Archaeology News

“Who knows what else might turn up in the near future.”

The pace of development in the Pilbara region, where Aboriginal tools at least 35,000 years old were found at a proposed mine site, could lead to further significant archaeological finds. via The West Australian

“There was nothing like it in U.S. history until well past the colonial period”

It's so much a part of the landscape that metro-east residents often don't even notice it, except when a visiting relative notices: 'Look, there's the mound.'

Rising from what once was an endless grass sea parted by the Mississippi River, Monks Mound isn't even named after the Native American Indians who built it centuries ago, but the Trappist monks who lived there for only five years in the 19th century.

No one knows what the long-vanished people who built the mounds called themselves, much less what they named their terraced mound. Archaeologists call them the Mississippians, and their lives continue to be a mystery whose clues are buried in the mounds scattered throughout the metro-east and far beyond. Read more

AARP Tax-Aide: The nation's largest free, volunteer-run tax counseling and assistance service will be offering help in tax preparation at 86 sites in in 42 Tennessee counties. via The Tennessean

“It's a great adventure and a huge challenge.”

A filmmaker is re-creating a treasure-gathering voyage of Egypt 's greatest female pharaoh, and a Florida State archaeology professor is designing the boat. via Egyptology News

“Further work on this site is most important.”

ANCIENT Aboriginal tools found on a Pilbara mine site in Western Australia have been dated at 35,000 years - among the oldest so far discovered in Australia. via The Sydney Morning Herald

A Morehead State University historian is leading an archaeological search at Blue Licks, the site of a Revolutionary War battle some 225 years ago. via WXIX-TV Cincinnati

“There's no question as to what these guys are up to”

Posted on 04/02/2008 9:46:19 AM PDT by blam 3,000-year-old ivory carving depicts whaling scene From ANI London, April 1: Archaeologists working in the Russian Arctic have unearthed a remarkably detailed ... via Free Republic

“We believe that nearly 30,000 raw carvings and such invaluable scriptures of the Buddha-age have been found where the Bhasha dam is being built”

Islamabad, April 4 : Archaeologists have discovered rare Buddha relics from the Diamer-Bhasha dam site in Pakistan. via Karachi News.Net

The Ruins is, with one major caveat, about as good an adaptation of Scott Smith's best-selling novel as Hollywood was ever going to make. via Arkansas Online

“Everything has been taken from Trajan's Forum. The close-circuit television cameras are pointless, and the gates are practically non-existent. Even a child could climb over them”

London, April 4: Archaeologists have said that tourists visiting Rome are taking away mementoes from important historical structures, thus stripping the city of its ancient past. via Daily India

“All previous work has drawn a blank on what the tablet is about. It is such a big jigsaw and the pieces we have found fit together so well that I think we have a definitive proof”

London, Mar 31 Scientists claim to have solved the mystery of a giant asteroid impact on Austrian Alps more than 5,000 years back, by deciphering an ancient clay tablet. via Express India

And it did not take long for ancient people to figure that out. A team of scientists led by an archaeologist from The University of Arizona has unearthed what is, to date, the oldest collection gold artifacts ... via Science Daily

“Witnessing Viking atrocity? Written accounts of the First Viking Age”

Viking experts will be gathering at The University of Nottingham to discuss the findings of latest research into the Norsemen. via RedOrbit

Archaeologists began a historic dig on Monday which they hope will unlock the ancient secrets of Stonehenge once and for all. via Telegraph.co.uk

“We found just isolated instances of that, not enough to characterize it as an archaeological site at this stage”

Artifacts including dish fragments, glass, clothing and clay pipes found on the site of Oregon State Hospital may date to a prominent Salem pioneer's 1850s-era homestead.

While the finds excite archaeologists, they could have an affect on construction of a new hospital to replace the aging buildings in use.

Aimee Finley, projects manager for the Portland-based Applied Archaeological Research, says the 1852 Morgan 'Lute' Savage homestead is the best guess so far.

The firm said the site 'represents one of a very few 1850s-era domestic sites discovered in the Willamette Valley,' adding that 'It has the potential to yield information important in a wide variety of research dimensions related to the establishment of the American society at the end of the Oregon Trail.' Read more

“Replicas of Gandhara art are in great demand in Japan and Korea. These replicas will remain popular unless there are Buddhists in the world.”

Lahore, Mar 29: The Gandhara art replicas, known and collected worldwide, could be carriers of Pakistani culture as they are loved by the foreigners. via Daily India

Time Team presenter Tony Robinson at the Portskewett site ARCHAEOLOGISTS from TV's Time Team believe they have located the long-lost site where King Harold built a hunting lodge on the English border just a ... via This is Gwent

“We were digging the site for some archaeological evidence of the Sultanate period. We were expecting some ancient artefacts related to Sultan Hussein Shah”

Stone age weapons are not usually found in such an old soil layer Archaeologists in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal have discovered small weapons made of stone which are around 15,000-20,000 years old. via Free Republic

“This discovery of a 1.3 million-year-old fossil shows the process was accelerated and continuous; that the occupation of Europe happened very early and much faster than we had thought”

Tools are seen at an archaeological site in Atapuerca in northern Spain, on July 10, 2007. via Clarion Dispatch

“Just the cuts of meat can tell you a huge amount about a whole group of people”

Posted on 03/27/2008 7:42:10 PM PDT by Pharmboy The American fight for liberty was not only the domain of John Adams and his fellow Boston patriots - although HBO's miniseries might lead us to believe that. via Free Republic