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• in Lifestyle
  Why Not? Monumental Architecture Before 11,000 Years Ago
  Early civilizations didn't leave evidence of their existence for several reasons.
  by katiejane1982 / on Jan 23, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “archaeology”

 

• Famous Roman Tomb May Have Actually Been A Temple

  
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  Filed under: History , Learning , Europe , Spain At the Roman necropolis in Carmona, Spain , visitors are led to the popular "Elephants Tomb," a large underground chamber that gets its name from a crude sculpture of an elephant found there. Now archaeologists are saying it may not be a tomb at all, but ...
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• Open Access Journal: Ephemeris Napocensis

  
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  [First posted in AWOL 9 May 2011. Updated 12 May 2013] Ephemeris Napocensis The yearbook Ephemeris Napocensis started to be edited in 1991 at the same time with the setting up of the new research unit of the Romanian Academy, Institute of Archaeology and History of Art ...
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• Secret streets of Britain’s Atlantis are revealed

  
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    Image: A 3-D visualization of underwater ruins of St Katherine’s Church, Dunwich, UK. A University of Southampton professor has carried out the most detailed analysis ever of the archaeological remains of the lost medieval town of Dunwich, dubbed ‘Britain’s Atlantis’. Funded and supported by ...
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• Musician-with-lyre Burial from Metaponto?

  
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  There are brief notices in assorted Italian press sources of a meeting about something of interest … the incipit of a piece at LiveSiciliaPalermo : La scoperta di uno scheletro di un musicista di 2.500 anni fa, sepolto con la sua lyra a Metaponto, una colonia della Magna Grecia. È questo ciò di cui si ...
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• Lost Treasure of Petra

  
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  Few people realize that there is actually a treasure connected with the legend of Petra. According to the news article in the Ottawa Journal for January 29, 1927. Headlined: “Will Hunt for Enormous Treasure Hidden for Years in Mystery City of Petra,” it reads as follows: “LONDON (by Mail) - Exquisite gold ...
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• The Wonderful World of Disney

  
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  This lecture will explore the background to the donation of the "Disney collection" to the University of Cambridge, and the establishment of the Disney chair of archaeology. It will place the benefaction of Thomas Brand Hollis to the Reverend John Disney in the context of religious dissent in the late eighteenth ...
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• Links between Mycenaeans and Scandinavia

  
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  Three papers on a similar theme. An excerpt from a source mentioned in the second paper: Det visar sig att alla undersökta svenska föremål utom ett enda - en slaggbit - kommer från gruvor och malmfyndigheter från platser på Cypern, Sardinien, Iberiska halvön, Massif Central i nuvarande Frankrike, Tyrolen ...
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• Lakes in SE Arabia ~60 thousand years ago

  
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  From the paper: From the current archaeological evidence, it seems that after MIS 5, the different lithic traditions within Arabia develop along separate trajectories, with no indication of additional input from Africa. Recent genetic evidence (Fernandes et al., 2012) also indicates that the relict distribution of ...
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• Today in the Department of Mysteries: 12-year-old Robby uncovers “culturally modified” bone in Jersey Village

  
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  Occasionally we receive artifacts at the Museum uncovered by curious residents who are looking to have their discoveries identified. The latest comes from 12-year-old Jersey Village resident Robby, who took it upon himself to write Associate Curator David Temple the following (quite impressive) letter: Dear Sir or ...
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• Baylor University researcher finds earliest evidence of human ancestors hunting & scavenging

  
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  A recent Baylor University research study has shed new light on the diet and food acquisition strategies of some the earliest human ancestors in Africa. Beginning around two million years ago, early stone tool-making humans, known scientifically as Oldowan hominin, started to exhibit a number of physiological and ...
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• How Music Can Predict the Human/Machine Future [re:publica Talk, Video]

  
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  This week, at Germany’s re:publica conference – an event linking offline and online worlds – I addressed the question of how musical inventions can help predict the way we use tools. I started all the way back tens of thousands of years ago with the first known (likely) musical instrument. From there, I looked ...
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• The Elephants Tomb in Carmona may have been a temple to the god Mithras

  
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  The so-called Elephants Tomb in the Roman necropolis of Carmona (Seville, Spain) was not always used for burials. The original structure of the building and a window through which the sun shines directly in the equinoxes suggest that it was a temple of Mithraism, an unofficial religion in the Roman Empire. The ...
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• Elephant’s Tomb a Former Mithraeum?

  
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  Interesting item first appearing in English at Science Daily : The so-called Elephant’s Tomb in the Roman necropolis of Carmona (Seville, Spain) was not always used for burials. The original structure of the building and a window through which the sun shines directly in the equinoxes suggest that it was a ...
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• AL TOTA Meets Saturday, May 11

  
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  The public is invited to attend the Alabama Chapter, Trail of Tears Associations (AL TOTA) panel discussion / chapter meeting on May 11 in recognition of the 175th Anniversary of the Trail of Tears. Cherokee Indians were forcibly removed from North Alabama in 1838-1839. The panel discussion will address current ...
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• Medieval Dunwich: Britains Atlantis Revealed

  
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  Using advanced underwater imaging techniques, one of the most detailed analysis ever of the archaeological remains of the lost medieval town of Dunwich - Britains Atlantis - have been revealed. read more
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• Israeli archaeologists find source of Second Temple era stones

  
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  A huge quarry, along with tools and a key, used by workers some 2,000 years ago have been discovered during an excavation in Jerusalem prior to the paving of a highway, the Israel Antiquities Authorities (IAA) announced. The first-century quarry, which fits into the Second Temple Period (538 B.C. to A.D. 70), ...
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• Mithraic Mysteries And The Elephants Tomb In Carmona

  
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  The Carmona necropolis in Spain is a collection of funeral structures built between 200 B.C. and 200 A.D. One of them is known as the Elephants Tomb because a statue in the shape of an elephant was found in the interior of the structure. read more
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• Books available this fall

  
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  Ancient Mysteries The Exodus Reality :  Unearthing the Real History of Moses, Identifying the Pharaohs, and Examing the Exodus from Egypt by Scott Alan Roberts & Dr. John Ward October 13 Release In this groundbreaking working, the authors reexamine humanity’s most enduring account of bondage, ...
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• A Corpus of Early Medieval Inscribed Stones and Stone Sculpture in Wales: Volume III: North Wales

  
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  The third volume of A Corpus of Early Medieval Inscribed Stones and Stone Sculpture in Wales has recently been published. This final volume focuses on the  inscribed stones and stone sculpture of north Wales c. AD400-1150. The first two volumes were published in 2007 by University of Wales Press.  Volume I ...
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• Secret streets of Britains Atlantis are revealed

  
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  A University of Southampton professor has carried out the most detailed analysis ever of the archaeological remains of the lost medieval town of Dunwich, dubbed Britains Atlantis. Funded and supported by English Heritage, and using advanced underwater imaging techniques, the project led by Professor David Sear of ...
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