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Cryptozoology Online: Daily News (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
27 October 2009, by Sara Coelho Show me your teeth and I'll tell you where you're from: archaeologists analysing tooth enamel from cattle buried at two Bronze Age barrows have found that at least some of the animals originated from elsewhere, revealing long-distance trading networks in ancient Britain. The 4,000-year-old barrows at Irthlingborough, Northamptonshire and Gayhurst, Buckinghamshire are...
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Archaeology in Europe (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Archaeologists have unearthed what they say could be a prehistoric Bronze Age burial site in central Oxford. Experts say important chiefs may have been laid to rest at the site of the former Radcliffe Infirmary. Land around the River Thames, known as the River Isis as it passes through Oxford, was often used for prehistoric burial, ritual and social monuments. The Museum of London Archaeology (Mola)...
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Oil Is Mastery (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
On Science In Amnesia "Civilization is older than we suppose." -- Andrew Tomas, author, 1971 "Man is civilized only when he remembers his yesterday...." -- -- Andrew Tomas, author, 1971 "During the past three or four hundred years science has been rediscovered rather than discovered." -- Andrew Tomas, author, 1971 "Our science has only rediscovered and perfected old...
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Aardvarchaeology (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
I'm posting this from a Helsinki basement café after a day's excursion by bus and boat in the countryside west of town. We mainly looked at cairns of various form, date and function, including a group of very fine large mountaintop ones of the typical Bronze Age variety. Toward the end of the day we saw a preserved little bit of an excavated cemetery to which had been added a memorial stone...
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Laelaps (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Whenever I sit down to write an entry for this blog I remind myself that I might not always speak the same language as the people I am trying to reach. A statement that might be technically accurate, such as " Mammuthus primigenius was a Late Pleistocene proboscidean with a Holarctic distribution ", will likely cause nonspecialist readers to go cross-eyed and vow never to visit this blog...
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Aardvarchaeology (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Helsinki isn't far from Stockholm. It took me a bit more than four hours from home to my hotel here, and I could have shaved more than an hour off of that if I had taken the bullet train to the airport and a cab to the hotel instead of going by bus. I'm at the 11th Nordic Bronze Age symposium , which for the first time includes a bunch of Baltic colleagues as wall. Everybody's very friendly and the...
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PaleoJudaica.com (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
IAA SALVAGE ARCHAEOLOGY is profiled in the Jerusalem Post . Excerpt: Elia and Gendler work in salvage excavation, the branch of archeology that just about every construction worker, contractor and developer - especially in Jerusalem - is familiar with. The Antiquities Authority inspects most construction sites, public and private, in the country to try to make sure that the treasures of the past are...
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Aardvarchaeology (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
The Swedish Research Council just released the list of researchers who are getting funding this year. The following archaeological projects are on the list. Ingela Bergman: Trade, trade routes and Sami settlements: socio-economic networks in northern Sweden AD 1000-1500. Gunilla Eriksson: Individual relationships -- cultural diversity and interaction in Neolithic Poland. Henrik Gerding: Lateres coctiles...
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Archaeology in Europe (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
A KEEN historian is delighted to have discovered a rare bronze age arrowhead in Rutland. Charles Haworth, of Barleythorpe Road, Oakham, was out dog walking in Langham on Tuesday when he came across the piece of history on the edge of a ploughed field. The 45-year-old said: "I've dreamed my whole life of finding a prehistoric flint, and now I've found one when I was least expecting it. It is always...
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Archaeology in Europe (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
A BRONZE Age burial site has been unearthed by archaeologists excavating the former home of a Suffolk rugby club. The two fields which served as the home of Sudbury Rugby Club in nearby Great Cornard are the source of great excitement for a team of archaeologists working at the site. Since moving into the site off The Mead in July teams from Suffolk County Council's Archaeological Service have discovered...
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Aardvarchaeology (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Small mounds consisting of burnt stone are a signature feature of Bronze Age settlement sites along the coasts of southern Sweden. They were the subject of my first academic publication in 1994, though I'd hardly even seen one, let alone dug one. This I have finally begun remedying today, when I did another day of volunteer digging with my friends Mattias Pettersson and Roger Wikell. Mattias and Roger...
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Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
( Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona ) A team of researchers from the Department of Prehistory of Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona will be directing a research project, creating a museum and scientific dissemination of findings at the archaeological site La Bastida located in the municipality of Totana, Murcia. In addition to the excavations and the study of archaeological materials, the project includes...
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Archaeology in Europe (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
A FUNDING crisis has put the future of one Peterborough's major heritage attractions in jeopardy. Flag Fen Archaeology Park, one of Europe's most important Bronze Age sites, may not be able to reopen after its winter break because of cash flow problems. It is believed the Bronze Age Centre and Archaeology Park, at The Droveway, off Northey Road, will need tens of thousands of pounds if it is to reopen...
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Gene Expression (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
A few weeks ago I posted on a paper, Genetic Discontinuity Between Local Hunter-Gatherers and Central Europe's First Farmers .Another one is out in the same vein, Ancient DNA Reveals Lack of Continuity between Neolithic Hunter-Gatherers and Contemporary Scandinavians : The driving force behind the transition from a foraging to a farming lifestyle in prehistoric Europe (Neolithization) has been debated...
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Archaeology in Europe (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
Archaeologists in the ancient city of Troy in Turkey have found the remains of a man and a woman believed to have died in 1,200 B.C., the time of the legendary war chronicled by Homer, a leading German professor said on Tuesday. Ernst Pernicka, a University of Tubingen professor of archaeometry who is leading excavations on the site in northwestern Turkey, said the bodies were found near a defense...
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dabody5 | 12/03/2008
Introduction Archeologists tell us that human beings began decorating and ornamenting their dinnerware utensils in the Late Stone Age, some 30,000 years ago. With their efforts to beautify common utensils, our ancestors from prehistory apparently viewed dining together as a way to strengthen social ties and create pleasant memories. Replacements, Ltd. founder and owner Bob Page hasn’t been in the dinnerware
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Can This Be Right, over 300,000 Tableware Patterns In One Place
This is very interesting. Finally, a place to find my Rosenthal dinnerplates.
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