“ Among the finds was an extravagant 30-piece necklace with a number of pendants made of gold Roman coins, as well as semi-precious stones and decorated glass pendants set in gold. A large rectangular pendant made of red garnets and gold with a cross motif would have been the centerpiece. Image Credit: Photo Andy Chopping/ Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Female Grave Uncovered in England.This year the site yielded quite a few memorable finds including a rare bronze box and altar among 13,000 sacrificial relics, as well as a 3,000-year-old mythical bronze creature. The relics have shed light on the Shu civilization and date back to the Shang Dynasty (1600 BCE–1046 BCE). Last year, the archaeological site Sanxingdui saw the discovery of two-millennia-old gold masks. Image Credit: Courtesy Chongqing Government Rare Bronze Box, Altar, Sacrificial Relics, and Mythical Bronze Creature Unearthed at Sanxingdui.Events or stories may have been told through the medium of carving.” Ultimately, “as humans became accustomed to more sedentary lifestyles, carvings and other visual representations of previous oral storytelling and traditions may have become a new connection point, a method for remembrance in a changing world. The horns of the bull and the teeth of the leopards are especially emphasized, which serves to heighten the danger in each scene.” This human figure features a round face, large ears, and bulging eyes, and is wearing a triangular-shaped neckband. “Both panels portray a person facing dangerous animals-the flat relief on the left shows a squatting male figure holding a rattle or a snake against a bull, while the right shows a male figure in high relief holding its phallus as leopards approach from both sides. The engraving was found on benches that line the walls in a communal area. The research “ describes an 11,000-year-old complex at Sayburç, with several residential buildings and a large communal structure. The Oldest-Known Depiction of a Narrative Scene Revealed on Neolithic Bench.The house is so named because it contains a lavish room with a niche devoted to worshiping lares, or domestic spirits believed to protect the household.” The team began excavating rooms in the House of the Lararium, a middle-class domus (home) in 2018. “The discovery, according to the archaeologists, sheds considerable light on the lives of middle-class citizens in Pompeii. Image Credit: Courtesy Archaeological Park of Pompeii A 2,000-Year-Old Middle-Class Home Excavated at Pompeii.‘From early hunter-gatherers to later Bronze Age inhabitants of farms and field systems, the archaeology we’re detecting is the result of the complex and ever-changing occupation of the landscape.’” ‘The traces we see in our data span millennia, as indicated by the 7,000-year timeframe between the oldest and most recent prehistoric pits we’ve excavated,’ he said. “Paul Garwood, senior lecturer in prehistory at the University of Birmingham, told the BBC that the pits that had been discovered were ‘not a snapshot of one moment in time.’
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