February 2012
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January 2012
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Featured Blog: Looting Matters →
mouthyheritage:
If you’ve been paying attention, you’ll probably have figured out that David Gill is our current golden boy in the cultural heritage blogosphere. Last week he accepted the Archaeological Institute of America’s Outstanding Public Service Award (aka the archaeology Oscar) and earlier this year he moved from Swansea University to be professor of archaeological heritage at University...
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December 2011
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Top 10 Ancient History News of 2011 →
archaeology:
Egyptian Museum, gladiators, Roman latrines, Valley of the Kings & more.
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I Heart Chaos: Pet dog from 30,000 years ago... →
iheartchaos:
This is the skull of someone’s pet dog from more than 30,000 years ago, buried with a mastodon bone clenched in its teeth. Found in Czech Republic by archaeologist Mietje Germonpré of Belgium’s Museum of Natural History and colleagues, it’s one of three canid crania they discovered from the…
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October 2011
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AIA to Unveil New Google Earth Layer on National... →
quidquid:
On Saturday, October 22, National Archaeology Day, the AIA will present a new Google Earth layer displaying popular archaeological sites located throughout the United States and Canada in conjunction with Google Earth.
In African Cave, Signs of an Ancient Paint Factory →
quidquid:
Pretty awesome stuff!
“Digging deeper in a South African cave that had already yielded surprises from the Middle Stone Age, archaeologists have uncovered a 100,000-year-old workshop holding the tools and ingredients with which early modern humans apparently mixed some of the first known paint.”
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What do you call an archaeologist sitting in the...
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September 2011
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Classicist Mary Beard asks Do the Classics Have a... →
Anyone in the NYC area! Mary Beard is coming to the NYPL in November. I will be sure to go!
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I know this is sideways, I’m not sure how to fix it…
Fresco from the House of Livia (Livia was the third wife of emperor Augustus), Palatine Hill, Rome, Museo Nazionale Romano
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August 2011
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In a Jerusalem tunnel, a glimpse of an ancient war →
“JERUSALEM (AP) — The excavation of an ancient drainage tunnel beneath Jerusalem has yielded a sword, oil lamps, pots and coins abandoned during a war here 2,000 years ago, archaeologists said Monday, suggesting the finds were debris from a pivotal episode in the city’s history when rebels hid from Roman soldiers crushing a Jewish revolt.
The tunnel was built two millennia ago...
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