Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
5 – Discovery of wreck of Endurance (1912 ship) under the Antarctic ice. [19] 8. Archaeologists conducted radiocarbon analyses and announced the dating of a curved hunting bow discovered in 2021. The bow was probably 460 years old, and its origin ranged from 1506 to 1660.
Excavations. 26 June–21 July – Excavations take place at Lowther Castle Stead in Cumbria, England. The project was led by Sophie Thérèse Ambler of the University of Lancaster. [ 1][ 2][ 3] 19–21 July – Excavations take place at Sleaford Castle in Lincolnshire, England.
21 – The partially mummified 6000-year-old remains of a child, probably a girl aged between 6 and 12 along with 2,000-year-old Dead Sea scrolls is found in Cave of Horror in Israel. [ 50][ 51] 22 – A 3,000-year-old gold mask along with 500 cultural relics is unearthed at Sanxingdui, China. [ 52] April.
The following list of archaeological sites in Tennessee encompasses sites that have either contributed substantially or have the potential to contribute substantially to research regarding people who have lived in what is now Tennessee.
October. Rock art depicting animals is discovered inside Dunchraigaig Cairn in Kilmartin Glen in Scotland, estimated to date to between 4,000 and 5,000 BP, the earliest found in the country. [ 90] 3 – Egypt unveils 59 coffins of priests and clerks in Saqqara from the 26th dynasty nearly 2,500 years ago.
Processual archaeology (formerly, the New Archaeology) is a form of archaeological theory. It had its beginnings in 1958 with the work of Gordon Willey and Philip Phillips, Method and Theory in American Archaeology, in which the pair stated that "American archaeology is anthropology, or it is nothing" (Willey and Phillips, 1958:2), a rephrasing ...
Industrial archaeology ( IA) is the systematic study of material evidence associated with the industrial past. [ 1] This evidence, collectively referred to as industrial heritage, includes buildings, machinery, artifacts, sites, infrastructure, documents and other items associated with the production, manufacture, extraction, transport or ...
Archaeology. Excavations at Atapuerca, an archaeological site in Spain. Archaeology or archeology[ a] is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscapes. Archaeology can be considered both a ...