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Friday 29th June 2018
Good Morning Gentle Readerā¦. Ā from Estepona on the coast of Southern Spain where the continents of Europe and Africa collide, the morning sky is filled with a myriad of stars twinkling in the heavens, a warm wind blowing from the Sahara, and one can imagine too, the smells of Arabic foods cooking for breakfastā¦ Which reminds me, I put the Colombian coffee on to brew before Bella and I set out for our constitutional walk this morning, so letās take a look at what the archeological world has in the papers for us to discuss todayā¦
2,000-YEAR-OLD GRAVE EXCAVATED IN SIBERIAā¦. ST PETERSBURG, RUSSIAāAccording to a report in The Siberian Times, archaeologists from the Russian Academy of Sciences have excavated a 2,000-year-old stone-lined grave containing the well-preserved burial of a woman wearing clothing made of silk and a beaded belt with a jet buckle, pottery vessels, and a birch bark box. āThere was a funeral meal in the vessels, and on her chest a pouch with pine nuts,ā said Natalya Solovieva. The birch bark box contained a Chinese mirror and had been placed near her head. The grave is located on the shore of the reservoir of Siberiaās Sayano-Shushenskaya dam on the Yenisei River, and has been covered with water at times since the dam's construction in the late twentieth century.
SHIPWRECK UNEARTHED IN DENMARKā¦. VORDINGBORG, DENMARKāAccording to a report in The Copenhagen Post, a well-preserved shipwreck has been found at a construction site near the eastern coast of the island of Zealand, in an area that had been under water up until the early twentieth century. The ship, made of oak some 500 years ago, was probably about 50 feet long and 20 feet wide. Archaeologists from the Museum SydĆøstdanmark have recovered iron nails, caulking, and rope-work from the ship.
ARCHAEOLOGISTS INVESTIGATE WOODSTOCK CONCERT SITEā¦. BETHEL, NEW YORKāAccording to an Associated Press report, archaeologist Josh Anderson of Binghamton University and a team of researchers are investigating Max Yasgurās farm, the site of the 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair, in preparation for the 50th anniversary of the concert. Grading of the hillside in the late 1990s obscured the location of the stage where Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Janis Joplin, Joe Cocker, and others played to a crowd of more than 400,000 over a period of three days. So far, Anderson thinks his team has found a hole that marks a corner in the fence that kept the fans away from the stage. āThis is a significant historic site in American culture, one of the few peaceful events that gets commemorated from the 1960s,ā commented Wade Lawrence of the Museum at Bethel Woods. Boy! You know you are old, when archeologists start looking at things you were part ofā¦..
LIMBS OF WOUNDED CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS FOUND IN VIRGINIAā¦. MANASSAS, VIRGINIAāAccording to an NPR report, a burial pit containing amputated human limbs has been discovered at Manassas National Battlefield Park. The bones in the ālimb pitā were first spotted by a utility crew in 2014, and are thought to have been buried by field surgeons after the three-day Battle of Second Manassas, which is also known as the Second Battle of Bull Run. In all, two complete skeletons, 11 limbs, bullet fragments, and buttons from Union uniforms have been recovered from the pit. All of the limbs bear evidence of wounds and amputation cuts. Physical anthropologist Doug Owsley of the Smithsonian Institution explained that the striations left on the bones by the surgeonsā saws reveal their skillsāthe doctors started slowly to set the saw teeth, cut quickly through the bone, and then slowed again as they finished the cut to avoid further damage to the patient. National Park Service archaeologist Brandon Bies thinks the soldiers whose limbs ended up in the pit were wounded during a charge up a ridge called the Deep Cut, where thousands of Confederate soldiers were waiting to fire on them with rifles and muskets. Medical records and isotopic analysis of the bones may allow researchers to identify the soldiers and the surgeons who operated on them.
LARGE-SCALE WHALING MAY DATE TO IRON AGEā¦. UPPSALA, SWEDENāA report in New Historian states that the practice of large-scale whaling may be several centuries older than previously thought. Andreas Hennius of Uppsala University and his colleagues examined board-game pieces dating to the Late Iron Age in museum collections in Sweden, and found that most of them were made of whalebone dating to the mid-sixth century A.D. The large supply and standardized forms of the game pieces suggest the scale of production was beyond the whalebone supply available from the carcasses of beached whales. Analysis of the game pieces with ZooMS, or Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometer, showed they had all been made from the bones of the North Atlantic right whale, or Eubalaena glacialis, which swam slowly and close to shore, and floated after it was killed because it had so much blubber. In Norway, archaeologists have uncovered evidence of large boathouses and features for processing blubber that also date to the sixth century. The researchers think the game pieces may have been crafted in Norway and transported to Sweden.
EVIDENCE OF IRON AGE BEER FOUND IN SWEDENā¦. LUND, SWEDENāArchaeobotanist Mikael Larsson of Lund University and a team of researchers have found evidence of large-scale beer production at UppĆ„kra, an Iron-Age trade center in what is now Sweden, according to a New Historian report. Carbonized, germinated grains, dated to between A.D. 400 and 600, were found near several ovens in an area without living quarters, suggesting the people of the settlement reserved the space for the large-scale production of malt. The grains would have been soaked in water so that they would germinate and produce fermentable sugars, then dried at low temperatures in the ovens. Larsson says processing grains into malt in this way is indicative of beer brewing. The beer produced at UppĆ„kra may have been used for feasting and trade.
Well Gentle Reader I hope you enjoyed our look at the news from around the world this, morningā¦ ā¦
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A Sincere Thank You for your company and Thank You for your likes and comments I love them and always try to reply, so please keep them coming, it's always good fun, As is my custom, I will go and get myself another mug of "Colombian" Coffee and wish you a safe Friday 29th June 2018 from my home on the southern coast of Spain, where the blue waters of the Alboran Sea washes the coast of Africa and Europe and the smell of the night blooming Jasmine and Honeysuckle fills the airā¦and a crazy old guy and his dog Bella go out for a walk at 4:00 amā¦on the streets of Esteponaā¦
All good stuff....But remember itās a dangerous world we live in
Be safe out thereā¦
Robert McAngus
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