Quelle: Archäologie Online

Alexandria am Tigris: vergessen und wiederentdeckt

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Alexandria am Tigris war einst ein bedeutendes Zentrum des Handels zwischen Meer und Binnenland im antiken Mesopotamien. Lange Zeit vergessen, wurde die Stadt erst jüngst durch moderne archäologische Methoden neu verortet und erforscht. Ein internationales Forschungsteam hat ihre beeindruckende Größe und zentrale Rolle im Fernhandel rekonstruiert – trotz schwieriger politischer Rahmenbedingungen vor Ort.

Roman Infrastructure in Early Medieval Britain: The Adaptations of the Past in Text and Stone

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Early Medieval Britain was more Roman than we think. The Roman Empire left vast infrastructural resources on the island. These resources lay buried not only in dirt and soil, but also in texts, laws, chronicles, charters, even churches and landscapes. This book uncovers them and shows how they shaped Early Medieval Britain. Infrastructures, material and symbolic, can work in ways that are not immediately obvious and exert an influence long after their creators have gone. Infrastructure can also

A Prehistory of Digital Archaeology - Introspective Digital Archaeology

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As a species, we are fascinated by origins – as Maya Angelou, the American poet and civil rights activist is attributed as saying, “You can't really know where you are going until you know where you have been”. Of course, much of archaeology is concerned one way or another with narratives around origins, be they

Hafted stone tools in China suggest early hominins were more inventive than thought

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A newly excavated archaeological site in central China is reshaping long-held assumptions about early hominin behavior in Eastern Asia. Led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, an international team of researchers conducted archaeological excavations at Xigou, located in the Danjiangkou Reservoir Region in central China, uncovering evidence of advanced stone tool technologies dating back 160,000–72,000 years ago.