2006 Top 10 Discoveries
Five of the Top 10 Discoveries of 2006 named by magazine Archaeology in
the January/February 2007 issue are epigraphic in nature.
Number 3, though experts disagree, Olmec Script found on the Cascajal stone block may be the
oldest example of writing in the New World.
Number 5, Peru's Temple of the Fox and Number 10, Brazilian Stonehenge, are ancient
astronomical markers.
Number 6, China's "Guest Worker" and Number 9, Scythian Mummy,
show contact between central Asia and China between 250 and 500 B.C.
Rare Hopewell Painted Pottery Chards
Two of 1,100 pottery chards recovered last summer at Ohio's Fort Ancient had a black
painted stripe, the Ohio Historical Society announced. "This is a very unusual find,"
said Dr Robert Riordan, leader of the Wright State University Field School investigating
the recently discovered 200-ft-diameter circle at the Park where the chards were found.
First Europeans From Russia?
Discover magazine reports human carved artifacts recovered 250 miles
south of Moscow were dated to 40,000 years ago from identification of the surrounding ash as being from an
eruption in southern Italy. This predates any human-associated artifacts found in Eastern Europe.
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