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I Am Not A Wedding Photographer : Fabulous Portraits of the British Enjoying A Bit of A Do
Published: 22/08/2019“If our heart were large enough to love life in all its detail, we would see that every instant is at once a giver and a plunderer” – Gaston Bachelard Weddings are plai ... Read moreSource: flashbak.com -
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Switching on the Atlantic Ocean heat pump
Published: 22/08/201934 million years ago the warm 'greenhouse climate' of the dinosaur age ended and the colder 'icehouse climate' of today commenced. Antarctica glaciated first and geological data imply that the Atlanti ... Read moreSource: www.sciencedaily.com -
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Review – Performing the Sacra: priestly roles and their organisation in Roman Britain
Published: 22/08/2019Priests in Roman Britain are a mysterious bunch. How were they organised? What do their regalia tell us about their roles? What do the contexts in which priestly objects were found reveal about priest ... Read moreSource: archaeology.co.uk
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Review – Raasay: the ACFA archaeological surveys 1995-2009
Published: 22/08/2019The Isle of Raasay is in sharp focus in Scottish culture. It is the place whose cleared settlements informed Sorley MacLean’s important Gaelic poem Hallaig. It is the landscape where Calum MacLeod spe ... Read moreSource: archaeology.co.uk -
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Review – Torre Abbey, Devon: the archaeology of the Premonstratensian abbey
Published: 22/08/2019Torbay will mean only one thing to most people: holidays! In Torre Abbey, however, the area holds a gem of monastic archaeology. The site was founded quite late, in 1196, by the Premonstratensians (re ... Read moreSource: archaeology.co.uk -
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Review – Warfare, Raiding, and Defence in Early Medieval Britain
Published: 22/08/2019They are the biggest relics of their age, and there are more than a hundred of them in Britain, yet because they do not easily fit into the modern view of post-Roman society – stripped of its hordes o ... Read moreSource: archaeology.co.uk
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Review – The Beaker People: isotopes, mobility, and diet in prehistoric Britain
Published: 22/08/2019It was said that astronomy was divided into two: study of the Crab Nebula and the rest. Similarly, in British prehistory, the Beaker Phenomenon with all its expansive bling outshines all others. The l ... Read moreSource: archaeology.co.uk -
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Should presidential searches be open or closed? (opinion)
Published: 22/08/2019Competition among the viewpoints of various observers, writes John Thelin, ultimately centers on a crucial question: Should academic searches be closed or open? Read moreSource: www.insidehighered.com -
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Human Bone Found at Orkney’s Neolithic Cathedral, Ness of Brodgar
Published: 22/08/2019Archaeologists excavating a vast Neolithic cathedral at Ness of Brodgar on the Scottish island of Orkney have made the rare discovery of a human arm bone. Read more Section: News History & ... Read moreSource: www.ancient-origins.net
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Intact Tang Dynasty tomb found under playground
Published: 22/08/2019A beautifully decorated intact tomb from the Tang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.) has been discovered in Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi province, Northern China. The site, formerly the playground of Xiaojingyu ... Read moreSource: www.thehistoryblog.com -
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The Family Dynasty That Pursues Perfection in Shaved Ice
Published: 22/08/2019Ashley Hansen grew up spending Saturday mornings watching 300-pound slabs of ice slide into her grandfather’s Jeep, grabbing chips with her sister as they splintered along the edges. Each week, Ashley ... Read moreSource: www.atlasobscura.com -
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Ancient Mesoamericans Calmed Down and Hooked Up in Sweaty Steam Baths
Published: 22/08/2019In ancient Mesoamerica, bathing was about more than cleanliness: It was about pleasure. The years before the arrival of Spanish colonizers were the heyday of the temazcal , a volcanic sweat lodge that ... Read moreSource: www.atlasobscura.com
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Experts Scramble to Study Ancient Fort Before It’s Lost to the Sea
Published: 21/08/2019Archaeologists working on the 2,500-year-old Dinas Dinlle hill fort on the Gwynedd coastline in Wales are racing a climate change clock to uncover the site’s secrets before they are lost to the sea. ... Read moreSource: www.ancient-origins.net -
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Mesolithic Platform Discovered Off Isle of Wight
Published: 21/08/2019ISLE OF WIGHT, ENGLAND— BBC News reports that an 8,000-year-old wooden platform has been discovered off the Isle of Wight coast near Yarmouth. The seabed where the structure was found—at a depth of ro ... Read moreSource: www.archaeology.org -
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Early Aboriginal Site Discovered in Western Australia
Published: 21/08/2019PERTH, AUSTRALIA—One of the earliest sites showing Aboriginal occupation of northwestern Australia—some 50,000 years ago—has been discovered at the Drysdale River catchment in the Kimberley region, Th ... Read moreSource: www.archaeology.org
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The Bones at India's Mysterious 'Skeleton Lake' Came From All Over
Published: 21/08/2019No one knows exactly how they got there—the skeletal remains of 500-some-odd people spread around Lake Roopkund, in the Indian Himalayas. Since the bones were rediscovered by a forest ranger in 1942, ... Read moreSource: www.atlasobscura.com -
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Anglo-Saxon Building Unearthed at English Castle
Published: 21/08/2019BAMBURGH, ENGLAND—According to a report in The Northumberland Gazette , archaeologists excavating Anglo-Saxon remains at Bamburgh Castle on England's northeast coast have unearthed the rem ... Read moreSource: www.archaeology.org -
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Monument to the Great Fire of London in London, England
Published: 21/08/2019Known simply as "the Monument," this distinctive London landmark was built to commemorate one of the most prominent events in the capital's history, the Great Fire of 1666. Rising from a pedestal betw ... Read moreSource: www.atlasobscura.com
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'Jeune Éléphant pris au Piège' ('Young Elephant Caught in a Trap') in Paris, France
Published: 21/08/2019This sculpture shows a large African elephant calf caught in a foothold trap, throwing back its trunk in alarm. Just behind the baby elephant's hind foot is a guinea baboon. The statue was created by ... Read moreSource: www.atlasobscura.com -
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Earliest evidence of artificial cranial deformation in Croatia during 5th-6th century
Published: 21/08/2019People in Croatia during the 5th to 6th centuries may have used cranial modifications to indicate their cultural affiliations, according to a new study. Read moreSource: www.sciencedaily.com