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MINERVA WORLD EXCLUSIVE
A New Palaeolithic Revolution |
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As featured in The Times
New evidence from remote Libya and Ethiopia pushes back the date of permanent village life by an incredible 190,000, perhaps more. At Melka Konture in Ethiopia and Budrinna in Libya, Professor Helmut Ziegert of Hamburg University has discovered stone huts and enormous clusters of tools. Is the Neolithic Revolution now surpassed by a new Lower Palaeolithic Revolution triggered by Homo Erectus?
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Image Caption: The ‘Rangki Papa’ (‘Father of all Rafts’) Photograph: Robert G. Bednarik. |
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| INRAP Uncovers Roman Nîmes |
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A ten-month programme of excavations by the French Institut National de Recherche Archeólogique Préventive (INRAP) has uncovered 6500 square metres of rich Roman dwellings with wall paintings and mosaics, fountains, and industrial quarters at Roman Nîmes. The city is best known for its splendid aqueduct bridge, the Pont du Guard, and the Maison Carrée temple, both completed by Agrippa in 19 BC.
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Photos: © Denis Gliskman, INRAP. |
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Gladiator Mosaic Vandalised
on the Appian Way, Rome |
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A 2nd-century Roman bath-house excavated in the spring at Santa Maria Nova on the Appian Way, near the Villa dei Quintilii, has turned up two remarkable mosaic floors from the caldarium and tepidarium. These focus on a racing horse called Invictus, obviously a revered horse of the age, a referee known as Antonius, and Montanus, a retiarius gladiator who holds a fighting net and trident. In April vandals destroyed the lower part of the Montanus mosaic section while attempting to steal it.
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Photo: Ufficio stampa Electa per la Soprintendenza Archeologica di Roma. |
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Greek Bronze Horse
Rides Again in Rome |
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The restoration of a rare 5th-century BC Greek bronze statue of a horse has been completed, with the statue presented to the public in May in the Capitoline Museums in Rome. The horse was found in 1849 during an excavation in Vicolo delle Palme in the Trastevere district of the capital. Scholars date the statue to between the second half of the 5th century BC and the 4th century BC, when the horse may have been made in Athens, possibly even by Lysippus.
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Photo: courtesy of Ufficio Stampa Zètema Progetto Cultura. |
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The following articles appear in the
JUL/AUG 2007
issue of MINERVA |
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| On the Authenticity of the Monteleone Chariot in the Metropolitan Museum of Art / Jerome M. Eisenberg |
|  | | A New Dawn for Humanity: Lower Palaeolithic Village Life in Libya and Ethiopia / Helmut Ziegert |
| | | The New Greek and Roman Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art / Jerome M. Eisenberg |
| | | Eros at the Roman Colosseum / Dalu Jones |
| | | Trojan Laocoon - a Universal Image / S. Feeke and J. Daehner |
| | | Merovingian Gold at the State Hermitage Museum / Aleksej Furasiev & Mark Merrony |
| | | Scandal in Rome: the Capitoline Wolf, an Etruscan or Medieval Masterwork? / Dalu Jones |
| | | Rome: an Ancient Tourist Resort / Philip Matyszak |
| | | Wall Paintings from Pompeii / Paul Wilkinson |
| | | Pisidian Antioch Revisited: an Archival Excavation / Adrian Ossi & Benjamin Rubin |
| | | The Ark of the Covenant and Enigma of the Lost Temple Cherubim / Sean Kingsley |
| | | Excavating Rome in the Renaissance / Sally Hickson |
| | | The Maya Blue Creek Project / Thomas H. Guderjan & C. Colleen Hanratty |
| | | Treasure 2004 and Portable Antiquities 2005/6 in the UK / Peter A. Clayton |
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Dr Mark Merrony
Editor
Dr James Beresford
Publisher
Myles Poulton
Managing Editor
Sophie Mackenzie
Art Director
Nick Riggall
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Georgina Read
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