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 JANUARY 16th 2012| World Archaeology News [TheArchaeologicalBox.com] | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 23:08

Here is the latest episode of our World Archaeology News podcast. Hosted by Matt Thompson. Click here to listen to our Podcast via iTunes or click here to listen to it via TheArchaeologicalBox.com Sponsor: The Trowel Shop – Great archaeology tools and equipment at great prices! TRANSCRIPT – WAN – 01/17/2012 POMPEII On December 22nd, A courtyard column of a Roman house at the ancient site of Pompeii – a UNESCO World Heritage site - collapsed, the latest in a series of crumbling buildings and infrastructure at the site (the previous collapse occurred on October 21st, following a day of torrential rains and flash flooding in Italy, when a section of a roman wall gave way and collapsed on a stretch of the site’s external walls). For those of you who are familiar with the site –the October 21st collapse happened in a public area near the Porta di Nola. In October the recently appointed Culture minister Giancarlo Galan – released a statement in which he reiterated how worried he was about the effect that violent rains could potentially have on Pompeii. Adding that the ministry was working on a plan to salvage and secure the site and calling on curators to “act immediately to put in place the most urgent security measures”. In November of 2010 a 12meter stretch of wall also collapsed after torrential rains – a few weeks following the collapse of walls at the frescoed Gladiator’s house and the House of the Moralist... and I think a year before that the House of the Chaste Lovers collapsed. Italy even declared a ‘state of emergency’ at the site back in July 2008. So one has to wonder what’s being done to protect the site especially now – with Italy’s uncertain economical state. Italy's national association of architects said in a statement last October that "There is a continued lack of ordinary maintenance, which is the only way to save the site. Our fear is that the coming months will see ever more frequent and serious incidents." Maria Pia Guermandi, a council member at Italian heritage organisation Italia Nostra stated that “The hiring of new archaeologists to help protect the site was included in a new bill but was then omitted from the final text. In the meantime, funds have actually been diverted to support museums in nearby Naples." She added that archaeological sites across Italy were at risk as the government pushed through budget cuts and that for example “the Forum in Rome and the underground spaces at the Coliseum were both completely flooded by the rains last Fall.” Tsao Cevoli, president of the Italian association of archaeologists, told reporters that Pompeii's buildings -renowned for their well-preserved state – are now falling apart on a daily basis. He added that "Every morning the custodians collect pieces of crumbling walls and hide them before the tourists arrive, to stop tourists from taking them away and to hide the real situation at the ancient site". Johannes HAHN, EU Commissioner for Regional Policy, on November 7th visited Pompeii to familiarise himself with the reconstruction plans at the site. Hahn told reporters that the European Commission is making available 105 million Euros to restore Pompeii. Also an agreement was signed by Ass. Dir-Gen for Culture, Francesco Bandarin on Nov 29th – which states that UNESCO will provide expert advice to the Italian Gov. on ways to improve the sites conservation - this advice will include World Heritage Committee recommendations. UNESCO participation will be financed by the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities. KV64 - VALLEY OF THE KINGS This week everyone is talking about the latest tomb to be discovered in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings – the second tomb only to be discovered there since King Tut’s tomb exactly 90 year ago. It’s identified as KV64 – Kv63 the only other tomb to be discovered since 1922 was located in 2005 and accessed in 2006.

 MARCH 4th| World Archaeology News [TheArchaeologicalBox.com] | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 24:09

Here is the latest episode of our World Archaeology News podcast | Voici le plus récent épisode de notre baladodiffusion World Archaeology News. Hosted by Matt Thompson. Click here to listen to our Podcast. Click here if you don’t have iTunes. Sponsor: The Trowel Shop – Great archaeology tools and equipment at great prices! In this episode: TRANSCRIPT – WAN – S03E04 – 04/03/2011 CANADA| Yukon shipwreck yields Gold Rush tunes Archaeologists in Northern Canada have found new clues about the music early Klondike stampeders were listening to during the Yukon Gold Rush, thanks to recordings found aboard a 110-year-old shipwreck. The three records and a gramophone were discovered last summer in the A.J. Goddard, a sternwheeler that sank in Lake Laberge, north of Whitehorse - in the Yukon - in October of 1901. Lindsey Thomas, a Texas-based archeology graduate student who has been heading up research on the ship, told reporters that the discovery gives valuable insight into daily operations, and into the importance of music during the period. Thomas added that the three recordings, including Rendezvous Waltz and a rare 1896 minstrel recording of Ma Onliest One, were previously unknown to Gold Rush-era music experts. CANADA – UNITED STATES| Scientists probe Lake Huron for signs of pre-historic caribou hunters A team of American scientists is preparing to search the bottom of Lake Huron for ancient artifacts along an underwater ridge that straddles the U.S.-Canada border — a place the researchers believe was a caribou-hunting hot spot about 10,000 years ago. The planned probe of the Alpena-Amberley Ridge — named for the Michigan and Ontario towns that respectively mark the western and eastern ends of the 160-kilometre-long feature — is expected to involve remotely operated sonar devices for mapping the underwater terrain, as well as a team of scuba divers to comb the long-submerged landscape in search of spearheads and other signs of hunting activity from the end of the last ice age. University of Michigan researchers first announced in 2009 that they'd discovered rock formations along the drowned ridge that appeared similar to well-documented caribou-hunting structures used in prehistoric times by the "Paleo-Indian" peoples who once occupied Canada's Arctic and sub-Arctic territories. University of Michigan marine engineer Guy Meadows told  reporters that these unusual rock formations constitute "promising" but not definitive evidence of an ancient hunting culture – researchers will also be looking for fire pits, tool making sites and other hunting structures. Meadows added that the Michigan team is working to enlist Canadian researchers — including paleo-environment specialist Lisa Sonnenburg from McMaster University in Hamilton — to help profile the corridor. Now under about 35 metres of water, the Lake Huron ridge was once a 16-km-wide upland corridor in a lake-dotted landscape that linked caribou wintering grounds in the south to their summer ranges in present-day Northern Ontario and beyond. UNITED STATES| This seafood buffet was held 11,000 years ago The earliest colonizers of the Americas enjoyed seabirds, seals and sardines. That's according to findings from three new archaeological digs on the Channel Islands off Southern California. The sites have yielded dozens of delicate stone tools and thousands of bone and shell fragments from meals more than 11,000 years old. The finds reveal more about how early North-Americans lived and ate, explained study researcher Torben Rick, a curator of North American archaeology at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. The tools found also link the seafaring people of the Channel Islands to populations living far inland in North America, including the area that is now Utah and Nevada. The findings are reported in this week's issue of the journal “Science”. UNITED STATES| Professor pleads guilty in artifacts case

 FEBRUARY 11th| World Archaeology News [TheArchaeologicalBox.com] | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 19:50

Here is the latest episode of our World Archaeology News podcast | Voici le plus récent épisode de notre baladodiffusion World Archaeology News. (January 26th to February 10th 2011) Hosted by Matt Thompson. Click here to listen to our Podcast. Click here if you don’t have iTunes. Sponsor: The Trowel Shop – Great archaeology tools and equipment at great prices! In this episode: CANADA| Nunavut heritage sites face climate threat UNITED STATES| Chinese say U.S. museum can't exhibit mummies UNITED STATES| Archaeology field schools run by the UCLA Cotsen Institute have been temporarily cut because of funding problems MEXICO| Did droughts doom cultures of ancient Mexico? MEXICO| An Unknown Son of Pakal II of Palenque has Been Identified by Mexican Archaeologists UNITED KINGDOM| Unearthed African skeleton was 'Roman soldier' UNITED KINGDOM| A new henge discovered at Stonehenge ISRAEL| 1,500-year-old church found in Israel EGYPT| Egypt Antiquities Restoration Under Way SOMALIA| 'First-aid' needed for 5,000-year-old Somali cave paintings UNITED ARAB EMIRATES| Modern Humans Reached Arabia Earlier Than Thought JORDAN| Earliest known cemetery found? TRANSCRIPT – WAN – S03E03 – 11/02/2011 CANADA| Nunavut heritage sites face climate threat Nunavut archaeological sites threatened by climate change may be saved thanks to new high-tech equipment, explained the territory's director of culture and heritage. Doug Stenton told reporters that new 3D technology and a ground-penetrating radar system can be used to quickly map the surface and sub-surface, and could be used to deal with sites affected by coastal erosion and melting permafrost. Canada’s University of Manitoba has received funding to buy the technology and plans to use it in the Arctic. It will help researchers identify areas that need special attention...and help plan strategies to protect the site, [such as] stabilization methods, explained Stenton. He added that there are about 12,000 documented sites in Nunavut, dating as far back as 4,500 years. As an example of a threatened site, Stenton pointed to photos containing artefacts from the Tuniit or Dorset people, who predate the Inuit. A large section of the site near Pond Inlet, in Nunavut, has fallen into the ocean.  Discoveries include items such as stone tools, clothing, bone and stone carvings, and masks. The technology will be purchased in 2011 and researchers hope to put it to use in Nunavut in 2012. UNITED STATES| Chinese say U.S. museum can't exhibit mummies Some of China's most treasured antiquities — the mummies of Xinjiang — have been museum-hopping in the US for the past few months - And they've been seen by tens of thousands of visitors at museums in Santa Ana, Calif., and Houston. But a much-anticipated final stop in Philadelphia — where the mummies are meant to headline the Secrets of the Silk Road exhibit at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology — recently ran into an unexpected roadblock involving the Chinese government. A Chinese diplomatic official told reporters that two mummies and other ancient artefacts from China were never approved for display at the Philadelphia museum. The embassy spokesman in Washington added that the "Secrets of the Silk Road" exhibit was approved only for museums in California and Texas. Chinese officials initially refused to allow the artefacts to be displayed in Pennsylvania. Instead, the long-planned exhibit recently opened with fake mummies and life-size photos of the artefacts. Well now, according to a release from the museum, the exhibition will include the full complement of artefacts beginning next Friday. The museum will continue the abridged exhibit until Sunday, when it will prepare the full display. UNITED STATES| Archaeology field schools run by the UCLA Cotsen Institute have been temporarily cut because of funding problems

 JANUARY 26th| World Archaeology News [TheArchaeologicalBox.com] | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 20:59

Here is the latest episode of our World Archaeology News podcast | Voici le plus récent épisode de notre baladodiffusion World Archaeology News. (January 9th to 25th 2011) Hosted by Matt Thompson. Click here to listen to our Podcast. Click ...

 JANUARY 9th| World Archaeology News [TheArchaeologicalBox.com] | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 15:51

Here is the latest episode of our World Archaeology News podcast | Voici le plus récent épisode de notre baladodiffusion World Archaeology News. (January 1st to 8th 2011) Hosted by Matt Thompson. Click here to listen to our Podcast. Click here if you don’t have iTunes. Sponsor: The Trowel Shop – Great archaeology tools and equipment at great prices! In this episode: Archaeology News: UNITED STATES| Humans first wore clothing 170,000 years ago UNITED STATES| Egypt Threatens Removal of Ancient Central Park Obelisk UNITED STATES| New technology gives on-site assessments in archaeology GUATEMALA| 1,600-yr-old Mayan King’s tomb found in Guatemala UNITED KINGDOM| London's oldest structure discovered SYRIA| Archaeologists: Byzantine and Roman Tombs Unearthed in South of Syria ISRAEL| Ancient Israeli Fortress Yields Surprise: A Greek Vase ISRAEL| Teeth may be oldest evidence of human remains IRAQ| Archaeology resumes in war-ravaged Iraq IRAN| Southern Iran yields 5,000-year-old site AUSTRALIA| Scientists drill 18,000-year-old tooth to recover hobbit’s DNA Archaeological Events: (FRANCE – JAN 13th) "Nécropoles et rites funéraires en Égypte - Évolution des pratiques sur un site du Delta occidental". Lille, Université Lille 3. (UK – JAN 22nd) Britain’s Nautical Archaeology Society Introduction course - first stage in the NAS Training programme. Edinburgh. (FRANCE – Jan 20th – 22nd) « L’enfant et la mort dans l’Antiquité, des pratiques funéraires à l’identité sociale ». Aix-en-Provence, Centre Camille Jullian, France ( AUSTRALIA – Feb 2nd-5th) The Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies “Eighth Biennial International Conference”. Dunedin, University of Otago, New Zealand.

 JUNE 4th| World Archaeology News [TheArchaeologicalBox.com] | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:34

Here is the final episode of the second season of our World Archaeology News podcast | Voici le dernier épisode de la deuxième saison de notre baladodiffusion World Archaeology News. (May 15th to June 3rd 2010) Presented by Matt Thompson. Click here to listen to our Podcast. Click here if you don’t have iTunes. Sponsor: The Trowel Shop – Great archaeology tools and equipment at great prices! In this episode: UNITED STATES| Archaeologists are scrambling as accelerated erosion sweeps away artifacts on Alaska's Arctic coast UNITED STATES| Getty Villa gets first major loan from Sicily MESOAMERICA| A good many years before Goodyear UNITED KINGDOM| Medieval window unearthed at Rochester Cathedral UNITED KINGDOM| Flint findings in Kent reveal new era of prehistory FRANCE| French archaeologists dig up 30-year-old banquet GERMANY| Charlemagne grave a mystery ITALY| Ancient Etruscan home found near Grosseto GREECE| Greek police seize 2 statues from 2 farmers CYPRUS| Crews stumble on 2-millennia-old coffins EGYPT| 57 ancient tombs with mummies unearthed in Egypt EGYPT| Divers Explore Sunken Ruins Of Cleopatra's Palace EGYPT| 3,300-year-old tomb of Ancient Egyptian official Ptah Mes discovered at Saqqara SOUTH AFRICA| Oldest human species found: May have been cannibal? SOUTH AFRICA| Stone Age Color, Glue 'Factory' Found INDIA| Two Harappan sites unearthed in Surendranagar INDIA| India wants UK to return Kohinoor, Buddha CHINA| Ancient general's tomb unearthed in Henan CHINA| 2,000-year old 'icebox' unearthed in NW China JAPAN| 13,000-year-old clay figure found VIETNAM| Archaeologists unearth Metal Age furnaces NEW ZEALAND| Rockslide hits Otago rock drawing site

 MAY 14th| World Archaeology News [TheArchaeologicalBox.com] | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 34:08

Here is the latest episode of our World Archaeology News podcast | Voici le plus récent épisode de notre baladodiffusion World Archaeology News. (April 28th to May 13th 2010) Presented by Matt Thompson. Click here to listen to our Podcast. Click here if you don’t have iTunes. Sponsor: The Trowel Shop – Great archaeology tools and equipment at great prices! In this episode: CANADA| All Roads Lead to Archaeology: Interdisciplinary Crossroads WORLD| Edna Gagner 2010 | International Archaeology Bursary UNITED STATES | Work begins to preserve QAR artifacts on ocean's floor UNITED STATES| Discoveries might reveal origins of Southeastern N.C.'s first inhabitants MEXICO| Mexico to restore Mayan figureheads MEXICO| Maya plumbing, first pressurized water feature found in New World UNITED KINGDOM| Buried by a Welsh beach for 60 years, the World War II fighter that has emerged from the seas UNITED KINGDOM| Uncovering Nottingham’s hidden medieval sandstone caves UNITED KINGDOM| Medieval African Found Buried in England UNITED KINGDOM| Carlisle Castle's decade dig is completed SPAIN| Egyptian blue found in Romanesque altarpiece ITALY| Chunks of mortar fall off Rome's Colosseum ROMANIA| Around 100 Dacian ovens discovered at Mediesu Aurit BULGARIA| Bulgarian Capital to Invest Big in Downtown Archaeology Complex GREECE| Greek archaeologists uncover ancient austerity GREECE| Crete fortifications debunk myth of peaceful Minoan society SYRIA| 'Palestine existed in Syria, Turkey' ISRAEL| Regards from the Past: Ancient Water Bridge Found in Jerusalem EGYPT| Ptolemaic statue and temple gate discovered at Taposiris Magna EGYPT| Church and Nile-o-meter discovered on Egypt’s Avenue of Sphinxes ETHIOPIA| Scientists zero in on ancient Land of Punt OUT OF AFRICA| Humans Interbred with Neanderthals, Study Suggests IRAQ| Iraqi antiquities officials receive Artifacts from Third Dynasty of Ur INDIA| 18 wooden pegs were found at a depth of four metres SOUTH KOREA| Joseon-era mummy found at construction site CHINA| 'Ghostly' pictures of Great Wall of China taken from underwater CHINA| 114 Terracotta Warriors discovered at museum pit JAPAN| 16th century feudal warlord's sauna unearthed in Kyoto NEW ZEALAND| Archaeologist's tool wins $50,000 grant

 APRIL 28th| World Archaeology News [TheArchaeologicalBox.com] | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:36

Here is the latest episode of our World Archaeology News podcast | Voici le plus récent épisode de notre baladodiffusion World Archaeology News. (April 14th to 27th 2010) Presented by Matt Thompson. Click here to listen to our Podcast. Click here if you don’t have iTunes. Sponsor: The Trowel Shop – Great archaeology tools and equipment at great prices! In this episode: CANADA| Ancient tools revealed by melting Arctic ice UNITED STATES| Appalachian professor’s research finds no evidence of cannibalism at Donner Party campsite UNITED STATES| The British Are Back: A Revolutionary War Shipwreck Re-emerges BELIZE| Classic Maya history is embedded in commoners' homes IRELAND| 18th century quay identified in Connemara UNITED KINGDOM| Archaeologists resite Battle of Prestonpans UNITED KINGDOM| Archaeologists to probe newly-discovered tunnels GERMANY| 300-year-old shoes found in castle wall during restoration SWITZERLAND| Switzerland signs stolen antiquities agreement with Egypt ITALY| Ancient IKEA building’ discovered by Italian archaeologists MACEDONIA| Archaeologists Unearth New Finds near Strumica in Eastern Macedonia TURKEY| Source of Bible Covenant with God discovered? TURKEY| 4,000-year-old lentils ready to be planted in Kütahya TURKEY| Evangelists claim 'Noah's Ark' discovery on Turkish mountain SYRIA| Archaeologists: Ancient texts show similarities between Arabic and Ugaritic languages SYRIA| Tower Tombs Unearthed in Palmyra EGYPT| Archaeologists unearthed ancient city in the Egyptian eastern borders EGYPT| Hoard of 2,000-Year-Old Coins Found in Egypt EGYPT| Hoard of 2,000-Year-Old Coins Found in Egypt EGYPT| Tomb of ancient scribe unearthed in Egypt IRAQ| French archaeologists begin digs in north Iraq IRAN| Italians study Iran's Pasargadae INDIA| Unearthed: 2,000-yr-old study centre VIETNAM| 4,000-year-old relics spur new look at Sa Huynh culture CHINA| Chinese pigs 'direct descendants' of first domesticated breeds CHINA| China measures Great Wall's oldest section for preservation

 APRIL 14th| World Archaeology News [TheArchaeologicalBox.com] | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 26:36

Here is the latest episode of our World Archaeology News podcast | Voici le plus récent épisode de notre baladodiffusion World Archaeology News. (March 30th to April 14th 2010) Presented by Matt Thompson. Click here to listen to our Podcast. Click here if you don't have iTunes. Sponsor: The Trowel Shop – Great archaeology tools and equipment at great prices! In this episode: CANADA| Leonardo Da Vinci's 'The Last Supper' reveals more secrets PERU| Peru Gets $1 Million to Preserve Archaeological Treasure PERU| Machu Picchu Reopens in Peru CHILE| Chile earthquake takes heavy toll on historical sites UNITED KINGDOM| New Written Language of Ancient Scotland Discovered SPAIN| Archaeologists find clues to the appearance of modern human SWEDEN| Stone Age Scandinavians unable to digest milk ITALY| Parts of Golden Palace's ceiling collapse ITALY| Ancient Roman gluten death seen ITALY| Cows are key to 2,500 years of human progress GREECE| Archaeologists Excavate Previously Inaccessible Site in Border Region SYRIA| Archaeologists Uncover Land Before Wheel; Site Untouched for 6,000 Years EGYPT| King Tut Wore Orthopedic Sandals EGYPT| Egyptian Archaeologists Discover Greco-Roman Tombs in Desert SOUTH AFRICA| New Face in Human Family Tree IRAQ| Archaeologists discover Old Testament-era tablet INDIA| Indus Valley east theory challenged JAPAN| Digging into Fuji's religious side - Archaeologists searching for clues to history of worship on mountain CHINA| China Starts Salvaging Ancient Vessel off Southern Coast NEW ZEALAND| UK scientists to unearth Ice Age secrets from preserved tree rings

 MARCH 31st| World Archaeology News [TheArchaeologicalBox.com] | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Here are the top archaeological headlines for the period of March 16th to 29th 2010 | Voici les nouvelles archéologiques pour la période du 16 au 29 mars 2010. Presented by Matt Thompson. Sponsor: The Trowel Shop – Great archaeology tools and equipment at great prices! In this episode: PERU| Ceremonial huaca found at Salapunku site Greenland Vikings ‘had Celtic blood’ UK| Dig may find signs of Viking town in Thetford FRANCE| Medieval Child's Brain Found Preserved SWEDEN | Earliest Signature of Renaissance Artist Raphael Found in Painting UKRAINE| Ukrainians uncover Crimean British Navy vessel ITALY| Lava bread, anyone? Pompeii snack bar rises from ashes after 2,000 years BULGARIA| Unique Archaeology Site Discovered During Metro Construction in Bulgaria’s Capital GREECE | 23,000 year old stone wall found at entrance to cave in Greece GREECE| Mycenaean tombs discovered might be evidence of classless society TURKEY| Archaeologists Unearth World’s Oldest Temple in Turkey SYRIA | 188 houses from Neolithic era unearthed in Middle Euphrates Region EGYPT| A giant statue of Thoth, the Egyptian god of wisdom, has been found in Luxor. RUSSIA| DNA identifies new ancient human dubbed 'X-woman' INDIA| 3,000-year-old history unearthed, archaeologists believe Jajmau mound could be holding more CHINA| 4,200 year-old grave excavation reveals eternal embrace CHINA| Tea leaves found in famous Chinese tomb NEW ZEALAND| Shipwrecks to get protection

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