Archaeology Thread

[azgreg]

[UAdevil]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/tripid ... d=msedgntp

Can the Clotilda be excavated?


Adive team returned to the site of the Clotilda a month ago to once again survey the wreckage. Physical inspection coupled with sonar imagery now lead archeologist Dr. James Delgado to believe there are more artifacts intact than previously thought on the last known slave ship to come to the United States.

"We have potentially closer to 70% of the ship that has survived, both the burning and the sinking and all of its time in the river," said Delgado.

Delgado believes they could find barrels that held food, wood planks with human DNA on them, and he says they've identified the 23' x 26' compartment 110 were forcibly crammed into during the illegal voyage from Benin, Africa to Mobile.

[Merkin]

Longhorned's drinking buddies?

https://news.arizona.edu/story/uarizona ... ern-mexico

A team of international researchers led by the University of Arizona reported last year that they had uncovered the largest and oldest Maya monument – Aguada Fénix. That same team has now uncovered nearly 500 smaller ceremonial complexes that are similar in shape and features to Aguada Fénix. The find transforms previous understanding of Mesoamerican civilization origins and the relationship between the Olmec and the Maya people.

The team's findings are detailed in a new paper published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour. UArizona anthropology professor Takeshi Inomata is the paper's first author. His UArizona coauthors include anthropology professor Daniela Triadan and Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Lab director Greg Hodgins.

[Chicat]

They found Shackleford’s ship The Endurance in the Antarctic Sea and it is remarkably well preserved.

[Carcassdragger]

They found Shackleford’s ship The Endurance in the Antarctic Sea and it is remarkably well preserved.

Highly recommend reading the book, Endurance" about the Shackleton expedition. Incredible tale of the resiliency of the human spirit.

[UAdevil]

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a ... 5222000137

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ar ... d=msedgntp

Archaeologists Ponder Existence of Lost Eocene Continent

Was there once a land bridge between what we now know of as Europe and Asia? There’s some debate over whether the two should even be considered separate continents at all. The National Geographic Society, for example, refers to “[a]n imaginary line, running from the northern Ural Mountains in Russia south to the Caspian and Black Seas” as the dividing point between the two, rather than any specific break in the landmass.

Now, some archaeologists have a theory that the boundaries between the two might have been more pronounced than previously believed. A new article at Hyperallergic focuses on a continent that a group of scientists believe existed during the Eocene Epoch, which occurred between 56 to 33.9 millon years ago.

Mammals are at the core of the theory — specifically, the timing of when certain mammals, including rodents and the evolutionary predecessors of horses, native to Asia migrated to Europe. The theory involves a small continent dubbed “Balkanatolia,” a name derived from the Balkans and Anatolia, where fossils were found that help confirm this hypothesis.

Alexis Licht, the scientist who led a recent study exploring this theory, cited the way sea levels dropped during the Eocene as being crucial to the animals’ migration. “This event alone would have created many land bridges, and it’s the main hypothesis to explain the connection between Balkanatolia and Europe,” Licht told NBC News. Could the Eocene hold the answers to even more mysteries of how modern life evolved?

[Merkin]

[UAEebs86]

A Holy Grail quote used for a Life of Brian location.

[wyo-cat]

Paul is a great follow. His one of the pottery experts from Time Team.

[84Cat]

[Merkin]

My distant relatives!

Given 24 hours to leave their homes which have been in their families for generations. Think one ended up in Hamburg.

When the war ended, the region was handed from Germany to a newly Soviet-controlled Poland.

The German population was kicked out, and Poles who had been living in western Ukraine settled there.

[UAEebs86]

[84Cat]

So cool

[dovecanyoncat]

That was Jeebus' personal dino which he rode down to the river for a drink.

[RichardCranium]

The story is uber-cool, however dino tracks are Palaeontology, not Archaeology.

Just sayin'

[wyo-cat]

You might want to check that link. Just sayin…

[Merkin]

You might want to check that link. Just sayin…

XNXX is a pretty good site though.

[CardiacCats97]

That’s not the archeology I studied, but looks like fun!

[scumdevils86]

Top 5 board moment right there

[wyo-cat]

I missed THAT episode of Time Team.

[RichardCranium]

Um.

I don't remember that.

I assume some uberelf has cleaned it up for me, cause I don't see nothing wrong with it now. Thanks.

Heck, I don't even remember looking at XNXX on this generation of computer its been LOTS of years since I bothered to check out porn, how would I get a link to it to paste into a post here. Weird.

Sorry to offend.

[Merkin]

It was a different post that has been deleted. The story was right, just the link was wrong.

[wyo-cat]

It could have happened to anyone.

[dovecanyoncat]

This discussion belongs in the Bones and Boners thread.

[CardiacCats97]

Let he who hasn’t copied and pasted the wrong link throw the first virtual stone.

[Merkin]

Even those that tried to ban dildoes.

[RichardCranium]

It was a different post that has been deleted. The story was right, just the link was wrong.

Oh. Whew.

[Merkin]

[CardiacCats97]

Damn Neolithic kids and their graffiti.