23 OCTOBRE 2012 NEWS: Prissé - Machu Picchu - Northampton - Ardrossan - Morton Village -
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FRANCE – 
Prissé - Le groupe de santé Capio, qui s’apprête à réunir ses quatre cliniques bayonnaises (Lafourcade, Lafargue, Paulmy et Saint-Etienne) en un seul établissement sur le site du Prissé à l’horizon 2015, a présenté la semaine dernière l’avancement des recherches préalables à l’ouverture du chantier. Or, rappelle le responsable scientifique de l’opération David Colonge, “l’extrémité du plateau de Saint-Pierre d’Irube a fait l’objet d’une fouille dans les années 1960, au rond-point du Basté. En 2008, une fouille préventive a été réalisée juste à côté, avant la construction de l’OPH 64”. Pilotée par l’Inrap (Institut national de recherches archéologiques et préventives), elle a commencé le 20 août et s’achèvera le 9 novembre. Une équipe de 6 à 8 archéologues travaille sur l’emprise de 5 000 m2 contenant des signes de présences humaines (chasseurs, cueilleurs, nomades) du paléolithique à l’époque gallo-romaine. Un échantillon des quelque 3 500 pièces déjà recensées et dévolues au Centre d’archéologie d’Aquitaine, a été exposé vendredi. “Des boîtes de cailloux”, évoquant la vie humaine d’il y a très longtemps. 200 000 ans avant notre ère, l’artisan de l’Acheuléen façonnait des bifaces (pierre à deux faces) et débitait de grands éclats, en silex ou en matériaux pyrénéens. Ils utilisaient notamment des silex de la colline d’Ibarbide de Mouguerre. Entre 100 000 et 60 000 ans, l’homme de Néandertal fabriquait des bifaces dont il conservait “deux bords pour la préhension”. De 50 000 à 40 000 ans, les derniers Néandertaliens utilisaient la méthode dite “discoïde” pour obtenir des éclats triangulaires. Les pièces de cette période retrouvées sont spécifiques du Pays Basque et des Asturies : le Vasconien. Au paléolithique supérieur, vers 30 000 ans, des grattoirs témoignent d’une fréquentation de l’homme anatomiquement moderne (Homo Sapiens-Sapiens). Plus récemment, des galets et quelques outils en silex indiquent une installation d’agriculteurs du Néolithique, vers moins 2 000 ans. Au Ier siècle, la mise en valeur agricole du plateau est marquée par des drains et des silos, reliés à un petit habitat installé plus au nord. Un vase de production locale a été retrouvé.
http://www.lejpb.com/paperezkoa/20121023/368676/fr/3-500-pieces-archeologiques-extraites-du-Prisse
PEROU – 
Machu Picchu - An offering featuiring pieces of pottery, stones and a ceremonial pot was found in Machu Picchu Inca citadel during archaeological excavations. The pieces, which were discovered by experts of Cusco's Regional Directorate of Culture, were found 70 centimeters underground. According to archeologist Carlos Werner Delgado, the artifacts were left as an offering to the gods of Machu Picchu and Salkantay snowcapped mountain due to the position they were placed underground. He noted that the pieces would date back to time of Pachacutec, between 1438 and 1470, but the ceremonial pot of Chimu culture would be the oldest one dating back 1000 and 1200.
http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/noticia-artifact-of-chimu-culture-found-in-machu-picchu-433070.aspx
ROYAUME UNI – 
Northampton - Remains of the walls of Northampton Castle have been discovered at an archeological dig ahead of the £20 million redevelopment of Northampton railway station. Experts from Northamptonshire Archaeology dug a trench will be within the area currently used for short-stay car parking, and discovered part of an old stone wall, a stone line drain and a late-Saxon pit. Northampton Castle was situated on part of the current station site, but it is believed most remains were destroyed and displaced over time as the railway was developed. Andy Chapman, senior archaeologist with Northamptonshire Archaeology, said: “We opened the trench yesterday and we are down on the cobbles of the old station yard. “I didn’t expect this level of preservation. It is really well preserved. The pottery is medieval, it is exactly the right date. It is a really interesting find.”
ROYAUME UNI – 
Ardrossan - Archaeologists have begun digging a possible mass grave after almost 400 died in the sinking of a Second World War vessel. HMS Dasher exploded and sank off the coast of Arran on March 27, 1943, in one of the worst non-conflict maritime disasters in UK history. The converted aircraft carrier made in the US claimed the lives of 379 personnel, only 24 of whom have been given recorded burials. Guard Archaeology has begun digging part of Ardrossan Cemetery where local campaigner John Steele believes some of the dead were buried. Details of the disaster were kept secret by the Royal Navy for several years, while bodies of the crew who died in the explosion continued to wash up on beaches in Ayrshire for weeks afterwards. The search of the site comes after Mr Steele has researched the sinking of HMS Dasher for the past decade. Glasgow University’s Archaeology Department previously used radar technology on the site and found that it could not be ruled out that there were "numerous bodies" without coffins buried in a deep pit. At the time of the disaster a media blackout was enforced before it was briefly mentioned in an article in The Times in 1945.
http://local.stv.tv/glasgow/196397-archaeologists-begin-dig-of-possible-second-world-war-mass-grave/
USA - Morton Village - For five years, archaeologists from Dickson Mounds Museum and Michigan State University have conducted excavations at the Morton Village site in Fulton County. The site was a major Native American village during the 1300s that contained as many as 100 houses and other buildings, though how many would have been in existence at one time is not known. The village contains abundant evidence of occupation by people of the Oneota cultural tradition, which is more commonly found in areas to the north such as Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.