June 2012
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pocketcucco asked: I just wanted to say, I really love your url.
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Archaeological News: Italian police impound 18,000... →
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Italian police said Wednesday they had reported five people to prosecutors after finding and impounding some 18,000 ancient artifacts dug up in illegal excavations at archaeological sites near Rome.
Police have also sealed off three illegal dig sites previously unknown to…
Archaeological News: Update: Pictures: Mystery... →
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Tinged green by age, copper sheathing from the disintegrated wooden hull of a newfound shipwreck sits deep in the Gulf of Mexico, where the craft sank as far back as 200 years ago. Despite clues found in surrounding artifacts—muskets, beer bottles, an anchor—the ship’s exact age, origin, and…
May 2012
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Archaeological News: Huge Ancient Civilization's... →
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The mysterious fall of the largest of the world’s earliest urban civilizations nearly 4,000 years ago in what is now India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh now appears to have a key culprit — ancient climate change, researchers say.
Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia may be the best known of the…
Mexican archaeologists find 2,500-year-old altar →
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“An altar and a stela estimated to date from as early as 800 B.C. were found at the Chalcatzingo archaeological site in the central state of Morelos, Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History, or INAH, said.
The altar is rectangular and covered with engravings representing rain
A few meters (yards) away from the altar was an unfinished stela standing 1.7 meters...
Archaeological News: Human Evolution Discoveries... →
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Iraq is the home of the Fertile Crescent, the Cradle of Civilization. But the country’s importance in human history goes back even further, to the time of the Neanderthals. In 1951, American archaeologist Ralph Solecki discovered Neanderthal remains in Shanidar Cave. The cave sits in the…
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Archaeological News: Oldest Art Even Older: New... →
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ScienceDaily (May 24, 2012) — New dates from Geißenklösterle Cave in Southwest Germany document the early arrival of modern humans and early appearance of art and music.
Researchers from Oxford and Tübingen have published new radiocarbon dates from the from Geißenklösterle Cave in Swabian…
Archaeological News: More human bones dug up at... →
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OSCODA, MI — Archaeologists excavating a Michigan Department of Transportation work site along U.S. 23 have found additional human bone fragments in the weeks since a partial skull and other bone pieces were unearthed.
MDOT spokesman Bob Felt said two department archaeologists and a team…
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NMAAHC notes: Frederick Douglass most photographed... →
nmaahc:
“The most photographed American of the 19th century wasn’t a bearded guy in a stovepipe hat. It wasn’t a president, an inventor, a captain of industry, a general or a crusty gent writing under the pen name Twain. It was a former slave, Frederick Douglass, who rattled the chains of…
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trexally asked: THANK YOU SO MUCH! this is wonderful information!
Archaeologists - I need help!!
A Marshalltown Trowel. Basically an essential. If you’re starting out, all you probably need is the pointing trowel. Could be handy to get one with the leather sleeve as well.
A wrasp for sharpening your trowel. (Easy to find at a hardware store). Much easier to make nice straight walls and cut through roots with a sharp trowel.
Maybe a broom and scoop, although most field supervisors...
eremiticAntiquarian:... →
It’s an examination of an African American community in midcoast Maine that existed from the 1790s-1950s. My thesis is an examination of the community (without having actually dug anything, yet) and a critical look at how archaeology has avoided African American historical archaeology outside of the plantation setting, particularly in the North. My overarching thesis is that archaeology and...
eremiticAntiquarian: reviewing 50 articles that... →
katerader:
Saw your post in the archaeology tag, and thought I’d send these along if you already hadn’t read them. There are some really good, critical interpretations about the way that archaeology has interpreted race and its place in the African Diaspora. Check out Laurie Wilkie & Kevin Bartoy “A Critical Archaeology Revisited”, Wilkie “Considering the Future of African American...
Archaeological News: Modern dog breeds genetically... →
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Cross-breeding of dogs over thousands of years has made it extremely difficult to trace the ancient genetic roots of today’s pets, according to a new study led by Durham University. An international team of scientists analyzed data of the genetic make-up of modern-day dogs, alongside an…
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Joint Resolution Commending the Maine State Museum...
WHEREAS, Malaga Island is a small, rugged island of less than one square mile situated in Casco Bay off the shores of the Town of Phippsburg and the Town of Harpswell; and WHEREAS, from the 1860s to 1912, Malaga Island was home to a mixed-race Maine community of people of primarily Scottish, Irish, English, Native American and African American ancestry struggling to survive as boatmen,...
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Archaeological News: Update: Pictures: New Maya... →
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Archaeologist William Saturno scrapes ancient debris from a scribe’s painting-filled, roughly 1,200-year-old home in Guatemala. Calculations on the walls refer to dates after December 21, 2012
Lighted by a photographer’s lamps, a painting of the likely scribe glows within the newfound…
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I graduate on Saturday.
WOAH.
Now: finish thesis, find a place to live in DC, and move to DC. Also, finalize all open fieldwork projects in Maine for now. WOAHHHH.
Archaeological News: Archaeologists discover lost... →
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Evidence for a forgotten ancient language which dates back more than 2,500 years, to the time of the Assyrian Empire, has been found by archaeologists working in Turkey.
Researchers working at Ziyaret Tepe, the probable site of the ancient Assyrian city of Tušhan, believe that the…
