Archaeology Dig In Columbia Yields 5,000 Year Old Artifacts

The archaeology digs is taking place where this house, razed in 1929 to make way for the Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge, once stood. It was the home of Samuel Blunston, an influential settler, and was some 200 years old when demolished. The land now is known as Rotary Park in Columbia.

An archaeological dig in Lancaster County uncovering an ancient past from our area. Led by the Von Hess Foundation-- the dig is focusing around Rotary Park in Columbia. Archaeologists say they have uncovered many unexpected artifacts... from spears to arrow heads and other relics-- which may be evidence of an early American Indian community. "We're in the process right now of just cleaning these objects, but the next several months we will be doing a detailed inventory and looking for patterns of information that were on the site" says Stephen Warfel, director of Archaeology with the project.

Archaeologists will be working on the artifacts in the Wright's Ferry Mansion on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Visitors can watch and ask questions as they work.
An archeological dig in Columbia has turned up some ancient artifacts.

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3,000-year-old Canaanite bracelet found in Israel

The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) on Tuesday announced the discovery of a unique bracelet in an archaeology excavation in northern Israel, dating back to the Late Bronze Age.

The "extraordinarily well preserved" ancient bronze bracelet is decorated with engravings and the top of it is adorned with a horned structure, said Karen Covello-Paran, chief archaeologist of the dig.

"At that time, horns were the symbol of the storm-god and they represented power, fertility and law," she said.

This is the first time that a 3,500-year-old village has been archaeology excavated and exposed in the north of Israel, according to the IAA. To date, only the large cities have been excavated in the region, such as Tel Megiddo or Tel Hazor.

"Here we have gained a first glimpse of life in the ancient rural hinterland in the north, and it turns out that it was more complex than we thought," Covello-Paran said in a statement sent to Xinhua.

"The person who could afford such a bracelet was apparently very well off financially, and it probably belonged to the village ruler. It is interesting to note that in the artwork of neighboring lands, gods and rulers were depicted wearing horned crowns; however, such a bracelet, and from an archaeological excavation at that, has never been found here," Covello-Paran said.

A Canaanite scarab made of stone and engraved with Egyptian hieroglyphs was also found. In antiquity, scarabs were worn as pendants or were inlaid in rings, and they were used as a seal by the people who carried them or as a talisman with magical powers, the statement said.

The finds were uncovered while preparing infrastructure in an area near the mountain town of Zefat, north of the Sea of Galilee and not far from the Lebanese border.

River Thames gives up its secrets at The Tower

A RARE find has been uncovered from the shores of the River Thames near the Tower of London.

The clay medieval roof finial or decoration was discovered last week by a mudlark, who was helping survey the foreshore of the river by the Tower of London.

It gives an insight into the building materials used in London by our twelfth and thirteenth century forefathers.

The roof finial is worn and in shape of an animal and would have been used to embellish the ridges of tiled roof buildings in London and other large towns.

Experts at the Museum of London think it was made around Woolwich and brought to the city with other pots and roof tiles.

The head of archaeology and archives Roy Stephenson said: "This find is relatively rare in the collections of the Museum of London. It gives a fascinating insight into the lost roofscape of medieval London, which we know relatively little about. Some of the more common place roofs would have been thatched. But here we have evidence of a decorated tiled roof, possibly from a prestigious private building."

It will now be cleaned as archaeologists learn more about medieval building in the city.

Further details are available at www.museumoflondon.org.uk/finial.

Amanda Digs Egypt

This four part series features the sights and sounds of Egypt ancient and current. Part One features an archeological dig at the Dakhleh Oasis of a Roman burial site.

Archaeologists discover a field of skeletons - BBC

An archaeologist and skeleton expert examines a huge number of bones that were recently uncovered at the sight of a Moche stronghold and discovers evidence of torture, sacrifice and battle. Fascinating clip from the BBC documentary "Lost Civilisation of Peru".

Duxbury's Big Dig : Archaeology Dig Underway

The Plymouth Archaeological Rediscovery Project is leading a community dig at the Second Meetinghouse site on Chestnut Street.

The archaeology digs will take place from Oct. 6-18, and volunteers will work in three hours shifts. People will be assigned different jobs including diggers, note-takers, photographers, washers and cataloguers. The site will be arranged in a grid, and volunteers will dig test pits along the grid. Then the pits will be carefully archaeology excavated.

Archeological site are such a limited resource, Chartier said. We want to do it right and for the right reasons.

Chartier told the interested volunteers they may not be finding entire artifacts perhaps just a piece of a pot, a few nails, the lead from a window, etc. However, he said a careful process and a trained eye will be able to spot these fragments.

When youre actually out digging, youll be able to see these things jump out at you, the stains and so forth, Chartier said. When you dig, if you see any kind of funny shaped rock, call us over.

Epic Archaeological Adventures at the Dump

Basically, this is a video my group was working on for a Socials project we received after spending the day at the old dump, or "Look Out", pretending to be archaeologists. We were supposed to take pictures of what we found and come up with crack ideas on what they could have been used for. (Eg: A toilet seat being a sacred burial collar.)

This is basically the "Opening Video" to the project, which is more like a music video/movie preview than anything else. This is the completed version.

Put under comedy because... Well, WE think it's funny.

Mummified Nuns Found in Brazil

Peruvian archaeologists confirm the discovery of two 3,000 year old temples.

Medieval castles and ruins with medieval music

I always adored the middle ages, the castles and the ruins. This is only a short selection with some medieval music.

The Vergina Sun is Greek symbol

The Vergina Sun or Star of Vergina is a symbol of a stylised star with sixteen rays. It was unearthed in 1977 during archaeological excavations in Vergina, in northern Greece, by Professor Manolis Andronikos. He discovered it on a golden larnax in the tombs of the kings of the ancient kingdom of Macedon.

King Solomon's Copper Mines - Digital Archaeology Project

High-Precision Carbon Dating and Historical Biblical Archaeology in Southern Jordan

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2008 Vol. 105 No. 43

San Diego, Oct. 27, 2008 -- Did the Bibles King David and his son Solomon control the copper industry in present-day southern Jordan ? Though that remains an open question, the possibility is raised once again by research reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Led by Thomas Levy of UC San Diego and Mohammad Najjar of Jordan's Friends of Archaeology, an international team of archaeologists has excavated an ancient copper-production center at Khirbat en-Nahas down to virgin soil, through more than 20 feet of industrial smelting debris, or slag. The 2006 dig has brought up new artifacts and with them a new suite of radiocarbon dates placing the bulk of industrial-scale production at Khirbat en-Nahas in the 10th century BCE - in line with biblical narrative on the legendary rule of David and Solomon. The new data pushes back the archaeological excavation chronology some three centuries earlier than the current scholarly consensus.

Archaeological Excavation of a Shang Dynasty City Wall

Archaeological Excavation of a Shang Dynasty City Wall

Archaeology Excavations:Canaanite City of Ashkelon (1850 BCE)

Archaeological Excavation of the Most Ancient Arched Gate in the world - Canaanite Cit y of Ashkelon (1850 BCE)

Dor Underwater Excavations 2008

Israel's Channel 2 report on the ongoing underwater archeological excavations at Dor \ Tantura beach in Israel.

American Bar Archaeological Excavation

This film shows the 2007 Oregon State University Archaeology Field School excavation at the American Bar site in the Salmon River canyon of western Idaho. Film production involved a pole mounted camera with an intervalometer set to capture a digital image every 60 seconds. The film includes more than 16,000 digital photos shot over a seven week period. For more information about the 2008 OSU Archaeology Field School visit our webpage at http://oregonstate.edu/cla/anthropology/2008-lower-salmon-river-field-school