http://en.redtram.com/ stonepages.com Copyright (c) 2009 RedTram. All rights reserved. webmaster@redtram.com (RedTram) en Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:34:13 GMT 300 100 50 http://en.redtram.com/ http://img.en.redtram.com/rsslogo.gif 108850 | Ancient Pacific islanders brought to light http://en.redtram.com/go/236226305/top100/ 236226305 When a team of archaeologists began excavating an old coral reef in Vanuatu in 2008 and 2009, they soon discovered it had served as a cemetery in ancient times. So... Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:05:49 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236226305/top100/ 108850 | A new method for absolute dating of Rock Art http://en.redtram.com/go/236226304/top100/ 236226304 An Italian scientist has developed a method for absolute dating of rock art applied to the sites on marble outcrops surfaces in the Apuane mountain chains in the north-west of... Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:05:37 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236226304/top100/ 108850 | Iron Age dump on Skye threatened by erosion http://en.redtram.com/go/236226300/top100/ 236226300 An ancient rubbish tip - inhabited nearly 2,000 years ago - is disappearing into the Scottish sea, archeologists have warned. The Iron Age midden on Skye's west coast has so... Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:05:16 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236226300/top100/ 108850 | Evidence of Australia's first human occupation found http://en.redtram.com/go/236226297/top100/ 236226297 Evidence of what could be Australia's earliest human occupation has been found on the fringe of desert in the country's remote northwest, according to archaeologists. Peter Veth, of the Australian... Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:05:05 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236226297/top100/ 108850 | The mysterious Plain of Jars http://en.redtram.com/go/236226294/top100/ 236226294 In the northeastern province of Xiang Khouang (Lao People's Democratic Republic). there is a plateau scattered with ancient stone jars. Know as the Plain of Jars, this site is famous... Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:04:50 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236226294/top100/ 108850 | Winter soltsice events at Newgrange http://en.redtram.com/go/236226292/top100/ 236226292 Due to budget cuts by the Irish Government, the Winter Solstice illumination at Newgrange will not be streamed live on the internet this year. Access to the chamber at Newgrange... Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:04:31 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236226292/top100/ 108850 | New study on the diffusion of maize to the USA http://en.redtram.com/go/236226290/top100/ 236226290 An international group of anthropologists offers a new theory about the diffusion of maize to the Southwestern United States and the impact it had. The study, co-authored by Gayle Fritz,... Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:04:01 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236226290/top100/ 108850 | Ancient artifacts found on University of Washington's greenhouse http://en.redtram.com/go/236226288/top100/ 236226288 Three ancient artifacts - 4,000 to 7,000 years old - have been found by the University of Washington's botany greenhouse, the university announced. One piece is a stone projectile point... Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:03:47 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236226288/top100/ 108850 | No evidence for a meteorite impact 13,000 years ago http://en.redtram.com/go/236226284/top100/ 236226284 An international team of scientists led by researchers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa have found no evidence supporting an extraterrestrial impact event at the onset of the Younger... Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:03:38 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236226284/top100/ 108850 | Early Ohioans tracked solstices http://en.redtram.com/go/236226280/top100/ 236226280 On the winter solstice, the sun seems to pause momentarily and then start to come back to peoples living in the Northern emisphere. The winter solstice was an important event... Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:03:26 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236226280/top100/ 108850 | Ancient volcano's devastating effects confirmed http://en.redtram.com/go/236226274/top100/ 236226274 A massive volcanic eruption that occurred in the distant past killed off much of central India's forests and may have pushed humans to the brink of extinction, according to a... Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:03:13 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236226274/top100/ 108850 | Oslo is older than previously thought http://en.redtram.com/go/236142009/top100/ 236142009 Archeologists say Oslo's history will have to be re-written. They have made new escavations east of the capital and largest city in Norway which show that people have lived on... Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:32:25 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236142009/top100/ 108850 | Signs of mass cannibalism in the Neolithic http://en.redtram.com/go/236142001/top100/ 236142001 At a settlement in what is now southern Germany, the menu turned gruesome 7,000 years ago. Over a period of perhaps a few decades, hundreds of people were butchered and... Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:32:14 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236142001/top100/ 108850 | French immigrants founded first British farms http://en.redtram.com/go/236122119/top100/ 236122119 Archaeological finds from Britain show that farming was introduced 6000 years ago by immigrants from France, and that the ancient Brits might have continued as hunter-gatherers had it not been... Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:25:11 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236122119/top100/ 108850 | China had bronze early on http://en.redtram.com/go/236122110/top100/ 236122110 ANSTO (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation) research has shown that an area of desert in north-western China was once a thriving Bronze Age manufacturing and agricultural site. The new... Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:25:04 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236122110/top100/ 108850 | Canadian prehistoric site can be saved http://en.redtram.com/go/236122099/top100/ 236122099 A burial ground and archaeological site dating back millennia are at the heart of a long-running saga between a developer and a First Nations community in British Columbia (Canada). Archeological... Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:24:51 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236122099/top100/ 108850 | 4,000-year-old grave unearthed in Iraq http://en.redtram.com/go/236072101/top100/ 236072101 An excavation team has unearthed an ancient burial mound dating to the first millennium BCE in Iraq. The Antiquities Department in Arbil said the grave was found in the central... Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:53:28 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236072101/top100/ 108850 | Ancient gold unearthed in southern Hungary http://en.redtram.com/go/236072097/top100/ 236072097 Archaeologists have discovered rare gold objects from the time Hungarian tribes first arrived in the Carpathian basin, near Szeged, the head of the excavation said. Tibor Paluch, archaeologist of Szeged's... Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:53:17 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236072097/top100/ 108850 | Sound waves and ancient Maltese temples http://en.redtram.com/go/236072089/top100/ 236072089 Emerging archaeology in a new study highlighted by the Old Temples Study Foundation suggests that sound and a desire to harness its effects may have been equally important as vision... Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:53:12 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236072089/top100/ 108850 | Lectures at the Wiltshire Heritage Museum http://en.redtram.com/go/236072080/top100/ 236072080 Among the lectures planned for the next few weeks at the Wiltshire Heritage Museum (Devizes, England) we mention 'Illicit Antiquities: A scandal of our age' by Christopher Chippindale and 'Silbury... Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:53:01 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/236072080/top100/