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POPSAmelia Earhart's Final Resting Place Believed Found According to Gillespie, who is set to embark on a new $500,000 Nikumaroro expedition next summer, the two became castaways and eventually died there. "We know that in 1940 British Colonial Service officer Gerald Gallagher recovered a partial skeleton of a castaway on Nikumaroro. Unfortunately, those bones have now been lost," Gillespie said. The archival record by Gallagher suggests that the bones were found in a remote area of the island, in a place that was unlikely to have been seen during an aerial search. A woman's shoe, an empty bottle and a sextant box whose serial numbers are consistent with a type known to have been carried by Noonan were all found near the site where the bones were discovered. "The reason why they found a partial skeleton is that many of the bones had been carried off by giant coconut crabs. There is a remote chance that some of the bones might still survive deep in crab burrows," Gillespie said.
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POPSNative American Artifact Looting The high desert of the Four Corners region was home to a flourishing Native American civilization centuries before European exploration, and traces of these inhabitants are found throughout the canyons and mesas of the Southwest, preserved by the arid air inside caves, on rock faces and in towering cliff houses.
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POPSCavern dig uncovers 15,000-year-old weapon more: "Many Torbay residents know Kents Cavern as a tourist attraction, but I don't think many realise just how important an archaeological site the caves are, not just in Britain but in Europe, and it is the oldest Scheduled Ancient Monument in Britain, with evidence of human occupation dating back half a million years — and as such it's the oldest recognisable human dwelling in the entire country."
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POPSMajor pre-Columbian sites found in Puerto Rico more (at source): The plaza may contain other artifacts dating from 600 A.D. to 1500 A.D., including piles of refuse from daily life, Rivera said. "I have visited many sites and have never seen a plaza of that magnitude and of those dimensions and with such elaborate petroglyphs," said Miguel Rodriguez, member of the government's archaeological council and director of a graduate school in Puerto Rico that specializes in history and humanities. He is not involved in the excavation project. Archeologists have known since 1985 that the area contained indigenous artifacts. But their extent and significance only became clear this month when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began work on removing them so the land could be used for a dam project.
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POPSAmazing Unexplained Artifacts Part 1 I thought this was a very interesting article, but there was too much to put into 1 post so I separated it into a couple parts. (and the Dropa stones are believed to be more than 10,000 years old)
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POPSHuman sacrifice at Cahokia Mounds? more (at source): But the "virgins" angle may be a bit of an overstatement, said Pauketat, but not by much. "In the book I do not use the word virgin. I used female sacrifices," he said, noting that close study of the pelvic area of some of 53 female skeletons found in a huge pit below the mound showed clear signs of childbirth. "They were selecting women of a certain age, but it's not like they're selecting virgins," he said. Most of the sacrificial victims were in their early 20s, he said.
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POPSGolan Levin and Collaborators Just had this thought, watching Golan levin's art, that our humanity is made of meaning. meaning, we find that which is meaningful in close proximity to us. whether it is an eye on a moving stock. or shapes generated by software, it is NOT not like us. I find this thought worth further development.
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POPSAncient Theater Masks Rediscovered in Pompeii more: According to Borriello, the fact that the large plaster masks were all dug up in the same place, might suggest they belonged to an artisan's workshop. A closer look at the artifacts revealed that the plaster was carefully hand-worked. Moreover, some of the masks have their mouth shut, a clear indication that they were used as models for a craftsman who then produced lighter masks for actors to wear.
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POPSWhat's trashed at Arlington National Cemetery
Left out in the rain to rot were crayon drawings by children who had lost a parent, photographs of soldiers with their babies, painted portraits and thank-you notes from grade-school kids to fallen soldiers they had never known. Colors of artworks ran together. Photos were blurred and wilted. Poems and letters were illegible wads of wet paper. A worker in a brown uniform wandered among the graves, blasting the headstones with a power washer without regard to what was left of the mementos -- or the obviously uncomfortable mourners looking on. Some items got further soaked. The worker blasted others across the grass. Many of them would end up in a black trash bin in the cemetery's service area. Arlington's poor treatment of the mementos and gifts -- testaments to the personal cost of the post-9/11 wars in the Middle East -- appeared to stand in contrast to practices at other cemeteries. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, which runs 130 cemeteries across the country, asks people
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POPSRare Indian artifcats found on Lisbon property more (at source): The state Office of Archaeology has excavated portions of the property and found hundreds of artifacts, from stone tools to evidence of a pit where cremated bodies were buried. Radiocarbon dating a method used to estimate the age of remains in an archaeological site places the time of two areas containing charcoal at 3,400 and 4,000 years ago. Representatives of the Mohegan and Mashantucket Pequots tribes and the Native American Heritage Advisory Council have visited the site. The Archaeological Conservancy, a private, nonprofit organization that acquires and permanently preserves important archaeological sites across the United States, has looked at it. The conservancy publishes the quarterly magazine American Archaeology.
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POPSKlockwerks klocks by Roger Wood- I wanted to share the mad creations of a fellow anachrotechnofetishist and online friend of mine- sign up for his newsletter- his klockmaking skills are unsurpassed for their originality and beauty
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POPSArchaeological Institute of America more : Your membership gives you * Affiliation with an AIA Society, enabling you to share the latest discoveries and meet the archaeologists who are changing the way we look at the past * Volunteer and leadership opportunities within the AIA on both a local and national level * The AIA Newsletter, an insider's look at the organization and its latest efforts to promote the understanding of our shared history * Resources and contacts within the worldwide archaeological community * 30% discount on Annual Meeting registration * 20% discount on AIA merchandise * Deeply discounted subscriptions to Archaeology Magazine and select Institute publications * An exclusive membership decal and magnet to display your connection to America's oldest and largest archaeological organization * Special AIA member discounts at museums across the country. Click here for a full listing of participating museums.
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POPSExtraordinary Artifacts More than 20 of them have turned up across the American West, including one unearthed in a Colorado backyard in 2008. They have been found by construction crews, artifact collectors, and in one case by a man hand-digging an irrigation canal.
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POPS"Ancient Art, Music Flowered as Communities, Not Brains, Grew " more (at source): “People learn from their parents or teachers in their group, and this model demonstrates you have to have a critical number of people learning to develop complexity,” Adam Powell, 28, a co-author of the study and a doctoral student at the London university. “The actual invention of all these technologies was probably very common, but was only passed on as density increased.”
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POPSAbraham Lincoln Great stuff for us Lincoln scholars. Heres the link; http://www.gilderlehrman.org/collection/online/lincoln_words/
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POPSAncient Hebrew Artifact Found On Jerusalem's Mount Of Olives The inscription also includes a partly intact letter, the Hebrew character "lamed," meaning "to." That suggests the jar was a gift to someone named Menachem, said Ron Beeri, who directed the excavation for the Israel Antiquities Authority. There is no indication the inscription refers to the king himself. The name and similar variants have been found on Egyptian pottery dating back 3,500 years, and the Bible lists Menachem Ben Gadi as an ancient king of Israel. But this is the first time an artifact bearing the name has been unearthed in Jerusalem, Beeri said.
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POPSScotland's First People Left Behind Big Game Toolkit "Secondly, it appears to represent a technological variant which has not been recognized anywhere else in Britain," he added, explaining that the style of the tools matches hunting implements from southern Denmark and northern Germany. It's now believed people from those regions made their way to Scotland via a large land bridge called Doggerland, which connected the island of Great Britain to mainland Europe during the last ice age. The individuals in this case likely belonged to the Hamburg culture, known for its reindeer-hunting prowess. Early Scotland supported herds of reindeer, along with mammoths, rhinos, horses and other large animals. The climate "fluctuated wildly" at the end of the ice age, resulting in more moderate temperatures, but also icy cold snaps that caused the reappearance of glaciers in the highlands.
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