The Wild Hunt (https://wildhunt.org/tag/bronze-age)
From hundreds of mice deposited at an ancient sanctuary on Crete to Bronze Age offerings in a Czech wetland and a ceremonial landscape surrounding an English spring, this week’s Hounds Archaeology explores new evidence of ancient ritual practices.
A standing stone in the Peak District, apparently an isolated monument, has been revealed as only one part of a standing circle and ritual complex that dates back 3700 years to England’s Bronze Age, according to archeologists with Forestry England.
The woods around my home in Arctic Norway were few and far between, mostly small birches barely taller than your average adult. Here in Åland, I met with real woods: tall bone-white birches, spruce, thick pines, bushy walnut groves. This vibrant life was everywhere, and all the while I was searching for graves.
A new set of open-access publications and a new exhibition at the Peterborough Museum will allow the public to discover Must Farm, a 3,000 year old settlement that has provided archeologists with incredible new insights into everyday life in the Bronze Age.
A team of archeologists in Spain has found evidence of what may be the most ancient use of plant substances in Europe.