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Tutuveni
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Submitted by bat400 on Thursday, 02 February 2012 (136 reads)
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North America  Rock Art in Coconino County, Arizona.
The Tutuveni site contains over 5000 individual petroglyphs on a collection of 150 sandstone boulders set along the Moenkopi Wash. The site is an important stop on a Hopi pilgrimage route that ran from the Hopi heartland to Ongtuvqa, the Grand Canyon. The petroglyphs consist of Hopi clan symbols, and unlike other petroglyph sites where figures of different styles and time periods overlay each other, the symbols here have been applied in rows. This supports oral history and archaeological evidence of the continuity of Hopi ceremonialism and culture dating back to the migration of Anestral Puebloan people to the current pueblo cultures of northeast Arizona and northern New Mexico.
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| Tribal Archaeologists, Academics, and NGOs Perserve and Document Petroglyph Site in Three Dimensions.
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La Gelie
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Submitted by TheCaptain on Wednesday, 01 February 2012 (1070 reads)
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France  La Gelie is a burial chamber in the community of Edon, Departement of Charente, Region of Poitou-Charentes
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| Pictures and description in of this wonderful looking but little known site in Charente thanks to TAUPIN. Merci bien.
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Announcing the Megalithic Portal photo competiton winners for September 2011
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Submitted by Andy B on Tuesday, 31 January 2012 (483 reads)
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Photography  I'm very pleased to announce the winners of the competition for the best photos submitted to us in September 2011, voted for by you. This time Hamish our favourite kite aerial maestro is back in the top spot, just overtaking Tiompan's stunningly atmospheric image of Creag Ard, which is in second place. There are some other fantastic entries as well, read on.
1st Prize: Great Cursus Barrows, Stonehenge by Hamish Fenton
2nd Prize: Creag Ard by tiompan
3rd Prize: Harhoog Keitum by Krautrock
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Princes Risborough Puddingstone
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Submitted by thecaptain on Tuesday, 31 January 2012 (4265 reads)
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England  Recently rediscovered ‘Pudding Stone', which has been restored to proper prominence at the roundabout in Horns Lane / New Road. One of several in the Chilterns thought to have been way-markers for prehistoric man. Princes Risborough is an old market town on the Icknield Way at the edge of the Chiltern Hills.
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| The Icknield Way - Track or Fiction?
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Herodion
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Submitted by motist on Monday, 30 January 2012 (2168 reads)
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Other Archaeology  Herodion, to the south of Jerusalem in the Judean hills, is one of the top historical and archeological sites of Israel. Like some famous counterparts, we have one person to thank for this, and that is King Herod (ruling from 37-4 BCE), who might be called "the Great" simply on the basis of his architectural achievements.
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| Top archaeologists condemn Israeli plan to rebuild ancient tomb
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Texas Barrows
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Submitted by SolarMegalith on Sunday, 29 January 2012 (289 reads)
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England  Round Barrows in Hampshire. These two Bronze Age bowl barrows are located on a field SW from Winchester. Both burial mounds are overgrown and heavily disturbed by badgers, but distinguishable. The site has never been excavated.
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Carrowkeel Cairn K
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Submitted by Anthony_Weir on Thursday, 26 January 2012 (3220 reads)
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Republic of Ireland  Chambered Cairn in Co. Sligo. Approached via a tarred track leading E from a by-road running from North to South through the hills, and well-signposted this megalithic cemetery is superbly situated on limestone ridges in different townlands, of which Carrowkeel is only one.
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| 100 years on, and presumably just out of copyright, Martin Byrne has republished Macalister's 1911 excavation report on Carrowkeel
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Town Creek Indian Mound
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Submitted by Andy B on Wednesday, 25 January 2012 (289 reads)
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Museums  Town Creek Indian Mound is a National Historic Landmark near Mount Gilead, Montgomery County, North Carolina. The site preserves a ceremonial mound built by the Pee Dee, a group of Mississippian mound building people that thrived in the Pee Dee region of North and South Carolina during the Pre-Columbian era from about 1100 to 1400 CE.
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Son Real Necropolis
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Submitted by ShropshireTraveller on Wednesday, 25 January 2012 (7142 reads)
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Spain and Portugal  The necropolis of Son Real is located in the Mallorcan town of Santa Margarita on the small headland of Punta Fenicis. The 800-square-foot necropolis dates from the 7th to 4th Century BC, but was also later used as a burial place. Archaeological excavations at the site began after the site's discovery in 1957 and continued until 1970.
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Nakovana Cave
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Submitted by Andy B on Wednesday, 25 January 2012 (458 reads)
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Digs  A cave in Croatia which contains the undisturbed remains of an ancient Illyrian cult sanctuary dating from the 1st millennium B.C. This unprecedented discovery was made in a newly discovered chamber within the Nakovana Cave and revealed an astonishing phallic stalagmite surrounded by ritual artifacts.
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| Oldest known astrologer's board discovered in Dalmatia
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Skellig Michael
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Submitted by jeffrep on Wednesday, 25 January 2012 (2794 reads)
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Republic of Ireland  Early Christian Sculptured Stones (and lots more) in Co. Kerry. For 600 years, Skellig Michael (Sceilig Mhichíl in Irish Gaelic, meaning Michael's rock) was an important center of monastic life for Irish Christian monks. An Irish Celtic monastery, which is situated almost at the summit of the 755 foot high rock, was built beginning in the 7th Century. Legend associates its founding with St. Fionan.
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| Watch the RTÉ Television Documentary: Secrets Of The Stones
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Valley of the Kings
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Submitted by Andy B on Tuesday, 24 January 2012 (6444 reads)
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Other Archaeology  Necropolis on West Bank of Nile at Luxor. A valley in Egypt where, for a period of nearly 500 years from the 16th to 11th century BC, tombs were constructed for the kings and powerful nobles of the New Kingdom. The valley stands on the west bank of the Nile, opposite Thebes (modern Luxor), within the heart of the Theban Necropolis.
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| Egyptian singer unearthed in Valley of the Kings
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Mnajdra and Hagar-Qim, a Maltese Treasure
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Submitted by LittleEnki on Tuesday, 24 January 2012 (269 reads)
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Mysteries  Recently, while corresponding with a colleague from The West coast, I was introduced to the wonders of the Maltese megalithic sites of Hagar-Qim and Mnajdra. They are not very well known to the average student of civilization studies, well not in the US, but when observed closer, one sees a wondrous treasure trove of technology and spiritual design.
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Sibudu Cave
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Submitted by coldrum on Tuesday, 24 January 2012 (6536 reads)
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Digs  Cave in South Africa. Sibudu Cave is a sandstone cliff cave in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It is an important Middle Stone Age site.. In it evidence has been found of some of the earliest modern human technology including the earliest bone arrow, needle, and use of heat treated mixed compound gluing.
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| "... Parents, children, grannies, and all sorts of people using the same bed." 70,000 year old mattress.
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El Mirador
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Submitted by bat400 on Monday, 23 January 2012 (9094 reads)
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Central America  Ancient City in Pete'n Guatemala.
El Mirador "the Lookout" was one of the largest city states of the Mayan world. Covering ten square miles it had an estimated maximum population of 80,000. The polity was at its height from 300BC to 100AD, although evidence from excavations indicate the area was occupied much earlier and was only abandoned at around 900 AD.
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| Global Heritage Fund naming 2012 'Year of the Maya' - Celebrating at El Mirador, see latest comment.
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National Maritime Museum, Cornwall
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Submitted by Andy B on Sunday, 22 January 2012 (390 reads)
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England  Museum in Cornwall. Interactive and 'hands-on' displays featuring Cornwall's unique maritime heritage.
Underwater views through tidal windows. Live boating demonstrations
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| Academics to build replica of Bronze Age boat using tools and methods from 4000 years ago
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Parthenon
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Submitted by AlexHunger on Saturday, 21 January 2012 (2437 reads)
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Other Archaeology  Classic 5th century BCE Doric marble Temple of Athena which replaced an earlier temple destroyed during the Persian invasion in 480 BCE. The new temple represented the highpoint of Greek architecture. Inside there was a giant Gold and ivory statue of Athena by Phidias. The statue was however moved to Constantinople during the Byzantine era and was lost.
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| Greece's ancient sites to play starring role in economic recovery
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Book Review: Redhead by Ian Cook
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Submitted by Esgt on Saturday, 21 January 2012 (398 reads)
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Reviews  This story is woven around the worldwide folklore of red-hairedness and linked into ancient histories. It begins in North Africa in the 1920s when the desecration of a shrine reignited an ancient vendetta against the red-haired. Wind forward to the present, and there are world-wide incidences of murder and kidnapping taking place.
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Matarrubilla
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Submitted by MMG on Wednesday, 18 January 2012 (2813 reads)
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Spain and Portugal  A passage grave consisting of a corridor of about 29 meters long, connected to a circular section of 2.72 m. in diameter. The corridor is lined with alternating layers of stone and earth, covered with limestone slabs and measures approximately 1.30 m. wide and 2 m tall.
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| Economic crisis saves Spanish ruins but buries their future
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