Mike Parker Pearson, professor of archaeology at Sheffield University announced the discovery of a large settlement full of houses dating back to 2,600 BC at Durrington Walls in Wiltshire.

It is believed the inhabitants of what is the largest known neolithic settlement, built the stone circle at Stonehenge.

Labels: archaeology, britain, neolithic, stonehenge, wiltshire

On the island of Malta in the town of Marfa, a row about construction og 44 flats and 55 underground garages rumbles on. The site between Dar il-Kaptan and the Old Sisters Quarters in the town is so rich in europes most ancient artifacts that any development whatsoever is likely to unearth important information about the past. The Times of Malta has the latest on a particularly interesting fight between the forces of development and conservation.

Nicky Milner of the University of Newcastle has written a fantastic paper on the

Pitfalls and Problems in Analysing and Interpreting the Seasonality of Faunal Remains

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"This paper aims to highlight problems which arise in seasonality studies due to a lack of understanding by archaeologists of animal behaviour and biology, and from this, how erroneous archaeological interpretations are then formed. "

http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/archive/00000885/01/milnern1.pdf