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Brighton Museum and Art Gallery
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Submitted by Andy B on Wednesday, 02 March 2016 (6665 reads)
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Museums  Brighton Museum houses one of the most important and eclectic collections outside national institutions. Its recent £10million redevelopment has created dynamic and innovative new galleries that encourage you to get involved as you wander round the transformed museum.
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| White Hawk Hill film installation about Whitehawk Hill causewayed enclosure, the "forgotten hinterland and the people who experience it, both today and in the prehistoric past.", running from the 8th March - 10th April
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Timna Valley Slave Hill Smelting Site
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Submitted by Motist on Wednesday, 24 February 2016 (5220 reads)
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Digs  Timna Valley Slaves hill smelting site: Sites of copper smelting. The Egyptians, or Edomites, a semi-nomadic tribe discovered copper ore as early as the 5th millennium BCE and began the world’s first copper production center in Timna valley. The remains the Egyptians and others left provided for the most extensive example of early mining of any kind in history.
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| Fine quality textile fragments from King David era (10th Century BC) discovered at Timna Copper Mines, see the latest comment on our page
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Easter Island
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Submitted by terryj on Wednesday, 24 February 2016 (18593 reads)
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Environment  Easter Island is the most remote inhabited island on the planet, being out in the Pacific Ocean nearly four thousand kilometres from the coast of Chile. The island is perhaps best known for the hundreds of stone statues (Moai) carved and erected by an ancient population, which later died out.
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| Easter Island not destroyed by war, analysis of ‘spear points' shows. See the comments for this and more Easter Island news.
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Thorsgill Stone
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Submitted by SolarMegalith on Monday, 22 February 2016 (492 reads)
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Rock Art  Rock Art in County Durham. A large boulder is located in thick bushes over Thorsgill Beck, north of Egglestone Abbey - it was probably moved from the field which lies over the river. The surface of the boulder is decorated with two cup-and-ring marks with single rings and numerous cup-marks.
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Llandudno Museum
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Submitted by Andy B on Monday, 22 February 2016 (4035 reads)
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Museums  Llandudno Museum tells the story of the archaeology of the local area back into prehistoric era to a time just after the last Ice Age. Archaeological items range from Neolithic, Bronze Age and Roman. Life size display of copper mining on the Orme.
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| Newly conserved 'Blodwen' the 5,500 year old skeleton goes in display in her own exhibition
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Must Farm
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Submitted by bat400 on Friday, 19 February 2016 (4893 reads)
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England  Bronze Age settlement built on oak piles driven into the bed of the River Nene. Destroyed by a fire sometime between 700 - 500BC, the remains were first excavated from the Must Farm Quarry by the Cambridge Archaeological Unit (CAU) in 2010-2011, and the work is ongoing.
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| News just in this morning. Bronze Age wheel found at Britains Pompeii - Must Farm in Cambridgeshire.
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NEG II Prehistoric Village
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Submitted by motist on Friday, 19 February 2016 (261 reads)
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Digs  A newly-excavated village in the Jordan Valley sheds light on the historical shift from foraging to agriculture, say Hebrew University of Jerusalem archaeologists. They have revealed a prehistoric village, dated around 12,000 years ago.
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| Prehistoric Village Found in the Jordan Valley Links Old and New Stone Age
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Celtic Sanctum Skřipel
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Submitted by ladrin on Monday, 15 February 2016 (210 reads)
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Resources  A well preserved rectangular enclosure with ditch constructed by the Celts in La Tène Period (300–50 BC). The earthen ramparts mixed with smaller stones are up to three metres in height and 12m wide. Each side of the rectangle is more then 100 m in length.
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Penn Museum
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Submitted by Aluta on Thursday, 11 February 2016 (11233 reads)
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Other Archaeology  The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia owns about one million objects of archaeological and anthropological interest. Mayan steles, Roman mosaics, ritual masks from the northwest of North America, African musical instruments, a full scale Japanese temple, Islamic tiled fountains, Polynesian bark cloth, and the obligatory Egyptian mummies are just a small selection of what you can see there.
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| Treasures from Turkey exhibition premiers at Penn Museum in Philadelphia
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| Inside the Neolithic Mind: Consciousness, Cosmos and the Realm of the Gods |
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