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Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 4:44 pm
by Beagle
http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstor ... sid=223720
Chandigarh, February 22: THE excavations in Rakhigarhi, situated in Hisar, Haryana, have pushed back the history of civilisation by more than 500 years. “It is the largest Harappan site ever found,” said the director of Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), New Delhi, Dr Amerendra Nath, while delivering a lecture on ‘Rakhigarhi - A Harappan Metropolis’ at the ICSSR Complex, Panjab University, today. The lecture was organised by the Department of Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology, PU.
“The site yielded finds of the early Harappan and mature Harappan phase,” said Dr Nath. He said that features like knowledgeof writing, use of wedge-shaped bricks and town planning, earlier thought to be present in the mature phase i.e 2500 BC, were discovered to be present in the early phase i.e 3000 BC. Evidence of well-planned towns were found, he said.
Another article on the Harrapan civilization.
(the Indus Valley civilization)
From the News Section.
Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 4:49 pm
by Minimalist
Ah, yes....in India as well as Caral, Peru they continue to push back the dates.
Keeping digging lads and The Club be damned!
Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 5:13 pm
by Beagle
Indeed, those dates keep rolling back. I've had a keen interest in the Harrapan civilization for quite a while. I think it's a rich and ripe archaeological locale.
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 12:01 pm
by Beagle
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jh ... coin26.xml
Experts are excited about a rare coin unearthed by an amateur treasure hunter which could change the accepted ancient history of Britain.
The silver denarius which dates back to the Roman Republic — before Julius Caesar made Rome an empire — was unearthed near Fowey in Cornwall.
Dating from 146 BC, it shows how ancient Britons were trading with the Romans well before the country was conquered in AD 43.
It seems that the Britons were having good trade relations with Rome well before the invasion.
From Archaeologica News.
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 12:07 pm
by Digit
If my memory serves right on this Beag Bruce would well up on this one. Far from being invaded as such it seems that the Romans were invited in by a tribe in the south of the country and that Romanisation was well under way before the Legions marched in.
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 12:13 pm
by Minimalist
146 BC being the same year that Carthage was destroyed by the Romans and there seems to have been a Carthaginian-Cornwall connection over the tin mines.
Interesting find, to say the least.
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 12:22 pm
by Digit
Yeah! Bit like invading Iraq because of its oil.
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 12:28 pm
by Forum Monk
Why all the headline grabbing? Just because the coin is dated 146bce, doesn't mean that's when it arrived in England. it seems like a big leap from a single coin, found by a treasure hunter to a full blown trade relations with an emerging empire.
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 12:42 pm
by Minimalist
Indicates the existence of trading networks between Britain and the continent where the Gauls and Spaniards were definitely in contact with the Romans....not that anyone ever doubted that fact but it is nice to have proof.
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 12:49 pm
by Digit
Britain maintained extensive trade relations with the Ireland, mainland Europe, Scandinavia and the Middle East from well before the Roman invasion Monk. The Romans seemed to know all about us when they landed. Remember, there had been an attempt at a landing a century before that had been repelled and the evidense of trading, possibly indirect trading, from well before.
Not everybody was opposed to the Romans it seems, but the history was written of course by the Romans, not us.
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 1:16 pm
by Forum Monk
OK, but the coin is not proof of anything.
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 1:25 pm
by Digit
Agreed.
Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 3:12 pm
by Beagle
http://ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/eng ... 47819.html
PALERMO (ANSA) - The face of a late Stone Age woman who lived in Sicily has been reconstructed by a sculptor working with anthropologists at Palermo University.
The skeleton of the woman, who lived 14,000 years ago, was discovered in a cave near Messina in 1937, along with the incomplete skeletons of six other humans, presumably her family.
From the News Section.
Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 3:13 pm
by Minimalist
Butt ugly.
Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 3:23 pm
by Beagle
Artistic licence was used when deciding to give the ancient Sicilian the same black hair common in modern women from southern Italy.
I believe this is wrong also. 14,000 ya the hair would have been lighter IMO.