An ancestor of the bacteria responsible for plague has been found in the tooth of a sheep that lived nearly 4,000 years ago in a Bronze Age human settlement, scientists report in a new preprint study.

For a study published in the journal Antiquity, researchers analyzed more than 3,000 bones and bone fragments attributed to dozens of individuals from the Early Bronze Age site of Charterhouse ...

Dr Matthew Knight, senior curator of prehistory at NMS, said "the painstaking work" by researchers "allows us to travel back in time and experience these important Bronze Age objects as they would ...

smoking them over a fire or removing their organs after death. These new findings of the Bronze Age remains and artifacts can offer researchers more insight into the era when humans first explored ...

Jewellery worn by a Scottish woman of wealth during the Bronze ... death also conveyed that status. "We can assume that the person who owned and wore this was well-respected within society." Mr ...

You can get in touch with Aristos by emailing [email protected]. Languages: English, Spanish Bronze Age arrowheads have helped cast new light on an early large-scale battle over 3,000 years ago.

For almost a century, she was thought to have been a local, and became known as the “Egtved Girl,” but new research has amended her story and what it may say about Bronze Age marriage alliances.

NMS said some of the items showed Scotland's links to a wider network of communities across the North Sea A hoard of Bronze Age artefacts unearthed by a metal detectorist in the Borders has been ...