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Encuentran tesoro de la Edad de Bronce al sur de InglaterraLa mayor concentración de hachas de la Edad de Bronce fue hallada esta semana por un conductor de ómnibus en el condado de Dorset, en el sur de Inglaterra. El conductor Tom Pierce, que esperaba fuera del vehículo a que regresara un grupo de niños de una fiesta en una granja inglesa, pidió al dueño del establecimiento agrícola prestarle un detector de metales para investigar el lugar. En pocos minutos, el hombre de 60 años detectó una concentración de metales en el lugar y halló la serie de hechas de la Edad de Bronce. Fuente: ANSA, Londres. 22 de enero de 2008
An amateur treasure hunter has unearthed a hoard of bronze age axe heads thought to be worth about £80,000. Tom Peirce started combing a field with his metal detector after dropping off a school coach party at a farm. Within a few minutes it began beeping and he found the first axe head fragment 10in into the soil. When he dug deeper, Mr Peirce found dozens more and, over the following two days, he and a colleague, Les Keith, uncovered nearly 500 bronze artefacts dating back 3,000 years. The find prompted a Time Team-style search of the area at the farm near Swanage, Dorset, by archaeologists. The hoard, which included 268 complete axe heads, is one of the biggest of its kind in Britain. Mr Peirce, of Ringwood, Hants, said: "We are extremely thrilled because this was a once-in-a-lifetime find. It's like winning the lottery - you don't think it is going to happen to you. You do it as a hobby, you don't do it for the money but if you strike it lucky, so be it." It is believed the axe heads were manufactured at a nearby Bronze Age settlement. Archaeologists think the hoard may have been buried as an offering to the gods. Mr Peirce, 60, will have to split any proceeds with the landowner, Alfie O'Connell. Mr O'Connell, 62, who has owned the farm for four years, said: "Within about half an hour of Tom searching, he came rushing over to me looking shocked. During the war a plane crashed in the same field and for a minute I thought he'd found a bomb. "We went back up there on my tractor and saw the axe heads. I didn't have a clue what they were, I thought it was scrap metal at first." The axe heads are 4in long and 2in wide and are being assessed by the British Museum, which may buy them. The coroner for Bournemouth, Poole and East Dorset has been informed of the find and will hold an inquest at which it is expected they will be declared treasure. At that point, landowner and finder receive a reward to the sum of the market value. Dr Andrew Fitzpatrick, of Wessex Archaeology, said: "It is one of the largest and important finds of its kind because of the size of it and the condition they were in." 22/01/2008 17:02 Enlace permanente. Tema: Prehistoria. Comentarios » Ir a formulario
Me parece una buena manera de fomentar el furtivismo con detectores de metales. Esta idea de "buscar tesoros" para que luego el estado los pague debería estar penada, porque pasa de esta manera que al extraer los datos sin metodología arqueológica se pierde gran parte de la información (siempre y cuando que "el tesoro" se entregue a las autoridades y no se use para hacer negocios por otra vía, donde, se perdería toda la información, que es lo que pasa normalmente). Fecha: 07/02/2008 10:07.
Creo que ni una cosa ni otra. Creo que estos detectoristas deberían haber declarado el hayazgo para que la excavación la realizaran arqueólogos profesionales y luego un juez determine si el estado quiere comprarlo y pague el valor que considere a los que lo encontraron. Fecha: 21/02/2008 08:42. |
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EnlacesNoticias de Arqueología Medieval. Universidad de Granada |
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Los nombres de los 20 días del mes en nahuatl son los siguientes: cipactli, ehécatl, calli, cuetzpallin, coatl, miquiztli, mazatl, tochtli, atl, itzcuintl, ozomatli, malinalli, acatl, ocelotl, cuauhtli, cozcauauhtli, ollin, tecpatl, quiauitl, xochitl. Foto de la derecha: "Piedra del Sol", Museo Nacional de México |
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Los 18 meses del calendario solar de 365 días, recibían los siguientes nombres: atlcahualo, tlacaxipehualiztli, tozoztontli, hueytozoztli, txcatl, etzalcualiztli, tecuilhuitontli, hueytecuilthuitli, tlaxochimaco, hueymiccailhuitl, ochpaniztli, pachtontli, hueypachtli, quecholli, panquetzaliztli, atemoztli, tititl, izcalli y nemontemi. |