Archaeoscoop(ish): Cows and a Red Trowel!
8Welcome to Archaeoscoop, the place to find heritage and archaeology related news stories from around the world!
Today I am busy and my camera stand is broken - but I have cows for you along with the headlines! :
Caernarfon dig finds Roman construction site and medieval cemetery:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-22750906
UNESCO temporary list includes Laodicea:
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/unesco-temporary-list-includes-laodicea.aspx?pageID=238&nID=48116&NewsCatID=375
Ancient Sebastia caught up in west Bank politics:
http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.nl/2013/06/ancient-sebastia-caught-in-west-bank.html#.Ua8BdkC1GSq
Heritage Lottery Fund backs skills projects:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-22755671
Suffragette Emily Davison inspires Morpeth events:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-22715757
Ice Age fishhooks found in Germany - oldest is made from 19.000 year-old mammoth tusk:
http://www.abroadintheyard.com/ice-age-fishhooks-found-in-germany/
Did Homo Sapiens really eat Neanderthals?
http://www.livescience.com/37130-did-humans-eat-neanderthals.html
Dug out canoes found in record haul in Cambridgeshire were Bronze Age Britons' 'run-abouts' of choice, say archaeologists:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/dug-out-canoes-found-in-record-haul-in-cambridgeshire-were-bronze-age-britons-runabouts-of-choice-say-archaeologists-8643022.html
Peterborough Bronze Age boats conservation begins:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-22764318
Human ancestors' diet changed 3.5million years ago:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22752937
Clues in a ghost ship:
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/archaeology-in-india-gets-new-dimension-with-salvaging-of-medieval-ship-from-arabian-sea/1/206280.html
Even our ancestors never really ate the 'palaeo diet':
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2013/06/03/even-our-ancestors-never-really-ate-the-paleo-diet#.Ua8Bg0C1GSr
Gladiators of Adyn to appear on 3D screens:
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/gladiators-of-aydin-to-appear-on-3d-screens.aspx?pageID=238&nID=48115&NewsCatID=375
Smuggler's shipwrecked steamer found:
http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/smugglers-shipwrecked-steamer-found-130602.htm
How Timbuktu's manuscripts were smuggled to safety:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22704960
Georgia - the fix for America's addiction to Foreign Archeology!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wayne-anderson/ocmulgee-the-fix-for-amer_b_3379269.html
2nd-Century wooden mask unearthed in Nara, oldest yet found:
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201305310073
A history of Ancient Automata:
http://www.handworx.com.au/gearworx/history/ancient.html