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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Biogeography & Vegetation
The Ancient Footpath from Otepoti-Dunedin to Moeraki
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleHow old is the oldest cultural feature on Aotearoa-New Zealand? Imagine being around when the only way to get anywhere was to …
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Archaeology, History & Culture
A Crimean Gothic Woman from the Seventh Century
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleCrimea, 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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Archaeology, History & Culture
The mid 7th-century Gaponovo Costume of Russia
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleIn 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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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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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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I’m no gamer, but….. ***** Mexico City’s National Museum of Anthropology is simply stunning. It’s task is to somehow present the bewildering …
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Archaeology, History & Culture
The Prehistoric Songlines of Brittany, France
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleThe French woman had parted the curtains, and was peering out into the stormy night. *** There are up-sides and down-sides to …
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In all my outings in Mongolia, I never saw a wolf – I only heard them howling while camping out one night …
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Archaeology, History & Culture
Fifty, 500, or 5,000 years old? Ancient cultural landscape in the hills of Central Turkey
by Mike Poleby Mike Pole‘Fox-holes’ perhaps? Did snipers crouch in these to fire down on an enemy below? What were these little rings of rocks strategically …
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