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Volunteers Unearth 2,000-Year-Old Roundhouse in England’s Lake District
A group of volunteers working in England’s Lake District has uncovered a timber doorway, a cobbled yard and traces of ancient crops at a settlement used around 2,000 years ago. The finds offer a closer look at the people who lived and farmed in Deepdale Valley from the late Iron Age into the Roman period.…
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New AI Identifies 7,000-Year-Old Seeds to Reconstruct Ancient Farming
A new AI system designed to identify ancient plant remains is giving archaeologists a faster way to study charred seeds that preserve evidence of what people cultivated, stored and ate thousands of years ago. Identifying such remains is often slow and difficult. Ancient seeds may be burned, broken or distorted, forcing specialists to examine large…