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Tide turns on Iron Age midden treasure trove
Glasgow :: United Kingdom | about 3 hours ago
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The Iron Age midden on Skye's west coast has so far yielded bone fragments, stone tools, a button manufactured from horn and the top of a human skull...The manmade tools and fragments are already under attack from lashing waves and strong winds, with...
Tags: Historic Scotland, iron age, treasure trove, age midden, Skye, United Kingdom, Glasgow, Midden, Trepanation, Stone Age, Landfill, Archaeology
Ancient spear point found on campus
Seattle :: WA :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility A University of Washington student preparing to plant grape vines in a campus garden discovered a spear point thousands of years old, archaeologists say. Ellen Van Wyk told The Seattle Times she was removing rocks in October when she turned up the 3-inch...
Tags: Seattle, Archaeology, Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, University of Washington
Historians begin hunt at Sussex farmhouse
Seaford :: DE :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility That would have been a fairly early period for native-colonist contact, he said. He also wants to see if they can find traces of a house that may have preceded the brick farmhouse, which can be detected by mapping out what the team doesn't find. "A...
Tags: Sussex County Land Trust, Seaford, Seaford Delaware, Sussex County Delaware, Delaware, Archaeology
Date with destiny
Beijing :: China | 3 days ago
Credibility Just before dawn in a quiet village in North China, a short-waisted man hurries with a bundle of poles toward a clump of weeds to wait for sunrise...He Nu, 46, is head of the excavation team at the Taosi relic site in Xiangfen county, Shanxi province....
Tags: China Daily, North China, New China, Taosi, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, Beijing, Archaeoastronomy, Han Chinese, Chinese calendar, Excavation, Archaeology, Astronomy, Observatory
Israel may turn Megiddo Prison into a tourist site
Tel Aviv :: Israel | 3 days ago
Credibility Megiddo prison, surrounded by prison guards on horseback supplemented by guard dogs, is not a place that many people would care to approach. But if a plan now in the final stages comes to fruition, it could become a tourist attraction drawing Israelis...
Tags: Antiquities Authority, Megiddo council, Megiddo Regional Council, Tel Megiddo, Megiddo Prison, Israel, Tel Aviv, Jewish history, Archaeological sites in Israel, Archaeology, Megiddo Israel, Religion Belief
Excavated structures must be documented
Jalīb aš-Šuyūẖ :: Kuwait | 4 days ago
Credibility People in the Gulf region must learn to live with historical monuments and incorporate them into the tissue of modern culture as a reminder of the past, said the head of the Polish archeological mission Professor Piotr Bielinski...Since then, the mission...
Tags: Kuwaiti, Piotr Bielinski, Subiya, excavating structures, fifth millennium, settlement dating, Obeid, Kuwait, Jalīb aš-Šuyūẖ, Anthropology, Archaeology
Hope Remains Ancient Archaeological Site Can Be Saved
Victoria :: Canada | 7 days ago
Credibility A burial ground and archaeological site dating back millennia are at the heart of a long-running saga between a developer and a First Nations community in British Columbia. Archeological excavations at the Somenos Creek site near Duncan on Vancouver Island...
Tags: University of British Columbia, Dianne Hinkley Schmidt, First Nations, Cowichan Tribes, archaeological sites, Canada, Victoria, Anthropology, Excavation, Archaeology
PM released Common Entry Ticket for the visitors to the World Heritage Sites
The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh released Common Entry Ticket for the visitors to the World Heritage Sites and protected monuments/sites at a function in New Delhi today. He addressed the valedictory session of the 34th meeting of Central Advisory...
Tags: Heritage Sites, Archaeology, ASI, Archeological Survey of India, Ancient India
Editorial: Scientists, volunteers open window to county's past
Roseburg :: OR :: USA | 11 days ago
Credibility But then most of us aren't archaeologists up to our elbows in artifacts from centuries ago at a Douglas County dig where each find linking the site to evidence of the earliest residents of the Umpqua Basin is met with unbridled glee. Scientists and volunteers...
Tags: Williams Creek Fire, Brian O'Neill, Roseburg, Cascade Range, Environment, Stratovolcanoes, Crater Lake, Archaeology, Mount Mazama, Umpqua National Forest, Douglas County Oregon
Historical sites discovered in Rawalpindi
Islamabad :: Pakistan | 12 days ago
Credibility Archaeologists have discovered nearly 80 new sites of historical significance in Rawalpindi district. A survey conducted to document heritage in the region has probably opened new chapters into history when archaeologists from the Taxila Institute of...
Tags: Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Islamabad, Taxila, Archaeology, Gujar Khan
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