Treasure Coins: Ancient Gold Coins Recovered From Shipwrecks
Dokos Shipwreck, the oldest in the world, was discovered by the father of underwater archaeology,
Peter Throckmorton, after almost four thousand years on August 23, 1975. A simple pile of ceramics and stone anchors and other stone items devoid of all biodegradable organic material, this wreck, unfortunately, contains no coins for one simple reason: the wooden vessel sank beneath the waves almost 2,000 years before the first coins were struck from electrum in
Lydia.
Since then,
UNESCO estimates that over three million other vessels have joined the Dokos shipwreck at the bottom of the ocean. Today, approximately 85% of all trade is transported by ship, and this percentage was greater in the ancient world. Ancient shipwrecks were mainly filled with amphora, “the cargo containers of the B.C. world” (Villano). These vessels, however, carried both physical and cultural goods, and it is possible to trace not only trade
The Saddledome in Calgary: could it be the temporary home of the Canucks in 2021?Jeff McIntosh / CP
The 2020-21 NHL season is officially happening, so hockey fans can rejoice and cry out, “O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
There’s just one hitch: the Vancouver Canucks still don’t know where they’ll be playing. The NHL continues to negotiate with provincial health authorities across Canada, but it appears the last holdout is Dr. Bonnie Henry and the province of British Columbia. While other provinces seem satisfied with the NHL’s plan, B.C. is not on board with allowing teams to travel into the province.
Maria Sause: growing up in Chile and then San Francisco grafted her life toward socialism
by Paul Haeder / December 12th, 2020
Before heading over to interview this subject, I was thinking of a possible epigraph for the piece. One from a Chilean:
Discovery is not seeing what there is (that is impossible at any level), but rather allowing oneself to converge towards a continually freshly-created reality.
― Chilean economist, Manfred Max-Neef,
Then I thought –
Why not a female Chilean poet?
Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world. Gabriela Mistral
Maria In Newport