#ancient settlements

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Himachal Pradesh: Tracing the Path from Vedic Era to British Conquest

Himachal Pradesh: Tracing the Path from Vedic Era to British Conquest

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Ancient Australian Aboriginal sites discovered underwater

Ancient Australian Aboriginal sites discovered underwater

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SYDNEY: Archaeologists have for the first time found Aboriginal artefacts on the seabed off Australia, opening a door to the discovery of ancient settlements flooded since the last ice age, they reported on Thursday (Jul 2).

Hundreds of ancient stone tools made by Australia’s Indigenous people at least 7,000 years ago were discovered two metres underwater off the remote Western Australia…

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Discovery Could Rewrite History of Vikings in New World

Discovery Could Rewrite History of Vikings in New World

Satellite images suggest several Viking settlements existed in North America hundreds of years before Columbus discovered the New World. One site in particular has scientists especially excited.

Archaeologists have unearthed a stone hearth that was used for iron-working, hundreds of miles away from the only other known Viking site in North America. To date, the only confirmed Viking site in the…

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Ancient settlements and modern cities may be more alike than different in fundamental ways. The "science" of cities, in fact, appears to have been as valid a few thousand years ago as it is now. 

CU-Boulder researcher Scott Ortman discusses the thread connecting the past to the future with The Atlantic's CityLab project. 

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Recently derived equations that describe development patterns in modern urban areas appear to work equally well to describe ancient cities settled thousands of years ago, according to a new study led by a researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder.