14 SEPTEMBRE 2017 NEWS: Kolar - Petersfield - Parion - Tasmanie - Perge - Kazakhstan - Loches -
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INDE – 
Kolar - Chopper stone tool dating back to 1.6 million years old has been found in Kolar. Archaeologist Dr Narayan Vyas, who found this tool at Chichli Bairagarh, Kolar Road, accidentally in a construction site said that such tools are of very much importance to understand the culture of pre-historic men and his lifestyle. The possibility of getting such tools in this area is high. Chopper is a pebble tool with irregular cutting edge; it is crude form of stone tool used in Stone Age mainly for hunting and chopping large meat pieces. Interestingly, Kathotiya village which is near to this area is known for Bronze Age tools of pre-historic men.
http://thehitavada.com/Encyc/2017/9/13/Stone-Age-chopper-tool-found-in-Kolar.aspx
ROYAUME UNI – 
Petersfield - A site survey carried out before work begins on building 200 homes in Petersfield has uncovered the remains of a Bronze Age roundhouse which could be more than 2,550 years old. The exciting discovery, found on fields off The Causeway, could help solve the mystery of the Bronze Age burial mounds on Petersfield Heath. For the past three years experts and volunteers from the Petersfield Museum-run People of the Heath project have been excavating Bronze Age burial mounds on the Heath – this era began about 2,100BC and ended around 650BC. They have found clay burial urns, a sharpening stone, ashes and other Bronze Age remains but the excavations of the burial mound cemetery, one of the largest in both this country and Europe outside of the area around Stonehenge, haven’t uncovered any sign of humans living in the area. Liss archaeologist and People of the Heath co-ordinator George Anelay said: “Right here and right along the Meon Valley we haven’t found any sign of Bronze Age settlements. “The dead don’t bury themselves.” He also said there must have been settlements in the area, and this find, depending on which part of the Bronze Age it dates from, could provide a clue to where people were living at the time. The roundhouse would have sat on high ground, overlooking the Heath, and could have been part of a larger settlement.
TURQUIE – 
Parion - Excavations in one of the most important coastal towns of the Hellenistic era, the ancient city of Parion in the northwestern Turkish province of Çanakkale’s Biga district, have unearthed a 2,000-year-old feeding bottle. The bottle found in a baby grave has single handle and pacifier in its mouth, Kasapoğlu added. “The baby bottles from the Roman era were made of earthenware and were oven dried. We found a number of them in some baby graves in previous years. It is possible to see them especially in the early Roman era. They were often left in baby graves as a gift to the dead,” he said. Kasapoğlu said the baby bottles, which had a capacity of up to 100 millimeters, have various different models. “The ones we have found so far are generally from the Roman era. They have a very small pacifier mouth. When the kiln was wet, they were given shape on a mold and dried,” he added.
AUSTRALIE – Tasmanie - A core sample taken from a remote Tasmanian island suggests Aboriginal people were using fire management on the island at least 41,000 years ago, experts have said.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-11/scientists-tracing-ancient-aboriginal-fire-practice-on-tasmania/8891626
TURQUIE – 
Perge - Conservation, restoration and integration works have been initiated for the Hellenistic towers in the ancient city of Perge in the southern province of Antalya. Antalya Surveying and Monuments Director Cemil Karabayram said the ancient city dates back to the second and third B.C. and that the Hellenistic towers needed to be restored. He said the tender had been finished for the restoration of the towers and the ancient structure was one of the most magnificent structures in the Pamphylia era. Karabayram said the towers were not built to show off but for defense.
KAZAKHSTAN – 
According to head of archaeological excavations Abdesh Toleubayev, the unique artefacts found during excavations surprised scientists and archaeologists. It turned out that the territory of East Kazakhstan had a settlement of the Afanasevo culture in the third and second millennium BC. “Previously, there were doubts that our ancestors of the Afanasevo culture period lived in the East Kazakhstan region. But now, obvious evidence is found,” Akim (Governor) of East Kazakhstan region Daniyal Akhmetov said. Afanasevo culture is the southern Siberian archaeological culture that spanned the late Eneolithic and the early Bronze Ages. The name of the culture was generated from the Afanasevo Mountain (near the village of Bateni in the Bograd region of Russia’s Khakassia region), where the first burial ground of this culture was unveiled in 1920. In addition to the main district – Altai and Khakass-Minusinsk Hollow, – the area of monuments includes the eastern Kazakhstan, Western Mongolia and Chinese Xinjiang.
http://astanatimes.com/2017/09/burial-of-eneolithic-era-man-discovered-in-east-kazakhstan/
FRANCE – Loches - Plus qu'une semaine de fouilles. Depuis le 16 août, les archéologues œuvrent au fond du parc du logis royal et vont de découvertes en découvertes. Des découvertes qui, à leur tour, posent de nouvelles questions. Leur principale trouvaille est un mur d'1,70 m de large entre la grande salle seigneuriale du palais des comtes d'Anjou (XIe siècle) qu'ils mettent à jour depuis deux étés et les remparts actuels. C'est le vestige de remparts dont on ne connaissait pas l'existence, datant probablement de la fin du XIIe siècle ou du XIIIe siècle, même si la datation exacte reste à confirmer. Mais ce qu'il y a d'encore plus surprenant, c'est que devant ce rempart, les archéologues du conseil départemental ont également mis à jour… un sol datant de la même époque. Un sol, parfaitement visible, en surplomb du vide, à l'extérieur des fortifications ! De quoi susciter de nombreuses interrogations. Quel visage avait cette partie de l'éperon à ce moment-là ? Faut-il penser qu'il descendait par terrasses successives ? Peut-on imaginer un système de palissades ou même un autre mur plus bas encore ? Une chose est sûre : « Les données que l'on accumule en ce moment seront très utiles au momentdu chantier de restauration et de dévégétalisation des remparts » prévu sur plusieurs années, indique l'archéologue Pierre Papin, qui dirige les fouilles.Ce n'est pas la première trace de fortification que les archéologues exhument cet été. Déjà, fin août, contre le mur extérieur de la grande salle, ils sont tombés sur deux phases de confortement de cet édifice, dont l'une peut faire penser à une tourelle. « Le bâtiment de la grande salle devait souffrir de sérieux problèmes structurels pour qu'on ait eu besoin, à deux reprises, de ces confortements », estime Pierre Papin. Ces jours-ci, les archéologues ont également trouvé ce qui pourrait être un puits, maçonné sur 1,40 m avant de se poursuivre dans le rocher. Mais son étroitesse empêche d'être catégorique sur la fonction exacte de ce vestige. Les fouilles vont se poursuivre jusqu'à vendredi. Peut-être permettront-elles de remonter plus loin encore dans le temps, jusqu'à l'époque carolingienne. Y avait-il déjà une grande salle plus vieille encore ?