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Text Pages: Isle of Vera
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Submitted by Andy B on Friday, 09 May 2008 (61 reads)
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Standing Stones in Russia. The Urals intends to develop pilgrimage to the "Russian Stonehenge" [here we go again... MegP Ed] A new museum complex to study and preserve ancient megaliths (ceremonial structures of massive stones) will be soon created in the Isle of Vera, Lake Turgoyak of the Chelyabinsk region. According to Senior Research Scientist of the Chelyabinsk Research Center of the Institute for History and Archeology of the Urals department of RAS Stanislav Grigoryev, researchers have a great work on their hands to restore megaliths and improve the territory of the island. |
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| Did you know of these Russian Megaliths, we didn't. See comment for a paper on them.
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News: 82,000 year old jewellery found
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Submitted by coldrum on Thursday, 08 May 2008 (351 reads)
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Archaeologists from Oxford have discovered what are thought to be the oldest examples of human decorations in the world.
The international team of archaeologists, led by Oxford University's Institute of Archaeology, have found shell beads believed to be 82,000 years old from a limestone cave in Morocco. |
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| Update to this story, more findings, see comment.
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News: Ancient sunflower fuels debate about agriculture in the Americas
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Submitted by coldrum on Thursday, 08 May 2008 (30 reads)
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Researchers at the University of Cincinnati and Florida State University have confirmed evidence of domesticated sunflower in Mexico - 4,000 years before what had been previously believed. |
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Photo Pages: Seven Lords' Lands
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Submitted by Tom Bullock on Wednesday, 07 May 2008 (1248 reads)
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 Cairn-circle in Devon. Circle diameter: 33 feet. Shown as a cairn on the OS Map, this well-preserved cairn is easily accessible from the nearby road. It is disguised by the surrounding gorse and bracken, but only six stones are missing from the close-set kerb of stones. A field wall curves slightly in order to avoid the cairn. |
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| Maia investigates Beltane sunrise alignments on Dartmoor, see comment
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Text Pages: Tse-whit-zen
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Submitted by bat400 on Wednesday, 07 May 2008 (120 reads)
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A Klallam Indian Village and Cemetery site in Clallam County Washington.
The village itself was occupied as long ago as 700 BC. The villagers were forced to abandon the village in 1915. However, the ancient cemetery was no longer in active use at that time; the ground being considered sacred and held fallow. The burials are from the pre-contact era. |
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| Thousands of finds from pre-contact era held in storage pending ownership dispute and funding for study, display. Site is prepared for re-burial of remains.
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News: Archaeological treasures being 'left exposed in open-air sites'
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Submitted by coldrum on Tuesday, 06 May 2008 (73 reads)
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Priceless archaeological treasures are being "left exposed in open-air sites" because the National Museum of Ireland has accumulated so many artifacts that it has no place to store them.
An unanticipated consequence of the massive road-building programme is that archaeology is one of the State's largest growth industries. |
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News: Ancient rock drawings unearthed in northern China
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Submitted by coldrum on Tuesday, 06 May 2008 (61 reads)
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With the help of local herdsmen, a huge cluster of ancient rock drawings has been unearthed in northern China's Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region.
Over one thousand drawings from the Bronze Era were discovered about 55 kilometers west of Hailiutu county, reports CCTV International. |
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Text Pages: Cwm Mawr Stone Axe Factory
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Submitted by Andy B on Tuesday, 06 May 2008 (107 reads)
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Stone Axe Factory in Powys. Cwm Mawr Axe Factory, Hyssington, Archaeological Survey and Excavation 2007.
A programme of survey and trial excavation has now been completed in an attempt to confirm the source of the Group XII Bronze Age battle axes and axe hammers which have been found in Wales and the Marches. The axes are made from a distinct rock type known as picrite which is has a very limited distribution, with one of the known outcrops being a small hill near Cwm Mawr, just to the north-west of the village of Hyssington in eastern Montgomeryshire. |
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Photo Pages: Hampston's Well
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Submitted by HOLYWELL on Tuesday, 06 May 2008 (257 reads)
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 Holy Well in Cheshire. Found on the left hand side of Station Road, as you leave the village of Burton on the Wirral. The remains of this well were restored and the garden made in 1975 by Ellesmere Port Borough Council and although it is first mentioned in the early 1600s it may have been used iron age settlements at Burton Point and the Anglo-Saxon settlement. |
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| Lots of new photos from this Wirral Holy Well.
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News: Legend of the Crystal Skulls
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Submitted by coldrum on Tuesday, 06 May 2008 (370 reads)
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Along with superstars like Harrison Ford, the newest Indiana Jones movie promises to showcase one of the most enigmatic classes of artifacts known to archaeologists, crystal skulls that first surfaced in the 19th century and that specialists attributed to various "ancient Mesoamerican" cultures. Smithsonian anthropologist Jane MacLaren Walsh shares her own adventures analyzing the artifacts that inspired "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," and details her efforts tracking down a mysterious "obtainer of rare antiquities" who may have held the key to the origin of these exotic objects. |
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| The Mysterious Crystal Skulls ... MesoAmerican artifact? Carefully forged European fakes? Talisman from another world? Article from Hugh Newman added, Precision Engineering of the Skulls, see latest comment
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Photo Pages: Rotherwas Ribbon
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Submitted by Andy B on Sunday, 04 May 2008 (8132 reads)
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 A ribbon of fire-cracked stones carefully laid to form a surface and dating back to approx 2000BC has been uncovered during the construction of a road in Herefordshire.
Archaeologists believe this major find may have no parallels in Europe, with the closest similar artefact being the 2,000-year-old serpent mounds of the Ohio river valley in America. |
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| See comments for latest news, including further action to be taken by campaigners.
Charges against Rotherwas campaigners dropped, see comment.
Ancient blade found at road site, see comment.
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Re-Discovered Sites: 1,000 kg megalith discovered in East Dorset
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Submitted by BigBear on Sunday, 04 May 2008 (208 reads)
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 I've just discovered a 1,000 kg toppled megalith on my land in East Dorset and christened it 'The Bearstone' after its location at Bear Mead. |
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Photo Pages: Twyford Down monument
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Submitted by JimChampion on Friday, 02 May 2008 (2094 reads)
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 Modern Standing Stone in Hampshire. This modern standing stone was erected next to the M3 cutting through Twyford down, inscribed with the names of those responsible for "ravaging" the land (mostly members of the Thatcher cabinet) in the early 1990s. It is more of an indictment than a memorial. |
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| Court of appeal bans off-roaders from ancient lanes, see comment
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News: Were Mesopotamians the first brand addicts?
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Submitted by coldrum on Friday, 02 May 2008 (87 reads)
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Product branding first emerged in ancient Mesopotamia, the birthplace of cities and writing. So claims David Wengrow, an archaeologist at University College London, who says that bottle stops stamped with symbols some 5000 years ago are evidence of the first branded goods. |
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Feature Articles: Alex's Intrepid Adventure to the Dacian Hillforts
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Submitted by AlexHunger on Wednesday, 30 April 2008 (217 reads)
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 Romania hasn't exactly been on the road map of Western archeologists for very long considering the country only recently (Dec. 1989) emerged from behind the iron curtain and was only able to join the EU last year. Nevertheless, Romania, then known as Dacia, was once a thriving part of the Roman Empire for a couple of hundred years before slipping back under the control of Barbarians following the fall of Rome. Romania is perhaps most infamous for the era under Vlad Tepes, otherwise known as Dracula, who in the middle ages valiantly resisted the invasion of the Turks, with often brutal methods, but that would be a story for the Medieval Portal... |
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Photo Pages: Hatch Furlong Ritual Shafts
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Submitted by Andy B on Tuesday, 29 April 2008 (4430 reads)
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 Ritual Shafts in Surrey. A series of deep shafts found cut into chalk bedrock at Hatch Furlong. Shafts excavated on what is now the site of the nearby Homebase superstore were found to contain pottery vessels, coins and the bones of many dogs and cats. There is also evidence of prehistoric activity in the form of worked flints. |
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| 2008 Open Day - Bank Holiday Monday, see latest comment below for more information.
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Photo Pages: Tikal
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Submitted by C_Michael_Hogan on Tuesday, 29 April 2008 (512 reads)
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 Tikal, Guatemala is arguably the greatest and most complex Mayan city measured by monumental megalithic architecture. Evincing an array of majestic pyramids and royal residences, the city has yielded numerous intricately carved stelae and sacrificial altars. Other finds include huge stucco masks, a 3.5 pound carved jade jaguar and crocodile skeletons. Site origins date to at least as early as 800 BC, and unfold successive periods built by its often bloodthirsty rulers. |
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Text Pages: Manchester Museum
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Submitted by vicky on Thursday, 24 April 2008 (8088 reads)
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Museum in Greater Manchester (City of Manchester). Includes stone implements from Manchester area & Creswell Crags, Alderley Edge landscape project. |
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| Lindow Man now on display, and for the next year, see comments
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News: Fiji jewellery box find stuns archaeologists
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Submitted by coldrum on Wednesday, 23 April 2008 (210 reads)
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Archaeologists have discovered a 3000-year-old pot in Fiji containing jewellery believed to have been made by the South Pacific’s original settlers – the Lapita people.
The discovery was made by an excavation party from the Fiji-based University of the South Pacific and the Fiji Museum at Bourewa in Natadola on the Coral Coast. |
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News: US museums and universities face questions about requests for return of remains
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Submitted by coldrum on Wednesday, 23 April 2008 (159 reads)
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At the same time that Ohio State University is preparing to send the remains of American Indians back to West Virginia, the school is returning tissue and blood samples from Yanomamo tribes, at the request of the Brazilian government. In northeastern Ohio, the Cleveland Museum of Natural History has received a letter from Odawa Indians requesting the return of two wooden ceremonial bowls. |
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