Dear all, I am going to be offering my online archaeology courses again over the course of the coming six months, starting in the middle of January 2007. The...
I've just had a call from the local press to say that North Yorkshire Council Officers will be recommending that Tarmac's application to quarry the ritual...
George, I had previously signed the petition, so this makes me sad, also. But I realize that the "ritual landscape" is more important to some people and less...
Hi all, Yes, today North Yorkshire County Council planning committee granted Tarmac permission to expand quarrying within the ritual landscape of the...
Dear all, As per previous announcements, there are going to be some archaeology courses starting in a week's time. Anyone is welcome to participate *World...
Science Daily — Explorer Keith Muscutt has announced the existence of a previously unknown pre-Columbian ruin in Peru: the Huaca La Penitenciaría de la...
The report calls it a "Stonehenge battle" but it's really a news story about the Council decision to allow quarrying in areas of what George calls the...
Dar and all: I had no idea there were any "henges" or henge remains anywhere in Yorkshire. Now I know. Anne G ... avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. ...
*Why would a local council do something that would harm their own local historical heritage?* *Could not these henges be utilized as a tourist draw?* ... -- ...
... local ... The Thornborough Henges are a tourist draw, and the main Henge site is protected. However, the main site is surrounded by a landscape George...
I think what you need to understand is that rarly jobs relating to the tourist trade are concidered main stream jobs.Even though many areas employ a large...
*Andy, * *Thanks for your information as well. * *I'm ignorant on how things work in England on the local level. * *Kim* [Mod: guys if you can remember to...
Hi folks, Sorry for the delayed response, I'm on digest and only just got it. First off, the term "ritual landscape" was first coined by the quarry company in...
*George, * *Thanks for the background information on this and thanks for what you did to try to right this wrong.* *Perceived self-interest is more important...
Kim, I'm in Canada region by region changes here as well but local councles work pretty much on a "what's in it for me" frame work. Example ; Can I get the...
Yep it is very probably the same the world over, we do not care about the lip service our rules give to environmental protection, if someone can make manoy...
I was just watching the news about the cargo ship that is in trouble in England. Thinking of the times when lights were set to lure ships onto the rocks so...
Hey, I just signed on as a new member. I'm looking forward to future discussions with the group. Ciao! Edie ... Now that's room service! Choose from over...
*Andy, * *Thanks for the info.* *Things work basically the same in England, Canada, and the United States so I suspect the same situation exists in the rest of...
*Howdy Edie,* *Alrighty, how's this for a topic?* ** *Is Kalkriese where General Varus' 17th, 18th, and 19th legions met their doom in the Teutoberg Forest or...
There was a program on one of the news stations where an auction for Egyptian Artifacts was going on somewhere in the USA. One man claims a relative is still...
Hi, just joined the group. Mostly for two reasons. I'm a total archaeology/anthropology nerd in the making lol and the 2nd I'm once again attempting to write a...
Dear colleague, The eleventh annual meeting of the International Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology (SOMA) will be hold in Istanbul 24-29 April 2007. The...
*Jennifer, * *Given the rising influence of pseudoscience why don't you author an update to Erich von Daniken's "Chariots of the Gods"?* *Would it be complete...
There are many mysteries of the ancient world that y ou can use. Have you ever read Mara, Daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarvis McGraw? She used the ...
Allison and all: I've been on this group for some time, but this is my first post. When you mentioned */Mara, Daughter of the Nile/*, it brought back lots of ...
