In archaeology news:
A group in Kure, Japan is planning to salvage artifacts from the sunken Battleship Yamato. The ship, at 65,000 tons one of the largest of its class, sank in 1945.
Via Asahi.com:
Kazushige Todaka, chief of the Kure Maritime Museum, more commonly known as the Yamato Museum because it has a replica of the battleship on display, is among the members. The city of Kure is joining the project as an observer.
The panel said an executive committee will be formed in April to start the drive to raise funds, which it estimates will run into billions of yen.
The Yamato lies about 350 meters below the surface, some 200 kilometers west of Cape Bonomisaki in southern Kagoshima Prefecture.
Panel members said they hope to at least raise the 2,780-ton main guns and the front portion of the hull, which they say bear distinctive Yamato characteristics.
In other news, Chinese researchers are continuing to make headway in their efforts to uncover the roots of human civilization in the Yellow River basin.
Via The People’s Daily:
Archaeologists have unearthed the earliest man-made cave houses and privately-owned pottery workshops in China which date back 5,500 years.
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