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The Megalithic Portal Live in the Derbyshire Peak District Sat/Sun 28/29th July
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Submitted by Andy B on Tuesday, 15 May 2012 (521 reads)
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Events  The Megalithic Portal Live on Stanton Moor and Beeley Moor in the Derbyshire Peak
District, Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th July. Part of the Festival of British Archaeology and our little unofficial contribution to the 2012 Olympics cultural events. A free weekend of guided walks and talks with archaeologists and prehistory experts.
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| Booking opened for guided walk with John Barnatt - places are limited!
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Wadi Abu Subeira
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Submitted by davidmorgan on Monday, 14 May 2012 (324 reads)
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Rock Art  Late Palaeolithic rock art discovered in 2007. 15-20.000 years ago the waters of the Nile were much higher than today. The broad Wadi Abu Subeira may have been a small 'fjord', reaching several kilometres into the Eastern Desert: A great habitat for wildlife in the otherwise hyperarid environment and a great place for humans to stay to fish and hunt and to access the interior of the desert and perhaps the Red Sea.
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Kharaneh IV
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Submitted by davidmorgan on Monday, 14 May 2012 (595 reads)
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Discoveries  A Palaeolithic settlement in the Azraq Basin of eastern Jordan. Recent excavations have revealed insights into the lifestyles of 20,000-year-old hunter gatherers who lived here during the last Ice Age when the deserts of Jordan were in bloom, with rivers, streams, and seasonal lakes and ponds providing a rich environment for hunter-gatherers to settle in.
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Tulum
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Submitted by bat400 on Thursday, 10 May 2012 (5126 reads)
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Central America  Tulum is a walled, Post Classical (ca. 1200- 1450 AD) Mayan town. There are ruins of a temple on a pyramid, a palace, and the "Temple of the Frescos" where some painted plasterwork remains. Tulum is perhaps most famous for its spectacular seaside location.
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| Bones of early American disappear from underwater cave near Mexico's Tulum.
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Stonehenge Free Open Access for Summer Solstice 2012
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Submitted by Andy B on Thursday, 10 May 2012 (577 reads)
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Stonehenge  English Heritage write: We are pleased to be providing Managed Open Access to Stonehenge for the Summer Solstice. Please help us create a peaceful occasion by taking personal responsibility and following the Conditions of Entry and guidelines set out on the following pages.
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Chagford Druid's Well
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Submitted by cazzyjane on Wednesday, 09 May 2012 (2852 reads)
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England  This is an odd site whose name is probably Victorian rather than ancient. The spring is enclosed in an unusual 'mini dolmen' structure.
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Seminole Canyon State Park and Historic Site
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Submitted by davidmorgan on Wednesday, 09 May 2012 (380 reads)
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Other Archaeology  Rock Art in Texas. This page includes several sites of the Pecos River culture in the Seminole Canyon State Historical Park.
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| Panther Cave and other Rock Art in danger on the Lower Pecos River, Texas
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The Orkney Museum
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Submitted by vicky on Wednesday, 09 May 2012 (3544 reads)
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Museums  The Orkney Museum's contents reflect Orkney's incredible heritage and history. Relics stretch back 5,000 years or more to finds from the earliest house in Europe (at Knap of Howar on Papa Westray) and the many other Neolithic and more recent archaeological sites unearthed around Orkney.
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| Ness of Brodgar in the spotlight at the Orkney Museum
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Carwynnen Quoit
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Submitted by Andy B on Wednesday, 09 May 2012 (11082 reads)
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England  The Sustainable Trust managed to raised the funds to buy this ruined scheduled ancient monument set in 5 acres of land, to allow access to the road. Following another year's fundraising in a difficult time, they decided just to work on the archaeological side of the project and leave the restoration for another year.
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| Permission granted for excavations at the collapsed Carwynnen Quoit
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Vashtėmi
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Submitted by davidmorgan on Wednesday, 09 May 2012 (342 reads)
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Digs  A Neolithic farming settlement. Recent research findings show that Vashtėmi, located in southeastern Albania, was occupied around 6,500 cal BC, making it one of the earliest farming sites in Europe.
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| One of Earliest Farming Sites in Europe Discovered
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Reigate Heath Barrows
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Submitted by SolarMegalith on Saturday, 05 May 2012 (5296 reads)
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England  Barrow Cemetery in Surrey. A significant group of Bronze Age bowl barrows near Reigate consists of 7 mounds (4 unquestionable bowl barrows and 3 probable ones). The barrow cemetery is easily accessible as the mounds are located near the major footpaths on Reigate Heath.
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Announcing the Megalithic Portal photo competiton winners for November 2011
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Submitted by Andy B on Friday, 04 May 2012 (630 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 November 2011, voted for by you:
1st Prize: Twyn Ddu by Sem
2nd Prize: Visbeker Braut by Martin L
3rd Prize: King Arthur's Hall by Cazzyjane
View the photos and more Highly Commended entries below.
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Tuilyies
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Submitted by enkidu41 on Friday, 04 May 2012 (7185 reads)
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Scotland  Stone setting in Fife. This unusual group of 4 stones comprises an 8 foot high cup marked stone and 3 boulders. The east face of the standing stone is covered with vertical grooves due to weathering and, at its the lower end, many cup marks.
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| Tuilyies stones used as a pilot project to create accurate retopologised 3D models from photogrammetry - video and images below
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Megalithomania Conference 2012
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Submitted by megalithomania on Friday, 04 May 2012 (6775 reads)
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Events  The next Megalithomania Conference is on Saturday and Sunday, 12/13th May 2012 at
The Assembly Rooms Glastonbury, with speakers including:
Robin Heath - Megalithic Sites of Wales
Klaus Dona (from Austria) - Prehistoric Artifacts from Secret Collections around the World
Sig Lonegren - Ancient Sites in the Netherlands and Scandinavia
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| A few tickets still available for the Megalithomania conference and live streaming also available
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Paleoindian Ceremonies
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Submitted by coldrum on Friday, 04 May 2012 (486 reads)
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North America  "[An] often single-minded focus of archaeologists on Paleoindian stone-tool technology and hunting practices [neglects] the social and religious lives of these ancient people, which admittedly are much harder to discern from the meager evidence. It is relatively easy to read the story of big-game hunting in stone spear points, but those same stone points also may have other kinds of stories to tell."
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| 'Paleoindians did not live by red meat alone'- Study of Stone Tools May Reveal Ceremonial Lives
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Banks Chambered Tomb
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Submitted by coldrum on Monday, 30 April 2012 (7696 reads)
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Scotland  The site containing human remains was uncovered by a local man while using a mechanical digger to landscape his garden at Banks on the island of South Ronaldsay.
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| Dig discovers a possible sixth chamber in Banks chambered tomb
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Dorje Dolmen Thamshing
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Submitted by KaiHofmann on Monday, 30 April 2012 (1166 reads)
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Discoveries  Michael Hauser a german ethnologist and expierienced Bhutan guide discovered in the early 1990s a Dolmen in Bhumthang close to the Thamshing monastery at the opposite side of the Kurjey Lhakhang (monastery) and the Bumthang Chu (river). It seems to be one of several remains of an unknown neolithic culture in Bhutan.
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Caerau (Cardiff)
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Submitted by TauCeti on Monday, 30 April 2012 (7325 reads)
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Wales  Caerau Hillfort is a large triangular multivallate Iron Age hillfort occupying the western tip of an extensive ridge-top plateau in the western suburbs of Caerau and Ely, Cardiff, Wales. The old parish church, St Marys, and a small ringwork, almost certainly a medieval castle site probably contemporary with the church, stand within the hillfort on the north-eastern side.
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| Time Team discovers 3,000 years of history at Cardiff site
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Hautville's Quoit
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Submitted by bec-zog on Monday, 30 April 2012 (6581 reads)
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England  Late neolithic remnant of possible chambered tomb. Located NNE of Stanton Drew Great Circle, it aligns with the centre of the Great Circle and the SW Circle. It is possibly part of a larger, now destroyed, structure.
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| Interim report from the BACAS Survey of an area around Hautville's Quoit and NE of Stanton Drew is published
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Felton Common Suck Stone
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Submitted by 4clydesdale7 on Sunday, 29 April 2012 (851 reads)
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England  There really are no limits to the lengths Megalithic Portal contributors will go to seek out lost sites - take this site - it is scarcely mentioned in Somerset archaeological history.
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| More photos from our day out in Somerset coming soon...
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