Archaeologists are claiming a highly significant discovery in the Highlands in the form of a 4000-year-old sheepskin that is believed to be the earliest surviving example in Britain.
The 14th Congress of the Pan African Archaeological Association for Prehistory and Related Studies and the 22nd Biennial Meeting of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists will be hosted by the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa from 14-18 July 2014.
The exhibition "Serbian Μedieval Art" organized by the Byzantine and Christian Museum in collaboration with the National Museum of Belgrade is prolonged until September 15th 2013.
Building upon recent research investigating the significance of “nonnormative” human burials within archaeological contexts, there is a proposal for a session on deviant burials to be held during the upcoming EAA Annual Conference (Istanbul 2014).
Ongoing excavations in Denizli’s ancient Lycian city of Tripolis have revealed a house featuring a large collection of colorful mosaics with floral and geometric patterns.
First millennium AD sweater, discovered two years ago in an hunting area on the Norwegian Lendbreen glacier at 6,560 feet above the sea level, has been detailed in the current issue of the journal "Antiquity".
Even though the city is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site, local farmers have laid claim to certain parts of the necropolis and recently destroyed a section with the help of excavators in order to make way for new houses.
The ring is tiny in diameter so even a young girl, let alone a woman, cannot wear it. We concluded that it was used in a ritual connected with a bear cult and was put on the bear claw.
This volume brings together sixteen contributions exploring ritual practices and animal bones from different chronological and geographical perspectives.
The Archaeological Institute of Aegean Studies is organizing in Rhodes the first International Scientific Conference on “The Archaeological Work in the Aegean Islands” from 27 November until 1 December 2013.
The Department of Classics at the University of Toronto invites applications for a tenure stream appointment in Roman History. This position will be at the rank of Assistant Professor and will commence July 1, 2014.
The Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley seeks applications for a tenure-track, assistant professor position in Egyptology with a start date of July 1, 2014.
The Yoros Castle, which is located in Istanbul's Anadolukavağı neighborhood and whose date of construction is not known exactly, has been hosting excavation teams of the Istanbul University since 2010.
Sunken vessels unearthed in Yenikapı during excavations for Istanbul’s Marmaray and Metro projects have been moved from the land. It took eight years to move the vessels from the excavation area.