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• Naga heritage traced back to 50 B.C.

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 739
  Dimapur (Nagaland), December 28 (ANI): Scientists have carried out the radiocarbon dating of archaeological sites from New Phor, Movolomi and Khusomi in Nagaland, which have further ‘pushed back’ the antiquity of Naga ancestral sites as early as 50 BC.According to a report in the Morung Express, the radiocarbon ...
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• Wheels already turning on Earth’s sixth mass extinction

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 739
  Washington, December 28 (ANI): A scientific analysis of millions of years of data has suggested that if the course of human history is any model, then the wheels are already turning on Earth’s sixth mass extinction, thanks to habitat destruction, pollution and now global warming.According to a report in the San ...
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• Pak’s archaeological assets under severe threat from ever expanding militancy

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 739
  London, Dec.27 (ANI): The ever-expanding terror threat in Pakistan has not only affected country’s civilian regime and its economy, but it has also ruined ancient Buddhist monasteries and other such historical relics in the war ravaged North West Frontier Province (NWFP).Places such as Mingora, Peshawar and the Swat ...
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• Surely We Need a Hawkman Movie

  
  [CinemaRatty] Latest Articles — Authority: 170
  Amongst all the big-budget superhero adaptations in the last decade, theres one obvious element thats been missing: a winged man in barbarian garb wearing a helmet with a beak and holding a mace. Wait, never mind. It turns out were doing that. Say Pajiba : The Hollywood Cog ... tells me that Warner Brothers and DC ...
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• Agreement to maintain monuments signed

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 739
  New Delhi, Dec 21 (IANS) The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) and the Indian Association of Tour Operators (IATO) have signed an agreement to undertake the maintenance work of a list of ASI protected monuments.An IATO statement Monday said the salient features of the memorandum of understanding (MoU) include ...
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• www.asi.nic.in | Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) Jobs

  
  Bandra Blogs, About Bandra Mumbai, Jobs in Mumbai — Authority: 152
  About Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) :The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), under the Ministry of Culture, is the premier organization for the archaeological researches and protection of the cultural heritage of the nation. Maintenance of ancient monuments and archaeological sites and remains of national ...
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• ONGC to fund projects on protection of national heritage

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 739
  Agartala, Dec 19 (IANS) State-owned exploration major Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) will provide funds for conservation, renovation and restoration of the monuments of Ahom kings in Sibsagar in eastern Assam, an official said here Saturday.”ONGC would fund and collaborate with Archaeological Survey of India ...
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• Huaraz Peru Pre-Inca Archaeological Site, Willcawain

  
  Dawn on the Amazon Captains Blog — Authority: 419
  Huaraz Peru pre-Inca Archaeological sites, Willcawain and Ichic Willcawain Marmelita and a local woman at the Willcawain pre-historical archaeological site near Huaraz Peru Our second day in Huaraz Peru we made arrangements to hire a guide with a car for $10 to drive us to the closest archaeological site, ...
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• Local Worlds, Early Settlement Landscapes and Upland Farming inSouth-West Ireland

  
  Biodiversity and Ornithology in Ireland — Authority: 121
  Another top class UCC publication, on early farming and upland landscapes. Local Worlds : Early Settlement Landscapes and Upland Farming in South-West Ireland - has been published by Collins Press. The principal author is William O’Brien, Professor of Archaeology in UCC, with contributions from Mr Nick Hogan ...
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• Loos at monuments to get a shine

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 739
  New Delhi, Dec 15 (IANS) Toilets at historical monuments in the capital and in the surrounding tourist circuit are set for a spanking new look.This was announced after the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) and Indian Association of Tour Operators (IATO) signed an memorandum of understanding for maintenance of ...
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• Extracting archaeological data with Python 3 - part 2

  
  IOSA.it — Authority: 112
  Samian Pottery data are available in various formats, namely XLS, SXC (OpenOffice.org 1.0 format) and TXT (tab-separated values in fact). There is no actual difference between the content and the structure of files among the different formats, just the spreadsheet files have lots of contexts in just 3 files (each ...
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• First Python 3 program: extracting archaeological data

  
  IOSA.it — Authority: 112
  A few days ago Ive started my first Python 3 program. Its written from scratch using modules from Pythons standard library. Im using the Debian package from experimental , which works fine. The program is meant to extract meaningful data about Samian Pottery in Britain from a dataset available at ADS, published by ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dipping my Toe in the Public History Pool

  
  The Archaeology of the Mediterranean World — Authority: 114
  Public history is all the rage these days in history programs.  To my eye, the interest in public history is an effort within the discipline of history to connect our work with a recognized group of jobs as archivists, public historians, and at museums.  On the one hand, this is good in that it recognizes that many ...
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• Spare Parts in the Desert

  
  Iconoclasm — Authority: 106
  Command Helicopters. Davis-Monthan AFB , Tucson, Arizona. Photo: TMK, December 2005. Tails. Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson. Photo: TMK, December 2005. Broken Wings. Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson. Photo: TMK, December 2005. Order. Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson. Photo: TMK, December 2005. No ...
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• How do you carve up a cow?

  
  Dr. Frank's What's-it — Authority: 125
  First you cut the meat off the bones. You start by severing the muscles from the joints with a sharp knife. The fibrous meat can then easily be scraped off, from top to bottom. After youve removed the flesh theres...
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• Sittingbourne Anglo-Saxons

  
  Antiquarian's Attic — Authority: 91
  Following a comment on The Attic from Anglo-Saxon CSI’s blog , I thought that a fuller post, with links, would be appreciated by those who wish to know more, and even get involved: Hundreds of Saxon graves unearthed on new pub site A perfectly preserved pair of glass drinking cups was found when the grave ...
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• The Archaeology of the Hajj

  
  Iconoclasm — Authority: 106
  The holy mosque at Mecca with high-rise pilgrim hotels and other construction massively re-shaping the cityscape. Photo copyright Khaled Desouki. One of my future projects is to take a closer archaeological look at pilgrimage in a cross-cultural perspective. So it was fascinating to see this photo essay in the ...
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• Manmohan, ‘evidently’ the proud father (Capital Buzz)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 739
  New Delhi, Dec 6 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is one proud father. The latest to take note, that too at the White House state dinner thrown by the Obamas, was US envoy Timothy J. Roemer.Having shared the table with Manmohan Singh and two of his daughters, Roemer told scribes after returning to India: [...]
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• Gun toting personnel inside Taj dampens tourist spirit

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 739
  Agra, Dec 6 (ANI): The sight of gun toting uniformed personnel roaming within and around the Taj Mahal in Agra is inadvertently taking a toll on tourism.At present, there are 181 personnel designated on security assignments inside the Taj Mahal complex.What was initiated as an exercise to ensure the safety of the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Guest Post: Archaeological sites of Eastern Turkey

  
  Europe a la Carte Blog — Authority: 435
  Ancient civilisations, powerful empires and charismatic, if immodest, rulers. In this guest post Margaret Doherty explores Eastern Turkey’s magnificent and varied history through its archaeological sites with archaeological travel experts Andante Travels . The altar on the East Terrace of Nemrut Dag In ...
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