Past tense

archaeology, paleontology, various history things, etc. - shit like this:   https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/roman-shrine-uncovered-beneath-graveyard-in-central-england/ar-AA18jMpx?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=34b909ac44ab42e2899f922a1ef574e4&ei=20

More Roman stuff in England:

The remains of a Roman mausoleum “with an astonishing level of preservation” – believed to be the most intact structure of its kind discovered in Britain – have been unearthed in London.

The “incredibly rare” find has been excavated at the The Liberty of Southwark development site, a stone’s throw from Borough Market and London Bridge station, the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) has revealed.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jun/13/incredibly-rare-roman-tomb-unearthed-near-london-bridge-station

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — An Oregon field research team believes it has uncovered evidence that indicates humans roamed the state at least 18,000 years ago. This could be proof of North America’s oldest human-occupied site yet.

Since 2011, the Bureau of Land Management and the University of Oregon’s Museum of Natural and Cultural History Archaeological Field School have partnered to excavate the Rimrock Draw Rockshelter near Riley, Oregon.

According to the BLM, archaeologist Patrick O’Grady led the team that had a major discovery back in 2012. The archaeologists unearthed camel teeth fragments that were initially hidden by volcanic ash from a Mount St. Helens eruption roughly 15,000 years ago.

The researchers also found an orange agate scraper with bison blood residue in 2012, and an additional scraper later in 2015. Experts with the BLM said the “natural layering of the rockshelter sediments” hints that the scrapers date back even further than the volcanic ash and camel teeth.

After conducting “radiocarbon-dating analysis” in 2018 and again this year, researchers reported a newer discovery: the teeth date back to 18,250 years ago.

read the rest here:   https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/possible-proof-of-oldest-human-occupied-site-found-in-oregon-dating-back-over-18k-years/ar-AA1dE0TI?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=0a870fc1b0a24381987a54c295aa0b6e&ei=39

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — An Oregon field research team believes it has uncovered evidence that indicates humans roamed the state at least 18,000 years ago. This could be proof of North America’s oldest human-occupied site yet.

Since 2011, the Bureau of Land Management and the University of Oregon’s Museum of Natural and Cultural History Archaeological Field School have partnered to excavate the Rimrock Draw Rockshelter near Riley, Oregon.

According to the BLM, archaeologist Patrick O’Grady led the team that had a major discovery back in 2012. The archaeologists unearthed camel teeth fragments that were initially hidden by volcanic ash from a Mount St. Helens eruption roughly 15,000 years ago.

The researchers also found an orange agate scraper with bison blood residue in 2012, and an additional scraper later in 2015. Experts with the BLM said the “natural layering of the rockshelter sediments” hints that the scrapers date back even further than the volcanic ash and camel teeth.

After conducting “radiocarbon-dating analysis” in 2018 and again this year, researchers reported a newer discovery: the teeth date back to 18,250 years ago.

read the rest here:   https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/possible-proof-of-oldest-human-occupied-site-found-in-oregon-dating-back-over-18k-years/ar-AA1dE0TI?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=0a870fc1b0a24381987a54c295aa0b6e&ei=39

Doesn’t this cost doubt on the theory that humans only came to the Americas at the end of the last Ice Age? We know they crossed what used to be a land bridge between Russia and Alaska, but I thought we understood that this was about 12,000 BC.


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Pretty much the western half of Alaska was never covered by the glaciers. That last glaciation lasted what, 100,000 years? Awful long time for the western side of the continent to remain human-free. In years to come, we'll probably push that first-arrival date back another 10,000 years at least.

Was the Sahara that green that recently? I thought the desertification of the Sahara was 10,000 years ago

graverobbers of the world unite  https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/deciphered-herculaneum-papyrus-reveals-precise-burial-place-of-plato/?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=ars&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_mailing=Ars_Daily_042624&utm_medium=email&bxid=5d89243d3f92a4636c93c27a&cndid=75602866&hasha=0a74f0cdaee2b90a465b52c559d76de6&hashb=1b57e0e9c2a06b2cf9e475bd0d3635a51a236074&hashc=56377dcf64a3cd7e205aa0fa079b88ee402b349ac7166ab346ad9ef01848cfe7&esrc=OTnewsletterpromo&utm_content=Final&utm_term=ARS_DailyDigest

Historical accounts vary about how the Greek philosopher Plato died: in bed while listening to a young woman playing the flute; at a wedding feast; or peacefully in his sleep. But the few surviving texts from that period indicate that the philosopher was buried somewhere in the garden of the Academy he founded in Athens. The garden was quite large, but archaeologists have now deciphered a charred ancient papyrus scroll recovered from the ruins of Herculaneum, indicating a more precise burial location: in a private area near a sacred shrine to the Muses, according to Constanza Millani, director of the Institute of Heritage Science at Italy's National Research Council.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a63395184/3000-year-old-mountain-fortress/?utm_campaign=trueanthemFBPOP&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwY2xjawH6N3xleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHfV2YDNV1ufil53BJXGDxp9cQXeBLypfH21NgNffuPheTSpL7XcGLajBNA_aem_ODigdKOBdZPw3j21VUBsEQ

In 2018, researchers discovered a fortified promontory between two deep gorges in the Caucasus Mountains, which serves as a boundary between Europe and Asia. The site had both and inner and outer fortress wall, and the remains of ancient stone structures visible to the researchers. But it was all too large to map on foot, so researchers form Cranfield University turned to technology for help.

?That was what sparked the idea of using a drone to assess the site from the air,? Nathaniel Erb-Satullo, senior lecturer in architectural science at the Cranfield Forensic Institute, said in a statement. ?The drone took nearly 11,000 pictures which were knitted together using advanced software to produce high-resolution digital elevation models and orthophotos?composite pictures that show every point as if you were looking straight down.?

How revolting