Ancient seafarers: new evidence of early Southeast Asian sea voyages
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New evidence is being found for early dates of human colonization in Southeast Asia and Australia, including ancient sea crossings. Many researchers now accept a date of 60,000 years ago for the arrival of humans in Australia, but more controversial evidence from Jinmium rock-shelter could put the date back beyond 116,000 years ago. A Dutch-Indonesian team claims to have found traces of humans at Mata Menge on Flores island, Indonesia, just above a stratum dated 730,000 years ago. By 33,000 years ago, humans had traveled by sea to Golo and Wetef caves on Gebe Island in the northern Moluccas.
Publication Name: Archaeology
Subject: Anthropology/archeology/folklore
ISSN: 0003-8113
Year: 1997
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Trajan's glorious forum: one of ancient Rome's preeminent public spaces dazzles on paper as it must have in stone
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Emperor Trajan, who ruled the Roman Empire from AD 98 to 117, ordered construction of a new forum to explain and glorify his wars of conquest to the Roman people. Today, the ruins of this forum do little to suggest its former beauty, symmetry, and scale. A new archaeological map of Trajan's forum, based on prior research combined with modern techniques such as virtual-reality modeling, provides a more complete picture of this ancient complex.
Publication Name: Archaeology
Subject: Anthropology/archeology/folklore
ISSN: 0003-8113
Year: 1998
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