Ancient Golden Treasure Found at Foot of Temple Mount
In summer excavations at the foot of the Temple Mount, Hebrew University of Jerusalem archaeologist Dr. Eilat Mazar made a stunning discovery: two bundles of treasure containing thirty-six gold coins, gold and silver jewelry, and a gold medallion with the menorah (Temple candelabrum) symbol etched into it. Also etched into the 10-cm medallion are a shofar (ram’s horn) and the image of a Torah scroll.
The medallion may be the oldest Torah ornament ever found in archaeological digs.
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zoacampus: Ancient Golden Treasure Found at Foot of Temple...
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Archaeological News: Ancient Golden Treasure Found Near Jerusalem Temple Mount
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"Archaeology explores the world of those who have fallen silent."
“Archaeology explores the world of those who have fallen silent.” - quote unknown,...
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ancientart: Horseshoe Canyon, Utah, USA, within it, the Great...
Horseshoe Canyon, Utah, USA, within it, the Great Gallery -one of the largest and best preserved collections of Barrier Canyon Style rock art in the United States.
7,000-9,000 BCE marks the earliest date given to human presence in Horseshoe Canyon, when the Paleo-Indians would hunt large mammals such as Mammoths across the southwest. Later inhabitants included the Desert Archaic culture, a nomadic group of hunter-gatherers who produced the Great Gallery. Occupation by the Fremont culture and Ancestral Pueblo People were both relatively brief. It is thought that the canyon was abandoned about 1300 AD by the Native American Peoples.
Photos courtesy & taken by Greg Willis.
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Exploring the Fjords of Norway
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Do NOT Look Down
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LOOK: Gruesome Iron Age Massacre Uncovered
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Saxon remains reburied after dig
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mypubliclands: What do you want to be when you grow up? This is...
7 years old at Dinosaur National Monument
8 years old at Craters of the Moon
11 years old at a replica dwelling in Nevada
What do you want to be when you grow up?
This is a question most people have been asked at least once but I wanted to share an excerpt from a letter I wrote in 6th grade to my future self.
I received this letter in the mail when I graduated from high school. In it I state that my goals are to go through college and become an archaeologist or a paleontologist. Archaeologists look at artifacts and sites to investigate how people lived in the past while paleontologists look at animals, including dinosaurs, and plant fossils to study life in the geologic past. My interest in becoming a paleontologist was just a phase, but my interest in becoming an archaeologist stuck with me throughout the years.
I am happy to say I achieved my 6th grade goals when I received my master’s degree and became a BLM Field Office Archaeologist here in Pocatello, Idaho. My spelling might not have been great, but at least I knew what I wanted in life even from a young age. I’m thankful my teacher had us do this assignment because it is fun to look back!
Wishing everyone a fun school year!
-Amy Lapp
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Archaeological News: Roman soldier’s chain mail found at battle site
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theolduvaigorge: Clovis spearpoints likely were all-purpose...
Clovis spearpoints likely were all-purpose tools
- by Bradley T. Lepper
“Clovis spearpoints, named for Clovis, N.M., where they were found among the bones of mammoths, represent the epitome of North American Stone Age weaponry. They tend to be large, finely crafted and made from high-quality flint. Although they were long thought to be specialized mammoth-killing weapons, new research suggests they were more like general purpose Boy Scout knives.
If Clovis points were specialized tools designed specifically to kill big-game animals such as mammoths and mastodons, then the special kinds of flint used in their manufacture along with the exquisite craftsmanship simply might have been practical necessities for producing a reliable instrument used to kill big game. It also is possible that the special qualities of Clovis points were due to ritual practices the makers believed would help to ensure the success of high-risk hunting ventures.
Clovis points certainly were used at times to kill both mammoths and mastodons. In addition to the original site, Clovis points have been found at 11 other sites with mammoth remains and two sites with mastodon bones. Nevertheless, some doubt was cast on the idea that Clovis points were made expressly to kill mammoths and mastodons a few years ago when Mark Seeman, who was a Kent State University researcher, and colleagues identified blood residue from rabbits on Clovis points from the Nobles Pond site in Stark County. Now Logan Miller, an Ohio State University graduate student studying archaeology, has observed microwear traces on a Clovis point from the Paleo Crossing site in Medina County. His results, which indicate the tool was used to cut soft plants, were recently published in the journal Lithic Technology” (read more).
(Source: Columbus Dispatch; image: Smithsonian)
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Dirty 'Nose Ring' Turns Out To Be Rare Viking Treasure
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PHOTOS: An Abandoned Treehouse Mansion You Won't Stop Looking At
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theolduvaigorge: Combined ESR/U-series chronology of Acheulian...
Combined ESR/U-series chronology of Acheulian hominid-bearing layers at Trinchera Galería site, Atapuerca, Spain
“The Sierra de Atapuerca, northern Spain, is known from many prehistoric and palaeontological sites documenting human prehistory in Europe. Three major sites, Gran Dolina, Galería and Sima del Elefante, range in age from the oldest hominin of Western Europe dated to 1.1 to 1.3 Ma (millions of years ago) at Sima del Elefante to c.a. 0.2 Ma on the top of the Galería archaeological sequence. Recently, a chronology based on luminescence methods (Thermoluminescence [TL] and Infrared Stimulated Luminescence [IRSL]) applied to cave sediments was published for the Gran Dolina and Galería sites. The authors proposed for Galería an age of 450 ka (thousands of years ago) for the units lower GIII and GII, suggesting that the human occupation there is younger than the hominid remains of Sima de los Huesos (>530 ka) around 1 km away.
In this paper, we present new results obtained by combined Electron Spin Resonance/Uranium-series (ESR/U-series) dating on 20 herbivorous teeth from different levels at the Galería site. They are in agreement with the TL results for the upper part of the stratigraphic sequence (GIV and GIIIb), in the range of between 200 and 250 ka. But for the GIIIa to GIIb levels, the TL ages become abruptly older by 200 ka while ESR ages remain relatively constant. Finally, the TL and ESR data agree in the lowest part of the section (GIIa); both fall in the range of around 350–450 ka. Our results suggest a different interpretation for the GII, GIII and GIV units of Galería and the upper part of Gran Dolina (TD10 and TD11) than obtained by TL. The ESR/U-series results are supported by a Bayesian analysis, which allows a better integration between stratigraphic information and radiometric data” (read more/not open access).
(Source: Journal of Human Evolution 65(2):168-184, 2013)
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archaeoblogs: September 2013Source: http://bit.ly/1aiYNZa Get...
September 2013
Source: http://bit.ly/1aiYNZa
Get ready for take off with another Flight of the Khyung! This month we jet between Mongolia and the High Plateau to regale you with stories of the present day and inform readers about the distant past. There is also a feature from my old journals set in northernmost Pakistan. So without further adieu, let’s begin with the recent symposium on Tibetan studies. The IATS XIII in Ulan Bator The Internal Association of Tibetan Studies (IATS) conference was held in Ulan Bator, Mongolia, during the last week of July. This was the 13th such convocation of worldwide experts on various facets of Tibet……….. Read MoreRead and find more great archaeology blogs at: Archaeology Blog Project
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Archaeological News: Dating of beads sets new timeline for early humans
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Archaeological News: Poznań Archaeologists Back in Iraq
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archaeoblogs: Using computational archaeology as a...
Using computational archaeology as a tourist
Source: http://bit.ly/17u5IgT
Hello dear followers, I have been quiet for so long I have almost forgotten how to blog. The reason for my absence is the fact that I went to two conferences during the month of June. The first was the Large Scale Scientific Computations(LSSC) conference that took place in Sozopol, Bulgaria (yes, I went to my home country). The second conference was the Conference on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) which took place in Cancun, Mexico. I will be leaving the stories about my travels and the academic side of things for another blog post. Today I want to tell you how I ended up using computational archaeology………. Read MoreRead and find more great archaeology blogs at: Archaeology Blog Project
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Chance Discovery Yields New Clues In Stonehenge Mystery
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