Triple archaeological find in Barcelona
The Archaeological Service of Barcelona has announced this Wednesday in a statement the results of three recent excavations in the district of Ciutat Vella, which have revealed remains of houses and …
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Hair was dyed for first time as part of funeral rituals, study shows
Archaeologists from the University of Granada have carried out excavations in the Biniadris Cave located on the Balearic Island of Menorca, uncovering enigmatic funeral rituals. This Bronze Age cave …
Genetic prehistory of Iberia differs from central and northern Europe
In a multidisciplinary study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , an international team of researchers combined archaeological, genetic and stable isotope data to encapsulat…
Storm uncovers ancient remains of Roman aqueduct and road in Cádiz
There is a famous song by Antonio Rodríguez Martínez, aka El Tío de la Tiza, that was sung at the Cádiz carnival of 1905 chronicling a fisherman’s discovery of 18th-century coins at La Victoria beach…
Shelters with echoes thought to be preferred sites for prehistoric rock art
The acoustic qualities of a rock shelter may have been a key factor in its selection as a site for rock art and indicate a spiritual significance to the practice, according to a recent study, while s…
Human dispersion through southern Europe in Early Pleistocene
Geochronologists from the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) have led a study published in the journal Quaternary Geochronology about the chronology of the archaeolo…
Over 41 000 artefacts seized in global operation targeting the illicit trafficking of cultural goods
Over 41 000 cultural goods such as coins, paintings and drawings, furniture and musical instruments, porcelain, archaeological and paleontological objects, books and manuscripts and sculptures were s…
Giant handaxes suggest that different groups of early humans coexisted in ancient Europe
Even our earliest human ancestors made and used technology - something we can look back on thanks to the lasting nature of stone tools. Researchers work on the archaeological site in Spain, known as …
Pots, people and knowledge transfer
In the Late Neolithic, a new style of pottery appears among the grave goods buried with the dead in many parts of Europe. A new genetic study shows that, with one exception, its dissemination was not…
Neanderthals were artistic like modern humans, study indicates
Scientists have found the first major evidence that Neanderthals, rather than modern humans, created the world's oldest known cave paintings -- suggesting they may have had an artistic sense simi…
Largest ever genomic study shows that first Beaker expansion was one of cultural diffusion
Prehistoric Iberians 'exported' their culture throughout Europe, reaching Great Britain, Sicily, Poland and all over central Europe in general. However, they did not export their genes. The B…
Lead object with Iberian inscription discovered in Ullastret
The archaeologists working in the excavations of the defensive moat of Puig de Sant Andreu in the Iberian city of Ullastret (a small historic village on the Bay of Empordà in Catalonia) have discover…
First 3-D morphometric study of the molars of Sima de los Huesos
The Dental Anthropology Group of the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) forms part of the team which has just published a paper in American Journal of Physical Anthro…
Iberian Peninsula rodents migrated due to climate change 12 million years ago
The oldest studied rodent fauna in this work, which inhabited the Iberian Peninsula from twelve million years ago, progressively shifted north looking for humid environments to survive climate change…