One of the beauties of modern archaeological technique is the ability to analyse ancient battle, or massacre sites, in a forensic way. …
History/Archaeology
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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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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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History/Archaeology
1066 and the Dead Parrot (The weird things going on in the margins of the Bayeux Tapestry)
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleI 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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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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ForestsGeologyHistory/ArchaeologyNew Zealand plant fossilsUncategorized
New Zealand’s Doggerland
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleDo 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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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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