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Limestone Landscapes: Community Archaeology

March 23, 2013 / Excavation, News
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We are helping local communities to discover more about their heritage through taking part in archaeology, learning the techniques of excavation and survey. Community excavations led by professional archaeologists are looking at sites in the area to date a range of sites to improve knowledge and understanding of the historic environment. There is also training in archaeological techniques for people in local areas. Search terms:arkeoloji limestone考古学コミュニティ

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Community Archaeology in the Beman Triangle

March 17, 2013 / Education, Excavation, News
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Wesleyan’s Sarah Croucher – Community Archaeology in the Beman Triangle Sarah Croucher is assistant professor of anthropology, assistant professor of archaeology at Wesleyan University. She works with her students on a community archaeology project in the “Beman Triangle” in Middletown, CT. The houses built on this land from the 1840s were home to a community of African Americans living in Middletown, tied to the A.M.E. Zion Church. Artifacts discovered in 19th century buried trash pits in the area shed new [...]

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Bronze Age Boat Build Falmouth

March 1, 2013 / News, Uncategorized
Views: 4,886

Part 8 of the Bronze Age Boat build in the National Maritime Museum Cornwall. Since the beginning of the year, Brian and the volunteers have really cracked on with the project and the boat is now all together and on its trailer. All that’s left to do now is to put all the stitches in and move the boat to its launch site. It is estimated that the boat will be launched sometime early March. Once again I would like [...]

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Archaeologists Discover Europe’s Oldest Town

November 5, 2012 / Excavation, News
Views: 35,461

Archaeologists in Bulgaria claim they have discovered Europe’s oldest town in the north-east of the country. Bulgarian archaeologists led by Professor Doctor Vasil Nikolov, from the National Archaeology Institute and Museum, claim to have discovered one of the oldest towns in Europe, in north-east Bulgaria. Dr. Nikolov, who has been studying the area for many years, located the town near the salt pans in the vicinity of Provadia in the Varna Region, the same locale as the first salt factory [...]

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17 Egyptian pyramids found by infra-red satellite images

October 12, 2012 / Excavation, Technology
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- BBC News – 2011 Seventeen lost pyramids are among the buildings identified in a new satellite survey of Egypt.More than 1,000 tombs and 3,000 ancient settlements were also revealed by looking at infra-red images which show up underground buildings. Initial excavations have already confirmed some of the findings, including two suspected pyramids. The research led by Dr Sarah Parcak from the University of Alabama at Birmingham Search terms:kizilotesi uydu goruntulerimısır piramitleri uydu görüntülerimısır piramitlerinin uzaydan görünümükızıl ötesi yeraltıkızılötesi yeraltı [...]

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Recent archaeological discoveries at Bradford Kaims, Northumberland UK

September 23, 2012 / Excavation, Film & TV
Views: 23,512

This video shows some of the remarkable features discovered as part of the Bradford Kaims Wetland Heritage Research Project. The site is located in the ancient prehistoric wetland landscape of Newham bog, near Lucker, Northumberland. This work was carried out by volunteers and students of Bamburgh Research Project, and was funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and English Heritage. This community archaeology project is open to people of all ages and abilities and we’d like to hear from you if [...]

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The Search For King Richard III – The Press Conference

September 13, 2012 / Excavation, Film & TV, News
Views: 24,727

The original video was removed. this is a replacement The University of Leicester and Leicester City Council, in association with the Richard III Society, have undertaken one of the most exciting archaeological investigations ever carried out. No less than a search for the bodily remains of the last Plantagenet King – Richard III – killed at the Battle of Bosworth. In this short film Co-Director of ULAS, Richard Buckley, gives his personal account of the Greyfriars Dig from an Archaeological [...]

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Cultural Heritage Project in Iraq – Part Two

September 5, 2012 / Education, Featured, Film & TV
Views: 16,729

In April 2009, Dr. Brian Rose, Deputy Director of the Penn Museum was invited by the State Department to help coordinate cultural preservation efforts in Iraq. Along with a team of army specialists and other cultural experts, Dr. Rose visited several cultural heritage sites across the country that experienced significant damage during the past wars. Among these sites was the ancient city of Ur, known as the cradle of civilization and the site of the biblical Garden of Eden. Abdul [...]

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Salish Bounty: Traditional Native American Foods of Puget Sound

August 31, 2012 / Education, Experimental, Film & TV
Views: 17,276

While there have been enormous changes in Coast Salish Native diet and culture over the centuries, a core value of food has survived: food is a blessing, gratefully and respectfully gathered and prepared, given and received with just as much gratification and respect. Search terms:ピューリッシュgeleneksel kızılderili yemekleri görseliセイリッシュ

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The Trojan War – Myth or Fact

August 28, 2012 / Education, Featured
Views: 13,847

Dr. C. Brian Rose, Deputy Director of the Penn Museum discusses excavations at Troy over the past twenty years. A new digital imaging technique shows a cross section of nine settlements dating from the beginning of the Bronze Age (ca. 3,000 B.C.) through the end of the Byzantine period (ca. 1400 A.D.) An excellent hour long lecture. - sit back and enjoy Search terms:de trojaanse oorlog mythemythe ou realite guerre de troytrojan war(mythology) director

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Mann-Simons Archaeology Project

August 15, 2012 / Education, Excavation, Featured, Film & TV
Views: 21,983

The Mann-Simons African American Archaeology Project was started in 2005 by Jakob Crockett (University of South Carolina—Columbia) in partnership with Historic Columbia Foundation. The primary objective of the archaeology is to determine how the material culture of the Mann-Simons family varied in relation to changes in both family structure and Columbia’s social environment throughout the nineteenth and twentieth century. At its most abstract, the primary goal is to understand the ways in which the material world is implicated in the [...]

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Arc-Team test: 4D in gvSIG for Archaeological excavations

July 16, 2012 / Featured, Technology
Views: 19,235

In this video it is possible to see two different kind of 3D (x,y,z) archaeological data, coming from an excavation and loaded in gvSIG: 1) 3D documentation of a grave 2) 3D reconstruction of the church in which the grave was found Considering a fourth dimension (t – time -) an archaeological documentation refers to the moment in which the archaeological evidence is registered (for the grave march 2010), while the 3D reconstruction refers to one of the phases of [...]

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Iron Age Nidderdale – Episode 1

June 27, 2012 / Excavation, Featured
Views: 15,440

Filmed and Edited by Fireforge Media – www.fireforgemedia.co.uk Fireforge Media Chronicles the regular work of the Iron Age Nidderdale Project in this regular Episodic Video Blog Documentary. Search terms:demir çağı belgeseli

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Cult and Religion as Understood from the Archaeological Finds

June 25, 2012 / Education, News
Views: 14,397

While large temples and other religious/cultic buildings are well known aspects of antiquity, the archaeological finds provide us evidence of the smaller aspects of cultic/religious customs. In this clip we speak about cultic evidence from the Philistine culture (from the site of Tell es-Safi/Gath) of ceramic vessels which were used for burning incense, including incense which had a narcotic effect. Archaeology & Land of Israel Studies: http://www1.biu.ac.il/indexE.php?id=6385&pt=1&pid=6382&level=3&am… Bar-Ilan University: http://www1.biu.ac.il/indexE.php

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Everyday Life from the Archaeological Record: Prof. Aren Maeir

June 25, 2012 / Education, News
Views: 13,624

Archaeology provides us with material evidence of past times, relating to ancient peoples and cultures. But it does not only provide us information about “big events” – such as conquests, migrations, destructions, etc. – but also of the daily life of people in antiquity. This includes mundane things such as what food people ate and how they prepared their food. In this clip we speak about evidence (from the site of Tell es-Safi/Gath) of what the Israelites and Philistines ate and how [...]

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