Tales of the Maya Skies Underwater Archaeology Projects Sweden | Nordic | Europe | World A maritime archaeology project can be anything from a non-vocational wreck documentation to large official investigations. This list offers a selection of more or less current project. The list is far from complete. Sweden Kronan. Other Nordic & Baltic projects NTNU, the Norwegian University of Science & Technology, conducts various Norwegian projects that are presented on their excellent web site. Projects elsewhere in Europe Black Sea Projects. Projects worldwide Port of Alexandria. Old or terminated projects may be found among Nordic or worldwide wrecks. CHICHEN ARCHIVE & DISCUSSION Chichen Itza Data Archive (c) 2011. Produced by INSIGHT in cooperation with the Chabot Space & Science Center. Major funding provided by the National Science Foundation. Tales of the Maya Skies | the National Science Foundation | Chabot Space & Science Center | INSIGHT | CyArk A|R|T|S Lab | Fundación Alfredo Harp Helú | Instituto Politécnico Nacional Please click here to get download rights to the Maya Skies Archive
Cosquer Cave by Jean Clottes, Jean Courtin, Luc Vanrell A few facts must be recalled before presenting our new discoveries. The Cosquer Cave (Marseille, France) was discovered in 1985 by a diver, Henri Cosquer, deep under the sea (the original entrance is about 115 feet below present-day sea level) but its paintings were not mentioned until 1991 after three divers died in the cave when they got lost. The gallery slopes up for about 360 feet under water before reaching a huge chamber that partly remained above the sea and where many prehistoric paintings and engravings are preserved on the walls, as well as remains on the ground (charcoal from fires and torches, a few flint tools). This is the only painted cave in the world with an entrance below present-day sea level where cave art has been preserved from the flooding that occurred when the seas rose after the end of the last glaciation (Clottes & Courtin 1994, 1996). Photo Luc Vanrell Photo Jean Clottes Only adult hand stencils have been found.
iximche Chwa Nim Ab'aj es una ciudad Kaqchikel, está al Oriente del territorio, entre los ríos Pixcayá y Motagua, a una altura de 880 mt SNM. Fue desarrollada por una alianza entre los Chajoma y los Akajal. La ciudad tiene seis plazas, dos campos de juego de pelota y más de 100 estructuras monumentales. Se le ha estimado una población entre 1450 a 1600 habitantes. Chwa Nim Ab'aj está a 70 km al Noroeste de la capital de Guatemala, y a unos 50 kms de Iximche'. Coordenadas: Latitud 14° 52.284'N’ ’’, longitud 90° 39.843'O Mapa de Mixco Viejo (Chwa Nim Ab'aj). VIDEO nuevo! Video dirigido por Cleida Cholotío. 5mm. La ciudad de Iximche’ se construyó sobre la cima del monte Ratz’am Ut, uno de los ramales del cerro Tecpán (3,075 Mts). [Ubicación: 14°44'5.59"N - 90°59'43.91"O]. La alta cima tiene la apariencia de un verde pulgar, se extiende de Este a Oeste a lo largo de un kilómetro y medio, a 2,277 metros de altura. Cueva. Ratz’am Ut está rodeada de barrancos y ríos. Estela de Xekohil, a 5 km de Iximche'
List of "diseases" of black slaves, including the one that makes them want to escape. So diseased, those blacks. DRAPETOMANIA, OR THE DISEASE CAUSING NEGROES TO RUN AWAY. It is unknown to our medical authorities, although its diagnostic symptom, the absconding from service, is well known to our planters and overseers... In noticing a disease not heretofore classed among the long list of maladies that man is subject to, it was necessary to have a new term to express it. According to my experience, the "genu flexit"--the awe and reverence, must be exacted from them, or they will despise their masters, become rude and ungovernable, and run away. If treated kindly, well fed and clothed, with fuel enough to keep a small fire burning all night--separated into families, each family having its own house--not permitted to run about at night to visit their neighbors, to receive visits or use intoxicating liquors, and not overworked or exposed too much to the weather, they are very easily governed--more so than any other people in the world. back
Menu: MayaPages Organized by Topic Point Communications (now defunct) rated this section in its version of the top 5% of all websites. I am not happy about this, because I think their Review is racist. Here's what they said that really shocked me: "An interview with 1992 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Rigoberta Menchu Tum is the only spot where this site gets a little strident: 'For me, to celebrate the twelfth of October is the absolute expression of triumphism, occupation and presumptuousness, and I think that history will remember those that celebrate it,' she huffs. But the remainder of the site is purely educational...." . Oh really, Miigwetch, you racists. Rigoberta, as many must surely know, had her whole family slaughtered, and she herself was raped and tortured and left for dead by the genocidal military regime of Guatemala, which attempted to prevent her Nobel award and has made many attempts to assassinate her. I recommend her autobiography, I, Rigoberta if you can find it nowadays.
Cronaca The Archaeology Channel - Welcome Little Salt Spring home page The Rosenstiel School’s Division of Marine Affairs manages an underwater archeological and ecological preserve at Little Salt Spring, in North Port, a site located in southern Sarasota County, Florida about 10 miles (16 km) from the Gulf of Mexico. Donated to the University in 1982, the spring is surrounded by undisturbed native hydric hammock containing several rare and endangered plant and animal species. During early prehistoric times (12,000–7,000 years ago) the sinkhole was an oasis in the peninsula that attracted seasonal hunters and gatherers. The site has produced the second-oldest dated artifact ever found in the southeast United States — a sharpened wooden stake some 12,000 years old. Little Salt Spring contains some of the oldest cultural remains in the United States. Photo by Curt Bowen