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11:36:27 PM How we've made the British landscape
Independent

Archaeologist Francis Pryor tells Rob Sharp that the story of mankind is written all around us Two lines of ancient wooden posts jut out of a glittering ... [more]

10:58:11 PM Vandals deface Jaffa archaeological site; ultra-Orthodox protest nearby
Ha{;}aretz - Israel

By Noah Kosharek Vandals defaced a late Ottoman-era archaeological site in Jaffa overnight Sunday that authorities had begun excavating earlier this month. ... [more]

6:52:54 PM Forgotten Soldiers And Patriots From The American Revolution Could Be ...
Ithaca College The Ithacan - NY, USA

“We'll be using a suite of ground-based remote sensing equipment, also known as archaeological geophysics instruments, to do our investigation,” Rogers said ... [more]

5:15:20 PM Digging Acadian history
The Guardian - Charlottetown,Prince Edward Island,Canada

LOW POINT — The provincial archaeologist is hoping to unearth a pre-Deportation Acadian village Tuesday morning. If the weather co-operates, ... [more]

4:16:17 PM Oxford Very Short Introductions: Druids
About - News & Issues (blog)

Titles include philosophy, religion, politics and science, including a handful of archaeology and archaeology-related topics. I chose the Druids, .... [more]

3:13:01 PM Wreck of WWII freighter believed found off Albania
The Associated Press

TIRANA, Albania — Underwater archaeologists believe they have found the wreck of an Italian merchant ship torpedoed by the British during World War II off ... [more]

3:09:24 PM World's Oldest Shoe Unearthed
Laboratory Equipment - Rockaway,USA

An international team that includes eight researchers and students from UCLA's Cotsen Institute of Archaeology has found a perfectly preserved, ... [more]

2:47:29 PM The Thunderstone Mystery: What's a Stone Age Axe Doing in an Iron Age Tomb?
Science Daily (press release) - USA

Archaeologist Olle Hemdorff at the University of Stavanger's Museum of Archaeology was responsible for a series of excavations at Avaldsnes in 1993-94 and ... [more]

2:28:57 PM Use Google Earth to prevent looting?
Google Earth Blog (blog)

Archaeology Magazine recently wrote an interesting post about the the vast looting of Iraq's archaeological sites. It's a sad tale, with many of historical ... [more]

1:27:06 PM Archaeologists set to dig deep at Duthie Park
Aberdeen City - UK

An archaeological dig will get underway at the site of an old pond at Aberdeen's Duthie Park today [Monday 14 June 2010]. The dig and restoration of the ... [more]

12:24:30 PM Cultic vessels exposed in Yokneam
Ynetnews - Israel

For two weeks, archaeologists of the Israel Antiquities Authority excavated the contents of the rock-hollow and removed from it more than 100 intact cultic ... [more]

11:12:32 AM American archaeologists find ruins of four ancient castles in western Turkey
Today's Zaman - Istanbul,Turkey

The group including 16 students from the universities of Boston, Pennsylvania and Brown led by Assistant Professor of Archaeology Christopher H. Roosevelt ... [more]

9:25:48 AM World's oldest leather shoe unearthed in Armenia
Regional Times - karachi,Pakistan

“This is great luck,” said the archaeologist who led the research team, Ron Pinhasi of University College Cork in Ireland. “We normally only find broken ... [more]

8:17:12 AM Ottoman-era Archaeological Dig in Jaffa Vandalized
Journal of Turkish Weekly - Ankara,Turkey

Vandals ransacked an archaeological excavation of buildings from the late-Ottoman period in Jaffa on Sunday night, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) ... [more]

6:57:59 AM Ocean Exploration? A Challenge
Corporate Connecticut Magazine

He serves as a URI professor of oceanography, director of the Center for Ocean Exploration and Archaeological Oceanography (formerly the Institute for ... [more]

6:29:08 AM Chinese Ancient Earthenware Found in Dieng
VIVAnews.com

VIVAnews - A student from the Department of Archaeology of Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, discovered ancient items in the Dieng Temple complex situated ... [more]

5:38:48 AM Keene artifacts: History gets rewritten
The Union Leader

"The history of Keene says that Native Americans never lived here," archaeologist Robert Goodby told this newspaper last week. ... [more]

3:33:04 AM The Idaho Statesman, Boise, Tim Woodward column: Tim Woodward: This
istockAnalyst.com - Salem,OR,USA

istockAnalyst.com (press release) "I'm not aware of any others," Idaho State Archaeologist Kenneth Reid said. "And I know of only two archaeologists from Idaho, the other being my ... [more]

3:04:15 AM Volunteers needed for excavations in Hector
Ithaca Journal - Ithaca,NY,USA

.... and the Backbone Ridge History Group, are inviting community members to take part in an archaeology excavation during the weeks of June 14 and June 21. ... [more]

2:01:27 AM Monumental roadblocks for city metro?
Times of India - India

On one hand, a state-level implementation committee of the Archaeological Survey of India is surveying and archiving the list of all built heritage .... [more]



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