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Last Week in Pleiades (6-13 November 2023)

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Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 15 new and 236 updated place resources, reflecting work by Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies, Greta Hawes, Carolin Johansson, Brady Kiesling, Mark Krier, Gabriel McKee, D.T. Potts, Rune Rattenborg, Rosemary Selth, R. Scott Smith, and R. Talbert.
Last Week in Pleiades (6-13 November 2023)

A map of Europe, northern Africa, and Asia, centered on the southeast corner of the Caspian Sea. Orange "plus sign" icons indicate updated place resources and bright pink dots indicate new place resources.

New Place Resources

  • Find place for cuneiform inscription, possibly ancient KI.KAL.
    Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
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  • The ancient theater of Maroneia was constructed in the Hellenistic period and later remodeled in the Roman period.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • Walled city established as the capital city of the Khmer Empire during the late 12th century CE by Jayavarman VII. The city was abandoned by 1609.
    Creators: Gabriel Mckee
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
  • A Romano-British villa with an octagonal bathhouse was documented at Bax Farm.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • A temple in the Khmer capital of Angkor Thom, constructed in the late 12th or early 13th century CE.
    Creators: Gabriel Mckee
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  • A karstic cave located near Porto Badisco in southern Apulia, Italy, the so-called Grotta dei Cervi was first discovered in 1970. The cave system, although not completely documented, contains a wealth of parietal art and pictograms dating to the late Neolithic and Eneolithic periods, ca. 6000 to 5000 years BP.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • In the Grotta delle Veneri, human occupation can be documented from the Mousterian Age until the Neolithic and Bronze Ages.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • Grotta Romanelli (Lecce, Southern Italy) is a karstic cave in a coastal position that was occupied by humans beginning in the Middle Pleistocene period.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • The ancient theater at Magarsus.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • A pre-Aksumite and Aksumite settlement located in what is now southern Eritrea, possibly to be identified as the Koloe mentioned in a Roman imperial source. Qohaito has been submitted by Eritrea for consideration as a UNESCO World Heritage site.
    Creators: Tom Elliott
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker; Mark Krier; Sean Gillies; D.T. Potts; R. Talbert
  • Find place for cuneiform inscription.
    Creators: Carolin Johansson; Rune Rattenborg
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  • A Roman auxiliary fort was identified via cropmarks in Kellington, Selby, England, United Kingdom.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • The Roman Bath House, Castleford, consists of the now-buried archaeological remains of a Roman military bath house that was built in the mid to late AD 80s. The site was excavated in 1978. The ancient bath was situated within the site of a former defensible annex that was constructed to the north of Castleford Roman fort.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • Khmer temple at Angkor constructed in 1186 CE under Jayavarman VII.
    Creators: Gabriel Mckee
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  • The ancient theater of Tios.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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