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- Archaeologists Return to Investigate Viking Period Site in Gotland
- Archaeology: Part of ancient fortress wall of Philippolis found in Bulgaria’s Plovdiv
- Tools of a kind
- Bronze Age boats discovered at a quarry in Whittlesey
- The earth mother of all neolithic discoveries
| Archaeologists Return to Investigate Viking Period Site in Gotland Posted: 11 Dec 2011 06:35 AM PST he world's largest silver hoard was discovered in an agricultural field on an island in Scandinavia. The hoard weighed about 67 kilos, consisting of two caches about 3 meters apart. Dated to the 9th century AD, the hoard boasted a pure silver cache of more than 14,200 coins and nearly 500 silver arm rings and other objects, placed in wooden boxes beneath the floor of a Viking Age house structure. Related to this discovery was another find of bronze objects, weighing as much as 20 kilos, also placed in a wooden box. The island, known as Gotland, is a part of Sweden and situated in the middle of the Baltic Sea. It sports a rich heritage when it comes to the Early Middle Ages and the time of the Vikings. In terms of trade, it occupied a uniquely strategic trading position for the flow of goods east and west between Scandinavia and other parts of Europe, enriching its inhabitants with luxury goods that otherwise would have eluded their reach. To the Vikings, it was a place of settlement. No place in Scandinavia can compare to the massive amount of Viking artifacts that have been discovered here over the last 200 years. And no region has yielded as many silver hoards as Gotland. In fact, more then 700 hundred hoards, with more than 150,000 silver coins from countries as far away as the Arabic world, have testified to the significance of this island during the Viking Age. Read the rest of this article...  |
| Archaeology: Part of ancient fortress wall of Philippolis found in Bulgaria’s Plovdiv Posted: 11 Dec 2011 01:19 AM PST Part of the ancient fortress wall of Philippopolis was discovered during excavations by EVN Heating in the centre of Plovdiv, Bulgarian National Television said on December 9 2011. The find, however, will not be exhibited because the roadway has to be covered over again, the report said. Workers who were installing a heating pipeline made the find and stopped work immediately so that archaeologists could carry out an examination of the section of the fortress wall, which is about 50m long and close to two metres wide. The find gives a new insight to the topography of ancient Phiippopolis. Read the rest of this article...  |
| Posted: 11 Dec 2011 01:18 AM PST Culturally speaking, ancient East Africans were a stone's throw away from southern Arabia. Stone tools collected at several sites along a plateau in Oman, which date to roughly 106,000 years ago, match elongated cutting implements previously found at East African sites from around the same time, say archaeologist Jeffrey Rose of the University of Birmingham, England, and his colleagues. New finds also include cores — or rocks from which tools were pounded off with a hammer stone — that correspond to East African specimens, the researchers report online November 30 in PLoS ONE. East African sites that have yielded these distinctive stone artifacts extend southward along the Nile River to the Horn of Africa. Read the rest of this article...  |
| Bronze Age boats discovered at a quarry in Whittlesey Posted: 11 Dec 2011 01:17 AM PST Bronze Age boats, spears and clothing dating back 3,000 years and described as the "finds of a lifetime" have been discovered near Peterborough. The objects, discovered at one of the most significant Bronze Age sites in Britain, have been perfectly preserved in peat and silt. It is thought the settlement burned down in about 800 BC. Read the rest of this article...  |
| The earth mother of all neolithic discoveries Posted: 11 Dec 2011 01:15 AM PST French archaeologists have discovered an extremely rare example of a neolithic "earth mother" figurine on the banks of the river Somme. The 6,000-year-old statuette is 8in high, with imposing buttocks and hips but stubby arms and a cone-like head. Similar figures have been found before in Europe but rarely so far north and seldom in such a complete and well-preserved condition. The "lady of Villers-Carbonnel", as she has been named, can make two claims to be an "earth mother". She was fired from local earth or clay and closely resembles figurines with similar, stylised female bodies found around the Mediterranean. Read the rest of this article...  |
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