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Tutuveni

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:44:44 GMT

]]>Tribal Archaeologists, Academics, and NGOs Perserve and Document Petroglyph Site in Three Dimensions. . 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.

La Gelie

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:59:32 GMT

]]>Pictures and description in of this wonderful looking but little known site in Charente thanks to TAUPIN. Merci bien.. La Gelie is a burial chamber in the community of Edon, Departement of Charente, Region of Poitou-Charentes

Announcing the Megalithic Portal photo competiton winners for September 2011

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:50:40 GMT

]]>. 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

Princes Risborough Puddingstone

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:11:20 GMT

]]>The Icknield Way - Track or Fiction?. 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.

Herodion

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:01:04 GMT

]]>Top archaeologists condemn Israeli plan to rebuild ancient tomb. 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.

Texas Barrows

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:35:47 GMT

]]>. 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.

Carrowkeel Cairn K

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:19:28 GMT

]]>100 years on, and presumably just out of copyright, Martin Byrne has republished Macalister's 1911 excavation report on Carrowkeel. 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.

Town Creek Indian Mound

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:41:58 GMT

]]>. 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.

Son Real Necropolis

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:26:32 GMT

]]>. 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.

Nakovana Cave

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:42:36 GMT

]]>Oldest known astrologer's board discovered in Dalmatia. 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.