The Americas – The First Human Settlement
Archaeologists are not in agreement over when the first humans occupied the Americas. However, they do agree that they crossed the Bering Land...
Nasca Symbolic Objects and the Materialization of Ideology
An exploration of the emergence of social complexity in the Nasca civilization, through polychrome ceramics, geoglyphs, and ceremonial centers.
Symbolic objects served many purposes...
Discovery of the Sutton Hoo Ship Burial
As war loomed in the summer of 1939 archaeologists uncovered Britain's richest Anglo-Saxon ship burial in the Suffolk countryside.
Sutton Hoo lies on an...
The Nasca Ceremonial Center of Cahuachi
Cahuachi was an important means by which ideology was materialized into concrete, tangible culture for the Nasca civilization. This center is not only useful...
The Sutton Hoo Ship Burial
Miraculously unplundered, the Anglo-Saxon ship burial discovered at Sutton Hoo in1939 throws light on a mysterious time in English history.
Discovered in the summer...
Boxgrove Man
In 1993, the tibia (shin bone) of an ancient man was discovered during an archaeological excavation at Boxgrove, near Chichester in West Sussex, England....
Spirituality and Symbolism in the Late Stone Age
How the origins of ritual and religious thought could lie in the art and ritual of our Upper Palaeolithic ancestors of 10,000 -...
Types of Ancient Civilisations
Civilisations do not spring up out of nowhere. They go through a number of stages before reaching their fully developed form.
Civilisations evolve similar to...
The Family Life and Death of Tutankhamun
Several new findings shed light on the boy king's family tree and mysterious death.
He is easily the most well-known and iconic of the ancient...
The Industrial Archaeology of Ironbridge Gorge
Examination of industrial archaeology in the Ironbridge Gorge shows the area has an industrial heritage stretching back to the middle ages.
Ironbridge is most...