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Last Week in Pleiades (20-27 February 2023)

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Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 13 new place resources and approved updates to 252 existing place resources.
Last Week in Pleiades (20-27 February 2023)

New Place Resources

  • The so-called Clausura Bir Oum Ali is part of a defensive barrier that formed part of the Limes Numidiae of the ancient Roman empire. This system of military outposts and fortifications closed off the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis to the south.
    Creators: Stanisław Ludwiński
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Tom Elliott
  • Early Minoan cemetery located in Gournes, Crete, containing 37 tombs. The site was largely destroyed by the installation of irrigation pipes and the building of the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research and its associated parking lot.
    Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
    Contributors: Tom Elliott
  • An ancient fortified site known as either Koyuk Shahri or Kuiyukexiehai'er that is located in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of north-western China preserves evidence of urban occupation in the Tarim Basin during the first millennium BCE. The site consists of a walled area of some 60,000 m² with an artificial mound at the center of the walled space.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • A Roman tomb located in the archaeological area of Casinum that dates to either the first or second centuries CE.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • Located to the east of the medieval tower at Oinoe are the remains of a rectangular peristylar building measuring approximately 13.60 x 17.30 meters. The peristyle used marble columns set atop marble pilasters. Spyridon Marinatos discovered the site in 1972.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • Minoan palatial settlement located on a hill 1.5km from Seteia, Crete.
    Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
    Contributors: Gabriel Mckee; Tom Elliott
  • A Roman bridge located near Narni, Italy.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • A hilltop fortified site southwest of modern Biosca in Catalonia, Spain. The site exhibits architecture and pottery indicating its function as a Roman military castellum during the second century BCE.
    Creators: Tom Elliott
    Contributors:
  • Site of a 2nd millennium BCE tomb located in Qidfaʻ, Fujairah Emirate, United Arab Emirates. The site was damaged by farming in the area.
    Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
    Contributors:
  • Spetisbury Rings, also known as Crawford Castle, is a hillfort with Pre-Roman Iron Age earthen embankment fortifications located in north Dorset, England, near the River Stour. Tradition holds that invading Romans razed this indigenous stronghold in the first century CE.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • Citadel on the modern banks of Lake Assad in Syria located near the Emar site and containing remains dated to the late Bronze Age.
    Creators: Gabriel Mckee
    Contributors:
  • A temporary Roman camp of the first century CE located northwest of the Tomen-y-Mur Roman fort.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors:
  • An island comprising the southern portion of the Akrotiri peninsula, separated by ocean from the southern coast of Cyprus beginning ca. 6000 BP until early modern times. Remains of the sea channel are now represented by the land-locked Limassol Salt Lake. The extent of the island corresponded roughly to the modern town of Akrotiri and the air base.
    Creators: Tom Elliott
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Modified Place Resources