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    Geography and the Bronze Age Battle at Tollense, Germany

    by Mike Pole April 19, 2025
    by Mike Pole April 19, 2025

    One of the beauties of modern archaeological technique is the ability to analyse ancient battle, or massacre sites, in a forensic way. …

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    A Crimean Gothic Woman from the Seventh Century

    by Mike Pole February 29, 2024
    by Mike Pole February 29, 2024

    Crimea, Goths and Archaeology The indigenous people of Crimea are generally regarded as the ‘Crimean Tartars’. But Crimea has older identities than …

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    The mid 7th-century Gaponovo Costume of Russia

    by Mike Pole November 17, 2023
    by Mike Pole November 17, 2023

    In the mid 7th-century someone wrapped 411 objects in a cloth, and buried them in a pit, near what is now the …

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    1066 and the Dead Parrot (The weird things going on in the margins of the Bayeux Tapestry)

    by Mike Pole May 8, 2020
    by Mike Pole May 8, 2020

    I like to see things for myself. It can give me a sense of place or scale that one doesn’t get from …

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    Time-Travel in a Time of COVID-19

    by Mike Pole April 13, 2020
    by Mike Pole April 13, 2020

    What’s a guy to do during lock-down? I’ve chosen to time-travel back to around the first and second centuries AD. At that …

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    New Zealand’s Doggerland

    by Mike Pole December 27, 2019
    by Mike Pole December 27, 2019

    Do we have a submerged ‘Doggerland‘ in New Zealand? In 1950 a boat, the HMNZS ‘Lachlan’ dredged a sample of “lignite” from …

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    A Nail up the Nose, and another take on Monotheism

    by Mike Pole December 22, 2019
    by Mike Pole December 22, 2019

    You’d have to really dislike someone to bash a nail up their nose. The day before Wanaka’s Alchemy Cafe closed because of …

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    Searching for Smyrna in Izmir, Turkey

    by Mike Pole December 2, 2019
    by Mike Pole December 2, 2019

    So where the heck is Smyrna? I’d heard a little about the awful days of 1922, but despite having made a few …

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    That Rich Woman in the Slovenian Forest

    by Mike Pole November 10, 2019
    by Mike Pole November 10, 2019

    We don’t know what she looked like, because most of her upper body has vanished…. Most of you probably don’t know of …

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    An Ottoman Treasure in Develi, Turkey

    by Mike Pole February 17, 2018
    by Mike Pole February 17, 2018

    Tourism – good thing or bad? I’ve written about Develi before –a town in central Turkey, where I was based, along with …

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  • Home
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  • Categories
    • Curio Bay – New Zealand’s Jurassic Fossil Forest
    • Fire
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