3/19/23 Report - Technological Development. Hoard Discovered by Detectorist. The Trouble With Archaeology.

 

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report.

Source: See Janes link below.

Japanese heavy-industry manufacturer, IHI Corporation, has developed an unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) to detect mines. The system has been delivered to the Japan Coast Guard and will also be provided to the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF), a company official told Janes at DSEI Japan 2023 being held in Chiba from 15 to 17 March...

Here is the link.

DSEI Japan 2023: IHI develops UUV for mine detection (janes.com)

If you are not familiar with Janes, it is a decades old and trusted authoritative source of news across all defence and security subject areas.

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Part of Hoard Discovered by Detectorist.

A 800-year-old cache of gold jewelry and silver coins was discovered in northern Germany. And where there’s newly unearthed gold, there’s quite likely an amateur metal detectorist who located it. 

Nicki Andreas Steinmann was a trainee learning how to use a metal detector with an instructor when, while walking a tract of land close to Hedeby and Danewerk World Heritage Site in the state of Schleswig-Holstein, the pair stumbled upon gold artifacts and coins. Once unearthed, the hoard, as indicated by the coins found stacked upon one another, looked to have been buried all at once....

Here is the link for the rest of the story.

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/trainee-metal-detectorist-gold-silver-hoard-germany-alsh-2267848 

Thanks to William K. for the link.

I know I've posted an article on the above story before, but this is a different article on the subject.  

It is hard to find original sources these days. Stories get republished all the time without giving the original sources.  If you get information from some place and then publish it, you should tell where you got the information.

Detectorists are making a lot of the important archaeological discoveries these days.  There are a lot of detectorists covering a lot of ground, and there are a lot of discoveries just waiting to be made. It would take at least another millenium for archaeologists to make those discoveries unaided by the public.

Back in 2018 I did a post entitled "The Problem with Archaeology."  It was a response to an article entitled "The Trouble with Treasure Hunting."  My 2018 post was a personal favorite, and I think it made a real difference.  It seems to me that I see many fewer articles by professional archaeologists bashing treasure hunting these days.  Perhaps they discovered how counter-productive that was, or maybe the number of discoveries and the important contributions made by detectorists have simply become undeniably overwhelming.  In any case, it seems that archaeology's attitude toward treasure hunting has improved over the last five years or so.  Maybe they learned that it isn't a good idea to alienate the public they claim to serve.

See The Treasure Beaches Report Direct From Florida's Treasure Coast.: 2/25/18 Report - The Problem With Archaeology: The Perspective of a Supportive Citizen.

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