#Archaeology

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Indiana Jones and the utterly empty test pit so deep you physically could not reach the bottom and had to stop

Indiana Jones and the tea break without bourbons (for fucks sake)

Indiana Jones and the inaccurate context sheet(s)

Indiana Jones and the struggles of largely interdisciplinary cooperation and communication

Indiana Jones and the angry druids

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The 2,600-year old Heslington Brain found in 2009 inside a skull buried in Yorkshire. It is the oldest preserved brain ever found in Europe or Asia and belonged to a man in his 30s. He had been hanged and then decapitated. His skull was buried immediately. His DNA was found to belong to haplogroup J1d, today only seen in a few individuals from Tuscany and the Near East.

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Girl buried with a crown of ceramic flowers. Patras, 300-400 B.C. From the Museum of Patras.

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Body cast of victim of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. Herculaneum

In contrast to Pompeii, where casts resembling the body features of the victims were produced by filling the body imprints in the ash deposit with plaster, the shape of corpses of those killed at Herculaneum could not be preserved, due to the rapid vaporization and replacement of the flesh of the victims by the hot ash (ca. 500 °C). A cast of the victims’ skeletons unearthed within chamber 10 is on display at the Museum of Anthropology in Naples.

Recent multidisciplinary research on the lethal effects of the pyroclastic surges in the Vesuvius area showed that in the vicinity of Pompeii and Herculaneum heat was the main cause of death of people, who were heretofore presumed to have died by ash suffocation. This study shows that exposure to at least 250 °C hot surges even at a distance of 10 kilometres from the vent was sufficient to cause the instant death of all residents, even if they were sheltered within buildings.

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18th-Century Sex Toy Found In Ancient Latrine

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Polish archaeologists digging an ancient latrine in the Baltic city of Gdańsk have stumbled upon a 250-year-old sex toy.

The phallic object is “large, thick, made of leather filled with bristles, and has a wooden tip,” the Regional Office for the Protection of Monuments in Gdansk said in a press release.

Dating from the second half of the 1700s, the artificial penis was found “preserved in excellent condition.”

According to the archaeologists, it was mistakenly dropped in the toilet by the person who was using it.

“It was certainly expensive. Cleaning revealed it was made of high quality leather,” Marcin Tymiński at the Regional Office for the Protection of Monuments said in an interview with Radio Gdańsk. Read more.

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200 bodies found in mass grave beneath Paris supermarket

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Archaeologists discover the remains of more than 200 people believed to have died from the plague hundreds of years ago

More than 200 bodies have been found laid out in neat rows in a communal grave beneath a supermarket in central Paris.

The site was formerly the cemetery of a hospital that functioned from the 12th to the 17th century but it was believed the corpses had been moved in the 18th century to the Paris Catacombs which house the bones of six million people transferred from the city’s cemeteries 200 years ago.

Archaeologists, called in by the Monoprix supermarket to inspect the site before building work was due to be carried out, had expected to find some remains but were astonished to find the large collection of bodies neatly laid out in the earth of the store’s basement. Read more.

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Reasons I wanted to be an archaeologist.

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French make-up artist turned palaeontology expert and sculptor Elisabeth Daynes, has painstakingly created a model of “the woman from the Pataud shelter”.

Believed to have lived around 17,000 years ago in France’s southwestern Dordogne region, her skeleton was found there in a rock shelter.

Source: Yahoo!

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Excavations restart on ancient wonder

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Excavations are set to restart on İzmir’s Temple of Artemis, one of the most important monumental structures of the ancient age and widely considered one of the seven wonders of the world.

The head of the excavations in the ancient city of Ephesus, Professor Sabine Ladstatter, said the excavations would focus on four areas in the ancient city and that works would start on the temple, as well as a Turkish bath and the Çukuriçi tumulus, a settlement area at the southern part of the Virgin Mary Church.

The most recent excavations were made at the Temple of Artemis 20 years ago, said the professor.

“It will be a very important and exciting excavation for us. We hope that we will find data that will be able to confirm our hypotheses. Read more.

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