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43 years ago (1974) Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discovered Lucy. She was found near Hadar in Ethiopia at nearly 3.2 million years old. Lucy belonged to the extinct hominid species Austrolapithecus afarensis (Hadar being the site with the greatest number of remains) wide spread across Eastern Africa. Australopithecus afarensis …

Nove, uzbudljive arheološke vijesti se nastavljaju. Uzimajući male dijelove informacija koje imaju, i spajajući komade slagalice, arheolozi pokušavaju odgovoriti na stara pitanja poput- odakle smo došli i ko smo mi? Iako smo još uvijek miljama daleko od takvog znanja, dr.Nicholas Reeves, ugledni arheolog sa Sveučilišta u Arizoni vjeruje da nas …

The European Association of Archaeologists’s (EAA) CTTA is planning to discuss practical skills training in European Archaeology at its annual round table at the EAA 2016 conference in Vilnius, Lithuania. To prepare for this Round Table and to collect data on practical skills training provision in European Archaeology, we have …

When a number of tourists, in their search for peace and nature, head to visit Herzegovinian Nature Park “Hutovo blato”, they go past the small bridge in Klepci, Čapljina. The bridge is one of the oldest examples of Ottoman architecture in Bosnia and Herzegovina. However, although the bridge is only …

Some of you may remember our Indigogo campaign from October last year. In the next 50 days we will be repeating it, but this time we will work really hard to get the word out. We also added a video to show all of you that cultural heritage of Bosnia and Herzegovina are neglected. …

During the 19th century, in romantic-era of intrigue and enthusiasm for classical mythology we see many attempts to restore various mythologies, modeled on the mythological cycles of classical Greece and Rome, placing collected information in the same narrative-symbolic frame. Amongst such attempts of reconstruction, “Slavic mythology” is no exception. The …

Međunarodni dan arheologije već se četvrtu godinu za redom obilježava treće subote u desetom mjesecu. Obilježavanje dana ove relativno mlade znanstvene discipline novijeg je datuma. Archaeological Institute of America i brojne arheološke organizacije u Sjedinjenim Američkim Državama, ali sve više i diljem svijeta, organiziraju arheološke programe i aktivnosti za ljude …

From March 18th to March 20th 2014, a team of archaeologists gathered to initiate the first archaeological air recon over ‘Duvanjsko polje’, being the first of its kind in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The team comprised professors from the department of archaeology od University of Ljubljana, Darja Grosman and Tina Milavec, …

This is the final part of the text begun on the inquisition. The theme is far from ideal, and I shall mention another 6 devices of torture in this part, some of which served the inquisition.  A thank you to all the readers who took an interest in this. The …

The Inquisition is a part of medieval history. What really sets this era of history apart is the morbid inventiveness that went into the creation of diverse methods of torture. The reasons for this being heresy and criminal activity. This article will present 6 methods and devices of torture. The …