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| Text Pages: Calleva Atrebatum |
| Submitted by coldrum on Wednesday, 01 July 2009 (73 reads) |
Ancient Village or Settlement in Hampshire |
| Dig taking place to investigate the iron Age settlement, see comment. ( More... | 281 bytes | 1 comment |  ) |
| News: Prehistoric European Cave Artists Were Female |
| Submitted by coldrum on Wednesday, 01 July 2009 (39 reads) |
Inside France's 25,000-year-old Pech Merle cave, hand stencils surround the famed "Spotted Horses" mural.
For about as long as humans have created works of art, they've also left behind handprints. People began stenciling, painting, or chipping imprints of their hands onto rock walls at least 30,000 years ago. |
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| News: Important historic remains unearthed in Bridlington |
| Submitted by coldrum on Wednesday, 01 July 2009 (41 reads) |
Remains of some of the earliest houses ever found in the North of England have been unearthed in Bridlington.
Archaeologists have discovered that buildings stood on the site of the current Cottage Farm development more than 5,000 years ago. |
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| News: Models of Earliest (Camel-Pulled) Vehicles Found |
| Submitted by coldrum on Wednesday, 01 July 2009 (36 reads) |
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Some of the world's first farmers may have sped around in two-wheeled carts pulled by camels and bulls, suggests a new analysis on tiny models of these carts that date to 6,000-5,000 years ago.
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| Events: Stonehenge Landscape Guided Walks, July 2009 |
| Submitted by coldrum on Wednesday, 01 July 2009 (34 reads) |
Learn about ancient peoples, hidden histories and the changing landscape with a National Trust guide. A great way to discover the archaeology beyond the stone circle, and find out about the latest discoveries as recently revealed on Time Team!
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| Text Pages: Chaco Culture |
| Submitted by bat400 on Wednesday, 01 July 2009 (2833 reads) |
Ancient Village or Settlement in San Juan County, New Mexico.Petroglyphs, Ancient Buildings, Ancient Roads, Artifacts. Chaco Canyon appears on satellite maps as a sliver of green, but this is only by comparison to the desert surrounding it. A thousand years ago it was the center of a complex culture stretching a hundred miles in any direction. |
| Chaco Meridian Theory. Cardinal Directions provide clues to a Common Ruling Ideology? See Comments. ( More... | 2723 bytes | 3 comments | ) |
| Photo Pages: Castalian Springs Mound |
| Submitted by bat400 on Wednesday, 01 July 2009 (4832 reads) |
 Artificial Mound in Sumner County, Tennessee.
The focal point of a Mississippian village complex is an unusual mound and earthwork. Today's site is a truncated conical mound at the west end of a broad, low, rectangular earthwork, aligned in an east-west direction. The other mounds at the site, as well as the principal mound and earthwork have been plowed down - the field has been in pasture for the last twenty or more years. |
| Web Diary describes 2009 Dig Season at Tennessee mineral springs Ancient Village. ( More... | 1747 bytes | 4 comments | ) |
| Photo Pages: Devils Quoits |
| Submitted by Celia_Haddon on Tuesday, 30 June 2009 (7203 reads) |
 Ruined Stone Circle in Oxfordshire. This is the site near Stanton Harcourt on land worked by Hanson Waste Management belonging to All Souls. Nothing much to see - a largish mound (landscaping thanks to Hanson rather than nature, I suspect), a vague outline of a henge, one huge stone on its side, two other big ones half buried, and some large boulders carefully preserved by the waste people, which are stacked up in case they might be needed for reconstruction. |
| Good News on this re-erected stone circle. Word is just in about the Devils Quoit's Re-Opening Day which is Saturday, 13 September, at the Quoits, Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire.
See latest comment for more information.
British Archaeology Magazine July/August issue has an article about The Devil's Quoits.See comment. ( More... | 514 bytes | 7 comments | ) |
| Photo Pages: British Museum |
| Submitted by Andy B on Tuesday, 30 June 2009 (7334 reads) |
 Museum in Greater London.
The original and the best - the British Museum contains archaeology from around the world. Of particular interest are the Mold Cape, the Battersea horned helmet and shield, Lindow Man, Sutton Hoo, Mildenhall treasures and much, much more. |
| Events at the British Museum, see comment.
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| Photo Pages: Carwynnen Quoit |
| Submitted by Andy B on Tuesday, 30 June 2009 (4318 reads) |
 Burial Chamber in Cornwall. At last, after 2 years of delay, the Sustainable Trust have raised the funds to buy this ruined scheduled ancient monument set in 5 acres of land, to allow access to the road. |
| Picnic at Carwynnen Quoit, Sunday 19th July, see comment. ( More... | 455 bytes | 15 comments | ) |
| Sites under Threat: Archaeologist bemoans looting in Arkansas |
| Submitted by coldrum on Tuesday, 30 June 2009 (50 reads) |
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Artifacts of prehistoric people who lived in Arkansas are being excavated by professionals who are trying to piece together more of the story of those who once lived here. Those artifacts are also being dug up by criminals. |
| Looters destroy archaeological record, vandalize private property, and desecrate burials. ( More... | 2977 bytes | comments? | ) |
| Dutch Anthropologists Research Bulgaria Neolithic Archaeology Site |
| Submitted by coldrum on Sunday, 28 June 2009 (94 reads) |
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A team of Dutch anthropologists has arrived to the Bulgarian village of Dzhulyunitsa to research the Neolithic archaeological site there.
The object of their research will be oldest funeral in the Balkans - a funeral of a person at the age of 12-13, which dates back to 6300-6150 BC. |
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| News: Rare petroglyphs found in Cuban caves |
| Submitted by coldrum on Sunday, 28 June 2009 (86 reads) |
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Cuban archaeologists are studying the strange drawings found in caves in eastern Cuba, Prensa Latina reported.
The petroglyphs, discovered in the Sierra del Rosario reserve located in Pinar del Rio province, have now motivated large-scale research in the area to establish the origin of the asymmetric carvings in the stalagmites. |
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| News: Oldest human settlement in Aegean unearthed on Limnos island |
| Submitted by coldrum on Sunday, 28 June 2009 (73 reads) |
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The ruins of the oldest human settlement in the Aegean found so far have been unearthed in archaeological excavations by a team of Greek, Italian and American archaeologists on the island of Limnos, headed by Thessaloniki Aristotle University (AUTH) professor of Prehistoric Archaeology Nikos Efstratiou. |
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| News: Bronze Age burial ground uncovered |
| Submitted by coldrum on Sunday, 28 June 2009 (51 reads) |
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Major roadworks on one of Ulster's main thoroughfares have uncovered items of archaeological significance.
Excavation as part of the upgrade of the A1 Belfast to Dublin road between Loughbrickland and Beech Hill has uncovered a Bronze Age burial ground and a Neolithic settlement site dating back 6,500 years. |
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| Photo Pages: Hill of Tara |
| Submitted by Anthony_Weir on Sunday, 28 June 2009 (5078 reads) |
 Earthworks and Passage Grave in Co. Meath. Before the commercialisation of Newgrange to a kind of Neolithic Mall, this was the most celebrated of Irish sites, yet rather disappointing now.The earthworks are of Iron Age date but are not the remains of banqueting halls etc. that Romantic songs might lead us to expect. |
| Smithsonian Institution lists Tara in Top 15 Endangered Sites. See comment.
Tarawatch calls on John Gormley to resign. See comment. ( More... | 1236 bytes | 22 comments | ) |
| News: Sewage work uncovers ancient site |
| Submitted by coldrum on Sunday, 28 June 2009 (73 reads) |
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The discovery of stones that are thought to date back to the Bronze Age have halted a multi-million pound sewage treatment project in Cornwall. |
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| News: Ancient well, and body, found in Cyprus |
| Submitted by coldrum on Sunday, 28 June 2009 (64 reads) |
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Archaeologists have discovered a water well in Cyprus that was built as long as 10,500 years ago, and the skeleton of a young woman at the bottom of it, an official said Wednesday. |
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| News: Ancient granaries preceded the Agricultural Revolution |
| Submitted by coldrum on Sunday, 28 June 2009 (59 reads) |
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A Jordanian site yields food-storage facilities from more than 11,000 years ago, indicating that a major social shift led to the rise of domesticated crops. |
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| News: Iron Age graveyard unearthed in Tamil Nadu |
| Submitted by coldrum on Sunday, 28 June 2009 (53 reads) |
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A glass bead-making unit and an Iron Age graveyard, both about 2,500 years old, have been unearthed during the ongoing excavation in and around Porunthal, 12-km from here, an archaeology expert said. |
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