Historic England project aims to find ashes of fans buried at football ground slated for redevelopmentThe buddleia is pushing through the concrete of the Grosvenor Road stand at Bootham Crescent. Nature has reclaimed York City FC’s once pristine pitch,…
ローカルに出現した「衣」と「身」の変容：現代美術のアルケオロジー 第5回 「ファッション イン ジャパン 1945-2020―流行と社会」
先鋭的な表現手法で世界に批評的な視点をもたらす「現代美術」。その表現の深層には、必ずや人類学的、民俗学的な文脈が流れている。気鋭の民俗学者・畑中章宏が現代美術を読み解く不定期連載第5回は、国立新美術館で開催されている「ファッション イン ジャパン 1945-2020―流行と社会」。日本人が身に着けてきたものの流行風俗や社会との関係を膨大な資料とともに詳解する展覧会とその周辺から、「衣」と「身」の変容を「考古学的」に探索する。
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Golden history of Kazakhstan’s Saka warrior people revealed
Exhibition at Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge to tell story of little known civilization that flourished from eighth to third century BCWisdom, as Bob Marley put it, is better than gold. From next month however, the precious metal is central to a major…
The Guardian view on fruit bowls from ancient Egypt: touching the past | Editorial
The simplest artefact can spark as much emotion as gold or grand monumentsA find of ancient fruit baskets – still with their plump doum fruits inside – attracted headlines last week. Around 2,400 years old, they were discovered off the coast of Egypt a…
Stones speak and ashes live
An overview of archaeological investigation into pre-Neolithic use of grains: “Well before people domesticated crops, they were grinding grains for hearty stews and other starchy dishes.” Lots of different archaeologists, many of them experimental arch…
Australian mathematician discovers applied geometry engraved on 3,700-year-old tablet
Old Babylonian tablet likely used for surveying uses Pythagorean triples at least 1,000 years before PythagorasAn Australian mathematician has discovered what may be the oldest known example of applied geometry, on a 3,700-year-old Babylonian clay tabl…
DOJ repatriates looted “Dream of Gilgamesh” tablet, other artifacts to Iraq
Hobby Lobby founder Steve Green purchased the tablet from Christie’s in 2014.
Fruit baskets from fourth century BC found in ruins of Thonis-Heracleion
‘Incredible’ discoveries at submerged ancient city off coast of Egypt have lain untouchedWicker baskets filled with fruit that have survived from the 4th century BC and hundreds of ancient ceramic artefacts and bronze treasures have been discovered in …
Doggerland: Lost ‘Atlantis’ of the North Sea gives up its ancient secrets
The land mass that linked Britain to continental Europe was rich in early human life until it floodedThe idea of a “lost Atlantis” under the North Sea connecting Britain by land to continental Europe had been imagined by HG Wells in the late 19th centu…
Tulsa race massacre: 19 bodies reinterred as protesters demand criminal investigation
Bullet found with one set of remains that showed traumaAnthropologist tells crowd: ‘We are not done’The bodies of 19 people exhumed from an Oklahoma cemetery during a search for victims of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre were reburied in a closed ceremony…