Enlarge / Conservation efforts for the shoe included careful reshaping and freeze-drying. (credit: Secrets of the Ice ) Sometime between 200 and 500 CE, someone crossing a high mountain pass in Norway discarded a shoe. More than 1, 500 years later, an unusually warm summer melted centuries of accumulated snow and ice , revealing the […]
Enlarge (credit: Ida Marie Odgaard AFP) Roughly a thousand years ago, a young man in his early 20s met a violent end in England. 800 kilometers (500 miles) away, in Denmark, an older man who had survived a lifetime of battles died sometime in his 50s. At first glance, there’s nothing to suggest a connection […]
Expand (charge: Sabin et al. 2020) Among those matters archaeology always teaches us is that humankind is unusually resilient in the face of catastrophe. Another is that feces is indefinitely. Archaeologists have researched the materials of coprolites along with also the substances left behind with a town’s worth of individual waste. And based on a […]
Expand (charge: University of Reading) The Berkshire hilltop in which metal detector hobbyists discovered a warrior’s tomb was presumed to have been an insignificant patch of borderland between neighboring tribes 1,400 decades back. However, the warrior, buried with a view of the Thames River valley and {} trappings of status and power, tells a separate […]
Expand / / Modern renovation of a Viking longboat. (charge: Dun.can / / Flickr) A current analysis of early DNA sheds light on who the African teams were and the way they collaborated with the folks they met. The Viking Age{} approximately 750 to 1100 CE, abandoned a cultural and financial effect that extended from […]