History Forum / General / Archaeology / November 2006

Gulf Stream weakened in 'Little Ice Age'
Freezing medieval weather linked to diminished ocean current.
Michael Hopkin
http://www.nature.com/news/2006/061127/full/061127-8.html

Inger's friend Terry has posted this elsewhere:
Birgitta Wallace has just published a very attractive and highly
informative book on the L'anse-aux-Meadows Norse archeaological site
in Newfoundland. It was mentioned at the NSAS meeting tonight and I

In his paper "Earth, Air, Fire, and Water: The Archaeology of Bronze
Age Cosmic Catastrophes"
http://www.knowledge.co.uk/sis/abstract/masse.htm Bruce Masse proposes
that a there have been a number of major comet impacts on the earth in

I uploaded a 14 pp English summary of
R.M. van Heeringen, P.A. Henderikx & A. Mars (red) 1995
"Vroeg-Middeleeuwse ringwalburgen in Zeeland"
together with some additional maps and satelite images.

"1480 Map by Hans Rust of Augsburg shows "Vinland" as an European colony to
the far northwest.  Thousands of copies of this map were printed assuring
that most European merchants were aware of the existence of the old Nordic
colony.  "

Ancient transportation - can you dig it?
http://transportarchaeology.wordpress.com/
http://vehiculum.dk/
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I went back for another visit to the Mingei Museum in Balboa Park,
currently hosting "Of Gold and Grasses", an extensibe exhibit of
ancient items dug from Kazakhstan.  They have a reproduction of the
"Golden Warrior" suit of armor, probably 100 artifacts or so, and a

We have a fine exhibition of Scythian artifacts at the Mingei Museum in
Balboa Park.  I really enjoyed taking a class of 5th Graders through.
One thing that jumped out - the people who put the displays together
still have the "Golden Warrior" mock-up cataloged as a male prince; I

As I written to group earlier there are three examplars of Martin Behaim's
world map, I am aware of that is. the one from 1492 is the latest of them
it's to be found in Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg.
That one is interesting because the southern of the islands west of ...

Published 31.10.06 09:30
Possible third Jellinge stone found
By The Copenhagen Post
Archaeologists believe they have found a new Viking-era stone engraved with

still a few years out, but what should i start thinking of now in
preparation for orals?

This is indeed according to THE AUSTRALIAN the rate at which Australian
farmers take their own life : One every 4 days !
Passed the scoop of the news and aware of the overwhelming trend  of
the noted immoral & indeed thick skull Antipodeans in dogs, horses,

I was rereading this (from August 2005):
[Click the star to watch this topic]          Richard Dawkins's logic
troubles
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Roman coin hoard found at Dutch dig
In the city of Cuijk, 7 km south of Nijmegen, the 11 hectares
building site "De Nielt" is completely excavated [1]. During
that excavation a pot of silver Roman coins was found. It a