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- COREE DU NORD –Pyongyang - The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) recently discovered a patrol road and a ditch for defence dating back to the Koguryo Dynasty, the official news agency KCNA reported on Thursday. According to the KCNA, the historical relics which were discovered by a research team from Kim Il Sung University were excavated on the Chongam-Dong Earthen Walls in Taesong District, Pyongyang. The walls served as ones for defending Pyongyang, the capital of Ancient Korea. The road found outside the walls, paved with flat stones, is 1.8 meters wide and 20 meters long. This road was confirmed to be used for patrolling the walls in the period of the Koguryo Dynasty, said the report. Similar roads have been discovered sometimes inside the walls, but never outside the walls in Korea so far, the report added. The ditch, which is 4 meters in width and 1.5 meters in depth, was believed to be used for preventing aggression by outsiders.
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- FRANCE – Chablais - On se souvient des fouilles au Genevray en 2004 qui avaient permis la mise au jour de la plus vaste nécropole du néolithique moyen (vers 4 000 avant JC) découverte en France. La semaine dernière, deux membres de l'Inrap (institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives) ont procédé à un diagnostic sur le vaste terrain qui accueillera la future caserne des pompiers. Cette opération a consisté à faire décaper le terrain sous forme de nombreuses tranchées parallèles et à fouiller les points archéologiques décelés, puis à effectuer les relevés nécessaires. Cette intervention a donné lieu à la découverte entre autres vestiges, d'un squelette inhumé en pleine terre au milieu d'un champ, des foyers ainsi que des traces d'une occupation de l'époque romaine révélée par des fragments de tuiles à rebords caractéristiques de cette période. D'autres découvertes sont à prévoir !
http://www.ledauphine.com/haute-savoie/2011/02/10/un-squelette-decouvert-au-genevray
- FRANCE – Grotte Chauvet - Choisi il y a maintenant deux ans, le site du Razal devrait accueillir d'ici 2014 le futur espace de restitution de la Grotte Chauvet. Etape obligatoire du projet, préalable au chantier de construction de ce lieu à vocation touristique, un diagnostic archéologique est en train d’être réalisé. Ces sondages portent essentiellement sur 10 % de la surface des futurs aménagements (qui s’étend sur 14 295 m2.) Ils ont permis à ce jour de révéler deux faits archéologiques reconnus : l’existence, en bordure de la future zone de restitution, d’un aven ancien comblé qui contient de la faune très ancienne sans lien avec une occupation humaine et en bordure d’une voie d’accès au futur espace de restitution, un four à chaux dont la datation est à ce jour inconnue. Deux découvertes qu’il n’est pas exclu de mettre en valeur à l’attention du public.
http://www.ledauphine.com/ardeche/2011/02/10/decouverte-d-un-four-a-chaux-et-d-un-aven-ancien-comble
- USA – Brooklyn - The Gowanus Canal is filthy — filthy with a rare archeological trove, that is. Environmental Protection Agency sonar readings have revealed several sunken vessels — including the 60-foot -long hull of a wooden vessel near Fifth Street that may date back to its glory days as an industrial highway of the 17th century. Sonar images also show the hull of a 126-foot-long barge, a 110-foot-long barge, a small boat, debris, tires, and a “mysterious U-shaped object between the Union and Carroll Street bridges,” according to EPA documents. No human remains have yet to be discovered.
http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/34/6/dtg_gowanusship_2011_2_11_bk.html
- USA – Sapelo Island - A team of volunteer and professional archaeologists have discovered the site of the original lightkeeper's house on Georgia's Sapelo Island. The structure housed generations of lightkeepers and their families starting in 1820 until its collapse in a hurricane in 1898. Since the collapse of the ruins, probably in the early 1900s, its location had been lost. Several inches into the sand, they discovered the foundations of the house, as well as a scatter of artifacts including glass from the lighthouse windows, which were blown out by the storm. Built in 1820, the lighthouse was in service until 1905 when it was deactivated. Sapelo Island, situated about sixty miles south of Savannah, lies in the center of coastal Georgia's chain of barrier islands.
http://www.gpb.org/news/2011/02/09/lighthouse-home-discovered-on-sapelo-island