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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Category: Archaeology World
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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Archaeological challenge to Wressle expansion plans – DRILL OR DROP?
Plans to extend an oil site and build a new pipeline should be refused unless more information is provided because it could affect a prehistoric cemetery, historians have warned.
Map from Egdon Resources planning application. Red line marks the proposed boundary of the Wressle site extension and pipeline. The bronze age barrow cemetery is shown in light brown, stretching south west from Lodge Farm and crossed by the pipeline route. Source: Aecom Limited for Egdon Resources
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Source: https://drillordrop.com/2024/04/25/archaeological-challenge-to-wressle-expansion-plans/
Mysterious Ancient Weapon Uncovered in Spain 30 Years Ago Discovered to Be Over 1,000 Years Old
The curved-blade sword was first discovered during a 1994 archeological dig in ValenciaCity Council of València A 1,000-year-old weapon found sticking out of a grave in SpainAn artifact discovered 30 years ago in Spain has finally been identified — and researchers believe it to be over 1,000 years old.In 1994, archeologists in Valencia, Spain discovered an ancient grave while excavating a home — and a mysterious sword-like object, dubbed “Excalibur” by the researchers for its…
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Source: https://ca.news.yahoo.com/mysterious-ancient-weapon-uncovered-spain-180730175.html
stunning artwork unveiled by archaeologists
Two stunning frescoes depicting mythical figures like Apollo and Helen of Troy tower across a newly-explored part of Pompeii. The frescoes, among the finest ever discovered, were painted on the black walls of a large banquet hall that researchers just uncovered.
The black room with some frescoes still visible. Image credits: Pompeii Archaeological Park.
A city frozen in time
Pompeii was a flourishing Roman town. It lay at the foot of Mount Vesuvius, near the modern city…
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An Indigenous Archeologist’s Journey to Find the Lost Children of the Residential Schools
A late summer prairie wind swung my beaded earrings as I looked down at a gray-and-black pattern on a computer screen. The grass beneath my feet quieted as I paused. A disruption appeared, changing the radar image on the screen. My breath caught. “There,” I thought, anticipating what might come to light when we took the data back to the lab. My feet grew heavier, as did the ache in my heart.I will never get used to walking over the land that may hold the unmarked graves of Indigenous…
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