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Feng shui

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:32:19 GMT

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Feng shui

Feng shui (traditional Chinese: 風水; simplified Chinese: 风水; pinyin: fēng shuǐ; pronounced /ˌfʌŋˈʃweɪ/ fung-shway or sometimes /ˌfʌŋˈʃwiː/ fung-shwee in English) is an ancient Chinese practice believed to utilize the Laws of both heaven (astronomy) and earth (geography) to help one improve life by receiving positive Qi. ^[1] The original designation for the discipline is Kan Yu (traditional Chinese: 堪輿; simplified Chinese: 堪舆; pinyin: kānyú; literally: heaven and earth)^[2].

Qi (ch'i)

Foundation theories

Polarity

Bagua (eight symbols)

A feng shui spiral at LA Chinatown's Metro station.

1 Archaeology
2 Early Instruments and Techniques
3 Foundation theories
4 Modern developments
- 4.1 Feng Shui compasses and geomagnetism
5 Criticism
6 Current research
7 References
8 Further reading
- 8.1 Academic Works
- 8.2 New Age Variants
9 See also

Moldy cave art prompts debate about access

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:27:13 GMT

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Lascaux drawings have survived 17,000 years, but now face a new threat

The regal black bull painted by a Stone Age artist on a cave wall in southwestern France 17,000 years ago has survived millennia of war and pestilence just a few yards above its subterranean gallery.

Today the prehistoric bovine could face annihilation by an army of encroaching black mold spots, the latest in a series of threats unwittingly brought in over the years by tourists, scientists and bureaucrats.

The extraordinary creatures hundreds of exquisite beasts etched and painted across the undulating walls and ceilings of large underground cavities — have become part of an international struggle to rescue prehistoric artifacts from the missteps of modern man.

Like many historic sites, Lascaux quickly became a victim of its fame. The caves were besieged by hordes of tourists whose breath raised levels of damaging carbon dioxide, and by killer fungus, microbes and black spots.

Tags: history, ancient, drawings, art, cave, archaeology

Grisly Human Sacrifice Revealed at Syria Dig

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:59:07 GMT

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Around 2300 B.C., an acrobat was killed during a bizarre sacrificial ceremony in what is now northeastern Syria, according to a new study published in the current issue of the journal Antiquity

Gory evidence of the entertainer's death -- along with the remains of several rare horse-like animals which appear to have been sacrificed as well -- was found in the remains of a building at a site called Tell Brak, which was once the ancient city of Nagar. The findings suggest some ancient cultures may have sacrificed well-known public figures, as well as animals of great personal and monetary worth.

Joan Oates, lead author of the paper, and her colleagues were struck by the arrangement of three human bodies in the reception and main office portion of the ancient building. They describe the skeletal layout as "unusual, indeed strange."

Tags: syria, archaeology, culture

Digging up the forgotten past of ordinary Egyptian folk

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:10:40 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Archaeologists have long fixed their sights on the grandeur that was ancient Egypt, the pyramids, temples and tombs. Few bothered to dig beneath and beyond the monumental stones for glimpses into the living and working spaces of ordinary Egyptians.

That is changing slowly but steadily. In the last two or three decades, excavations have uncovered urban remains and swept aside the conventional wisdom that the Egypt of the pharaohs, in contrast to Mesopotamia, was somehow a civilization without cities.

We can now confirm that this was not the case,

discovery of a large administration building and seven grain silos buried at the site of an ancient provincial capital on the Upper Nile

This is a really amazing site, at the cutting-edge of recent Egypt archaeology

Digging into towns, you get the full range of life, not the very narrow view of society as seen from the top, from the rich and elite

Where there are temples

they were surrounded by towns which have usually been overlooked

Archaeologists Recreate Aztec 'Whistles of Death'

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:02:55 GMT

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Scientists were fascinated by the ghostly find: a human skeleton buried in an Aztec temple with a clay, skull-shaped whistle in each bony hand.

But no one blew into the noisemakers for nearly 15 years.

When someone finally did, the shrill, windy screech made the spine tingle.

If death had a sound, this was it.

Roberto Velazquez believes the Aztecs played this mournful wail from the so-called Whistles of Death before they were sacrificed to the gods.

The 66-year-old mechanical engineer has devoted his career to recreating the sounds of his pre-Columbian ancestors, producing hundreds of replicas of whistles, flutes and wind instruments unearthed in Mexico's ruins.

Tags: history, archaeology, culture, mexico, aztec, death

Vikings as traders and raiders

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:56:44 GMT

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A replica Viking vessel plying the North Sea this month is part of an effort to learn more about what the Norsemen were really up to

It was August 6, 2007, and the Sea Stallion's crew of 63 had been underway for five weeks, sailing from Denmark to Dublin on a voyage that would culminate 35 years' research—"the best living-archaeology experiment ever conducted anywhere," Pat Wallace, director of the National Museum of Ireland, calls it.

Their findings will follow a host of discoveries in recent years by historians, archaeologists and even biologists that have led to a new understanding of the Vikings as a people who were as adept at trading as they were at raiding.

Viking raiders traveled thousands of miles to the east and south: across the Baltic, onto the rivers of modern-day Russia and across the Black Sea to menace Constantinople in 941

These adventurers also wove a network of trade and exploration that stretched from Russia to Turkey to Canada,

Criminal Charges Filed in Ohio-Kentucky Historic Rock Dispute

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 17:50:51 GMT

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A Kentucky grand jury indicted Steve Shaffer on Thursday for leading efforts to pull an 8-ton boulder known as Indian Head Rock from the Ohio River.

The indictment accuses Shaffer of breaking Kentucky law by removing a protected archaeological object, a felony. He could face one to five years in prison if convicted.

"I'm really surprised," Shaffer said. "It's not about historic preservation, we all know that. It's about revenge."

The rock's removal triggered a dispute between Shaffer and elected officials in Kentucky who insist it belongs in their state. Shaffer says he saved it from being damaged or lost forever. It now sits in a city garage in Portsmouth, Ohio.

The rock was once a navigation marker and an attraction for locals who ventured out to carve their names into it, but it hadn't been seen since the 1920s.

It remained mostly submerged until September, when Shaffer led the crew that pulled it from the river, which forms a border between Ohio and Kentucky.

Tags: preservation, archaeology

Free Online Courses from Great Universities

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:04:48 GMT

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Free Online Courses from Great Universities

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Archaeology

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Sciences

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The Future of the Internet - iTunes - Ramesh Johari, Stanford

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Sacsayhuaman walls - Cusco

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:39:41 GMT

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clipper's remarks: There are no other walls like these. They are different from Stonehenge, different from the Pyramids of the Egyptians and the Maya, different from any of the other ancient monolithic stone-works. The stones fit so perfectly that no blade of grass or steel can slide between them. There is no mortar. They often join in complex and irregular surfaces that would appear to be a nightmare for the stonemason. Scientists speculate that the masonry process might have worked like this: after carving the desired shape out of the first boulder and fitting it in place, the masons would somehow suspend the second boulder on scaffolding next to the first one. They would then have to trace out a pattern on the second boulder in order to plan the appropriate jigsaw shape that would fit the two together. In order to make a precise copy of the first boulder's edges, the masons might have used a straight stick with a hanging plum- bob to trace its edges and mark off exact points for carving on the second

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The outline of the fortress walls is supposedly shaped in the form of a puma (cougar or jaguar). There are even marks on some of the rocks delineating its paws or claws.

Captured at Sacsayhuaman fortress just outside of Cusco, Peru. The Inca walls are made up of extra large boulders quarried nearby. The rocks weigh 90-125 tons. When first built it was impossible to access unless one went through the only three doors into the complex.

Tags: archaeology, photography

South Carolina: Archaeologists unearth ancient tools

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:20:04 GMT

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Archaeologists unearth ancient tools in South Carolina

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A local man has unearthed two ancient stone tools in an archaeological dig in Allendale County, South Carolina, a rare find that could provide more information about how early Americans lived.

And if more evidence proves the artefact is a new type of tool and one archaeologist haven't found before, it could be named after Matthew Carey of Hilton Head Island.

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The 22-year old, University of South Carolina anthropology major volunteered at the Topper Site where USC archaeologist Albert Goodyear has been excavating for 10 years. Carey found the tools on June 8, the last day of the 2008 dig.

Though it's Goodyear's project, new finds are typically named after their discoverers.

The new find could show it was also a site used by the Taylor people, who lived at least 1,500 years after their Clovis ancestors in an era called the early archaic period.

Goodyear believes the site was a factory for the Clovis people, where they came to make tools.

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Tags: usa, archaeology, history

"Amazing" Dinosaur Trove Discovered in Utah

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:45:27 GMT

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Crowded with dinosaurs, petrified trees, and other prehistoric treasures, an ancient riverbed in Utah is surprising scientists.

The discovery sheds new light on a Jurassic landscape dominated by dinosaur giants that lived 145 to 150 million years ago (prehistoric time line).

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The specimen is one of a "logjam" of fossils—including two meat-eating dinosaurs, a probable Stegosaurus, and four sauropods—found recently at a dig in Utah.

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In just three weeks of work on federal land near Hanksville, Utah, paleontologists say they unearthed at least two meat-eating dinosaurs, a probable Stegosaurus, and four sauropods—long necked, long-tailed plant-eaters that could reach 130 feet (40 meters) long, making them the largest animals ever to have walked the Earth.

"So far [the paleontologists] have found not only scattered bones but partial and complete skeletons. It's really amazing,"

Tags: dinosaurs, utah, united states, archaeology

The WWW Virtual Library

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 02:37:45 GMT

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The WWW Virtual Library

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Tags: the www virtual library, knowledge

Researchers Resurrect Extinct Judean Date Palm Tree from 2,000-Year-Old Seed

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:31:13 GMT

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Researchers Resurrect Extinct Judean Date Palm Tree from 2,000-Year-Old Seed (6/13/2008)

In the foreboding, cliff-side fortress of Masada some 2,000 years ago, Jewish Zealots savored sweet dates from Judean palm trees, gazed at the Dead Sea, and perhaps spit seeds onto the palace floor.

Later, Roman forces would storm Masada, triggering mass suicides by the barricaded Zealots. For centuries, the fruit seeds remained buried beneath the fallen citadel, once the luxurious palace of King Herod.

Now researchers led by Dr. Sarah Sallon of Jerusalem's Louis L. Borick Natural Medicine Research Center, part of the Hadassah Medical Organization have brought an extinct date palm back to life by resurrecting the oldest seed ever. They call it Methuselah, and they describe their carbon-dating and genetic-analysis efforts in the 13 June 2008 issue of the journal Science.

Tags: archaeology

Women at the Augustan Isolympic Games

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:13:17 GMT

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Clip Source: www.archaeology.org

For games that were so significant in the classical world, we know very little about the Sebasta, despite the list of regulations from the inscription found at Olympia. But the new-found texts might add valuable insights. There are already some initial results, and the panels, a catalogue of the names and hometowns of the winners, have given archaeologists two surprises. "First, we did not know that so many of the athletes were from Asia Minor, which may tell us something about the makeup of the city in the first and second centuries A.D.," says Beatrice Roncella. The second major surprise, she notes, was that "contrary to our beliefs, women were winning prizes on equal footing with men," noting especially one Thalassia, a female competitor from Ephesus in modern-day Turkey. Before now, it was known only that there was a race for daughters of magistrates at the Sebasta.

Tags: archaeology, history, ancient rome, rome, naples, neapolis, isolypic games

Arab Scholar Claims 'Star of David Stolen from Muslims'

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:49:23 GMT

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Clip Source: www.israelnationalnews.com

(IsraelNN.com) According to reports in the Asharq al-Awsat daily newspaper, an Egyptian scholar, Dr. Abd-al-Rahman Reihan, claims that archaeological evidence in Dahab in the Sinai Peninsula shows that the Star of David, traditionally thought to be a Jewish symbol, is actually Muslim. Reihan claims that several incidences of the Star of David occur as a decoration in Muslim archaeological sites across the Sinai during the Fatimid/early Crusader period (969-1187).

Reihan has previously claimed that the menorah (another traditional Jewish symbol) is in fact a Roman invention from the times of the Emperor Titus.

Jewish scholars have dated the earliest archaeogical evidence to a figure named Yeshayahu ben Asayahu in early 7th century from the city of Sidon, in modern-day Lebanon.

Tags: egypt, archaeology

Clipmarks | Archaeology Clips

Feng shui

Feng shui

Qi (ch'i)

Foundation theories

Polarity

Bagua (eight symbols)

Contents

Moldy cave art prompts debate about access

Lascaux drawings have survived 17,000 years, but now face a new threat

Grisly Human Sacrifice Revealed at Syria Dig

Digging up the forgotten past of ordinary Egyptian folk

Archaeologists Recreate Aztec 'Whistles of Death'

Vikings as traders and raiders

Criminal Charges Filed in Ohio-Kentucky Historic Rock Dispute

Free Online Courses from Great Universities

Free Online Courses from Great Universities

Sacsayhuaman walls - Cusco

South Carolina: Archaeologists unearth ancient tools

Archaeologists unearth ancient tools in South Carolina

"Amazing" Dinosaur Trove Discovered in Utah

The WWW Virtual Library

The WWW Virtual Library

Researchers Resurrect Extinct Judean Date Palm Tree from 2,000-Year-Old Seed

Researchers Resurrect Extinct Judean Date Palm Tree from 2,000-Year-Old Seed (6/13/2008)

Women at the Augustan Isolympic Games

Arab Scholar Claims 'Star of David Stolen from Muslims'