Saturday, October 15, 2011

Massive Prehistoric Monument may have Been found Underwater in Scotland

[Past Horizons]   “The preliminary results from the high-resolution geophysical sensing are suggesting that there is an unusual ‘object’ in the shallow water just off the shore, but more work is needed before we can identify it or even confirm whether it is a natural, perhaps geological, feature, or something man-made.” More...

Rock art found in Ireland could date back to Bronze Age

[Archaeo News]  The drawing is believed to be thousands of years old.  More...

Stone-age toddlers had art lessons, study says

[The Guardian]  Research on Dordogne cave art shows children learned to finger-paint in palaeolithic age, approximately 13,000 years ago.  More...

Invisible Scribes of Medieval Literature Revealed

[Past Horizons]  “The clerks of the London Guildhall form the invisible link between medieval authors like Geoffrey Chaucer and their first audiences, the original owners of the medieval manuscripts we study today.”  More...