LiDAR equipment was used to map seven Neolithic horned cairns in Caithness, Scotland. “They are essentially burial and ritual monuments, much like the chapels and shrines of more recent times, and each of them is likely to have been used exclusively by individual local groups or communities,” explained archaeologist Graeme Cavers. A French couple was arrested […]

An equestrian bit dating to between 1750 and 1650 B.C. has been found among the skeletal remains of a donkey at the site of Tel-Haror in Israel. “Until the excavation at Tel Haror, archaeologists had only indirect evidence for the use of bits,” said archaeologist Joel Klenck. Spy-satellite imagery and modern digital maps have been combined […]