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• Remains of large Byzantine church unearthed in Pisidia

  19-10-2016 21:34
  
  A large church in the ancient city of Pisidian Antioch, located in the southern Turkish province of Isparta, has finally been unearthed after three years of work. The church, built in the sixth century, is believed to have been destroyed during a fire in the 11th or 12th century.Excavation of the sixth century Byzantine church at Pisidia [Credit: AA]The head of the Pisidia excavations, Süleyman Demirel University Archaeology...
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• This bonfire of the A-levels is torching our culture and history | Letters

  19-10-2016 21:04
  
  First they came for the art historians. And then got stuck into the archaeologists and the classicists before most of us had time to draw breath (Burying A-level archaeology is barbarism, says Tony Robinson, 18 October). And what for? Well, apparently because it’s difficult to set the examination grade boundaries on small-scale subjects. So those responsible for deciding what the brains of future Britons will contain definitively believe that carts come before horses. Related: Ditching cla
  
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• Monkeys smash theory that only humans can make sharp stone tools

  19-10-2016 19:00
  
  Capuchins observed producing razor-edged stone pieces similar to earliest known hominin tools, rewriting view that only humans create such artefactsMonkeys have been observed producing sharp stone flakes that closely resemble the earliest known tools made by our ancient relatives, proving that this ability is not uniquely human.Previously, modifying stones to create razor-edged fragments was thought to be an activity confined to hominins, the family including early humans and their more primitiv
  
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• The Wreck of the Thesis

  19-10-2016 16:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  A volunteer diver investigates the wreckThe Thesis is a wreck of a 19th-century steamship that sank in 1889 in the Sound of Mull. From 1994 to 2005 the Sound of Mull archaeological Project run by the Nautical Archaeology Society planned the wreck out in detail and undertook a sidescan sonar survey. Wessex Archaeology visited the wreck briefly during the 2014 and 2015 fieldwork season of project SAMPHIRE and noted that the external hull of the bow structure had collapsed inwards. After some inve
  
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• Ditching classics at A-level is little short of a tragedy | Natalie Haynes

  19-10-2016 12:54
  
  Classics underpins much of the modern world; the AQA exam board’s decision to end A-levels in classical civilisation, archaeology and history of art is lamentableI received a press release for a screening of Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq yesterday, an astonishing reworking of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata set among the modern-day gangs of Chicago (the death toll is so high that the residents name their city “Chi-Raq”, as though it were a warzone). It is certainly the best adaptati
  
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