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The megaliths of southern India form a class of enigmatic monuments, though nearly two hundred years of scholarly work has been devoted to them. Continue reading “Megalithic Astronomy at Nilaskal and Baise, India”
During recent decades, the intense research in the field, realized by the Messina Cultural and Environmental Heritage Survey with the collaboration of some researchers of the Messina University, has provided the occasion to integrate archaeological, stratigraphic, and palaeoenvironmental data useful for reconstructing the geological framework of the coastal plain underlying the urban area of Messina and of its natural seaport. Continue reading “A Mycenaean tholos in Messina coastal plain, Sicily”
A single bone artefact found in a Moroccan cave is the oldest well-dated specialized bone tool associated with the Aterian culture of the Middle Stone Age, according to a study by Abdeljalil Bouzouggar of the Institut National des Sciences de l’Archéologie et du Patrimoine in Morocco and colleagues. Continue reading “Bone knife from Morocco is oldest specialized tool associated with Aterian culture – Unique technological complex in North Africa around 90,000 years ago”
In the earliest age, then, the kings of Asia were native-born, and in connection with them no memory is preserved of either a notable deed or a personal name. The first to be handed down by tradition to history and memory for us as one who achieved great deeds is Ninus, king of the Assyrians, and of him we shall now endeavour to give a detailed account. Continue reading “From Ninus and Semiramis to Sardanapallus: The 1,300 years ancient Assyrian Empire”
Very few Neolithic sites are known from central Epirus. Although sites of this date are well attested in neighbouring Albania and in western Macedonia, they remain scarce in central Epirus as a result of both limited research activity and the physical constraints of the landscape. Continue reading “The Neolithic settlement of Episkopi, Ioannina, Greece”
Wooden artifacts were found in the stratified site of Poggetti Vecchi in southern Tuscany (central Italy) that was dated to the final Middle Pleistocene. Continue reading “Poggetti Vecchi, Tuscany, Italy; evidence of the use of fire for working wooden implements by Neanderthals (∼171,000 years B.P.)”
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