COPPER ALLOY BUTTON
From the shipwreck of the XIX century steamer Great Liverpool, located near Finisterre (A Coruña, Spain).
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victoriafolgueira: COPPER ALLOY BUTTON From the shipwreck of...
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-thatonekidchris: The Gateway
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lovearchmag: Your dog wants steak; and this armour. “Cry...
Your dog wants steak; and this armour. “Cry ‘Havoc,’ and let slip the dogs of war; That this foul deed shall smell above the earth.”
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trees-stars-seas: Petroglyphs in the Valley of Fire (by...
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p-a-r-a-d-i-s-o: queued - in Jordan/Israel! don’t unfollow ;*
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bryanthenerd: (via Indiana Jones: It’s Not the Years, Honey,...
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scinewscom: Archaeologists Discover Germany’s Oldest Roman...
Archaeologists Discover Germany’s Oldest Roman Military Camp
An archaeological team from the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz has discovered the precise location of the oldest Roman military fortification known to date in Germany – in the vicinity of Hermeskeil, a small town some 30 km southeast of Trier in the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/article00587.html
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wanderlustintraining: Photograph courtesy Carlos Wester La...
Photograph courtesy Carlos Wester La Torre, Brüning National Archaeological Museum
(Victoria Markovitz, National Geographic)
Two knives, ceramic containers, a collection of shells, and golden earrings were among the artifacts uncovered during a recent excavation of a flooded Lambayeque tomb.
Archaeologists in Peru thought they had discovered something special when they uncovered the tomb of a pre-Inca priestess and eight other corpses in 2011. But an even bigger find was right beneath their feet.
Continuing their search for artifacts a year later, the team dug beneath the priestess, uncovering a basement tomb they believe was built by an ancient water cult and meant to flood.
“This is a very valuable finding,” said Carlos Wester La Torre, head of the excavation and director of the Brüning National Archaeological Museum in the Lambayeque region—a region named after the little-known culture that built the stacked tomb. “The amount of information of this funerary complex is very important, because it changes [what we know of] the political and religious structures of the Andean region.”
The nearly 800-year-old basement burial sheds light on complex Lambayeque social structures and on the worship of water in the culture.
Four sets of waterlogged human remains were found in the flooded tomb, one adorned with pearl and shell beads—indicators of wealth or status. The other three corpses likely were intended to accompany the body into the next world.
The faces of both elite individuals, in the lower and upper tombs, were covered with copper sheets, and wore earspools bearing similar, wavelike designs…
Here is some more info concerning Peru, pre-Inca tombs, etc, (what I blogged just over a week ago!) Enjoy!
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xmorbidcuriosityx: Ipswich waterfront Saxon dig unearths 300...
Ipswich waterfront Saxon dig unearths 300 graves
An archaeological dig at Ipswich waterfront has unearthed 300 skeletons and evidence of an old church.
The excavation is taking place before 386 homes are built on Great Whip Street by Genesis Housing Association.
It is believed the Saxons occupied the site in the 7th Century and burials are believed to have taken place there until the 16th Century.
Rubbish pits were also uncovered during the dig, led by Oxford Archaeology and Pre-Construct Archaeology.
Paul Murray, senior project officer with Oxford Archaeology, said: “A certain amount of historical research was done before we got here, so we had a general idea of what to find, but this has exceeded our expectations.
Full story here.
MORE ON IPSWICH GRAVES!
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Faded hopes of Palestinian place at UN
Faded hopes of Palestinian place at UN:
(Jon Donnison, BBC) A year ago on a warm September evening in Ramallah, Palestinians were dancing in the streets.
Car horns blared as people craned out of their sunroofs waving red, black, green and white Palestinian flags.
The crowds had just watched President Mahmoud Abbas, live on a giant screen from New York, as he told the United Nations he was heading to the Security Council to ask for Palestine to be admitted as a member state.
Although the move was unlikely to change facts on the ground for Palestinians, or end Israel’s occupation, Mr Abbas saw it as a way of putting diplomatic pressure on the Israeli government.
A loud cheer went up as the president brandished his formal application papers in front of the UN delegates.
In nearby Manara Square, the Piccadilly Circus of this small West Bank town, a huge blue wooden chair had been erected, 8 or 9 metres (26-30ft) high to symbolise the UN seat the Palestinians were seeking.
For a few months afterwards it provided a novelty, or some would say an eyesore, for passing shoppers.
The chair in a Ramallah that was once a symbol of hopeBut midway through the winter, the chair collapsed during a sudden storm.
The analogy with the Palestinian UN bid is not hard to make.
The bid came to nothing, blocked largely by diplomatic pressure from the United States, Israel’s strongest ally.
The US had threatened to use its veto power in the Security Council if necessary.
It never got to that stage.
We have heard relatively little of the Palestinians since.
‘Blackmail’
“Latest developments whether they be global or regional have led to the marginalisation and sidelining of the Palestinian question,” says Dr Hanan Ashrawi, a senior figure in the political leadership in the West Bank
Dr Ashrawi, a member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation’s Executive Committee, says the Palestinian issue has been squeezed out of the news by bigger global headlines.
“The Arab Spring is one. Then there is the financial crisis, and thirdly there is the American Presidential election. The whole world has to be put on hold. Nobody can do anything that would affect the candidates’ chances of re-election or election. All these things have led to our dematerialisation.”
Dr Ashrawi says President Abbas has been put under massive pressure by the US administration to keep quiet before the US election and not to make another attempt to upgrade Palestine’s UN state this year
“Blackmail is how I’d put it impolitely,” says Dr Ashrawi.
“I don’t know what else to call it when you are told Congress will suspend all funding for the Palestinians, suspend all relations with us and close our representative’s office in Washington.”
Dr Ashrawi says the Palestinians will at some point go the UN General Assembly, where the US does not have veto power, and take the less ambitious step of seeking to become a non-member observer state.
But she says no decision has been taken as to when this will happen.
Over the past year little has moved for the Palestinians.
Fresh elections, long overdue, never happened and despite many promises the two rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas failed to patch up their differences and are still bitterly divided.
President Abbas’s Fatah faction is in power in the West Bank. Hamas governs in Gaza.
If and when Mr Abbas does renew his UN bid, he would not be speaking for all Palestinians. Hamas says going to the UN is a waste of time…
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thepoliticalnotebook: Picture of the Day: Cairo, Egypt....
Picture of the Day: Cairo, Egypt. Protests continue in Egypt’s capital. This is the fourth day of sustained and serious protesting against America and the offensive film produced in Los Angeles. There are now protests ongoing in more than a dozen countries.
Credit: Tara Todras-Whitehall/New York Times. Via.
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fyeahmedicine: Bone tissue. Coloured scanning electron...
Bone tissue. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of cancellous (spongy) bone.
Bone tissue can be either cortical (compact) or cancellous. Cortical bone usually makes up the exterior of the bone, while cancellous bone is found in the interior. Cancellous bone is characterised by a honeycomb arrangement, comprising a network of trabeculae (rod-shaped) fibrous tissue.
These structures provide support and strength to the bone. The spaces within this tissue contain bone marrow, a blood forming substance.
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studentreader: Plastered skull from Jericho, ~7200 BC. People...
Plastered skull from Jericho, ~7200 BC.
People used plastered skulls to keep their loved ones around a little longer. Rather than leave the deceased cold and buried, they would exhume the corpse and remove the skull. They would then plaster and decorate the skull to keep it at home. Decorations included shell inlays for eyes and even painted-on beards. Plastered skulls are believed to be have been a sign of respect for the deceased,perhaps even ancestor worship, but to be honest they look absolutely terrifying.
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"I became an archaeologist because I wanted to drive around in a big Landrover, smoking, cursing, and..."
“I became an archaeologist because I wanted to drive around in a big Landrover, smoking, cursing, and finding treasure.”
- Carmel Schrire. 1995. Digging through Darkness (via materialengagement)
- Carmel Schrire. 1995. Digging through Darkness (via materialengagement)
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"The only thing people regret is that they didn’t live boldly enough, that they didn’t invest enough..."
“The only thing people regret is that they didn’t live boldly enough, that they didn’t invest enough heart, didn’t love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.”
- Ted Hughes (via explore-blog)
- Ted Hughes (via explore-blog)
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centuriespast: Fragment from a red-figure pelike: two women and...
Fragment from a red-figure pelike: two women and a departing warrior
ca. 430 B.C.E.
Greek, Attic
attributed to the Kleophon PainterPrinceton University Art Museum
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2murgatroyd: Lycean 5th C BCE sarcophagus - Lid Detail by Scott...
Lycean 5th C BCE sarcophagus - Lid Detail by Scott MacLeod Liddle on Flickr.
Via Flickr:
Royal sarcophagus from Istanbul’s Archaeology Musuem.
Royal necropolis of Sidon chamber IV.
5th century BCE made from paros marble.
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mcbitchtits: ancientart: Built of mud-brick, the Ziggurat at...
Built of mud-brick, the Ziggurat at Ur was built by Ur-Nammu c. 2050 BC during the Third Dynasty of Ur and dedicated to the moon-goddess Nanna.
The massive structure is 210 feet in length, 150 feet in width. It was massively restored under King Nabonidus in the 6th century BC.
Photo taken by Tla2006
For perspective, this would approximately fill up the entire field space between the bleachers in an American Football Stadium. I always pictured it bigger than that?
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cuddlywares: Golden wreath diadem from the tomb of a woman,...
Golden wreath diadem from the tomb of a woman, possibly a wife of Phillip II of Macedon (Alexander the Great’s Father), excavated in Vergina, Imathia, Central Macedonia.
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