For Those Interested in Archaeology

Australia has "a couple of coal mines"...




Believe it or not Australia is closing down it s coal fired power stations...China loves our coal...twice as pure as theirs...

We're into solar farms and wind farms...We are sending some of the power to South East Asia...

 

He’s obviously doing well for himself financially…

 

"Researchers in Brazil have uncovered a remarkable discovery that spans across millennia—dinosaur footprints found alongside ancient rock art dating back over 9,000 years. This significant find took place in Serrote do Letreiro, located in the Sousa Basin, and the research has been published in the journal Scientific Reports.
The study, led by Leonardo P. Troiano, Heloísa B. dos Santos, Tito Aureliano, and Aline M. Ghilardi, suggests that prehistoric hunter-gatherers in Brazil created mysterious rock art designs—known as petroglyphs—next to dinosaur footprints. These findings offer valuable insights into the intersection of paleontology and archaeology, particularly at the Serrote site.
The paper notes that while researchers first identified the petroglyphs in 1975, they only recently discovered these carvings close to massive dinosaur footprints. This discovery was facilitated by the innovative use of drones. The tracks, they said, belong to dinosaurs from the Cretaceous Period, which ended around 66 million years ago.
Researchers believe ancient humans deliberately placed these carvings next to the dinosaur prints, noting that some petroglyphs are only 2 to 4 inches away and may depict the footprints themselves.
This suggests that people of that era were deeply curious about the footprints and interacted with them. "The individuals who crafted the petroglyphs were acutely aware of the footprints, likely selecting the location precisely because of them," Leonardo Troiano, the study’s lead author and an archaeologist from Brazil's National Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage, told Live Science "It would have been impossible to overlook their presence."
Stunning discovery of 9000-year-old rock art shows humans may have interacted with dinosaur footprints - Good

 

Start as we mean to continue.
"The UK's biggest ever dinosaur trackway site has been discovered in a quarry in Oxfordshire.
About 200 huge footprints, which were made 166 million years ago, criss-cross the limestone floor.
They reveal the comings and goings of two different types of dinosaurs that are thought to be a long-necked sauropod called Cetiosaurus and the smaller meat-eating Megalosaurus.
The longest trackways are 150m in length, but they could extend much further as only part of the quarry has been excavated.
"This is one of the most impressive track sites I've ever seen, in terms of scale, in terms of the size of the tracks," said Prof Kirsty Edgar, a micropalaeontologist from the University of Birmingham.
"You can step back in time and get an idea of what it would have been like, these massive creatures just roaming around, going about their own business."
UK's biggest ever dinosaur footprint trackways unearthed - BBC News

 

A 1.8 mile long core, that's some bloody doing.
"What is probably the world's oldest ice, dating back 1.2m years ago, has been dug out from deep within Antarctica.
Working at temperatures of -35C, a team of scientists extracted a 2.8km-long cyclinder, or core, of ice - longer than eight Eiffel Towers end-to-end.
Suspended inside the ice are ancient air bubbles which scientists hope will help solve an enduring mystery about our planet's climate history.
The European scientists worked over four Antarctic summers, racing against seven nations to be first to reach the rock under the frozen continent.
Their work could help unravel one of the major mysteries in our planet's climate history - what happened 900,000-1.2 million years ago when glacial cycles were disrupted and some researchers say our ancestors came close to extinction.
"It's an amazing achievement," says Prof Carlo Barbante at Ca' Foscari University of Venice who co-ordinated the research.
"You have in your hands a piece of ice that is a million years old. Sometimes you see ash layers coming from volcanic eruptions. You see the tiny bubbles inside, some bubbles of air that our ancestors breathed a million years ago," he says.
The team was led by the Italian Institute of Polar Sciences and included 10 European nations."
Million year-old bubbles could solve ice age mystery - BBC News

 

God, I hope so.

 

I need a condom that long...

 

"Archaeologists have discovered a collection of lost treasures in the crypts of the Cathedral Basilica of St Stanislaus and St Ladislaus of Vilnius, located in the capital of Vilnius in Lithuania.
The Vilnius Cathedral, the primary Catholic cathedral in Lithuania, has served as the site for inauguration ceremonies of Lithuanian monarchs since the early 15th century AD.
The discovery was unveiled during a press conference at the Museum of Religious Heritage, where archaeologists revealed a hidden chamber within the cathedral crypts.
The chamber contained the grave insignia of prominent rulers of Lithuania and Poland, including Alexander Jagiellon, as well as Elizabeth of Habsburg, the first wife of Sigismund Augustus, and his second wife, Barbara Radziwiłł.
Among the treasure are several funerary crowns, including the lost funerary crown of Alexander Jagiellon who ruled as the Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1492 and King of Poland from 1501.
Also recovered is a medallion, a chain, the ring and coffin plaque of Elizabeth of Habsburg, as well as the funerary crown, sceptre, royal orb, three rings, and two coffin plaques of Barbara Radziwiłłówna."
Lost treasures of European rulers found in cathedral crypt

 

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