This story from Spain caught my eye today :)

The burial of the so-called Red Lady, dating back to the Upper Palaeolithic, was discovered in El Mirón cave (Cantabria) in 2010. The Journal of Archaeological Science has devoted a special edition to all the studies conducted at this unique burial site, because there are hardly any Palaeolithic tombs ( Read more... )

I definitely missed this one at the time!

The 'Red Lady of el Miron', a woman whose remains were tinted with red ochre and buried with flowers about 18,700 years ago in a cave in northern Spain may have had what modern people would consider a hard life. But on the other hand, she must have been considered special because no burial so elaborate has ( Read more... )

I admit my Viking studies were limited to one module at university so I had no idea about this at all.

A researcher at Aberdeen University is hoping to study the Viking incursions into the Spanish peninsula.

No comprehensive archaeological study of Viking sites in Spain has ever been carried out and now a University of Aberdeen researcher plans ( Read more... )

I spotted this on tumblr - has anyone here ever visited it??


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I spotted this today and have checked the source as best I can online. The original is displayed at Mirehouses, the Cumbrian home of one of the Duke of Wellington's descendants ( Read more... )

Is it still history if it's pre-historic? I have arbitrarily decided it still counts for this community :)

Researchers in northeastern Spain say they've uncovered hundreds of dinosaur egg fossils, including four kinds that had never been found before in the region. The eggs likely were left behind by sauropods millions of years ago ( Read more... )