Interesting Stuff
Top ten archaeological discoveries of 2010
There's something for everyone here (Crete, Guatemala, Turkey, Jamestown, scientific advances, etc.), see under cut for what they are and the link for details.
The Tomb of Hecatomnus
Milas, Turkey
Paleolithic Tools
Plakias, Crete
Royal Tomb
El Zotz, Guatemala
Early Pyramids
Jaen, Peru
HMS Investigator
Banks Island, Canada
Decoding the Neanderthal Genome
Leipzig, Germany
Child Burials
Carthage, Tunisia
"Kadanuumuu"
Woranso-Mille, Ethiopia
1608 Church
Jamestown, Virginia
Nondestructive Radiocarbon Dating
College Station, Texas
Undiscovery of the Year:
Clovis Comet
North America
P.S. I hear Voyager 1 only has a couple of years to go before it gets out of the solar system. How exciting! It was launched in 1977 - how is it communicating with us? It's interesting to think our knowledge rests on the technology of 1977. Just out of curiosity. I've been lying in bed a lot feeling ill so have been reading too much Teletext and thinking too much about random things.
ETA: On the subject of archaeological discoveries, I'm surprised last year's list didn't have the discovery of a new Mycenaean palace site near Sparta (Ayios Vassileios), complete with Linear B tablets!!! (That really brightened up my year, let me tell you!) But they did have the earliest Cherokee writing, which is kinda cool.
There's something for everyone here (Crete, Guatemala, Turkey, Jamestown, scientific advances, etc.), see under cut for what they are and the link for details.
The Tomb of Hecatomnus
Milas, Turkey
Paleolithic Tools
Plakias, Crete
Royal Tomb
El Zotz, Guatemala
Early Pyramids
Jaen, Peru
HMS Investigator
Banks Island, Canada
Decoding the Neanderthal Genome
Leipzig, Germany
Child Burials
Carthage, Tunisia
"Kadanuumuu"
Woranso-Mille, Ethiopia
1608 Church
Jamestown, Virginia
Nondestructive Radiocarbon Dating
College Station, Texas
Undiscovery of the Year:
Clovis Comet
North America
P.S. I hear Voyager 1 only has a couple of years to go before it gets out of the solar system. How exciting! It was launched in 1977 - how is it communicating with us? It's interesting to think our knowledge rests on the technology of 1977. Just out of curiosity. I've been lying in bed a lot feeling ill so have been reading too much Teletext and thinking too much about random things.
ETA: On the subject of archaeological discoveries, I'm surprised last year's list didn't have the discovery of a new Mycenaean palace site near Sparta (Ayios Vassileios), complete with Linear B tablets!!! (That really brightened up my year, let me tell you!) But they did have the earliest Cherokee writing, which is kinda cool.