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Skateholm (Sweden)

The Skateholm site is a Late Mesolithic settlement site in the Scania region of Sweden, dated between 5250-3700 BC. The site is located on a lagoon in southern coastal Scania and was occupied for about 1000 years. Several huts arranged in a village community and at least 90 burials have been excavated to date, most recently by Lars Larsson of the University of Lund. The most famous burial investigated is that of an adult male cradling a small child; Larsson's investigations of late have been on the interment of grave goods ... About Archaeology

Underwater find dazzle Canadian historians

Archaeologists are showing off a treasure trove they call one of the most significant discoveries of Mi'kmaq artifacts in Nova Scotia (Canada). Hundreds of arrowheads and tools, some 8,000 years old, were discovered last summer along the Mersey River, near Kejimkujik National Park in the southwest region of the province ... Stone Pages Archaeo News

Underwater arrowheads, tools dazzle Maritime historians

Archaeologists are showing off a treasure trove they call one of the most significant discoveries of Mi'kmaq artifacts in Nova Scotia.

Hundreds of arrowheads and tools, some 8,000 years old, were discovered last summer along the Mersey River, near Kejimkujik National Park in the southwest region of the province ... CBC News

Windover Archaeological Dig, Titusville Florida

When the 3-year-old died, her parents placed her favorite toys in her arms, wrapped her in fabric woven from fibers of native plants, and buried her body in the soft, muck bottom of a small pond. Some 7,000 years later, when a young archaeologist uncovered her tiny remains, the toys - a wooden pestle-shaped object and the carapace of a small turtle - were still cradled in her arms.

Most remarkable was the state of preservation of the child's bones and her toys, and the remains of some 167 other individuals and numerous artifacts found in that small pond in Windover Farms subdivision. The pond is about one mile southeast of the intersection of Highway 50 and I-95 and just outside the Titusville city limits where, today, a child's favorite toy may be a model of the space shuttle ... Windover Archaeological Dig

Britain's Oldest House? A Journey into the Stone Age

Mesolithic Britain was thought to have been inhabited by hunter-gatherers, constantly on the move in search of food; however, the recent excavation of a dwelling in Northumbria reveals our Stone Age ancestors to have been ingenious and elaborate house builders. Julian Richards re-assesses a distant past ... BBC - History

9,000-year-old relics found off coast

The site of a stone age settlement, preserved under layers of silt, has been discovered off the coast of the Isle of Wight. Included in the find is a fire pit, presumed to be an oven, which was first used about 9,000 years ago ... Stone Pages Archaeo News

Yellowstone Park dig yields picture of ancient camp

Some of the Yellowstone park's earliest visitors camped on the shores of Yellowstone Lake (Wyoming, USA). While they were there, some 10,000 years ago, they made and repaired tools, hunted, prepared hides and may have rafted out to one or more of the lake's several islands ... Stone Pages Archaeo News

Scottish dig throws light on early settlers

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of the first early settlers in Aberdeenshire (Scotland) during an 11-day excavation near Kintore. A Mesolithic, or Middle Stone-Age site, dating back around 8,000 years, was unearthed on the outskirts of the village ... Stone Pages Archaeo News

Early Orcadians built homes up to 10,000 years ago

They were the first people to live in Scotland, nomads who left little trace of their day-to-day lives. But the first evidence that early man built homes as far north as Orkney up to 10,000 years ago appears to have been uncovered by archaeologists. Tiny slivers of stone - combined with previously puzzling results from a geophysics survey - point to the presence of a settlement created by Mesolithic hunter gatherers ... Stone Pages Archaeo News

Skull found in Derbyshire is 10,000-year-old

Experts have been piecing together the life of a woman who died in Long Eaton (Derbyshire, England) - up to 10,000 years ago. Working with just a scratched skull dug up last September during gravel extraction at a quarry within a quarter-of-a-mile of the River Trent, anthropologist Louise Humphrey has identified it as belonging to a right-handed woman who probably did a hard physical job. Cause of death is a mystery because there was no obvious evidence of disease or injury. Her body seems to have been buried near the Trent, which has over the centuries changed course ... Stone Pages Archaeo News