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While we have remained quarterly, we have failed "catch up" THE The Cpllection and Sale of BC Artifacts ........................................... 5 MIDDEN to where is should be. · Patricia Omerod, President ASBC What we need to catch up is more · articles. While our contributing editors are Barkerville: Just the Tip of the Iceberg? ................... ........................ 6 dutifully sending in news, reviews and Julie Cowie permits, we receive few article submissions and )jttle feedback from the "Probably From Saanich" ............ .................................................... 8 readership. We need those two things. we· Don Welsh need content to pub)jsh and we need to hear from you. Hilary Stewart Art & Archaeology Competion ................................ 20 Consider this a call for submissions : Have a short paper on Archaeology? An antecdote about excavating? An opinion about the state of cultural heritage preservation in BC? A comment on THE MIDDEN and its role in theASBC? Archaeology News .......................................................................... 2 We want to hear from you. Recent Publications ........................................................................ 4 Jack Fletcher Permits Issued by the Archaeology & Registry Service Branch .... 11 The Midden@ shaw.ca THE MIDDEN Subscriptions Subscriptions to THE MIDDEN are included with ASBC memberships. For non-members in Canada subscriptions are available at $14.50 per year-$17.00 for addresses outside Canada. Cover Single copies of most previous issues are available at $5.00 each. Seated figure bow/from BC. Subscription forms and membership Don Welsh tracks it confused history in "Probably from Saanich " application forms are available on our Web site at asbc.bc.ca The Midden 35#3 1 Science Wins Ancient Bones twenty thousand men, is recorded in the Excavation Aswan Egypt Battle historical writings of Herodotus. An ancient administrative city of A US appeals court has given Discovered off the country's Northwest "Alphanteen" island, in Aswan Egypt, permission to scientists to study a 9,000- coast, near Mount Athos, the armada that dates back to late 4th Dynasty a!'d year-old skeleton, despite the objections originally sunk above the rocks and is early 5th Dynasty about 3500 years ago of some Native American tribes. The now buried in sediment. Further search has been unearthed, said Farouk Hosni bones were found by two teenagers near expeditions are planned for this summer. Minister of Culture. The Eg~ptian ­ Kennewick, Washington, in 1996. Native German joint mission found square Americans want to bury what they call Ancient Writing in South chambers with different sizes that the remains of a distant relative, but America housed the prints of the sealing·s used scientists say the unusual features of An ancient rock covered in carved in the official bodies in the city. The the skeleton need further study. Appeal symbols has been discovered in a South mission also found a part of a door with judges ruled it was impossible to American jungle by an archaeologist inscriptions indicating one of Thebes establish a relationship between the from Cornwall. Julien Chenoweth, from senior officials named "Horus" and Indian tribes and "Kennewick Man". St Mawes, said a date test showed the dated back to early lst Century, said Dr. carvings were as old as ancient Zahi Hawas the Secretary General of the Bonney Lake Skystone Egyptian hieroglyphs. The rock was Supreme Council of Antiquities. The large, flat-topped stone, discovered by Mr Chenoweth after he apparently used by forebears of the led an expedition through the Darian Mission Era Murals Puyallup Indians.to track constellations area of the Panama jungle, with a party Rediscovered and the seasons, once sat in a tolling which also included medic Jo Lloyd­ Two young men, one an artist, the meadow surrounded by woods near King, from Cambome. other an archaeologist, crawled over the Bonney Lake. Now progress has caught The thirty tonne stone, which dates ancient redwood beams of San up with Skystone, as it was dubbed by back to 3,000 BC, is believed to have Francisco's Mission Dolores earlier this the experts who determined its function. been a ceremonial place or a boundary month, opened a trap door, lowered an It's on the edge of a 46-home marker for a tribe's territory. A previous electric light into a space behind the development called Naches Terrace, now archaeologist bad been told about the main altar - and stared into the 18th under construction. Soon it will be part sacred stone by a native Indian, but until century. There, in a space thick with the of a new community. now attempts to locate it had failed. dust of centuries and dark as a tomb, is The city has already required the a wall of nearly forgotten religious Naches Terrace home developer to build Indian 7th Century Townsite murals, painted in red, black and yellow a gated fence around the parallelogram­ The Archaeological Survey of India by Native Americans in 1791 and hidden shaped stone, which is 41 1/2 feet high has stumbled upon an ancient from public view for 208 years. The two and about 12 feet across. It was likely residential complex near the Buddhist have rediscovered the old murals, have deposited in the meadow by a glacier. structures in the tiny town of Sirpur, on taken digital photographs of them, and the banks of the Mabanadi. are projecting the images on the inside Ancient Persian Fleet The ASI took up restoration of the of the dome of the modern Mission Discovered excavated 7th century township three Dolores Basilica next door for all to see. Canadians help to uncover relics from months ago but now, it has, in its own an ancient disaster that was a major words, struck upon a "goldmine of Teotihuacan Ruins near turning point in world history and saved archaeological remains". For the first Chapultapec Greece &t the dawn of Western time, the excavations carried out at a site Archaeologists say they have civilization. A Canadian scientific near previously di scovered Lord Rama's discovered an ancient Teotihuacan expedition appears to have discovered twin temple has exposed a residential settlement in central Mexico City, 30 the site of the massive Persian invasion complex. Sirpur was the centre of power miles from the pyramids where the fleet, that sunk in a fie"rce storm in 492 through the Surabhpuriyas and culture flourished nearly 2,000 years ago. BC. The destruction of the ill-fated fleet Panduvamsi periods. The discovery of structures and tools of nearly two hundred ships and over on a hill just behind the landmark 2 The Midden 35#3 Chapultepec Castle in December Pillinger, who named his Red-Planet craft detect muons, sub-atomic particles left suggests the Teotihuacan culture spread Beagle 2 after its 200-year-old over when cosmic rays hit Earth . The and influenced the area around Mexico predecessor. Sophisticated radar particles pass through solid objects, City even earlier than previously technology was used to detect signs of leaving tiny traces which the detector thought. The ancient city of wood and metal that may belong to the will measure, like an X-ray machine, in a Teotihuacan lies north of modern bottom ofHMS Beagle, on which Darwin search for burial chambers inside the Mexico City.