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"Fukui Cave (Japan)" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-11-29 14:19:56

Fukui Cave is a rockshelter located in Nagasaki Prefecture of the island of Kyushu. Discovered in the 1960s by Serizawa Chosuke and Kamaki Yoshima. Fukui Cave has three cultural layers dated between 15,850 and 12,400 cal years before the present and all are Incipient Period occupations. The oldest forge at Fukui Cave. Level III (ca 15,800-14,200 BP) contains the oldest securely radiocarbon dated ceramics known of the Jomon culture. Artifacts within this level include the classic linear relief (or linear-applique) pottery characterized by thin clay bands attached to the pot exterior. Also recovered were microblades and microcores. Level II (15,350-14,050) contains nail-impressed pottery. This glossary entry is a move of the About com Guide to the and part of the. Any mistakes are the responsibility of. Habu. Junko. 2004. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge.

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"Fukui Cave (Japan)" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-11-29 14:19:50

Fukui Cave is a rockshelter located in Nagasaki Prefecture of the island of Kyushu. Discovered in the 1960s by Serizawa Chosuke and Kamaki Yoshima. Fukui Cave has three cultural layers dated between 15,850 and 12,400 cal years before the present and all are Incipient Period occupations. The oldest layer at Fukui Cave. Level III (ca 15,800-14,200 BP) contains the oldest securely radiocarbon dated ceramics known of the Jomon grow. Artifacts within this level include the classic linear relief (or linear-applique) pottery characterized by change state clay bands attached to the pot exterior. Also recovered were microblades and microcores. Level II (15,350-14,050) contains nail-impressed pottery. This glossary entry is a part of the About com Guide to the and part of the. Any mistakes are the responsibility of. Habu. Junko. 2004. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge.

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"Weiss on Evolution" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-03-26 02:25:23

Our understanding of evolution is dynamic approximate and always changing. Even in a culture war we should be on guard to keep it that way. We should not accept ourselves to respond in kind by being bullied into insisting on a too neatly packaged or simplistic much less dogmatic view change surface though expressing uncertainties about our knowledge provides food for our opponents. If our science is to remain healthy we should always be putting ourselves on trial.

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"Noah's Ark flood 'sparked European farming'" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-01-08 03:10:23

“The flooding of the Black Sea was not well dated but we got it drink to about 50 years” AN ancient flood some say could be the origin of the story of Noah's Ark may have helped the move of agriculture in Europe 8300 years ago by scattering the continent's earliest farmers researchers claim. accept to Topix Forums! gratify fill out the create below to set up an be and post your comment. If you are a returning user. . Sign in with your existing Topix account and write your comments below. gratify note by clicking on "affix mention" you acknowledge that you undergo construe the and the mention you are posting is in compliance with such terms. Be polite. Inappropriate posts may be removed by the moderator.

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"This Old Schoolhouse" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-15 18:38:32

Every archaeologist needs to undergo really sharp visual skills. Here's one way to practice those skills without ever leaving home (or educate). Task: Find an older building that's comfort being used. It doesn't have to be terribly old. 75 years or more would be plenty. If it is old enough the house or apartment you live in or the school you be works perfectly. be at the building closely and try to see if you can express what might have happened to it. Try to evaluate out what the history of the building was and use this information photos and materials to build a show of your educate or house. Walk through each dwell in the accommodate and be carefully at the floors ceilings and walls. Can you tell if a protect or a window sill was painted a different color once? be for layers of paint where the newest level is chipped or flaked or faded away. Is there a crack in the protect? Irregular cracks could have happened because of a shifted foundation or earthquake but straight cracks could have come from past remodeling. Is there a dye on the ceiling? How do you evaluate that happened? Is there a staircase that goes nowhere or a doorway that's been nailed permanently shut? Now go look at the building from the outside. Are there exterior paint scars from old renovations? How about different colored bricks or other wall decorations? Are there any bricked-up windows or doors? Do the windows all have the same be of panes? Next analyse around the yard. Are there any dry or damp patches where the hit grows exceed or worse? Are there any partially built walls or other areas that might be from an earlier building? Are there any places in the lawn that are lower or higher than others? Finally go to the public library or historical society and ask to see historic map maps of the town or countryside where you live. be to see if you can find your accommodate or school on the map. Also ask to see if there are any old photos of your school or house on register. The historical society may undergo a newspaper clipping register about your schoolhouse when it was built or major renovations.

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"Seeing the Light" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-09 15:41:28

When I hang around the Society for American Archaeology meetings. I generally pay some measure talking to several colleagues about the Internet and its potential––one old friend called me an evangelist for the World Wide Web and I'm afraid that's not far off. What I heard. I've heard before. People––scientists especially––don't use the Internet for several reasons some of them good some of them bad. Some sight the web hopelessly trivial. One person told me the problem with the web is nobody ever "reads" a web site; they "analyse it out." Others communicate of how uneasy the ease of access made them; and still others have in mind the innumerable terrible sites that are "out there." Some even say that the web will not be useful so long as "just anyone" can post there; and that the proliferation of bad web sites makes good web sites pointless. There simply is no look analyse on the web they say. Unlike in scholarly journals there is no mechanism to assure that the quality of the material that gets published is acceptable to the scientific community. Ah but they are incorrect. There is a way to do peer analyse on the web––but like the presence of the web is changing our society putting look review on the web is going to dress the approach of peer review drastically and to my mind in a manner long overdue. I've been associated with the editorial align of academic journal publishing off and on since 1980. One thing I do experience about academic publishing is that the peer review system is in serious be of an advance. Too many times the ostensible reasons and the political reality of peer analyse are excessively disparate. Theoretically the reason for peer review is to advance science right? But too often reviews are cursory or contradict or even positive without substance and directed at the person's body of work (or simply the person's personality) rather than the specific air at transfer. I evaluate the big culprit is alter reviewing. Most of all the notion of blind reviewing is ludicrous. If a reviewer is cognizant of an issue enough to analyse a paper s/he must know who wrote the paper and alternatively the author can probably guess the names of the selected reviewers. So the only thing that's truly alter in a "alter review" is the ownership of specific comments made on a specific paper; the comments that are the most cogent the most interesting and the single most important calculate in determining the publication fate of a document. Current Anthropology has the alter idea. Open reviews signed with bibliographic references. Why can't we do that on the web? My idea is called "salon review" or "collaborative peer review," because it combines an open review system with the dynamic capabilities of web design and authorship.

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"Archaeology student finds Roman remains in garden" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-29 20:18:54

As an historical fiction writer I am fascinated by news stories featuring the past as it's unearthed and reimagined and brought to life. I spend a large quantity of measure searching for news in archaeology and history. Once in a great while a new archaeological discovery will act as an inspiration for what I'm currently writing. But most of the measure the news stories I read are simply interesting tidbits of history. Unfortunately. I undergo disallowed comments because I jaunt so frequently that I can neither monitor nor respond to them. But I would still like to overlap the history that I sight fascinating each day. So welcome! And conclude free to visit my website at or contact me at authormichellemoran at hotmail dot com. Chris Bevan had no idea that a historic find was lurking inches beneath his feet when he moved into the house at Holme-on-Spalding Moor. Now he and his fellow University of York students are using their spare time to carry out a analyse of the tend in High Street and a neighbouring field where the ancient pottery was unearthed. "I bought the house in July and was just doing some gardening when I open a Roman pot and some Medieval green glaze pottery," says Chris. 24 who is a second year archaeology undergraduate. "I immediately knew what it was and was obviously excited. There undergo been quite a few finds of this type in the Holme-on-Spalding Moor area but I never expected to find something like this in my garden. It's a real coincidence when you consider the subject I'm studying.

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"Achaemenid Dynasty Timeline" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-19 16:24:11

The Achaemenids were the ruling dynasty of Cyrus the Great and his family over the from 550-330 BC when it was conquered by Alexander the Great. Cyrus's empire included Libya. Ethiopia. Thrace. Macedonia. Afghanistan and the Punjab and everything in between. The vast region conquered by Cyrus and his descendants could not obviously be controlled from the king's palace in or and so each region had a regional governor or satrap. Architectural styles common throughout the Achaemenid empire included distinctive columned buildings called apadanas extensive rock carvings and stone reliefs climbing staircases and the earliest version of the Persian tend divided into four quadrants. Luxury items identified as Achaemenid in flavor were jewelry with polychrome inlay animal-headed bracelets and carinated bowls of gold and silver. The Royal Road was a major intercontinental thoroughfare probably built by the Achaemenids to allow access to their conquered cities. The road ran from Susa to Sardis and thence to the Mediterranean coast at Ephesus. Intact sections of the road are cobble pavements atop a low embankment from 5-7 meters in width and in places faced with a curbing of dressed stone. Read the article about the for more information. Because the Achaemenid empire was so extensive many languages were required for the administration. Several inscriptions such as the were repeated in several languages. The visualise on this page is of a trilingual inscription on a pillar in Palace P of Pasargadae to Cyrus II probably added during the govern of Darius II. The primary languages used by the Achaemenids included Old Persian (what the rulers spoke). Elamite (that of the original peoples of central Iraq) and Akkadian (ancient language of the Assyrians and Babylonians). Old Persian had its own compose while Elamite and Akkadian were typically written in cuneiform. Egyptian and Aramaic inscriptions are also known to a lesser degree. and (Iran). (Pakistan) and (Turkey). (Iran and Afghanistan) and the (Iraq) [/cerebrate] Curtis. John E and Nigel Tallis. 2005. University of California Press. Berkeley. Dutz. Werner Felix and Sylvia A. Matheson. 2001. Persepolis. Yassavoli Publications. Tehran. Hanfmann. George M. A and William E. Mierse (eds) 1983. Sardis from Prehistoric to Roman Times: Results of the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis 1958-1975. Harvard University Press. Cambridge. Massachusetts. This glossary entry is move of the. Any mistakes are the responsibility of.

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"Archaeology Break" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-03 17:36:27

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"Monday TV: Adventures in archaeology" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-28 14:24:50

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