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Last Post 25 Apr 2008 09:00 PM by rickrock. 5 Replies.
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25 Apr 2008 09:00 PM
I am new to the field of archaelogy so forgive me if this is a naive question, but what are the major cities/sites/artifacts yet to be found? I can see this being complicated by the fact that probably much that is discovered is by chance or wasn't known to exist before its discovery, but are there any major finds people are searching for which are largely believed to exist but are yet to be found? When I consider the vastness of the earth and the time that has elapsed surely there must be thousands of ancient cities/sites buried which havent been discovered yet? If this is so then I hope over time they will be discovered, but is it reasonable to assume we've already discovered most of these sites already? Or is it impossible to predict how much is left to discover due to the very nature of archaeology being about discovering previously unknown facts?
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05 Apr 2006 01:20 AM
I would submit to the members that the most prized and sought after discovery would be: EDEN I never claimed that I could walk on water...
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05 Apr 2006 09:12 AM
Atlantis & Eden have been found, just down the road to me in Shropshire ;). There are books all about it from here - http://www.successsystemsatwork.com . The guy's server seems to be down at the moment so you need to use the http://web.archive.org to see it. You could also use Google's cache pages for the site (preceed the address with 'site:' instead of 'http://' to list all pages . Perhaps his internet skills are on a par with his research !!
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25 Apr 2008 09:01 PM
Hi Rick – welcome to Online archaeology. The answer to your question is most certainly yes. I understand your excitement in major cities/sites/artefacts. When I first started to read about archaeology I was particularly taken by Egyptian Pyramids and civilisation. However, as I got involved in practical archaeology I found just as much interest in humble small-scale discoveries. Thirty years on I still rate ‘discovery’ to be the most exciting part of archaeology be it a flint flake or a lost city. A discovery in the ground is just a beginning. An non-digging example of a major discovery is the decipherment of http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A4596735 – now there’s a challenge!
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25 Apr 2008 09:01 PM
Rick - Yes, you'd be forgiven in thinking archaeology was a finite exercise - i.e. it will hit a point in the future when it catches up on itself. However, discovery is not even half of archaeology. My point here is that making the information available is as important as the disovery. Think about how much is kept in storage because there is not enough place to display disovered artefacts; think about mass of archived data that has yet to be interpreted (or re-discovered!). Archaeology is a continual process of reinterpretation so 'discovering previously unknown facts' depends on the paradigm under which they are interpreted. So I think just because a city/site/artefact is discovered it will be revisisted again and again - that's what I love about archaeology!
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25 Apr 2008 09:01 PM
I couldn't agree more with you guys. Things that are waiting to be discovered that I'm excitied by include whatever remains of Alexander the great's tomb, the tomb of Qin Zheng Shi Hungdi, the shaft tombs of the later Egyptain pharo's and the papyrus scrap heaps of Alexandria. Peices of research that I am intrested in and egearly awaiting include the isotopic analysis of beaker skeletons in britain (so we can finally find out where they all came from) and the petrographic analysis of various bronze age and iron age artifacts (so we can finally find out where they came from as well - I am told early results are very surprising) Jonathon Smith http://www.geocities.com/archchaos1/index.htm
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