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JAPON – 
Sakitari-do cave - Japan's oldest-known color accessory has been unearthed from a stratum in cave ruins dating back to the Paleolithic period about 23,000 years ago in southernmost Okinawa Prefecture. The bead, made of a type of tusk shell and measuring about 13 millimeters long and 8 mm wide, was found coated in red pigment. Pigmented earthenware and decorative items have been found in Japan at Jomon period sites dating back at least about 15,000 years, but this is the first time one from the Paleolithic period has been found. The discovery will provide valuable clues to Paleolithic people's culture. At the Sakitari-do cave site in the prefectural city of Nanjo, where research began in fiscal 2009, shell artifacts including fishhooks and decorative shell beads believed to be the world's oldest were discovered in strata dating from about 20,000 to 23,000 years ago. This drew attention to a "shell culture" different from that of Paleolithic people on the country's mainland. The tusk shell accessory was unearthed in 2013, and is thought to have been used as a bead by threading string through its hollow. Red pigment based on iron oxide was found applied to the center's surface.
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20211023/p2a/00m/0na/002000c
DANEMARK – 
Jelling - A metal detectorist in Denmark has uncovered a Viking find that a local museum described as “one of the greatest gold treasures in Danish history.” The lucky man, Ole Ginnerup Schytz, discovered a total of 22 gold objects with 6th-century symbols close to Jelling in southwestern Denmark. The finds have symbols that could reveal new information about pre-Viking Danish people. Some of the objects have runic motifs and inscriptions, which may refer to the rulers of the time, but also recall Norse mythology. The treasure could have been buried as an offering to the gods at a time of great insecurity – perhaps when the climate in northern Europe turned colder after a volcanic eruption in Iceland in 536, sending ash clouds into the sky.
ROYAUME UNI – 
Fountains Abbey - Ground-breaking technology revealing for the first time evidence of Britain’s largest monastic tannery at Fountains Abbey, it seems the Cistercian brothers were also industrial pioneers. A team of archaeologists used ground penetrating radar at the UNESCO World Heritage Site to investigate an area close to the River Skell, and with the results showing the presence of two large buildings surrounded by pits, tanks they now believe it was home to a large-scale tannery. A tannery of this size, spanning such a large area of the site, reveals an operation on an industrial scale, meeting the needs for leather and other processed animal skins for the community of hundreds of people in the growing monastic community. Given the noise, activity and stench that emanated from a tannery, we previously thought that it would have been sited further away from the monks and their worship. However, see now that the tannery was much closer and a far cry from the idea of a quiet, tranquil abbey community. Tanning was a vital part of the abbey’s economy where animal hides would be de-haired and cured to make leather for clothing, belts, bedding, book bindings and vellum for reproducing religious texts.
IRAQ – 
Faydeh - Archaeologists revealed their discovery of a large-scale wine factory from the rule of the Assyrian kings 2,700 years ago, along with stunning monumental rock-carved royal reliefs. The stone bas-reliefs, showing kings praying to the deities, were cut into the walls of a nearly nine-kilometre-long irrigation canal at Faydeh in northern Iraq. The carvings, 12 panels measuring five metres wide and two metres tall, show deities, kings and sacred animals. They date from the reigns of Sargon II (721-705 BC) and his son Sennacherib. The scenes represent the Assyrian king praying in front the Assyrian gods,” he said, noting that the seven key gods are all seen, including Ishtar, the goddess of love and war, who is depicted on top of a lion. The irrigation canal was cut into limestone to carry water from the hills to the fields of farmers, and the carvings were made to remind people of the king who ordered its construction. At Khinis, also near Dohuk, the team unearthed giant stone basins cut into white rock that were used in commercial wine-making during the reign of Sennacherib, in the late eighth or early seventh century BC. It was a sort of industrial wine factory: 14 installations, that were used to press the grapes and extract the juice, which was then processed into wine.
FRANCE – Talmont-Saint-Hilaire - Depuis le 3 août, une dizaine d’archéologues fouille les vestiges d’un port du Moyen-Âge à Talmont-Saint-Hilaire (Vendée). Mille ans après sa probable création, il en impose encore avec ses 2 500 m² au cœur du bourg. Le chantier a déjà révélé de « remarquables » découvertes. Ces vestiges sont vraiment « uniques ». En fait, ils se trouvent « sur un ancien marais » et donc « les bois, les graines, le cuir de l’époque sont conservés ».
TURQUIE – 
Boncuklu Tarla - n temple qui aurait 12 000 ans a été découvert à Boncuklu Tarla dans le quartier Ilısu du district de Dargeçit (Mardin). De nombreux artefacts ont été découverts lors des fouilles archéologiques réalisées dans la région qui a accueilli 25 civilisations à travers l'histoire, y compris sumérienne, akkadienne, babylonienne, hittite, assyrienne, urartéenne, romaine, abbasside, seldjoukide et ottomane, révèlent la période allant de la période épipaléolithique à la période néolithique précéramique tardive B. Des vestiges architecturaux, des maisons, des bâtiments privés, des bâtiments publics et les squelettes de 130 individus dans des tombes, plus de 100 mille perles et un temple que l'on pense être daté de 11 300 ans de la période néolithique a été mis au jour grâce aux fouilles menées dans la zone qui éclaire l'histoire de l'humanité avec ses 12 mille ans d'histoire.
CHINE – 
Yangshao - Originaire du cours moyen du fleuve Jaune, la culture de Yangshao est considérée comme un courant important de la civilisation chinoise et est largement connue pour sa technologie avancée de fabrication de la poterie. Les quatrièmes fouilles archéologiques du site du village de Yangshao ont commencé le 22 août 2020 et se poursuivent à l'heure actuelle.
https://chine.in/actualite/photos-archeologie-culture-yangshao_150116.html
SUISSE 
Pully - Plusieurs sépultures du Néolithique moyen (4500 à 3500 av. J.-C.) ont été découvertes cet été à Pully. On en sait un peu plus sur la nécropole de Chamblandes, mise au jour lors de travaux réalisés en août dernier à Pully, chemin de Verney. Les canalisations sont en effet tombées sur des sépultures, au final huit en tout. La nécropole de Chamblandes, fouillée essentiellement au début du XXe siècle par l’archéologue Albert Naef, est bien connue des scientifiques européens. C’est là qu’a été pour la première fois identifié ce mode d’inhumation «en ciste de Chamblandes», quand des défunts reposaient en position quasi fœtale, sur le côté, entourés d’offrandes et protégés d’un coffre fait de lourdes et minces dalles de pierre. Des rites funéraires typiques du Néolithique moyen, quand nos lointains aïeux, sédentaires, prennent leurs aises dans notre région et mettent en place une société qui sera celle des mégalithes. Des cistes seront identifiées ailleurs dans l’arc alpin et le long de la vallée du Rhône. Peu profondes, mal conservées, les tombes ont pu être utilisées notamment par des enfants. Elles ont livré quelques ossements et d’émouvants restes de bijoux, sous la forme de perles en lignite.
https://www.24heures.ch/site-majeur-la-necropole-de-pully-livre-de-nouvelles-tombes-188074537942
INDONESIE – 
Musi River - Nighttime divers on the Musi River in Indonesia are beginning to fish out fistfuls of gold, gems, and other treasures from the mud—and it might be the site of a fabled kingdom known in the 8th century as the ‘Island of Gold’. Dr. Sean Kingsley suspects the finds represent the gradual-rediscovery of a lost merchant palace city from the kingdom of Svirijaya, which ruled the trade routes in large parts of Indonesia for 400 years. Situated around the town of Palembang, sometimes called “Venice of the East,” the palace city would have sat on a major artery of the maritime version of the Silk Road, and like its terrestrial counterparts in the cities of Qashqar, or Tashkent, would have bustled in its heyday with people of every faith and skin color. Earlier diving expeditions conducted by Australian archaeologists have recovered pristine collections of ceramics preserved in the mud of the river, representing a staggering number of cultures—including every major Medieval power in Asia, and even the Dutch, British and Portuguese.