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Too often, we make mistakes and assume that people in the Palaeolithic used caves as settlements – this assumption contains two basic misapprehensions. First of all, people in...

Documented in the first half of the 19th century, the palafittes, settlements on platforms erected in shallow waters of New Guinea, were soon discovered in Alpine lakes. The...

So close but also so far was life in a prehistoric village. Reconstructions presented an almost familiar architecture and the village was roamed by animals looking so average....

Today archaeology is not only a science of artefacts and landscapes – it is the proper way to understand and to promote the cultural achievements of our predecessors....

Archaeologists have studied hillforts for the last 140 years. The variability amongst them in terms of their size, form, defensive structures and duration of occupation is immense. They...

At the beginning of the 20th century, it was considered that the modern small town of Ormož in eastern Slovenia is located within the medieval city walls. However,...

No other story in history triggered so much our adventurous imagination than the rumours of a lost city, and no other archaeological find could ever compete with the...

On the hill called Kale, dominating today’s vista of the city of Skopje, archaeological excavations have discovered remains of 6000 years of continuous occupation. The archaeological site exceeds...

Each hillfort seems to be the expression of a local group and was an individual site rather than a part of a defensive system. In their interior were...