Oxfordshire planning: Archaeologists on site in Wallingford

Town councillor Steve Holder said a team of archaeologists had descended on Wallingford’s Bull Croft Park as part of an investigation into any items of historical interest before the proposed playground build. 

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Steps, bridges and an adult functional gym have also been proposed in the area requiring historical surveying. 

Mr Holder said the archaeological team had run an open day last Wednesday so locals could…
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Source: https://www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/24289959.oxfordshire-planning-archaeologists-site-wallingford/

Archaeologists identify the birthplace of the mysterious Yamnaya

Mykhailivka, a village on the right bank of the River Dnieper in Ukraine, lies dangerously close to the front line of Russia’s war on its western neighbour. Seventy years ago, however, it was the site of an excavation by Ukrainian archaeologists. There, they discovered one of the earliest known settlements of the Yamnaya culture.The Yamnaya, who lived 5,000 years ago, are considered the world’s first nomadic pastoralists. Having invented a way to subsist on the hostile Eurasian steppe,…
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Source: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/05/05/archaeologists-identify-the-birthplace-of-the-mysterious-yamnaya

Archaeological dig aims to find Henry VIII’s lost wing at stately home

Maiya Pina-Dacier, one of its archaeologists, told The Telegraph that any evidence of that lost wing now lies buried below the lawn: “While parts of the building have since been explored by recent archaeological work, large parts remain unmapped.”She said: “Not all of the answers can be found in historical documents. Some can only be found through excavation to reveal direct evidence of exactly where some of these long-lost buildings were located, how…
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Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/04/archaeological-dig-henry-viiis-lost-wing-stately-home/

Salem archaeologists dig up 1840s ceramics as search for Methodist parsonage continues

With her head deep in a hole at Willamette Heritage Center, Chloe Abrahamson brushed mud off a few ceramic fragments.

Abrahamson, a freshman archaeology major at Willamette University, was part of a group digging at the heritage center Thursday for what they believe could be the foundation of a parsonage building built by Methodist missionaries in 1841. 

Her discovery prompted a flurry of activity as Kimberli Fitzgerald, city of Salem archaeologist, rushed over to…
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Source: https://www.salemreporter.com/2024/05/03/salem-archaeologists-dig-up-1840s-ceramics-as-search-for-methodist-parsonage-continues/

Oxfordshire planning: Archaeologists on site in Wallingford

Town councillor Steve Holder said a team of archaeologists had descended on Wallingford’s Bull Croft Park as part of an investigation into any items of historical interest before the proposed playground build. 

READ MORE: Man, 68, GUILTY of sexually abusing two children

Steps, bridges and an adult functional gym have also been proposed in the area requiring historical surveying. 

Mr Holder said the archaeological team had run an open day last Wednesday so locals could…
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Source: https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/24289959.oxfordshire-planning-archaeologists-site-wallingford/

Was the Stone Age Really the Wood Age?

In 1836, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, a Danish antiquarian, brought the first semblance of order to prehistory, suggesting that the early hominids of Europe had gone through three stages of technological development that were reflected in the production of tools. The basic chronology — Stone Age to Bronze Age to Iron Age — now underpins the archaeology of most of the Old World (and cartoons like “The Flintstones” and “The Croods”).Thomsen could well have substituted Wood Age for…
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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/04/science/archaeology-neanderthals-wood.html

On archaeology, Indian history and more

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Human remains discovered in Rakhigarhi village, Haryana, are 8,000 years old. This debunks the Aryan invasion theory, which is supposed to have happened between 1,800 and 1,500 years ago The Earth is the library of mankind. For centuries, an obsessive, inquisitive and courageous tribe has been trying to excavate the extensive hoard of knowledge hidden beneath its layers of soil and sand, oceans, forests, rivers and ruins—a tribe called archaeologists. Their purpose is…
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Source: https://www.newindianexpress.com/amp/story/magazine/2024/May/04/truth-be-retold-on-archaeology-indian-history-and-more