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9,000-year-old obsidian arrowheads in Turkey bear mysterious marks with no known meaning | Archaeology News Online Magazine
3+ week, 2+ day ago (547+ words) Archaeologists have found 11 more carved obsidian arrowheads at Tepecik-Çiftlik in Cappadocia, Turkey. The finds raise the site’s total to 12 and add to a regional group of 54 known examples. The arrowheads date to the Neolithic, between the late eighth and seventh…...
Rare 2,000-year-old Iberian sculpture head found reused in Roman building at Libisosa | Archaeology News Online Magazine
1+ week, 1+ day ago (466+ words) Archaeologists working at the Libisosa Archaeological Park in Lezuza, Albacete, have recovered a rare stone sculpture more than 2,000 years old. The near life-size head was carved from limestone and recovered from the ruins of a large Roman building in 2025. The…...
Rare snake-headed vessel links rural Spain to an obscure Roman cult | Archaeology News Online Magazine
1+ week, 5+ day ago (628+ words) A rare ceramic vessel found at a Roman villa in northeastern Spain suggests the private cult of the eastern god Sabazios reached rural communities during the reign of Augustus. Researchers from the University of Girona studied several fragments from the…...
4,000-year-old painted plaque reveals early Austronesian art tradition | Archaeology News Online Magazine
3+ week, 5+ day ago (468+ words) A 4,000-year-old painted stone plaque from an Indonesian island offers new evidence about the spread of Austronesian culture across the Pacific. Archaeologists found the plaque at Huknaur rockshelter on Wetar Island, in eastern Indonesia. An international team from The Australian…...
Ancient Etruscan tombs were designed to shape how mourners saw, heard and felt | Archaeology News Online Magazine
1+ week, 1+ day ago (683+ words) Ancient Etruscan tombs may have been designed to shape how people saw, heard and felt during funeral rites, according to a new study of two painted tombs in Tarquinia, Italy. The study, published in the Journal of Archaeological Method and…...
1,200-year-old wallaby teeth reveal rare Indigenous jewelry from Australia | Archaeology News Online Magazine
1+ week, 5+ day ago (583+ words) Archaeologists have found 12 wallaby teeth with resin attached to their roots at Windmill Way, a rock shelter in Queensland, Australia. The unusual finds date to about 1,100 to 1,300 years ago and are the first such tooth ornaments found in a non-burial…...
Low-cost LED technology helps archaeologists see hidden layers before excavation | Archaeology News Online Magazine
1+ week, 4+ day ago (558+ words) A low-cost imaging system using 16 wavelengths of light could help archaeologists spot hidden layers and materials before excavation removes them. Researchers from Aarhus University and Moesgaard Museum in Denmark developed the LED multispectral imaging system, or LEDMSI, to reveal differences…...
AI reveals how Edo-period Japanese ceramic jars became standardized | Archaeology News Online Magazine
3+ week, 2+ day ago (523+ words) Large ceramic jars used in daily life and burials became more uniform during Japan’s Edo period, according to a new study from the Institute of Science Tokyo. Researchers used shape analysis and machine learning to track changes across 243 Ogame jars…...
Blood may have helped ancient Chinese rock art survive for 2,000 years | Archaeology News Online Magazine
4+ week, 1+ day ago (574+ words) Ancient paintings on limestone cliffs in southern China have survived more than 2,000 years of heat, rain, and storms. A new study suggests their unusual durability came from a paint binder made from lime and blood. The Huashan rock art belt…...
1,500-year-old Roman tax scandal exposed by ancient inscription found in Turkey | Archaeology News Online Magazine
3+ week, 3+ day ago (568+ words) New pieces of a Roman stone inscription in western Turkey help reconstruct a legal order from CE 480. The text describes a long-running tax scam in Asia Minor and the Roman response. Archaeologists found the fragments in 2024 near ancient Stratonikeia. Researchers…...