CLA SITE is honored to have received not only a Merit Award in the Built Category, but also the highly coveted “Golden Gnome” Award at the 2022 Upstate New York ASLA Awards. Special thanks to the Upstate Chapter for a great event and the City of Rome and Oneida Nation for collaborating to help make this historical and cultural art plaza a public centerpiece. Also many thanks to our Team partners who helped support our vision including: Morton Archaeological Services (History), Taft Design (Art Design), Bollinger Atelier (Art Fabrication), MJ Dakota (General Contractors), Point Source Group (Lighting), Creative Edge (Granite Waterway Inlay & Lettering), Champlain Stone (Granite Seatwall), and Greenman-Pedersen Inc. (Electrical). Congratulations to All! #CLASITEdesignsthatbuild #CLASITE25years #award #teamwork #landscapearchitecture #interactiveart #history Oneida Indian Nation City of Rome, New York Ann Morton Taft Design + Associates, Inc Point Source Group, inc Creative Edge Master Shop Champlain Stone LTD GPI / Greenman-Pedersen, Inc. Bollinger Atelier
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How to Bake Ancient Roman Bread Dating Back to 79 AD: A Video Primer
Ecce panis—try your hand at the kind of loaf that Mel Brooks’ 2000-year-old man might have sunk his teeth into. Literally.
In 1930 a loaf of bread dating to AD 79 (the year Vesuvius claimed two prosperous Roman towns) was excavated from the site of a bakery in Herculaneum.
Eighty-three years later, the British Museum invited London chef Giorgio Locatelli, above, to take a stab at creating an edible facsimile for its Pompeii Live exhibition.
The assignment wasn’t as easy as he’d anticipated, the telegenic chef confesses before whipping up a lovely brown miche that appears far more mouth watering than the carbonized round found in the Herculaneum oven.
Real-life ‘Indiana Jones’ recruits you to help save the world’s antiquities
Sarah Parcak, ‘space archaeologist’ and winner of the 2016 TED Prize, announced on Tuesday her plan to create a citizen science platform, so users can help map antiquities sites in the Middle East and stop looting.
Global Xplorer sounds like a video game. Users log on, watch a quick tutorial, then receive a digital card with a satellite image of 400 to 2,500 square meters of ground. “Players” then scan for tombs and list what they find, earning score points as they go.
Neandertals may have used chemistry to start fires
Scientists know a lot about Neandertals these days, from their hair color to their mating habits. Still, a basic mystery remains: Did they know how to start a fire? Archaeologists have long known that Neandertals, like the family pictured in this artist’s representation, used fire, but they could have merely taken advantage of naturally occurring lightning strikes and forest fires to supply the flames.