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January-March 2010 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume II., Issue 1.
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said 16 of the tombs dated back to the Qing
Dynasty (1644-1911) and contained about 100
pieces of porcelain, tiles and copper coins. The
other two tombs date back to the Yuan Dynasty
(1206-1368 A.D.) and had apparently been
robbed of all their valuables.
Xinhua (Feb. 17, 2010)
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2010-
02/17/c_13177979.htm
Archaeology Bricks dating back 5,000 to 7,000
years have been unearthed in northwest China's
Shaanxi Province, adding between 1,000 to 2,000
years onto Chinese brick-making history,
archaeologists claimed Saturday. "The five
calcined bricks were unearthed from a site of the
Yangshao Culture Period dating 5,000 to 7,000
years ago. Previously, the oldest known bricks
in the country were more than 4,000 years old,"
Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology
researcher Yang Yachang said. The bricks,
including three red ones and two gray ones, all
uncompleted, Yang said. The site under
excavation is located at Liaoyuan Village of
Baqiao District, and Huaxu Town, Lantian
County of Xi'an, capital of Shaanxi Province.
CriEnglish.com (Feb. 20, 2010)
http://english.cri.cn/6909/2010/02/20/53s551381.htm
Genetics The ancestors of human beings began
to settle down on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in
the late Paleolithic Period at least 21,000 years
ago, according to a study completed recently.
The study, conducted by researchers of the
Kunming Institute of Zoology of the Chinese
Academy of Sciences, is a systemic and
comprehensive one on the matrilinear
inheritance structure of modern Tibetan people.
Researchers believe that the study has given a
relatively clear answer to the debate as to when
human ancestors began to settle down on the
Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, 4,000 meters above sea
level.
Xinhua (Dec. 10, 2009)
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-
12/14/content_12645443.htm
CYPRUS
Archaeology Four ossuaries were found during
excavations at the church of Ayios Nikolaos, on
the site of the 10 th century Georgian Monastery,
at Gialia village in Paphos, which have been
completed, the Department of Antiquities said.
Inside the ossuaries archaeologists found the
bones spread irregularly around the site, along
with a large number of clay vessels. Moveable
finds, which mainly consisted of bowls, date to
various periods between the 12th and 15th
centuries AD.
Cyprus Mail (Dec. 5, 2009)
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/cyprus/excavations-uncoverfour-ossuaries-georgian-monastery
The third season of systematic excavations
(12.10-20.11.2009) was conducted at the site of
Katalymmata ton Plakoton, of the Akrotiri
peninsula. During this season the excavation of
the rest of the western part of what was most
probably the narthex of a very important
ecclesiastical building of the end of the 6th or the
beginning of the 7 th century A.D., which began
in 2007, was completed. On the east of the raised
area, the stylobates of the aisles of the central
nave have been found.
Cyprus, Ministry of Interior (Jan. 11, 2010)
http://www.cyprus.gov.cy/moi/pio/pio.nsf/9c0256267bb095
65c2257076004d0270/f810138d415a31fac22576a8004f8316?O
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