Over time, abandoned human-made objects become a part of the environment (eg., abandoned settlements, quarries, hunting grounds, etc.) and may be devalued as old artifacts if reencountered after their associated human activity in the exact location has ceased. These artifacts’ distributions and ...
An expedition of archaeologists from Laos and Australia visited the Xiangkhouang region in February and March this year to document known jar sites and to search for new jars-of-the-dead sites and stone quarries. The new finds show that the mysterious culture that made the stone jars was geo...
but there are also a few outliers; the stones are ‘said’ to have come from the quarries back up the hill. The circle is broken, miss-shapen at the west and east sides, the stones from these
Many quarries are ugly scars, but not Carrara. I took a tour with Cave di Marmo, and then cycled around on the roads that are open to the public. It wasn’t quite as exciting as driving an Aston Martin with thugs shooting machine guns at me, but the downhills were fun, and a ...
By far the most important books for geology students were the quarries and clay pits, the cliffs and creek beds, the road and railroad cuts in woods and fields. Our words and letters were the imprints of plants and animals in stone, the minerals and crystals, and our vast, inexhaustible,...
A pair of bowls from each of the two Australian sites that I discovered and developed over the past 20 years, and 2 each from the other sites in Korea, China, Japan and Cornwall in the UK, where I spent time researching and collecting samples from ancient sites and quarries over that ...
The granite quarries(采石场) were 25 to 30 miles away from the largest stones, which weigh more than 10 tons each. Nobody knows how people moved them.. Many of the stones have been found near the remains of houses or graves. Some believed that the stones contained hidden treasures and ...
If I’m selecting stone for a churchyard, I’ll choose natural unpolished stone relevant to the area i.e. limestone, granite, slate etc. I don’t offer a huge range of materials, and try to use British stone whenever I can, but given so many British quarries are closing down now, so...
Most dry stone walls are made from locally available stone, either cleared from the land or from quarries. Clearance cairns are a reliable indicator that Bronze and Iron Age farmers have cleared the land of surface stones, left over from Ice Age glacial deposits, but also from weathered stone...
This involved manually defining the extent of problem areas such as railways, highways, quarries and the like. The DTM values on these were then set to missing, and new elevation values were interpolated from the surrounding terrain. This was done using regularised spline interpolation with ...