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• Investigating the isotopes of the Blick Mead dog

  29-07-2019 20:30 via archaeology.co.uk
  The single canine tooth recovered from the Blick Mead Mesolithic ‘home-base’ in 2016. (IMAGE: Jeff Veitch)In 2016, a single canine tooth was found at Blick Mead – a major Mesolithic site 2km from Stonehenge (see CA 271, 293, 324, and 325). Now further isotopic analyses have revealed a complicated picture of the dog’s diet and possible migration patterns.
  With no human remains recovered from the site, this canine tooth – indirectly dated to c.4989-4808 BC – has
  
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• Shape shifting protocells hint at the mechanics of early life

  29-07-2019 20:18
  Inspired by the processes of cellular differentiation observed in developmental biology, an interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Bristol have demonstrated a new spontaneous approach to building communities of cell-like entities (protocells) using chemical gradients.Optical (top) and fluorescence (bottom) microscopy images of a protocell community showing four protocell types producedspontaneously in an...[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, ot
  
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• Using artificial intelligence to fill in gaps in ancient texts

  29-07-2019 20:10
  A single character can often make the difference between a clear-cut reading and a puzzling conundrum. Enrique Jiménez, a specialist in Ancient Near Eastern Studies, is engaged on the reconstruction of the beginnings of world literature. Mesopotamia was home to the first true civilization, and a rich and bilingual literary culture had appeared there by around the year 2500 BCE. Its texts were written in cuneiform script on clay tablets...[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website
  
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• Doric temple antefix discovered in Pompeii

  29-07-2019 20:06
  The ongoing research in the Triangular Forum of ancient Pompeii continues to offer surprises. An antefix depicting the goddess Athena decorating a Doric temple and dating from the end of the 4th century BC is particularly striking.Pompeii, antefix of Athena of the end of the 4th century BC[Credit: La Repubblica]In addition to the divinity, the excavations in progress in the sanctuary of Athena, in collaboration with the University...[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full li
  
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• Massive 500kg sauropod femur found in France

  29-07-2019 19:41
  The thigh bone of a giant dinosaur has been found by paleontologists working at a site in the Charente in south west France.The bone was discovered earlier in the week during excavations at the palaeontological siteof Angeac-Charente near Châteauneuf-sur- Charente, southwestern France[Credit: Georges Gobet/AFP]The two-metre long femur, which weighs half a tonne, was found in 140 million-year-old former marshland now in the...[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full
  
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• 3,300-year-old Bronze Age settlement found in NW China's Xinjiang

  29-07-2019 19:41
  A large-scale Bronze Age settlement site has been discovered recently along the bank of a lake in Kazak Autonomous County of Barkol, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the first of its kind ever found in the region.Credit: China News
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• Illyrian God of War temple found in Montenegro

  29-07-2019 19:40
  Polish archaeologists have discovered a temple dedicated to the Illyrian God of War in what is now Montenegro.Archaeologists’ theory that the town of Rhizon hypothesised that Rhizon had once containeda shrine to Medaurus, a protective god worshipped by the Illyrians has been confirmed[Credit: M. Lemke/UW]It was found by a team from the University of Warsaw’s Centre for Research on the Antiquity of South-eastern Europe, which has...[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website f
  
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• 10,000-year-old engraved 'pebble' found near Rome said to be earliest known lunar calendar

  29-07-2019 19:40
  The oldest known lunar calendar may be an engraved pebble dating back to the Upper Palaeolithic found in Velletri, in the Alban Hills, south of Rome. The news has been announced by Flavio Altamura, a researcher at the Department of Antiquities of Sapienza University, who analyzed this enigmatic object in collaboration with the Superintendency for Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape in the Rome Metropolitan Area, the Province of...[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full link
  
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• Pieces of Buddhist text discovered in Afghanistan's Mes Aynak

  29-07-2019 19:19
  Pieces of a Buddhist manuscript believed to date back to around the seventh century discovered at the ancient settlement Mes Aynak near Kabul suggest the site was a prosperous Buddhist city, an Afghan archaeological institute revealed.Pieces of Buddhist scriptures found at the Mes Aynak ruinsin Afghanistan [Credit: Kyodo]
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• Neolithic 'standing stones' uncovered on building site in Sion, Switzerland

  29-07-2019 19:18
  Six aligned standing stones have been discovered on a building site in Sion, southwest Switzerland, in what local authorities call an important archaeological find. 
  This view of the site shows the alignment of the standing stonesthat have been found [Credit: SBMA-ARIA SA]“This discovery is of prime importance to help us understand social rituals at the end of the Neolithic period (around 2,500BC) in central Europe,” says a...[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website f
  
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• Archaeologists document the oldest known forerunners of fresco paintings in the Mediterranean region

  29-07-2019 19:08
  Researchers from the Universities of Beirut and Tübingen have analyzed 4000-year-old murals in a Bronze Age palace in Lebanon.Floor paintings with botanical motif [Credit : Universität Tübingen]
  (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});Archaeologists from the American University of Beirut and the University of Tübingen have documented the oldest large-area wall paintings from the Ancient Near East. The first parts of the...[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my
  
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• All that Glitters 7: the slight return

  29-07-2019 05:31 via tenthmedieval.wordpress.com
  With due respect thus paid to events that have overtaken us, I return to my sort-of-scheduled programming here at A Corner of Tenth-Century Europe and also to the subject of Byzantine coinage, from which it seems I will probably never entirely escape. And why indeed would one want to? But I can bring one thing to a close with this post, which is my reports on the experiments that my collaborators and I did on the All That Glitters project analysing Byzantine gold coins by X-ray Fluorescence of w
  
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• A sign of communal sophistication revealed by finds in Neolithic site of Koutroulou Magoula, Central Greece

  29-07-2019 00:12
  A large, Middle Neolithic building was found at the top of the Koutroulou Magoula Neolithic settlement in Central Greece during this year's excavation season, archaeologists said on Friday.Credit: Dr Nina Kyparissi-Apostolika,Ephorate
  of Palaeoanthropology and SpeleologyThe building has stone walls measuring a total of 9.5 m in length and nearly 8.5 m wide, and is one of the largest of this period to be found in Greece. It also...[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full
  
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