Home | Subsccribe | News | Shop | TV | Events | Links | Contact | Free Info | Advertise | Search A publication of the Archaeological Institute of America Plundering the Three Gorges May 14, 1998 by Spencer P.M. Harrington An unprecedented rash of looting is following in the wake of construction of the Three Gorges Dam on the middle reaches of China's Yangtze River. The dam is the largest hydroelectric project ever undertaken; 13 cities, 140 towns, more than 1,600 villages, and ...

in Italiano Rock Art in Valtellina Valtellina is situated in the north of Lombardy (Italy, Sondrio district), along the Adda river (flowing into the lake of Como), and near the Swiss border. High mountains (Bernina, the highest, 4000 m - 12000 ft), beautiful ski-stations (Bormio the most important, Stelvio for summer-skiing in the glacier), and excellent red wine. Snow in winter, green woods in summer in the National Park of Stelvio. Strictly related to Valcamonica, Valtellina R ...

Some years ago, while studying the morphology of Oscan and Celtic toponyms on the Caprione, the most eastern promontory of the Liguria Riviera (Oscan etymology kaprum = scapegoat) we have discovered five holy megalithic (literal meaning = big stones) places, not reciprocally visible. Using holism we performed geological analyses to demonstrate the presence of human work on creating these megalithic structures (E. Calzolari & D. Gori, 1999) although these analys ...

Discovery of a Mesolithic burial at Mezzocorona, Trento, Italy. The modern town of Mezzocorona is located north of Trento, in the Adige valley, by the northern margin of the Rotaliana plain, a fertile alluvial fan at the confluence of the Noce stream and the river Adige. The archaeological site of Borgonuovo was discovered in 1991 by Leone Merchiori and Remo Carli during digging works for the construction of a terrace wall, which truncated the anthropic deposit. The site is situated at the fo ...

The Scandinavian Sicilian Homepage Messages from the project: 15/12/2000 The homepage is up and running. 01/03/2000 The applications deadline for the Oslo students has been set to the 9th of April. 13/03/2001 The teams from Oslo, Gothenburg and Sicily will begin their 2001 season the first of June. 14/03/2001 A seminar about the project will be held at the Nordic TAG konference The 28th of March. 17/01/02-19/01/02 Project meeting in Rome Old Pages Christian Mühlenbock University of Oslo Christian.muhlenbock@iakk.uio.no Webmaster:

Nuraghic Archaeology in Sardinia (italy) Ancient coat-of-arms of the Sardinia Sabauda The unresolved riddle of seven thousand nuraghes: (Silanus-NU: Nuraghe Madrone). * Who built the nuraghes ? * What their purpose ? (Barumini-CA: fortress nuraghic "Su Nuraxi") These questions remain two cri ...

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