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flintknife: Polished stone axe, Neolithic, found on surface....

April 13, 2012, 6:42 pm
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Polished stone axe, Neolithic, found on surface. North Downs, Surrey. 2011. By me.

It’s come a distance, as that stone is not local (everything here is flint). Possibly from Cornwall, Wales or even the Lake District. Was probably worth something to whoever owned it, as it would have been gained by trade.

I was excited to find this, as they are relatively rare in this area. I get a buzz from knowing that the last hands held it 5000 years or more ago. How different the world was then!?

nb. edit for pesky layout shenanigans.

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acls1919: Winds from the North: Tewa Origins and Historical...

April 14, 2012, 8:58 am
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Winds from the North: Tewa Origins and Historical Anthropology by Scott G. Ortman F’08 now available from the University of Utah Press.

The “abandonment” of Mesa Verde and the formation of the Rio Grande Pueblos represent two classic events in North American prehistory. Yet, despite a century of research, no consensus has been reached on precisely how, or even if, these two events were related. In this landmark study, Scott Ortman proposes a novel and compelling solution to this problem through an investigation of the genetic, linguistic, and cultural heritage of the Tewa Pueblo people of New Mexico.

Integrating data and methods from human biology, linguistics, archaeology, and cultural anthropology, Ortman shows that a striking social transformation took place as Mesa Verde people moved to the Rio Grande, such that the resulting ancestral Tewa culture was a unique hybrid of ideas and practices from various sources. While addressing several longstanding questions in American archaeology, Winds from the North also serves as a methodological guidebook, including new approaches to integrating archaeology and language based on cognitive science research. As such, it will be of interest to researchers throughout the social and human sciences.

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U.S. Archaeologists Return to Shengavit Preserve

April 14, 2012, 9:01 am
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U.S. Archaeologists Return to Shengavit Preserve:

The Cambridge-Yerevan Sister City Association (CYSCA) is launching a fundraising effort to help support the ongoing research into 4th–2ndmillennium B.C. history and culture at the Shengavit archaeological site in Yerevan. Archaeologist Dr. Mitchell S. Rothman, head of the department of anthropology at Widener University in Pennsylvania, plans on returning to Armenia with a group of American archaeologists and students this summer.

Figure 4 USReturn Excavating 300x225 U.S. Archaeologists Return to Shengavit Preserve

There, at the Shengavit Historical and Archaeological Culture Preserve in Yerevan’s Shengavit district, his team, with Armenian colleagues, will continue the work begun last summer. Namely, they will work to uncover the story of the ancient society that was present at the site from the 4thmillennium B.C. This was before the formation of Armenia and other nations in the region, although it is widely believed the society living there at the time must have played a part in the genesis of the Armenian people.

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Santorini’s Akrotiri Archaeological Site Reopens to Tourists

April 14, 2012, 9:03 am
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Santorini’s Akrotiri Archaeological Site Reopens to Tourists:

The popular Akrotiri archaeological tourist site has been reopened after seven years

“The Department of Culture and Tourism in Greece announced today that it has decided to reopen the Bronze Age Minoan archaeological site of Akrotiri on the popular tourist island of Santorini. Akrotiri has been closed since 2005 when the roof of a modern built shed collapsed, killing a British tourist and injuring several others.

Akrotiri has been dubbed the “Minoan Pompeii.” It was first settled in 3000 BCE and was an important trade port and flourishing city when it was destroyed in a volcanic eruption in 1450 BCE. A series of earthquakes caused residents to flee the city before it was, much like Pompeii, both destroyed and preserved under tons of volcanic ash. Unlike Pompeii residents of Akrotiri had enough time to flee the city before it was doomed. While Pompeii’s body molds are world-famous icons no bodies have been discovered at Akrotiri.”


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2012 Archaeology Summer Day Camp

April 14, 2012, 9:14 am
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2012 Archaeology Summer Day Camp:

The El Paso Museum of Archaeology Announces: 2012 Archaeology Summer Day Camp

Ages 7 -9 years/ Grades 2-4:
June 12-15th & July 10- 13th

Ages 10-12 years/ Grades 5-7:
June 26 - 29th & July 24-27th

The camp registration fee is $55 for El Paso Museum of Archaeology members and $70 for non-members. Registration is accepted on a first-come first-served basis. Attendance is limited to twelve students per camp. Camps fill quickly; those interested should contact the museum as soon as possible. The choice of dates is subject to availability. For information and the camp registration form contact the museum at 915-755-4332 or guidamr@elpasotexas.gov.

Archaeology Summer Day Camp is an interactive, hands-on course held on the museum’s grounds and in the galleries with a field trip (to be announced). The program is designed to educate participants about the science of archaeology, its tools, and the prehistory of the Americas, especially the El Paso-Juárez region, from the Ice Age to European contact. Campers will learn respect and appreciation for prehistoric, historic and contemporary Indian people.

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sagenundlegenden: Germanic pillar idols, which were placed in...

April 14, 2012, 10:27 am
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sagenundlegenden:

Germanic pillar idols, which were placed in sacred bogs and groves to represent different deities.

Some were formed to appear male or female:

In situ:

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centuriespast: Cinerary Box with Cover located at the...

April 14, 2012, 2:02 pm
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centuriespast: Cinerary Box with Cover located at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts

ARTIST:Roman

DATE:1st century CE

This cinerary urn resembles a small building with pitched roof. The inscription attests that it contained the ashes of a man and a woman, possibly husband and wife, who were freed slaves:

To the divine shades of D(ecimus) Aemilius Chius and Hortensia Phebe

The ornamentation combines symbols related to death and resurrection. The garlands and fruit indicate regeneration and eternal life; the winged harpies on the front corners are fantastic creatures thought to carry off the souls of the dead; the eagles on the back corners represent man’s spiritual ability to soar heavenwards. The central gorgon’s head serves to ward off evil influence. The back is not decorated, as the urn would have been places in a niche inside a tomb.


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Smithsonian: Roundup of All Things Titanic

April 14, 2012, 2:03 pm
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Greek & Byzantine-era Tomb Discoveries in Alexandria Prompt Construction Freeze

April 14, 2012, 6:45 pm
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In Search of The First Colony: Archaeologists Work in Water and on Land at Roanoke Island

April 15, 2012, 8:17 am
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In Search of The First Colony: Archaeologists Work in Water and on Land at Roanoke Island:
June 15, 2010

The First Colony Foundation and the National Park Service have announced today the completion of First Colony Foundation’s May 2010 archaeological research at Fort Raleigh National Historic Site on Roanoke Island near Manteo, North Carolina.

Fort Raleigh, home to Paul Green’s outdoor symphonic drama “The Lost Colony,” is the site of America’s first English colony, established in the 1580s as “Virginia” in honor of the Queen Elizabeth I by Sir Walter Raleigh.

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In Search of The First Colony: Roanoke Island Archaeological Find Goes on Exhibition at Fort Raleigh

April 15, 2012, 8:19 am
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In Search of The First Colony: Roanoke Island Archaeological Find Goes on Exhibition at Fort Raleigh:
July 22, 2009

First Colony Foundation scientists confer with Time Team America members and National Park Service Rangers during the episode
The necklace on exhibit at the Lindsay Warren Visitor CenterA copper necklace, uncovered in May 2008 by First Colony Foundation archaeologists workingunder an agreement with the National Park Service, will be placed on exhibition at the Lindsay Warren Visitor Center at Fort Raleigh National Historic Site near Manteo, North Carolina.

The archaeologists found the necklace lain just as it had been left there by someone in the 16th or 17th centuries. The 13 diamond-shaped plates are made of copper from continental Europe and were strung together on short, knotted cords, which have now rotted away. There is evidence that the necklace was contained in a leather pouch when it was hidden, lost, or discarded.

English explorers and colonists carried copper to trade with Indians in coastal North Carolina and Virginia. For these Indian groups the metal was highly prized and represented high status. This necklace may have belonged to a Roanoke Indian who had acquired it through trade.

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Digging in at Fort Raleigh, Roanoke Island

April 15, 2012, 8:21 am
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Digging in at Fort Raleigh, Roanoke Island:

By now you may have checked out some of our first episode.  As someone who spent years excavating at Jamestown and who has studied this period since I was a kid, it was awesome to spend our first Time Team dig at Fort Raleigh with the folks from the First Colony Foundation.  It was also fitting that Time Team America’s first show was about one of American history’s greatest puzzles.

More than twenty years before the first permanent English settlement at Jamestown, adventurous English colonists built Fort Raleigh at the northern end of Roanoke Island.  You’ve heard the story - when Governor John White returned from his supply mission in 1590, the colonists were gone.

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"Beneath the Sands: Past and Present Archaeology at Fort Raleigh"

April 15, 2012, 8:25 am
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"Beneath the Sands: Past and Present Archaeology at Fort Raleigh":

NPS Host Archeological Excavations and Exhibit Opening

The National Park Service Outer Banks Group, in partnership with the First Colony Foundation and Friends of the Outer Banks History Center, announces the opening of a new exhibit, “Beneath the Sands: Past and Present Archaeology at Fort Raleigh” on Monday, October 10, 2011 at Fort Raleigh National Historic Site near Manteo, North Carolina.The exhibition is presented as part of Roanoke Colonies Archaeology and History Week and is made possible by support from the Percy W. and Elizabeth G. Meekins Charitable Trust.Other activities of the week will include a weeklong series of events with theatre, symposium, and archaeological research at Roanoke Island Festival Park.

Superintendent Mike Murray announced that many of the artifacts, on display for the first time, show how scientific analysis of these objects, when combined with historical context, can provide clues to what may be America’s greatest historical mystery.

Roanoke Colonies Archaeology and History Week includes a week-long professional archaeological search for evidence of Sir Walter Raleigh’s colonies and Algonkian Indian habitation on Roanoke Island, with an interactive educational classroom without walls, and a public symposium focused on new discoveries.Two of the nation’s pre-eminent historical archaeologists, Dr. Eric Klingelhofer and Nicholas Luccketti, will direct and train selected Dare County high school students and adult volunteers in field excavations.

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First Colony Foundation: Archaeology

April 15, 2012, 8:27 am
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First Colony Foundation: Archaeology:

Paul Green’s The Lost Colony begins when the actor portraying the historian steps upon the stage of the Waterside Theater to evoke the memory of Sir Walter Raleigh’s Roanoke colonists. He reminds the audience that events portrayed actually took place all around where they are sitting. Although this historian is one of the cast of the celebrated outdoor drama, he is paralleled by a real life, present day, blue ribbon team of archaeologists and historians continuing the search into the mysteries of the Roanoke Colonies.

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Today, Is Roanoke Island Day. Get Excited!

April 15, 2012, 8:28 am
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TIMELINE ARCHAEOLOGY AT THE NORTHWEST END OF ROANOKE ISLAND

April 15, 2012, 8:32 am
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Roanoke Island Excavations 2006  (1 of 5) First Colony...

April 15, 2012, 10:03 am
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Roanoke Island Excavations 2006  (1 of 5)

First Colony Foundation archaeologist Nick Luccketti discusses the excavations underway in 2006 on Roanoke Island.

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Roanoke Island Excavations 2006 (2 of 5)

April 15, 2012, 10:08 am
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Roanoke Island Excavations 2006 (2 of 5)

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Roanoke Island Excavations 2006  (3 of 5)

April 15, 2012, 10:13 am
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Roanoke Island Excavations 2006 (4 of 5)

April 15, 2012, 10:46 am
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Roanoke Island Excavations 2006 (4 of 5)

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