Archaeological excavations

Ésta investigación gira en torno a la pregunta inicial: ¿cuántos sitios arqueológicos existen en la Ciudad de México y qué porcentaje de ellos puede ser estudiado mediante nuevas tecnologías? Se intenta responder dicha pregunta partiendo de la hipótesis de que en todos los sitios arqueológicos de la Ciudad de México es posible utilizar alta tecnología, además se tratará de explicar la ausencia o presencia de éstas técnicas en trabajos realizados por los arqueólogos en ésta área geográfica.

Considerando la primera hipótesis podemos enunciar también una segunda que plantea que el único obstáculo para emplear nuevas tecnologías es el desconocimiento de las mismas y el gasto económico que implican.

Loten H. Stanley, Miscellaneous investigations in Central Tikal: Great Temples III, IV, V, and VI. Tikal Report 23B, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (University Museum monograph, 146), Philadelphia, 2017, xix-61 p., bibliogr., 72 ill. en noir et blanc, 12 photos, tabl., 104 relevés.

Loten H. Stanley, Miscellaneous investigations in Central Tikal: the Plaza of the Seven Temples. Tikal Report 23C, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (University Museum monograph, 147), Philadelphia, 2018, xviii-50 p., bibliogr., 69 ill. en noir et blanc, 24 photos, tabl., 62 relevés.

Loten H. Stanley, Miscellaneous investigations in Central Tikal: structures in and around the lost world plaza. Tikal Report 23D, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (University Museum monograph, 148), Philadelphia, 2019, xvii-36 p., bibliogr., 36 ill. en noir et blanc, 12 photos, tabl., 44 relevés.

Θα παρουσιαστεί η επιτελεστική (performative) διαδρομή που πραγματοποίησε η Αγγελική Σβορώνου στον Αρχαιολογικό Χώρο της Αρχαίας Αγοράς της Αθήνας την Άνοιξη του 2018. Η έμπνευση για τη δράση αυτή προήλθε από την έρευνα της Σβορώνου στο Φωτογραφικό Αρχείο της Αμερικάνικης Σχολής Κλασικών Σπουδών Αθήνας (ASCSA) για τη διδακτορική της διατριβή. Η «συνάντηση» της με το εκπληκτικό αυτό φωτογραφικό υλικό το οποίο απεικονίζει μια εξαφανισμένη περιοχή της Αθήνας, της δημιούργησε απρόσμενα συναισθήματα και στάθηκε η αφορμή για μια διαφορετική θεώρηση της αντικειμενικότητας και της σκοπιμότητας τόσο της αρχαιολογικής έρευνας όσο και της φωτογραφικής αποτύπωσης. Στόχος της καλλιτεχνικής αυτής δράσης είναι να διερευνήσει τα όρια της μνήμης του χώρου και να καταγράψει τις περιοχές επικάλυψης του πραγματικού ως παρόν και του φανταστικού ως παρελθόν, ορίζοντας έτσι μια γεωγραφία του μυαλού και του συναισθήματος.

Pred okvirno 70 leti je v drugi oziroma tretji številki Zgodovinskega časopisa potekala vroča diskusija, ki še danes ni razrešena. Gre za eno najbolj perečih vprašanj arheologije v Sloveniji, to je problem staroslovanskega svetišča na Ptuju. Avtor predstavi pester potek odkritja zloglasnega objekta v »podivjanih« povojnih letih v Jugoslaviji med velikimi arheološkimi izkopavanji na zahodnem platoju ptujskega gradu. Izkopavanja postavi v širši okvir povojne gradnje države in nacije (Jugoslovanov), ko so tudi arheologi in zgodovinarji pomagali postavljati novo državo na nove temelje.

The identification of deviant burials as those of ‘vampires’ is a feature of excavated skeletons from sites across Eastern, Central and Southern Europe as well as the Balkans. Based on a close reading of historic and folkloric sources researchers have sought to match features of excavated sites with narrative descriptions drawn from vampire legend and myth. This study critically reviews the recent claims based on sites in Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Greece, Italy, Poland and Slovakia. Whilst it is found that there was a widespread belief in vampires across Europe, it is argued that it is difficult to make absolute claims for ‘vampire’ burials on archaeological grounds as in most cases there are alternate and equally compelling interpretations of the data.

KEYWORDS
ARCHAEOLOGY, HISTORY, SIXTEENTH CENTURY, SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, VAMPIRE, DEVIANT BURIAL, PLAGUE, BLACK DEATH, FOLKLORE, PAGAN, BURIAL, WITCH, BALKANS, EASTERN EUROPE, CENTRAL EUROPE, SOUTHERN EUROPE, BULGARIA, CZECH REPUBLIC, POLAND, GREECE, ITALY, SLOVAKIA, LESBOS, VENICE, APOTROPAIC, VAMPIRIDZHIJA, PERPERIKON, SOZOPOL, PROSTEJOV, CELAKOVICE, DRAWSKO, GLIWICI, SOUTHWELL, KILTEASHEEN, LAZZARETTO NUOVO, NACHTZEHRER, KAMIEN POMORSKI

A museum functions in many ways and dimensions, but foremost it is a place of groundbreaking research and knowledge to be shared. Τhe central unit (New Museum) of the Polycentric Museum of Aigai is in the final phase of its completion and it will open for the public in the next months. Believing, that the museum of Aigai, the royal metropolis of Macedon, can and should open new paths in the approach and research of antiquity and particulary that of the Hellenistic Oikoumene, the Ephorate of Antiquities of Imathia with the cooperation and assistance of leading experts and scholars from the world's most important universities and research institutes prepared and organized a major international conference. Sixty renowned researchers will present fifty six papers summing up their research from May 27 to June 2, 2022 at the New Museum of Aigai.
Entitled: "Beyond Macedonia. The multifaceted Hellenistic Oikoumene reconsidered"  the conference focuses on the investigation of complex phenomena such as the economy, the architecture and the landscaping, the evolution of artistic and cultural trends, but also on the presentation of syntheses of excavations and findings in the vast Hellenistic world, from Pakistan to the western Mediterranean. Our intention is to enable the presentation of different approaches and of new scientific methods.

A major landscaping project by York Museums Trust (YMT) intends to reclaim unused land between the York Art Gallery and Kings’ Manor area and develop the North-West corner of the precinct of St. Mary’s Abbey as part of a wider scheme of landscaping developments within the environs of the Museum Gardens, York.

In advance of these developments, investigations to establish the nature and condition of deposits immediately below a bowling green on the site were required. An archaeological watching brief undertaken by York Museums Trust on 07/01/2015 recorded the two trenches excavated as part of this scheme of works. 

OASIS ID - yorkmuse1-199286

The celebrated umbilical centre of Ireland in early tradition, the Hill of Uisneach (County Westmeath) has long been recognised as an important pre-Christian cult centre and as a major royal site, yet its archaeological components have seldom been discussed. This paper represents the first detailed study of Uisneach to be published since R.A.S. Macalister and R.L. Praeger undertook a campaign of excavations there between 1925 and 1930. A substantive reinterpretation of a conjoined earthwork enclosure excavated by Macalister and Praeger (1928) on the summit of Uisneach is presented. Three main structural phases are postulated, the principal components of which comprise a late prehistoric ceremonial enclosure, an early medieval conjoined ringfort and a field system of possible medieval date. The changing role of the site from sanctuary to domestic settlement during the early medieval period, and the possibility that the conjoined ringfort was a high-status, perhaps royal, residence of the Clann Cholmáin kings of Uisneach, are also explored.

2016 yılında Türkiye’de müzeler başkanlığında 278 arkeolojik kazı gerçekleşmiştir. Ne var ki bunlardan yalnızca 27’si Müze Kurtarma Kazıları Sempozyumu’nda tanıtılıp yayınlanmıştır. Benzer bir tablo her yıl tekrarlanmakta, müze kazılarıyla elde edilen değerli bilgilerin büyük çoğunluğu yayınsız kalmaktadır. Resmi kaynaklarca tanıtılmayan araştırmalar ya yerel basındaki kısa haberlerle sınırlı kalmakta ya da hiç yayınlanmamaktadır. Müze çalışanlarının kendi çabalarıyla, çoğu zaman sponsor desteği arayarak çıkardıkları yıllıklar ise sayıca çok azdır ve bunlar da genellikle düzensiz yayınlanmakta, yani tam anlamıyla birer “yıllık” tanımına uymamaktadır.
Türkiye’deki müze kazılarının yalnızca onda birinin yayınlandığı düşünüldüğünde, her yıl yüzlerce arkeolojik alanın açığa çıkarıldığı, ancak bunların çok azının bilim dünyasına tanıtılabildiği anlaşılır. Bu, ülkemizin kültür tarihi araştırmalarını zora sokan bir durumdur.
Bu eksikliğin önüne yalnızca bireysel çabalarla değil, kurumsal düzeyde alınacak önlemlerle geçilmesi gerekir. Çalışmanın amacı, müze kazılarının neden yeterince yayınlanamadığını sorgulamak ve Türkiye’den ve dünyadan örnekler vererek, alınabilecek önlemleri tartışmaktır.

Throughout the summer of 2001 archaeological investigations were carried out along the South West Water Pipeline between Mitchell and St Newlyn East.
In the Metha area a number of pits of probable Neolithic/Early Bronze Age date were uncovered including one that was dated to the Middle Neolithic period (circa 3000 BC). A second pit contained fragments of an Early Bronze Age Food Vessel which was radiocarbon dated to circa 2300 BC, and a third was found to be Middle Bronze Age (circa 1500 BC). A small scattering of unstratified flints dating to this period were also recovered.
Another pit of probable prehistoric origin was excavated in Church Close, adjacent to a field containing a pair of large ring ditches identified from aerial photographs.
A roundhouse of Middle Bronze Age date was uncovered at Trevilson and this led to the rescue excavation of a circular structure that dated between approximately 1400 and 1100 BC. The roundhouse was situated within a man-made hollow measuring approximately 7 metres in diameter. Importantly a collection of baked clay objects including what has been interpreted as briquetage was recovered from inside the roundhouse which probably provides some of the earliest evidence for salt production in the region. Further evidence for the highly structured processes associated with the abandonment of Bronze Age buildings in Cornwall was uncovered.
A geophysical survey along the route of the pipeline had identified eight areas that were likely to contain features of archaeological interest. The subsequent topsoil stripping of one of these areas at Pollamounter resulted in the rescue excavation of a Romano-British enclosure dated to the first to fourth centuries AD. The enclosure contained a number of enigmatic pits and ditches and two structures relating to at least three phases of activity within the Romano-British period.

http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-1352-1/dissemination/pdf/Cornwall/GL18018.pdf

From 1994 to 1998, the 9th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities undertook a rescue excavation of the ancient cemetery at Akraiphia alongside the Athens-Lamia National Road. Excavators unearthed 698 burials (499 inhumations and 199 cremations) and established that the cemetery was used continuously from the late Geometric until the Late Roman period.
15 of the 134 burials dated from post Classical to Roman times contained coins (11,2%); 26 of the total 29 bronze coins recovered were Ancient Greek and the remaining 3 were of Roman date. The most common Ancient Greek coins belong to the Boiotian mint with 18 coins (69%), while the Lokrian examples are the second most prominent with 3 coins (11,5%). A single coin (3,9%) is represented from each of the following types: Macedonia (Philipp V), Krannon (Thessalian Histiaiotis), Histiaia (Euboia), Athens and Phlious. The 3 Greek Imperial coins were issued respectively as follows: in Corinth during the reign of Antoninus Pius, in Laconian Las of the reign of Caesar Geta and in Kleonai in the Argolid during the reign of Plautilla.
The «death-coin» appeared in burials from the Akraiphia cemetery dating from the end of the 4th or the beginning of the 3rd century BC making them contemporaneous with the cemeteries at Haliartos, Halai (Lokris), and Oropos (West Attica). With the exception of a single hoard of 3 coins (Grave 10) the rule was a single death-coin in each grave. The low frequency of its appearance is not surprising, since archaeological evidence has shown that the rite was not widespread in Classical and Hellenistic times and certainly did not appear consistently in the Greek world, being restricted to specific groups of people. The presence of coins in graves, usually connected with the belief that the dead had to pay for their journey to the underworld –»Charon’s obol»–, seems to be at last a very simple interpretation.

In mining operations carried out below the water table, mine area could potentially affect the surrounding. With further deepening of the mine and quarry, the drawdown can impact on water supply wells and base flow. The variation in radius of influence under confined and unconfined aquifer condition is assessed using a hypothetical case study with three operational quarry sites. Average pit-wise radius of influence (R0) for the pit mine, under unconfined and confined aquifer conditions is 963 m and 61 km, respectively, whereas effective radius (Re) for total (cumulative) excavated mine area is 1.7 and 146 km, respectively. It means that the maximum and minimum value of overall impact/influence for the unconfined aquifer lies in-between 963 m and 1.7 km. Similarly that the maximum and minimum value of overall impact/influence for the confined aquifer lies in-between 61 and 146 km. Meanwhile, Re or effective radius for total (cumulative) excavated area seems more appropriate from evaluation viewpoint due to the overlapping (superposition) concentric mining quarries. Thus, assessment of quarry-wise and total radius of influence is of importance to fulfil targeted production, economically with minimum interruptions as part of the mine planning. Moreover, it helps us to assess, monitor and regulate the impact of a mine-dewatering program in the area. Also, the pumping test is often used to estimate radius of influence; it can trigger the inflow or radius of influence. Estimate of the radius of influence using analytical equation mainly independent of discharge/abstraction from the aquifer stands as a preferred choice for the prediction of radius of influence at the quarry/mine pit. There is a strong rationale that policies should be informed by such analytical assessment because it helps us to prevent or minimize negative impacts as part of regulation and pit-mining management and are useful tools for practitioners to design economically efficient and cost-effective in situ groundwater remediation systems, to contain contaminant plumes, to evaluate the surface–subsurface water interaction and to verify numerical models.

The excavation of the Whitehorse Hill cist took place in the late summer of 2011. It had been assumed that the most significant aspect of the project would be the environmental recording and that the cist itself would be empty. In the final event, the cist was found to contain one of the most significant Early Bronze Age burials to have been found in southern Britain.

Zusammenfassung:

Die römische Stadt auf dem Magdalensberg, von 1948 bis 2011 alljährlich in systematischen Grabungen untersucht, erbrachte beträchtliche Mengen an Funden, die Aufschlüsse über Nahrung und Ernährungsgewohnheiten geben: Tierknochen, marine und terrestrische Mollusken, botanische Reste, Koch- und Tafelgeschirr oder Amphoren für den Wein- und Lebensmittelimport aus dem gesamten Mittelmeerraum. Viele Graffiti und tituli picti auf Amphoren und Krügen erteilen Auskünfte über Menge oder Gewicht, spezifizieren den Inhalt oder nennen ein genaues Datum. Unter den Baubefunden sind einige Küchenensembles bekannt, die durch Funde an Küchengeräten ergänzt werden. Dieser reiche Quellenbestand gibt wertvolle Einblicke in das vorhandene Nahrungsmittelangebot der Stadt, in ihre Tafelkultur sowie die lokalen Kochgewohnheiten.


Summary:

Excavations in the Roman town on the Magdalensberg, which continued annually from 1948 to 2011, yielded enormous data as regards diet and dietary evidence: animal bones, marine and non-marine molluscs, plant residues, cooking pots and fine tableware; amphorae and jugs give proof of imported wine and foodstuffs from the whole Mediterranean. Furthermore, several graffiti and tituli picti on amphorae and jugs mention the weight or the quantity of their contents, but also a precise date. Besides kitchen-utensils, kitchens and their facilities were recorded as well among the archaeological structures. Therefore, this rich archaeological source permits to gain insight concerning the town’s supplies with foodstuffs, the dining culture or local cooking habits.

"NECROPOLI DI NORCHIA, LOCALITÀ GUADO DI SFERRACAVALLO
NUOVE SCOPERTE E RISULTATI PRELIMINARI
DALLE ULTIME INVESTIGAZIONI ARCHEOLOGICHE 2010-2017".
Dott.sse Alessia Argento ( Soprintendenza archeologia, belle arti e paesaggio per l’Area metropolitana di Roma,
la provincia di Viterbo e l’Etruria Meridionale - MiBACT) e Simona Sterpa (direttore degli scavi archeologici nella necropoli di Norchia, loc. Guado di Sferracavallo).

This report presents the results of nine seasons of excavations at Tel Malhata located in the Arad-Beer-sheba valley, Israel.
Six Strata were exposed, ranging from the Middle Bronze Age to the Byzantine period.
The flourishing settlement activity that occurred during the 7th century BCE in the Arad-Beer-sheba Vally is well reflected in Stratum IIIA at Tel Malhata. The finds are richer and more varied than at other settlement sites of this period excavated in the valley, and present clear evidence attesting to the commercial activities and the special status of Tel Malhata in the economy and the settlement system of the Kingdom of Judah - as a central city in this sensitive region on the eastern border.