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Archaeologists just found a lot of plastic at an archaeological site More than 2,300 pieces of plastic were found in a digging site in Wales. There’s plastic everywhere. We’re living in a plastic age, and we see this every day around us: on the ground, in the seas, even in the air we breathe — and that’s not even it. Now, researchers have even found plastic (including a Godzilla thermos wrapper) inside an archaeological site. The roundhouses that were demolished. Image credit: The researchers Located in Wales, Castell Henllys Iron Age Village is an archeological site and a tourist att...

Archaeologists Uncover Disturbing Amount of Plastic Waste at Iron Age Site Share Godzilla-themed thermos wrapper: One of over 2,000 waste items found at the Castell Henllys site. (Image: H. Mytum et al., 2021/Antiquity) To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Gizmodo Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. One by one, the archaeologists stumbled upon pieces of junk. Using techniques typically reserved for documenting stone tools and...

  TORONTO -- When a group of archeologists excavated reconstructed Iron Age roundhouses that had been used in historical reenactments in Wales for more than 30 years, they expected to learn about the decay processes of these structures. What they didn’t expect was to discover so much plastic. More than 2,300 individual pieces of plastic — candy wrappers, straws, a Motorola phone battery, etc. — were found in the ground by archeologists excavating the reconstruction sites. The Plastic Age encroaching on the Iron Age. A paper published in the journal Antiquity this week dives into ...

Plastic waste found by archaeologists at Pembrokeshire hill-fort Published image copyrightUniversity of Liverpool image captionWrappers from well known chocolate bars and snacks were among 2,000 items found trampled into the ground It was not what archaeologists at an ancient Welsh hill-fort expected to find - a mountain of plastic. Academics uncovered more than 2,000 items at the Castell Henllys site in Pembrokeshire. But these were not ancient artefacts - they were discarded food wrappers and bottle tops from old school lunches. University of Liverpool researchers said future archaeologists...

The new study published in the journal  Antiquity explains that Castell Henllys is a well-excavated hillfort in Wales which dates back to the late first millennium BC, in the Iron Age. In the 1980s, two experimental reconstructions of Iron Age roundhouses were built at the site. They were built on top of the locations of real  Iron Age roundhouses  and their construction was based on archaeological evidence recovered from the site. Castell Henllys. A view showing the entrance to one of the completed round houses in 1988. (Malcolm Neal/ ) The roundhouses have been key features of the he...