archeology

More than 30 Iron Age houses found at 2,800-year-old settlement in the Alps

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of more than 30 houses at Galgenbichl in Niederrasen, South Tyrol, Italy. The settlement dates from 800 to 500 BCE. The finds come from excavations linked to construction work for a new road entrance to Antholz and Olang…

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Honestly, this article on “Doggerland” is absolutely fascinating

“The floor of the North Sea is now recognized as the largest well-preserved prehistoric archaeological landscape in the world. It would have been a paradise for the bands of hunter-gatherers who followed the retreating ice sheets into the region to settle there. They, however, were not Doggerland’s first inhabitants. Millennia prior to their arrival, the North Sea basin had belonged to Neanderthals, who lived there for hundreds of thousands of years.”

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