February 2013
121 posts
Timeline JS - Beautifully crafted timelines that...
See on Scoop.it - Archaeology Tools Beautifully crafted timelines that are easy, and intuitive to use. David Connolly’s insight: Another timeline system. See on timeline.verite.co
Browsing Spatio-Temporal Data With QGIS Time...
See on Scoop.it - Archaeology Tools The aim of Time Manager plugin for QGIS is to provide comfortable browsing through temporal geodata. A dock widget provides a time slider and a configuration dialog for your layers to manage. Time … David Connolly’s insight: Heavy Geek alert, with this timeslider Plugin for QGIS See on underdark.wordpress.com
Bronze Age Fort
See on Scoop.it - Archaeology News BRONZE AGE VILLAGE DISCOVERD IN SHINEWATER LAKE As well as being one of the most beautiful parks in Eastbourne, underneath the park, hidden from view, is the largest bronze age village to be… See on shinewaterpark.com
Hadrian's Wall and the End of Empire: The Roman...
See on Scoop.it - Archaeology Articles and Books There is no synthetic or comprehensive treatment of any late Roman frontier in the English language to date, despite the political and economic significance of the frontiers in the late antique period. Examining Hadrian’s Wall and the Roman frontier of northern England from the fourth century into the Early Medieval period, this book investigates a...
Dipity - Find, Create, and Embed Interactive...
See on Scoop.it - Archaeology Tools Create an interactive, visually engaging timeline in minutes. Use dynamic visualization tools to display photos, videos, news and blogs in chronological order. David Connolly’s insight: Now this has real potential - I remember working with things like this when it was very very complicated and you had to have coding experience. give this a go and see...
Ice age carvings: strange yet familiar
See on Scoop.it - Archaeology News Kathleen Jamie feels an unsettling empathy with the mysterious relics of the ice age on show at the British Museum David Connolly’s insight: Stunning! See on guardian.co.uk
Hatshepsut's limestone chapel at Karnak to open...
See on Scoop.it - Archaeology News At the end of February visitors to Karnak Temples will be able to admire the second chapel of the 18th dynasty Queen Hatshepsut after four years of restoration and reconstruction. The chapel was constructed in limestone to worship Thebes ancient Egyptian god Amun-Re. It includes an open court and two inner halls embellished with blocks engraved with very...
ARCHAEOLOGY - Security walls to protect ancient...
See on Scoop.it - Archaeology News The İzmir Metropolitan Municipality is preparing to surround the historical Smyrna Agora with specially designed walls. The walls will provide for the safety of the Agora and be 3 meters high and 810 meters long. The Smyrna Agora Ancient Site Safety Wall project has been approved by the İzmir Committee for the Protection of Cultural and Natural Properties. The...
High-tech safehouses in Ontario bring new meaning...
See on Scoop.it - Archaeology News Museums have long battled a big problem: losing important artifacts Each archive sites can house a combined 80,000 boxes of artifacts, each catalogued in a central database and labelled with radio-frequency tags so they can be searched and tracked digitally. now that is something we could learn from See on theglobeandmail.com
18 Ancient 'Odyssey' Mosaics Stolen In Syria
See on Scoop.it - Archaeology News At least 18 ancient mosaics depicting scenes from Homer’s “The Odyssey” have been stolen in northern Syria, the culture minister was quoted as saying on Sunday. “These mosaics were stolen during illegal excavations” on archaeological sites in the war-torn country’s northeast, Lubana Mushaweh said in an interview published on...
A hoard of 16th and 17th century children's toys |...
See on Scoop.it - Archaeology News A most delightful archaeological find: an entire hoard of 16th and 17th century children’s toys, found at Market Harborough parish church, England In the course of my research of VikingAge woodcraft, I somewhat unexpectedly turned up information about a most delightful archaeological find: an entire hoard of children’s toys, found at Market Harborough parish...
Mystery of Henri IV’s missing head divides France...
See on Scoop.it - Archaeology News Richard III may have had an ignominious resting place under a Leicester car park, but spare a thought for Henri IV. First the French monarch was disinterred from the royal sepulchre by revolutionaries and thrown into a mass grave. Then his head was cut off and – allegedly – turned up in the attic of a retired tax inspector. David Connolly’s insight: Not...
Egypt’s ancient treasures being lost to looters
See on Scoop.it - Archaeology News From a distance, it looks as though an animal has burrowed around the 4,000-year-old Black Pyramid of Amenemhat III. But thieves dug these holes. And Egyptian archaeologist Monica Hanna calls that “a catastrophe.” “See the ancient mud bricks?” says Hanna, 29, peering into a pit. “It is very well structured.” She walks to another, followed by three pyramid...
Building with the Past: Archaeology’s Ideological...
See on Scoop.it - Archaeology News In October 2009, the archaeological National Park of Avdat in the Israeli Negev desert was anonymously vandalized (Figure 1). Widely publicized in the media, the vandalism was depicted as a destruction of a heritage site of the utmost importance. Following the arrest of local Bedouin suspected of committing the act in retaliation for the destruction of illegal...
Lost Beothuk nation’s religion takes flight : Past...
See on Scoop.it - Archaeology News The Indigenous Beothuk of Newfoundland disappeared as a culture during the early nineteenth century and had little positive interaction with Europeans before this time. As a result, very little is now known regarding Beothuk religious life and belief. David Connolly’s insight: A fascinating view of how to reconstruct a belief system based on archaeological...
The last Medici may not have died of syphilis...
See on Scoop.it - Archaeology News In 1743, the last member of the family that had ruled Florence for almost 300 years died a slow and painful death. Historical documents suggest that Anna Maria Luisa de’ Medici suffered from syphilis or breast cancer. But a first look at samples of her bone suggests that syphilis may not have killed her. In 1966, the tombs of the Medici family were swamped in...
Stone Age Women Endured Regular Violence
See on Scoop.it - Archaeology News Stone Age farmers lived through routine violence, and women weren’t spared from its toll, a new study finds. The analysis discovered that up to 1 in 6 skulls exhumed in Scandinavia from the late Stone Age — between about 6,000 and 3,700 years ago — had nasty head injuries. And contrary to findings from mass grave sites of the period, women were...
Skeletal remains unearthed at castle | Galway City...
See on Scoop.it - Archaeology News The discovery of four skeletons in the vicinity of Terryland Castle this week has been described as a significant find which may be Galway’s answer to the unearthing of the bones of King Richard III of England two weeks ago. Historians and scientists are excited by the find, on the northern side of the Quincentenary Bridge, and believe that the skeletons may be...
Great Riddles in Archaeology: King Arthur,...
See on Scoop.it - Archaeology Articles and Books For centuries, the legend of King Arthur, Camelot and the quest for the Holy Grail has captivated the world. Was there really a Holy Grail, and how did it find its way to Britain and the Arthurian legend? Were Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table real historical figures? What does the archaeology of this era tell us? Dr. Richard Hodges, the...
Work damages ancient pueblo site
See on Scoop.it - Archaeology News A La Cieneguilla landowner recently cut into a portion of a prehistoric pueblo while preparing a site for a house. Archaeologists who investigated the disturbance say the landowner didn’t do anything wrong and had a building permit from the Santa Fe County Growth Management Department, which should have warned him about the ruin, but didn’t. “The county has a...
UNESCO convenes international experts meeting for...
See on Scoop.it - Archaeology News Naharnet UNESCO convenes international experts meeting for the safeguarding of Malian … See on whc.unesco.org
MakerBot Replicator™ 2X Desktop 3D Printer
See on Scoop.it - Archaeology Tools The MakerBot Replicator 2X Experimental 3D Printer is for brave explorers with the patience to deal with ABS plastic and dual extrusion. Want to live on the edge? David Connolly’s insight: it’s what you want really! print that artefact or pathaelogical osteological specimen of a neanderthal… See on store.makerbot.com
Newfoundland birds were the heart of extinct...
See on Scoop.it - Archaeology News Archeologists have shed stunning new light on the extinct Beothuk nation of Newfoundland, revealing through a study of carved pendants unearthed from coastal burial sites that the ill-fated people — who had inhabited the region for at least 1,000 … See on vancouversun.com
Crash uncovers 1902 'time capsule'
See on Scoop.it - Archaeology News A time capsule in the form of a blue bottle is found among the damage at a Tudor house in Ipswich after a car drove into it. David Connolly’s insight: How cool! See on bbc.co.uk
Brancaster GPR Final Video
See on Scoop.it - Archaeology News Exclusively for British Archaeology magazine, Jimmy Adcock, archaeological geophysicist at GSB Prospection Ltd, describes the extraordinary new results from … (Roman fort at Brancaster: MALA MIRA Ground Penetrating Radar data in motion. See on youtube.com
Fragments of stone cross lead to archaeological...
See on Scoop.it - Archaeology News Archaeologists are set to explore an enigmatic moat close to a church in a remote corner of north west Sutherland in Scotland, hoping to find evidence of early Christian practice. The excavation at Inchnadamph will begin on 18 February. The local community history society, Historic Assynt, hopes that excavation of the ancient moated enclosed area will help to...
Medieval secrets revealed in Norwich Cathedral :...
See on Scoop.it - Archaeology News A new archaeology project has begun to bring to light hundreds of secretive inscriptions that have lain hidden on the walls of Norwich Cathedral for many centuries. See on pasthorizonspr.com
Free Relief Layers for Google Maps
See on Scoop.it - Archaeology Tools Shaded relief mashup of the world for google maps David Connolly’s insight: What a superb tool! Make a map! See on maps-for-free.com
Israel Museum’s Herod Show Draws Anger Over Use of...
See on Scoop.it - Archaeology News The Palestinian Authority says the exhibition is a violation of international law because much of its material was taken from the Israeli-occupied West Bank. See on nytimes.com
Emek Shaveh - Archaeology in the Shadow of the...
See on Scoop.it - Archaeology News Archaeology in Jerusalem - Past and Present, the place of archaeology in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and alternative archaeological tours in Silwan - City of David. See on alt-arch.org
Moorgate Mill, Blackburn | Wessex Archaeology
See on Scoop.it - Archaeology News Wessex Archaeology have offices in Salisbury, Sheffield, Rochester and Edinburgh. We are one of the UK’s leading heritage practices. The Sheffield Office has recently undertaken excavation and recording of the site of the former Moorgate Mill in Blackburn, adjacent to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. Excavation and documentary research revealed numerous...
11 Things You May Not Know About Ancient Egypt —...
See on Scoop.it - Archaeology News From the earliest recorded peace treaty to ancient board games, discover 11 surprising facts about the Gift of the Nile. (RT @sozmore: Things you might not know about ancient Egypt… See on history.com
Dunino Den: a Pictish ritual site?
See on Scoop.it - Archaeology News Some places associated with the ancient past have a special aura, a hint of the Otherworld. In Scotland, two places that really stand out are Doon Hill near Aberfoyle and the famous Callanish stones on the Isle of Lewis.Now Senchus ( the writer of the website on Early medieval Europe) adds Dunino Den in Fife. Elizabeth Sutherland in A Guide to the Pictish...
5000 year old Temple of Fire discovered at El...
See on Scoop.it - Archaeology News According to reports coming out of Peru, detailed in a report from the AFP, archaeologists have unearthed a previously undiscovered temple at the famous El Paraiso site, located not far from Lima, the capital city. See on pasthorizonspr.com
Curator's Choice: A ghostly reconstructed Viking...
See on Scoop.it - Archaeology News Bruce Blacklaw, of National Museums Scotland, picks his favourite piece from the storming new Vikings! exhibition in Edinburgh. David Connolly’s insight: The ghost of a ship! See on culture24.org.uk
RealSim Campus demo movie
See on Scoop.it - Archaeology Tools A video showing the detail and functionality associated with RealSim Campus models. RealSim combine, 3d survey data, photography, graphic design and the late… See on youtube.com
Article: The mosaics of Hagia Sophia by C. R....
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Sumerian Game - Royal Game of Ur
See on Scoop.it - Archaeology News In 1926-27, the British archeologist Leonard Woolley, while excavating in the royal tombs of Sumer (modern Iraq), discovered four game boards and a number of playing pieces. The tombs were in the city of Ur (in red on the map on the left), once the capital of Sumer about 2500 B.C., and the legendary home of the Biblical Abraham. This area is in the...
Dark Ages brooch goes on show
See on Scoop.it - Archaeology News A RARE Anglo-Saxon brooch unearthed in Oxfordshire has gone on show in Banbury. The piece of jewellery was found in West Hanney in 2009, has been loaned to the Banbury Museum until April 27 by Oxfordshire County Council’s museum service. The brooch, which dates from the 7th century, was discovered during a metal-detecting rally in West Hanney, near Wantage, in...
Amara West excavations 2013: the past from above
See on Scoop.it - Archaeology News Neal Spencer, British Museum After a test flight over Ernetta and our dig house, Susie Green - working with us to create three-dimensional visualisations of the town’s architecture - flew her photo… David Connolly’s insight: Kite Photography! See on blog.britishmuseum.org
Interpreting Archaeological Topography
See on Scoop.it - Archaeology Articles and Books Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS), or lidar, is an enormously important innovation for data collection and interpretation in archaeology. See on oxbowbooks.com
Confirmation that Near East farmers bring...
See on Scoop.it - Archaeology News Archaeologists have long debated how farming spread into Europe; the first agrarian societies appeared in the 7th millennium BCE, attested by one of the earliest farming sites of Europe, discovered in Vashtëmi in southern Albania See on pasthorizonspr.com
Archaeo News Podcast 225 : Past Horizons...
See on Scoop.it - Archaeology News Californian rock carvings recovered after theft Native Americans built massive mound in less than 90 days Guernsey Neolithic grave protection plan submitted Ancient rock art uncovered in the Scottish Highlands See on pasthorizonspr.com
Serbian cave produces oldest human ancestor in...
See on Scoop.it - Archaeology News A fragment of lower jaw recovered from a Serbian cave has now been dated as the oldest hominin ancestor found in this part of Europe. The fossil was dated to between 397,000 and 525,000 years old, a time when distinctly Neanderthal traits began to appear in Europe. The evolution of these traits was strongly influenced by periodic isolation of groups of...
Oxford man arrested on charge he sold prized...
See on Scoop.it - Archaeology News Oxford — A historic souvenir a Michigan soldier brought back from the Korean War has led to the arrest of an Oxford man on charges of illegally selling a Korean artifact. David Connolly’s insight: gotcha See on detroitnews.com
Penn Museum hosts 'Fifty Shades of Pompeii'
See on Scoop.it - Archaeology News The Penn Museum offered an alternative approach to Valentine’s Day on Tuesday with a lecture entitled “Fifty Shades of Pompeii.” “The museum asked me to speak about ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ as seen through the lens of Greece and Rome,” began C. Brian Rose, professor of classical archaeology and curator-in-charge of the Mediterranean Section of the Penn Museum....
'An important piece of American history has been...
See on Scoop.it - Archaeology News In a landmark essay in Die Tonkunst, Professor Robert Whitehouse Eshbach of the University of New Hampshire describes the struggle to save the house that Charles Ives built, a struggle that provoked international attention … See on artsjournal.com
Welcome to the Posthole! | The Post Hole
See on Scoop.it - Archaeology News The Post Hole is an archaeology journal run by students at the University of York (UK). It publishes articles on a wide range of archaeological topics, from prehistory to the present day, giving readers the latest news, research and events in the world of archaeology, heritage and archaeological science. Issues are released via our website at the start of each...
Peru archaeologists find 5,000yo temple - ABC News...
See on Scoop.it - Archaeology News Peruvian archaeologists have discovered a temple believed to be about 5,000 years old. See on abc.net.au
Babylonians were much like us, says new book
See on Scoop.it - Archaeology Articles and Books In a new book about Babylonian laborers of the 14th and 13th centuries, B.C., assistant professor Jonathan Tenney asserts that whether they were slaves or not, they lived in nuclear families. They got married, had children, made beer. Although they lived 3,500 years ago in Nippur, Babylonia, in many ways they seem like us. Whether they were also...
