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Welcome to this edition of the Megalithic Portal News Summary.
National Museum Cardiff
Subject: Events
Museum in South Glamorgan (Cardiff). Dedicated to preserving, presenting and promoting the culture of Wales in a world-wide context. Includes Archaeology & Numismatics Gallery featuring the first use of caves 250,000 years ago onwards
Note: Talk: The use of seafoods in earlier prehistoric Wales, 2nd February, see latest comment.
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=6887
Ny Søby Langdysse
Subject: Megaliths in Scandinavia
A very nice, neolithic long barrow of nearly 40 metres in length, situated on the island Tåsinge. On the road 9 between Svendborg and Rudkøbing, turn west on Vornæsvej in Bregninge village. Follow this road for ca. 8 km, until its name has changed to Knasterhovvej.
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=26392
Dorset County Museum
Subject: Museums
Museum in Dorset. Prehistoric tools, displays on Maiden Castle, Maumbury. Mount Pleasant etc
Note: Cursus Country - a talk from Martin Green about his research, 4th February
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=6831
Neolithic village is a major find in Derbyshire
Subject: Recent Discoveries
Archaeologists have made the stunning discovery of a 5,500-year-old Stone Age village, home to Derbyshire's first farmers and potters. Ben Johnson and his team made the ancient find during a painstaking dig in Peak District fields, near Wirksworth.
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=2146413944
Kelten Museum
Subject: Museums
MuseumThe impressive and unplundered finds of a Celtic lord, his chariot and bronze couch, from the nearby tumulus are exhibited in this very modern museum. It also has reconstructions of Iron Age buildings. There is an unexcavated Celtic Hillfort nearby.
Note: Reviving the taste of an Iron Age beer found nearby
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=6335379
Myōjin Kofun
Subject: Other Archaeology
Silimar to the neighbouring Sasue Kofun, a group of chambered cairns in the undergrowth near the sea side. More than 30 cairns are found, only 10 of them have been excavated.
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=28286
Village de la Madeleine
Subject: Megaliths in France
On a cliff face on the west side of the river Vézère near the village of Tursac is the Troglodytic village of La Madeleine, which has been inhabited since 50000 years ago and given its name to an epoch, the Madeleinian, which was about 12000 years ago.
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=28276
St. Oswald's Well
Subject: Megaliths in England
Holy Well in County Durham
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=28274
Larsa
Subject: Other Archaeology
Larsa was an ancient Sumerian city dating to at least between 2700 or 2800 BCE in Mesopotamia, now Iraq. It lay 22 Km southeast of the Uruk ruin mounds, near the east bank of the Shatt-en-Nil canal. King Ur-Gur is said to have built or restored the E-Babbar ziggurat, the temple of Shamash.
Note: When the creditor demands it... 3,800 year old tablets from Larsa, Iraq
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=15779
Százhalombatta Tell
Subject: Online Resources
Bronze Age tell in Hungary on the banks of the Danube south of Budapest. The site is an Archaeology park. Tells consist of numerous civilisation layers on top of each other. A local website suggest there are numerous barrows in the area of which one is open with a modern passageway as part of the Matrica museum.
Note: Effective use of power in the Bronze Age societies of Central Europe, also anyone in Hungary to explore these barrows for us?
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=22468
Book Review: The Story of Silbury Hill by Jim Leary and David Field.
Subject: Reviews
Runemage writes: The Story of Silbury Hill is very well presented, easy on the eye and clearly laid out. The illustrations range from very good botanical pencil drawings through diagrams, interpretative paintings, photographs and a timeline. Considering the number of top-quality photographs of Silbury that are available, I was surprised to find a contemplative painting on the cover.
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=2146413943
Tushpa
Subject:
Ancient Settlement in Van Province, Turkey. 9th century BCE capital of the Kingdom of Urartu.
Note: Urartian king's burial chamber opened for first time.
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=28269
