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Kyrenia Shipwreck Project

February 17, 2012 / Education, Excavation, Film & TV
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“For more than two millennia the wood fragments of the Kyrenia shipwreck remained on the sea floor, eaten by worms and soaking up seawater until they had the consistency of wet cardboard. There were some 6,000 pieces in all, and Richard “Dick” Steffy’s job was to put them all back together in their original shape like some massive, ancient jigsaw puzzle.” – Dr. George F. Bass Founder of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (http://inadiscover.com/) In a series of still photos [...]

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Iarcuri – Jadani – Cornesti

February 16, 2012 / Excavation, Featured, Film & TV, News
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Short documentary on the site of Cornesti in Romania For more on this site:

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Excavating in the Archaeology Lab at USC Dornsife

February 14, 2012 / Excavation, Travel
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Former USC Dornsife students talk about their experiences excavating materials from Khirbet Mazra’a. This site in Israel was first excavated in 1968 by USC professors and all the materials (except human remains) are stored in the Arc lab at USC. Video by: Mira Zimet

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Dranagh Mountain Archaeology

February 14, 2012 / Excavation
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An Introduction to the archaeology of Dranagh Mountain, a west facing spur on the south western end of the Blackstairs Mountains in County Carlow, Ireland. This mountain caught fire in the summer of 2010 which revealed a multitude of unrecorded archaeological sites which were recorded and mapped in the summer of 2011 as part of his MA thesis. http://www.youtube.com/user/neolithicfarmer

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Project Eliseg, Day Fourteen 2011. Pillar of Eliseg

February 11, 2012 / Excavation
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Our last daily blog illustrates the work that goes into backfilling the trench. We also speak with the dig directors about our second season at the Pillar of Eliseg. It should be noted that a full video of the archaeology will be provided at a later date. Joseph Tong, 2011. Project Eliseg Media Supervisor. Read all about it here: Project Eliseg: Digging for early medieval myths and memories

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Undo Cave Official Trailer HD – Archaeology at University College Cork

February 7, 2012 / Excavation
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Rod Pinhasi’s research interests include the Middle-Upper Palaeolithic transition in the Transcaucasus, the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Europe, and the evolution and dispersal of early Holocene populations.The principal objective of the project is to develop chronometrically dated regional archaeological sequences Middle and early Upper Palaeolithic of the Caucasus (~125-30 ka) and to date all available hominin fossils that are associated with archaeological finds from this temporal phase. Other projects include an investigation of the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition, demic diffusion, and dispersals in [...]

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In search of shipwreck Royal Charlotte

January 25, 2012 / Excavation
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On 4 January 2012, an Australian National Maritime Museum archaeological expedition team set out to Frederick Reef in the Coral Sea to locate the remains of the India bound ship Royal Charlotte, shipwrecked in 1825. With great success the team did find the remains of the wreck, including an anchor chain, anchor and cannon. Enjoy this amazing underwater footage of the dive team during their search of the wreck. Read the Maritime Archaeology blog for daily logs of the expedition: [...]

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Discovering Ancient Italy’s Etruscan and Roman Coast with Earthwatch

January 24, 2012 / Excavation, Travel
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Volunteer video and slideshow of pictures taken on our archaeological expedition in Italy. For more information, visit www.earthwatch.org/exped/camilli.html You will also find many more projects on the PROJECT SEARCH from Past Horizons

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Passport in Time: Volunteers Unlock the Past of Scull Shoals

January 22, 2012 / Excavation
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Passport in Time volunteers from across five states joined Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forests staff in revealing this fascinating feature in the ruins of the Historic Scull Shoals Mill Village located on the Oconee NF in central Georgia. http://www.passportintime.com/

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Archaeologists Find Viking Burial Site

January 18, 2012 / Excavation, Featured, News
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Archaeologists said on October 19th 2011 that they have discovered the remains of a high status Viking buried with his boat, axe, sword and spear on the remote Scottish peninsula of Ardnamurchan, one of the most significant Norse finds ever uncovered in Britain. You can read more about it here: Boat burial of Viking warrior: A 1000 year old story uncovered

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Passport In Time: Finding Aurora’s Chinese

January 14, 2012 / Excavation, Featured
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Volunteers worked on an excavation “Passport In Time” project in Aurora, Nevada to uncover information about the Chinese immigrants in a ghost town that, during the 1860′s, was the second largest city between the Sierra Nevada’s and the Mississippi. Aurora was also host to some of Nevada’s earliest Chinese immigrants that lived and worked in the western town. Volunteers of The Passport in Time project worked to uncover more information about the lives of Aurora’s Chinese inhabitants through excavations on [...]

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More Digging…and some more…and some bones.. Boston Big Dig

January 10, 2012 / Excavation
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An assortment of clips from the first week of digging, this time on the Butchery Trench. Read more here: http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/01/2012/boston-big-dig The excavations were carried out under the guidance of professional archaeologists from Network Archaeology as part of the ‘Boston Big Dig’ funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund in partnership with Heritage Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire County Council and Boston Borough Council.

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Orkney Gateway to the Atlantic Project Episode 13

January 5, 2012 / Excavation, Film & TV
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The second season of this international collaborative project draws together staff and students from University of Bradford, City University of New York and Orkney College UHI. The aim of this ongoing project is to enhance our understanding of human adaptation to changes in climate and environment, as well as cultural change due to contact and migration (such as the appearance in the archaeological record of Scandinavian culture in the Pictish / Norse transition). This year the focus is on two [...]

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Excavation into a Civil War Bombproof at Fort Pocahontas

January 4, 2012 / Excavation
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Archaeological work reveals the timbers from an underground bombproof structure at Confederate Fort Pocahontas, this is then followed by photographs of other bombproofs from the Civil War. A special thanks to Carson Hudson Jr. and Amy Miller for permission to use their rendition of the Civil War era song, “Was My Brother in the Battle?”, from their CD Hard Times Stephen Foster Remembered. http://www.facebook.com/historicjamestowne

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A1K1 Warrior Tomb – Greece

December 29, 2011 / Excavation
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With Antonis Kotsonas: Peek into the elaborate rock-cut tomb of 141 cremated individuals, all but two of whom were male warriors who received burials fit for Homeric heroes. Antonis Kotsonas 2008. The Archaeology of Tomb A1K1 of Orthi Petra in Eleutherna: The Early Iron Age Pottery, University of Crete, Athens

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