Archaeological discoveries, breakthroughs and theories
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Fascinating interview. Wengrow and Graeber have offered new ways of seeing our collective pasts, inviting fresh thinking in so many areas. Some achievement!
petee
no gods, no malarkey
Rare Coin, Minted by Brutus to Mark Caesar’s Death, Is Returned to Gr…
archived 23 Mar 2023 00:38:15 UTC
coin of Brutus returned to Greece
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
I have now finished Dawn of Everything and have gone done a thread - The Dawn of Everything - the good, the bad and the ugly
I tried to keep it brief,, but failed. Miserably.
I tried to keep it brief,, but failed. Miserably.
petee
no gods, no malarkey
a good article, takes in many angles
www.usatoday.com
The 190-year-old bridge was closed on Oct. 5 because engineers deemed it unsafe. The city of Newark had plans to replace the original bridge, but the unexpected closure forced a change in plans — installing the temporary bridge to get traffic flowing again as construction begins on a nearby new bridge and roadway expected to open in 2025.
Before any site preparation or construction could begin on the new bridge, roadway realignment and roundabout, an archaeological survey was performed. Starting in early 2018, a team of archaeologists from Lawhon & Associates were hired to do the survey.
What they’ve found is shedding new light on the lives and culture of the Hopewell Native Americans who once lived in the area.
Their survey was required by the National Historic Preservation Act, which mandates surveying such a construction site to determine whether it has historic and/or cultural structures that otherwise would be affected by regulations guiding projects involving federal funding. In this case, it did.
Archaeologists discover 2,000-year-old dwelling site of Hopewell Native Americans in Ohio
The archaeological excavation revealed pottery, oven fragments and various stone tools, including flint tools mined east of Newark.
www.usatoday.com
The 190-year-old bridge was closed on Oct. 5 because engineers deemed it unsafe. The city of Newark had plans to replace the original bridge, but the unexpected closure forced a change in plans — installing the temporary bridge to get traffic flowing again as construction begins on a nearby new bridge and roadway expected to open in 2025.
Before any site preparation or construction could begin on the new bridge, roadway realignment and roundabout, an archaeological survey was performed. Starting in early 2018, a team of archaeologists from Lawhon & Associates were hired to do the survey.
What they’ve found is shedding new light on the lives and culture of the Hopewell Native Americans who once lived in the area.
Their survey was required by the National Historic Preservation Act, which mandates surveying such a construction site to determine whether it has historic and/or cultural structures that otherwise would be affected by regulations guiding projects involving federal funding. In this case, it did.
friedaweed
Me and me girl named Jane
These two sound a right pair... 
www.theguardian.com
Two men accused of trying to sell rare Anglo-Saxon coins to undercover police
Durham crown court hears pair knew coins worth an estimated £766,000 came from Viking hoard
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Some interesting work on the origins of crops here.
JimW
支那暗杀团
Second century Buddha statue dug up in an Egyptian Red Sea port: A marble statue of Buddha was uncovered in Berenike at the Red Sea
petee
no gods, no malarkey
petee
no gods, no malarkey
one more western buddha
What makes the item special is that it was excavated on a small island in Sweden just west of Stockholm.
brentnongbri.com
What makes the item special is that it was excavated on a small island in Sweden just west of Stockholm.
The Helgö Buddha
The news of the excavation of a small statue of the Buddha in Egypt is very exciting. But at least one of the claims about this statue doesn’t seem quite right. I have in mind this statement …
brentnongbri.com
petee
no gods, no malarkey
But a darker side has surfaced recently amid the glamour, when a state archaeologist who had been documenting building violations on the island was mysteriously attacked. The civil servant, Manolis Psarros, 53, was left unconscious with a broken nose, broken ribs and black eyes in a beating that sent shock waves across Greece.
Nowhere has the reaction been fiercer than on Mykonos, where a tight-knit coterie of locals have long whispered about illicit and sometimes assertive activity by deep-pocketed developers, and a lax enforcement system that they say enables anyone with enough money to operate above the law. The Greek government has carried out a swift crackdown.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
petee
no gods, no malarkey
Serge Forward
Just enjoyin' my coffee.
Dystopiary
putting up a hook to hang my hopes upon
A "vast" cemetery of Bronze Age burial mounds has been discovered on a chalk hillside near Harnham on the outskirts of Salisbury, Wiltshire, less than 10 miles from Stonehenge.
Vast cemetery of Bronze Age burial mounds unearthed near Stonehenge
Vast cemetery of Bronze Age burial mounds unearthed near Stonehenge
mx wcfc
Well-Known Member
Google Portable Antiquities Scheme, or your local county Small Finds team.
ska invita
back on the other side
if ive understood right this is hte first and only wooden iron age shield that has been found (in 2015)
some amazing work has gone in to understand and reverse engineer its highly skilled construction
some amazing work has gone in to understand and reverse engineer its highly skilled construction
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
I think this is just a rock but if you email your local finds liaison officer they'll confirm.
Or there's Facebook groups that can identify
Dystopiary
putting up a hook to hang my hopes upon
25 Mesolithic pits have been discovered in Linmere, Bedfordshire.
Discovery of up to 25 Mesolithic pits in Bedfordshire astounds archaeologists
Discovery of up to 25 Mesolithic pits in Bedfordshire astounds archaeologists
petee
no gods, no malarkey
that's a remarkable discovery.
I have a quibble with the article though.
third paragraph :
"The pits could offer extraordinary new insights. They are in alignments and clustered around former stream channels, suggesting a spiritual significance."
last sentence:
"Wolframm-Murray said: “This work will reveal the environment these people lived in, and hopefully answer the question ‘what were these pits for?’” "
we'll wait for the final report, but lemme guess ... large pools by a stream... fishponds to provide a controlled supply of food? ... catchments for flooding? ... reservoirs for irrigation? ... some or all of these?
... you know, something material?
Dystopiary
putting up a hook to hang my hopes upon
Good point.
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
It's the time-honoured "no idea what it is so let's just call it ritual" duck 'n dive again 
petee
no gods, no malarkey
It's the time-honoured "no idea what it is so let's just call it ritual" duck 'n dive again
petee
no gods, no malarkey
thanks, a critic might say that I'm imputing the building of a permanent looking structure to nomads, but that's not a problem really.
Cloo
Approved by toads
Haven't read this in full yet, but this sounds pretty fucking cool.
historyfirst.com
'Beautiful' Arabic-Romance manuscript hints at Maimonides' childhood memories - History First
A piece of paper overlooked in the library of Cambridge University for over a century provides new insights into the childhood and personality of one of the greatest medieval thinkers.
historyfirst.com
