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Savage of "American Digger" Finds "Gold" in Florida, Scoffs at "snobby archaeologists"
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Solving the Mystery of the English China Wreck
Solving the Mystery of the English China Wreck:
Over 40 shipwrecks are located within the waters which now make up Biscayne National Park in southern Florida. Among those wrecks, the English China Wreck is one of the best preserved. Unfortunately, looting and unintended damage caused by fishing and diving are a threat to the site’s integrity and artifacts. These threats, along with a search for conclusive proof of the ship’s identity, led the National Park Service, in partnership with George Washington University, to conduct field excavations during the summer of 2011.
Read More Here: http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/march-2012/article/solving-the-mystery-of-the-english-china-wreck
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Downloads: Archaeology
Downloads: Archaeology:
DOWNLOADS BOOK
ArchaeologyDavid Hurst Thomas, Robert L. Kelly | Wadsworth Publishing | 3133-13-33 | 611 pages | English | PDFThis new edition by David Hurst Thomas and Robert L. Kelly pairs two of archaeology’s most recognized names—with a combined 91 years of experience!
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Research Reveals First Evidence of Hunting by Prehistoric Ohioans
Research Reveals First Evidence of Hunting by Prehistoric Ohioans:
CLEVELAND, March 1, 2012
“Cut marks found on Ice Age bones indicate that humans in Ohio hunted or scavenged animal meat earlier than previously known. Dr. Brian Redmond, curator of archaeology at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, was lead author on research published in the February 22, 2012 online edition of World Archaeology.
Redmond and researchers analyzed 10 animal bones found in 1998 in the collections of the Firelands Historical Society Museum in Norwalk, Ohio. Found by society member and co-author Matthew Burr, the bones were from a Jefferson’s Ground Sloth. This large plant-eating animal became extinct at the end of the Ice Age around 10,000 years ago.
“This research provides the first scientific evidence for hunting or scavenging of Ice Age sloth in North America,” said Redmond. “The significant age of the remains makes them the oldest evidence of prehistoric human activity in Ohio, occurring in the Late Pleistocene period.”
Read More Here.
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arterupestre: Horseshoe Shelter #3 by pixie1339 on Flickr.
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Who were the first Americans? An established theory says the...
Who were the first Americans?
An established theory says the first Americans walked across the Bering Sea about 13,000-15,000 years ago. But stone tools found in the mid-Atlantic suggest an arrival from Europe about 20,000-22,000 years ago. The tools match those made by the mysterious Solutrean people of ice-age Iberia
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arabicway: أخذ Akhdh (a/kh: pronounce khaa like the “ch” in the...
- أخذ Akhdh (a/kh: pronounce khaa like the “ch” in the Scottish word “loch.”/dh: pronounce like th in this) means: Take.
- عطاء ‘Ataa (a: like you’re gagging while saying “ah” OTL / t: like a hard “t” pronounced with the tongue on the roof of the mouth rather than up against the teeth / aa) means: Give.
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fuckyeahvikingsandcelts: Celtic mirror by Wessex Archaeology on...
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aboutegypt: Best of the post 2011
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Study: Pilgrimage a 'Costly Signal'
Study: Pilgrimage a 'Costly Signal':
“Have you ever considered going on a pilgrimage? If a pilgrimage is a journey taken in search of some kind of spiritual fulfillment, then pilgrimages might be part of the universal human experience and not tied to a particular religion.
Many ancient American sites are thought to have been pilgrimage centers as important to these indigenous cultures as Jerusalem is to modern Christians, Jews and Muslims.
In the latest issue of the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, John Kantner of the School for Advanced Research and Kevin Vaughn of Purdue University consider the sites of Cahuachi in Peru and Chaco Canyon in New Mexico as ancient pilgrimage destinations and ponder how these places came to be important centers of religious devotion.
They propose that a pilgrimage is a form of “costly signaling” that allows members of a religious group to demonstrate commitment by doing something extraordinary. Normally, one’s devotion to a group’s values might not be evident, so the group would benefit by having some means of knowing who is dedicated and who is pretending in order to reap the benefits of membership.
Kantner and Vaughn find that both Cahuachi and Chaco exhibit the characteristics of classic pilgrimage centers. For example, both have monumental architecture incorporating hidden knowledge, such as alignments to solar and lunar events. And there is evidence at both sites for the extensive use of exotic materials in the production of craft items.
The “monumentality and spectacle” of the sacred landscapes at Cahuachi and Chaco made them attractive to pilgrims. And if pilgrims were initiated into the mysteries of the sites, then coming home with this knowledge would prove they actually had been there.
If pilgrims brought special offerings to a pilgrimage center and returned home with some token as further proof that they did, indeed, make the journey, it would make sense for these craft items to be made of rare and valuable materials rather than easily acquired cheap things that could fool other group members. Ohio’s Hopewell earthworks exhibit all of these qualities. They are monumental structures incorporating esoteric astronomical alignments in their architecture.
Spectacular craft items made from rare materials, such as marine shell from the Gulf of Mexico and obsidian from the Rocky Mountains, frequently are found at these sites, while flint blades made from Ohio’s Flint Ridge are found across eastern North America.
Kantner and Vaughn propose that one of the benefits of pilgrimage would be fostering “pro-social cooperative behavior.” They note that there was a marked decline in violence when both Cahuachi and Chaco were at their heights.
The same is true for the Ohio Hopewell. When compared with both earlier and later periods, there is virtually no evidence for violent trauma in skeletons of the Hopewell era.
It might have been the sacred landscapes created by ancient Native Americans at Cahuachi, Chaco and Hopewellian Ohio that drew generations of pilgrims to these sites and fostered eras of peace in each of these regions.”
Source: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/science/2012/03/04/study-pilgrimage-a-costly-signal.html
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oldowan: Here are some open sources to go with the...
Here are some open sources to go with the diagramme:
Sexual Dimorphism of the Iliac Crest: A Quantitative Approach
Reliability of Criteria used for Sexing of Hip Bones
Some Sexually Dimorphic Features of the Human Juvenile Skull
Metric Sexual Dimorphism in Permanent Canines
Osteometry of the Human Iliac Crest: Patterns of Normality and Its Utility in Sexing Human Remains
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allmesopotamia: Stele of Ushumgal Among the earliest written...
Stele of Ushumgal
Among the earliest written documents from Mesopotamia are records of land sales or grants, often carved in stone with associated images, perhaps for public display. The Sumerian inscription on this stele records a transaction involving three fields, three houses, and some livestock. Ushumgal, a priest of the god Shara, and his daughter are the central figures of the transaction, but because of the archaic script, it is not clear whether Ushumgal is buying, selling, or granting these properties. The smaller figures along the sides very likely represent witnesses to the transaction.
In addition to their importance to understanding the development of writing, these early land documents provide evidence that land could be privately owned in early Mesopotamia, although a significant proportion was still owned by the gods and managed by their temples. While this development is not surprising from a modern point of view, in antiquity it represented a momentous conceptual and cultural shift.
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Revealing the Newly Re-erected Colossal Statue of Amenhotep III in the Funerary Temple of the King on West Bank
Revealing the Newly Re-erected Colossal Statue of Amenhotep III in the Funerary Temple of the King on West Bank :
A colossal statue of Amenhotep III in quartzite has been raised at its original place by the members of “The Colossi of Memnon and Amenhotep III temple conservation project”, an Egyptian-European team working for the conservation of the funerary temple of Amenhotep III in Luxor since 1998.
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A Flint Knapping Video from YouTube &...
A Flint Knapping Video from YouTube & via archeomoonwalker:
Knapping English Flint ~ Beginners Results (by TheArcheoMoonwalker)
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A New 17th Dynasty Pharaoh discovered
A New 17th Dynasty Pharaoh discovered :
During his visit yesterday to Karnak temple, Dr. Mohamed Ibrahim(Minister state of Antiquities) announced the discovery of a new pharaoh’s name from the 17th dynasty that was not known to Egyptologists which helps in revealing the chronological order of the Kings of this dynasty.
It was the IFAO mission headed by Christophe Thiers that found a limestone door at the north of Amon’s temple dated back to 17th dynasty with hieroglyphics inscriptions and a royal cartouche bears the name of a King that didn’t appear before in ancient Egyptian history and the name is “Sen Nakht N’ Ra”
The Minister confirmed that this discovery is the first of this Pharaoh’s work as the text mentioned that he established buildings for God Amon in Karnak with the limestone he quarried from Tora,near Cairo and demanded the work to continue in the area in order to reveal more architecture elements that had been established by this King.
This discovery will add a new King to the 17th dynasty which witnesses the Hyksos occupation.
The Source: http://luxortimesmagazine.blogspot.com/2012/03/new-pharaoh-was-discovered-royal-name.html
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cavetocanvas: Constantin Brancusi, The Kiss, 1907-08
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Trove of artifacts in Canton tell story of Indians
Trove of artifacts in Canton tell story of Indians:
“For 15 years, hordes of shoppers have streamed into the Wal-Mart Supercenter in Canton.
The hilltop along I-575 is a prime commercial location in Cherokee County, a fast-growing community with one foot in metro Atlanta and another in the North Georgia mountains.
What few customers know is they…”
Read More Here: http://www.ajc.com/news/cherokee/trove-of-artifacts-in-1372024.html
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