[SunkenCiv]

Only a day late. I had a sinking feeling that a recent digest had omitted some recently added GGG topics, but I now don't think this is true. The plan is to build a bunch of comprehensive digests as individual messages (and not ping anyone) to compile a massive list thereof here in this topic. Of course, there's not much reason to do so, and I am A) backlogged with housework among other things, and B) lazy. Also, summer is my time of the year. As the Incredible String Band once said, "be glad".

There were no "Thoroughly Modern Miscellany" topics this week. Well done. :')

The usual way I handle the categories is to put the one-topic categories near the beginning, with the larger ones near the middle, and generally TMM and OSM near the end. This is already a day late, so I used the same order as last week. Enjoy, one and all.

Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #41 Saturday, April 30, 2005
Africa
Ancient Tombs Found Near Obelisk
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 04/26/2005 8:14:25 PM PDT · 14 replies · 469+ views BBC | Tuesday, 26 April, 2005 The obelisks mark the graves of Axum's ancient rulers Archaeologists have found a vast new network of royal tombs in Ethiopia, near the site where the 1,700-year-old Axum obelisk is to be re-erected. Experts using sophisticated imaging equipment discovered the burial chambers, even older than the obelisk, under a 1963 car park, said the UN. The stone monoliths were originally erected to mark burial sites for deceased members of the aristocracy. The final piece of the Axum obelisk was flown home from Italy on Monday. The whole structure - seen as a national religious treasure - is to be re-erected...
Anatolia
Russian Culture Official Suggests Legendary Gold Collection From Troy Unlikely be Returned Germany
	Posted by LibWhacker On News/Activism 02/27/2005 2:03:19 AM PST · 17 replies · 466+ views AP | 2/27/05 MOSCOW (AP) - A legendary collection of gold objects from ancient Troy seized by Soviet troops in Berlin in 1945 should become Russian government property, a top Russian cultural official said in remarks published Saturday. But Anatoly Vilkov, deputy chief of the Russian agency that preserves the nation's cultural legacy, stopped short of ruling out the objects' return, as quoted by the newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets. The gold collection - excavated by amateur German archaeologist Hermann Schliemann - will be made federal property after it is inventoried, he said. It could be exhibited in Germany but only if its return is...
Ancient Egypt
Archaeologists Unearth Seals Used on Pharaonic Desert Missions (Needed Red Paint)
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 04/29/2005 4:35:50 PM PDT · 19 replies · 482+ views Middle East Times | April 29, 2005 CAIRO -- Egyptian archaeologists have discovered a number of rare Pharaonic seals of soldiers sent out on desert missions in search of red paint to decorate the Pyramids, Egypt's culture minister said on April 28. The 26 matchbox-sized seals belonged to Cheops, who ruled from 2551 to 2528 BC, in whose honor the greatest of the great pyramids of Giza southwest of Cairo was built, and show Pharaonic soldiers' ranks, the MENA news agency quoted Farouq Hosni as saying. "These seals were used by a mission sent by Cheops to collect ferric oxide, which is necessary to make red paint,"...
Ancient Greece
Mycenaean Port of Athens Found?
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 04/29/2005 9:40:45 PM PDT · 3 replies · 211+ views Kathimerini | 4-28-2005 Archaeologists in the capital's southern coastal suburb of Palaio Faliro have uncovered what appear to be traces of ancient Athens's first port before the city's naval and shipping center was moved to Piraeus, a report said yesterday. A rescue excavation on a plot earmarked for development has revealed artifacts and light structures dating, with intervals, from Mycenaean times to the fifth century BC, when the port of Phaleron -- after which the modern suburb was named -- was superseded by Piraeus, according to Ta Nea daily. 'This is a port associated with two myths -- Theseus and the Argonauts -- ...
Mycenaean Port Of Athens Found
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/28/2005 11:00:05 AM PDT · 14 replies · 493+ views Kathimerini | 4-28-2005 Mycenaean port of Athens found? Archaeologists in the capital's southern coastal suburb of Palaio Faliro have uncovered what appear to be traces of ancient Athens's first port before the city's naval and shipping center was moved to Piraeus, a report said yesterday. A rescue excavation on a plot earmarked for development has revealed artifacts and light structures dating, with intervals, from Mycenaean times to the fifth century BC, when the port of Phaleron -- after which the modern suburb was named -- was superseded by Piraeus, according to Ta Nea daily. 'This is a port associated with two myths -- ...
Asia
Archaeologist Warns Tomb Raiding Rife in Asia
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 04/26/2005 12:32:38 AM PDT · 13 replies · 205+ views ABC | Sunday, April 24, 2005 The head of the global body of archaeologists says the theft of sacred and historical artefacts is a huge problem in Asia. Claire Smith, an Adelaide-based academic, says this weekend's return of the second part an ancient Ethiopian obelisk, looted by the Italians in the 1930s, highlights the importance of restoring lost history. Dr Smith, head of the World Archaeological Congress, says Asia suffers particularly from looting. "It is a big problem in Asia and you can see objects in Asia, say, Buddhas that have had their heads chopped off, and the heads are stolen, and I think things like...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Loch Ness Monster Finally Identified???
	Posted by Beowulf9 On News/Activism 04/07/2005 9:31:30 PM PDT · 190 replies · 6,674+ views emediawire.com | April 7th, 2005 | William McDonald Loch Ness Monster Finally Identified Forensic Artist and private investigator William McDonald, finally identifies what Loch Ness Monster may be. (PRWEB) April 7, 2005 -- After nearly 1,500 years of conjecture, it appears the Loch Ness Monster may finally be identified. According to American Forensic Artist and private investigator William McDonald, the famous lake monster known as 'Nessieî is neither a plesiosaur or prehistoric reptile, but a real, predatory species of water animal possessing the ability to hunt on land. In the winter months of 2004, McDonald photographed tracks left by a large animal on a mud-covered Loch Ness shoreline...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Earth's Magnetic Field Weakens 10 Percent (and some other stuff)
	Posted by NormsRevenge On General/Chat 12/12/2003 6:26:01 PM PST · 13 replies · 113+ views Yahoo News | 12/12/03 | Andrew Bridges - AP SAN FRANCISCO - The strength of the Earth's magnetic field has decreased 10 percent over the past 150 years, raising the remote possibility that it may collapse and later reverse, flipping the planet's poles for the first time in nearly a million years, scientists said Thursday. † At that rate of decline, the field could vanish altogether in 1,500 to 2,000 years, said Jeremy Bloxham of Harvard University. Hundreds of years could pass before a flip-flopped field returned to where it was 780,000 years ago. But scientists at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union cautioned that scenario is an...
Red Planet's Ancient Equator Located
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 04/24/2005 8:18:25 PM PDT · 31 replies · 294+ views Scientific American (online) | April 20, 2005 | Sarah Graham Jafar Arkani-Hamed of McGill University discovered that five impact basins--dubbed Argyre, Hellas, Isidis, Thaumasia and Utopia--form an arclike pattern on the Martian surface. Three of the basins are well-preserved and remain visible today. The locations of the other two, in contrast, were inferred from measurements of anomalies in the planet's gravitational field... a single source--most likely an asteroid that was initially circling the sun in the same plane as Mars--created all five craters. At one point the asteroid passed close to the Red Planet... and was broken apart by the force of the planet's gravity. The resulting five pieces subsequently...
India
Queen's Remains Are Still Elusive
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/24/2005 12:03:21 PM PDT · 5 replies · 264+ views Deccan Herald | 4-24-2005 | Devika Sequeira Queen's remains are still elusive Devika Sequeira in Panaji The Archaeological Survey of India's 20-year search for the relics of Queen Ketevan in Old Goa has ended in disappointment. But the excavations offer an intriguing and significant insight into 16th century Goa. Setting to rest a debate that has engaged historians and archaeologists for over 20 years, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) announced earlier this week that though it had managed to locate the 'burial siteî of Queen Ketevan of Georgia amidst the ruins of the St Augustine complex in Old Goa, the queen's remains were not at the...
Let's Have Jerusalem!
Biblical clue found on ancient shrine
	Posted by yonif On News/Activism 11/20/2003 9:32:53 PM PST · 42 replies · 191+ views CNN | Friday, November 21, 2003 | AP <p>JERUSALEM (AP) -- A barely legible clue -- the name "Simon" carved in Greek letters -- beckoned from high up on the weather-beaten facade of an ancient burial monument.</p> <p>Their curiosity piqued, two Jerusalem scholars uncovered six previously invisible lines of inscription: a Gospel verse -- Luke 2:25.</p>
Origins and Prehistory
ANCIENT BONE MAY BE FROM NEANDER THAL
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 04/24/2005 1:18:10 PM PDT · 18 replies · 463+ views Western Daily Press | 23 April 2005 New research yesterday revealed a West archaeological treasure is more ancient and important than first thought. Discovered in Kents Cavern, Torquay, Devon, in 1927, the fragment of jawbone containing three teeth had been dated as being 31,000 years old. The new analysis, using radio carbon dating, has pushed that date back to between 37,000 and 40,000 years ago, meaning this ancient West resident could be a Neanderthal and not modern human, as previously thought. If the Neanderthal theory is correct, it will prove that the race reached Britain earlier than thought. "Kents Cavern gets more and more interesting all the...
Oldest Fossil Protein Sequenced [from Neanderthal]
	Posted by PatrickHenry On News/Activism 03/15/2005 7:20:27 AM PST · 156 replies · 1,873+ views Max Planck Society | 08 March 2005 | Staff An international team, led by researchers at the Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in Leipzig, Germany, have extracted and sequenced protein from a Neanderthal from Shanidar Cave, Iraq dating to approximately 75,000 years old. It is rare to recover protein of this age, and remarkable to be able to determine the constituent amino acid sequence. This is the oldest fossil protein ever sequenced. Protein sequences may be used in a similar way to DNA, to provide information on the genetic relationships between extinct and living species. As ancient DNA rarely survives, this new method opens...
Archaic Genes in Modern People?
	Posted by Lessismore On News/Activism 04/23/2005 8:30:41 PM PDT · 98 replies · 1,790+ views Science Magazine | 2005-04-22 | Elizabeth Culotta MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN--About 1200 researchers gathered near the shores of Lake Michigan here from 5 to 9 April to discuss early Englishmen, the birth of modern humans, and Stone Age weapons. In the past 15 years, a flood of genetic data has helped propel the Out of Africa theory into the leading explanation of modern human origins. DNA from mitochondria (mtDNA), the Y chromosome, and ancient humans each suggest that the ancestors of all living people arose in Africa some time after 200,000 years ago, swept out of their homeland, and replaced archaic humans around the globe without mixing with them....
Modern Humans Made Their Point
	Posted by Lessismore On News/Activism 04/23/2005 8:34:30 PM PDT · 55 replies · 783+ views Science Magazine | 2005-04-22 | Ann Gibbons MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN-- Long before guns gave European explorers a decisive advantage over indigenous peoples, our ancestors had their own technological innovation that allowed them to dominate the Stone Age competition: the projectile point, launched from bows or spear throwers. Paleolithic hunters shooting spears or arrows tipped with these small stone points could stay at a safe distance while hunting a wide assortment of prey--or other humans, says archaeologist John Shea of Stony Brook University in New York. Projectile launchers might even be the key to modern humans' triumph when they entered the Neandertal territory of Europe about 40,000 years ago,...
New Evidence Challenges "Out-of-Africa" Hypothesis of Modern Human origins
	Posted by TigerLikesRooster On News/Activism 04/28/2005 7:33:06 AM PDT · 38 replies · 930+ views Red Nova | 04/27/05 New Evidence Challenges "Out-of-Africa" Hypothesis of Modern Human origins New evidence challenges "Out-of-Africa" hypothesis of modern human origins WUHAN, April 27 (Xinhua) -- Chinese archaeologists said newly found evidence proves that a valley of Qingjiang River, a tributary on the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, might be one of the regions where Homo sapiens, or modern man, originated. The finding challenges the "Out-of-Africa" hypothesis of modern human origins, according to which about 100,000 years ago modern humans originated in Africa, migrated to other continents, and replaced populations of archaic humans across the globe. The finding comes from a large-scale...
New Evidence Challenges Hypothesis Of Modern Human Origins
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 05/01/2005 11:54:10 AM PDT · 41 replies · 756+ views Xinhuanet/China View | 4-27-2005 | Xinhuanet New evidence challenges hypothesis of modern human origins www.chinaview.cn 2005-04-27 17:00:01 WUHAN, April 27 (Xinhuanet) - - Chinese archaeologists said newly found evidence proves that a valley of Qingjiang River, a tributary on the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, might be one of the regions where Homo sapiens, or modern man, originated. The finding challenges the "Out-of-Africa" hypothesis of modern human origins, according to which about 100,000 years ago modern humans originated in Africa, migrated to other continents, and replaced populations of archaic humans across the globe. The finding comes from a large-scale excavation launched in the Qingjiang River...
PreColumbian, Clovis, PreClovis
JOURNEY OF MANKIND (The Peopling Of The World)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/25/2005 5:11:40 PM PDT · 41 replies · 895+ views The Bradshaw Foundation | Unknown | Stephen Oppenheimer This is the result of a DNA study done by Professor Stephen Oppenheimer and funded by The Bradshaw Foundation. As you go on the journey, here are some things I would like you to make note of and I would appreciate your comments:1. 135-115,000 years ago, notice that the first human excursion out of Africa failed/Died out.2. 74,000 years ago Toba exploded and reduced the worldwide human population to 2-10,000. Note the (about) 10,000 year absence of humans in India, Pakistan and parts of SE Asia. Also, there are two populations of 'out of Africa' humans that are seperated from...
Ancient Europe
Jawbone Hints at Earliest Britons
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 04/26/2005 7:54:35 PM PDT · 12 replies · 252+ views BBC | Paul Rincon A piece of jawbone that has lain in Torquay Museum, Devon, for nearly 80 years could be the oldest example of a modern human yet found in Europe. The Kent's Cavern specimen was thought to be about 31,000 years old, but re-dating shows it is actually between 37,000 and 40,000 years old. However, the early dates lead the team behind the research to wonder if the jawbone is actually from a Neanderthal. A new examination of the fragment along with DNA analysis could sort this out. The fragment of maxilla (upper jaw) containing three teeth was unearthed in Kent's Cavern,...
Major Bronze Age Haul Unearthed (UK)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/26/2005 5:18:02 PM PDT · 11 replies · 463+ views BBC | 4-26-2005 Major Bronze Age haul unearthed More than 140 pieces have been recovered from the garden A large haul of Bronze Age artefacts has been uncovered by a gardener. The 145 items, dating from about 800BC, were found by Simon Francis as he landscaped the grounds of a house in Cringleford, near Norwich. Norfolk County Council archaeologists say the haul is one of the largest and most significant they have known. Curator of archaeology Alan West said: "The items are in good condition and the more items we find the better knowledge we can develop of the era." It is very...
Oldest rock art in Britain: 12,800 years
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 04/24/2005 1:40:48 AM PDT · 25 replies · 633+ views Telegraph (UK) | 22/04/2005 | Roger Highfield, Science Editor Hard evidence that the engravings of women and extinct creatures at Creswell Crags are more than 12,800 years old is published today, making them Britain's oldest rock art. Creswell Crags, on the Nottinghamshire-Derbyshire border, is riddled with caves which contain preserved evidence of human activity during the last Ice Age. Recently, engravings were found on the walls and ceiling depicting animals such as the European Bison, now extinct in Britain, female dancers or birds - depending on the view of the archaeologist - and intimate female body parts. Dating rock art is difficult, especially if there are no charcoal-based black...
Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Buddha statue from 6th c found in Viking hoard in Helgo, Sweden
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 04/26/2005 11:26:07 PM PDT · 11 replies · 222+ views Biblical Archaeology Review | March/April 2005 | "Worldwide" editor This fifth or sixth century A.D. statue of the Buddha from northern India was found in a Viking treasure horde on the Swedish island of Helgˆ. Globalization is clearly not a recent phenomenon... [F]ew people got around as much as the Vikings. From their Scandinavian coves they visited, raided, traded with and settled in lands from Newfoundland to Baghdad. They conquered Britain, terrorized Ireland and France, settled Iceland, raided Spain and ranged throughout the Mediterranean basin. They established a major presence in Russia, the Ukraine and the Crimea, sending their longboats down the Volga into the Black Sea. They raided...
DNA Shows Celtic Hero Somerled's Viking Roots
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/26/2005 10:52:12 AM PDT · 52 replies · 847+ views Scotsman | 4-26-2005 | Ian Johnson DNA shows Celtic hero Somerled's Viking roots IAN JOHNSTON SCIENCE CORRESPONDENT A HISTORIC Celtic hero credited with driving the Vikings out of western Scotland was actually descended from a Norseman, according to research by a leading DNA expert. According to traditional genealogies, Somerled, who is said to have died in 1164 after ousting the Vikings from Argyll, Kintyre and the Western Isles, was descended from an ancient royal line going back to when the Scots were living in Ireland. But Bryan Sykes, an Oxford University professor of human genetics who set up a company called Oxford Ancestors to research people's...
Treasure Found on Haddiscoe Island
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 04/22/2005 11:52:08 PM PDT · 22 replies · 927+ views EDP24 | 23 April 2005 | STEPHEN PULLINGER When Roger Cole stepped out of his Land-Rover on Haddiscoe Island, near Yarmouth, he put his foot on what he thought was a pile of old Co-op dividend tokens. On closer inspection, the foreman of the flood defence work site realised they were silver coins and quickly picked up around 200 of them. An expert from Norfolk Landscape Archaeology (NLA) was called in and found a further 100 in the tracks made by a bulldozer. The coins are dated between 1550 and 1646, and the theory of NLA finds liaison officer Dr Adrian Marsden, based at The Castle Museum, Norwich,...
Oh So Mysteriouso
Ancient Manuscript Discovery has 'Da Vinci Code' Touch (Claims to have Bible Figure Biographies)
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 04/30/2005 5:08:57 PM PDT · 21 replies · 1,109+ views Scotsman | Thu 28 Apr 2005 | Gemma Collins and Vicky Shaw An ancient document likened to something which could have been featured in best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code was being analysed at a top auction house for its significance today. The manuscript, believed to date from the 17th century, contains biographical details of every person in the Bible. It was unearthed in the depths of the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth where it had been kept in storage for Llandovery College, an independent school near the Brecon Beacons. It was among about half of the school's archive of books which were taken to the library around 50 years ago....
The Oak Island Mystery...What lies at the bottom of the Money Pit?
	Posted by vannrox On News/Activism 07/25/2002 2:22:59 PM PDT · 83 replies · 1,374+ views The Oak Island Mystery | FR Post July 2002 | Bradley Keyes What lies at the bottom of the Money Pit? Imagine yourself walking through the trees of a wooded island rumored to hide buried pirate treasure. Suddenly you come across a depression in the ground. It's roughly circular and there's a tree standing above it with a branch that has been cut and appears to have been used as a pulley. Your imagination is fired and hope soars. You run off to get your friends and digging equipment. You and two friends return the next day, shovels in hand, ready to claim your prize. The digging is easy. The dirt...
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #42 Saturday, May 7, 2005
Anatolia
The Seeds Of Civilization (Catalhoyuk)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 05/05/2005 9:43:03 AM PDT · 15 replies · 376+ views The Smithsonian | 5-5-2005 | Smithsonian The Seeds of Civilization Why did humans first turn from nomadic wandering to villages and togetherness? The answer may lie in a 9,500-year-old settlement in central Turkey Since researchers first began digging at Catalhoyuk (pronounced "Chah-tahl-hew-yook") in the 1960s, they've found more than 400 skeletons under the houses, which are clustered in a honeycomb-like maze. Burying the dead under houses was common at early agricultural villages in the Near East-at Catalhoyuk, one dwelling alone had 64 skeletons. Archaeologist Ian Hodder and his colleagues are also working to decipher paintings and sculptures found at Catalhoyuk. The surfaces of many houses are...
Ancient Egypt
2,300-Year-Old Mummy Unveiled in Egypt
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 05/03/2005 9:43:09 AM PDT · 37 replies · 841+ views AP | May 3 | PAUL GARWOOD SAQQARA, Egypt (AP) - A superbly maintained 2,300-year-old mummy bearing a golden mask and covered in brightly colored images of gods and goddesses was unveiled Tuesday at Egypt's Saqqara Pyramids complex south of Cairo. The unidentified mummy, from the 30th pharaonic dynasty, had been closed in a wooden sarcophagus and buried in sand at the bottom of a 20-foot shaft before being discovered recently by an Egyptian-led archaeological team. "We have revealed what may be the most beautiful mummy ever found in Egypt," Zahi Hawass, chief of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, said as he helped excavators remove the sarcophagus'...
Asia
Tantalizing Clues In Ancient Mounds (Japan/Jomon)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 05/04/2005 11:31:36 AM PDT · 17 replies · 514+ views Asahi News | 5-4-2005 | Asahi Shimbun Tantalizing clues in ancient mounds 05/04/2005 The Asahi Shimbun SAGA-Ancient mounds here may be among the nation's oldest and prove that the original owners were pretty inventive for their day. Recent excavations at the Higashimyo archeological site indicate the shell mounds date back 7,000 years-to the early Jomon Period (8000 B.C.-300 B.C.). Higashimyo has western Japan's largest such mounds. They are believed to have been created by the dumping of shells and other refuse. Remains of more than 40 baskets, hand-woven from thin strips of wood, have been found there. Experts say they may be the oldest so far discovered....
Biology and Cryptobiology
Earliest Domesticated Dog Uncovered
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 05/08/2003 5:55:22 PM PDT · 31 replies · 84+ views Discovery News | 5-7-2003 | Jennifer Viegas Earliest Domesticated Dogs Uncovered By Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News Skull of a Stone Age Dog April 7, 2003 — The skulls of two Stone Age dogs believed to be the earliest known canines on record have been found, according to a team of Russian scientists. The dog duo, which lived approximately 14,000 years ago, appear to represent the first step of domestication from their wild wolf ancestors. Mikhail Sablin, a scientist at the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, along with his colleague Gennady Khlopachev, analyzed the dog remains, which were found at the Eliseevichi...
Wild Dingoes Descended From Domestic Dogs
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 09/29/2003 9:22:30 AM PDT · 15 replies · 209+ views New Scientist | 9-29-2003 | Emma Young Wild dingoes descended from domestic dogs 12:45 29 September 03 NewScientist.com news service The mysterious origin of Australia's wild dingoes has become substantially clearer following new genetic research. It shows the animals descended from domestic dogs introduced from South East Asia about 5000 years ago. The ancestry of dingoes has been much debated. The time of arrival, the source and type of animal - wild or domestic - were all uncertain. "There hasn't been a lot of evidence, so everything has been speculation," says Alan Wilton, of the University of New South Wales. Wilton, with colleagues including Peter Savolainen at...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Cataclysm 3.9 Billion Years Ago Was Caused By Asteroids, Not Comets
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 03/04/2002 6:31:38 AM PST · 13 replies · 83+ views Science Daily | 3-4-2002 Date: Posted 3/4/2002 Cataclysm 3.9 Billion Years Ago Was Caused By Asteroids, Not Comets, Researchers Say WASHINGTON (February 28, 2002) -- The bombardment that resurfaced the Earth 3.9 billion years ago was produced by asteroids, not comets, according to David Kring of the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and Barbara Cohen, formerly at the UA and now with the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear today in the Journal of Geophysical Research - Planets, published by the American Geophysical Union. The significance of this conclusion is that the bombardment was so severe that it destroyed older rocks on ...
Chesapeake Bay Crater Offers Clues To Ancient Cataclysm
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 11/16/2001 1:23:50 PM PST · 21 replies · 87+ views Natinal Geographic | 11-13-2001 | Hillary Mayell Chesapeake Bay Crater Offers Clues to Ancient Cataclysm Hillary Mayell for National Geographic News November 13, 2001 About 35 million years ago—the dinosaurs are dead, but the Appalachian Mountains are still covered in tropical rain forests—a rock from space that was more than a mile wide and moving at supersonic speed crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off North America. Traveling at about 70,000 miles (113,000 kilometers) an hour, the asteroid or comet (bolide) splashed through several hundred feet of water and several thousand feet of mud and sediment. Drilling for Knowledge A trailer hauls drilling rods the U.S. Geological Survey ...
Scientists Uncover 'Deep Impact' Disaster From Space
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 06/13/2003 6:10:30 PM PDT · 34 replies · 204+ views Ananova | 6-12-2003 Scientists uncover 'deep impact' disaster from spaceA new report suggests that a massive object from space smashed into what is now the Moroccan desert 380 million years ago, wiping out 40% of the world's marine species. The discovery adds to the evidence linking such impacts with mass extinction events. Only one other impact by a large comet or asteroid has convincingly been held responsible for a mass extinction. That occurred off the Yucatan peninsular in Mexico 65 million years ago and is thought to have ended the reign of the dinosaurs. The newly discovered impact coincided with the Kacak/otomari extinction,...
Origins and Prehistory
Chinese Roots: Skull May Complicate Human-Origins Debate
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/02/2003 11:03:24 AM PST · 82 replies · 273+ views Science News | 12-21/28-2002 | Bruce Bower Chinese Roots: Skull may complicate human-origins debate Bruce Bower In 1958, farm workers digging in a cave in southern China's Liujiang County discovered several human bones including a skull. Relying on its resemblance to securely dated human fossils in Japan, scientists assigned this Homo sapiens skull an age of 20,000 to 30,000 years. ASIAN CONNECTION. If southern China's Liujiang skull is really more than 100,000 years old, this modern Homo sapiens fossil will shake up theories of human evolution. W. Wang However, the Liujiang finds may be much older than that, according to a report in the December Journal of...
Geneticists expose racism as nonsense-We started off black & brown, we'll all end up black & brown
	Posted by chance33_98 On News/Activism 08/09/2003 8:05:00 PM PDT · 33 replies · 263+ views sundaytimes.co.za Geneticists expose racism as nonsense Rowan Philp Gene experts have declared race to be no more than an accident of geography - and predict the future of black and white South Africa will probably be more shades of brown. Racism is scientifically unfounded, confirmed Professor Trefor Jenkins, Professor Emeritus at Wits University, and Dr Himla Soodyall, director of the Human Genomic Research Unit. The genetic pool in the country was already so mixed that supremacists had no hope of a pure lineage, they said during a series of workshops at the National Festival of Science, Engineering and Technology in...
New Age For Mungo Man, New Human History
	Posted by vannrox On News/Activism 02/20/2003 3:51:29 PM PST · 34 replies · 161+ views Science Daily | FR Post 2-18-03 | Editorial Staff New Age For Mungo Man, New Human HistoryA University of Melbourne-led study has finally got scientists to agree on the age of Mungo Man, Australia's oldest human remains, and the consensus is he is 22,000 years younger. A University of Melbourne-led team say Mungo Man's new age is 40,000 years, reigniting the debate for the 'Out of Africa' theory. The research also boosted the age of Mungo Lady, the world's first recorded cremation, by 10,000 years putting her at the same age as Mungo Man. It is the first time scientists have reached a broad agreement on the ages of...
Australia DNA Challenges Human Origin Theories
	Posted by Pharmboy On News/Activism 01/10/2001 08:30:57 PST · 43 replies · 45+ views Reuters Health via Yahoo | 1/9/2001 | Keith Mulvihill Australian researchers have found ancient DNA evidence that throws into question current scientific beliefs about where humans first evolved. A team of scientists extracted "mitochondrial" DNA from fossils found in 1974 near Lake Mungo in the state of New South Wales. These fossils, dating from as far back as 60,000 years, had previously been identified as anatomically modern, meaning that they look and function very similarly to the skeletons of people living today. But the researchers report in the January 9th issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from these ancient humans is extinct, or not present in humans living today....
Noses Didn't Need Cold To Evolve (Neanderthal)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 05/05/2005 8:54:08 AM PDT · 12 replies · 447+ views Science News Magazine | 5-5-2005 | Bruce Bower Noses didn't need cold to evolve Bruce Bower From Milwaukee, at a joint meeting of the Paleoanthropology Society and American Association of Physical Anthropologists Fossil evidence that Neandertals possessed exceptionally large, broad noses has often been explained as an evolutionary response to life in cold, dry locales. An expansive schnoz might have warmed incoming cold air or expelled body heat during hunting and other strenuous activities. However, new data indicate that climate played no role in shaping the Neandertal nose. Marc R. Meyer of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and his coworkers found similarly sized nasal passages in a...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
DNA finally identifies child killed in Titanic sinking
	Posted by Asmodeus On News/Activism 11/06/2002 11:22:19 AM PST · 12 replies · 130+ views Associated Press TORONTO -- Nearly a century ago, Canadian sailors buried an unidentified infant who died on the Titanic and, touched by the tragedy, called him the Unknown Child -- a symbol of the children lost in the luxury liner sinking. Now at last, the child is known. On Tuesday, Magda Schleifer, a retired Finnish bank clerk, visited the grave, which DNA tests have now established holds the remains of one of her relatives. "First I thought this could not be true,'' Schleifer, 68, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Schleifer had long known that her...
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