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Last Week in Pleiades (4-11 July 2022)

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Last week we published 15 new place resources. In addition, 136 existing place resources were updated.
Last Week in Pleiades (4-11 July 2022)

New Place Resources

  • The so-called Arch of Caracalla at Theveste is a tetrapylon arch dating to the third century. Originally dedicated to the deified Septimius Severus with Julia Domna and Caracalla, the arch was repurposed and modified to function as a gate in the Byzantine city wall.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Tom Elliott
  • Tell in Eastern Romania with evidence of habitation in the Gumelnitean and La Tene periods.
    Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
    Contributors: Tom Elliott
  • 9th-7th centuries BCE Iron Age cemetery site near modern Eyvanki in Iran. The excavated site comprises 56 stone-lined tombs, 9 pit graves, and 1 pithos grave.
    Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
    Contributors: Tom Elliott
  • A celtiberian settlement located just south of modern Berrueco in Spain's Zaragoza province.
    Creators: Tom Elliott
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  • Iron Age cemetery site located west of modern Eyvanki in Iran.
    Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
    Contributors: Tom Elliott
  • Eneolithic and early Bronze Age burial ground in the Northwest Caucasus with about 40 mounds located 3km northwest of Tsarskaya.
    Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
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  • The Roman villa rustica of La Befa is positioned at the point where the Torrente di Crevoli joins the river Ombrone. Excavation of the site identified a northern sector and a southern sector, both with multiple architectural phases, likely beginning the later first century CE.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • Small, remote mountain peak in Tajikistan with a castle used in the 7th-8th centuries CE as a refuge by the Sogdian rulers of Panjakent. The site was the source of a major find of Sogdian documents.
    Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
    Contributors: Tom Elliott
  • A bridge over the Oued Cherchira in Tunisia.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Tom Elliott
  • A small island that is part of the Oinoussai island group, located between Chios and the Ionian peninsula. Its ancient name is unknown.
    Creators: Tom Elliott
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  • Burial ground with four mounds from the early Sarmatian period. The site is located near the modern town Prokhorovka in Orenberg Oblast, Russia.
    Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
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  • One of the largest Chalcolithic settlements in Israel located 1km east of Mizad Aluf in the northern Negev desert. The site was later occupied in the Byzantine period.
    Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
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  • Area with 17 Early Iron Age mounds located near the modern village Tarasovo and the Kama river in Russia's Udmurtia state. All mounds had settlements except Tarasov I, which was the location of a religious sanctuary and cemetery. The site has been partially destroyed by oil digging in the area.
    Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
    Contributors: Tom Elliott
  • Nubian Cemetery site along the Nile in use in the Middle Kingdom and the Second Intermediate Period. The site was inundated by the creation of the Aswan Dam.
    Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
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  • Cemetery in modern Turkey's Manisa province with remains from the Early Bronze Age. This is the typesite for the Yortan archaeological culture.
    Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
    Contributors: Tom Elliott

Modified Place Resources