We reveal the next big travel destinations at home and away…
Laura Chubb
Updated: 10 Jan 2021, 3:49
IT S fair to say we all need a holiday after the last year. So following months trapped in lockdown, big bucket-list trips and getting back to nature look set to be top trends when we are finally allowed to spread our wings. Plus, we won’t just be rethinking where we go, but how.
Sustainable travel – from eco-friendly getaways to spending our holiday money in places that really need it – will be huge, too. Here are our top picks for you raring-to-go jet-setters (and armchair adventurers).
Archaeologists just found a lot of plastic at an archaeological site
More than 2,300 pieces of plastic were found in a digging site in Wales.
There’s plastic everywhere. We’re living in a plastic age, and we see this every day around us: on the ground, in the seas, even in the air we breathe and that’s not even it. Now, researchers have even found plastic (including a Godzilla thermos wrapper) inside an archaeological site.
The roundhouses that were demolished. Image credit: The researchers
Located in Wales, Castell Henllys Iron Age Village is an archeological site and a tourist attraction. It’s essentially an Iron Age fort with reconstructed roundhouses that visitors can walk through while learning about history. The roadhouses were reconstructed on the same spot where the original structures stood around 2,000 years ago.
Archaeologists Uncover Disturbing Amount of Plastic Waste at Iron Age Site
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Godzilla-themed thermos wrapper: One of over 2,000 waste items found at the Castell Henllys site. (Image: H. Mytum et al., 2021/Antiquity)
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One by one, the archaeologists stumbled upon pieces of junk. Using techniques typically reserved for documenting stone tools and bones, the team recorded such items as plastic spoons, eye glasses, bottle caps, straws, mobile phone batteries, paint can lids, candy wrappers, and plastic wrap. By the time the experiment was over, the archaeologists had uncovered nearly 3,000 items, the vast majority of them made of plastic.
TORONTO When a group of archeologists excavated reconstructed Iron Age roundhouses that had been used in historical reenactments in Wales for more than 30 years, they expected to learn about the decay processes of these structures. What they didn’t expect was to discover so much plastic. More than 2,300 individual pieces of plastic candy wrappers, straws, a Motorola phone battery, etc. were found in the ground by archeologists excavating the reconstruction sites. The Plastic Age encroaching on the Iron Age. A paper published in the journal Antiquity this week dives into the finds, as well as the implications for what future archeological digs could look like, given the ubiquity of plastic in our society today.