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• Mega(lithic)

  
  Stare Into Space — Authority: 109
  Took to the hills again the other day.  A pleasant walk in North Wicklow around the Dublin border.  Two neighbouring hills – Seefin and Seefingin.  Each has a megalithic tomb on the top (or just off the summit if you want to be pedantic) and quite splendid they are too. Seefin is the most impressive as it’s ...
  2 days ago

• Libya: Ancient and modern under a layer of dust

  
  The Wanderer — Authority: 556
  Whew! Comms – which have been patchy on my Libyan travels – are up and running again. For a country that looks like it’s still half-built (unlike Egypt which looks like it’s half-unbuilt and going down, or so I’m told) Libya has pretty decent telecoms and infrastructure. Cellphones are ubiquitous and getting ...
  6 days ago

• Mother Goddess: When Women Ruled The World?

  
  BeyondJane — Authority: 123
  ?No doubt we’ve all heard or read about the statues or figurines of large-breasted, pot-bellied, so-called mother goddesses found at neolithic sites such as Catal Huyuk, in Anatolia. But do these fascinating figures provide proof of a matriarchal, goddess-worshiping culture in pre-history? This question not only ...
  1 week ago

• Update: Pavlopetri – Homeric City Beneath the Sea

  
  Old Salt Blog - a virtual port of call for all those who love the sea — Authority: 521
  Ancient foundation stones at Pavlopetri Last May we posted about   Pavlopetri , a submerged city off the coast of southern Laconia in Greece.  Recently, archaeologists surveying Pavlopetri have found ceramics dating back to the Final Neolithic suggestings that the city was occupied some 5,000 years ago – at ...
  2 weeks ago

• 35. Olszanica Longhouse 6; Why has it got wide doors?

  
  Theoretical Structural Archaeology — Authority: 99
  When I saw her, it was love at first sight, beautiful, slender, elegant, complex, and I know size isn’t everything, but it has got the biggest roof I’ve ever seen on an early Neolithic building. But there was something else, not that I noticed it at first, as I ran my eyes over her sleek form, but eventually my ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ancient Civilisations – an Introduction: The Neolithic Revolution

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 562
  I thought it would be sensible we first discover how civilisation initially occurred, before we take a look at the various civilisations throughout history, some of which were wiped out by disease and war. Image via Wikipedia The Neolithic Revolution was the first and most important in a series of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Pavlopetri in Greece: Oldest Underwater Submerged Town

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 605
  Pavlopetri, off the southern coast of the Pelopennese in Greece, dates back to around 3000 BC. Sunk into the Mediterranean Sea, it breaks the antiquity record as the world’s oldest underwater town. The Greek government discovered the submerged town in 1967 but just recently announced that ‘5000-year-old pottery ...
  3 weeks ago

• Early Irish were just visitors

  
  Celtic Myth Podshow Latest News — Authority: 116
  Pic: The TimesThe Times Online reports that Ireland’s first farmers settled the island later than some sites from Ulster have long suggested, but did so in a short period which may also have seen parallel migration into western England and Scotland. Radiocarbon dates indicate that sites from Co Kerry in the South ...
  4 weeks ago

• World’s oldest submerged town dates back 5,000 years

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  London, Oct 17 (IANS) Archaeologists surveying the world’s oldest submerged town have found ceramics dating back to the end of the Neolithic era.Their discovery suggests that Pavlopetri, off the southern Laconia coast of Greece, was occupied some 5,000 years ago - at least 1,200 years earlier than originally ...
  4 weeks ago

• Worlds Oldest Submerged Town Dates Back 5,000 Years

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 154
  Archaeologists surveying the worlds oldest submerged town have found ceramics dating back to the Final Neolithic. Their discovery suggests that Pavlopetri, off the southern Laconia coast of Greece, was occupied some 5,000 years ago -- at least 1,200 years earlier than originally thought.
  4 weeks ago

• Megaliths and Murder: The History of Stonehenge

  
  Environmental Graffiti — Authority: 648
  Recent research at Stonehenge has revised and clarified the sites chronology. New discoveries have revealed the Amesbury Archer and the Boscombe Bowmen, who likely directed the assembly of the largest sarsen and trilithon constructions. Very recently, a third henge has been discovered at... This is just a brief ...
  4 weeks ago

• Neolithic migrationism

  
  john hawks weblog — Authority: 534
  Dienekes has a nice post about the relation of Neolithic Europeans , migration models, and how anthropological views of migration have changed over the last century. He starts with Carleton Coon, although he might have gone back substantially earlier. Ill note that Franz Weidenreich, writing shortly after the cited ...
  4 weeks ago

• Ancient burial chambers in Jordan Valley threatened by quarrying

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  Amman (Jordan), October 13 (ANI): An international report has indicated that ancient burial chambers in the Jordan Valley are being threatened by modern development and may be demolished.According to a report in the Jordan Times, the dolmens foothills of Damiyah were listed among 77 endangered sites around the world ...
  4 weeks ago

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