Showing posts with label excavation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label excavation. Show all posts
Friday, July 20, 2012

Paleolithic plaque

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A cave called El Sidrón ( 3rd image ), discovered in northern Spain in 1994, continues to yield rich evidence of occupation by Nean...
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Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Middle age vampires!

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  The deciding factor in what to blog about today is the poorly-worded translation in a Bulgarian newspaper about medieval skeletons un...
Saturday, May 26, 2012

Geißenklösterle flute

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  Since the 1st archaeological exploration of Geißenklösterle cave ( photo of the entrance here ) in 1963, it has offered several superl...
Friday, April 6, 2012

Huge

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I have blogged about petroglyphs before ( see Scratchings and "TRENT" ), but never about geoglyphs , either the well-known Nazca...
Saturday, March 24, 2012

What the teeth tell us

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There is a group of pervasive extinct mammals you've likely never heard of (I hadn't): multituberculates . They made their appearanc...
Saturday, February 25, 2012

Earliest artificial eye

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The world's earliest prosthetic eye was worn by an ancient Persian priestess. The female soothsayer stood 6' (1.82m) tall, and the ...
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Sunday, February 12, 2012

In the trenches

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German soldiers of the 6th Company, 94th Reserve Infantry Regiment hunkered down in an underground shelter on the Western Front in the A...
Saturday, January 14, 2012

Doughboy dog tags

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Frenchmen Michael Jean Toussaint and Claude Fonderflick have been using metal detectors to search for artifacts on World War I battlefields...
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Friday, December 9, 2011

Knock knock

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A remarkable find has been made in Barley, Lancashire, U.K. In advance of digging by United Utilities near Lower Black Moss reservoir, archa...
Sunday, November 13, 2011

Skeletal affection

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1st image ) A woman and 2 children laid to rest embracing on a bed of flowers 5,000 years ago in what is now the barren Sahara Desert. The ...
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Saturday, October 22, 2011

Stone Age studio

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An interesting find has been made in South Africa's Blombos Cave ( 1st image ). A team of researchers from the universities of Bergen a...
Saturday, September 3, 2011

Topsy-turvy

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A pyramid of mummies, some in very unusual postures, has been found far from Egypt. During restoration work to the northern Italian ...
Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Crannogs and roundhouses

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Today's post was inspired by the newly-revealed fact the people of the Iron Age * decorated the walls of their dwellings, as can be seen...
Friday, July 29, 2011

71 years ago

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This rosy-cheeked young man is 27-year-old Royal Canadian Air Force pilot Ted Bates of Guelph , Ontario. O n Dec. 12, 1940, he was sent up o...
Monday, July 18, 2011

Underwater automobiles

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Ascona, Switzerland (1st image) A 1925 Bugatti Brescia Type 22 Roadster ( here's one being driven by French racer René Dreyfus, who wo...
Thursday, July 7, 2011

Skull surfaces

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Presbyterian widow Julia Martha Thomas lived just 90m from a pub called the Hole in the Wall in the Richmond area of South London. She hired...
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Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Rare earths

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Like warnings about the world's dwindling supply of helium , essential for operating MRI machines, news about the limited sources of r...