April 2013
11 posts
katerader:
My thoughts and love with Boston tonight. It’s always been my other home, and what happened today made me sick.
Heading home on Wednesday for the conference. The boy and I were going to spend Sunday night and Monday in Boston since he’s never been there before… Now I don’t even really know what to show him.
Spotlight on ‘horrible history’ at York exhibition →
xmorbidcuriosityx:
MEET “Skeleton number 116”.
Sadly, she does not have a name. But what we do know is that she lived in York 700 years or more ago; she was 46 when she died – and she had leprosy.
The woman was one of a number of skeletons unearthed during an archaeological dig in the churchyard of what was once St Stephen’s, in Dixon’s Yard off Walmgate, a few years ago.
Her leprosy would...
A British archaeologist, back in Iraq for the... →
archaeology:
A small team of archaeologists working from satellite images hinting at a buried structure have uncovered the corner of a monumental complex with rows of rooms around a large courtyard, believed to be about 4,000 years old.
“The size is breathtaking,” says Jane Moon, a University of Manchester archaeologist who heads the expedition. Ms. Moon says the walls of the structure are...
Archaeological News: DNA study links indigenous... →
archaeologicalnews:
Indigenous people that lived in southeastern Brazil in the late 1800s shared some genetic sequences with Polynesians, an analysis of their remains shows. The finding offers some support for the possibility that Pacific islanders traded with South America thousands of years ago, but researchers…
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Hey followers!
Posts around these parts will probably slow down over the next few weeks. Going to try to queue some stuff up to post once a day, but as it is finals, and this is graduate school, I’m feeling crazy.
I’m jealous of everyone who gets to attend the SAA this year (hopefully next year I’ll be presenting). If anyone is around New England, I’ll be giving a poster session at...
Is anyone else annoyed
zomganthro:
That Shovelbums.org now belongs to the SAAs? Am I just being paranoid?
It doesn’t! It was an April Fool’s joke. If you clicked on the link it Rickrolled you.
Archaeological News: UC Research examines... →
archaeologicalnews:
When surveying in the Upper Basin of the Grand Canyon National Park in April 2011, University of Cincinnati faculty and students discovered a previously unknown 17-room subterranean pueblo that likely dates back to the 12th century.
For UC anthropology graduate student Ryan Washam, that find…
March 2013
57 posts
Archaeological News: Unique sapphire ring found by... →
archaeologicalnews:
A sapphire ring found in a field by a metal detecting enthusiast may have been owned by royalty in the 5th and 6th centuries.
Archaeologists say that nothing like the Escrick Ring from that period has ever been found in the UK before.
The expert group, convened by the Yorkshire Museum in…
Archaeological News: Greek Historian Got Mummy... →
archaeologicalnews:
Contrary to reports by famous Greek historian Herodotus, the ancient Egyptians probably didn’t remove mummy guts using cedar oil enemas, new research on the reality of mummification suggests.
The ancient embalmers also didn’t always leave the mummy’s heart in place, the researchers added.
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Archaeological News: Archaeological Dig Unearths... →
archaeologicalnews:
Archaeologists at Tudor Place, an historic Georgetown estate with ties to George Washington, have unearthed artifacts that suggest the former existence of a dwelling for both enslaved and free workers on the site.
A team of archaeologists spent several days in the past week painstakingly…
shenylle asked: One of my friends from university is the one who originally took the "archaeology kitten" picture before it became a meme. What a small world!
Archaeological News: 600-Year-Old Chinese Coin... →
archaeologicalnews:
A Chinese coin about 600 years old was recently unearthed on an island just off the coast of Kenya. If it proves to be authentic, the coin could show that the Chinese explorer Zheng He — like a Christopher Columbus of the East — came to this part of east Africa.
“This finding is significant….
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Roman marble panels split for 2,000 years reunited →
Shimmering as if still lit by the Mediterranean sun, two spectacular Roman marble panels have been reunited at the British Museum for the first time in almost 2,000 years. Sculpted marble reliefs being unpacked and hung on the gallery walls. The two reliefs are from the same house in Herculaneum but have been split since AD79 [Credit: Martin Godwin]Both come from a seaside mansion in Herculaneum,...
Archaeological News: Ancient people and... →
archaeologicalnews:
The Stone Age could just as easily be called the Roam Age.
Two new studies published February 27 in the Journal of Human Evolution advance the idea that ancient people and Neandertals walked or ran far greater distances than any human groups that followed, including more recent…
Archaeology, eh?: Ancient 'New York City' of... →
canadianarchaeology:
Today New York City is the Big Apple of the Northeast but new research reveals that 500 years ago, at a time when Europeans were just beginning to visit the New World, a settlement on the north shore of Lake Ontario, in Canada, was the biggest, most complex, cosmopolitan place in the region.
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'Black Death pit' unearthed by Crossrail project →
Excavations for London’s Crossrail project have unearthed bodies believed to date from the time of the Black Death.
A burial ground was known to be in an area outside the City of London, but its exact location remained a mystery.
Thirteen bodies have been found so far in the 5.5m-wide shaft at the edge of Charterhouse Square, alongside pottery dated to the mid-14th Century.
Analysis will...
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Archaeological News: Medieval knight remains found... →
archaeologicalnews:
THE remains of a medieval knight have been discovered underneath a car park that is being demolished at a city-centre building site.
The skeleton was found in Edinburgh’s Old Town after archaeologists uncovered the corner of an elaborately decorated sandstone slab bearing markings of a member…
BODIES IN ASWAN TOMB REVEAL PREMATURE DEATHS →
xmorbidcuriosityx:
Research on the bones of 200 ancient Egyptians revealed that they suffered from hunger and malnutrition and a whole range of infectious diseases as well as having an extremely high infant mortality rate.
These are some of the conclusions drawn from Qubbet el-Hawa Tomb 33, a project carried out by the University of Jaen, in which anthropologists from the University of Granada...
Archaeological News: Finders Keepers? Not Always... →
archaeologicalnews:
Digging into archaeology law in the U.K. and U.S.
In September 2009, David Booth, a park ranger in Stirling, Scotland, packed up his brand-new metal detector (“I practiced at home picking up nails and bits”), drove to a field, walked seven yards (six meters) from his parked car, and scored…
Archaeological News: Wealthy Ancient Egyptians... →
archaeologicalnews:
Even the best-off ancient Egyptians suffered from malnutrition and preventable disease, a new analysis of mummies and skeletons finds.
The bodies come from the Qubbet el-Hawa necropolis, which is near the modern city of Aswan in southern Egypt. Constructed in the 12th dynasty (between 1939…
“Scientists from the Russian Academy of Sciences say they’ve discovered remains...”
– Earliest Known Dog Fossils Found in Russia (via usnews)
“Sunstone” Recovered From Sixteenth-Century... →
gwebarchaeology:
ALDERNEY, CHANNEL ISLANDS—Tests indicate that a piece of carved crystal recovered from a sixteenth-century shipwreck at the bottom of the English Channel is calcite.Calcite crystals have been shown to reveal patterns of polarized light around the sun, and could have helped early navigators determine its position in the sky on cloudy days. This crystal was found near the ship’s...
