Matt's WOGE

WOGE 91

2010-04-21T00:41:00.000-07:00

As I have correctly identified the site of La Tène over at Theoretical Structural Archaeology here's the new WOGE:

The Rules:

Q: What is When on Google Earth?

A: It’s a game for archaeologists, or anybody else willing to have a go!

Q: How do you play it?

A: Simple, you try to identify the site in the picture.

Q: Who wins?

A: The first person to correctly identify the site, including its major period of occupation, wins the game.

Q: What does the winner get?

A: The winner gets bragging rights and the chance to host the next When on Google Earth on his/her own blog! Be the first to correctly identify the site above and its major period of occupation in the comments below and you can host your own!

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Good Luck!

WoGE 83

2010-03-04T14:47:00.000-08:00

I won WoGE 82 over at Moore Group's Blog (By the way: you don't happen to have any of that Bronze Age Beer left over, do you?) because I wanted to procrastinate on more important things.

So here's the next installment:

The rules:

Q: What is When on Google Earth?

A: It’s a game for archaeologists, or anybody else willing to have a go!

Q: How do you play it?

A: Simple, you try to identify the site in the picture.

Q: Who wins?

A: The first person to correctly identify the site, including its major period of occupation, wins the game.

Q: What does the winner get?

A: The winner gets bragging rights and the chance to host the next When on Google Earth on his/her own blog!

WOGE 79

2009-12-06T04:44:00.000-08:00

Since the person who won WOGE 78, j, hasn't come forward for nearly a month here's WOGE 79.

Just to make this clear: I haven't won WOGE 78, I just want the game to keep going.

The rules:

Q: What is When on Google Earth?
A: It’s a game for archaeologists, or anybody else willing to have a go!

Q: How do you play it?
A: Simple, you try to identify the site in the picture.

Q: Who wins?
A: The first person to correctly identify the site, including its major period of occupation, wins the game.

Q: What does the winner get?

A: The winner gets bragging rights and the chance to host the next When on Google Earth on his/her own blog!

Here it is, WOGE 79:

Have fun and good luck!

As per Alun's suggestion here's a zoomed-out picture. I'm going to continue to zoom out or give hints (in the comments) until someone gets it:

When on Google Earth 54

2009-06-23T14:37:00.000-07:00

I won When on Google Earth 53 and am now the third German in a row to host WOGE.

Let's see if we can keep it up :)

The rules:

Q: What is When on Google Earth?

A: It’s a game for archaeologists, or anybody else willing to have a go!

Q: How do you play it?

A: Simple, you try to identify the site in the picture.

Q: Who wins?

A: The first person to correctly identify the site, including its major period of occupation, wins the game.

Q: What does the winner get?

A: The winner gets bragging rights and the chance to host the next When on Google Earth on his/her own blog!

So here it is, WOGE 54:

(click for the bigger picture)

Have fun and good luck!

When on google Earth 50

2009-06-20T04:20:00.000-07:00

Having won WOGE 49 here's When on Google Earth 50:

The Rules:

Q: What is When on Google Earth?

A: It’s a game for archaeologists, or anybody else willing to have a go!

Q: How do you play it?

A: Simple, you try to identify the site in the picture.

Q: Who wins?

A: The first person to correctly identify the site, including its major period of occupation, wins the game.

Q: What does the winner get?

A: The winner gets bragging rights and the chance to host the next When on Google Earth on his/her own blog!

For the anniversary edition I found something easy, something everyone who's been to the site will probably recognize immediately:

(click to embiggen)

Have fun and good luck!

When on Google Earth 40

2009-05-21T06:51:00.000-07:00

After having won WOGE 39 with a lot of help from Andrea's clues (and Wikipedia's "List of ancient Egyptian sites" as well as the fact that it's a bank holiday here in Germany and I had nothing better to do) here is WOGE 40.

But first the rules:

Q: What is When on Google Earth?

A: It’s a game for archaeologists, or anybody else willing
to have a go!

Q: How do you play it?

A: Simple, you try to identify the site in the
picture.

Q: Who wins?

A: The first person to correctly identify the site,
including its major period of occupation, wins the game.

Q: What does the winner get?

A: The winner gets bragging rights and the chance to host
the next When on Google Earth on his/her own blog!

I don't know whether this will be easy or hard but it's a pretty well known site so I don't expect it to last too long.

Here we go:

The archaeologically interesting part is the hill directly to the south-east of the modern houses.

Have fun and good luck!

EDIT:

Since nobody has found out yet here's a second picture, courtesy of Windows Live Local.

You can see the modern farm better in this one which should allow you to determine the country we're in.

OK, clues:

We're in Northern Europe.
The site is a gravefield.
The site is very close to the centre of power of the svear kings.

Introduction

2009-05-21T05:17:00.000-07:00

This is the blog I use in order to be able to take part in "When on Google Earth", the archaeologist online game. It won't be used for anything else.