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Last Week in Pleiades (18-25 September 2023)

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Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 8 new place resources and approved updates to 171 existing place resources. Work by Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Tom Elliott, Greta Hawes, Carolin Johansson, Brady Kiesling, Rosemary Selth, and R. Scott Smith

New Place Resources

  • The so-called Antikythera shipwreck dates to the second quarter of the first century BCE. Sponge divers discovered the shipwreck near Point Glyphadia on the Greek island of Antikythera in 1900. The wreck has produced numerous artifacts, including an object known commonly as the Antikythera mechanism.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott
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  • A section of the ancient city wall of Salamis, dating to the fourth century BCE, has been excavated protruding from the north shore of Ampelaki Bay, where it was partly built into an early modern jettty.
    Creators: Tom Elliott
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  • An ancient temple complex of the Khmer Empire, Koh Ker is also known as Lingapura or Chok Gargyar. The site is located in the Srayong commune of Preah, Vihear province's Kulen district. The site was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage site in September 2023 and covers some 1,187 ha.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • Through a series of survey and rescue excavations, the modern lignite mines just west of modern Megalopolis (and southwest of the ancient site of Megalopolis) in the Peloponnese have produced important evidence for ice age activity, especially at (but not limited to) a Lower Paeleolithic site known as Marathoussa 1.
    Creators: Tom Elliott
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  • The Roman amphitheater of Meninx.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • A temple of the Doric order that was built at Akragas ca. 450 BCE.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • Thermi, Lesbos, was a Bronze Age port-cum-settlement that flourished during the third millennium BCE.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • Trestina, located in the Val di Chiana of Umbria, was the site of the accidental discovery in 1878 of important Orientalizing-period bronzes.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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Modified Place Resources