Stone Pages Archaeo NewsStone 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.Important finds in Bronze Age settlement in Cyprus- September 21, 2008 Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of an unusual 1.2 metre high wall with once curved end and one straight end during continued excavations at Kissonerga-Skalia in Paphos (Cyprus). They believe...http://www.stonepages.com/news/archives/002927.html Research pushes back crop development 10,000 years- September 21, 2008 Until recently researchers believed the story of the origin of agriculture was one of a relatively sudden appearance of plant cultivation in the Near East around 10,000 years ago spreading...http://www.stonepages.com/news/archives/002926.html Ancient settlement unearthed in eastern Turkey- September 21, 2008 A settlement dating back to Early Bronze Age, and remains of a building dating to Hittite era were recovered during excavations in Aslantepe, Malatya (Turkey), professor Marcella Frangipane, the head...http://www.stonepages.com/news/archives/002925.html Devil's Quoits stone circle restored- September 21, 2008 The Devil's Quoits (Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire) would have been one of the most important standing stone circle sites in Britain.By the end of the 19th century only three of the...http://www.stonepages.com/news/archives/002924.html New study of a Maltese stone circle- September 21, 2008 Archaeologists from Queen's University in Belfast and from Cambridge University are currently in Gozo (Malta) carrying out archaeological work in connection with excavations carried out between 1987 and 1994 on...http://www.stonepages.com/news/archives/002923.html Neolithic skeletons discovered in Malaysia- September 21, 2008 Archaeologists have stumbled upon eight human skeletal remains, believed to be from the Neolithic period between 2,000 and 3,000 years ago, at an ancient burial site at Gua Kain Hitam...http://www.stonepages.com/news/archives/002922.html Prehistoric agriculture in Spain was unsustainable- September 21, 2008 A team of Catalan and Andalusian researchers has proved that the first agricultural systems on the Iberian Peninsula became ever more unsustainable with the passage of time. The study involved...http://www.stonepages.com/news/archives/002919.html 7,000-eyar-old human skeleton found in Sri Lanka- September 21, 2008 A human skeleton was found in Ambalantota (Sri Lanka). The skeleton, estimated to be more than 7,000 years old, several other prehistoric stone tools including animal remains have been unearthed...http://www.stonepages.com/news/archives/002920.html Megalithic site in India being destroyed- September 21, 2008 An Iron Age burial site dotted with cairn circles, standing stones and cist-slabs, near Vellaripatti village near Madurai on the Madurai-Tiruchi highway (India), is being destroyed. Archaeologists date the megalithic...http://www.stonepages.com/news/archives/002921.html Cerne Abbas giant restored by volunteers- September 21, 2008 The Cerne Abbas giant in verdant Dorset (England) is club-wielding figure, which is 180ft from head to toe and is administered by the National Trust, is carved into the hillside....http://www.stonepages.com/news/archives/002918.html |