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- Archaeology: Remains of medieval church discovered in Bulgaria’s Sozopol
- Alderney ruin found to be Roman fort
- Archaeological discovery provides evidence of a celestial procession at Stonehenge
- When Humans First Plied the Deep Blue Sea
- Discovery of skull pierced by an arrowhead sparks murder mystery - 1,000 years later
- Archaeologists make new Stonehenge 'sun worship' find
| Archaeology: Remains of medieval church discovered in Bulgaria’s Sozopol Posted: 28 Nov 2011 10:19 AM PST Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a medieval church, said to date from some time in the 12th to 14th centuries, and the front gate of the ancient city on the location of today's Sozopol, on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast. The north wall and the apse of the church are just metres from the ancient fortress in the city, Bulgarian National Television said. The church is near today's St Cyril and Methodius church, which houses what are purported to be relics of John the Baptist, found on St Ivan island off the coast of Sozopol in summer 2010. Read the rest of this article...  |
| Alderney ruin found to be Roman fort Posted: 28 Nov 2011 10:18 AM PST An overgrown site on Alderney has been found to be one of the best-preserved Roman military structures in the world. A joint project between Guernsey Museums and the Alderney Society was set up in 2008 to find the answers. Over four August bank holiday weekends, a team of a dozen volunteers undertook various excavations to determine the history of the site. Read the rest of this article...  |
| Archaeological discovery provides evidence of a celestial procession at Stonehenge Posted: 28 Nov 2011 10:16 AM PST Archaeologists led by the University of Birmingham with the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection have discovered evidence of two huge pits positioned on celestial alignment at Stonehenge. Shedding new light on the significant association of the monument with the sun, these pits may have contained tall stones, wooden posts or even fires to mark its rising and setting and could have defined a processional route used by agriculturalists to celebrate the passage of the sun across the sky at the summer solstice. Positioned within the Cursus pathway, the pits are on alignment towards midsummer sunrise and sunset when viewed from the Heel Stone, the enigmatic stone standing just outside the entrance to Stonehenge. For the first time, this discovery may directly link the rituals and celestial phenomena at Stonehenge to activities within the Cursus. The international archaeological survey team, led by the University of Birmingham's IBM Visual and Spatial Technology Centre (VISTA), with the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archaeology in Vienna (LBI ArchPro) have also discovered a previously unknown gap in the middle of the northern side of the Cursus, which may have provided the main entrance and exit point for processions that took place within the pathway. Stretching from west to east, the Cursus is an immense linear enclosure, 100 metres wide and two and a half kilometres across, north of Stonehenge. Read the rest of this article...  |
| When Humans First Plied the Deep Blue Sea Posted: 28 Nov 2011 10:14 AM PST In a shallow cave on an island north of Australia, researchers have made a surprising discovery: the 42,000-year-old bones of tuna and sharks that were clearly brought there by human hands. The find, reported online today in Science, provides the strongest evidence yet that people were deep-sea fishing so long ago. And those maritime skills may have allowed the inhabitants of this region to colonize lands far and wide. The earliest known boats, found in France and the Netherlands, are only 10,000 years old, but archaeologists know they don't tell the whole story. Wood and other common boat-building materials don't preserve well in the archaeological record. And the colonization of Australia and the nearby islands of Southeast Asia, which began at least 45,000 years ago, required sea crossings of at least 30 kilometers. Yet whether these early migrants put out to sea deliberately in boats or simply drifted with the tides in rafts meant for near-shore exploration has been a matter of fierce debate. Read the rest of this article...  |
| Discovery of skull pierced by an arrowhead sparks murder mystery - 1,000 years later Posted: 28 Nov 2011 10:12 AM PST The discovery of a skull pierced by an iron arrowhead as part of skeleton remains found in a shallow grave has sparked a murder mystery in a Galway village – 1,000 years after the gruesome assault! Recent quarrying in an esker in the townland of Tisaxon, close to Newcastle, Athenry, revealed human remains exposed in the quarry face. The archaeological work has just been completed by local archaeologist Martin Fitzpatrick of Arch Consultancy Ltd, who was funded by the National Monuments Service, which comes under the remit of Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Jimmy Deenihan. Excavation indicated that the burial was in a shallow grave and the body, which was that of an adult male aged between 17 and 25. The body was lying on its side and crouched rather than having been laid out. Read the rest of this article...  |
| Archaeologists make new Stonehenge 'sun worship' find Posted: 28 Nov 2011 10:10 AM PST Two previously undiscovered pits have been found at Stonehenge which point to it once being used as a place of sun worship before the stones were erected. An international archaeological survey team found the pits as part of the Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project. The team is using geophysical imaging techniques to investigate the site. Read the rest of this article...  |
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