Category: Archaeology World

A new master plan for Saudi Arabia’s AlUla aims to address the needs and interests of the local community

LONDON: Residents of AlUla, a once isolated community in the mountainous Madinah region of western Saudi Arabia that is now at the center of one of the Kingdom’s most ambitious tourist projects, have been offered a glimpse of a new masterplan designed to transform the quality of life and boost employment prospects in the town.

AlUla, a town of two halves, shaped by geography and…
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Source: https://www.arabnews.com/node/2390916/saudi-arabia

Stone Age-cartoon enthusiasts will recall that Fred Flintstone polished off racks of brontosaurus ribs and that Wilma Flintstone swanned around in a Siberian mastodon fur coat. As it turns out, the Neanderthals of, say, 46,000 B.C. may have had similar dining habits and tastes in daywear. An academic paper published on Thursday in the journal Scientific Reports proposes that our long-extinct ancestors not only were the first humans to kill and butcher large predators, but that they also used…
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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/12/science/archaeology-neanderthals-lions-hunting.html

A reanalysis of an ancient fossil has shed new light on the adaptive behaviour of ancient humans in Africa. 

The fossil – of an infant jawbone – was uncovered in 1981 at the Melka Kunture archaeological site in the Ethiopian Highlands southwest of Addis Ababa. But it has since been subject to extensive debate as to its “taxonomic affinity”.  

Basically, archaeologists weren’t sure which hominid species the jaw belonged to, with at least four early…
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Source: https://cosmosmagazine.com/history/archaeology/ancient-human-species-settled-african-highlands-2-million-years-ago/

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Source: https://phys.org/news/2023-10-galactic-archaeology-uncovers-history-next-door.amp

The evolution of elemental abundances [X/Fe] for O, Mg, Si, S, Ar and Ca (as well as [α/Fe] ≡ ([O/Fe]+[Mg/Fe]+[Si/Fe]+[S/Fe]+[Ca/Fe])/5) against [Fe/H] for the fiducial model of M31’s old thicker-disk (lookback time > 4.5 Gyr). Credit: arXiv (2023). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2309.01707

Research led by the University of Hertfordshire has revealed the dramatic history of Andromeda, our nearest…
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Source: https://phys.org/news/2023-10-galactic-archaeology-uncovers-history-next-door.html

MANILA: Philippine police said on Thursday they were investigating the murder of a Saudi national, who was shot dead in an ambush attack in the country’s south. 

The incident took place on Tuesday evening, when the man was driving with his wife and her brother on a busy public road in Shariff Aguak municipality, Maguindanao province, in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. 

Two gunmen on a motorbike opened fire on them, killing the Saudi citizen and wounding his…
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Source: https://www.arabnews.com/node/2390166/saudi-arabia

Breadcrumb Trail Links News Local News Lytton residents looking to rebuild properties destroyed by wildfire are worried about having to pay archeology-related costs that aren’t covered by insurance. Published Oct 12, 2023  •  Last updated 5 minutes ago  •  4 minute read Tricia Thorpe and Don Glasgow’s property after a June 30, 2021, wildfire that devastated Lytton. Thorpe and her husband are hobby farmers who lost everything. PNG Article…
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Source: https://vancouversun.com/news/lytton-residents-looking-to-rebuild-after-wildfire-worry-about-quotes-for-costs-related-to-archeological-work

Archaeologists find remnants of 5,000-year-old wine in ancient tomb of Egypt  WIONView Full coverage on Google News
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Source: https://www.wionews.com/trending/archaeologists-find-remnants-of-5000-year-old-wine-in-ancient-tomb-of-egypt-645526