For Those Interested in Archaeology

Sounds like a Beach Boys backing vocal.

 

Well, we seem to have hit a rich seam this week-
"An enormous waterway system built 5,000 years ago is rewriting the history of early Chinese engineering.
The recently excavated dam system was used by the Liangzhu society, a mysterious Neolithic group known for its stunning jade artefacts.
It took 3,000 people nearly ten years to build the waterway, which pushes back the date of the earliest known complex Chinese water system to around 5,100 years ago.
Experts found a series of high and low dams, as well as levees, that they say is one of the world's largest and oldest known hydraulic engineering systems.
Until now, the oldest known comparable systems had been Mesopotamian, dating to around 4,900 years ago.
The Liangzhu people occupied a large area of China's huge Yangtze River Delta, which drains into the east China Sea.
Many Liangzhu communities, of which 300 have been discovered so far, lived along the banks of the river on stilted houses to avoid flooding.
The Liangzhu, who thrived between 5,300 and 4,300 years ago, are among the first societies known to have used advanced farming techniques such as irrigation systems and paddy rice cultivation.
To achieve these impressive agricultural feats, communities would have needed to carefully manage water flows around the Yangtze Delta.
This is especially true of the Liangzhu Ancient City, the culture's largest metropolis, found in a wetland environment.
All six of the city's gates found so far acted as waterway entrances that linked water networks outside to one within.
Researchers from the Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, with help from an expert at University College London, set out to explore how the mysterious ancient society controlled this water."
Huge ancient Chinese waterway system found | Daily Mail Online

 

Probably not as impressive as Angkor Wat...methinks.

 

And another one! Think he's wrong about the technology though; some types of Ground Penetrating Radar can penetrate up to 50 feet through rock.
"Two Canadian amateur explorers discovered 15,000-year-old caves just 30 feet underneath the surface of Montreal, it was revealed on Tuesday.
The explorers used drills and hammers to bust through ancient limestone walls of an existing cave, revealing a much bigger network of caverns that had never been seen by humans before.
When the explorers poked their heads through the wall, they saw a spacious, 200-meter long, thee-meter wide cave with ceilings that reach about 20 feet high and a lake.
'Normally you have to go to the moon to find that kind of thing,' Daniel Caron, one of the explorers, told The Canadian Press.
It was Caron and his friend, Luc Le Blanc, who made the historic discovery.
The limestone walls and passages are lined with stalactites, a formation of rock that hangs from ceilings and are caused by thousands of years of dripping wate
'This is a major discovery we made. This doesn't happen many times in a lifetime,' Le Blanc told the CBC.
The cave is so deep that it reaches the aquifer.
The water reaches almost 15 feet deep in some areas, forcing the explorers to use an inflatable canoe.
The only way to reach the caves is to crawl on hands and hands through muddy tunnels, scaling ladders, and edging along narrow passages."
Two explorers discover 15,000-year-old cave below Montreal | Daily Mail Online

 

60 million year old meteoric impact found on the Isle of Skye Scotland
Prehistoric Skye meteorite impact found

 

Ooh, shame I can only give you one like.
That's an interesting addition to this story from a few years back. Previously this was the only impact site in or near the British Isles, and it's disputed.
Silverpit crater - Wikipedia

 

I'm out of likes guys. Nice add Gordon, had to look where it was in terms of Doggerland. I did wonder whether it would have been a lake. Away to read the rest on OP's reptile news.
doggerland - Google Search:

 

Nah, I'm unique!

Got a fair few bits I've managed to collect on that over the years, Maria.

 

Going to avoid all the obvious punchlines here.
"Cremated Soldier Found in Cooking Pot at Vast Roman Camp in Israel
The camp discovered by Armageddon is the only full-scale Roman legionary base found so far in the East: It housed the 'Ironclad' Sixth Legion, a cremated comrade in a cooking pot, and a Sacred Eagle, whose birdly squawks would be interpreted as portents of war
A monumental gate and dedicatory inscription in Latin are among the finds unearthed at the vast Roman military encampment discovered at Legio, near Tel Megiddo in northern Israel. The huge gate led to the principia, or headquarters.
The existence of the camp categorically proves the assumption, which had been based on multiple sources, that ancient Rome maintained a massive military presence in the Galilee some 1,900 years ago.
The camp at Legio (also known as Lajjun) dates to the 2nd and 3rd centuries C.E. Today covered by crops, then it was home to the famous Sixth Legion.
The Legio camp is the only full-scale imperial Roman legionary base found so far in the eastern empire, Matthew J. Adams, director of the W.F. Albright Institute and co-director of the dig, told Haaretz.
Camps of the sort are familiar from the western empire, and given the extent of local Roman presence, other major bases are likely to eventually be found in the east.
For example, a full-scale Roman Legion was known to have been based in Aelia Capitolina, the colony Emperor Hadrian had built on the ruins of Jerusalem following the city's destruction in 70 C.E. However, that legion's base hasn't been found, at least yet.
The base that has been found, at Legio, was about 300 by 500 meters in area and housed the Legio VI Ferrata, a.k.a. the "Ironclads," a.k.a. the Roman Sixth Legion.
The legion's task was to secure Rome's hold over Syria-Palaestina, guard vital imperial roads, and maintain order in the region. It was probably also involved in quelling Jewish uprisings, such as the fateful Bar-Kokhba Revolt that began in 132 C.E. and would end three years later, in categorical Roman victory."
Cremated soldier found in cooking pot at vast Roman camp in Israel

 

Brilliant start to the year.
"They have been a fixture of a Scottish village for centuries, prompting intrigue as to who erected them and why.
For generations, people in the Renfrewshire community of Inchinnan have assumed that the burial stones in the grounds of their parish church were a legacy from medieval times.
But a new analysis of the ancient artefacts using the latest imaging techniques has found that they are several centuries older than first thought.
It is believed they were used to mark the final resting place of prominent figures from the long-lost kingdom of Strathclyde, a historically significant yet poorly documented stronghold which reached its zenith as the Vikings were waging bloody raids on Scotland.
Until now, historians believed the three burial stones – long slabs featuring various carvings – dated back to around the 12th century.
They originally came from the long-demolished All Hallows Church, itself a replacement of the earlier Inchinnan Old Parish Church, which was active in medieval times and dedicated to St Conval, who is thought to have established a monastery near the site around AD 600."
Resting place of leaders of lost kingdom on Strathclyde found

 

As I normally say, give it a week and someone will find evidence that contradicts this. Again.
"Direct genetic traces of the earliest Native Americans have been identified for the first time in a new study. The genetic evidence suggests that people may have entered the continent in a single migratory wave, perhaps arriving more than 20,000 years ago.
The data, which came from archaeological finds in Alaska, also points to the existence of a previously unknown Native American population, whom academics have named "Ancient Beringians".
The findings are being published in the journal Nature and present possible answers to a series of long-standing questions about how the Americas were first populated.
It is widely accepted that the earliest settlers crossed from what is now Russia into Alaska via an ancient land bridge spanning the Bering Strait which was submerged at the end of the last Ice Age. Issues such as whether there was one founding group or several, when they arrived, and what happened next, are the subject of extensive debate, however.
In the new study, an international team of researchers led by academics from the Universities of Cambridge and Copenhagen sequenced the full genome of an infant - a girl named Xach'itee'aanenh t'eede gay, or Sunrise Child-girl, by the local Native community - whose remains were found at the Upward Sun River archaeological site in Alaska in 2013.
To their surprise, they found that although the child had lived around 11,500 years ago, long after people first arrived in the region, her genetic information did not match either of the two recognised branches of early Native Americans, which are referred to as Northern and Southern. Instead, she appeared to have belonged to an entirely distinct Native American population, which they called Ancient Beringians.
Further analyses then revealed that the Ancient Beringians were an offshoot of the same ancestor population as the Northern and Southern Native American groups, but that they separated from that population earlier in its history. This timeline allowed the researchers to construct a picture of how and when the continent might have been settled by a common, founding population of ancestral Native Americans, that gradually divided into these different sub-groupings."
https://phys.org/news/2018-01-reveals-evidence-population-ancient-native.html#jCp

 

I don't think you have to wait that long. Look closely at:

and

They look to be mutually contradictory to me.

 

There ya go; would I lie to you?