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The ruler helped me visualize what direction the sun was shining from, and then I could project the shadows into the footprints the correct way.
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Liz wrote: Sun Sep 26, 2021 1:00 pm Ancient human footprints found in New Mexico are believed to be between 21,000 and 23,000 years old.
The prints were buried in layers of soil in the national park, with scientists from the US Geological Survey analyzing seeds embedded in the tracks to calculate the age of the fossils. Researchers also determined that the dozen footprints found belonged to a variety of people, mostly children and teenagers.
Previously, scientists had widely assumed that the earliest appearance of humans in the Americas was 11,000 to 13,000 years ago
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The ruler has a shadow on it's right side, the feet all have shadows on the left, except the one at the top of the ruler. That on is shaded on the bottom. How does that happen? :confuzzled:
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MsDaisy wrote: Mon Sep 27, 2021 7:46 am
Liz wrote: Sun Sep 26, 2021 1:00 pm Ancient human footprints found in New Mexico are believed to be between 21,000 and 23,000 years old.
The prints were buried in layers of soil in the national park, with scientists from the US Geological Survey analyzing seeds embedded in the tracks to calculate the age of the fossils. Researchers also determined that the dozen footprints found belonged to a variety of people, mostly children and teenagers.
Previously, scientists had widely assumed that the earliest appearance of humans in the Americas was 11,000 to 13,000 years ago
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The ruler has a shadow on it's right side, the feet all have shadows on the left, except the one at the top of the ruler. That on is shaded on the bottom. How does that happen? :confuzzled:
The shadow on the prints is coming from the soil above the print. And the sun is on the right so the “ledge” on the right side of the print is casting the shadow
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https://www.jta.org/2021/10/05/israel/l ... -jerusalem

Lost toilets of the First Temple: 2700-year-old private toilet found in Jerusalem

A 2700-year-old toilet from the days of the First Temple in Jerusalem has been discovered by Israel’s Antiquities Authority. Built as a private toilet stall at a time when few could afford such a luxury, the toilet is set to be unveiled to the public on Wednesday at an archaeology conference, though for viewing only.

Carved from limestone, the toilet appears much like the modern-day fixture with a hole at the center leading to a septic tank. At the time the ancient toilet was in use, private toilets were the exclusive province of the rich.

“A private toilet cubicle was very rare in antiquity, and only a few were found to date, most of them in the City of David. In fact, only the rich could afford toilets. A thousand years later, the Mishnah and the Talmud raised various criteria that defined a rich person, and Rabbi Yossi suggested that to be rich is ‘to have the toilet next to his table,'” said Yaakov Billig, who directed the dig for the Israel Antiquities Authority.

Archaeologists plan to use the septic tank below the toilet to investigate what people living in the First Temple Period might have eaten and to better understand diseases of that time period.
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Tiredretiredlawyer wrote: Thu Oct 07, 2021 10:06 am https://www.jta.org/2021/10/05/israel/l ... -jerusalem

Lost toilets of the First Temple: 2700-year-old private toilet found in Jerusalem

A 2700-year-old toilet from the days of the First Temple in Jerusalem has been discovered by Israel’s Antiquities Authority. Built as a private toilet stall at a time when few could afford such a luxury, the toilet is set to be unveiled to the public on Wednesday at an archaeology conference, though for viewing only.

Carved from limestone, the toilet appears much like the modern-day fixture with a hole at the center leading to a septic tank. At the time the ancient toilet was in use, private toilets were the exclusive province of the rich.

“A private toilet cubicle was very rare in antiquity, and only a few were found to date, most of them in the City of David. In fact, only the rich could afford toilets. A thousand years later, the Mishnah and the Talmud raised various criteria that defined a rich person, and Rabbi Yossi suggested that to be rich is ‘to have the toilet next to his table,'” said Yaakov Billig, who directed the dig for the Israel Antiquities Authority.

Archaeologists plan to use the septic tank below the toilet to investigate what people living in the First Temple Period might have eaten and to better understand diseases of that time period.
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Very precise, those old patriarchs. I love the line "the toilet is set to be unveiled to the public on Wednesday at an archaeology conference, though for viewing only".
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another skeleton in the closet of history...
‘Sensational’: skeleton buried in Vesuvius eruption found at Herculaneum
Archaeologists find remains of fugitive during first dig at site near Pompeii in almost three decades

Angela Giuffrida in Rome
Fri 15 Oct 2021 20.33 BST

The partially mutilated remains of a man buried by the AD79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius at Herculaneum, the ancient Roman town close to Pompeii, have been discovered in what Italy’s culture minister described as a “sensational” find.

Archaeologists said the man, believed to have been aged between 40 and 45, was killed just steps away from the sea as he tried to flee the eruption.

His skeleton was found on what would have been the ancient town’s beach with the head pointing back in the direction of the sea, and surrounded by carbonised wood, including a roof beam, that might have crushed his skull, the Italian news agency, Ansa, reported.

“The last moments here were instantaneous, but terrible,” Francesco Sirano, the director of Herculaneum archaeological park, told Ansa.

“It was 1am when the pyroclastic surge produced by the volcano reached the town for the first time with a temperature of 300-400 degrees, or even, according to some studies, 500-700 degrees. A white-hot cloud that raced towards the sea at a speed of 100km [60 miles] per hour, which was so dense that it had no oxygen in it.”

The man’s bones were a bright red colour, which Sirano said was “the mark of the stains left by the victim’s blood”.

Plaster casts of victims of the Mount Vesuvius eruption, which destroyed the Roman city of Pompeii in AD79.

The discovery was made during the first archaeological dig at Herculaneum, a much smaller and less well-known site than neighbouring Pompeii, in almost three decades.



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Sharp-eyed diver finds crusader’s ancient sword on Israeli seabed
Metre-long relic, encrusted with marine organisms, is believed to be about 900 years old

Reuters in Caesarea
Mon 18 Oct 2021 17.25 BST

A sword believed to have belonged to a crusader who sailed to the Holy Land almost a millennium ago has been recovered from the Mediterranean seabed thanks to an eagle-eyed amateur diver, the Israel Antiquities Authority has said.

Though encrusted with marine organisms, the metre-long blade, hilt and handle were distinctive enough to notice after undercurrents apparently shifted sands that had concealed it.

The location, a natural cove near the port city of Haifa, suggested it had served as a shelter for seafarers, said Koby Sharvit, director of the authority’s marine archaeology unit.

“These conditions have attracted merchant ships down the ages, leaving behind rich archaeological finds,” he said.

The sword, believed to be about 900 years old, will be put on display after it has been cleaned and restored.



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https://www.theguardian.com/science/202 ... olar-storm
Long before Columbus crossed the Atlantic, eight timber-framed buildings covered in sod stood on a terrace above a peat bog and stream at the northern tip of Canada’s island of Newfoundland, evidence that the Vikings had reached the New World first.

But precisely when the Vikings journeyed to establish the L’Anse aux Meadows settlement had remained unclear – until now.

A new type of dating technique using a long-ago solar storm as a reference point has revealed that the settlement was occupied in AD1021, exactly a millennium ago and 471 years before the first voyage of Columbus. The technique was used on three pieces of wood cut for the settlement, all pointing to the same year.

The Viking voyage represents multiple milestones for humankind. The settlement offers the earliest-known evidence of a transatlantic crossing. It also marks the place where the globe was finally encircled by humans, who thousands of years earlier had trekked into North America over a land bridge that once connected Siberia to Alaska.
We were at L'Anse aux Meadows a few years ago. It's a lovely site. They don't think the Vikings stayed longer than about ten years.
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worth a peek at the images in the article
Huge restored mosaic unveiled in Jericho desert castle
Restoration effort at Hisham’s Palace in occupied West Bank was launched five years ago

AFP in Jericho
Thu 28 Oct 2021 18.32 BST

Palestinian authorities have unveiled one of the largest floor mosaics in the world in the occupied West Bank city of Jericho after years of restoration.

Resembling a fine carpet, the vast mosaic covers 836 sq metres (8,998 sq ft) at Hisham’s Palace, an Umayyad Islamic desert castle dating from the eighth century.

The images, seen on dozens of panels, include a lion attacking a deer to symbolise war, and two gazelles that symbolise peace, as well as delicate floral and geometric designs.

The palace had lain forgotten for centuries until it was rediscovered in the 19th century and explored in the 1930s. It was then that the mosaic was uncovered beneath the dust.

But it remained neglected until five years ago, when the site was closed to visitors as a $12m (£8.7m) Japan-funded restoration effort was launched.

“This mosaic contains more than 5m pieces of stone from Palestine, which have a natural and distinctive colour,” Saleh Tawafsha, the undersecretary at the Palestinian tourism and antiquities ministry, told Agence France-Presse during the unveiling ceremony on Thursday.



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Archaeologists used lasers to find nearly 500 Mesoamerican monuments hidden in the Mexican jungle
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Thu, October 28, 2021, 8:44 PM

Archaeologists discovered 478 Mesoamerican monuments hidden in the jungles of southeastern Mexico.

They located the ruins by analyzing 3D mapping data collected from the air using lasers.

These sites shed light on the development of the Olmec and Maya civilizations.

Several millennia ago, the Olmec and Maya civilizations flourished in what are now Mexico and Guatemala. They built massive stone pyramids and elevated rectangular plazas for rituals and ceremonies, but over time many these sites were lost to the jungle, subsumed under dense vegetation.

But over the last few years, archaeologists have started leveraging a new technology to find these hidden, Mesoamerican ruins: LIDAR, a system that can generate three-dimensional maps by bouncing lasers between a scanner in the air and the Earth below.

LIDAR, which stands for light detection and ranging, can reveal how close or far away the ground is from the scanner, which in turn helps reveal discrepancies in the landscape.

In a study published Monday, researchers describe how they used this kind of laser mapping data to uncover nearly 500 Mesoamerican sites between about 2,000 and 3,000 years old.

The sites are spread across a 32,800-square-mile area in the Mexican states of Tabasco and Vera Cruz, and they may shed light on how the Olmecs and Maya coexisted and shared ideas.



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The detachable heads always get me thinking. The sculptors had a supply of bodies so they only had to do the head when they got a commission (portrait painters were the same way, I've read, so people got painted wearing clothes they couldn't afford in real life. Photoshopped.) So were the bodies done by apprentices? Did they get drunk and swap the heads around? Did the subject get to pick? Did the sculptor charge more for some?
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Discovery of Pompeii slaves’ room sheds rare light on real Roman life
Cramped room contains beds, chamber pot and other items used in slave family’s ‘precarious’ existence

Angela Giuffrida, Rome correspondent
Sat 6 Nov 2021 14.50 GMT

A perfectly intact room that was lived in by slaves has been discovered in a suburb of the ancient Roman city of Pompeii. Three wooden beds, a chamber pot and a wooden chest containing metal and fabric items were among the objects found in the cramped living quarters of what was a sprawling villa in Civita Giuliana, about 700 metres north-west of Pompeii’s city walls.

The discovery comes almost a year after the remains of two victims of the AD79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius, believed to have been a master and his slave, were found in the same villa.

A chariot shaft was also found in the room, which archaeologists said had served as the humble lodgings of, possibly, a small family who carried out day-to-day work in the villa, including preparing and maintaining the chariot.

The only natural light in the 16-square-metre space came from a small upper window, and there is no evidence of any wall decorations.



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RTH10260 wrote: Sun Nov 07, 2021 12:43 pm
Discovery of Pompeii slaves’ room sheds rare light on real Roman life
Cramped room contains beds, chamber pot and other items used in slave family’s ‘precarious’ existence
Very cool :thumbsup:
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MsDaisy wrote: Sun Nov 07, 2021 4:46 pm
RTH10260 wrote: Sun Nov 07, 2021 12:43 pm
Discovery of Pompeii slaves’ room sheds rare light on real Roman life
Cramped room contains beds, chamber pot and other items used in slave family’s ‘precarious’ existence
Very cool :thumbsup:
This episode of Time Team (Time Team S18-E03 Romans on the Range) makes one of the team a slave for a day. I found it a bit creepy, certainly shows what a crap life it was.


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Removing plaster in an old house and being surprised by what you find is not unusual. But discovering 16th-century paintings of fantastical laughing birds, roaring griffins, and little torsos of men sat on vases, all based on a decoration that Nero had in his Golden Villa is, historians have admitted, jaw-dropping.

The Landmark Trust has announced that it has found one of the most sophisticated schemes of Tudor wall paintings found anywhere in Britain. It is, said its director, Anna Keay, “the discovery of a lifetime”.

The paintings, dating from the Elizabethan period, were discovered on three walls of a room at Calverley Old Hall between Leeds and Bradford.

During a routine restoration investigation, a small section of plaster was removed from the wall of what appeared to be “a very undistinguished little bedroom”, said Landmark Trust historian Caroline Stanford.
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AndyinPA wrote: Sat Nov 13, 2021 11:54 am https://www.theguardian.com/culture/202 ... a-lifetime
Removing plaster in an old house and being surprised by what you find is not unusual. But discovering 16th-century paintings of fantastical laughing birds, roaring griffins, and little torsos of men sat on vases, all based on a decoration that Nero had in his Golden Villa is, historians have admitted, jaw-dropping.

The Landmark Trust has announced that it has found one of the most sophisticated schemes of Tudor wall paintings found anywhere in Britain. It is, said its director, Anna Keay, “the discovery of a lifetime”.

The paintings, dating from the Elizabethan period, were discovered on three walls of a room at Calverley Old Hall between Leeds and Bradford.

During a routine restoration investigation, a small section of plaster was removed from the wall of what appeared to be “a very undistinguished little bedroom”, said Landmark Trust historian Caroline Stanford.
Reminds me of a scene from "The Horse's Mouth" where Alec Guinness paints a mural in somebody's bedroom. The home owner moans something like "I don't want a national treasure in my bedroom!"
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The Biden administration on Monday will propose a 20-year ban on oil and gas drilling in Chaco Canyon and surrounding areas in northwestern New Mexico, a sacred tribal site that also contains valuable oil and gas.

President Biden will announce the move at the opening of the White House Tribal Nations Summit, one of several steps intended to strengthen the relationship between the federal government and American Indian tribes. Administration officials said Biden will also issue an executive order directing his Cabinet to develop a strategy to improve public safety and justice for Indigenous Americans.

The plan for Chaco Canyon, which is in the home state of Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, the nation’s first Native American Cabinet secretary, would direct the Bureau of Land Management to start the process for removing from leasing federal lands within a 10-mile radius around Chaco Culture National Historical Park.

“Chaco Canyon is a sacred place that holds deep meaning for the Indigenous peoples whose ancestors lived, worked, and thrived in that high desert community,” Haaland said in a statement. “Now is the time to consider more enduring protections for the living landscape that is Chaco, so that we can pass on this rich cultural legacy to future generations.”
I recently watched a video, National Geographic on Apple TV, I think, that opined that Chaco Canyon was more of an astronomical space than living quarters for people. It was interesting. Either way, it's a beautiful site, and I'm glad that a large area is being preserved. If it's true about the astronomical aspect of the site, the larger area would be protective of the larger area.
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You Should See Her in a Crown. Now You Can See Her Face.
New research is solving mysteries linked to the La Almoloya burial site and revealing a genetic history of an ancient European people.
This year, archaeologists announced the discovery of a remarkable, 3,700-year-old double burial in Murcia, Spain. Skeletons of a man and a woman were draped in silver — earrings, bracelets, rings and, most notably, a silver diadem that had once gleamed on the woman’s head.

The burial site, and particularly the crown and other fineries interred with the woman, hinted at a premodern European culture in which women might have held considerable power. The skeletons were unearthed in a large ovoid jar in La Almoloya, a key settlement of the El Argar culture, which is one of the earliest examples of a society in Europe with a ruling bureaucracy, geopolitical boundaries and other hallmarks of an advanced state.

Although the gender politics of El Argar continue to be debated, a pair of complementary research projects are solving mysteries at this burial site. One has given faces to the woman, the man and others buried at La Almoloya, while the other is filling out an intriguing genetic history for the El Argar people.

Joana Bruno, a doctoral student at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, created digital facial representations of 36 people buried at La Almoloya. At the burial site, she said, “we not only have most of the facial portion of the skulls complete, but we also have the mandible, which is a very important portion of what constitutes the lower contour of the face.” The research is part of her dissertation, and the findings have not yet been published in a peer-reviewed journal.
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Russia Reopens the Last Czar’s Palace, a Century After His Execution
The last home of Nicholas II has been restored and opened to the public as a museum outside of St. Petersburg.


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With a team of architects and researchers, Ms. Ryadova has spent more than a decade on these grounds, working to restore the stately yellow edifice to its early-20th-century glory, before World War II and Soviet remodeling led to its deterioration. On Aug. 13, the work of Ms. Ryadova and many others was finally unveiled when Alexander Palace opened to the public as a museum.

This palace is likely be the final major Russian imperial mansion to become a museum, said Tatiana Andreeva, a research specialist. It is the result of years of investigative work by Ms. Andreeva, 37, Ms. Ryadova and their many colleagues, who re-created the interiors by working with a few fuzzy colored pictures, thousands of black-and-white photos, some watercolors, several drapery swatches and memoirs of palace life.

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The reopened palace will allow visitors to immerse themselves in part of the country’s history and make their own judgments, said Lev Lurie, a specialist in the history of St. Petersburg and the Romanov family.

“Museum is a theater, with a play rolling out without any actors,” she said.
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Way too many "dustables" for my taste.
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Tiredretiredlawyer wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 8:50 am Way too many "dustables" for my taste.
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Yep! My mother collected birds, there was not a square inch in her house that didn't have a bird sitting on it. So everyone brought her birds from all over the place. After she died I only kept one, a little hand carved alabaster bird from Italy that lives in the china cabinet. I always thought it looked like such a tranquil little bird.
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