English megaliths linked to death rites

Topic: Food for the ages?        Missed my post yesterday but this article comes straight from a place(Dartmoor) that is close to my heart-and it seems to prehistoric man’s stomach.  Nine megaliths in a remote part of Dartmoor, England, share features in common with Stonehenge, and may shed light on the meaning behind these prehistoric [...]

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Abundant food and leisure time: Site tells story of what Hilton Head Island was like 4,000 years ago | islandpacket.com

Topic Abundant food and leisure time: Site tells story of what Hilton Head Island was like 4,000 years ago | islandpacket.com.

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Digs may throw more light on ancient wine production

Topic Ancient wine on Malta An archaeological site being excavated at Mġarr ix-Xini has further enforced the notion that viticulture and wine production have been an important part of the Maltese economy since the Classical period. The excavation site, at Tal-Loġġa, is in a field next to where two troughs dug into the rock were [...]

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Ancient wrecks found off Italy’ west coast

Topic: Shipwreaks containing wine Rome: A team of marine archaeologists using sonar scanners have discovered four ancient shipwrecks off the tiny Italian island of Zannone, with intact cargos of wine and oil. The remains of the trading vessels, dating from the first century BC to the 5th-7th century AD, are up to 165 metres underwater, a [...]

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A window on the ancient community

Topic:  Politiko-Troullia I found another article on this ancient site on Cyprus-hope you find it interesting. ARCHAEOLOGISTS have uncovered what they call “an archaeological window” on the communities that provided the foundation for urbanised civilisation on Cyprus, the Antiquities Department said yesterday. Renewed excavations at the Bronze Age community of Politiko-Troullia, in the copper-bearing foothills of [...]

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An archaeological window on ancient farming

Topic: Ancient Farming-Cyprus:   EXCAVATIONS at Politiko-Troullia on the foothills of the Troodos mountains in the Nicosia district have brought to light a series of households around a large communal courtyard with evidence of intensive animal husbandry and crop processing, copper metallurgy and sophisticated ceramic technology during the Middle Bronze Age 2000-1500 BC. The site [...]

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Researchers in Israel Find World’s First Steak Knives

Topic: Stone Age Knives  Archaeologists digging in a cave in Israel have found what looks to be the world’s first cutlery: tiny stone knives dating back at least 200,000 years that would have been used to cut meat during a meal. Made of flint, the ancient knives are about the size and shape of a [...]

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Funerary Feast of King Midas pt 2

Topic: Feast Remains of a feast: The riches in bronze in the king’s tomb were matched by a wealth of organic residues left in the drinking vessels. Excavators—realizing the importance of using scientific methods to disentangle history from legend—shipped all the residues to the Penn Museum, where a Museum chemist examined them. The results were [...]

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The Funerary Feast of King Midas

Topic: Ancient Feast introduction: Fifty years ago, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum) began excavations at the ancient Phrygian capital of Gordion in central Turkey. Within six years, the expedition had made one of the most spectacular archaeological discoveries of the 20th century. In the largest burial mound at the [...]

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Palace recreates wine fountain fit for a king

Topic:  Tudor Wine     An English royal palace is to have wine on tap for the first time since the Tudors. Using a 16th-century painting of Henry VIII’s temporary palace at the Anglo/French political summit as a source, historians from Historic Royal Palaces have reconstructed a Tudor wine fountain at Hampton Court. It will dispense [...]

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