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DNA evidence rewrites history of Pompeii victims buried in volcanic eruption

A recent study led by an international team of researchers has unveiled new insights into the victims of Pompeii, challenging longstanding assumptions about the identities and relationships of those entombed by the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE...

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DNA evidence rewrites history of Pompeii victims buried in volcanic eruption A recent study led by an international team of researchers has unveiled new insights into the victims of Pompeii, challenging longstanding assumptions about the identities and relationships of those entombed by the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. This research, published on November 7, 2024, in Current Biology, relies on ancient DNA extracted from skeletal remains within the plaster casts that have preserved the forms of Pompeii’s residents for nearly two millennia. For centuries, scholars have examined these casts, attempting to deduce the victims’ relationships and stories based on physical proximity, attire, and positioning at the time of their deaths. Traditional interpretations often assumed family connections based on these factors. For instance, an adult wearing a golden bracelet and holding a child was widely believed to be a mother with her child. However, DNA evidence now reveals that this adult was an unrelated male holding a child, dismantling this long-standing interpretation. Similarly, two individuals found in a close embrace, once thought to be sisters or a mother and daughter, were found to include at least one genetic male...

DNA evidence rewrites history of Pompeii victims buried in volcanic eruption

A recent study challenges long-held assumptions about the identities and relationships of Pompeii's victims
Dario Radley (ArchaeologyNews Online Magazine)
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I went petroglyph peeping today!

#Archeology #RockArt #Photography #Darktable

Color photo of a large broken dark colored rocks with light colored petroglyph carvings. On the left is a geometric figure that looks like a ladder pointing to the right. Lower left is a square divided into ten rectangles. Moving right along the bottom is a human looking figure with arms spread wide and three large fingers. The figure is covered in many dots. A dense stripe of dots along the bottom and a less dense series of dots covering the rest of the image. Above that are three curved lines forming arches, a big one, medium sized one, and small one underneath the other two. Top middle is a rectangle divided into ten side-by-side divisions. Over the upper-right side corner of the rectangle are a series of squiggly lines, perhaps suggesting a waterfall? Further to the right in the middle, is another square, but this time divided into eighteen small rectangles. And at the extreme right is a straight vertical shaft with a series of seven oval shapes on it like a shish kabob.
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DNA analysis of ‘Well-man’ thrown into castle well corroborates 800-year-old Norse saga

Norwegian researchers have used genetic analysis to potentially identify the remains of a medieval figure described in an 800-year-old Norse saga. The study, published on October 25 in the journal iScience, analyzes skeletal remains discovered in 1938 at the Sverresborg Castle in Norway..

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DNA analysis of ‘Well-man’ thrown into castle well corroborates 800-year-old Norse saga Norwegian researchers have used genetic analysis to potentially identify the remains of a medieval figure described in an 800-year-old Norse saga. The study, published on October 25 in the journal iScience, analyzes skeletal remains discovered in 1938 at the Sverresborg Castle in Norway. Researchers believe the bones may belong to a figure from the Sverris Saga, a historical prose poem documenting the reign of King Sverre Sigurdsson and recounting a dramatic incident in 1197, where a man’s body was reportedly thrown into the castle’s well to poison its water supply...

DNA analysis of 'Well-man' thrown into castle well corroborates 800-year-old Norse saga

A recent analysis of human remains discovered in a medieval well in Norway appears to confirm events described in an 800-year-old Norse saga.
Dario Radley (Archaeology News)
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SE Utah canyon country cultural site (10/22/2024). This is actually a very popular commonly photographed site, but it is photographed here from an uncommon angle.

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A color landscape photo of two cliff dwellings. The dwellings are made of natural light red sandstone "bricks". They are tucked up under a overhang in a cliff. One is to the left. It has a square door facing to the right. The other is to the right and appears as a brick wall with three ninety degrees bends as it goes toward the back of the crevice. In the middle ground is a large boulder. Behind the boulder is a small sapling pinon pine tree. The shadow of a dead tree is cast on the sandstone in the foreground. A couple of its limbs are visible on the left side of the frame.
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Lidar technology reveals long-lost Silk Road cities in Uzbekistan’s mountains

In a groundbreaking archaeological discovery, two long-hidden medieval cities along the ancient Silk Road trade routes in the mountains of Uzbekistan have been revealed using advanced drone-based lidar technology...

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Lidar technology reveals long-lost Silk Road cities in Uzbekistan’s mountains In a groundbreaking archaeological discovery, two long-hidden medieval cities along the ancient Silk Road trade routes in the mountains of Uzbekistan have been revealed using advanced drone-based lidar technology. The research, led by Michael Frachetti, professor of archaeology at Washington University in St. Louis, and Farhod Maksudov, director of Uzbekistan’s National Center of Archaeology, focused on two high-altitude urban centers, Tashbulak and Tugunbulak. Located approximately 2,000 meters above sea level, these cities thrived between the 6th and 11th centuries, demonstrating that mountainous regions, often considered obstacles to trade, were in fact bustling hubs of economic and cultural activity...

Lidar technology reveals long-lost Silk Road cities in Uzbekistan’s mountains

Two long-hidden medieval cities along the ancient Silk Road trade routes in the mountains of Uzbekistan have been revealed
Dario Radley (Archaeology News)
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Nice pictograph from Utah's Four Corners region.

#Archeology #RockArt #Canyons #Desert #Photography #Darktable

Color landscape photo of a pictograph. It shows four figures. (Note: I do not like interpreting rock art because I'm not of the culture that made it. Something that looks like a deer to us may have been something entirely different to the person who drew it. I feel it is cultural appropriation for modern humans to interpret rock art. Frankly, I even have a problem with using the term art for the images.) The four figures appear to our modern eyes as two elk on the left, a large long and fat bison with a small head in the middle, and a person with a bow and arrow on the right. The person is pointing the bow and arrow at the image that looks like a bison. The images are crude and drawn in a red-brown ocher paint.
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Excavations reveal significant Bronze Age settlement at Vuon Chuoi, Vietnam

Archaeologists have uncovered a significant pre-Dong Son settlement in northern Vietnam. The discovery at the Vuon Chuoi Archaeological Site, located in Lai Xa Hamlet, Kim Chung Commune, Hoai Duc District, Hanoi, is believed to date back nearly 3,000 years to the Bronze Age...

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Excavations reveal significant Bronze Age settlement at Vuon Chuoi, Vietnam Archaeologists have uncovered a significant pre-Dong Son settlement in northern Vietnam. The discovery at the Vuon Chuoi Archaeological Site, located in Lai Xa Hamlet, Kim Chung Commune, Hoai Duc District, Hanoi, is believed to date back nearly 3,000 years to the Bronze Age. The excavation, led by researchers from the Institute of Archaeology, sheds light on an organized society that thrived in Northern Vietnam prior to the rise of the famous Dong Son culture...

Excavations reveal significant Bronze Age settlement at Vuon Chuoi, Vietnam

Archaeologists have uncovered a pre-Dong Son Bronze Age settlement at the Vuon Chuoi Archaeological Site in northern Vietnam.
Dario Radley (Archaeology News)
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Fascinating article about the discovery of a Maya city in the mexican jungle.
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Running out of empty space: environmental lidar and the crowded ancient landscape of Campeche, Mexico | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

Running out of empty space: environmental lidar and the crowded ancient landscape of Campeche, Mexico - Volume 98 Issue 401
Cambridge Core
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