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January-March 2010 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume II., Issue 1.
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very old times whose genes were never
modified,’ say the scientists.
Hürriyet Daily News and Economic Review
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=ancient-seedcame-into-leaf-2009-12-16
Archaeology Project Paphlagonia is the first
fully published multi-period archaeological and
historical survey of the little explored region of
north-central Turkey. Today this region includes
the provinces of Çankiri and parts of Karabük.
Directed by Professor Roger Matthews (UCL
Institute of Archaeology), the project surveyed
an area of almost 8,500km2 over three years and
located and recorded more than 330 historically
significant archaeological sites.
PhysOrg.com (Dec. 16, 2009)
http://www.physorg.com/news180185776.html
Archaeology A temple complex in Turkey’s
Göbekli Tepe that predates even the pyramids is
rewriting the story of human evolution. After a
dozen years of patient work, archeologist Klaus
Schmidt has uncovered what he thinks is
definitive proof that a huge ceremonial site
flourished here where hunter-gatherers met to
build a complex religious community. Across
the hill, he has found carved and polished circles
of stone, with terrazzo flooring and double
benches. All the circles feature massive Tshaped
pillars that evoke the monoliths of Easter
Island.
Newsweek (Feb. 19, 2010)
http://www.newsweek.com/id/233844
SSAUDII ARABIIA
Archaeology In 2008, a soil-survey team was
working on a barren dune field in the Western
Region of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. On
the surface of the sands, at a place that had been
recently disturbed by herders and livestock, the
surveyors picked up a two-centimeter, minutely
inscribed cylinder. No potshards or any other
signs of pre-modern habitation were found.
University of Pennsylvania (Jan. 2010)
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/home/SASFrontiers/pittman201
0.html
Archaeology Saudi Arabia has announced the
discovery of a 7 th century village, which has
been unearthed in the Raaka district, Dammam,
near the shores of the Arabian Gulf. The site
contains a compound village, which contains
more than 20 houses, containing rooms and
accommodation units, in which coins, fractures
of pottery, limestone (steatite), and glass pieces
dating back to the 1 st and 2 nd centuries AH (7 th &
8 th century AD) were found.
eTurboNews (Feb. 10, 2010)
http://www.eturbonews.com/14326/saudi-arabiaannounces-new-archeological-finding
Archaeology Before the time of the three
monotheistic religions that now dominate the
world, there once ruled different gods with
many names, shapes and sizes. Of these, one
reigned high above in the sky, casting her holy
light on her people – the sun. Inside a small,
ancient beehive of a building, a single ray from
the sun creeps in through a tiny opening. It is
the only light inside. Once it has passed there is
only the dark and the damp.
The National (Feb. 20, 2010)
http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/2010
0220/NATIONAL/702199874/1139
UNIITED SSTATESS
Archaeology A rarely seen 400-year-old map
that identified Florida as "the Land of Flowers"
and put China at the centre of the world went on
display on Tuesday at the Library of Congress.
The map created by Matteo Ricci was the first in
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