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Angolan ‘Jurassic Park’
Angola is best known for oil and diamonds, but dinosaur hunters say the country holds a «museum in the ground» of rare fossils waiting to be discovered. «Angola is the final frontier for palaeontology,» says Professor Louis Jacobs, of Southern … Continue reading
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Tagged africa, angola, civil war, dinosaurs, humanities, jurassic park, legacies, palaeontologists, poverty
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impressions
Some impressions from a roman vicus in France. Click on the pictures for a slighty higher resolution. Enjoy :-)
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Tagged archaeology, france, history, humanities, impressions, pictures, roman, vicus
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sun is shining
Two opposed cuts along a roman wall to get an impression of the basement — eight hours work at temperatures as high as 30°C. On the second picture you can see two correspondent walls — at first sight. But doing a cut … Continue reading
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ancient rubbish
Here you can see many huge and foremost complete roman bricks. Usually we get lots of fragments in construction waste pits — romans didn’t waste complete or reusable material. So maybe we see here the remains of a former portico, the … Continue reading
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Tagged adobe, archaeology, brick, excavation, history, humanities, roman
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ancient remains
What we see here are the remains of a roman latrine, the original wall of a roman basement, leftovers of a hypocaustum and last not least the hint of a wall together with some huge fragment of mortar. What you don’t see: lots of … Continue reading
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addendum
Those are the missing picturs to raiders of the lost wall — click on the pictures for higher resolution. Enjoy :-)
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frustration
Today: preparing some post holes1 on a playing field. Why? There is a huge roman graveyard beneath the field, so it’s possible to disturb some tombs while working with a digger and its giant blade. Well, we didn’t find anything, apart from lots … Continue reading
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Tagged archaeology, dig, excavation, graveyard, history, humanities, roman, tomb
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the buddy lies deeper
Or if you do a cut you have to go deeper to get a comprehensive profile. How much? ‘Til the beginning of the basement :-) Most of the time we’re doing cuts to get an impression concerning the different build phases, usually … Continue reading
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excavation
In case you miss some report of my excavation, alas — there isn’t much to report at the moment. We have to clear some huge overturned wall — it looks like a field of stones — this means: doing a cut to … Continue reading
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findings
Findings are findings, it doesn’t matter whether they’re positive or negative by nature. You have to forget about findings — in terms of things like pottery, jewellery, figurines, statues etc. pp — as primary goal of an excavation, even if … Continue reading
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Tagged archaeology, excavation, forensic science, history, humanities, Indiana Jones, mass media, roman, villa
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