archaeology – SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR)

The Secret Garden - 4 Fosters Lane - London!

UK: Visiting St Vedast-Alias-Foster Church Courtyard! (15.8.2026)

15/08/2026 Adrian (釋大道)

This is why some of us can still speak the old language of “Gaelic” or Gallic”. We win in the end by absorbing all these foreigners and turning them into Celts. Every invader has lost their distinctiveness over time and became “us”. Just as I am a Hakka-Celt – my Chinese family Celtic Hakka! We are explorers who like finding old and unusual things. Well, today we discovered the remarkable Courtyard of St Vedast-Alias-Foster (this French Saint was born c, 453 CE – but the church was built in the 12th century by Flemish migrants – possibly on the site of older Celtic churches) – the address being: 4 Foster Lane, London EC2V 6HH. It was rebuilt and redesigned by Sir Christopher Wren around 1670 – having suffered damage during the 1666 Great Fire of London. What is the Courtyard today used to be part of the church’s graveyard. The church was built is in the style of English Baroque architecture.

A bronze vessel containing a cereal-based alcoholic beverage.（Photo: Ningxia Institute of Cultural Relics and Archeology）

China: Qin State Bronze Gourd Found Containing Wine! (2.8.2026)

02/08/2026 Adrian (釋大道)

The liquid is the best-preserved alcoholic sample from the Warring States period (475–221 BC) publicly reported to date. The discovery fills an important gap in the archaeological record of brewing practices in Ningxia during that era.

The vessel was excavated in 2024 from the Shanjiabao cemetery in Guyuan City, where a multidisciplinary research team later discovered that liquid had been preserved inside a garlic-shaped bronze flask. The site is the largest late Warring States burial ground associated with Qin culture to have been excavated in Ningxia.

Archaeologists made the discovery underneath layers of peat on Honeygar Farm in Westhay

UK: Neolithic “Trackway” Discovered by Archaeologists in Honeygar Farm [Somerset]! (22.3.2026)

22/03/2026 Adrian (釋大道)

Britain used to be full of marshes through which the Celts built trackways to travel about – probably between the various tribes. Presumably, these marshes ran through (and around) forests – as the UK used to be covered in dense foliage. Therefore, the Celts did build their own type of natural pathways – but these were “natural” and very different to the roads constructed by the Roman engineers – which seemed “severe” and “unnatural” by comparison. Furthermore, the Romans destroyed the traditional landscape that Druidism and Celtic culture developed and grew within. The Romans cleared the forests and drained the marshes – thus destroying the very essence of the British Celt culture that had existed for thousands of years. The Romans committed genocide, forcibly established their culture – and then left. Part of this Roman domination was that the Celts were “primitive” and possessed no culture of their own. A policy straight out of the imperialist play-book.

A drone photo taken on July 10, 2025 shows two mausoleums of the Xixia Imperial Tombs in northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Wang Peng)

China: Archaeology Proves “Oldest” [5,300-Year-Old] Continuous Culture! (1.2.2026)

01/02/2026 Adrian (釋大道)

A cornerstone of this research is the Erlitou site in central China’s Henan. Excavated since 1959, this site is widely regarded by Chinese scholars as a major urban center associated with the Xia Dynasty (2070-1600 B.C.), traditionally considered China’s first dynasty.

The most critical discovery at the site is the presence of China’s earliest grid-patterned capital layout, offering rare insights into the capital system of early states.

Erlitou is part of a constellation of key sites. From the ritual complexes at the Niuheliang site in Liaoning to the exquisite pottery at the Taosi site in Shanxi, each discovery has helped clarify the picture of China’s early history.

This grand narrative of continuity is given tangible form through a national network of 150 major archaeological sites, 65 national archaeological parks, and over 240 on-site museums. Together, they form an indelible material record spanning millions of years of human history, 10,000 years of culture and over 5,000 years of Chinese civilization.

A Hoocąk language guide shows words in the Ho-Chunk language and their American English translations at the "Our Shared Waters" program at Lake Mendota on Sept. 24, 2024, in Madison. (Credit: PBS Wisconsin)

US: Wisconsin Archaeologists find 16 Ancient Indigenous Canoes in Lake Mendota! (15.1.2026)

15/01/2026 Adrian (釋大道)

For some strange and odd reason, at least three right-wing news outlets in the UK are today [15.1.2026] a) falsely reporting this story as if it has just happened, and b) falsely claiming that its findings are “changing history”! As you can see, the AP article I am referencing below us dated the 25.11.2025 – with the research at Lake Mendota in Madison, beginning in 2021 – with many of the pivotal discoveries occurring during 2022 (with others following). I have also read an article dating to January-February 2025. Therefore, contrary to the British rightwing media – this story is not “new”. Although the oldest canoe found so far is 5,200 years-old BP (constructed around 3,200 BCE) – one of the researchers thinks that there may be a canoe dating to around 7,000 years-old BP (constructed 5,000 BCE) lurking somewhere in the mud. The same researcher states that the oldest two canoes found so far in the US are from Florida and and also date from 7,000 years-old BP (constructed 5,000 BCE). Again, contrary to the claims made by the British rightwing media – these finds do not “change” ancient America history – they “confirm”

These skeletons of two hunter-gatherer individuals excavated at the Checua archaeological site north of Bogotá, Colombia, helped uncover the genetic details of a mysterious population. Ana María Groot / Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Colombia: Ancient Checua DNA Reveals “New Group of Humans” With No Genetic Ties to People Today! (4.1.2026)

04/01/2026 Adrian (釋大道)

Scientists have found genetic evidence of an ancient group of people in Colombia with no modern-day descendants. It’s as if they simply vanished from the face of the Earth. What’s more, they’re also not closely related to the ancient Native American populations that scientists had thought would be their ancestors.

“This is unexpected,” Andre Luiz Campelo dos Santos, an archaeologist from Florida Atlantic University who did not participate in the research, tells Adithi Ramakrishnan at the Associated Press. “Up to this point, we didn’t believe there was any other lineage that would appear in South America.”

An international team of researchers described the discovery in a study published in late May in the journal Science Advances. They analyzed DNA from the bones and teeth of 21 individuals found at five archaeological sites in the Altiplano—the high plains around Bogotá—dating to between 500 and 6,000 years ago. The analyses represent Colombia’s first ancient human genomes ever to be published.

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