[SunkenCiv]

This is a "Gods, Graves, Glyphs" -- Archeology/Anthropology/Ancient Cultures/Artifacts/Antiquities, etc. PING list.

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[hershey]

Awesome post! Thanks so very much.

[Dustbunny]

Archeology/Anthropology/Ancient Cultures/Artifacts/Antiquities, ah, to be young and have the chance to devote my life to learning all the mysteries.

[Blogger]

please add me to this list

[Rocky]

I really enjoy the archaeology threads. Thanks for the index.

[Dustbunny]

Thank you

[Ptarmigan]

Lots of history stuff. Cool. One reason I go to FR. :)

[gleeaikin]

So many posts, so little time. You realize you have set my house renovating projects back years. Seriously, thanks for keeping us all informed.

[ferri]

whoa! i see what i will be doing for the next several weeks! thank you! :)

[ferri]

thank you again. have i told you...you are TOO COOL! :) lol

[Cincinna]

GGG PING

[CDHart]

I am looking for an article from the NY Times entitled "Oddity in space confounds astronomers." Problem is I don't have a date when it was published. It concerns "a point of light deep in the northern sky that appears to be like nothing seen before." Can you help?

Carolyn

[SunkenCiv]

Another correction to the URLs, probably Dartmouth gets tired of the bandwidth use. So, go easy on 'em, and just download every one of the lessons, and save 'em to your local drive. :')

The Prehistoric Archaeology of the Aegean

1. The Southern Greek Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic Sequence at Franchthi
2. The Neolithic Cultures of Thessaly, Crete, and the Cyclades
3. The Eutresis and Korakou Cultures of Early Helladic I-II
4. The Early Cycladic Period
5. The Early Minoan Period:The Settlements
6. The Early Minoan Period: The Tombs
7. Western Anatolia and the Eastern Aegean in the Early Bronze Age
8. The 'Lefkandi I' and Tiryns Cultures of the Early Hellaadic IIB and Early Helladic III Periods
9. Middle Helladic Greece
10. Middle Minoan Crete
11. The First Palaces in the Aegean
12. Minoan Architecture: The Palaces
13. Minoan Domestic and Funerary Architecture of the Neopalatial and Post-Palatial Periods
14. Late Minoan Painting and Other Representational Art: Pottery, Frescoes, Steatite Vases, Ivories, and Bronzes
15. Minoan Religion
16. The Shaft Graves
17. Akrotiri on Thera, the Santorini Volcano and the Middle and Late Cycladic Periods in the Central Aegean Islands
18. The Nature and Extent of Neopalatial Minoan Influence in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Worlds
19. Mycenaean Tholos Tombs and Early Mycenaean Settlements
20. Mycenaean Residential Architecture: Palaces and Ordinary Housing
21. Mycenaean Public and Funerary Architecture: Fortifications, Drainage Projects, Roads, and Chamber Tombs
22. Aspects of Mycenaean Trade
23. Troy VI
24. Mycenaean Pictorial Art and Pottery
25. The Linear B Tablets and Mycenaean Social, Political, and Economic Organization
26. Mycenaean and Late Cycladic Religion and Religious Architecture
27. Troy VII and the Historicity of the Trojan War
28. The Collapse of Mycenaean Palatial Civilization and the Coming of the Dorians
29. Post-Palatial Twilight: The Aegean in the Twelfth Century B.C.

[SunkenCiv]

Best Buy RewardZone had sent me a $5 off coupon which expires on the 21st. Up early for the change -- and out of the house, who'd have guessed? -- I wandered the east side of town for a while and came up with this title, $5 off:

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The History Channel Presents Engineering an Empire narrated by Peter Weller

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I've never seen any of these, don't get cable or satellite, and actually seldom watch broadcast TV (I get zero stations here for some reason). This looks like its up my alley, and I've got to pick up new documentaries every once in a while just to keep my mind sharp and my debt high. Motivates me to go to work every day. ;') After I watch this a few times I plan to review it.

[Renfield]

Discoveries at Bimini: Columns, Marble Building Ruins, and Possible Building Foundations in 100-Feet of Water

By Dr. Greg Little

http://www.mysterious-america.net/bimini2007.html

[Renfield]

Viking Treasure Trove Discovered in Swedish Garden

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/09/070924-vikings-treasure.html

James Owen
for National Geographic News

September 24, 2007
A thousand-year-old Viking treasure trove has been dug up in a garden in Sweden, archaeologists report.

The hoard of silver coins from Europe, central Asia, and the Middle East was unearthed earlier this month by a gardener tending his vegetable patch on the Baltic island of Gotland (see Sweden map).

So far 69 coins dating from the late 900s and early 1000s have been found, said archaeologist Dan Carlsson of Gotland University.

The find contains rare early Viking money and foreign currency from present-day England, Germany, Ireland, Iraq, and Uzbekistan.

Along with a similar cache recently discovered in England, the new find paints a picture of Vikings trading and looting their way across Europe and beyond.

The Anglo-Saxon coins were likely either plunder or protection money known as danegeld, which was paid by regional rulers to keep Vikings from attacking, experts said.

The Asian coins are products of the Vikings’ extensive trade, which the Norse conducted by sailing south along Russia’s long rivers to reach the Middle East.

Between 700 and 800 silver hoards have been discovered so far on Gotland, which was ideally located as a Viking trading center, Carlsson said.

(See a photo of a Viking stash of Arabic coins found in Gotland in October 2006.)

“Gotland was situated right in the middle between western and eastern Europe,” he said.

“Most of the coins [found on the island] were actually Arabic coins [that came] up the Russian rivers.”

“Remarkable” Discoveries

Gareth Williams, curator of early medieval coinage at the British Museum in London, said the concentration of early medieval coins in Gotland is “remarkable.”

“We’ve got more surviving late Anglo-Saxon coins from Gotland than we have from Britain, despite the fact it’s not a very big island and quite a way away,” he added

The newfound hoard, buried some 1,300 feet (400 meters) from the site of an ancient Viking settlement, also includes highly unusual coins minted for Olof Skötkonung, a regional Swedish king, Carlsson said.

“He was the first king that minted coins in Sweden,” he said.

“He obviously learned [coin-making] from England,” he added. “Many of the coins are copies of English coins, most of all Ethelred coins.”

Ethelred II was England’s monarch from 978 to 1016. Also known as Ethelred the Unready due to his lack of reliable counsel, he paid massive amounts of “tribute money” to the Vikings and is featured on Anglo-Saxon coins discovered in the garden cache.

Sihtric, the Viking ruler of Dublin, Ireland, was another king whose money turned up in the hoard.

Williams noted that a number of the Gotland coins show knife marks left by “pecking,” a practice used to test whether they were genuine silver or counterfeits made of lead.

“A huge amount of coinage was making its way through there, more than the locals could ever possibly have had a use for,” Williams added.

Many researchers believe these hoards functioned like safe deposit boxes: Viking cash deposits were hidden in the ground for safety until needed.

Other experts suggest that the caches had a religious significance and were saved up and buried by their owners for use in the afterlife.

(Read related story: “Vikings Filed Their Teeth, Skeleton Study Shows” [February 3, 2006].)

Huge Haul Found in England

The new find follows the discovery earlier this year of a major Viking hoard by amateur treasure hunters in northeast England.

That hoard was said by experts to be among the most important ever found in Britain.

Unearthed by amateurs using metal-detectors in a field near Harrogate, North Yorkshire (see map), the treasure included a rare gold armband, jewelery, and more than 600 coins collected from as far away as Afghanistan.

The hoard was stashed inside a decorated gilt silver vessel thought to have been looted from a monastery in France.

The treasure is dated to between 927 and 929, when the Anglo-Saxons regained control of northeast England from the Vikings.

A number of Viking hoards found in the region were buried around this period, according to Williams, of the British Museum.

“This was probably linked to the Anglo-Saxons pushing northwards,” he said.

The Harrogate treasure likely belonged to an important Viking chieftain, he added.

Researchers can only speculate why he never retrieved it.

“He could have been killed in battle, forced to leave the region, or died of old age before he had a chance to recover it,” Williams said.

[Renfield]

Another GGG-worthy report:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/25/wbible125.xml

[Cincinna]

Thank you for all the wonderful articles.

[SunkenCiv]

At WalMart tonight I picked up a special collector’s issue (it sez here) from the editors of “Military History” magazine; it’s “Bronze Brains & Blood” subtitled “The Battles, Weapons, Conquerors, Strategies, & Heroes in Ancient Greece and Rome that gave us Civilization”. The website turned up bupkis. Here’s the search link.

http://www.historynet.com/search?searchKeywords=bronze+brains+blood

Anyway, it’s kinda thin, and costs a hair-raising $5.99 (plus tax? Dunno, I also got a couple boxes of Whoppers), no idea really if it was a total waste of money. :’)

[SunkenCiv]

Xenohistorian Weblog

[SunkenCiv]

Pierre Colas, an anthropologist and interpreter of Mayan glyphs, was shot and killed in his home. His sister Marie Colas who was visiting was also shot, and later died of her wounds. The apparent motive was robbery.

The suspects' names given by sources:

• Thomas Andrew Reed, 20
• Michael Shane Holloway, 22, of Cookeville
• George Eugune Cody, 29, of Nashville
• Gennyfer Dawn Hutcherson, 35, of Nashville

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