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Roanoke Island Excavations 2006 (5 of 5)
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Roanoke Island History
Roanoke Island History:
Roanoke Island’s history is legendary. Long before Jamestown and Plymouth were settled, the island played host to the first English-speaking colonists in America.
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thesherd: Preliminary report on 2008-2010 excavations at the...
Preliminary report on 2008-2010 excavations at the Great Roman Theater at Apamea, Syria. Includes new details on the structure and its potential for staging naval battles.
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Indiana Works to Protect Underwater Treasures
Indiana Works to Protect Underwater Treasures:
Under the sometimes murky waters of Lake Michigan lies a mostly unexplored layer of Northwest Indiana history.
The lake is home to dozens of shipwrecks, each telling a story.
“They tell us a lot of things. They show us about our culture, commerce and about early transportation,” said Rick Jones,tate archaeologist with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources.
Looking at the Great Lakes as a whole, there are some 5,000 shipwrecks, said Brad Bumgardner, interpretive naturalist with the Indiana Dunes State Park.
“That’s more than in the entire Bermuda Triangle,” Bumgardner said.
About 25 percent of those shipwrecks lie within the waters of Lake Michigan.
Indiana’s movement to preserve its underwater history began in the 1980s when salvagers attempted to raise the wreck of the J.D. Marshall, which sank in 1911 off the shore of the Dunes State Park. Federal and state laws followed in the 1980s, protecting the shipwrecks from salvage operations by imposing fines and imprisonment for looting and vandalism.
Read More Here: http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/ad02f731-7954-574a-964c-bd88da40d2dd.html#ixzz1sApEXW2X
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myancientworld: The Youth from Antikythera: Greek original,...
The Youth from Antikythera:
Greek original, dated around 340 BCE.
This bronze statue was found in a shipwreck off Antikythera, which was the area of an ancient Roman shipwreck. There is debate as to who the figure is; is it the messenger god Hermes, or could it be Paris, the man who kidnapped Helen and sparked the Trojan War.
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goodnighturpis: 1823, The Discovery of the Past: the origins of...
1823, The Discovery of the Past: the origins of archaeology
above:
Section through the Paviland cave, found in 1822. Drawing from Buckland’s Reliquae diluvianae. This very precise drawing shows that the human skeleton (known as the ‘Red Lady’) was found in sediments in which fossil animal bones were numerous. However, Buckland regarded it as an intrusive deposit and rejected it as proof of the existence of a fossil human being.
below:
Rhinoceros skeleton found in a cave in a mine at Callow. Drawing from Buckland’s Reliquae diluvianae. The excavation methods shown here were quite meticulous for the period.
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goodnighturpis: 1786-1796 ‘Contents of Bishop Gravesend’s Tomb,...
1786-1796
‘Contents of Bishop Gravesend’s Tomb, Lincolnshire’ from Sepulchral Monuments in Great Britain
Richard Gough
Society of Antiquaries of London
The skeleton and skull of Little St Hugh and the skeleton and grave goods of Bishop Gravesend were found when their tombs were opened in August 1791.
Making history: antiquaries in Britain, 1707-2007, McCarthy, S. Nurse, B. 2007
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Doing Archaeology in the Land of the Bible: A Basic Guide
Doing Archaeology in the Land of the Bible: A Basic Guide
A popular introduction to archaeology and the methods archaeologists use to reconstruct the history of ancient Israel.
I SO NEED THIS FOR MY SUMMER ABOARD ARCHAEOLOGY FIELD SCHOOL IN ISRAEL!
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A Mesolithic Village Beneath the Waves
A Mesolithic Village Beneath the Waves:
Mesolithic artefacts from a lost settlement are coming to light after 6 millennia after currents scoured sand from the seabed just of the coast of Denmark in Horsens Fjord.
Science Nordic reports on a chance return to a stretch of coast where Peter Alstrup, now an archaeology PhD student at at Aarhus Universit, had spent his childhood.
Alstrup dived on the site (which had been known since the 70s) and noticed how the overlying sediments had been lost and there lying on the seabed he discovered beautifully carved pieces of wood.
Read More Here: http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/04/2012/a-mesolithic-village-beneath-the-waves
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askaworld: Ashkelon Neolithic flint arrowheads. Here.
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oosik: Northern Archaic Bipoint:Denali National Park, Alaska See...
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Remains of Priestess of the 13th Century Lambayeque Culture Found in Peru
Remains of Priestess of the 13th Century Lambayeque Culture Found in Peru:
Researchers at the Chotuna-Chornancap archaeological digs near the Peruvian city of Chiclayo have found the funerary remains of a woman who was a priestess of the Lambayeque or Sican culture, the project director, Carlos Wester La Torre, told Efe.
The preliminary conclusion of physical anthropologist Mario Millones is that this was a woman between 25-30 years old who lived during the second half of the 13th century A.D. in the waning days of that culture on Peru’s northern coast, whose most important historical figure was the Lord of Sipan, considered the Tutankhamun of America, in the 3rd century A.D.
Read More: http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com/notitas-de-noticias/details/remains-of-priestess-of-the-13th-century-lambayeque-culture-found-in-peru/15191/
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culturalsecurity: Rebellion Threatens Cultural Heritage Cultural...
Rebellion Threatens Cultural Heritage
Cultural patrimony is constantly at risk from armed uprisings. Just two days ago, on April 13th, CNN reported on the Islamist and Tuareg rebels occupying Timbuktu. The rebellion poses a significant threat to cultural security; UNESCO has already voiced its fears that the occupation of the city could result in its destruction or the looting of Mali’s treasures.
Following the withdrawal of the Malian government forces, two rival groups have overrun the city: the Ansar Dine, who are fighting for the enforcement of Sharia law, and the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad, who are fighting for the independence of the nomadic Tuareg people. Timbuktu’s symbolic significance makes the city a “prize,” and the rebel groups are fighting for control of it.
Timbuktu is home to illustrious mosques and a trove of manuscripts. In 1988, the city was made a UNESCO World Heritage site. UNESCO has appealed to the rebel groups to “respect and protect” the city’s heritage. Fearing what will become of the ancient, fragile manuscripts that local families have protected for generations, librarians and curators have been attempting to hide the texts or smuggle them out of the city. Timbuktu’s heritage is important to the locals’ identity, cultural pride, and income. This uprising has already resulted in the displacement of an estimated 200,000 people in the surrounding region, and armed conflict could result in the destruction and looting of the city.
We are at risk of losing the cultural treasures that comprise Timbuktu’s world-heritage status. Timbuktu has existed within Western imagination as a mythical city filled with exotic treasures and intellectual wealth. How are we to preserve these ancient manuscripts in the face of armed uprising? How are we to safeguard the great mosques of Djingareyber, Sankore, and Sidi Yahia? We must take action against threats to our heritage; we must ensure cultural security.
For similar news stories visit http://culturalsecurity.net/newssummary.htm
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oosik: Alaskan Artifacts & Illustrations: Aleutian Islands
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cailleach-bheur: The Crypta Balbi Museum is the only one of its...
The Crypta Balbi Museum is the only one of its kind. Together with the Palazzo Massimo, Palazzo Altemps and the Bath of Diocleziano, it makes part of the National Roman Museum.
Originally a huge courtyard annexed to the theatre which Lucius Cornelius Balbus built for Augustus at the end of the first century CE, the Crypta Balbi represents a development of Roman society and the urban landscape from antiquity to modern times.
Twenty years of excavation and research have revealed a series of transformations and diverse uses of the structure. Above all, these excavations have shed light on our rather obscure knowledge of the passage from Roman to medieval society, the so-called Dark Ages.
The museum itself is located between the streets Botteghe Oscure and M. Caetani. Exhibitions are spread across three floors and various other buildings on the site and include artefacts recovered from excavation, such as ceramic objects, tools and even ruins, as well as items from the National Roman Museum proper.
Certain objects found at the site of excavations near the theatre have been open to public viewing only for a short time. It is also possible to the visit the cellars where one can see the actual crypts and an ancient granary with medieval restructurings.
[Pierreci]
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theweekmagazine: Are there human remains at the Titanic wreck...
Are there human remains at the Titanic wreck site?
Most of the Titanic’s 1,500 passengers were never recovered, but new photographs suggest there may still be remains to be found. The most discussed photo captures leather boots and what appears to be a coat buried in the mud near the Titanic’s stern. The way the boots are laid out, says James Delgado, the director of maritime heritage at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), strongly suggests that they landed there while still on the feet and back of a person. ”This is clearly where someone came to rest on the bottom,” Delgado tells The New York Times. “I, as an archaeologist, would say those are human remains.”
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Archaeology & The Titanic: Links
Archaeology & The Titanic: Links:
This week marks the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic.
I have posted quite a bit about the Titanic in that memory so in that tradition- here is yet again other articles and radio stories that have popped up:
- The New York Times article “Experts Split on Possibility…
- NPR-CLICK THROUGH!
- Another NPR Article http://www.npr.org/2012/04/13/150514628/remembering-the-titanics-intrepid-bandleader?ft=1&f=3&sc=17
- A New York Times Article- http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/10/remembering-titanic-where-the-passengers-are-buried/?ref=science
- Yet another NPR Article- http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/04/13/150421710/why-didnt-passengers-panic-on-the-titanic?ft=1&f=3&sc=17
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arcticmuseum: A great Monday morning sight in the lab today:...
A great Monday morning sight in the lab today: whale vertebrae! I love looking at these when I go in there to do work, and thought you guys should see them too.
These vertebrae are probably from a young bowhead whale, and came from a late 1700s Inuit house site in Labrador, excavated by our director Susan a few years ago. One of the bones was used as a small table!
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iwoke2this: What eroded the Sphinx? Who does it represent? What...
What eroded the Sphinx? Who does it represent? What civilization built it? These questions are examined using geology, seismology, forensic anthropology/facial recognition, and engineering…
Enjoy :)
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Practical Applications of GIS for Archaeologists
Practical Applications of GIS for Archaeologists
The use of Geographic Information Systems is the most important and powerful technology introduced to archaeology since carbon dating. Containing a free integrated CDROM, this book focuses on GIS use in predicting archaeological site locations. Get this One!q. DO NOT Miss the Chance!
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