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Posted on 07/16/2004 11:27:10 PM PDT by SunkenCiv


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Gods, Graves, Glyphs
Weekly Digest #354
Saturday, April 30, 2011

Prehistory & Origins

 Four Individuals Caught in 'Death Trap' May Shed Light on Human Ancestors

· 04/24/2011 8:41:04 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 17 replies ·
...The four hominin individuals died when they fell into a "death trap" in a cave about 2 million years ago at Malapa, South Africa, according to new dates reported by Berger... In addition to the articulated partial skeletons of a youth and an older female unveiled last year in Science, the team members reported the discovery of bones of an 18-month-old infant and at least one other adult. This means they are getting a good look at Au. sediba's development from infancy to old age... Berger and members of his team sketched a quick portrait of Au. sediba, who lived...

Homo Erectus

 Did Peking Man wield a spear?
  New research suggests early humans were assembling weapons in China 700,000 years ago

· 04/30/2011 1:18:29 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 6 replies ·
· Unreported Heritage News ·
About 700,000 years ago, at a time when China's climate was chillier than it is today, a group of Homo erectus lived in a cave system in Zhoukoudian China. They had a striking appearance. With a heavy brow ridge, large robust teeth and a brain size approaching our own, these people had long since left Africa, their ancestors travelling thousands of kilometres into East Asia. Until recently scientists believed that they lived in more recent times, perhaps only 500,000 years ago. That idea was repudiated two years ago in the journal Nature, when a team of scientists used aluminum/beryllium dating...

Neandertal / Neanderthal

 Bear DNA is clue to age of Chauvet cave art

· 04/19/2011 8:30:29 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Palter ·
· 7 replies ·
· NewScientist ·
Exploring a gorge in south-east France in 1994 for prehistoric artefacts, Jean-Marie Chauvet hit the jackpot. After squeezing through a narrow passage, he found himself in a hidden cavern, the walls of which were covered with paintings of animals. But dating the beautiful images - which featured in Werner Herzog's recent documentary film Cave of Forgotten Dreams - has led to an ugly spat between archaeologists. Could the bones of cave bears settle the debate? Within a year of Chauvet's discovery, radiocarbon dating suggested the images were between 30,000 and 32,000 years old, making them almost twice the age of...


 Missing Parts of Sphinx Found in German Cave

· 04/30/2011 12:57:18 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 17 replies ·
· Monsters and Critics ·
Archaeologists have discovered fragments of one of the world's oldest sculptures, a lion-faced figurine estimated at 32,000 years old, from the dirt floor of a cave in southern Germany. The ivory figure, along with a tiny figurine known as the Venus of Hohle Fels, marks the foundation of human artistry. Both were created by a Stone Age European culture that historians call Aurignacian. The Aurignacians appear to have been the first modern humans, with handicrafts, social customs and beliefs. They hunted reindeer, woolly rhinoceros, mammoths and other animals. The Lion-Man sculpture, gradually re-assembled in workshops over decades after the fragments...


 The Secrets of Paviland Cave

· 04/30/2011 1:07:15 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 2 replies ·
· Past Horizons (from The Guardian) ·
Paviland cave, on the Gower peninsula in South Wales, is a crucial site for tracing the origins of human life in Britain. It was in here, in 1823, that William Buckland, the first professor of geology at Oxford University, excavated the remains of a body that had been smeared with red ochre (naturally occurring iron oxide) and buried with a selection of periwinkle shells and ivory rods. Buckland initially thought the body was that of a customs officer, killed by smugglers. Then he decided it was a Roman prostitute... This misidentification gave the headless skeleton its name -- "the Red...


 The Secrets of Paviland Cave

· 04/30/2011 1:07:33 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 5 replies ·
· Past Horizons (from The Guardian) ·
Paviland cave, on the Gower peninsula in South Wales, is a crucial site for tracing the origins of human life in Britain. It was in here, in 1823, that William Buckland, the first professor of geology at Oxford University, excavated the remains of a body that had been smeared with red ochre (naturally occurring iron oxide) and buried with a selection of periwinkle shells and ivory rods. Buckland initially thought the body was that of a customs officer, killed by smugglers. Then he decided it was a Roman prostitute... This misidentification gave the headless skeleton its name -- "the Red...

Africa

 Early Somali Life Depicted In Cave Paintings

· 04/30/2011 12:15:12 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 16 replies ·
· RedOrbit ·
Laas Gaal, Somalia (also known as Laas Geel), just outside of Haregeisa, the capital of Somalia's self-declared Somaliland state, contains 10 caves that show vivid depictions of a pastoralist history which dates back to some 5,000 years or more, reports AFP. A French archaeology team was sent in 2002 to survey Somalia in search of rock shelters and caves that might contain stratified archaeological infills that could document the period when production economy appeared in this part of the Horn of Africa, according to Wikipedia. During the survey, the Laas Geel cave paintings were discovered. The paintings were in excellent...

Navigation

 Indians first to ride monsoon winds

· 04/24/2011 9:01:28 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 8 replies ·
· Telegraph India ·
New Delhi, April 18: Mariners from India's east coast exploited monsoon winds to sail to southeast Asia more than 2,000 years ago, an archaeologist has proposed, challenging a long-standing view that a Greek navigator had discovered monsoon winds much later. Sila Tripati at the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), Goa, has combined archaeological, meteorological, and literary data to suggest that Indian mariners were sailing to southeast Asia riding monsoon winds as far back as the 2nd century BC. A 1st century AD Greek text, Periplus of the Erythreaean Sea, and a contemporary Roman geographer named Pliny have claimed that the...

IndoChina

 Two ancient tombs unearthed in Hanoi's new urban center

· 04/24/2011 8:53:30 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 20 replies ·
· VietNamNet Bridge ·
The first tomb was dug up by road builders in the evening of April 1. The Vietnam Archaeology Institute has sent three experts to the site. Construction activities at this area have been canceled to serve urgent excavation. Shortly after that, the second tomb and the well were unearthed... The two tombs were built by terra-cotta bricks, with domes. Bricks have patterns and ancient characters... Dr. Nguyen Lan Cuong, from the Vietnam Archaeology Institute, said that the two tombs were built in the 4th or 6th centuries. The bigger tomb was built earlier than the small one. The tombs are...

Biology & Cryptobiology

 Ancient Royal Horse Unearthed in Iran

· 04/29/2011 12:58:02 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Red Badger ·
· 15 replies ·
· Discovery News ·
Remains of the oldest known Caspian horse, otherwise referred to as the "Kings' horse" due to its popularity among royals the world over, have been unearthed in northern Iran, according to CAIS. The more than 3,000-year-old remains were found at an Iranian site named Gohar-Tappeh. In ancient times, royals often chose Caspian horses to ride them into battle and/or to pull their chariots. During more recent history, individuals such as Price Philip of England have popularized the Caspian, which is the oldest breed of horse in the world still in existence. The Shah of Iran gifted such a horse to...

Paleontology

 Biggest Fossil Spider Found

· 04/25/2011 9:25:32 AM PDT ·
· Posted by JoeProBono ·
· 30 replies ·
· nationalgeographic ·
The 165-million-year-old species is a relative of today's large web weavers. The biggest known fossil spider has been found in China, a new study says. Measuring nearly 1 inch (2.5 centimeters) in length, the 165-million-year-old fossil was uncovered in 2005 by farmers in Inner Mongolia (see map) -- a region teeming with fossils from the middle Jurassic period. "Compared to all other spider fossils, this one is huge," said study co-author ChungKun Shih, a visiting professor at Capital Normal University in Beijing, China. "When I first saw it, I immediately realized that it was very unique not only because of its size,...

Egypt

 Enormous statue of powerful pharoah unearthed

· 04/26/2011 5:31:00 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Red Badger ·
· 28 replies ·
· www.chron.com ·
CAIRO -- Archeologists unearthed one of the largest statues to date of a powerful ancient Egyptian pharoah at his mortuary temple in the southern city of Luxor, the country's antiquities authority announced Tuesday. The 13 meter (42 foot) tall statue of Amenhotep III was one of pair that flanked the northern entrance to the grand funerary temple on the west bank of the Nile that is currently the focus of a major excavation. The statue consists of seven large quartzite blocks and still lacks a head and was actually first discovered in the 1970s and then rehidden, according to the...


 Enormous statue of powerful pharaoh unearthed

· 04/26/2011 8:19:27 AM PDT ·
· Posted by BenLurkin ·
· 25 replies ·
· ap ·
The 13 meter (42 foot) tall statue of Amenhotep III was one of a pair that flanked the northern entrance to the grand funerary temple on the west bank of the Nile that is currently the focus of a major excavation

Hawass, Hawass, toujours Hawass

 Egypt's Antiquities Minister Dodges Jail Time (Hawass Skates)

· 04/29/2011 1:17:13 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Red Badger ·
· 7 replies ·
· Discovery News ·
Egypt's antiquity minister Zahi Hawass will not serve any jail time and will remain in his position, according to the leading Egyptologist's blog. "The National Council of Egypt's Administrative Court issued a decree today (April 18, 2011) accepting a proposal to stop the recent court ruling against me in my former role as Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, in a case involving the bookstore at the Egyptian Museum," Hawass wrote. Centering on the bookstore that was looted during the Egyptian revolution in January, the verdict on Sunday seemed to put to an end Hawass' career. The Egyptian...

International Cuisine

 Plants found in ancient pills offer medicinal insight (2000 years old)

· 04/27/2011 8:41:07 PM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 3 replies ·
· BBC ·
DNA extracted from 2,000-year-old plants recovered from an Italian shipwreck could offer scientists the key to new medicines. Carrots, parsley and wild onions were among the samples preserved in clay pills on board the merchant trading vessel that sank around 120 BC. It's believed the plants were used by doctors to treat intestinal disorders among the ship's crew. Such remedies are described in ancient Greek texts, but this is the first time the medicines themselves have been discovered. "Medicinal plants have been identified before, but not a compound medicine, so this is really something new," says Alain Touwaide, director of the...

Roman Empire

 Girl 'murdered' by Roman soldiers in north Kent

· 04/28/2011 12:41:05 PM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 71 replies ·
· BBC ·
The body of a girl thought to have been murdered by Roman soldiers has been discovered in north Kent.Archaeologists working on the site of a Roman settlement near the A2 uncovered the girl who died almost 2,000 years ago. "She was killed by a Roman sword stabbing her in the back of the head," said Dr Paul Wilkinson, director of the excavation. "By the position of the entry wound she would have been kneeling at the time." The Roman conquest of Britain began in AD43, and the construction of Watling Street started soon afterwards linking Canterbury to St Albans. >...

Let's Have Jerusalem

 Jordan Codices, Coast-2-Coast AM Sat April 30th, 2011

· 04/29/2011 7:28:06 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Perdogg ·
· 2 replies ·
· coast-2-coast ·
Joining Ian Punnett, Egyptologist and author David Elkington talks about his recent trip to Jordan, researching the caves that held the Jordan Codices - ancient religious books that could change the way we view Christianity. In the first hour, NYPD informant Robert Merritt contends that Nixon and the Watergate burglars were set up by someone working on the inside.

Middle Ages & Renaissance

 Austrian authorities reveal find of buried treasure

· 04/23/2011 9:32:32 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Doogle ·
· 7 replies ·
· FOX ·
VIENNA - A man turning dirt in his back yard stumbled onto buried treasure -- hundreds of pieces of centuries-old jewelry and other precious objects that Austrian authorities described Friday as a fairy-tale find. Austria's department in charge of national antiquities said the trove consists of more than 200 rings, brooches, ornate belt buckles, gold-plated silver plates and other pieces or fragments, many encrusted with pearls, fossilized coral and other ornaments. It says the objects are about 650 years old and are being evaluated for their provenance and worth.


 Austrians hail a 'fairy-tale find' of medieval riches

· 04/23/2011 1:10:48 PM PDT ·
· Posted by workerbee ·
· 3 replies ·
· AP ·
VIENNA -- A man turning dirt in his backyard stumbled onto buried treasure -- hundreds of pieces of centuries-old jewelry and other precious objects that Austrian authorities described Friday as a fairy-tale find. Austria's department in charge of national antiquities said the trove consists of more than 200 rings, brooches, ornate belt buckles, gold-plated silver plates and other pieces or fragments, many encrusted with pearls, fossilized coral and other ornaments. It said the objects are about 650 years old and are being evaluated for their provenance and worth. While not assigning a monetary value to the buried bling, the enthusiastic...

Scotland Yet

 Tameside castle was built to keep 'Scots from Cheshire'

· 04/27/2011 6:25:49 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 6 replies ·
· BBC ·
Buckton Castle in Stalybridge by the Earl of Chester was built in the 1100s. It was occupied for less than 100 years during a time when the King of Scotland lay claim to Lancashire and Cumberland. The University of Salford's Brian Grimsditch said, due to the unrest, "local rulers like the Earl had to protect their lands". The university's Centre for Applied Archaeology conducted a three-year dig at the castle and have now concluded it was started to offer protection from Scottish expansion, though a change in political circumstances meant it was never finished. It was built by Ranulf II,...

Epigraphy & Language

 500-year-old book surfaces in Utah

· 04/26/2011 4:15:10 PM PDT ·
· Posted by greatdefender ·
· 36 replies ·
· AP-Yahoo! ·
SALT LAKE CITY - Book dealer Ken Sanders has seen a lot of nothing in his decades appraising "rare" finds pulled from attics and basements, storage sheds and closets. Sanders, who occasionally appraises items for PBS's Antiques Roadshow, often employs the "fine art of letting people down gently." But on a recent Saturday while volunteering at a fundraiser for the small town museum in Sandy, Utah, just south of Salt Lake, Sanders got the surprise of a lifetime. "Late in the afternoon, a man sat down and started unwrapping a book from a big plastic sack, informing me he had...

Climate

 Missouri elk are being reintroduced in the wrong part of the state,
  MU anthropologist says (& more)

· 04/28/2011 1:12:41 PM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 11 replies ·
· University of Missouri-Columbia ·
Conservationists should consult prehistoric record to help make best decisions for animals and environmentAccording to prehistoric records, elk roamed the northwestern part of Missouri until 1865. Now, the Missouri Department of Conservation is planning to reintroduce elk, but this time in the southeast part of the state. While a University of Missouri anthropologist believes the reintroduction is good for elk, tourism and the economy, he said the effort may have unintended negative consequences that are difficult to predict. R. Lee Lyman, the chair of Anthropology in the College of Arts and Science, has studied the history of mammals, conservation biology...

Underwater Archaeology

 Divers unearth treasure from shipwreck believed to be oldest in the Caribbean

· 04/30/2011 12:42:43 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 7 replies ·
· Daily Mail ·
Divers unearth treasure from shipwreck believed to be oldest in the Caribbean Divers unearth treasure from shipwreck believed to be oldest in the Caribbean Divers unearth treasure from shipwreck believed to be oldest in the Caribbean Divers unearth treasure from shipwreck believed to be oldest in the Caribbean Divers unearth treasure from shipwreck believed to be oldest in the Caribbean Divers unearth treasure from shipwreck believed to be oldest in the Caribbean


PreColumbian, Clovis & PreClovis

 El Mirador, the Lost City of the Maya

· 04/23/2011 2:22:26 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Palter ·
· 6 replies ·
· The Smithsonian Mag ·
Now overgrown by jungle, the ancient site was once the thriving capital of the Maya civilization Had we been traveling overland, it would have taken two or three days to get from the end of the road at Carmelita to El Mirador: long hours of punishing heat and drenching rain, of mud and mosquitoes, and the possibility that the jungle novice in our party (that would be me, not the biologists turned photographers Christian Ziegler and Claudio Contreras) might step on a lethal fer-de-lance or do some witless city thing to provoke a jaguar or arouse the ire of the...

The Civil War

 Nearly 3,000 New Walt Whitman Papers Discovered

· 04/25/2011 7:30:01 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 13 replies ·
· ScienceDaily ·
The documents shaped "Democratic Vistas," Whitman's seminal 1871 analysis of American democracy that is arguably his greatest work of prose. Casting a skeptical eye on the nation's character and values while sharing a vision for an ideal democratic society, "Vistas" remains one of the most penetrating examinations of American society ever written. The newly discovered documents "were crucial for (Whitman's) writing of one of the most important meditations on the meaning of American democracy," Price said. "They're also vital for understanding Whitman's late poetry. Anyone writing about the latter parts of his career is going to want to figure out...

Thoroughly Modern Miscellany

 Rare Nazi film shows Theresienstadt camp as 'paradise'

· 04/28/2011 5:56:47 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SJackson ·
· 17 replies ·
· JTA ·
Fragment found from film shot in 1944 meant to hoodwink Red Cross that all was productive work and wholesome recreation at camp. LOS ANGELES - "The Fuehrer Gives the Jews a City" may rank as the oddest film fragment in cinematic history. The 23 minutes of raw, unedited footage is all that has been found of a Nazi propaganda project to prove that the "model" Theresienstadt camp was a veritable paradise for its Jewish inmates. Shot in early 1944, when the horrors of Hitler's Final Solution finally trickled out to the West, the film was part of an effort to...

Helix, Make Mine a Double

 Titanic's unknown child is finally identified

· 04/26/2011 3:48:02 PM PDT ·
· Posted by stylecouncilor ·
· 18 replies ·
· msnbc.com ·
Five days after the passenger ship the Titanic sank, the crew of the rescue ship Mackay-Bennett pulled the body of a fair-haired, roughly 2-year-old boy out of the Atlantic Ocean on April 21, 1912. Along with many other victims, his body went to a cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where the crew of the Mackay-Bennett had a headstone dedicated to the "unknown child" placed over his grave. When it sank, the Titanic took the lives of 1,497 of the 2,209 people aboard with it. Some bodies were recovered, but names remained elusive, while others are still missing. But researchers believe...

Epidemics, Pandemics, Plagues, the Sniffles

 Southern U.S.: Armadillos blamed for leprosy (don't eat Armadillo meat)

· 04/30/2011 4:55:16 AM PDT ·
· Posted by TigerLikesRooster ·
· 53 replies ·
· Telegraph ·
Armadillos blamed for leprosy A strain of leprosy found in armadillos has been identified in dozens of people in the southern United States, indicating the skin disease can be transmitted directly from animals to humans. 6:19PM BST 28 Apr 2011 The report published in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that the disease, most often found in India, can originate in the United States and infect humans who hunt armadillo and butcher the meat. Leprosy, sometimes called Hansen's disease after the Norwegian doctor who discovered it in 1873, is a bacterial infection that causes lesions on a person's extremities....

end of digest #354 20110430

1,262 posted on 04/30/2011 8:00:40 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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Gods Graves Glyphs Digest #354 20110430
· Saturday, April 30, 2011 · 28 topics · 2709538 to 2709459 · 764 members ·
 
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Freeper Profiles
Welcome to the 354th issue. Whatever the bug is that's been going around tried to pick me off for about three weeks straight. Spent this past week feeling fine, everyone else I know seems to have been suffering with it. Get well soon!

One oddity this week is, two duplicate topics were first and last posted this week. Used a new header perhaps worth mentioning: Hawass, Hawass, toujours Hawass.
Stuff that doesn't necessarily make it to GGG here on FR gets shared here:
"...the way men live is so far removed from the way they ought to live that anyone who abandons what is for what should be pursues his downfall rather than his preservation..." -- Niccolò Machiavelli [thanks advance_copy 5/14/2008]
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs
Weekly Digest #355
Saturday, May 7, 2011

Farty Shades of Green

 Princess sheds new light on early Celts

· 05/02/2011 6:10:19 PM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 28 replies ·
· BBC ·
German experts are carefully taking apart a complete Celtic grave in the hope of finding out more about the Celts' way of life, 2,600 years ago, in their Danube heartland. We usually think of the Celtic heartland as the western edges of Europe - Wales, Scotland and Ireland and Brittany in France. But Dr Krausse says the real Celtic heartland was actually in the region in the upper reaches of the Danube, from where the Celts could trade. "Celtic art and Celtic culture have their origins in south-western Germany, eastern France and Switzerland and spread from there to other...

Epigraphy & Language

 Finding on Dialects Casts New Light on the Origins of the Japanese People

· 05/05/2011 7:38:49 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Palter ·
· 22 replies ·
· The New York Times ·
Researchers studying the various dialects of Japanese have concluded that all are descended from a founding language taken to the Japanese islands about 2,200 years ago. The finding sheds new light on the origin of the Japanese people, suggesting that their language is descended from that of the rice-growing farmers who arrived in Japan from the Korean Peninsula, and not from the hunter-gatherers who first inhabited the islands some 30,000 years ago. The result provides support for a wider picture, controversial among linguists, that the distribution of many language families today reflects the spread of agriculture in the distant past...

Not-So-Ancient Autopsies

 Hanging coffins may soon yield their secrets

· 09/30/2002 1:26:08 PM PDT ·
· Posted by vannrox ·
· 9 replies ·
· 794+ views ·
· The Straits Times ·
SEPT 28, 2002 Hanging coffins may soon yield their secrets By Larry Teo THE mystery surrounding a cluster of cliff-hanging coffins in China's Sichuan province may soon be solved after archaeologists opened three 600-year-old coffins early this week. Suspended on stakes or tucked in caves on the face of limestone cliffs, the 265 ancient coffins had never before been examined by archaeologists until then, reported Sichuan's Huaxi City Daily. The wooden boxes were placed there by the Bo people - a community which once lived in the Yibin region of southern Sichuan but became extinct around the time of...

Roman Empire

 Infanticide Common in Roman Empire

· 05/05/2011 4:22:17 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Little Bill ·
· 25 replies ·
· Discovery ·
Before the invention of modern contraception, family planning took the form of a chilling practice. Infanticide, the killing of unwanted babies, was common throughout the Roman Empire and other parts of the ancient world, according to a new study. The study, which has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Archaeological Science, explains that "until recently, (infanticide) was a practice that was widely tolerated in human societies around the world. Prior to modern methods of contraception, it was one of the few ways of limiting family size that was both safe for the mother and effective." Based on archaeological...

Faith & Philosophy

 Turkish Government Aims to Destroy Oldest Monastery in the World

· 05/05/2011 4:36:08 PM PDT ·
· Posted by george76 ·
· 10 replies ·
· kreuz ·
Today there is a continuing legal process in effect, while the the over 1,600 year old Monastery fights for its bare survival. On 26th of January 2011 the systematic dispossession of a Syrian-Orthodox Monastery -- built in the year 397 -- Mor Gabriel in Tur Abdin in south east Turkey began Today the courts in Ankara gave the national treasury of the district town of Midyat and the Turkish forestry office a significant portion of the Monastery property. Will the bell of Mor Gabriel be silenced forever? The hope of the Monks is dwindling. First on the 26th of January...

Prehistory & Origins

 Study: Ancient 'Nutcracker Man' really ate grass

· 05/02/2011 2:26:23 PM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 30 replies ·
· Associated Press ·
WASHINGTON -- Nutcracker Man didn't eat nuts after all. After a half-century of referring to an ancient pre-human as "Nutcracker Man" because of his large teeth and powerful jaw, scientists now conclude that he actually chewed grasses instead. The study "reminds us that in paleontology, things are not always as they seem," commented Peter S. Ungar, chairman of anthropology at the University of Arkansas. It turns out that the early human known as Paranthropus boisei did not eat nuts but dined more heavily on grasses than any other human ancestor or human relative studied to date. Only an extinct...

Paleontology

 Reptile 'cousins' shed new light on end-Permian extinction (parareptile survivors)

· 05/05/2011 4:28:50 PM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 6 replies ·
· University of Bristol ·
The end-Permian extinction, by far the most dramatic biological crisis to affect life on Earth, may not have been as catastrophic for some creatures as previously thought, according to a new study led by the University of Bristol.An international team of researchers studied the parareptiles, a diverse group of bizarre-looking terrestrial vertebrates which varied in shape and size. Some were small, slender, agile and lizard-like creatures, while others attained the size of rhinos; many had knobbly ornaments, fringes, and bony spikes on their skulls. The researchers found that, surprisingly, parareptiles were not hit much harder by the end-Permian extinction than...

Helix, Make Mine a Double

 Endogenous Proteins Found in a 70-Million-Year- Old Giant Marine Lizard

· 05/02/2011 7:58:24 AM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 14 replies ·
· Lund University ·
Fossil -- just stone? No, a research team in Lund, Sweden, has discovered primary biological matter in a fossil of an extinct varanoid lizard (a mosasaur) that inhabited marine environments during Late Cretaceous times. Using state-of-the-art technology, the scientists have been able to link proteinaceous molecules to bone matrix fibres isolated from a 70-million-year-old fossil; i.e., they have found genuine remains of an extinct animal entombed in stone. With their discovery, the scientists Johan Lindgren, Per Uvdal, Anders Engdahl, and colleagues have demonstrated that remains of type I collagen, a structural protein, are retained in a mosasaur fossil. The scientists...

Biology & Cryptobiology

 'Monstrously Big Ant' Fossil Found in Wyoming

· 05/03/2011 9:41:13 PM PDT ·
· Posted by NormsRevenge ·
· 152 replies ·
· LiveScience.com ·
Almost 50 million years ago, ants the size of hummingbirds roamed what is now Wyoming, a new fossil discovery reveals. These giant bugs may have crossed an Arctic land bridge between Europe and North America during a particularly warm period in Earth's history. At about 2 inches (5 cm) long, the specimen is a "monstrously big ant," said Bruce Archibald, a paleoentomologist at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia who reported the discovery today (May 3) in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Though fossils of loose giant ant wings have been found before in the United States,...

Catastrophism & Astronomy

 The 'Disappeared Lake' of Russia Found 100m Underground (evil American plot was uncovered?!)

· 06/16/2005 8:44:59 PM PDT ·
· Posted by TigerLikesRooster ·
· 47 replies ·
· 6,207+ views ·
· Chosun Ilbo ·
In a bizarre twist of nature, a lake disappeared overnight in Russia. A lake turned into a mud pit overnight in Nizhni Novogorod, 250km to the east of Moscow. The picture shows the shore of what used to be lake, and its bottom. (Moscow) The mystery surrounding a lake which disappeared one night in Russia last May has been finally solved. On May 19th, a lake holding one million cubic meter of water disappeared without a trace in the village of Bolotnikovo in Nizhni Novgorod, 250km to the east...

Diet & Cuisine

 George Washington's beer recipe

· 05/06/2011 7:55:23 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Pharmboy ·
· 51 replies ·
· London Telegraph ·
Before devoting his time to defeating the British in the Revolutionary War and being the first president of the United States, George Washington enjoyed brewing his own beer. A handwritten recipe for "small beer" created by Washington in 1757, while serving in the Virginia militia, has been published by the New York Public Library. The recipe, which was found in Washington's "Notebook as a Virginia Colonel", lists the ingredients as bran hops, yeast and molasses --... "Take a large Sifter full of Bran Hops to your Taste," Washington instructed. "Boil these 3 hours then strain out 30 Gall into a...

Thoroughly Modern Miscellany

 Just-discovered cave could yield new scientific insight

· 09/24/2006 2:37:01 PM PDT ·
· Posted by NormsRevenge ·
· 54 replies ·
· 2,879+ views ·
· AP on Bakersfield Californian ·
A just-unearthed cave formed more than 1 million years ago could yield new insight into the geological history of the American West, according to scientists, who called the discovery a major find. Four amateur cave explorers uncovered the vast caverns, stretching more than 1,000 feet into a remote mountainside, in August. Visitors to the cave, dubbed Ursa Minor, described seeing millions of crystals that shimmered like diamonds lodged in its walls. Translucent mineral curtains hung from the ceiling, and a lake possibly 20 feet deep filled one of the cave's five known rooms. Passages leading into darkness suggested there was...


 New cave discovered in Sequoia National Park

· 05/18/2007 12:19:04 PM PDT ·
· Posted by LibWhacker ·
· 31 replies ·
· 1,396+ views ·
· Central Valley Business Times ·
Cave off limits to public as research continues. "It will add to our knowledge'What's described as "a significant new cave" has been discovered within Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks in the Central Valley. The discovery was made in August 2006 by four researchers affiliated with the Cave Research Foundation but made public only this week by the National Park Service. The cave has been named Ursa Minor for the Little Dipper constellation. The cave features large passages and rooms -- many of which are more than 50 feet wide -- and beautiful cave formations, the NPS says....

Oh So Mysteriouso

 German TV probes [English] Templar caves enigma

· 11/18/2005 12:10:49 PM PST ·
· Posted by BlackVeil ·
· 5 replies ·
· 1,317+ views ·
· Essex News ·
GERMAN film-makers' quest for the Holy Grail brought them to Royston Cave in search of clues left by the Knights Templar. The film crew from state TV channel ZDF -- the German equivalent of the BBC -- visited the cave last Friday to examine carvings by the Templars, who were warrior monks thought to be the guardians of the Holy Grail. Peter Houldcroft, manager of the caves, said: "The cave is completely man-made and it has been believed for some time that there was somebody connected to the Knights Templar who carved the cave. "The appeal of the cave is...

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· Saturday, May 7, 2011 · 14 topics · 2713962 to 1524760 · 764 members ·
 
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Welcome to the 355h issue. Tiny little thing, only fourteen topics. My apologies, there was probably plenty of great stuff out there, but the putting down of Osama bin Loser distracted me all week.
Stuff that doesn't necessarily make it to GGG here on FR gets shared here:
""It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and an usurper soon found. The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin." -- James Monroe [thanks americanophile]
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Weekly Digest #356
Saturday, May 14, 2011

Homo Heidelbergensis

 Heidelberg Man Links Humans, Neanderthals

· 05/09/2011 11:34:59 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Renfield ·
· 43 replies ·
· Discovery News ·
The last common ancestor of humans and Neanderthals was a tall, well-traveled species called Heidelberg Man, according to a new PLoS One study. The determination is based on the remains of a single Heidelberg Man (Homo heidelbergensis) known as "Ceprano," named after the town near Rome, Italy, where his fossil -- a partial cranium -- was found. Previously, this 400,000-year-old fossil was thought to represent a new species of human, Homo cepranensis. The latest study, however, identifies Ceprano as being an archaic member of Homo heidelbergensis......

Neandertal / Neanderthal

 Neanderthals and Early Humans May Not Have Mingled Much

· 05/10/2011 5:06:10 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Pharmboy ·
· 47 replies ·
· NY Times ·
An improvement in the dating of fossils suggests that the Neanderthals, a heavily muscled, thick-boned human species adapted to living in ice age Europe, perished almost immediately on contact with the modern humans who started to enter Europe from the Near East about 44,000 years ago. Until now bones from several Neanderthal sites have been dated to as young as 29,000 years ago, suggesting there was extensive overlap between the two human species. This raised the question of whether there had been interbreeding between humans and Neanderthals, an issue that is still not resolved. RSS Feed RSS Get Science News...


 Europeans never had Neanderthal neighbors.
  Russian find suggests Neanderthals died out earlier.

· 05/11/2011 7:41:02 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SeekAndFind ·
· 142 replies ·
· Nature News ·
The first humans to reach Europe may have found it a ghost world. Carbon-dated Neanderthal remains from the foothills of the Caucasus Mountains suggest that the archaic species had died out before modern humans arrived. The remains are almost 10,000 years older than expected. They come from just one cave in western Russia, called Mezmaiskaya, but bones at other Neanderthal sites farther west could also turn out to be more ancient than previously thought, thanks to a precise carbon-dating technique, says Thomas Higham, a palaeoanthropologist at the University of Oxford, UK, and a co-author of a study published this week...


 Late Neandertals of Russia's North

· 05/12/2011 3:54:54 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Palter ·
· 24 replies ·
· Dienekes' Anthropology Blog ·
Ah, the irony! Right after a paper on Neandertal extinction c. 40,000 years ago, we now get a paper about Neandertal survival as late as 31,000 years ago in Russia's north. The two are not entirely incompatible, however, as Neandertals could very well have survived in the periphery of the sapiens range later than in its center. To give an analogy with the more recent spread of agriculturalists, it is precisely in northern Eurasia, the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and Central/South Africa, i.e., areas distant from the primary centers of plant and animal domestication that relic pre-farming groups have...

Paleolithic Spain

 Caves in Spain Yielding More Early Human Finds

· 05/11/2011 1:45:00 AM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 10 replies ·
· Popular Archaeology ·
"We know now that the sediments in the cave were laid down long, long before the last ice age, and that it's Paleolithic "Levalloisian" chert flakes, some of which have edges modified by "Mousterian" retouch are among the oldest of this kind not only in Europe but even in Africa, and are accompanied by an "Acheulian" hand-axe on a stone cobble," reports Michael Walker. "The entire 5-meter deep block of sediment in the cave belongs to the end of the early Early Pleistocene ( 2,588,000-781,000 years ago) according to new optical sediment luminescence dating carried out at Oxford University in 2007...

Prehistory & Origins

 Fundamental question on how life started solved

· 05/09/2011 3:14:09 PM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 31 replies ·
· University of Bonn ·
German and US researchers calculate a carbon nucleus of crucial importanceThe researchers published their results in the coming issue of the scientific journal Physical Review Letters. "Attempts to calculate the Hoyle state have been unsuccessful since 1954," said Professor Dr. Ulf-G. Meiflner (Helmholtz-Institut f¸r Strahlen- und Kernphysik der Universitat Bonn). "But now, we have done it!" The Hoyle state is an energy-rich form of the carbon nucleus. It is the mountain pass over which all roads from one valley to the next lead: From the three nuclei of helium gas to the much larger carbon nucleus. This fusion reaction takes...

Diet & Cuisine

 'Bog butter' from 3,000 BC found in ancient underground store

· 05/11/2011 1:54:17 AM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 21 replies ·
· IrishCentral.com ·
Peat cutter said the ancient food still smells of dairy Over 100 pounds of "bog butter" have been discovered in Tullamore, County Offaly. This ancient food substance, thought to been buried as a form of refrigeration, is thought to be 5,000 years old, dating from the Iron Age. Brian Clancy and his uncle Joe were cutting turf in Ballard Bog when they made the discovery. Joe explained "We were cutting turf and I found what looked like a huge piece of timber...We took it out with a spade and it turned out to be bog butter." Speaking to the Irish...

Agriculture & Animal Husbandry

 Filipino scientist discovers rice's ancient origins

· 05/11/2011 12:31:14 AM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 26 replies ·
· GMA News ·
Using large-scale gene re-sequencing, Purugganan and a team of researchers traced the origins of domesticated rice as far back as 9,000 years ago to China's Yangtze Valley, according to a May 2 press release from New York University. The tens of thousands of kinds of rice available in the world today are mostly varieties of either japonica or indica, the two major subspecies of Asian rice, Oryza sativa. It had been a subject of scientific debate whether these two subspecies had a common origin, or developed separately in China and India. "The multiple-origin model has gained currency in recent years...

Catastrophism & Astronomy

 2,300-Year Climate Record Suggests
  Severe Tropical Droughts as Northern Temperatures Rise

· 05/12/2011 2:04:02 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Red Badger ·
· 29 replies ·
· Science Daily ·
A 2,300-year climate record University of Pittsburgh researchers recovered from an Andes Mountains lake reveals that as temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere rise, the planet's densely populated tropical regions will most likely experience severe water shortages as the crucial summer monsoons become drier. The Pitt team found that equatorial regions of South America already are receiving less rainfall than at any point in the past millennium. [snip] Paired with these sources, the sediment record illustrated that rainfall during the South American summer monsoon has dropped sharply since 1900 -- exhibiting the greatest shift in precipitation since around 300 BCE --...

Let's Have Jerusalem

 The Birth & Death of Biblical Minimalism

· 05/09/2011 7:18:22 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 33 replies ·
· Biblical Archaeology Review ·
Hardly had the minimalist argument been developed than it was profoundly undermined by an archaeological discovery. In 1993 and 1994, several fragments of an Aramaic stela were found at the long-running excavation of Tel Dan led by Avraham Biran of Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem. The historical references in the inscription and the paleography of the writing make it clear that it dates to the ninth century B.C.E. Moreover, the text specifically mentions a king of Israel and a king of the "House of David" (Hebrew, bytdwd ), that is, a king of the dynasty of David. This discovery led...

Faith & Philosophy

 Who are the Coptic Christians?

· 05/11/2011 6:54:48 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 23 replies ·
· Guardian UK ·
Attacks on churches, communal divisions -- Cairo has recently seen conflicts between some Muslims and Coptic Christians. But who exactly are the Copts and how did they come to be in Egypt? Part of the answer lies in Coptic art... in the 19th and 20th centuries excavators such as William Flinders Petrie developed truly scientific archaeological techniques and looked beyond the tombs of the kings into the buried worlds of Egypt's past. Petrie, who excavated at Fayoum, looked not just for treasures but pottery and cloth. Egypt's climate preserves materials that usually perish, including wood, papyrus, and cloth. Even shoes...

Helix, Make Mine a Double

 North America Settled by Just 70 People, Study Concludes

· 05/08/2011 7:55:52 AM PDT ·
· Posted by wildbill ·
· 89 replies ·
· Live Science ·
A new study of DNA suggests North America was originally populated by just a few dozen people who crossed a land bridge from Asia during the last Ice Age. About 14,000 years ago, humans crossed the Bering land bridge from Siberia to North America, most experts agree. But just how many intrepid explorers were involved in spawning subsequent populations has not been known. "The estimated effective size of the founding population for the New World is about 70 individuals," said Jody Hey, a professor of genetics at Rutgers University.

PreColumbian, Clovis & PreClovis

 History lost to gas drilling

· 05/09/2011 6:19:27 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Gondring ·
· 21 replies ·
· The Philadelphia Inquirer ·
Amid shale boom, Pa. law offers little protection to archaeological sites. An excavation at a Westmoreland County site once occupied by Monongahela Indians produced abundant evidence of two villages and allowed researchers to piece together the violent end of the later settlement at the hands of invaders who sacked it, massacred its inhabitants, and burned houses and food stores, said William C. Johnson, an adviser to the project. But when Johnson returned last year to the dig, called the Kirshner site, he was stunned. "There is a drill rig and catchment basin sitting on half the village," said Johnson, who...

Pages

 Discovering America Anew [Book review from Wall St Journal]

· 05/07/2011 12:31:01 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Pharmboy ·
· 9 replies ·
· The Wall ST Journal ·
A narrative history of the New World that by its very boldness invites argument. "To write a history of colonial America used to be easier," the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Alan Taylor grumbled 10 years ago. "The human cast and the geographic stage were both considered so much smaller." My high-school U.S.-history textbook, written in the 1970s, was an example. After a few obligatory pages about "Indians," the Pilgrims land on Plymouth Rock. Soon boatloads of doughty Englishmen establish 13 colonies in a tidy row along the Atlantic coast, the heart of London's new empire. Almost at once -- bud-a-bump! bud-a-bump! -- Paul Revere gallops...

Thoroughly Modern Miscellany

 Risking one's neck for better grog: Mutinies reveal tipping points for collective unrest

· 05/12/2011 6:29:27 PM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 19 replies ·
· University of Washington ·
Films depicting the 1787 mutiny aboard the British ship HMS Bounty show sailors living cheek by jowl, being forced to dance, enduring storm-ridden Cape of Good Hope crossings to satisfy the ship captain's ego and being flogged for trivial reasons. We may not think that these harsh conditions have much relevance today. But mutinies continue to occur, especially in the armed forces of developing nations. And mutinies have similarities to other types of rebellions, including worker strikes, riots, prison rebellions and political uprisings. University of Washington sociologists are studying naval records of mutinies as a way to see how modern-day...

Epigraphy & Language

 Indus Graffiti As Rock Art And Their Astronomical Implications

· 07/17/2005 4:34:11 AM PDT ·
· Posted by N.S.Valluvan ·
· 27 replies ·
· 692+ views ·
· Murugan Bhakti ·
The Kanaga Sign is very common in Indus Rock Art


 Indus Graffiti as Rock Art and their Astronomical implications

· 07/24/2005 8:40:24 PM PDT ·
· Posted by N.S.Valluvan ·
· 5 replies ·
· 530+ views ·
· Murugan Bhakti ·
The Kanaga Sign is very common in Indus Rock Art

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Welcome to the 356th issue. Only seventeen topics -- but it turned out to be Neandertal week (hooray!).
The Neandertal Enigma
by James Shreeve
in local libraries
Frayer's own reading of the record reveals a number of overlooked traits that clearly and specifically link the Neandertals to the Cro-Magnons. One such trait is the shape of the opening of the nerve canal in the lower jaw, a spot where dentists often give a pain-blocking injection. In many Neandertal, the upper portion of the opening is covered by a broad bony ridge, a curious feature also carried by a significant number of Cro-Magnons. But none of the alleged 'ancestors of us all' fossils from Africa have it, and it is extremely rare in modern people outside Europe." [pp 126-127]
Here's the topic list, and like last week it's in the order they were added:
Stuff that doesn't necessarily make it to GGG here on FR gets shared here:
"Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done." -- Mark Twain [quoted by americanophile]
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1,267 posted on 05/14/2011 10:41:23 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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The Neandertal Enigma
by James Shreeve
in local libraries

Frayer’s own reading of the record reveals a number of overlooked traits that clearly and specifically link the Neandertals to the Cro-Magnons. One such trait is the shape of the opening of the nerve canal in the lower jaw, a spot where dentists often give a pain-blocking injection. In many Neandertal, the upper portion of the opening is covered by a broad bony ridge, a curious feature also carried by a significant number of Cro-Magnons. But none of the alleged ‘ancestors of us all’ fossils from Africa have it, and it is extremely rare in modern people outside Europe.” [pp 126-127]

Civ, you have posted this statement more than any other single thing you’ve ever posted.

Do you mind if I ask why?


1,268 posted on 05/14/2011 5:28:24 PM PDT by fanfan (Why did they bury Barry's past?)
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I’d guess that you’re right about that count. :’) I post it in pretty much every topic about Neandertal, because it shows one of (as Shreeve put it) a number of characteristics handed down from Neandertal to people of European ancestry, showing our descent. While it’s *possible* that an entirely (presently) unknown ancestral group also had it, and N utterly died out, I don’t like using a hypothetical coincidence to avoid accepting something so clear and obvious. Anyway, thanks for asking.


1,269 posted on 05/14/2011 7:17:32 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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Thanks for answering. :-)


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Gods, Graves, Glyphs
Weekly Digest #357
Saturday, May 21, 2011

Let's Have Jerusalem

 Jesus' Great-Grandmother Identified

· 05/19/2011 6:07:52 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 48 replies ·
· Discovery News ·
The great-grandmother of Jesus was a woman named Ismeria, according to Florentine medieval manuscripts analyzed by a historian. The legend of St. Ismeria, presented in the current Journal of Medieval History, sheds light on both the Biblical Virgin Mary's family and also on religious and cultural values of 14th-century Florence. "I don't think any other woman is mentioned" as Mary's grandmother in the Bible, Catherine Lawless, author of the paper, told Discovery News. "Mary's patrilineal lineage is the only one given." "Mary herself is mentioned very little in the Bible," added Lawless, a lecturer in history at the University of...

Faith & Philosophy

 Forgeries in the Bible's New Testament?

· 05/19/2011 11:50:25 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Renfield ·
· 71 replies ·
· Discovery News ·
Nearly half of the New Testament is a forgery, according to a provocative new book which charges that the Apostle Paul authored only a fraction of letters attributed to him, and the Apostle Peter just wrote nothing. Written by Bart Ehrman, a former evangelical Christian and now agnostic professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, the book claims to unveil "one of the most unsettling ironies of the early Christian tradition:" the use of deception to promote the truth. "The Bible not only contains untruths of accidental mistakes. It also contains what almost anyone today...

Middle Ages & Renaissance

 Art Appreciation/Education Series II "class" #2: Romanesque and Gothic Art and Architecture

· 10/08/2005 8:08:00 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Republicanprofessor ·
· 37 replies ·
· 13,421+ views ·
In our last "class" on Greco-Roman, Early Christian and Byzantine Art, we saw how the realism of Greece and Rome was repudiated for more spiritual abstraction. The Christians saw the soul as more important than the weighty, physical body, and thus their works were flat and filled with the gold of paradise. My connection to spiritual twentieth century abstraction received mixed results, but that's fine. Today, we'll see how artists gradually added some bulk and realism to their work from 1000-1400. Then in the next "class," we'll study how the Italian Renaissance united a rebirth of Greco-Roman realism with Christian...

Navigation

 New power elite emerged in medieval Iceland as the island became Norwegian

· 05/16/2011 3:00:41 PM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 25 replies ·
· University of Gothenburg ·
As Iceland became part of the Norwegian kingship 1262, a new power structure in the shape of an Icelandic aristocracy appointed by the king of Norway was established. This development is discussed in a doctoral thesis in History from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, that sheds light on a period in the Icelandic history that previously has not received its due attention. 'The 14th century has never received a great deal of attention in Icelandic history writing. This is surprising since this period is at least as important as the considerably more frequently discussed so-called Free State period (around 930/64)...

Scotland Yet

 Did William Wallace Aspire to be King of Scotland?

· 05/19/2011 11:45:14 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Renfield ·
· 33 replies ·
· Past Horizons ·
A newly discovered English source, which also marks the earliest record of Wallace's gruesome execution, confirms outright what historians had only suspected before: the reason that Edward I dealt so harshly with Wallace was that he viewed him as a pretender to the Scottish crown. Accounts of King Edward I's Exchequer for the financial year 1304-1305, known as the "Pipe Roll', describe Wallace as, "a robber, a public traitor, an outlaw, an enemy and rebel of the king, who in contempt of the king, throughout Scotland had falsely sought to call himself king of Scotland.".....

Oh So Mysteriouso

 The Rosslyn Code

· 05/20/2011 7:48:16 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Palter ·
· 8 replies ·
· Slate ·
The real mystery lurking in the chapel where Dan Brown set The Da Vinci Code. From the outside, the Rosslyn Chapel does not look like a suitable place to hide Jesus' head. It's not much bigger than a country church, standing inconspicuously on a small hill in the miniature Scottish town of Roslin, a few miles south of Edinburgh. Its Gothic pinnacles, flying buttresses, and pointed arches have been battered by 500 years of capricious weather, and for years it has been encased in an exoskeleton of scaffolding as restoration efforts plod along. Until recently, it was covered by a...

Agriculture & Animal Husbandry

 Patterns of ancient croplands give insight into early Hawaiian society, research shows

· 05/16/2011 8:52:39 AM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 18 replies ·
· Ohio State University ·
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A pattern of earthen berms, spread across a northern peninsula of the big island of Hawaii, is providing archeologists with clues to exactly how residents farmed in paradise long before Europeans arrived at the islands. The findings suggest that simple, practical decisions made by individual households were eventually adopted by the ruling class as a means to improve agricultural productivity. The researchers believe the data also provides insight into the structure of Hawaiian society at the time. "We know that there was a single chief for each district and a series of lesser chiefs below that,"...

Helix, Make Mine a Double

 Absence of Mitochondrial Proteins May Prevent Age-Related Diseases, Increase Lifespan

· 05/12/2011 8:45:07 AM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 20 replies ·
· Daily Tech ·
Researchers hope to control a group of mitochondrial proteins that attack and damage other functional cell parts, which leads to age-related diseases Thomas Nystrˆm, study leader and a researcher in the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology at the University of Gothenburg, and a team of researchers, have discovered that a group of mitochondrial proteins may be responsible for age-related diseases. Scientists have theorized that the mitochondria, which are the power stations of cells, are responsible for human aging. This theory comes from the fact that mitochondria not only produce the body's energy, but also create harmful byproducts. These byproducts...

Epigraphy & Language

 Mysterious Ancient Rock Carvings Found Near Nile

· 05/16/2011 3:51:11 PM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 56 replies ·
· Live Science ·
An archaeological team in the Bayuda Desert in northern Sudan has discovered dozens of new rock art drawings, some of which were etched more than 5,000 years ago and reveal scenes that scientists can't explain. The team discovered 15 new rock art sites in an arid valley known as Wadi Abu Dom, some 18 miles (29 kilometers) from the Nile River. It's an arid valley that flows with water only during rainy periods. Many of the drawings were carved into the rock faces -- no paint was used -- of small stream beds known as "khors" that flow into the...

Cave Art

 Cave of Forgotten Dreams

· 05/17/2011 8:45:28 AM PDT ·
· Posted by flowerplough ·
· 25 replies ·
· World Magazine ·
In a film that blends paleontological wonders with existential pondering, Cave of Forgotten Dreams asks the question, "What constitutes humanness?" German director Werner Herzog creeps deep into Chauvet Cave in southern France, where researchers say they have found the earliest known cave paintings. The charcoal paintings etched on the curved walls of the cave -- some say from 32,000 B.C., others say 10,000 B.C. -- look as though someone scratched them there last week. A landslide sealed the cave thousands of years ago, creating a perfectly preserved time capsule until explorers discovered it in 1994. Only a few scientists are allowed inside, and Herzog...

Prehistory & Origins

 Did Early Humans Stand Upright to Punch Better?

· 05/20/2011 7:34:35 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 28 replies ·
· History Channel ·
Carrier's findings may also shed light on another mystery: why multiple studies have amply proven that -- statistically speaking, at least -- women find taller men more attractive. If downward blows strike harder, as Carrier's punching experiment suggested, a tall male has the advantage over a shorter contender. "Early in human evolution, an enhanced capacity to strike downward on an opponent may have given tall males a greater capacity to compete for mates and to defend their resources and offspring," he said. "If this were true, females who chose to mate with tall males would have had greater fitness for...

From the FRchives

 Why Intelligent Design Is Going to Win

· 10/07/2005 4:03:19 AM PDT ·
· Posted by gobucks ·
· 257 replies ·
· 3,612+ views ·
· Tech Central Station ·
It doesn't matter if you like it or not. It doesn't matter if you think it's true or not. Intelligent Design theory is destined to supplant Darwinism as the primary scientific explanation for the origin of human life. ID will be taught in public schools as a matter of course. It will happen in our lifetime. It's happening right now, actually. Here's why: 1) ID will win because it's a religion-friendly, conservative-friendly, red-state kind of theory, and no one will lose money betting on the success of red-state theories in the next fifty to one hundred years. I've said it...

Early America

 Freedom in the swamp: Unearthing the secret history of the great dismal swamp

· 05/16/2011 3:37:59 AM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 18 replies ·
· American University ·
Swamp was once a refuge for Indigenous Americans, runaway slaves and othersIt's the year 1800. You're a slave in southeast Virginia. You manage to escape. Your freedom is only going to last as long as you can hide. Where do you go? Would you believe the Great Dismal Swamp? According to Dan Sayers, assistant professor of anthropology and an historical archaeologist at American University, that's exactly where you could have gone for immediate sanctuary. "There are interesting parallels. What was once more of a human refuge is now a natural refuge," said Sayers of the swamp, which officially became the...

The Revolution

 Jewish patriot honored at Kew Gardens Hills memorial [Haym Salomon]

· 05/20/2011 10:16:01 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Pharmboy ·
· 12 replies ·
· yournabe.com ·
Haym Salomon, a Polish immigrant who funded the Revolutionary army, celebrated at annual event Jonathan Ridgeway (l.), chairman of the state Sons of the Revolution Color Guard, marches with fellow guard member Ambrose Richardson, who is carrying a flag bearing the symbol of Revolution-era organization the Sons of Liberty. Photo by Joe Anuta America pays tribute to Paul Revere and George Washington with legends, statues and even currency, but a small crowd gathered in Kew Gardens Hills Sunday to remember an unsung hero of the Revolutionary War. Haym Salomon was a Polish Jew who immigrated to the 13 Colonies and...

Thoroughly Modern Miscellany

 Sam Colt's Dress Blues, A New Find, Sheds Light On Brief Chapter In Civil War

· 05/15/2011 6:40:51 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Daffynition ·
· 44 replies ·
· Hartford Courant ·
In May 1861, Samuel Colt was Hartford's richest, most famous citizen. A charismatic, driven entrepreneur, Colt possessed inventive genius, boundless imagination and unsurpassed marketing prowess. He had built an internationally renowned business centered in a state-of-the art armory in Hartford's South Meadows that produced the revolving handguns bearing his name. Instruments of "moral reform,'' Colt once sardonically called his artful, deadly devices. How they were used, and by whom, did not trouble him much.

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· Saturday, May 21, 2011 · 15 topics · 2722910 to 2720388 · 764 members ·
 
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Welcome to the 357th issue. Only fifteen topics. But have I mentioned that the Astronomy Picture of the Day list has been revived? Yes, I am that stupid.

Scotland listmeiser, the FReeper Sionnsar, is in the hospital: Thanks go to LibreOuMort, fanfan, and HKMk23 and others who spread the word.

Here's the topic list in the order in which they were added: Thanks for the heads-up, Halfmanhalfamazing:
My fellow freepers, please download this video so they can't erase it from the internet. If you have ping lists, please use them to get more people's help.

If you'll notice, the Blaze's video has already been taken down.

I'm downloading a copy of it now. I don't want to be the only one. We all should do this.

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Saturday, May 21, 2011

Helix, Make Mine a Double

 Population genetics reveals shared ancestries

· 05/24/2011 1:06:30 PM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 45 replies ·
· Harvard Medical School ·
More than just a tool for predicting health, modern genetics is upending long-held assumptions about who we are. A new study by Harvard researchers casts new light on the intermingling and migration of European, Middle Eastern and African and populations since ancient times. In a paper titled "The History of African Gene Flow into Southern Europeans, Levantines and Jews," published in PLoS Genetics, HMS Associate Professor of Genetics David Reich and his colleagues investigated the proportion of sub-Saharan African ancestry present in various populations in West Eurasia, defined as the geographic area spanning modern Europe and the Middle East. While...

Neandertal / Neanderthal

 Clues to Neanderthal hunting tactics hidden in reindeer teeth

· 05/24/2011 6:46:09 AM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 17 replies ·
· PhysOrg ·
Scientists have found that our cousins the Neanderthal employed sophisticated hunting strategies similar to the tactics used much later by modern humans. The new findings come from the analysis of subtle chemical variations in reindeer teeth.Reindeer and caribou are nowadays restricted to the northernmost regions of Eurasia and America. But many thousands of years ago, large reindeer herds roamed throughout Europe and were hunted by the Neanderthal people. Kate Britton, an archaeologist now at the University of Aberdeen, and her colleagues were part of a team at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, that studied the Jonzac Neanderthal...

Biology & Cryptobiology

 Battle royale: Prehistoric cave bears versus cave lions

· 05/23/2011 5:23:23 PM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 34 replies ·
· BBC ·
Sleeping on its bed, a giant cave bear opens one eye, alert to any intruder.It stands, lifting its massive 400kg frame and bares its teeth. In front of it is an equally sized cave lion; a giant predatory cat, and the cave bear's mortal enemy. Only one will survive, while the bones of the fallen will litter the cave floor for millennia. New evidence reveals how such titanic struggles likely took place in caves across central Europe in the Upper Pleistocene epoch, which ended around 11,500 years ago. While excavating caves in Germany and Romania, scientists have unearthed the bones...

Anatolia

 Göbekli Tepe - The Birth of Religion

· 05/23/2011 8:23:10 AM PDT ·
· Posted by No One Special ·
· 27 replies ·
· National Geographic ·
We used to think agriculture gave rise to cities and later to writing, art, and religion. Now the world's oldest temple suggests the urge to worship sparked civilization. Every now and then the dawn of civilization is reenacted on a remote hilltop in southern Turkey. The reenactors are busloads of tourists -- usually Turkish, sometimes European. The buses (white, air-conditioned, equipped with televisions) blunder over the winding, indifferently paved road to the ridge and dock like dreadnoughts before a stone portal. Visitors flood out, fumbling with water bottles and MP3 players. Guides call out instructions and explanations. Paying no attention, the visitors...

Prehistory & Origins

 Early Bronze Age battle site found on German river bank

· 05/22/2011 6:31:53 AM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 15 replies ·
· BBC ·
Fractured human remains found on a German river bank could provide the first compelling evidence of a major Bronze Age battle.Archaeological excavations of the Tollense Valley in northern Germany unearthed fractured skulls, wooden clubs and horse remains dating from around 1200 BC. The injuries to the skulls suggest face-to-face combat in a battle perhaps fought between warring tribes, say the researchers. > The archaeologists also found remains of two wooden clubs, one the shape of a baseball bat and made of ash, the second the shape of a croquet mallet and made of sloe wood. Dr Harald Lubke of the...


 "Early Bronze Age battle site found on German river bank"

· 05/22/2011 6:37:56 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Covenantor ·
· 36 replies ·
· BBC ·
Fractured human remains found on a German river bank could provide the first compelling evidence of a major Bronze Age battle. Archaeological excavations of the Tollense Valley in northern Germany unearthed fractured skulls, wooden clubs and horse remains dating from around 1200 BC. The injuries to the skulls suggest face-to-face combat in a battle perhaps fought between warring tribes, say the researchers. The paper, published in the journal Antiquity, is based primarily on an investigation begun in...

Epigraphy & Language

 In Ruin, Symbols on a Stone Hint at a Lost Asian Culture

· 05/25/2011 6:02:59 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 18 replies ·
· New York Times ·
In an unexpected benefit of the cold war's end, Russian and American archaeologists say they have discovered an ancient civilization that thrived in Central Asia more than 4,000 years ago, before being lost in the sweep of history. The people of that area, the archaeologists say, built oasis settlements with imposing mud-brick buildings and fortifications. They herded sheep and goats and grew wheat and barley in irrigated fields. They had bronze axes, fine ceramics, alabaster and bone carvings and jewelry of gold and semiprecious stones. They left luxury goods in the graves of an elite class. The accomplishments of those...

The Greeks

 Ancient Greek City Uncovered in Russia [Temple of Demeter]

· 05/23/2011 9:09:16 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 24 replies ·
· EU Greek Reporter ·
What is considered to be a unique discovery has been made in Taman, South Russia, at the Black Sea. The ruins of an ancient Greek city, dated around the 6th century BC, came to light. Archeologists are stunned both by the number of the findings and the condition they were found in. The excavations are proceeding with extreme caution, in order to avoid damaging the city's ancient fortress. According to historians, it is assumed that the ruins are the temple of Dimitra, the ancient goddess of fertility and agriculture, while they were able to determine the very spot of the altar....

Epidemics, Pandemics, Plagues, the Sniffles

 Mummies tell history of a 'modern' plague

· 05/23/2011 9:09:42 AM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 13 replies ·
· Emory University ·
Mummies from along the Nile are revealing how age-old irrigation techniques may have boosted the plague of schistosomiasis, a water-borne parasitic disease that infects an estimated 200 million people today. An analysis of the mummies from Nubia, a former kingdom that was located in present-day Sudan, provides details for the first time about the prevalence of the disease across populations in ancient times, and how human alteration of the environment during that era may have contributed to its spread. The American Journal of Physical Anthropology is publishing the study, led by Emory graduate student Amber Campbell Hibbs, who recently received...

Egypt

 Egyptian pyramids found by infra-red satellite images (17!)

· 05/25/2011 5:56:52 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Red Badger ·
· 30 replies ·
· BBC News ·
Seventeen lost pyramids are among the buildings identified in a new satellite survey of Egypt. More than 1,000 tombs and 3,000 ancient settlements were also revealed by looking at infra-red images which show up underground buildings. Initial excavations have already confirmed some of the findings, including two suspected pyramids. The work has been pioneered at the University of Alabama in Birmingham by US Egyptologist Dr Sarah Parcak. She says she was amazed at how much she and her team has found. "We were very intensely doing this research for over a year. I could see the data as it was...


 Egyptian pyramids found by infra-red satellite images

· 05/25/2011 9:36:00 AM PDT ·
· Posted by bigbob ·
· 36 replies ·
· BBC News ·
Seventeen lost pyramids are among the buildings identified in a new satellite survey of Egypt. More than 1,000 tombs and 3,000 ancient settlements were also revealed by looking at infra-red images which show up underground buildings. Initial excavations have already confirmed some of the findings, including two suspected pyramids. The work has been pioneered at the University of Alabama at Birmingham by US Egyptologist Dr Sarah Parcak. satellite image of pyramid An infra-red satellite image shows a buried pyramid, located in the centre of the highlight box. She says she was amazed at how much she and her team has...

Oh So Mysteriouso

 First images from Great Pyramid's chamber of secrets

· 05/26/2011 10:18:42 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 47 replies ·
· New Scientist ·
A robot has sent back the first images of markings on the wall of a tiny chamber in the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt that have not been seen for 4500 years. It has also helped settle the controversy about the only metal known to exist in the pyramid, and shows a "door" that could lead to another hidden chamber. The pyramid is thought to have been built as a tomb for the pharaoh Khufu, and is the last of the seven wonders of the ancient world still standing. It contains three main chambers: the Queen's Chamber, the Grand...

Scotland Yet

 Skeleton of Amazon warrior discovered

· 05/26/2011 5:29:47 PM PDT ·
· Posted by afraidfortherepublic ·
· 4 replies ·
· The Scotsman ·
THE discovery of the remains of an aristocratic Scottish "Amazon", killed in battle during the Wars of Independence, is set to rewrite the history books. Her skeleton was among the remains of five "high status" individuals - all of whom had suffered violent deaths - found beneath the paved floor of the "lost" Royal Chapel at Stirling Castle. The woman - simply known as "skeleton 539" - was a robust and muscular female, standing 5ft 4in tall. Archaeologists had previously suspected she had been a courtier at the Royal palace during the reign of Alexander 11. But detailed forensic tests...


 Skeleton of Amazon warrior discovered

· 05/26/2011 5:30:06 PM PDT ·
· Posted by afraidfortherepublic ·
· 42 replies ·
· The Scotsman ·
THE discovery of the remains of an aristocratic Scottish "Amazon", killed in battle during the Wars of Independence, is set to rewrite the history books. Her skeleton was among the remains of five "high status" individuals - all of whom had suffered violent deaths - found beneath the paved floor of the "lost" Royal Chapel at Stirling Castle. The woman - simply known as "skeleton 539" - was a robust and muscular female, standing 5ft 4in tall. Archaeologists had previously suspected she had been a courtier at the Royal palace during the reign of Alexander 11. But detailed forensic tests...

Farty Shades of Green

 Decapitated Head Of St. Vitalis, Patron Saint Of Genital Disease, To Be Sold At Auction

· 05/27/2011 5:11:51 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Second Amendment First ·
· 126 replies ·
· AOL ·
The term "VD" is slang for venereal disease, but, in this case, it can also stand for "Vitalis' Dome," as in St. Vitalis, the patron saint for genital diseases. Soon, some lucky collector of rare artifacts may know the joy that only comes when you have the decapitated skull of a Catholic saint in your possession. On May 29, the noggin of St. Vitalis of Assisi will be sold at auction in Duleek, Ireland. The macabre memento has a pre-auction value between $1,100 and $1,700. The family selling the saintly skull are an Anglo-Irish family based in County Louth, the...

Navigation

 NOAA and partners explore the hidden world of the maritime Maya

· 05/24/2011 4:30:37 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Renfield ·
· 7 replies ·
· NOAA ·
NOAA-sponsored explorers are searching a wild, largely unexplored and forgotten coastline for evidence and artifacts of one of the greatest seafaring traditions of the ancient New World, where Maya traders once paddled massive dugout canoes filled with trade goods from across Mexico and Central America. One exploration goal is to discover the remains of a Maya trading canoe, described in A.D. 1502 by Christopher Columbus' son Ferdinand, as holding 25 paddlers plus cargo and passengers. Through the end of May, the team is exploring the remote jungle, mangrove forests and lagoons at the ancient port site of Vista Alegre ("happy...

Peru & the Andes

 Inca success in Peruvian Andes 'thanks to llama dung'

· 05/22/2011 4:51:51 PM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 36 replies ·
· BBC ·
One of the world's greatest ancient civilisations may have been built on llama droppings, a new study has found.Machu Picchu, the famous Inca city set in the Peruvian Andes, celebrates the centenary of its "'discovery" by the outside world this July. Dignitaries will descend on site for a glitzy event in July marking 100 years since US explorer Hiram Bingham came upon the site, but the origins of Machu Picchu were far less glamorous. According to a study published in archaeological review Antiquity, llama droppings provided the basis for the growth of Inca society. It was the switch from hunter-gathering...

PreColumbian, Clovis & PreClovis

 440-year-old document sheds new light on native population decline under Spanish colonial rule

· 05/26/2011 6:07:24 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 11 replies ·
· Eurekalert ·
Analysis of a 440-year-old document reveals new details about native population decline in the heartland of the Inca Empire following Spanish conquest in the 16th century. According to the analysis, the native Andean population in the Yucay Valley of Peru showed a remarkable ability to bounce back in the short term from the disease, warfare, and famine that accompanied the initial Spanish invasion. However, it was the repetition of such disasters generation after generation, along with overly rigid colonial administration, that dramatically reduced the population over the long term... The analysis is based on an unusually detailed survey of the...

Catastrophism & Astronomy

 Comet Theory Comes Crashing to Earth

· 05/23/2011 5:43:19 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Renfield ·
· 33 replies ·
· Miller-McCune ·
It seemed like such an elegant answer to an age-old mystery: the disappearance of what are arguably North America's first people. A speeding comet nearly 13,000 years ago was the culprit, the theory goes, spraying ice and rocks across the continent, killing the Clovis people and the mammoths they fed on, and plunging the region into a deep chill. The idea so captivated the public that three movies describing the catastrophe were produced. But now, four years after the purportedly supportive evidence was reported, a host of scientific authorities systematically have made the case that the comet theory is "bogus."...

Climate

 Significant Role of Oceans in Onset of Ancient Global Cooling

· 05/26/2011 1:27:37 PM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 17 replies ·
· National Science Foundation ·
Thirty-eight million years ago, tropical jungles thrived in what are now the cornfields of the American Midwest and furry marsupials wandered temperate forests in what is now the frozen Antarctic. The temperature differences of that era, known as the late Eocene, between the equator and Antarctica were half what they are today. A debate has been ongoing in the scientific community about what changes in our global climate system led to such a major shift from the more tropical, greenhouse climate of the Eocene to modern and much cooler climates. New research results published in this week's issue of the...

Paleontology

 Anthropologist discovers new fossil primate species in West Texas

· 05/23/2011 8:35:16 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 21 replies ·
· PhysOrg ·
Physical anthropologist Chris Kirk has announced the discovery of a previously unknown species of fossil primate, Mescalerolemur horneri, in the Devil's Graveyard badlands of West Texas. Mescalerolemur lived during the Eocene Epoch about 43 million years ago, and would have most closely resembled a small present-day lemur. Mescalerolemur is a member of an extinct primate group -- the adapiforms -- that were found throughout the Northern Hemisphere in the Eocene. However, just like Mahgarita stevensi, a younger fossil primate found in the same area in 1973, Mescalerolemur is more closely related to Eurasian and African adapiforms than those from North...


 Fossil of giant ancient sea predator discovered (w/ video)

· 05/28/2011 7:47:24 AM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 11 replies ·
· PhysOrg ·
The creatures, known as anomalocaridids, were already thought to be the largest animals of the Cambrian period, known for the "Cambrian Explosion" that saw the sudden appearance of all the major animal groups and the establishment of complex ecosystems about 540 to 500 million years ago. Fossils from this period suggested these marine predators grew to be about two feet long. Until now, scientists also thought these strange invertebrates -- which had long spiny head limbs presumably used to snag worms and other prey, and a circlet of plates around the mouth -- died out at the end of the...

The Revolution

 Ben Franklin, Peace Titan

· 05/28/2011 8:37:01 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Pharmboy ·
· 5 replies ·
· Investor's Business Daily ·
Benjamin Franklin owed the French for recognizing American independence, loaning money and entering the Revolutionary War against Britain. None of that, though, stopped Franklin from putting America's interests first and risking antagonizing the French when he negotiated a peace treaty with Britain. America won much better terms from the Treaty of Paris, signed in September 1783, than the Colonists had hoped for. On top of Britain's acceptance of U.S. independence, the treaty set America's boundary in the West at the Mississippi River -- giving the young nation plenty of room and resources to grow. The problem was France, as well...

The Civil War

 Park Ranger provides glimpse into San Francisco's Civil War past

· 05/24/2011 2:08:49 PM PDT ·
· Posted by mgstarr ·
· 9 replies ·
· Digital Journal ·
San Francisco - On the south side of the Golden Gate Bridge at the entrance of San Francisco Bay is Fort Point. Windy and dusty it sits underneath the Golden Gate Bridge as something from another place and time. Constructed in 1861 just as the Civil War was begriming, the old fort with its seven-foot-thick walls, was actually one of dozens of forts and sentries established to defend the San Francisco Bay from invasion. [snip] From its beginnings as a sleepy little village of the Ohlone tribe, San Francisco then called Yerba Buena by arriving Europeans, was a distant outpost...

World War Eleven

 "MIHAILOVICH and I" by Major Richard L. Felman, U.S.A.F. / A True Story

· 05/27/2011 7:37:49 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Ravnagora ·
· 11 replies ·
· www.generalmihailovich.com ·
General Draza Mihailovich Major Richard L. Felman, USAF ***** Aleksandra's Note: The following memoir was first published in 1964 by Major Richard L. Felman of the United States Air Force. It is his personal true story of his extraordinary experiences during World War Two. It is also the story of the great Serbian patriot and Western Ally General Draza Mihailovich and the Serbs who saved the lives of over 500 Americans who were shot down over Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia in 1944. In honor of Memorial Day 2011 it's worthwhile to revisit this moment in history. As much as his story honors...

Thoroughly Modern Miscellany

 Clausewitz: Master of War

· 05/21/2011 8:13:10 PM PDT ·
· Posted by neverdem ·
· 41 replies ·
· The American Interest ·
I'm busy reading final papers for the grand strategy seminar at Bard this spring, and the students are finishing up their exams and thinking about summer. It's already time to start reading and thinking about the syllabus for the fall course in Anglo-American grand strategy. British and American strategic thinkers and policy makers developed a new form of global strategy in the last 300 years that enabled the two English speaking powers to build a global political and security order resting on a foundation of liberal capitalism. Understanding the grand strategy that shaped the modern world is surely something that...

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· Saturday, May 28, 2011 · 26 topics · 2726459 to 2723334 · 766 members ·
 
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Welcome to the 358th issue. Cookin' again, 26 topics, a nice, average-sized GGG digest.

And this week's quote is pretty much the winner of the Nobel Prize for Stupidity, if I may.

Here's the topic list in the order in which they were added: Stuff that doesn't necessarily make it to GGG here on FR gets shared here:
[To: Jim Robinson] "Who are you to decide what FR tolerates? What if someone is anti abortion, anti big government, Republican ( with both votes and money) yet supports gay right? Are we not welcome?" -- [by newly-ex-FReeper uscabjd]
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Saturday, June 4, 2011

Helix, Make Mine a Double

 Early Human Dads Stayed at Home While Females Roamed

· 06/03/2011 4:39:07 AM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 13 replies ·
· Discovery News ·
THE GIST
  • Males of two early human species did not travel much, unlike females who tended to leave their places of birth.
  • The dispersal pattern mirrors that of some other primates, such as chimpanzees and bonobos, and likely occurs to prevent inbreeding.
  • It remains unclear if the females left of their own free will, or if they were forcibly removed from their homelands.

Agriculture & Animal Husbandry

 Ancient DNA reveals male diffusion through the Neolithic Mediterranean route

· 06/02/2011 5:26:34 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 21 replies ·
· PNAS ·
The Neolithic is a key period in the history of the European settlement. Although archaeological and present-day genetic data suggest several hypotheses regarding the human migration patterns at this period, validation of these hypotheses with the use of ancient genetic data has been limited. In this context, we studied DNA extracted from 53 individuals buried in a necropolis used by a French local community 5,000 y ago. The relatively good DNA preservation of the samples allowed us to obtain autosomal, Y-chromosomal, and/or mtDNA data for 29 of the 53 samples studied. From these datasets, we established close parental relationships within...

Prehistory & Origins

 Unique Canine Tooth from 'Peking Man' Found in Swedish Museum Collection

· 06/03/2011 2:50:29 AM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 13 replies ·
· ScienceDaily ·
Swedish paleontologists were the first scientists to go to China in the early 20th century, and they carried out a series of expeditions in collaboration with Chinese colleagues. They found large numbers of fossils of dinosaurs and other vertebrates. The material was sent to Sweden and the well-known paleontologist Carl Wiman, who identified and described the fossils. But when the direction of research changed after Wiman's death, 40 cartons were left unopened and forgotten -- until know. In recent weeks, they have been opened by Per Ahlberg, his colleague Martin Kundr·t, and Museum Director Jan Ove Ebbestad, who had drawn...

Paleontology

 Fair Chase

· 05/31/2011 1:02:08 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Palter ·
· 23 replies ·
· Outside Magazine ·
On the plains of New Mexico, a band of elite marathoners tests a controversial theory of evolution: that humans can outrun the fastest animals on earth. THROUGH THE BINOCULARS I see them: nine tiny men in bright jerseys running in formation across the vast short-grass prairie of eastern New Mexico. They're chasing a tawny pronghorn antelope through the crackling stalks of late summer's fading wild sunflowers. The buck weighs about 130 pounds, like the men racing after it, but that's about the only thing they have in common. The pronghorn is the second-fastest animal on earth, while the men are...

Epidemics, Pandemics, Plagues, the Sniffles

 Egyptian Mummies Hold Clues of Ancient Air Pollution

· 06/03/2011 6:03:14 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 20 replies ·
· LiveScience ·
Ancient Egyptians may have been exposed to air pollution way back when, according to new evidence of particulates in the lungs of 15 mummies, including noblemen and priests. Particulates, tiny microscopic particles that irritate the lungs, have been linked to a wide array of modern-day illnesses, including heart disease, lung ailments and cancer. The particulates are typically linked to post-industrial activities, such as fossil-fuel burning. But after hearing of reports of such particulates being found in mummy tissue, Roger Montgomerie, a doctoral student at the KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology at the University of Manchester, decided to take a closer...

Egypt

 Getting on with a colossal task [18th dynasty pharaoh Amenhotep III]

· 06/03/2011 2:51:20 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 3 replies ·
· Al-Ahram Weekly ·
...the mortuary temple of the 18th-Dynasty pharaoh Amenhotep III was the largest temple complex in the Theban area. It stretched over a 350,000-square- metre space, guarded at the main gateway by a pair of gigantic statues of Amenhotep popularly known as the Colossi of Memnon, with smaller statues of Queen Tiye and Queen Mutemwiya at their feet. Regrettably, these two colossi are almost all that remains of this huge temple complex, since much of the rest of the temple collapsed during a massive earthquake that hit the area in antiquity, while the parts that survived this catastrophe decayed as a...

Pyramania

 'Pyramids were built by leadership skills, not slavery'

· 05/28/2011 12:36:29 PM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 64 replies ·
· Press Trust of India ·
It was the leadership skills of the rulers and not the bondage of slavery that motivated the labourers to toil hard in building the ancient Egyptian pyramids, claims a top leadership guru. Indonesia-based Arthur Carmazzi will soon come out with a book arguing how the leadership skills of the rulers of Egypt were responsible for building the giant structures regarded as one of the Seven Wonders of the World. "Various researches have already shown that the labourers were not slaves. It was more about getting work done through leadership skills, rather than by slavery and exploitation. Even today we look...

India

 Ancient temple guarded by ugly statuettes.

· 11/12/2001 9:38:13 AM PST ·
· Posted by janus ·
· 37 replies ·
· 283+ views ·
· Times of India ·
Man falls into ancient cellar AMIT MUKHERJEE TIMES NEWS NETWORK HMEDABAD: All Praveen Mehta, a retired bank employee of Ahmedabad, can think of these days is a dark underground chamber, guarded by three disfigured statues of dancing girls. The chamber, with six hidden air ducts, was discovered after the January 26 earthquake of Gujarat. Believed to be a secret cellar of a bygone era, the chamber could have been used for performing secret yagnas. It could even be the outer chamber of a secret treasure trove. The house, which was purchased by Mehta's grandfather Giridharilal in 1898, suffered considerable ...

Sunken Civilizations

 Photos: 8000-year-old advanced civilisation in Konkan Coast?

· 06/02/2011 6:44:27 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 17 replies ·
· DNA ·
Researchers have found a wall-like structure that is 24 kilometres long, 2.7 metres tall, and around 2.5 metres wide. The structure shows uniformity in its construction. "The structure is not continuous throughout the 225 kilometres from Shrivardhan to Raigad, but it is uniform," said Dr Ashok Marathe, professor, department of archaeology, Postgraduate and Research Institute, Deccan College, Pune. "It has been found three metres below the present sea level. It has been constructed on the ancient sand beach, which was taken as the base for the construction. Considering the uniformity of the structure, it was obvious that the structure is...

Catastrophism & Astronomy

 Has a University of Hartford Professor Found the Lost City of Atlantis?[Spain]

· 03/08/2011 5:59:42 PM PST ·
· Posted by Palter ·
· 21 replies ·
· WesthartFord Patch ·
Dr. Richard Freund to be featured in a National Geographic Channel film; public invited to preview on Wednesday. Spend a little time with Dr. Richard Freund of the University of Hartford, and you might be convinced that the lost city of Atlantis is buried deep within a swamp in southern Spain. Freund, who directs the university's Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies, worked with a team of Spanish, American and Canadian scientists to examine a muddy swamp in Spain that was first noted as a possible location for Atlantis by a German scientist looking at satellite photos in 2003. Freund's 2009...

The Mediterranean

 Sicilian Peoples: The Sicanians

· 05/29/2011 10:12:53 AM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 28 replies ·
· Best of Sicily ·
Little is known of the Sicans' literature or mythology. Developed some time before 1200 BC, the Phoenician alphabet was used in some form in early Etruscan and Greek, and also influenced the writing systems of Hebrew and Aramaic. The only known alphabet of the Sicanians was essentially Phoenician. It would not be inappropriate to postulate that an identifiably "Sicanian" culture existed in many parts of Sicily by 1600 BC; it certainly existed before the presumed date of arrival of the Elymians and Sicels a few centuries later... It is difficult to overlook the frequency with which Greek and Roman...

Religion of Pieces

 Jews have no right to Western Wall, PA 'study' says

· 11/22/2010 12:20:04 PM PST ·
· Posted by wmfights ·
· 36 replies ·
· The Jerusalem Post ·
The Western Wall belongs to Muslims and is an integral part of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Haram al-Sharif [the Noble Sanctuary], according to an official paper published on Monday by the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Information in Ramallah. The paper, which has been presented as a "study," was prepared by Al-Mutawakel Taha, a senior official with the PA Ministry of Information to "refute" Jews' claim to the Western Wall. In the past, PA leaders and officials had also denied Jews' right to the Kotel, insisting that the Temple Mount had never stood in the area. The new paper claims...


 Claim: Israel covering up Temple Mount destruction- Jewish Temples "never existed"

· 10/22/2007 5:17:30 PM PDT ·
· Posted by yankeesdoodle ·
· 31 replies ·
· 69+ views ·
· Wolrd Net Daily ·
Speaking to WND in a recent interview, Waqf official and chief Palestinian Justice Taysir Tamimi claimed the Jewish Temples "never existed." "About these so-called two Temples, they never existed, certainly not at the Haram Al- Sharif (Temple Mount)," said Tamimi, who is considered the second most important Palestinian cleric after Muhammad Hussein, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. "Israel started since 1967 making archaeological digs to show Jewish signs to prove the relationship between Judaism and the city, and they found nothing. There is no Jewish connection to Israel before the Jews invaded in the 1880s," said Tamimi. The Palestinian cleric...


 Olmert 'caved to Muslims' on Temple Mount

· 02/16/2007 7:52:46 AM PST ·
· Posted by standingfirm ·
· 11 replies ·
· 301+ views ·
· World Net Daily ·
JERUSALEM -- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's decision to allow Muslims to construct a massive minaret on the Temple Mount will embolden the enemies of the Jewish state and signal that violence and terrorism are working, according to a group of prominent rabbinic leaders in Israel. The Rabbinical Congress for Peace, a coalition of more than 300 Israeli rabbinic leaders and pulpit rabbis, said in a statement today Olmert "does not have the moral or historic right to hand over even one inch of Israeli territory to foreigners." "The mere fact of giving up sovereignty of the Temple Mount --...

Let's Have Jerusalem

 Beneath Jerusalem, an underground city takes shape

· 05/30/2011 1:45:33 PM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 8 replies ·
· Associated Press ·
JERUSALEM -- Underneath the crowded alleys and holy sites of old Jerusalem, hundreds of people are snaking at any given moment through tunnels, vaulted medieval chambers and Roman sewers in a rapidly expanding subterranean city invisible from the streets above. At street level, the walled Old City is an energetic and fractious enclave with a physical landscape that is predominantly Islamic and a population that is mainly Arab. Underground Jerusalem is different: Here the noise recedes, the fierce Middle Eastern sun disappears, and light comes from fluorescent bulbs. There is a smell of earth and mildew, and the geography recalls...


 Beneath Jerusalem, An Underground City Takes Shape

· 05/30/2011 4:57:48 PM PDT ·
· Posted by marshmallow ·
· 10 replies ·
· AP ·
JERUSALEM -- Underneath the crowded alleys and holy sites of old Jerusalem, hundreds of people are snaking at any given moment through tunnels, vaulted medieval chambers and Roman sewers in a rapidly expanding subterranean city invisible from the streets above. At street level, the walled Old City is an energetic and fractious enclave with a physical landscape that is predominantly Islamic and a population that is mainly Arab. Underground Jerusalem is different: Here the noise recedes, the fierce Middle Eastern sun disappears, and light comes from fluorescent bulbs. There is a smell of earth and mildew, and the geography recalls...

Faith & Philosophy

 Archaeologists Return to 'King Solomon's Mines' of Biblical Edom

· 05/31/2011 8:53:36 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Palter ·
· 23 replies ·
· Popular Archaeology ·
A team of archaeologists and others will return to a site southeast of the Dead Sea in late September, 2011 to continue investigations of what is now considered to be one of the largest copper mines of the ancient Middle East. Among other things, scientists hope to be able to identify the ethnicity or nationality of the people who actually controlled the mining and smelting operation during the 10th century B.C.E., the time period when, based on the Biblical accounts, scholars have traditionally dated the kingdom of Edom, as well as that of David and Solomon of ancient Israel. The...


 More on The King of Salomon [sic] Stone Tablet

· 08/21/2003 7:45:37 PM PDT ·
· Posted by restornu ·
· 4 replies ·
· 240+ views ·
· 2003 ·
Three days ago we published "Temple of Salomon [sic] Re-Confirmed" Prof. Nadav Neeman, is a historian who recently wrote a book that is based on the assumption, that the book of Kings was written many years after the events described in it, and that the author of the book was forced to rely on sources predating the period in which he lived, in order to be able to reconstruct events that took place before his time. He commented to us that the Jehoash inscription is written in ancient Phoenician script on a black...


 Message From Yoash, King Of Judah

· 01/13/2003 10:29:01 AM PST ·
· Posted by Nachum ·
· 4 replies ·
· 476+ views ·
· Arutz 7 ·
An inscribed stone tablet from the time of Yehoash, King of Judah, has apparently been discovered on the Temple Mount. The black stone tablet, containing ten lines of Phoenician script, describes activities carried out by King Yehoash in the First Temple some 2,700 years ago. The inscription corresponds to the biblical account as recorded in Kings II 12, including King Yehoash's call to the Cohanim (priests) to collect money from the public for the purpose of renovating the Temple. The inscription details the purchase of wood and "quarried stones," and includes part of a Biblical passage recounting the event. Nadav...

Climate

 Climate played big role in Vikings' disappearance from Greenland

· 05/30/2011 1:12:10 PM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 55 replies ·
· Brown University ·
Greenland's early Viking settlers were subjected to rapidly changing climate. Temperatures plunged several degrees in a span of decades, according to research from Brown University. A reconstruction of 5,600 years of climate history from lakes near the Norse settlement in western Greenland also shows how climate affected the Dorset and Saqqaq cultures. Results appear in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] -- The end of the Norse settlements on Greenland likely will remain shrouded in mystery. While there is scant written evidence of the colony's demise in the 14th and early 15th centuries, archaeological remains can...

The Vikings

 Runestone hits the road with U-Haul (MN)

· 05/28/2011 11:35:08 PM PDT ·
· Posted by ButThreeLeftsDo ·
· 18 replies ·
· StarTribune.com ·
A controversial Minnesota artifact is making a name for itself across the country in its next biggest publicity move. The Kensington Runestone, which was unearthed in Minnesota but has been long disputed as a hoax, will now be featured on 2,300 20-foot moving trucks across the country. U-Haul unveiled the image Saturday morning at the Alexandria museum that houses the stone during the city's "Awake the Lakes" celebration. About 1,000 people celebrated the announcement at the Runestone Museum with T-shirts and a truck depicting the stone behind a large Vikings ship -- the fourth image representing Minnesota on the company's...

Epigraphy & Language

 Conquistador Silver May Not Have Sunk Spain's Currency

· 06/03/2011 8:10:13 AM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 25 replies ·
· ScienceNOW ·
Between 1520 and 1650, Spain's economy suffered crippling and unrelenting inflation in the so-called Price Revolution. Most historians have attributed that inflation, in part, to the importation, starting in 1550, of silver from the Americas, which supposedly put much more currency into circulation in Spain. But in a report out this week, a team of researchers argues that for more than a century the Spanish did not use this imported silver to make coins, suggesting that the amount of money circulating in Spain did not increase and could not have triggered the inflation... archaeometrist Anne-Marie DeSaulty and colleagues at the...

Not-so-ancient Autopsies

 Maybe Mona Lisa? Buried Skeleton Found

· 05/29/2011 6:39:44 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Daffynition ·
· 33 replies ·
· LiveScience ·
Archaeologists searching for the remains of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa have uncovered a skeleton that may belong to the mysterious woman. The skeleton was unearthed in a Florence convent where researchers are searching for the remains of Lisa Gherardini Del Giocondo, the women believed to be the model for da Vinci's famous painting. Based on an early look at the cranium and pelvis, the skeleton appears to be female, Bologna University anthropologist Giorgio Gruppioni told news agencies Friday (May 27).

Two Tones

 How Medieval Knights remade Poland's ecosystems

· 06/01/2011 6:47:16 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 28 replies ·
· Conservation Magazine ·
In 1280, victorious Teutonic Crusaders began building the world's largest castle on a hill overlooking the River Nogat in what is now northern Poland. Malbork Castle became the hub of a powerful Teutonic state that crushed its pagan enemies and helped remake Medieval Europe. Now, ancient pollen samples show that in addition to converting heathens to Christians, the Crusaders also converted vast swathes of Medieval forests to farmlands. In the early-13th century, Prussian tribes living in the south-eastern Baltic became a thorn in the side of the Monastic State of Teutonic Knights, which was formed in 1224 in what is...

Middle Ages & Renaissance

 Runcorn dig uncovers medieval lion head: The head will be housed at Norton Priory Museum

· 06/03/2011 9:28:21 AM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 21 replies ·
· BBC ·
A bronze lion head dating from the 15th century has been found in Cheshire. The artefact, believed to have been a hat badge, is among 80 items discovered by archaeologists at a building site near Runcorn. Pottery dating back to the 13th century and footings of timber-framed houses have also been discovered at a site near Lodge Farm. Archaeologists believe the items would have been owned by people living in the medieval village of Norton. Jamie Quartermaine, from Oxford Archaeology North, who is leading the project, said: "This is almost the last surviving remains of the old medieval village...

Sweet Swan of Avon

 William Shakespeare Was Probably a Catholic, Says Archbishop of Canterbury

· 05/29/2011 10:41:42 AM PDT ·
· Posted by marshmallow ·
· 22 replies ·
· The Daily Telegraph (UK) ·
William Shakespeare was probably a Catholic, according to the Archbishop of Canterbury, who discussed spirituality and secularism in the Bard's plays with the actor Simon Russell Beale.Little is known of Shakespeare's life and there is no direct evidence of his religious affiliation, but Dr Rowan Williams said he believed him to be a Catholic. "I don't think it tells us a great deal, to settle whether he was a Catholic or a Protestant, but for what it's worth I think he probably had a Catholic background and a lot of Catholic friends and associates. "How much he believed in it,...

British Isles

 Mapledurham: the Catholic Country House That's Still Yielding Up Its Secrets

· 06/01/2011 8:09:13 PM PDT ·
· Posted by marshmallow ·
· 12 replies ·
· The Daily Telegraph (UK) ·
Mapledurham House, an imposing Elizabethan mansion in south Oxfordshire, is one of Catholic England's best-kept secrets. Which is appropriate, in a way -- for it went to enormous trouble to keep its Catholic allegiance secret during times of persecution, when it was a safe house for fugitive priests. That said, I think it's high time that Mapledurham was better known: by rights it ought to attract thousands more visitors than it does. We live in an age when fans of The Da Vinci Code and other thrillers rush to historic locations to stare at "clues" to bogus mysteries. In contrast,...

Megaliths & Archaeoastronomy

 Marlborough Mound: 'Merlin's burial place' built in 2400 BC

· 06/01/2011 12:32:30 PM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 39 replies ·
· BBC ·
A Wiltshire mound where the legendary wizard Merlin was purported to be buried has been found to date back to 2400 BC.Radiocarbon dating tests were carried out on charcoal samples taken from Marlborough Mound, which lies in Marlborough College's grounds. The 19m (62ft) high mound had previously mystified historians. Some believed it dated back to about 600 AD. English Heritage said: "This is a very exciting time for British prehistory." Dig leader Jim Leary said: "This is an astonishing discovery. "The Marlborough Mound has been one of the biggest mysteries in the Wessex landscape. "For centuries people have wondered whether...

Biology & Cryptobiology

 Did Whale Have Odd Deer-Like Ancestor?

· 12/20/2007 6:50:22 AM PST ·
· Posted by Red Badger ·
· 51 replies ·
· 99+ views ·
· www.physorg.com ·
This undated handout artist rendering provided by Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy (NEOUCOM) shows The 48 million year old ungulate Indohyus from India. Indohyus is a close relative of whales, and the structure of its bones and chemistry of its teeth indicate that it spent much time in water. In this reconstruction, it is seen diving in a stream, much like the modern African Mousedeer does when in danger. (AP Photo/NEOUCOM) (AP) -- The gigantic ocean-dwelling whale may have evolved from a land animal the size of a small raccoon, new research suggests. What might be...

Mammoth Told Me There'd Be Days Like This

 Researchers solve mammoth evolutionary puzzle:
  The woollies weren't picky, happy to interbreed

· 05/30/2011 5:45:00 PM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 40 replies ·
· McMaster University ·
A DNA-based study sheds new light on the complex evolutionary history of the woolly mammoth, suggesting it mated with a completely different and much larger species. The research, which appears in the BioMed Central's open access journal Genome Biology, found the woolly mammoth, which lived in the cold climate of the Arctic tundra, interbred with the Columbian mammoth, which preferred the more temperate regions of North America and was some 25 per cent larger. "There is a real fascination with the history of mammoths, and this analysis helps to contextualize its evolution, migration and ecology" says Hendrik Poinar, associate professor...

Navigation

 Roman ship had on-board fish tank:
  Hand-operated pump would have kept catch alive during long trips

· 06/02/2011 5:41:41 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 24 replies ·
· Nature ·
A Roman ship found with a lead pipe piercing its hull has mystified archaeologists. Italian researchers now suggest that the pipe was part of an ingenious pumping system, designed to feed on-board fish tanks with a continuous supply of oxygenated water. Their analysis has been published online in the International Journal of Nautical Archaeology. Historians have assumed that in ancient times fresh fish were eaten close to where they were caught, because without refrigeration they would have rotted during transportation. But if the latest theory is correct, Roman ships could have carried live fish to buyers across the Mediterranean Sea....

PreColumbian, Clovis & PreClovis

 Tunnel found under temple in Mexico

· 05/31/2011 11:38:37 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Red Badger ·
· 37 replies ·
· www.physorg.com ·
Researchers found a tunnel under the Temple of the Snake in the pre-Hispanic city of Teotihuacan, about 28 miles northeast of Mexico City. The tunnel had apparently been sealed off around 1,800 years ago. Researchers of Mexico's National University made the finding with a radar device. Closer study revealed a "representation of the underworld," in the words of archaeologist Sergio Gomez Chavez, of Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History. Experts found "a route of symbols, whose conclusion appears to lie in the funeral chambers at the end of the tunnel." The structure is 15 yards beneath the ground, and...

Peru & the Andes

 MU Archeologist Finds Oldest 3-D Statue In Western Hemisphere

· 06/03/2011 5:53:28 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 16 replies ·
· University of Missouri ·
Robert Benfer, a professor emeritus of anthropology, said the mud plaster bust -- a bust of a figure blowing a trumpet and another mask-like image flanked by foxes -- was found at the "Buena Vista" site in the Andes... ..."Even today, the Andean people still tell stories about the fox as they explain the gift of the first cultivated foods. The Andean legend says the fox found a rope that led to heaven where it found an abundance of new foods. When the fox fell from heaven, it split open, providing a variety of new foods for the Andean people."...


 Penn Museum Begins Ground-breaking Project to Create Underground Image of Pre-Inca City

· 06/03/2011 8:18:50 AM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 2 replies ·
· University of Pennsylvania ·
University of Pennsylvania Museum archaeologists working at the renowned ancient site of Tiwanaku in Bolivia site sometimes called the "American Stonehenge" have joined forces with a team of engineers, mathematicians, computer scientists and anthropologists from the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Computer and Information Science, School of Engineering, the Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies, University of Arkansas, and the Department of Anthropology, University of Denver, to begin a large-scale, subsurface surveying project using equipment and techniques that may one day serve as a model for future archaeological efforts worldwide. Their three-year, collaborative pilot project, made possible through a 1.05 million...


 Ancient War Revealed in Discovery of Incan Fortresses

· 06/03/2011 7:53:26 AM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 8 replies ·
· LiveScience ·
Incan fortresses built some 500 years ago have been discovered along an extinct volcano in northern Ecuador, revealing evidence of a war fought by the Inca just before the Spanish conquistadors arrived in the Andes. "We're seeing evidence for a pre-Columbian frontier, or borderline, that we think existed between Inca fortresses and Ecuadorian people's fortresses," project director Samuel Connell, of Foothill College in California, told LiveScience. The team has identified what they think are 20 fortresses built by the Inca and two forts that were built by a people from Ecuador known as the Cayambe. The volcano is called Pambamarca......

The Revolution

 Governor Palin Gives the Media a History Lesson on Paul Revere's Midnight Ride

· 06/03/2011 3:41:59 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Virginia Ridgerunner ·
· 81 replies ·
· Conservatives4Palin ·
The mark of any successful political venture by Governor Palin often results a misrepresentation of her words that only leaves the media with egg on their faces. Governor Palin's bus tour has been successful in allowing her to highlight the greatness of the history of America, meet everyday Americans and fellow politicians, and share her policy stances on everything from fishing regulations in New Hampshire to ethanol subsidies to the debt ceiling. Such successes leaves the media grasping at proverbial bendy straws. Today's news is no different. Poised with the opportunity to more appropriately address political stories essentially pre-written for...

...to the Shores of Tripoli...

 House moves to bring home remains of "earliest Navy SEALs'

· 05/29/2011 11:34:53 AM PDT ·
· Posted by jazusamo ·
· 20 replies ·
· The Washington Times ·
More than two centuries after they died off the coast of present-day Libya, the remains of the first 13 Navy commandos in U.S. history -- in the words of one supporter, the "earliest Navy SEALs" -- are one step closer to coming home after the U.S. House voted last week to insist the Pentagon get them back. Brushing off prior opposition from the Pentagon, House lawmakers attached the directive to the annual defense policy bill that cleared the chamber on Thursday, with backers saying it was time to honor the daring men as fallen heroes. "The United States has an...


 Remembering The 1st American Military Warriors
  Who Fought Against Islamic Terrorists From 1801-1805

· 05/31/2011 2:59:58 PM PDT ·
· Posted by BillKneer ·
· 16 replies ·
· The Patriot Statesman ·
"From the Halls of Montezuma, to the shores of Tripoli, we fight our country's battles, in the air, on land, and sea."- Official Hymn of the U.S. Marine Corps. Have you ever wondered what is Tripoli doing in our Marines' official hymn? On this memorial day, let us remember those who gave their lives that we might be free from muslim terror! Ambassador Thomas Jefferson had a wake up call the day he met with muslim leaders. Thomas Jefferson asked why are muslims attacking American ships when we are doing nothing to incite any form of violence. To his shock,...

The Mexican War

 Mexico finds possible US remains from 1846-48 war

· 06/02/2011 11:51:08 PM PDT ·
· Posted by blueplum ·
· 15 replies ·
· San Jose Mercury News ·
MEXICO CITY -- Archaeologists said Thursday they have found 10 sets of skeletal remains that may belong to U.S. soldiers who died during a battle in the 1846-48 Mexican-American war. The government experts said the shape of the skulls and bone measurements suggest the skeletons belonged to Americans who were killed in the battle of Monterrey on Sept. 21-23, 1846. Archaeologist Araceli Rivera said the height of the skeletons -- between 5 feet, 7 inches (175 centimeters) and 5 feet, 9 inches -- and "Caucasian" skull features indicated they were Americans.

World War Eleven

 One Marine, One Ship

· 11/21/2001 11:08:32 AM PST ·
· Posted by Britton J Wingfield ·
· 50 replies ·
· 1,493+ views ·
· tysknews.com ·
Oct. 26 falls on a Thursday this year. Ask the significance of the date, and you're likely to draw some puzzled looks -- five more days to stock up for Halloween? It's a measure of men like Col. Mitchell Paige and Rear Adm. Willis A. "Ching Chong China" Lee that they wouldn't have had it any other way. What they did 58 years ago, they did precisely so their grandchildren could live in a land of peace and plenty. Whether we've properly safeguarded the freedoms they fought to leave us, ...

Thoroughly Modern Miscellany

 Iowa State physicists explain the long, useful lifetime of carbon-14

· 06/02/2011 6:57:54 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 20 replies ·
· ISU News Service ·
The long, slow decay of carbon-14 allows archaeologists to accurately date the relics of history back to 60,000 years. And while the carbon dating technique is well known and understood (the ratio of carbon-14 to other carbon isotopes is measured to determine the age of objects containing the remnants of any living thing), the reason for carbon-14's slow decay has not been understood. Why, exactly, does carbon-14 have a half-life of nearly 6,000 years while other light atomic nuclei have half-lives of minutes or seconds? (Half-life is the time it takes for the nuclei in a sample to decay to...

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Your energy, diligence & dedication in managing various ping lists are very much appreciated by moi.

Also, just noticed the fine-print: "Politics is the art of finding trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies. -- Groucho Marx" -- well said, even in jest.

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Let's Have Jerusalem

 2nd Jewish Temple just 'waiting to be unearthed'

· 06/07/2011 3:55:22 AM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 6 replies ·
· WorldNetDaily ·
One of the most prominent Israeli archaeologists declared today that remains from the First and Second Jewish Temple period -- including the Second Temple itself -- lie underneath the Temple Mount surface, just waiting to be excavated... Mazar said she is "absolutely sure" remains from the First and Second Temple periods, including "the Second Temple itself," as well as later remains from the Byzantine and early Islamic periods, are just under the surface of the Temple Mount... Mazar has led digs that discovered multiple Temple-era remains, including a tunnel used by the Israelites to conquer Jerusalem, as well as the...


 Archaeologist thinks structure beneath Jerusalem is 2nd Jewish Temple

· 06/09/2011 8:51:29 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Renfield ·
· 12 replies ·
· Huliq.com ·
Dr. Eilat Mazar of Hebrew University, one of the most prominent Israeli archaeologists, believes that remains from the First and Second Jewish Temple periods are currently below the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Mazar believes that the remains do include the Second Temple itself, in fact, and that with the technology available today, archaeologists can, at minimum, ensure that artifacts are not disturbed until a future excavation can be safely conducted. "I am absolutely sure," said Mazar in an interview with "Aaron Klein Investigative Radio" on New York's ABC Radio, "in light of my very rich experience excavating Jerusalem for 30...

Catastrophism & Astronomy

 The story behind the world's oldest museum, built by a Babylonian princess 2,500 years ago

· 06/07/2011 4:07:02 AM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 15 replies ·
· io9 Book Club ·
...What were we to think? Here were half a dozen diverse objects found lying on an unbroken brick pavement of the sixth century BC, yet the newest of them was seven hundred years older than the pavement and the earliest perhaps sixteen hundred. In this single room, Woolley had discovered at least 1,500 years of history all jumbled together, a bit like if you randomly found a Roman statue and a piece of medieval masonry while cleaning out your closet. Left to their own devices, these objects would never be found together like this. Somebody had messed around with these...

Prehistory & Origins

 New finds in Caucasus suggest non-African origin for ancient Homo species

· 06/07/2011 5:39:10 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 55 replies ·
· Science News ·
Early members of the genus Homo, possibly direct ancestors of people today, may have evolved in Asia and then gone to Africa, not vice versa... new evidence shows the species occupied a West Asian site called Dmanisi from 1.85 million to 1.77 million years ago, at the same time or slightly before the earliest evidence of this humanlike species in Africa, say geologist Reid Ferring of the University of North Texas in Denton and his colleagues... Evidence remains meager for the geographic origins of the Homo genus, says anthropologist Bernard Wood of George Washington University... and it's possible that humankind's...

Epidemics, Pandemics, Plagues, the Sniffles

 Autism May Have Had Advantages in Humans' Hunter-Gatherer Past, Researcher Believes

· 06/10/2011 3:13:11 AM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 76 replies ·
· ScienceDaily ·
Though people with autism face many challenges because of their condition, they may have been capable hunter-gatherers in prehistoric times, according to a paper published in the journal Evolutionary Psychology in May. The autism spectrum may represent not disease, but an ancient way of life for a minority of ancestral humans, said Jared Reser, a brain science researcher and doctoral candidate in the USC Psychology Department. Some of the genes that contribute to autism may have been selected and maintained because they created beneficial behaviors in a solitary environment, amounting to an autism advantage, Reser said. The "autism advantage," a...


 Autism linked to hundreds of spontaneous genetic mutations

· 06/09/2011 9:15:06 PM PDT ·
· Posted by neverdem ·
· 37 replies ·
· Nature News ·
Analysis suggests that girls are partially shielded from effects of the changes. The most comprehensive search yet for spontaneous genetic mutations associated with autism spectrum disorders suggests that hundreds of regions in the genome may have a hand in causing such conditions. Analyses reported in three papers published this week in Neuron1,2,3 dramatically expand the list of known genetic culprits. Two of the studies also shed light on a long-standing mystery: why are boys four times more likely to have autism than girls1,2? The researchers found that girls with autism tend to have many more mutated genes than boys with...

Helix, Make Mine a Double

 Ancient Hominid Males Stayed Home While Females Roamed, Study Finds

· 06/08/2011 10:19:59 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Red Badger ·
· 32 replies ·
· Science Daily ·
The males of two bipedal hominid species that roamed the South African savannah more than a million years ago were stay-at-home kind of guys when compared to the gadabout gals, says a new high-tech study led by the University of Colorado Boulder. The team, which studied teeth from a group of extinct Australopithecus africanus and Paranthropus robustus individuals from two adjacent cave systems in South Africa, found more than half of the female teeth were from outside the local area, said CU-Boulder adjunct professor and lead study author Sandi Copeland. In contrast, only about 10 percent of the male hominid...

Agriculture & Animal Husbandry

 First-of-its-Kind Fluorescence Map Offers a New View of the World

· 06/09/2011 9:13:41 AM PDT ·
· Posted by null and void ·
· 12 replies ·
· Scientific Computing ·
A first-of-a-kind global map of land plant fluorescence shows stronger photosynthetic activity in the Northern Hemisphere in July when light and temperature conditions were most conducive to plant growth, and the reverse in December. The maps are based on data from a spectrometer aboard the Japanese satellite GOSAT. Courtesy of NASA's Earth Observatory Scientists from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., have produced groundbreaking global maps of land plant fluorescence, a difficult-to-detect reddish glow that leaves emit as a byproduct of photosynthesis. While researchers have previously mapped how ocean-dwelling phytoplankton fluoresce, the new maps are the first to...

Australia & the Pacific

 Early Americans helped colonise Easter Island

· 06/09/2011 8:46:24 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Renfield ·
· 13 replies ·
· New Scientist ·
South Americans helped colonise Easter Island centuries before Europeans reached it. Clear genetic evidence has, for the first time, given support to elements of this controversial theory showing that while the remote island was mostly colonised from the west, there was also some influx of people from the Americas. ~~~snip~~~ Now Erik Thorsby of the University of Oslo in Norway has found clear evidence to support elements of Heyerdahl's hypothesis. In 1971 and 2008 he collected blood samples from Easter Islanders whose ancestors had not interbred with Europeans and other visitors to the island. Thorsby looked at the HLA genes,...

Navigation

 Ancient DNA points to Maori feather trade

· 06/05/2011 9:04:46 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 6 replies ·
· Nature ·
When New Zealand's Maori tribes went into battle, combatants enveloped in kiwi feather cloaks were spared from harm by their foes. The laboriously crafted cloaks, known as Kahu kiwi, were so revered that some were given names -- one, called Karamaene, was traded with the Auckland Museum in exchange for a giant wooden war canoe. Now, kiwi DNA preserved in such cloaks -- some dating back to the nineteenth century -- has revealed clues to the origin and construction of Kahu kiwi, and hinted at a previously unknown trans-island feather trade1. David Lambert, an evolutionary geneticist at Griffith University in...

Egypt

 Pyramid Hieroglyphs Likely Engineering Numbers

· 06/08/2011 9:01:17 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 31 replies ·
· Discovery News ·
Markings in red paint found within the Great Pyramid by a camera-toting robot are likely numerals used by builders. THE GIST Hieroglyphs written in red paint on the floor of a hidden chamber in Egypt's Great Pyramid are numerical signs.The builders of the pyramid simply recorded the total length of the southern shaft from the Queen's Chamber: 121 cubits.Multiples of 7, 9 and 11 cubits occur frequently in the design of the Great pyramid.

British Isles

 Archaeology dating technique uncovers 'property boom' of 3700 BC

· 06/07/2011 8:31:41 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 31 replies ·
· Guardian UK ·
A new scientific dating technique has revealed there was a building spree more than 5,500 years ago, when many of the most spectacular monuments in the English landscape, such as Maiden Castle in Dorset and Windmill Hill in Wiltshire, were built, used and abandoned in a single lifetime. The fashion for the monuments, hilltops enclosed by rings of ditches, known to archaeologists as causewayed enclosures, instead of being the ritual work of generations as had been believed, began on the continent centuries earlier but spread from Kent to Cornwall within 50 years in about 3700 BC. Alex Bayliss, an archaeologist...

Roman Empire

 What the Romans didn't do for us

· 06/10/2011 8:23:09 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 38 replies ·
· Guardian UK ·
The route had long been known as a lost Roman road... dig director Tim Malim noticed that the road had twice been rebuilt, and knew its history could be dated using a technique that tells you when buried mineral grains were last exposed to sunlight. The unexpected result was a more than 80% chance that the last surface had been laid before the Roman invasion in AD43. Wood in the foundation was radiocarbon-dated to the second century BC, sealing the road's pre-Roman origin. And Malim thinks a huge post that stood in 1500BC close to the crest of the hill...

The Great War

 WWI underground: Unearthing the hidden tunnel war (...killed an estimated 10,000 Germans.)

· 06/10/2011 10:09:12 AM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 61 replies ·
· BBC ·
Archaeologists are beginning the most detailed ever study of a Western Front battlefield, an untouched site where 28 British tunnellers lie entombed after dying during brutal underground warfare. For WWI historians, it's the "holy grail".When military historian Jeremy Banning stepped on to a patch of rough scrubland in northern France four months ago, the hairs on the back of his neck stood up. The privately-owned land in the sleepy rural village of La Boisselle had been practically untouched since fighting ceased in 1918, remaining one of the most poignant sites of the Battle of the Somme. In his hand was...

Climate

 What the Margins of Spain's Ebro River Basin Looked Like 6 Million Years Ago

· 06/05/2011 5:55:04 AM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 20 replies ·
· ScienceDaily ·
A Spanish research team, using 3-D reflection seismology, has for the first time mapped the geomorphological features of the Ebro river basin 5 to 6 million years ago. The images obtained show that the surface analysed is today 2.5 or 3 kilometres below the sea bed. "The results shed light on the way in which the sea level fell during the Messinian (between 5.33 and 6 million years ago), and imply that the subsequent inundation of the river margins happened extremely quickly," says Roger Urgeles, lead author of the study and a researcher at the Department of Marine Geology of...

Biology & Cryptobiology

 Extinct sea cow fossil found in Philippines

· 06/06/2011 10:28:43 AM PDT ·
· Posted by NormsRevenge ·
· 9 replies ·
· Yahoo ·
MANILA (AFP) -- The bones of an extinct sea cow species that lived about 20 million years ago have been discovered in a cave in the Philippines by a team of Italian scientists, the expedition head said Monday. Several ribs and spine parts of the aquatic mammal were found in February and March in limestone rock above the waters of an underground river on the island of Palawan, said University of Florence geologist Leonardo Piccini. "The fossil is in the rock, in the cave. We cannot remove it and we don't want to extract it. We would like to wait...

Pages

 Over 4000 books of the National Academies Press are available as free PDFs

· 06/04/2011 1:19:03 PM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 43 replies ·
· Next Big Future ·
As of June 2, 2011, all PDF versions of books published by the National Academies Press (NAP) will be downloadable to anyone free of charge.

Epigraphy & Language

 Ancient world dictionary finished -- after 90 years

· 06/04/2011 7:47:12 AM PDT ·
· Posted by decimon ·
· 25 replies ·
· As ·
CHICAGO -- It was a monumental project with modest beginnings: a small group of scholars and some index cards. The plan was to explore a long-dead language that would reveal an ancient world of chariots and concubines, royal decrees and diaries -- and omens that came from the heavens and sheep livers. The year: 1921. The place: The University of Chicago. The project: Assembling an Assyrian dictionary based on words recorded on clay or stone tablets unearthed from ruins in Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey, written in a language that hadn't been uttered for more than 2,000 years. The scholars...

Thoroughly Modern Miscellany

 Researchers replicate rare cuneiform tablets using 3-D scanning and printing

· 06/05/2011 8:09:03 PM PDT ·
· Posted by SunkenCiv ·
· 8 replies ·
· Cornell Chronicle ·
Today's Assyriology scholars study Sumerian and Babylonian cuneiform tablets with the help of digital photographs or handwritten copies of the texts, but ideally, they visit collections to see the tablets firsthand. Technology could introduce a new way to connect researchers to these precious, unique artifacts by creating exact replicas. Such an effort is under way at Cornell in the lab of Hod Lipson, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, who specializes in the burgeoning field of 3-D scanning and printing of everyday objects. Natasha Gangjee '12, a student in Lipson's lab, worked with six cuneiform tablets to try and...

Early America

 Blackbeard's anchor recovered off NC coast

· 05/29/2011 7:35:53 PM PDT ·
· Posted by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis ·
· 41 replies ·
· AP ·
MOREHEAD CITY, N.C. -- An anchor from what's believed to be the wreck of the pirate Blackbeard's flagship has been raised from the ocean floor off the North Carolina coast. Archaeologists believe the anchor recovered Friday is from the Queen Anne's Revenge, which sank in 1718. That was five months before Blackbeard was killed in a battle. The artifact is the third-largest item at the shipwreck, outsized only by two other anchors. Researchers retrieved the anchor from the shipwreck about 20 feet under water... The anchor is about 11 feet long.

The Framers

 Journal of the Federal Convention June 10th 1787

· 06/10/2011 2:49:09 AM PDT ·
· Posted by Jacquerie ·
· 5 replies ·
· Avalon Project ·
Today being Sunday, the Convention did not meet. This is not to say important work was not done. Roger Sherman and some Small State delegates probably met to discuss a compromise, a proportionally based House and equal State representation in the Senate, which will be discussed tomorrow. Despite authoring and nurturing the compromise that saved the Convention and most likely his country, Roger Sherman is one of the most neglected Framers. I call him the Principled Pragmatist. He either signed/attended or helped write the 1774 Declaration of Resolves, the First and Second Congresses, the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation,...

The Revolution

 MEDIA CAUGHT IN ANOTHER SMEAR -- Palin Did Not Misspeak on Paul Revere

· 06/03/2011 8:57:06 PM PDT ·
· Posted by smoothsailing ·
· 67 replies ·
· RightNetwork/GatewayPundit ·
The state-run media is having fun today smearing Sarah Palin on her historical knowlege. Yesterday she told reporters Revere warned the British that the colonial militias were waiting for them. Sarah Palin was right.Paul Revere did in fact tell the British that the colonial militias, who had been alerted, were waiting for them...


 Sarah Palin defends her take on Paul Revere's ride

· 06/05/2011 7:56:36 AM PDT ·
· Posted by GonzoII ·
· 74 replies ·
[Link only] Sarah Palin defends her take on Paul Revere's ride


 Only AP Article on Palin Fox News Sunday Interview: Palin: I didn't mess up Paul Revere history

· 06/05/2011 8:06:14 AM PDT ·
· Posted by kristinn ·
· 197 replies ·
· Associated Press ·
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sarah Palin says she didn't mess up her history on Paul Revere.


 Sorry Libs -- Sarah Palin Stands By Her Correct Version of Paul Revere's Ride (Video)

· 06/05/2011 5:47:15 PM PDT ·
· Posted by Hojczyk ·
· 8 replies ·
· Gateway Pundit ,Rightnetwork ·
Sorry libs. Sarah Palin stood by her correct narrative of Paul Revere's ride(s) today on FOX News Sunday. For those of you maybe aren't familiar with the story, Paul Revere warned the American militias and the British troops during his infamous rides.


 Historians agree: Palin was right about Paul Revere

· 06/06/2011 6:55:15 AM PDT ·
· Posted by SeekAndFind ·
· 68 replies ·
· American Thinker ·
One if by land, and two if by sea, and then what? According to historians interviewed by the Boston Herald, Paul Revere then warned the British not to challenge a roused and armed populace. That came as news to many observers who had rushed to criticize Sarah Palin for her response to a gotcha question at the Old North Church: Sarah Palin yesterday insisted her claim at the Old North Church last week that Paul Revere "warned the British" during his famed 1775 ride -- remarks that Democrats and the media roundly ridiculed -- is actually historically accurate. And...

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