10 Jan 2020 Adena-Hopewell Cosmology, Community, and Identity at the Robbins Mound By Jason Jarrell Archaeology & Science 3 The first people to construct widespread burial mounds and earthworks in the Ohio Valley were participants in the Adena Culture, which began around 500 BC and continued until about 300 AD. Sometime around 50 BC, some Adena communities in southern... Read More
08 Jan 2020 The Elusive Metal Library of the Tayos Caves By Alex Chionetti Archaeology & Science 0 Legend has it that a metal library, containing valuable plates of inscriptions, recording an ancient history of some 250 000 years ago, written by an advanced previous civilization, is hidden in the Tayos Caves, in the Amazon forest of the Morona... Read More
06 Jan 2020 Istanbul: Gateway to History, Memory and Magic By jim willis Archaeology & Science 0 For a moment, if one could conjure up in one’s mind's eye Istanbul, a city of magic, mystery, strategic geographical importance, and historic consequence: Standing on the Galata Bridge, facing north, one gazes in the direction of the Black Sea,... Read More
30 Dec 2019 Complex Neanderthal Technology Driven by Paleo Dietary Needs By ashley cowie Archaeology & Science 1 Modern man’s closest human relatives were Neanderthals - that famed ancient species pronounced with a ’t’ rather than a ‘th’, - with their defining large faces, angled cheek bones and broad noses used for humidifying and warming cold, dry... Read More
20 Dec 2019 Orphic Masks and Burial Rituals: Unmasking King Philip II of Macedon By david grant Archaeology & Science 1 That is the gods’ work, spinning threads of deaththrough the lives of mortal men,and all to make a song for those to come. HomerThe ancient Greek world was steeped in superstition and deisidaimonia, a ‘sanctimonious piety’. Not only did the... Read More