Flintoft told the Post that the discovery suggests that certain artefact deposits believed to remain unchanged are, in fact, constantly evolving.“Contemporary activities are leading to the contamination of a unique scientific resource,” he said.A bunch of microplastics is seen under a magnifying glass, they cannot be recycled and have become ubiquitous in the environment. Photo: ShutterstockMicroplastics are defined as plastic particles ranging from one-thousandth of a millimetre to 5mm…
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Telangana government signs MoU with NIMC to preserve heritage in the archaeology museum
HYDERABAD: The Telangana Department of Heritage signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Noor Microfilm International Centre (NIMC) on Friday, for the repair, conservation, digitisation, documentation, and cataloguing of the manuscripts, paintings, and documents housed in the Telangana State Archaeology Museum in the city. The MoU was inked by Bharati Hollikeri, Director of the Department of Heritage, and Dr Mehdi Khajeh Piri, Director of NIMC, in the presence of Shailaja Ramaiyer,…
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தமிழகத்தில் வழக்குகளால் தான் தொல்லியல் ஆய்வுகள் தொடர்கின்றன
சென்னை:தமிழகத்தில் வழக்குகளாலும், நீதிமன்ற தீர்ப்புகளாலும் தான், தொல்லியல் ஆய்வுகள் தொடர்கின்றன என சென்னை உயர் நீதிமன்ற முன்னாள் நீதிபதி கிருபாகரன் பேசினார்.மத்திய தொல்லியல் துறை…
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AI technologies, tools help Chinese archaeologists restore cultural relics, secure deals in antique trading market
Big models, robots, intelligent manufacturing, autonomous driving… In recent years, AI (artificial intelligence) has frequently made headlines around the world as a hot topic of discussion. The emergence of generative AI programs has also created unemployment anxiety.The development of technology has indeed brought challenges in various aspects such as in ethics and law. But at the same time, many experts advocate that humans should see technology as a tool created…
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Archaeologists unearth 5200-yearold Harappan settlement in Gujarat’s Kachchh district – INDIA – GENERAL
VIZHINJAM: A team of archaeologists, led by Assistant Professors of the Archaeology Department at Kerala University, Dr Abhayan GS and Dr Rajesh SV, discovered the remains of a 5200-year-old Harappan settlement at Padta Bet in the Kutch district of Gujarat.
Among the finds on the hillsides of Padta Bet are circular and rectangular buildings built in sandstone, pottery, artifacts and animal bones.
According to the researchers, these findings…
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Montpelier archaeologist assesses fire damage
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) – An archaeologist at James Madison’s Montpelier says work is being done around the clock to recover artifacts and records damaged in an April 8, 2024 fire.Director of Archaeology and Landscape Matt Reeves says it happened at Montpelier’s archaeology lab. He says some tools and other resources were lost in the fire, but can be replaced. As for the artifacts, reeves says there was some fire and soot damage.Reeves said with time and conservation, they can be…
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Source: https://www.29news.com/2024/04/26/montpelier-archaeologist-assesses-fire-damage/?outputType=amp
What do we know about UK’s largest Bronze Age find at Must Farm?
Image caption, Archaeologists discovered the largest UK collection of everyday Bronze Age artefacts at Must FarmArticle informationAuthor, Katy PrickettRole, BBC News, Peterborough26 April 2024, 06:19 BSTThe discovery of a burnt-out village dubbed Britain’s Pompeii revealed “an amazing time capsule” that captured an everyday moment in late Bronze Age Britain. The 3,000-year-old settlement at Must Farm quarry in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, burnt down less than a year after it was built, and…
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Lasers reveal prehistoric Irish monuments that may have been ‘pathways for the dead’
Lasers have revealed hundreds of previously undetected prehistoric monuments, including five rare ones, clustered in a swath of farmland in the Irish countryside.Archaeologists discovered the monuments in Baltinglass, a town in County Wicklow in eastern Ireland, using lidar (light detection and ranging), a technique in which an aircraft flies overhead while a machine shoots laser pulses toward the ground. These pulses hit objects and then bounce back, helping researchers map the…
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Public still have time to discover what ‘lies beneath the surface’ of Sheffield Castle
Exciting discoveries of new Medieval features and structures have been uncovered by archaeologists at the Sheffield Castle excavation site.
This comes from their 10-week excavation dig of the castle’s medieval gatehouse, where they’ve discovered unmapped furnaces from the steel working process.
The excavation site is now open to the public to visit, who are able to book to have a dig themselves.
Over the past week archaeology lovers have had the pleasure of discovering…
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Wandlebury Country Park has first archaeological dig in 30 years
Image source, Wandlebury Country ParkImage caption, The team from Cambridge University will hold two open days for people to observe the dig and speak to themArticle informationAuthor, Harriet HeywoodRole, BBC News, Cambridgeshire1 hour agoArchaeologists are conducting the first dig in a country park for almost 30 years.Wandlebury Country Park invited teams from the Department of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge and Cambridge Archaeological Unit on a two-week dig.They will…
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