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Re: October 2016 Archeology - Asia and the South Pacific
« Reply #1 on: October 09, 2016, 01:07:10 pm »
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Australia
More Australian petroglyphs recorded:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/oct/03/kimberleys-hidden-world-of-indigenous-rock-art-revealed-by-researchers

China
2800 years bp (or so) burial from Turpan which featured a large number of complete cannabis plants:
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-ancient-skeleton-cannabis-shroud-unearthed.html

A major 2000 years bp burial complex from Hebei:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-10/07/c_135736442.htm

Feature on what some tomb raiders in ancient China decided not to take:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/category/arts-culture/why-tomb-raiders-treated-this-priceless-gem/?no-ist

Ancient Chinese texts and Donald Trump:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/10/04/an-ancient-chinese-military-classic-warned-us-about-the-seven-harms-of-donald-trump/

More on the terrible repair job on the Great Wall:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/people-really-hate-newly-repaired-stretch-great-wall-china-180960627/

Japan
Evidence of a Persian official living in Japan 1000 years bp is suggesting it was more ‘cosmopolitan’ than previously thought:
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-ancient-japan-cosmopolitan-thought_1.html

Polynesia
What Polynesian DNA tells us about population migration:
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-reveals-asian-ancestry-pacific-islanders.html

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Re: October 2016 Archeology - Asia and the South Pacific
« Reply #2 on: October 23, 2016, 04:44:09 pm »
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Australia
On a possible 11 000 years bp astronomical observatory type thing in Australia:
http://www.archaeology.org/news/4906-161013-australia-wurdi-youang

More on death-by-boomerang:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/18/science/first-boomerang-victim-australia.html

China
The big story of the past two weeks was actually hype for a BBC documentary suggesting Greek ‘influence’ in the making of the Terracotta Warriors:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-37624943

… not everyone was buying it, though:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-10/18/c_135763397.htm

On the expansion of agriculture in Neolithic China:
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-agriculture-imprints-environmental-neolithic-age.html

Excavation of the Haihunhou tomb is almost complete:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-10/10/c_135743851.htm

A 700 years bp Ming dynasty banknote inside a Chinese sculpture:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/19/luxury/ming-dynasty-found-note-inside-sculpture/index.html

Japan
More on 1000 years bp Japan being more ‘cosmopolitan’ than previously thought:
http://artdaily.com/news/90741/Ancient-Japan–more-cosmopolitan–than-thought–researchers

Laos
Drones and VR shed light on the Plain of Jars:
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-laos-plain-jars-recreated-virtual.html

Polynesia
Evidence of island-under-a-single-ruler at Nan Madol in an ancient Polynesian tomb:
http://phys.org/news/2016-10-evidence-chief-pacific-islanders-society.html

More on the origins of Polynesians:
http://www.livescience.com/56382-original-polynesians-hailed-from-taiwan.html

Siberia
4000 years bp child’s rattle from a Siberian burial:
http://siberiantimes.com/science/others/news/n0780-4000-year-old-childrens-rattle-beautifully-crafted-as-bear-cubs-head-and-it-still-rattles/

A 2400 years bp Siberian idol apparently underwent ‘racial realignment’ in the Middle Ages:
http://siberiantimes.com/other/others/features/f0264-siberias-stone-idols/
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