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Cusco - Qorikancha
Date Added: 20th Jan 2019
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Peru
Visited: Yes on 17th Sep 2018. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 5
Cusco - Qorikancha submitted by SolarMegalith on 21st Dec 2011. Walls of Coricancha ("Golden Courtyard") and a Spanish monastery of Dominican Order constructed on it's top (photo taken on July 2003).
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Vichama
Date Added: 30th Mar 2019
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Peru
Visited: Yes on 31st Aug 2018. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Vichama submitted by bat400 on 21st Mar 2019. Site in Lima Region, Peru.
La Hornacinas (The Niches), the principal building in sector A. A relief thought to be a frog and lightning, possibly symbolizing rebirth. This is the highest relief art in the building complex and part of the penultimate building phases.
Photo by bat400, Sept 2018.
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Log Text: Vichama differs from Caral and Banduria by the pictorial reliefs that have been found on several walls of elite residencies and ceremonial sites. The largest of these are easily seen at the primary site which included both a a large circular courtyard with ceremonial building over looking it. There are two walls depicting figures. Many of these appear to be starving figures, while others may be either be in the midst of some sort of exclamation or dance. The starving figures point to sunken abdomens or skeletal remains, but ts difficult to be certain if the other figures depict mournful grief or happy rejoicing.
In 2018 another, smaller wall of even more abstract figures, including snakes and faces was found. This wall has not been stabilized and was covered when we visited.
Anokhin Museum
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Museum
Country: Russia
Visited: Would like to visit on 1st Jan 0000
Anokhin Museum submitted by bat400 on 16th Oct 2013. Princess Ukok/Princess of the Altai: A mummy that was found in 1993 in a kurgan in the remote Ukok Plateau in the Altai Republic in Russia.
Date 2007-01-29 (original upload date,) ru.wikipedia.
Photo uploaded by Kobsev at ru.wikipedia. "This work has been released into the public domain by its author, Kobsev at the wikipedia project. This applies worldwide."
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Denisova
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: Russia
Visited: Would like to visit on 1st Jan 0000
Denisova submitted by bat400 on 15th Jan 2014. Description: English: Tourists at the entrance to Denisova Cave, Russia
Date: July 2007
Author: ЧуваевНиколай at ru.wikipedia
ALtered from the original in accordance with licensing:
ЧуваевНиколай at ru.wikipedia, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publishes it under the following licenses:
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version ...
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Little Wood Hill
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Causewayed Enclosure
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Would like to visit on 1st Jan 0000
Little Wood Hill submitted by bat400 on 8th Mar 2015. "Archaeologists and volunteers spent a week excavating the site" Credit BBC News at http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-30095028
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Old Man of Storr
Date Added: 4th Aug 2017
Site Type: Rock Outcrop
Country: Scotland (Isle of Skye)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 1st Apr 1987. My rating: Ambience 5
Old Man of Storr submitted by KaiHofmann on 12th Sep 2016. Old Man of Storr.
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Border Cave
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: South Africa
Visited: Would like to visit on 1st Jan 0000
Border Cave submitted by bat400 on 26th Sep 2012. Sifting of deposits at mouth of Border Cave, near Ingwavuma, South Africa.
Photo from excavations in the 1970s, dated 2 January 1971, by "Androstachys."
This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Commons is a freely licensed media file repository.
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Spitzkloof
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: South Africa
Visited: Would like to visit on 1st Jan 0000
Spitzkloof submitted by bat400 on 10th Oct 2012. Spitzkloof Rockshelter A.
Source: AMEMSA, http://www.amemsa.com/Spitzkloof.html, 2010 Photo Gallery, http://www.amemsa.com/Spitzkloof_files/DSCN0571.jpg.
Site in South Africa.
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Diepkloof
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Rock Outcrop
Country: South Africa
Visited: Would like to visit on 1st Jan 0000
Diepkloof submitted by bat400 on 10th Oct 2012. General view of Diepkloof Rock Shelter site, South Africa
Vue générale du site de Diepkloof, Afrique du Sud
Date: 21 November 2009(2009-11-21)
Phototgrapher: Vincent Mourre / Inrap.
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
Site in South Africa
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Malapa
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: South Africa
Visited: Would like to visit on 1st Jan 0000
Malapa submitted by bat400 on 15th Jan 2013. The Malapa site, August 2011 site of discovery of australopithecus sediba.
Photo by Lee R. Berger (as Profberger,) 15 July 2011.
Lee R. Berger , the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
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Cueva del Sidrón
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: Spain (Asturias)
Visited: Would like to visit on 1st Jan 0000
Cueva del Sidrón submitted by bat400 on 19th Jul 2012. Working in a clean room, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, took extensive precautions to avoid contaminating Neanderthal DNA samples - extracted from bones like this one - with DNA from any other source, including modern humans. NHGRI researchers are part of the international team that sequenced the genome of the Neanderthal, Homo neanderthalensis. NOTE: There is no indication that the Neaderthal DNA being sequenced in this photo was take...
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Urkesh
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Syria
Visited: Would like to visit on 1st Jan 0000
Urkesh submitted by bat400 on 23rd Sep 2013. View of Tell Mozan (northeast Syria), ancient Urkesh, from the north. The dighouse can be seen in the middle of the tell.
10 June 2005, work by: Zoeperkoe.
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
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Ras Al Khaimah Tombs
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: United Arab Emirates
Visited: Would like to visit on 1st Jan 0000
Ras Al Khaimah Tombs submitted by bat400 on 21st Jan 2014. Shimal site Site in United Arab Emirates.
"One of the ancient tombs near Shimal, an indicator of how long the Ras al Khaimah area has been settled. This is from the Wadi Suq Period (almost 4000 years ago!). "
-Gordontour
One of the ancient tombs near Shimal, an indicator of how long the Ras al Khaimah area has been settled. This is from the Wadi Suq Period (almost 4000 years ago!). Earlier sites also exist nearby. For a brief introduction see the RAK Museum's site with more at Qarn a...
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Escalante Pueblo
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States
Visited: Yes on 28th Aug 2006
Escalante Pueblo submitted by bat400 on 28th Aug 2006. Escalante Pueblo, County, Colorado.
This pueblo foundation is from approximately 1130 AD, built by the Ancestral Puebloans. It is on a hilltop with Sleeping Ute Mountain to the south.
Photo by bat400, June 2003.
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Mesa Verde - Spruce Tree House
Date Added: 5th Jun 2012
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States
Visited: Yes on 26th Apr 2012. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Mesa Verde - Spruce Tree House submitted by DrewParsons on 19th Oct 2008. Site in United States: Mesa Verde - Spruce Tree House photographed in September 2005
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Log Text: Spruce Tree House is an especially interesting cliff dwelling to visit because in the summer time it is open all day and you can spend as much time as you like there. You can basically walk along the front of the dwelling, and at specific points, between some of the buildings. There is more light shining on this dwelling in the afternoon.
If you get to talking with the rangers they are happy to point out features that may be more difficult to see - like the hand print an ancient plasterer left in contrasting color on a house wall, or the incised bird footprints (turkey tracks) someone made in the floor of one of the rooms.
I rated this "A longer walk" simply because the paved path is quite steep in places, even though the total elevation change is only about 100 feet. There are no ladders or steps. However, like all Mesa Verde sites, the elevation change will be very noticeable to someone who is from lower elevations or is unused to substantial exercise. However, you can also see much of the site from an overlook that is directly behind the Chapin Mesa Museum. That overlook view point is a short walk on a paved footpath and definitely wheel chair accessible.
Angel Mounds
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 11th Apr 2006
Angel Mounds submitted by bat400 on 11th Apr 2006. Angel Mounds Historic Site, Newburgh, Indiana.
Middle Mississipian Village.
Map from Site website, www.angelmounds.org, by permission.
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Hopewell Culture National Historic Site
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 19th Apr 2006
submitted by on .
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Miamisburg Mound
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 5th May 2006
Miamisburg Mound submitted by bat400 on 5th May 2006. Miamisburg Mound
Miamisburg, Montgomery Co., Ohio
Conical earthen burial mound.
View for the top. Note the mature trees in full autumn colors.
(photo used by permission - J.Q. Jacobs)
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Fort Ancient
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 8th May 2006
submitted by on .
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Seip Earthwork Enclosure
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 19th May 2006
Seip Earthwork Enclosure submitted by bat400 on 19th May 2006. Seip Earthworks and mound, Ross County, Ohio.
This diagram is by J.Q.Jacobs and is used by posted fair use permission. The diagram is taken from the original Squire and Davis map survey, published in 1848.
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