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March 13, 2010
6:14
How Native American houses are located
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A common characteristic of the mounds and villages constructed by Native Americans prior to the time of the Sweet Potato Village is that very little remains of the buildings. Even when Europeans began colonizing North America, most indigenous peoples of North America outside the Southwest and Southeast still framed their homes with saplings. Saplings were [...]
March 12, 2010
5:33
Ancient Tribal Meeting Ground Found in Australia
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Australian archaeologists have uncovered what they believe to be the world’s southernmost site of early human life, a 40,000-year-old tribal meeting ground, an Aboriginal leader said Wednesday. The site appears to have been the last place of refuge for Aboriginal tribes from the cannon fire of Australia’s first white settlers, said Michael Mansell of the Tasmanian [...]
March 02, 2010
11:28
Pompeii to Offer Live Excavation Experience
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Visitors to Pompeii will be able to experience a live dig next month in the ancient Roman town that was buried in Mount Vesuvius’ catastrophic eruption in 79 A.D. The site of the open-door excavation is the so-called House of the Chaste Lovers, a building that came to light in 1987 but which has always been [...]
February 26, 2010
3:31
Ring fort may have held Bronze Age sports arena
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A MYSTERIOUS ring fort in Co Tipperary holds “massive potential for discoveries” according to archaeologists who have carried out the first survey of the site. Their initial findings suggest that the site may have been used for Bronze Age sporting contests in an arena that is the ancient equivalent of Semple Stadium. Archaeologists have long been curious [...]
February 20, 2010
4:33
February 2010 issue of Past Horizons now online
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Maggie, Felicity and David would like to welcome you back to our free online magazine of archaeology from around the world. This is a packed edition and we hope that you will enjoy it. view it here: [en.calameo.com] or here if the first link does not work for you: [www.scribd.com] In this issue: Chum Balam-Nal – Belize The Maya Research Program has been carrying out research [...]
February 19, 2010
3:23
King Tut’s death explained?
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A research team says it has solved the mystery surrounding the death of the Egyptian boy-king Tutankhamun, who died in about 1324 B.C. at the age of 19. Some outside experts contacted by Nature, however, are sceptical, saying that the paper’s conclusions overstep its data. Genetic fingerprinting done on Tutankhamun, commonly known as King Tut, and [...]
February 16, 2010
2:45
3,000-year-old shipwreck shows European trade was thriving in Bronze Age
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The vessel, carrying copper and tin ingots used to make weapons and jewellery, sank off the coast near Salcombe in Devon and is thought to date from 900BC. But it was only last year that the South West Maritime Archaeological Group, a team of amateur archaeologists, brought its cargo to the surface. The discovery was not announced [...]
February 14, 2010
11:59
Stonehenge “Hedge” Found, Shielded Secret Rituals?
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Stonehenge may have been surrounded by a “Stonehedge” that blocked onlookers from seeing secret rituals, according to a new study. Evidence for two encircling hedges—possibly thorn bushes—planted some 3,600 years ago was uncovered during a survey of the site by English Heritage, the government agency responsible for maintaining the monument in southern England. The idea that Stonehedge [...]
February 12, 2010
5:05
Rush for iron spurred Inuit ancestors to sprint across Arctic
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One of Canada’s top archeologists argues in a new book that the prehistoric ancestors of this country’s 55,000 Inuit probably migrated rapidly from Alaska clear across the Canadian North in just a few years — not gradually over centuries as traditionally assumed — after they learned about a rich supply of iron from a massive [...]
February 08, 2010
10:41
Race is on to save UK’s only Roman chariot racetrack
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When the white handkerchief dropped, the Ben Hurs of Colchester would have set off down Circular Road North, past the banked tiers of seats, turning left at Napier Road, their iron tyres gouging a deep rut in the track,and back up past St John’s gatehouse towards the water-spouting dolphin marking the end of the first [...]
February 04, 2010
14:04
Ancient tribal language becomes extinct as last speaker dies
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The last speaker of an ancient tribal language has died in the Andaman Islands, breaking a 65,000-year link to one of the world’s oldest cultures. Boa Sr, who lived through the 2004 tsunami, the Japanese occupation and diseases brought by British settlers, was the last native of the island chain who was fluent in Bo. Taking its [...]
February 02, 2010
12:38
California wants to register as historical resources the space junk left behind by the Apollo 11 crew.
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When the Apollo 11 astronauts blasted off from the moon, they left behind not just the small steps of men but a giant pile of equipment and junk for all of mankind. Some of the 5,000 pounds of stuff Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin abandoned at Tranquility Base was purposeful: a seismic detector to record moonquakes [...]
January 31, 2010
13:41
Silver coin dating to 211 BC is oldest piece of Roman money ever found in Britain
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A 2,221-year-old silver coin dug up as part of a hoard is the oldest piece of Roman money ever found in Britain. Dating from 211 BC and found near the Leicestershire village of Hallaton, the coin was uncovered with 5,000 other coins, a helmet and a decorated bowl. Unearthed in 2000 by a metal detectorist, staff at [...]
January 26, 2010
14:43
Evidence of Stone Age amputation forces rethink over history of surgery
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The surgeon was dressed in a goat or sheep skin and used a sharpened stone to amputate the arm of his patient. The operating theatre was not exactly Harley Street — more probably a wooden shelter — but the intervention was a success, and it has shed light on the medical talents of our Stone Age [...]
January 22, 2010
3:47
Pashtun clue to lost tribes of Israel
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Israel is to fund a rare genetic study to determine whether there is a link between the lost tribes of Israel and the Pashtuns of Afghanistan and northern Pakistan. Historical and anecdotal evidence strongly suggests a connection, but definitive scientific proof has never been found. Some leading Israeli anthropologists believe that, of all the many groups [...]
January 20, 2010
3:59
Most British men are descended from ancient farmers
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Most men in Britain are descended from the first farmers to migrate across Europe from the Near East 10,000 years ago, scientists say. Ancient farmers left their genetic mark on modern males by breeding more successfully than indigenous hunter-gatherer men as they made their way west, a study has found. As a result, more than 60% of [...]
January 18, 2010
4:36
Radiocarbon Daters Tune Up Their Time Machine
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It took nearly 30 years and a lot of heated debate, but a team of researchers has finally produced what archaeologists, geologists, and other scientists have long been waiting for: a calibration curve that allows radiocarbon dating to achieve its full potential. The new curve, which now extends back 50,000 years, could help researchers work [...]
January 12, 2010
10:18
Iron Age sword found at Centrica site, Caythorpe
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An East Yorkshire-based gas storage facility has been making some incredible discoveries after six months of archeological excavations in advance of construction work starting at the site. A team from Humber Field Archaeology has been working on the Centrica Storage Limited (CSL) site at Caythorpe, carefully extracting and investigating remains of prehistoric, Roman and Anglo-Saxon date. Perhaps [...]
January 09, 2010
7:21
Bristol University Lifelong Learning Courses in Archaeology for 2010
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At the University of Bristol We offer day schools, evening classes and summer schools in everything from an introduction to Archaeology to looking at human remains, flints, Roman Baths and teaching surveying techniques. There is something to suit everyone from enthusiasts to professionals and prices start at a very reasonable £36. There is also an archaeology summer [...]
7:09
Massive statue of Pharaoh Taharqa discovered deep in Sudan
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No statue of a pharaoh has ever been found further south of Egypt than this one. At the height of his reign, King Taharqa controlled an empire stretching from Sudan to the Levant. A massive, one ton, statue of Taharqa that was found deep in Sudan. Taharqa was a pharaoh of the 25th dynasty of Egypt [...]
January 07, 2010
8:24
Did Unemployed Minoan Artists Land Jobs in Ancient Egypt?
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One of the most perplexing mysteries that Egyptologists and Aegean experts are tackling is that of the frescoes of Tell el-Dab’a, also known as Avaris. This site was used as the capital of the Hyksos, at a time when they ruled much of Egypt, from 1640 – 1530 BC. It is on the Nile Delta and [...]
January 05, 2010
5:41
“Lost” Amazon Complex Found; Shapes Seen by Satellite
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Hundreds of circles, squares, and other geometric shapes once hidden by forest hint at a previously unknown ancient society that flourished in the Amazon, a new study says. Satellite images of the upper Amazon Basin taken since 1999 have revealed more than 200 geometric earthworks spanning a distance greater than 155 miles (250 kilometers). Read more [...]
January 04, 2010
5:01
Cable gang unearth an Iron Age fire mystery
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Engineers burying power lines in the Yorkshire Dales have unearthed a piece of ancient history which has baffled local experts. The strip of ash and burnt material was discovered in Kingsdale, near Ingleton, by an archaeologist working for United Utilities and Electricity North West. Arthur Batty, of Ingleborough Archaeology Group, initially thought the find was a fire [...]
January 03, 2010
4:27
Asaviec Archaeological Project – Belarus
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The lake region in northern Belarus has evolved as a frontier environment since the earliest occupation. Far distances from any established Neolithic “strongholds” and the lacustral setting of the area led to the development of distinct forms of Neolithic-Bronze Age societies. The material culture of the Asaviec family of settlements reflects the changes in the social [...]
December 29, 2009
7:36
Andante Travels Archaeological Photography Award
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Capture the Past in Photos, and you could win a fabulous Canon EOS 500D, or £100 book voucher for the 3 runners-up We are proud to launch our Archaeological Photography Award. Your photographs will help to record the present day state of sites for future generations as we build up an archive of photos from all [...]