepages.com/ http://www.stonepages.com/images/archaeo_news_logo.gif 120 32 Stone Pages' Archaeo News en-us 2010-02-21T19:19:23+01:00 http://www.stonepages.com/news/archives/003731.html Bricks dating back 5,000 to 7,000 years have been unearthed in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, adding between 1,000 to 2,000 years onto Chinese brick-making history, archaeologists claimed. "The five calcined... Asia 2010-02-21T19:19:23+01:00 http://www.stonepages.com/news/archives/003730.html Italian archaeologists claim to have found a stone enclosure which once protected the legendary 'Golden Bough'. In Roman mythology, the bough was a tree branch with golden leaves that enabled... Italy 2010-02-21T19:18:15+01:00 http://www.stonepages.com/news/archives/003729.html The first explorers to brave the 7-metre perilous crawl leading to the Chauvet caves in southern France were rewarded with magnificent artwork to rival any modern composition. Stretching a full... France 2010-02-21T19:17:17+01:00 http://www.stonepages.com/news/archives/003728.html A megalithic settlement has recently been unearthed at Skendal village, 10 kilometers from the town of Pagaralam in South Sumatra. Irfan Wintarto, an official at the Lahat Culture and Tourism... Australasia 2010-02-21T19:16:16+01:00 http://www.stonepages.com/news/archives/003727.html Last January we reported that the discovery of stone hand axes on the Mediterranean island of Crete indicate that an ancient Homo species had used rafts or other seagoing vessels... Rest of Europe 2010-02-21T19:15:22+01:00 http://www.stonepages.com/news/archives/003726.html Former Irish attorney general John Rogers SC, who lives in the Boyne valley, will be among the objectors to plans by Meath County Council and the National Roads Authority (NRA)... Ireland 2010-02-21T19:11:52+01:00 http://www.stonepages.com/news/archives/003725.html Students at a Cambridgeshire (England) college have begun an archaeological dig of their 'artefact-rich' grounds. Previous excavations at Linton Village College have revealed evidence of a Roman settlement and Bronze... England 2010-02-21T19:10:59+01:00 http://www.stonepages.com/news/archives/003724.html Thirteen projects look set to receive money from Orkney Islands Council's fund for archaeological investigations in 2010. Members of the OIC development committee have backed recommendations to award funding to... Scotland 2010-02-21T19:04:40+01:00 http://www.stonepages.com/news/archives/003723.html One of the world's oldest shipwrecks has been discovered off the coast of Devon (England) after lying on the seabed for almost 3,000 years. The trading vessel was carrying an... England 2010-02-16T11:20:11+01:00 http://www.stonepages.com/news/archives/003722.html The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society supports without reservation the proposed Traffic Regulation Order (TRO) prohibiting motorised vehicles, with exceptions, on part of the A344 road and the Byways... England 2010-02-16T11:19:24+01:00 http://www.stonepages.com/news/archives/003721.html Researchers at Queen's University in Northern Ireland have helped produce a new archaeological tool which could answer key questions in human evolution. The new calibration curve, which extends back 50,000... Ireland 2010-02-16T11:18:12+01:00 http://www.stonepages.com/news/archives/003720.html Cave formations along the coast of an island in the Mediterranean Sea hold evidence that sea level can rise and fall abruptly during an Ice Age, a finding that casts... Iberian peninsula 2010-02-16T11:17:24+01:00 http://www.stonepages.com/news/archives/003719.html Researchers are closer than ever to having a first draft of a complete sequence of the genome of a Neanderthal woman who lived some 30,000 years ago, and this means... Rest of Europe 2010-02-16T11:16:24+01:00 http://www.stonepages.com/news/archives/003718.html English Heritage has hit back at criticism of its management of Old Sarum (the site of the earliest settlement of Salisbury, in England, containing evidence of human habitation as early... England 2010-02-16T11:15:35+01:00 http://www.stonepages.com/news/archives/003717.html A 4,000-year-old Greenland man just entered the scientific debate over the origins of prehistoric populations in the Americas. A nearly complete sequence of nuclear DNA extracted from strands of the... Rest of Europe 2010-02-16T11:13:37+01:00