News articles tagged with 'excavation'
Oldest subarctic North American human remains found
— 26 Feb 2011 18:09 | Geology and palaeontologyA newly excavated archaeological site in Alaska contained the cremated remains of one of the earliest inhabitants of North America. The site may provide rare insights into the burial…
Now that's what I call a rat
— 27 Jul 2010 10:04 | Geology and palaeontologyArchaeological research in East Timor has unearthed the bones of the biggest rat that ever lived, with a body weight around 6 kg. The cave excavations also yielded a total of 13 species…
Archaeologists discover oldest-known fibre materials used by early humans
— 11 Sep 2009 13:09 | Geology and palaeontologyA team of archaeologists and palaeobiologists has discovered flax fibres that are more than 34,000 years old, making them the oldest fibres known to have been used by humans. The fibres,…
Researchers can detect tunnel excavation with fibre optic cables
— 11 Jan 2009 15:22 | TechnologyWith the same type of fibre optic cables used in telecommunications systems, researchers from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have developed a way to detect and pinpoint…
Anthropologist assembles and copies skeleton of extinct lemur
— 16 Nov 2008 14:44 | Geology and palaeontologyScientists in Madagascar, at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and the Vienna Natural History Museum and at the University of Massachusetts Amherst now have a nearly…
A new dinosaur species unveiled from Pipestone Creek, Alberta, Canada
— 5 Oct 2008 21:48 | Geology and palaeontologyThe fossils revealed a herd of dinosaurs that perished in a catastrophic event 72.5 million years ago. The animals are characterised by a bony frill on the back of the skull ornamented…
Britain's last Neanderthals were more sophisticated than we thought
— 25 Jun 2008 10:43 | Geology and palaeontologyAn archaeological excavation at a site near Pulborough, West Sussex, has thrown remarkable new light on the life of northern Europe's last Neanderthals. It provides a snapshot of a…
Pumice as a time witness
— 23 Jun 2008 14:37 | ChemistryA chemist of Vienna University of Technology demonstrates how chemical fingerprints of volcanic eruptions and numerous pumice lump finds from archaeological excavations illustrate relations…
Sonar technology for application in tunnel excavation
— 12 Jun 2008 21:07 | Geology and palaeontologyDr Ruediger Giese from the GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ) and his team receive the 'Technology Transfer Award 2008' from the Technology Foundation Brandenburg for the development…
Aswan Obelisk Quarry more than meets the eye
— 17 Oct 2007 15:40 | Geology and palaeontologyThe unfinished Obelisk Quarry in Aswan, Egypt, has a canal that may have connected to the Nile and allowed the large stone monuments to float to their permanent locations, according…
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