Wessex Archaeology have produced an excellent film which looks at the landscape, how it was used by Neolithic people and the wider context which led to the building of Stonehenge.
‘Beyond the Stones’
“Is this a dagger which I see before me” But what did Bronze Age People use it for?
First appearing in the early 4th millennium BCE, copper-alloy daggers were widespread in Bronze Age Europe including Britain and Ireland.
Trade, Community & Relationships: Over 4,000 Years Ago
“By looking into the past with a narrower lens, archaeogenetics can shed more light on how communities and families were organised.”
“It is now possible to reconstruct the life-histories of cremated people of the Bronze Age”
One ancient grave urn is producing a huge amount of information about one woman and the baby twins she was found with.
Home Deliveries in the Bronze Age
In recent research Andreas Heiss of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and colleagues examined plant remains from the mining site of Prigglitz-Gasteil in the Eastern Alps in Austria, which was active between the 11th and 9th Century BCE.
The Aroma of The Bronze Age
“”Exotic spices, fruits and oils from Asia had thus reached the Mediterranean several centuries, in some cases even millennia, earlier than had been previously thought.”
The Beaker People of North Scotland
“The North-east of Scotland was one the areas that had very strong connections with the European Beaker phenomenon 4,000 years ago.”
“significant discovery in Orkney” of Early Bronze Age Carved Stones
“This collaborative project with SSEN gives us the opportunity to examine an important prehistoric site that would otherwise not have been excavated.”
Bronze Age Burial Revealed at Finstown
The cist was found intact at the proposed Finstown substation site, just below the ground surface
Archaeological Remains Revealed at Proposed Finstown SubStation
The Kirkwall town improvements have uncovered the remains of Kirkwall’s Castle and kept Orkney’s archaeologists busy over the last few days.Kirkwall’s Castle Coastal erosion at Newark Bay has revealed more of a […]
