Exhibition: 'Faces and Voices' exhibition at The John Rylands Library, Manchester, until Sunday 25 November 2012
Via Carole Raddato, David Connolly
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The Vráble-Fidvár Bronze Age site ranks among top 10 digs in EuropeThe Slovak SpectatorSlovak and German archaeologists have joined forces to explore the secrets of the Early Bronze Age city.
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Egypt,authorities,thwart,attempts,to,smuggle,19th,century,rarities,-,Islamic,-,Heritage... Delete the scoop?
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Peeling back the layers of time in Plovdiv, one of Europe’s oldest continually inhabited cities, reveals Roman ruins, historic homes and other artifacts of its textured past. Delete the scoop?
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Archaeology scavenger huntWicked LocalPLYMOUTH – Friends of Burial Hill and Plymouth Archaeological Rediscovery Project invite the public to participate in a history and archaeology scavenger hunt on Burial Hill at 1 p.m. Delete the scoop?
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Excavations at the Aslantepe tumulus near the central Anatolian city of Malatya have unearthed a large building containing two spearheads and a necklace, all of which appear to date to the early trans-Caucasian culture. Via ArchaeoinAction Delete the scoop?
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The ancient city of Rhizon(modern Risan in Montenegro), was a strongly fortified Illyrian town which functioned as a successful trading centre, occupying a sheltered position in the Bay of Kotor on the Adriatic. Via ArchaeoinAction Delete the scoop?
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VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY. Forms of Hordeum vulgare ssp. vulgare (barley) that possess a naked caryopsis are an important human staple and are mainly found today in eastern Asia. However, naked barley has not always been an eastern crop: archaeobotanical data show that it was prevalent in Europe and the Near East during various periods in prehistory. In this review we have collated data on the incidence of hulled and naked barley at archaeological sites in Europe and the Near East from two sources: archaeobotanical literature reviews and an archaeobotanical database, both assembled by Helmut Kroll. We have also examined the incidence of hulled and naked barleys in extant germplasm collections. Our compilation of this archaeobotanical data has enabled us to elucidate long-term changes in the ratio of hulled to naked barley under cultivation in these regions; specifically, these records show that naked barley begins to disappear from the archaeobotanical record from the Chalcolithic/Bronze Age onwards in the Near East, and from the Iron Age/Roman periods onwards in Europe. We discuss the possible causes of this decline in naked barley cultivation in these regions, along with the present-day prevalence of naked barley landraces in eastern Asia, particularly in relation to genetic evidence, which shows that naked barley has a single origin. Via Dorian Q Fuller Delete the scoop?
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Archaeology professor Simon Keay will talk about latest discoveries at the ancient port of Rome Portus - at a public lecture at Turner Sims on 9 October 2012. Delete the scoop?
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Partially buried in mud and gravel near the riverbank some 18 miles north of Budapest, the flat bottomed wreck is about 40 feet long. Delete the scoop?
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Exhibition: 'Faces and Voices' exhibition at The John Rylands Library, Manchester, until Sunday 25 November 2012 Via Carole Raddato, David Connolly
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What is not to like... nae LOVE about this... Via David Connolly Delete the scoop?
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The cutting-edge technology is helping archaeologists identify ancient objects without disturbing them. Delete the scoop?
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A hoard of Iron Age coins found in Jersey and worth up to £10m will go on display at a museum on the island from Thursday. Delete the scoop?
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THE remains of a Neolithic stone circle that could rival the most impressive in Britain may have been found off the coast of Orkney.Archaeologists surveying the seabed near the island chain’s famous Ring of Brodgar believe they could have... Delete the scoop?
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A newspaper by EKOsborneMartin - updated daily with a curated selection of articles, blog posts, videos and photos. Delete the scoop?
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This paper rewrites the early history of Britain, showing that while the cultivation of cereals arrived there in about 4000 cal BC, it did not last. Between 3300 and 1500 BC Britons became largely pastoral, reverting only with a major upsurge of agricultural activity in the Middle Bronze Age. This loss of interest in arable farming was accompanied by a decline in population, seen by the authors as having a climatic impetus. But they also point to this period as the time of construction of the great megalithic monuments, including Stonehenge. We are left wondering whether pastoralism was all that bad, and whether it was one intrusion after another that set the agenda on the island. Via Dorian Q Fuller Delete the scoop?
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Well, not exactly. But the latest discoveries have had a surprisingly humanizing effect. The Neanderthals are both the most familiar and the least understood of all our fossil kin.
For decades after the initial discovery of their bones in a cave in Germany in 1856 Homo neanderthalensis was viewed as a hairy brute who stumbled around Ice Age Eurasia on bent knees, eventually to be replaced by elegant, upright Cro-Magnon, the true ancestor of modern Europeans. Via David Connolly 
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To what extent are Neanderthal and homo sapiens physical and emotional characterisitcs similiar? To what extent do you believe homo sapiens had an impact on the extinciton of Neanderthals and how has this effected who we are today? Delete the scoop?
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The suspected burial site and remains of a powerful Maya ruler have been unearthed in Guatemala, archaeologists say.
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The earliest known instance of cannibalism among hominids occurred roughly 800,000 years ago. The victims, mainly children, may have been eaten as part of a strategy to defend territories against neighbors, researchers report online in the Journal of Human Evolution. The new study shows how anthropologists use the behavior of modern humans and primates to make inferences about what hominids did in the past—and demonstrates the limitations of such comparisons. Via David Connolly Delete the scoop?
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B NEW YORK, NY.- /B A groundbreaking exhibition that unites masterpieces of Chinese sculpture from the famed sixth‐century cave temples at Xia... Via David Connolly Delete the scoop?
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Dig Greater Manchester sees volunteer places on archaeological digs over-subscribed as residents hunt historical treasure. Delete the scoop?
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According to Culture Minister Ertuğrul Günay, 3,327 pieces... Delete the scoop?
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