Archaeological Sites in Russia: Veliky Novgorod
Chapters: Veliky Novgorod. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 151. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Veliky Novgorod – Despite its name, Novgorod is among the most ancient cities of the East Slavs. The Sofia First Chronicle first mentions it in 859; the Novgorodian First Chronicle mentions it first under the year 862 when it was allegedly already a major station on the trade route from the Baltics to Byzantium. Archaeological excavations in the middle to late twentieth century, however, have found cultural layers dating back only to the late tenth century, the time of the Christianization of Rus and a century after it was allegedly founded, suggesting that the chronicle entries mentioning Novgorod in the 850s or 860s are later interpolations. The Varangian name of the city Holmgård (Holmgarðr or Holmgarðir) is mentioned in Norse Sagas as existing at a yet earlier stage, but historical facts cannot here be disentangled from legend. Originally, Holmgård referred only to the stronghold southeast of the present-day city, Riurikovo Gorodishche (named in comparatively modern time after Varangian chieftain Rurik, who supposedly made it his “capital” around 860 CE). Archeological data suggests that the Gorodische, the residence of the Knyaz (prince), dates from the middle of 9th century, whereas the town itself dates only from the end of the 10th century, hence the name Novgorod, “new city”, from Old Norse Novgarðr, also rendered as Naugard in Old High German and Middle High German. Bronze monument to the Millennium of Russia (1862) In 882, Rurik’s successor, Oleg of Novgorod, captured Kiev and founded the state of Kievan Rus’. Novgorod’s size as well as its political, economic, and cultural influence made it the second city in Kievan Rus’. According to a custom, the elder son and heir of …More: http://booksllc.net/?id=21488120
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read moreIron Age Archaeological Sites in Greece: Kerameikos, Lefkandi, Dreros, Toumba, Assiros, Kynos
Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Kerameikos (Greek: ) is an area of Athens, Greece, located to the northwest of the Acropolis, which includes an extensive area both within and outside the city walls, on both sides of the Dipylon () Gate and by the banks of the Eridanos River. It was the potters’ quarter of the city, from which the English word “ceramic” is derived, and was also the site of an important cemetery and numerous funerary sculptures erected along the road out of the city. Grave shrine from Kerameikos – Aristonautes as warrior – ca. 330-310 B.C. marble h. 2.91m Grave relief of Dexileos, son of Lysanias, of Thorikos. Kerameikos museum ca. 390 B.C.The area took its name from the city quarter or dmos – of Kerameis (), which in turn derived its name from the word (keramos, “pottery clay”) from which the English word “ceramic” is derived. The “Inner Kerameikos” was the former “potter’s quarter” of the city and “Outer Kerameikos” covers the cemetery and also the dmosion sma – (a public burial monument) where Pericles delivered his funeral oration in 431 BC. The cemetery was also where the iera Hodos (the Sacred Way, i.e. the road to Eleusis) began, along which the procession moved for the Eleusinian Mysteries. The area has undergone a number of archaeological excavations in recent years, though the excavated area covers only a small portion of the ancient dmos. It was originally an area of marshland along the banks of the Eridanos river which was used as a cemetery as long ago as the third millennium BC. It became the site of an organised cemetery from about 1200 BC; numerous cist graves and burial offerings from the period have been discovered by archaeologists. Houses were constructed on the higher drier ground to the south. During the Archaic period in… More: http://booksllc.net/?id=16928
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read moreDigging in the City of Brotherly Love: Stories from Philadelphia Archaeology
Beneath the modern city of Philadelphia lie countless clues to its history and the lives of residents long forgotten. This intriguing book explores eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Philadelphia through the findings of archaeological excavations, sharing with readers the excitement of digging into the past and reconstructing the lives of earlier inhabitants of the city.
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read moreRoman and medieval Cripplegate, City of London: Archaeological excavations 1992-8. (MoLAS Monograph)
This volume presents the results of work from five separate developer-funded excavations between 1992-8. Bronze Age field ditches were sealed by domestic buildings relating to the expansion of early Roman London after AD 70, contemporary with the timber amphitheatre located nearby beneath the Guildhall. The masonry fort was built in the early 2nd century AD and there was no evidence of a long-suspected predecessor. The fort’s buildings seem to have gone out of use around the end of the 2nd century AD and its southern defensive ditch was backfilled. Extensive reoccupation came with the establishment of burgage plots after AD 1050. Twelfth-century development included buildings with cellars and evidence of bone- and metalworking. Birds of prey and high-quality pottery and glass imply the presence of a high-status person or property in the 13th century, but little survives from after this time.
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read moreArchaeological Excavations on the Route of the A27 Westhampnett Bypass, West Sussex, 1992. Volume 2: The Cemeteries (Wessex Archaeology Report)
Five excavations were undertaken in advance of construction of the A27 Westhampnett Bypass, near Chichester. One of these, on a low hill discovered the remains of a Late Iron Age religious site and Romano-British and Anglo-Saxon cemeteries. The Late Iron Age site is exciting as it is so far unique within England in its size and associated features. At least two shrines were revealed, as well as a range of pyre sites and 161 cremation burials. The Romano-British cemetery contained one pyre site and 36 graves, often containing urned burials and comparatively well furnished with grave goods. The Anglo-Saxon cemetery was represented by 10 inhumations graves, identified only from 5th-7th century AD artefacts assumed to be grave goods.
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read moreMycenaean Archaeological Sites in Central Greece: Kerameikos, Lefkandi, Thermos, Thoricus, Trachis, Kynos, Mitrou
Chapters: Kerameikos, Lefkandi, Thermos, Thoricus, Trachis, Kynos, Mitrou. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Kerameikos (Greek: ) is an area of Athens, Greece, located to the northwest of the Acropolis, which includes an extensive area both within and outside the city walls, on both sides of the Dipylon () Gate and by the banks of the Eridanos River. It was the potters’ quarter of the city, from which the English word “ceramic” is derived, and was also the site of an important cemetery and numerous funerary sculptures erected along the road out of the city. Grave shrine from Kerameikos – Aristonautes as warrior – ca. 330-310 B.C. marble h. 2.91m Grave relief of Dexileos, son of Lysanias, of Thorikos. Kerameikos museum ca. 390 B.C.The area took its name from the city quarter or dmos – of Kerameis (), which in turn derived its name from the word (keramos, “pottery clay”) from which the English word “ceramic” is derived. The “Inner Kerameikos” was the former “potter’s quarter” of the city and “Outer Kerameikos” covers the cemetery and also the dmosion sma – (a public burial monument) where Pericles delivered his funeral oration in 431 BC. The cemetery was also where the iera Hodos (the Sacred Way, i.e. the road to Eleusis) began, along which the procession moved for the Eleusinian Mysteries. The area has undergone a number of archaeological excavations in recent years, though the excavated area covers only a small portion of the ancient dmos. It was originally an area of marshland along the banks of the Eridanos river which was used as a cemetery as long ago as the third millennium BC. It became the site of an organised cemetery from about 1200 BC; numerous cist graves and burial offerings from the period have been discovered by archaeologists. House…More: http://booksllc.net/?id=16928
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Archaeological excavations at 12 Arthur Street in 2001-2 produced new evidence for the Roman riverfront development which constitutes an important addition to our knowledge of Roman London’s foreshore, its waterfront, quays and buildings. This study brings to light new evidence for the Claudian waterfront and construction of the terracing along the natural slope of the riverbank. Post-Boudican and Hadrianic developments included the construction of two, more solid, timber quays built in c.AD 70-80/3 and subsequently AD 120 as tidal regression generally hastened the decline of the port. The remains of major buildings include a possible early bathhouse as well as 1st- to mid 3rd-century AD high-status buildings with hypocausts, paved floors, mosaics and painted wall plaster. One of these may be a part of a building previously recorded at the adjacent site of Suffolk House, where it was interpreted as a goldsmith’s premises. Other buildings at Arthur Street are interpreted as high-status residential complexes or townhouses. Alongside the buildings was a large well containing the remarkably well-preserved elements of an elaborate rotary water-lifting device consisting of the wooden buckets and iron linking chain. Undertaken as part of a mitigation strategy, the excavations left many important Roman remains in situ for future generations of archaeologists to explore further.