32 Botany Botany, the study of plants, occupies a peculiar position in the history of human knowledge. For many thousands of years it was the one field of awareness about which humans had anything more than the vaguest of insights. It is impossible

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美国把失窃文物归还泰国 The U.S. government on Wednesday returned to Thailand hundreds of ancient artifacts that federal authorities say were looted from an important archaeological site decades ago. 美国政府周三将数百件古文物返

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Early farming began in the Near East about 10500 years ago. Farming first reached Balkans in Europe some 8 to 9 thousand years ago and then crept westward. Locals in Britain seperated from mainland by the relatively newly formed English Channal did n

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文本: There are the remains of Stone Age lifedotted all over Britain and Ireland. But nowhere as abundantly as Orkney, withits mounds, graves and above all its great circles of standing stones like hereat Brodgar, vast, imposing and utterly unkno

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Botany, the study of plants, occupies a peculiar position in the history of human knowledge. For many thousands of years it was the one field of awareness about which humans had anything more than the vaguest of insights. It is impossible to know tod

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Travel on Foot The past ages of man have all been carefully labelled by anthropologists. Descriptions like Palaeolithic Man. Neolithic Man, etc., neatly sum up whole periods. When the time comes for anthropologists to turn their attention to the twe

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The Streaming down the Yangtze team is in Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu Province and the second largest city in East China. Situated in the Yangtze River Delta region, Nanjing has a prominent place in Chinese history and culture, having served as t

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文本: And the villagers were real neighbours,living cheek by jowl, their houses connected by walled, sometimes decoratedalleyways. It's not too much for a stretch to imagine gossip travelling downthose alleyways after a hearty seafood supper. We

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Construction of a railway tunnel under the Istanbul or Bosporus Strait in Turkey has uncovered ancient ruins older than historians believed existed. The Marmaray Project aims to upgrade about 47 miles of commuter rail that includes connecting either

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-It begins to give us some insight into how the wider landscape was used at the time that Stonehenge was developing into the monument you see today.Like many of the ceremonial shrines located by the Hidden Landscapes Project, Stonehenge also began it

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This spiritual ambition and mastery of nature could be fundamental to the creation of Stonehenge. This is clearly the best view we ever have of Stonehenge from above. You can see the other parts of the monument, things like the ditch, which run aroun

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Archaeologist S* Carson has investigated the significance of megalith to prehistoric peoples. -You can commemorate anncestors too, with a standing stone. You can also use them to show a person's change of status and that person's ability to mobilize

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This is certain increase in amount of ever people willing to put into constructing monuments. 270 kilometers away in Norfolk, evidence of prehistoric mining operation shows the extraordinary efforts the Neolithic people made to meet the demand for hi

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-Here we are at the bottom of one of the shafts. It's a lot darker than it would have been in the Neolithic, because at moment there's a modern concrete cover just to protect the archaeology. The devision that would be open to sky, so the sun would b

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This is one of the larger galleries spaces down here in the mines. A lot of them are far more restricted than this. Because the reservation is so incredible, weve still got a whole series of their antelopes peaks, the tools they were using down here

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It consists of rings of circulated ditches with gaps in them. These gaps are the causeways, terms the name of cause but enclosure. Structure like Robbinhood Ball, brought with them the Neolithic concept dividing up the land. These monuments represent

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Without the nearby Long Burrows added to the map, this is how the area looked, 6000 years ago. The arrival of the Neolithic culture from Europe, reaffirms the landscapes sacred status. Stonehenge is a unique landscape. It capsulates how early societi

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Well, how we depict out the whole thing? This monument starts to become sense. You see this full court with palace side wall and this was the place where they prepared the dead for burial. Bones from excavated Long Burrows tell us new funeral practic

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Based on similar discoveries in continental Euro, professor Noibao identified it can be a long barrel tomb, known as a long barrow. 33 meters, that's a normal length of a continental long barrow. These are really huge buildings, and they actually get

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A team of archeologists working in Jordan has made a discovery that represents a new chapter in the story of our ancestors' move from foraging to farming. The researchers unearthed an ancient granary. The round, mud hut dates back more than 11,000 y

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