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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”

 

• The Oldest Dinosaur Nests Found in South Africa

  
  Trussty-Jasmine — Authority: 114
  The oldest nest site of dinosaur found in Golden Gate Park Nasiorial Highlands, South Africa . At that location, the scientists found several fossilized eggs that allegedly contains a dinosaur embryo. They also found traces of dinosaur babies in the nest which indicates that the young dinosaurs lived long ...
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• Beowulf Epic Poem – Beowulf Book

  
  Themes Of Interest — Authority: 136
  Understand the epic poem Beowulf. Read this 2-hour eBook which reveals the cultural origins of modern England!
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• Early Neandertals used red ochre

  
  Dienekes Anthropology Blog — Authority: 457
  I have never quite understood the fascination of archaeologists with red ochre. As far as I can tell, this fascination stems from the fact that it is a pigment that survives in time, and had been used by the earliest artists during the Upper Paleolithic. By extrapolation, its presence in earlier contexts has been ...
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• CAN YOU IMAGINE YOUR GRANDFATHER HAVING BEEN BORN IN 1790?

  
  KICKIN' AND SCREAMIN'........... — Authority: 438
  The grandsons of President John Tyler can claim that. I’m trying to think of it from my own perspective: it’d be like my having grandkids still alive in the year 2173!!!!! But right now the best I can hope for is my grandkids getting to make it to 2100.     Former President John Tyler, born 221 years ...
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• Evidence suggests Vikings grew grain in south Greenland

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 425
  Archaeologists from the Danish national museum have finally succeeded in confirming that Erik the Red and his people could indeed brew beer in Greenland when they lived there. There has long been a question mark over whether or not the southern Greenlandic climate was warm enough in Viking times to grow grain for ...
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• Recent Archaeomags

  
  Aardvarchaeology — Authority: 103
  British Archaeology #122 (Jan/Feb) has a good feature on the origins of Roman London, presenting and collating evidence from excavations in the 90s and 00s for a military camp immediately post-dating the AD 43 invasion of Britain. The editors have slapped a silly headline on the thing though, playing up a short ...
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• Amara West 2012: meanwhile, back at the house….

  
  British Museum — Authority: 484
  Elisabeth Greifenstein, University of Wuerzburg and Marie Vandenbeusch, University of Geneva Our team of archaeologists and osteologists excavating in the houses and graves of Amara West unearth a wide variety of finds – nearly all of which are brought back to the expedition house on the afternoon of ...
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• Currency Trading Sites

  
  Currency Forex Trading Blog — Authority: 115
  US China Trade Deficit Explanation And Why The US Trade …China sets the value of its currency, the yuan, to always equal a set amount of a basket of currencies which includes the dollar. When the dollar loses value, … … Continue reading →
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• Nibbles: Canis then and now, Training roundup, Soybean genome, Top 10 viruses, PNG drought, Food archaeology, Sturgeon Bay

  
  Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog — Authority: 116
  Dogs were first domesticated animal . But the love affair is cooling off, at least for some breeds . Building capacity for animal genetic resources use , and for conservation and sustainable use under the ITPGRFA . And tree domestication . Is someone keeping track? BGI continues to take over DNA world. And ...
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• The hunt for the missing link

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 525
  The search for human origins is a fascinating story – from the Middle Ages, when questions of the earth’s antiquity first began to arise, through to the latest genetic discoveries that show the interrelatedness of all living creatures. Central to the story is the part played by fossils – first, in establishing ...
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• CIVIL WAR SUB PIX REVEALED

  
  KICKIN' AND SCREAMIN'........... — Authority: 438
  This is so cool. Imagine the bravery of the men involved in this operation but when submarines weren’t really a tool of war.     It was the first submarine in history to sink an enemy ship, and now for the first time since the Civil War the public can clearly see all that’s left of the Confederate ...
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• Preservation Photos #116

  
  Preservation in Pink — Authority: 106
  Read more about the Moran Plant here and about the redevelopment plans here.
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• Meeting at Ellington Agricultural Center to discuss TN archaeology research – The Tennessean

  
  Paranominal — Authority: 118
  Meeting at Ellington Agricultural Center to discuss TN archaeology research The Tennessean Recent archaeology research in Tennessee — from prehistoric mounds in Sumner County to Spanish-contact sites in East Tennessee — is the focus of a meeting Friday and Saturday in the Ed Jones Auditorium at the ...
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• Athens Journal: Debt-Ridden Greece Turns to Sacred Sites for Help

  
  heave-ho.org — Authority: 449
  Officials dealing with budget cuts plan to make monuments and archaeological sites more attractive to foreign film crews, advertising firms and publishing houses by reducing the cost of permits.
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• Amara West 2012: street life in the ancient town

  
  British Museum — Authority: 484
  Mat Dalton, archaeologist Two weeks into excavations in the street (E13.12) outside house E13.4 at Amara West have helped answer some questions raised during last year’s season, confirmed our thoughts about major building phases in this part of the town, and provided some tantalising new clues as to how life ...
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• Archaeology News: January 23, 2012

  
  Ancient Digger Archaeology — Authority: 104
  Governor Rick Scott caused quite a stir when he questioned the value of an anthropology major . His point was, with rising college costs and weak employment, students might be better off with a major that could land them a job. Not to mention that our tax dollars would be better spent in public education thats ...
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• Beeching-style cuts threaten to leave Britains bus network in tatters

  
  News Politics — Authority: 127
  They are a million metaphorical miles from HS2 or “Boris Island”, but they are of much greater importance to far more people in Britain than either of those multi-billion-pound projects. Humble, humdrum buses account for two thirds of all journeys by public transport. Yet while public and political attention ...
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• UNC Coastal Institute Explores U-701

  
  Ancient Digger Archaeology — Authority: 104
  You may recall my article on U-boat Museums and exhibits . Most of the U-boats from WWII were used for scrap metal. Some found themselves in the many Uboat museums around the world, and others found their home at the bottom of the ocean. The U701 was sunk by aerial depth charges dropped from ...
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• The Lambaesis Inscription

  
  New at LacusCurtius & Livius — Authority: 397
  Hadrian (Museo Arqueológico, Sevilla) In the early Summer of 128, the Roman emperor Hadrian visited Lambaesis, the base of the Third Augustan Legion . As it happens, a substantial part of the speeches he delivered, survive. Much of it consists of topical praise, but the text is nevertheless interesting, because ...
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  KICKIN' AND SCREAMIN'........... — Authority: 438
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