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New research brings together 7,000 years of history in South Arabia to show how ancient pastoralists changed placement and ...
Nestled in Northumberland National Park, Harbottle is just a stone's throw away from miles of stunning countryside and some ...
New look at Hellenistic-era graves shows these horizontal niche burials first appeared in Phoenician cities a century before ...
Oklahoma has many archaeological sites, but one small town has a prehistoric American mound that has been compared to the discovery of King Tut's tomb.
In the summer of 1993, archaeologist Natalia Polosmak and her team were in Ukok, Siberia, investigating a group of kurgans near the border with Mongolia—burial mounds from the Pazyryk ... that had ...
A Neolithic enclosure surrounds the summit of the Tor itself, with stone mounds between the ramparts ... Nearby lie a number of small stone burial chambers, knows as cists, with a longstone ...
Whittlesey investigated several apparently Adena mounds within the Cuyahoga Valley east of Tinker's Creek, and recovered a tubular stone pipe ... reoccupied as small fishing camps. Throughout this ...
Elsewhere, the site includes a huge rock-cut ditch that surrounds the stone circle, as well as more than 10 prehistoric burial mounds ... Situated on the small island of North Uist, this site ...
“The grave field and the original (single) raised stone suggest a commemorative and dedicatory intent, while subsequent use in a separate burial illuminates later pragmatic and symbolic expressions.
The site has eight localities, three burial mounds and five habitational mounds ... The size of the urns varies from large to small with a maximum height of 115cm, a breadth of 65 cm and a thickness ...
Rujm el-Hiri, known as the “Stonehenge of the East” or the “Wheel of Ghosts,” is a series of concentric stone circles surrounding a central burial mound with a small chamber ... In addition, dozens of ...
Tuscarora ancestors in Cumberland: Indian burial mounds provide evidence Some of the earliest archaeological evidence verifying the fact that Tuscarora ancestors resided in Cumberland County ...