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“King Arthur’s Hall” is the name of a medieval animal pen on Bodmin Moor. Except new research has found the site is much, much older than thought.
12 NOV 2024 · 3 MIN

Cornish Ruin known as “King Arthur’s Hall” is Millennia Older than Thought

A team of researchers from St Andrew’s University in Scotland have made an astonishing discovery regarding an ancient ruin at the other end of the country. The rectangular earthworks known locally as…
The Panoria necropolis contains far more women than men. Source: Female sex bias in Iberian megalithic societies through bioarchaeology, aDNA and proteomics.
4 OCT 2024 · 2 MIN

Ancient Iberian Rock Tombs were Mostly for Women

In Panoria, in the province of Granada in Spain lies a rock necropolis that is truly ancient. At 5,600 years old, it was constructed well before the Egyptians got started with their…
The veneration of skulls is known from other ancient sites such as Jericho, but Tell Qaramel appear to be the earliest, and the site may have much to tell us about the development of human culture. Source: Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.
14 AUG 2024 · 6 MIN

Tell Qaramel and the Neolithic Cult of Severed Heads

Some would argue that human history begins in detail with the Iron Age. Although records survive in some particular locations from the earlier Bronze Age and there is much archaeology to pick…