03 OCTOBRE 2021 NEWS
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FRANCE – 
Chartres - Les bouts de bois brûlés récemment découverts sur le site de fouilles archéologiques gallo-romain de Saint-Martin-au-Val, dans le quartier Saint-Brice de Chartres, un ancien lieu de pèlerinage d’environ une dizaine d’hectares, n’ont, à première vue, rien d’extraordinaire. Et pourtant, « c’est une découverte archéologique majeure, unique en Gaule romaine », assure Bruno Bazin, responsable scientifique de l’opération. Le quadra à la tête de la petite équipe de chercheurs fait partie de la direction de l’archéologie de Chartres métropole et ses yeux brillent : « Cette campagne de fouilles nous a déjà apporté de précieuses données inédites mais ces bois antiques sont uniques ». Vestige d’un incendie qui s’est déroulé au IIIe siècle de notre ère, ce corpus d’environ 1 500 pièces appartient à un plafond à caissons en bois sculpté, « avec des décors de menuiserie très finement taillés », analyse l’expert. Les premiers éléments de ce plafond avaient été découverts dès 2018. Mais, depuis, les trouvailles se sont enchaînées. Bois ciselé, tresses à deux brins à œillets, oves, rais-de-cœurs, perles et pirouettes… Cet assemblage de menuiseries et de charpenteries en dit long sur les techniques de l’époque et témoigne d’une maîtrise très avancée du travail du bois. L’abattage de ces arbres a eu lieu vers 120. Au IIIe siècle le plafond en bois, complètement en feu lors de l’incendie, s’est effondré avant de tomber dans l’eau d’un bassin orné de marbre de Turquie du IIe siècle, qui a interrompu net sa combustion et garanti sa conservation. L’extraction des dernières boiseries du fond de la cuve centrale du bassin de la fontaine monumentale construite devant le temple dédié à Apollon se poursuit.
TURQUIE – 
Blaundus - Excavations continue in the ancient city of Blaundus, situated on a peninsula surrounded by deep valleys. While archaeological digs have revealed many Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine artifacts in the ancient city to date, this year’s work was focused on the areas of the necropolis. These excavations unveiled 400 rock tombs featuring multiple rooms, the walls of which were decorated with special motifs of vine branches, bunches of grapes and flowers. These rock tombs were intensely used after the A.D. second century. There are different types of rooms inside the rock tombs. There are arched sarcophagi carved into the bedrock in front of the walls of each room. Apart from these, places that are thought to be used for funeral ceremonies were also found inside the rock tombs. The main door of the tombs was closed with a marble door and reopened during burial or ceremony times in the past.
https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/1800-year-old-rock-tombs-found-in-turkeys-ancient-city-blaundus/news
FRANCE – 
Rozel - Découvert par hasard,le site dévoile depuis un véritable trésor archéologique. On ne compte plus le nombre de silex, d’os taillés et de foyers trouvés sous la dune de Rozel, qui tire son nom du petit village éponyme situé non loin, à l’extrémité ouest du Cotentin. Depuis 2012, les archéologues fouillent avec minutie le site, chaque été. Et pour cause, ils y ont trouvé pas moins de 2 200 empreintes de pieds et 35 de mains, conservées depuis des millénaires dans le sable durci. Pour se donner un ordre d’idée de l’immensité de la découverte, seules neuf autres empreintes de pied néandertaliennes avaient été trouvées jusqu’alors, sur trois sites différents. Depuis, une centaine ont possiblement été découvertes sur le site de Matalascanas, au sud de l’Espagne. Mais c’est faible face au niveau de découverte à Rozel. Le site, rien que sur les fouilles de 2021, a livré 200 nouvelles empreintes, c’est autant qu’en 2020, et le total dépasse aujourd’hui les 2000.Vieux de 80 000 ans, le site de Rozel est un trésor archéologique rare. Aujourd’hui menacé par l’érosion, il est protégé par une digue en contrebas afin de limiter l’arrivée de l’eau. Il y a quelques années une importante marée avait ravagé les lieux, emportant avec elle une très grande partie du trésor paléolithique de la dune. Grâce à ce site qui regorge de traces de vies, les chercheurs sont aujourd’hui capables de décrire comment vivait une communauté néandertalienne il y a de ça 80 000 ans. Des carcasses de chevaux et d’autres animaux, ainsi que la présence de foyers servant à sécher la viande donnent une idée du niveau de développement de cette tribu qui a stationné là pendant des années. En effet, les traces de pas retrouvées l’ont été sur plusieurs couches de roches successives, plus ou moins profondes, ce qui montre une installation durable de l’Homme sur ces terres.
GRECE – 
Athenes - An intriguing claim was published in the American Journal of Archaeology and the Dutch version of the National Geographic magazine in regard to the name of the Parthenon, Greece’s iconic temple. According to a Dutch researcher who published this theory, the temple of the Parthenon, the ultimate symbol of the nation of Greece, was actually never called ”Parthenon” in antiquity. Utrecht University archaeologist Janric van Rookhuijzen claims that the building was known in ancient Greek times as the ”Hekatompedon” rather than the ”Parthenon.” ”Hekatompedon” was the name Greeks used to refer to temples which had a length of a hundred feet, since the name derives its etymology from the Greek words for ”a hundred” (hekaton) and foot (pous). Van Rookhuijzen also claims that there was indeed a Parthenon temple on the Acropolis, but it was a different, smaller one than the structure which has survived from ancient times. he Dutch archaeologist claims that this original temple must have taken its name from the Caryatids, who were ”parthenes” (virgins) in the temple of the Erechthium, just to the side of the Parthenon. Thus, his rationale is that since that was the temple where the ”parthenes” were placed, the Erechthium must have been the temple named after them, bearing the name ”Parthenon.” Of course, there is the wider belief that the Parthenon was named after the goddess Athena, who was also referred to as a virgin (Parthenos) by the ancient Greeks.
GRECE – 
Polystylon fort - A rugged Byzantine warrior, who was decapitated following the Ottoman’s capture of his fort during the 14th century, had a jaw threaded with gold, a new study finds. An analysis of the warrior’s lower jaw revealed that it had been badly fractured in a previous incident, but that a talented physician had used a wire — likely gold crafted — to tie his jaw back together until it healed. “The jaw was shattered into two pieces ; The discovery of the nearly 650-year-old healed jaw is an amazing find because it shows the accuracy with which “the medical professional was able to put the two major fragments of the jaw together.” The warrior died between the ages of 35 and 40 years old, and about 10 years before that, likely in 1373, he experienced the devastating jaw fracture. An analysis of the teeth on the warrior’s lower jaw revealed a line of dental calculus that built up where a thin wire was threaded, zigzagging around the base of the man’s teeth to hold his jaw together as it healed.
https://www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2021/10/01/byzantine-warrior-gold-threaded-haw-agelarakis/
AUTRICHE – 
Ebreichsdorf - An extremely rare gold bowl decorated with a sun motif that dates back at least 3,000 years has been discovered at the site of a prehistoric settlement in Ebreichsdorf, Austria. The bowl is two inches high and eight inches in diameter. It is made of a thin sheet of gold finely decorated in repoussé technique. The side of the bowl has rows of concentric circles, lozenges and dots. The bottom of the bowl is decorated with a radiating sun. It contained four other precious objects: two bracelets of spiral wire and two clumps of organic material wrapped in gold wire. The material was either leather or fabric stitched with gold. The digs revealed a Late Bronze Age settlement of the Urnfield culture (named for their practice of burying urns containing the cinerary remains of the dead in fields). Occupied between around 1300 and 1000 B.C., the settlement consisted of several pile dwellings built around a large central building. It covered an estimated area of about 25 acres and was home to a community of about 100-150 people. The bowl was found buried against the side of one of the pile dwellings.
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/62379
INDE – 
Kalvakol - Nearly 1,000-year-old sculptures dating back to the Kalyani Chalukya, Kanduru and Cheraku and Kakatiya kingdoms were found in the premises of Nandikotiswara Swamy temple in Kalvakol village of Kollapur mandal in Nagarkurnool district. The team also noticed an extensive mud fortification of the ancient capital Kalvakol (Kaluvakolanu) also known as Jammulurupura and documented the sculptures and inscriptions from the 10 to 13th centuries. Dr Reddy said that the sculptures include images of Nagas, Ganesha, Veerabhadra, Bhadrakali, Bhairava, Chennakesava, Sivalingas, carts and inscriptions of Ballaha Chandradeva, Cheraku Bollayareddy, a subordinate chief Rudradeva and Ganapatideva of Kakatiya dynasty. Two large bull sculptures inside the mandapa of the Nandikotishwara swamy temple depict the artistic skills of the Kakatiya period, he said.
RUSSIE – 
Chukotka - Archaeologists have resumed an expedition to map ancient rock art along the Pegtymel River in the remote Chukotka Autonomous Okrug of Russia. The petroglyphs are located in Western Chukotka and are the northernmost in Asia, and are the only location of rock carvings located beyond the Arctic Circle. The Pegtymel petroglyphs depict images of people, hunting scenes, deer, bears, dogs, wolves, artic foxes, birds, whales, and seals. They are connected with the life of the peoples who inhabited the region, reflecting their beliefs and the natural world around them. During the latest study, researchers were clearing parts of a rock face of lichen, moss, and soil, where they discovered a petroglyph previously undocumented, depicting an image of a reindeer.
GEORGIE – Tbilisi - An ancient skeleton excavated at a site near Tbilisi has been kept at Georgia's National Museum for nearly a century -- but archaeologists are now giving it a closer look. They say the woman who was buried with jewelry and a sword is the oldest female warrior ever identified, and that the artifacts provide valuable information about the culture and society of the late Bronze Age.
VIDEO = https://www.rferl.org/a/georgia-ancient-history-woman-warrior/31488064.html