A dig to uncover evidence of former civilizations.
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mcbitchtits: “Hawaiian 680 CE One Ali’i park region refugio...
“Hawaiian
680 CE
One Ali’i park region
refugio sanctuary HONAUNAU”
They didn’t give me much to work with but I’ll still unravel this to my satisfaction. (No Asian artifacts, huh? Or Australian? I could go on.)
So those are Hawaiian petroglyphs.
FWIW, because I’d never heard of Honaunau: “up until the early 19th century, Hawaiians who broke a kapu (one of the ancient laws) could avoid certain death by fleeing to this place of refuge or puʻuhonua” [Wikipedia] (It’s on the Big Island)
Hm… hm.
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joshbyard: Archaeologist: Lascaux Cave Paintings are ANIMATED...
Archaeologist: Lascaux Cave Paintings are ANIMATED When Viewed by Torchlight
The cave drawings were found by archaeologist Marc Azema and French artist Florent Rivere, who suggest that Paleolithic artists who lived as long as 30,000 years ago used animation effects on cave walls, which explains the multiple heads and limbs on animals in the drawings. The images look superimposed until flickering torch-light is passed over them, giving them movement and creating a brief animation.
“Lascaux is the cave with the greatest number of cases of split-action movement by superimposition of successive images. Some 20 animals, principally horses, have the head, legs or tail multiplied,” Azéma said.
(via Prehistoric Animated Cave Drawings Discovered In France | WebProNews)
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Archaeological News: WWII plane wreck not Stuka, but larger JU88
Archaeological News: WWII plane wreck not Stuka, but larger JU88:
BERLIN (AP) — It looked like a Stuka, partly buried in the muck at the bottom of the Baltic Sea, but researchers now say the wreck German military divers have been recovering for the past week is a totally different — though nearly as rare — World War II aircraft.
German Military Historical Museum spokesman Capt. Sebastian Bangert said Friday that enough of the plane has now been recovered to make clear it is not a single-engined JU87 Stukadivebomber, but a twin-engine JU88 aircraft.
The two Junkers planes shared several parts — including the engines on many models — and from the way it sat in the seabedBangert says it appeared to have been a JU87.
But now that a wing section is up, it’s clearly the larger JU88, he said, talking from the deck of the German Navy ship being used in the recovery.
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ancientart: Ancient Roman Arch of Titus, 82 C.E.
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positive-press-daily: PICTURED ABOVE: Dr Uli Sigg of...
PICTURED ABOVE: Dr Uli Sigg of Switzerland poses in front of an art piece by Chinese artist Wang Keping created in 1979.
One of the world’s pre-eminent collections of Chinese contemporary art was bequeathed to Hong Kong on Tuesday by a Swiss collector, a move that could transform the city’s bid to realise a new, world class cultural and arts hub.
(click-through for full story)
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Famous Cave Paintings Might Not Be From Humans
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Archaeological News: 17TH CENTURY POSTAL SYSTEM CARVED IN STONE
Archaeological News: 17TH CENTURY POSTAL SYSTEM CARVED IN STONE:
Australian researchers have discovered a 17th-century postal system made of dozens of stone inscriptions on the island of Madagascar.
Carved between 1601 and 1657 by sailors aboard Dutch East India Company ships on their way to the East Indies, the stones often featured letters placed at their base. The missives, carefully wrapped in layers of canvas, tar and lead envelopes, were left for other ships to pick up.
“The idea was that the crew of the next Dutch ship to anchor in that same place would pen down the message on the rock and collect the letters,” Wendy van Duivenvoorde, a lecturer in maritime archaeology at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia, told Discovery News.
“Basically it was like an early postal system,” she said.
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acalc: When archaeologists tried out a new technique to...
When archaeologists tried out a new technique to determine the age of Spain’s most famous Paleolithic cave paintings, they were surprised to discover that the paintings were thousands of years older than previously thought — so old that it’s conceivable they were painted by Neanderthals.
The technique just might change the way we think about the paintings, and the way we think about our long-extinct, long-maligned Neanderthal cousins as well.
New dating method shows cave art is older: Did Neanderthals do it?
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urbfive: Spain claims top spot for world’s oldest cave art It...
Spain claims top spot for world’s oldest cave art
It boggles my mind how these paintings survived 40k years and that humans (or maybe our cousins, the neanderthals) created them.
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openaccessarchaeology: New Open Access Issue of Contributions...
New Open Access Issue of Contributions of Institute of Archaeology in Zagreb
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keepfrommoving: I want a house full of artifacts and books. That’s all.
I want a house full of artifacts and books. That’s all.
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ancientart: Winged Guardian of the Assyrians
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myhistoryblog: 00SIR_2433 -1 SIRIA PALMIRA TEMPLO DE BEL by...
00SIR_2433 -1 SIRIA PALMIRA TEMPLO DE BEL by druidabruxux
on Flickr.
Bel Temple built by Tiberius in 19 CE to commemorate and strengthen while the annexation of Palmyra to the Roman Empire. The architects who clinched it probably came from the great city of Antioch.
Its architecture is great and the refinement of its sculpture and decoration. It is a holy place.
The Temple of Bel is a milestone founding artistic summit emerged a vacuum and unprecedented in this area of the East. And he went down all Palmira, he learned the canon all its architects, its large derived a sense of magnificence palmirenses applied to successive traces of the city, the lush foliage abarrocada of pilasters, vineyards and pine cones of the friezes, acanthus leaf capitals, climbed the walls and overflowed, spreading the taste for decorative plants (which honors the name of Palmyra), filigree and always imaginative, which permeates every corner of the city .
Out of nowhere it jumped to the top, for no monument of Palmyra tied to this primeval giant from the first century, which began in 19 CE and consecrated in 32 CE
This large square enclosure sacred to the beginning of the century housed almost the entire village of Tadmor, when, forgotten with the passing of the centuries of the rich splendor of classical Palmira, the population and only consisted of Bedouin tribes staying in houses weaving an intricate adobe Arab medina, underpinned by strong walls and shafts of the pagan temple, was an oasis of Corinthian columns rising over a maze of mud, but could never reach the heights of the original building, leaned on his strength, adjusted to their holes and their recesses branched.
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cavetocanvas: Bison in the Cave of Altamira, c. 30,000 - 25,000...
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semiticmuseum: This picture of King Amenhotep I was painted on...
This picture of King Amenhotep I was painted on the foot of a mummy case belonging to Padimut, a priest and engraver who lived in ancient Thebes.
In ancient Egypt, kings like Amenhotep were thought of as divine figures who could intercede on behalf of the deceased as they navigated the perilous route through the underworld. If the gods required a character witness when judging Padimut’s soul, he could not have done much better than calling upon a king! However, it is interesting to note that Amenhotep was not the king during Padimut’s life — this mummy case dates to the 22nd Dynasty (945-712 B.C.E.), whereas Amenhotep reigned during the 18th Dynasty (1525-1504 B.C.E.).
This image was painted over layers of cartonnage, a composite of plaster, linen, and papyrus. You can visit the mummy case at the Semitic Museum in our “Egypt: Magic and the Afterlife” exhibit.
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Archaeologist says 28,000-year-old Aboriginal rock art found in cave oldest in Australia
Archaeologist says 28,000-year-old Aboriginal rock art found in cave oldest in Australia :
CANBERRA, Australia — An archaeologist says he found the oldest piece of rock art in Australia and one of the oldest in the world: an Aboriginal work created 28,000 years ago in an Outback cave.
The dating of one of the thousands of images in the Northern Territory rock shelter known as Nawarla Gabarnmang will be published in the next edition of the Journal of Archaeological Science.
University of Southern Queensland archaeologist Bryce Barker said Monday that he found the rock in June last year but only recently had it dated at New Zealand’s University of Waikato radiocarbon laboratory.
He said the rock art was made with charcoal, so radiocarbon dating could be used to determine its age. Most rock art is made with mineral paint, so its age cannot be accurately measured.
“It’s the oldest unequivocally dated rock art in Australia” and among the oldest in the world, Barker said.
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Sacred first nations artifact finds its way back home
Sacred first nations artifact finds its way back home:
A six-tonne boulder covered in aboriginal engravings is finally being returned to the B.C. Interior, bringing closure to a first nations community whose territory it was taken from nearly 90 years ago.
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Oldest Natural Pearl Found in Arabia
Oldest Natural Pearl Found in Arabia:
French researchers at the Laboratoire Archéologies et Sciences de l’Antiquité (ArScAn) (CNRS) have unearthed the oldest-ever archeological natural pearl. Discovered at a Neolithic site in the Emirate of Umm al Quwain (United Arab Emirates), it dates from 5500 BC. These findings, together with previous discoveries of natural pearls on the south-eastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula, provide evidence that the earliest pearl oyster fishing took place in this region of the world. Published in the journal Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, they show that natural pearls were a major component of cultural identity in early societies in the Persian Gulf and the northern Indian Ocean.
ntil now, gemmologists had popularized the idea that the oldest natural pearl (dating from 3000 BC) came from a prehistoric Japanese site. Yet the pearl that has just been discovered at the coastal site of Umm al-Quwain 2, in the United Arab Emirates, was found at a level established by carbon-14 dating at 5547-5477, 5410-5235 BC. It is therefore the oldest natural pearl ever found at an archeological site, both in the Arabian Peninsula and in the rest of the world. The discovery provides evidence that natural pearls were already collected 2500 years earlier in this region, for their esthetic value or even for ceremonial purposes.
The presence of natural pearls at many Neolithic sites in the Arabian Peninsula confirms that they were collected not only in the Persian Gulf but also on the shores of the Indian Ocean (Sea of Oman and Arabian Sea off the coast of Oman). No ancient natural pearls have been found in Egypt, Mesopotamia, India or China, although some have been unearthed in Mesopotamia dating from 3200-3000 BC.
In the Arabian Peninsula, all the Neolithic pearls discovered (101 in total) come from the large pearl oyster Pinctada margaritifera and from Pinctada radiata, which is much smaller, easier to collect, and provides higher quality pearls. Diving for them was difficult and dangerous. Once collected, they were sorted, giving priority to the spherically shaped pearls. Although they are often white, opaque and dull due to alteration, some are remarkably well preserved, displaying white, pink, orange or brownish shades, and they have kept their original luster. Mother-of-pearl was also an important resource in the economy of local Neolithic societies, since the large valves of P. margaritifera’s were used to make fish hooks for the capture of a wide range of fish, some as large as tuna and sharks.
Natural pearls played a special role in funeral rites. Thus, the Umm al Quwain pearl, which was not drilled, had been placed in a grave at the site’s necropolis. In other necropolises, the pearls were placed on the deceased’s face, often above the upper lip. Recent work has shown that in the fifth millennium BC, half-drilled natural pearls were associated with men, and full-drilled pearls with women.
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littlefindsforgot: Bracelet of Cersei Lannister Hunnish gold...
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