Bouldnor-Butser Mesolithic Woodworking Project

16/01/2018

Land lubbing archaeologists have it so easy.

07/12/2017

Check out the link to the beautifully illustrated booklet on the USS Jacob Jones and underwater archaeology!

Today marks the centenary of the loss of the USS Jacob Jones, the first American destroyer sunk by enemy action in the First World War. The MAT has created a booklet which tells the story of the ship, its wartime career and sinking any pays tribute to those 66 men who were lost with the vessel, which sank over 30 miles south of the Isles of Scilly. Find out more and down load the booklet from here:
http://www.maritimearchaeologytrust.org/uss-jacob-jones

10/01/2017

Landscape archaeologist and CAT MSc student Jemma Bezant looks at how messages from the past about human adaptation and resilience can resonate today in the face of coastal erosion and rising sea levels. Our changing seas Everybody loves the sea. A trip to the beach can lift our spirits and feed o...

18/12/2016

Archaeologists in Israel have counted 55 species of plant foods a an early hominid site on Lake Hula

09/12/2016

Just takes 30 seconds! Thank you!
http://www.maritimearchaeologytrust.org/shipwreck-survey

Head Office: National Oceanography Centre, European Way, Southampton, SO14 3ZH. Tel - 02380 593290Volunteer & Fieldwork Office: Ground Floor, Alexandra house, 10-11 Queens Terrace, Southampton, SO14 3BP. Tel - 02380 237300

03/12/2016

Along with the original fish traps that led researchers to the site, the archaeologists found a 9,000-year-old pick axe made out of elk antlers.

22/11/2016

http://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-underwater-stone-age-settlement-mapped-out

22/11/2016

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618216302543

Remains of a submerged landscape around the mouth of a small river are preserved off the Baltic Sea coast at Haväng in south-eastern Sweden. Organic-rich sediment ridges with abundant wood remains and archaeological artefacts extend 3 km from the modern coast to depths of at least 20 m below the pre...

22/11/2016

http://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/schleswig-holstein/Urlauber-finden-Steinzeit-Beil-im-Watt,sensationsfund100.html?utm_source=Mesolithic+Miscellany+News&utm_campaign=9035016f8c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_11_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3f9eeb5d1c-9035016f8c-345898685

Vor der Hallig Nordstrandischmoor haben Urlauber ein Beil aus der Steinzeit entdeckt. Experten schätzen das Alter auf 10.000 Jahre - eine Sensation. Es könnte sogar noch mehr davon geben.

08/10/2016

Archaeologists find evidence of 250-mile York to Wiltshire trip made 7,000 years ago by Mesolithic man and his pet