Gods, Graves, Glyphs
Weekly Digest #160
Saturday, August 11, 2007
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Prehistory and Origins
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First Europeans Came From Asia, Not Africa, Tooth Study Suggests
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Posted by BGHater
On News/Activism 08/08/2007 12:17:01 PM EDT · 35 replies · 699+ views
National Geographic News | 06 Aug 2007 | Kate Ravilious
Europe's first early human colonizers were from Asia, not Africa, a new analysis of more than 5,000 ancient teeth suggests. Researchers had traditionally assumed that Europe was settled in waves starting around two million years ago, as our ancient ancestors -- collectively known as hominids -- came over from Africa. But the shapes of teeth from a number of hominid species suggest that arrivals from Asia played a greater role in colonizing Europe than hominids direct from Africa. These Asian hominids may have originally come from Africa, the scientists note, but had evolved independently for some time. (Related: "Did Early Humans First Arise in...
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Study points to larger role of Asian ancestors in evolution (challenging "Out of Africa" theory)
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Posted by GeorgeKant
On News/Activism 08/07/2007 11:51:06 AM EDT · 21 replies · 634+ views
AFP (Yahoo!) | Tue Aug 7, 8:10 AM
CHICAGO (AFP) - A new analysis of the dental fossils of human ancestors suggests that Asian populations played a larger role than Africans in colonizing Europe millions of years ago, said a study released Monday. The findings challenge the prevailing "Out of Africa" theory, which holds that anatomically modern man first arose from one point in Africa and fanned out to conquer the globe, and bolsters the notion that Homo sapiens evolved from different populations in different parts of the globe. The "Out of Africa" scenario has been underpinned since 1987 by genetic studies based mainly on the rate of...
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Early Humans In China One Million Years Ago
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 08/06/2007 1:27:06 PM EDT · 32 replies · 693+ views
Science Daily | 8-2-2007 | American Geophysical Union
Source: American Geophysical Union Date: August 2, 2007 Early Humans In China One Million Years Ago Science Daily -- Chronology and adaptability of early humans in different paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental settings are important topics in the study of human evolution. China houses several early-human (Paleolithic) archaeological sites along the Nihewan Basin near Mongolia, some with artifacts that date back about 1 million years ago. Deng et al. analyze one specific locality in the Nihewan Basin, called the Feiliang Paleolithic Site, where several stone artifacts and mammalian bone fragments have been found buried in basin silts. By analyzing remnant magnetizations of...
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Africa
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Finds test human origins theory
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Posted by Domandred
On News/Activism 08/08/2007 1:58:39 PM EDT · 97 replies · 1,219+ views
BBC News | James Urquhart
Two hominid fossils discovered in Kenya are challenging a long-held view of human evolution. The broken upper jaw-bone and intact skull from humanlike creatures, or hominids, are described in Nature. Previously, the hominid Homo habilis was thought to have evolved into the more advanced Homo erectus, which evolved into us. Now, habilis and erectus are now thought to be sister species that overlapped in time. The new fossil evidence reveals an overlap of about 500,000 years during which Homo habilis and Homo erectus must have co-existed in the Turkana basin area, the region of East Africa where the fossils were...
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Fossils paint new picture of human evolution
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Posted by Brujo
On News/Activism 08/08/2007 2:23:07 PM EDT · 37 replies · 641+ views
AP via Yahoo | 2007-Aug-08 | Julie Steenhuysen
An ancient skull and upper jawbone from two early branches of the human family tree -- Homo erectus and Homo habilis -- suggest the early human ancestors may have lived close together for half a million years, researchers said on Wednesday. The fossils, discovered in eastern Africa, challenge the understanding that humans evolved one after another like a line of dominoes, from ancient Homo habilis to Homo erectus and eventually to Homo sapiens, or modern people. "There has been a view that has suggested habilis very slowly evolved into erectus," said Susan Anton, a professor of anthropology at New York...
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Kenyan Fossils May Add New Branch to Human Family Tree
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 08/08/2007 6:50:18 PM EDT · 24 replies · 476+ views
National Geographic | 8-8-2007 | John Roach
Kenyan Fossils May Add New Branch to Human Family Tree John Roach for National Geographic News August 8, 2007 A pair of fossils recently discovered in Kenya is challenging the straight-line story of human evolution. Traditional evolutionary theories of the genus Homo suggest a successive progression: Homo habilis gave rise to Homo erectus, which then begat modern humans, Homo sapiens. H. erectus is commonly seen as the most similar ancestor to modern humans, differing mostly by having a brain about three-quarters the size. But the newly found upper jawbone and skull, which come from two separate skeletons, suggest that H....
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Skull Suggests Two Early Humans Lived at Same Time
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Posted by RDTF
On News/Activism 08/08/2007 11:36:16 PM EDT · 40 replies · 688+ views
Foxnews.com | August 8, 2007 | AP
WASHINGTON -- Surprising fossils dug up in Africa are creating messy kinks in the iconic straight line of human evolution with its knuckle-dragging ape and briefcase-carrying man. The new research by famed paleontologist Meave Leakey in Kenya shows our family tree is more like a wayward bush with stubby branches, calling into question the evolution of our ancestors. The old theory was that the first and oldest species in our family tree, Homo habilis, evolved into Homo erectus, which then became us, Homo sapiens. But those two earlier species lived side-by-side about 1.5 million years ago in parts of Kenya...
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Meet the Flintstones
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Ancient Human Fossils Show Women Much Smaller
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 08/09/2007 4:18:21 PM EDT · 29 replies · 651+ views
Reuters | 8-9-2007
Ancient human fossils show women much smaller Thu Aug 9, 2007 10:18AM EDT NAIROBI (Reuters) - Homo erectus, long viewed as a crucial evolutionary link between modern humans and their tree-dwelling ancestors, may have been more ape-like than previously thought, scientists unveiling new-found fossils said on Thursday. Revealing an ancient skull and a jawbone from two early branches of the human family tree -- Homo erectus and Homo habilis -- a team of Kenyan scientists said they were surprised to find that early female hominids were much smaller than males. The skull was the first discovery of a female Homo...
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Lucy, No Ricky
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Famous fossil Lucy leaves Ethiopia (on a U.S. tour)
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Posted by NormsRevenge
On News/Activism 08/06/2007 10:10:14 PM EDT · 57 replies · 649+ views
AP on Yahoo | 8/6/07 | Anita Powell - ap
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - After 3.2 million years in East Africa, one of the world's most famous set of fossils was quietly flown out of Ethiopia overnight for a U.S. tour that some experts say is a dangerous gamble with an irreplaceable relic. Although the fossil known as Lucy had been expected to leave the Ethiopian Natural History Museum this month, some in the nation's capital were surprised the departure took place under cover of darkness with no fanfare Sunday. "This is a national treasure," said Kine Arega, a 29-year-old attorney in Addis Ababa. "How come the public has no...
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Rome and Italy
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Fire Damages Rome's Famed Film Studios
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Posted by JACKRUSSELL
On News/Activism 08/10/2007 9:46:38 PM EDT · 5 replies · 167+ views
ABC News | August 10, 2007 | The Associated Press
(ROME) -- A fire on the set of "Rome," a completed HBO series on the ancient empire, has damaged part of the famed Cinecitta film studios. No one was reported injured. The blaze, which started late Thursday, burned through about 32,000 square feet, firefighters said. The sprawling complex on the outskirts of Rome covers more than 715,000 square yards, including buildings, gardens, movie sets and offices. Officials said the site where the fire broke out contained a large amount of highly flammable, synthetic material. The cause of the fire wasn't clear, but officials ruled out arson. The main set of "Rome," which...
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Ancient Art
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Vandals destroy 8,000-year-old artwork
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 08/08/2007 11:34:41 AM EDT · 13 replies · 233+ views
thinkSPAINtoday | Tuesday, August 7, 2007 | Samantha Kett
Fluorescent yellow paint was sprayed over carvings, thought to be around 8,000 years old, inside the Cova de la Clau in Palma de Gandia, last week. However, they left a 16,000-year-old engraving of a horse in the Cova del Parpallo untouched... Some of the carvings, which were discovered in 2001, have been removed and are held in various museums throughout the province, but those that remain have been declared UNESCO heritage sites. This is not the first time prehistoric engravings in La Safor caves have been under threat from vandals. Three years ago, graffiti was found in the Cova del...
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British Isles
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Stone Age Site Surfaces After 8,000 Years
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 08/06/2007 2:28:14 PM EDT · 30 replies · 969+ views
Science Daily | 8-5-2007
Source: University of Southampton Date: August 5, 2007 Stone Age Site Surfaces After 8000 Years Science Daily -- Excavations of an underwater Stone Age archaeological settlement dating back 8000 years took place at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton between 30 July ñ 3 August 2007. A diver working at the site just off the Isle of Wight coast. (Credit: Copyright Simon Brown 2007) Maritime archaeologists from the Hampshire and Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology (HWTMA) have been working at the site just off the Isle of Wight coast. Divers working at depths of 11 metres have raised sections of the...
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Remains of 8000 year old Stone Age settlement found under English Channel
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Posted by neverdem
On News/Activism 08/10/2007 2:53:32 PM EDT · 55 replies · 1,382+ views
news.yahoo.com | August 10, 2007 | NA
Washington, Aug 10 (ANI): Archaeologists have found the remains of a busy Stone Age settlement dating back 8000 years on the floor of the English Channel. The site, just off the Isle of Wight, dates back to the time when Europe and Britain were still linked by land. Garry Momber, director of the Hampshire and Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology, which led the recent excavations, said melting glaciers probably filled in the Channel, driving the settlement's last occupants north to higher ground. "This is the only site of its kind in the United Kingdom," said Momber. "It is important because...
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Megaliths and Archaeoastronomy
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Perthshire Rock Art Sheds Light On Scotland's Prehistoric Past
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 08/05/2007 7:00:40 PM EDT · 16 replies · 361+ views
24 Hour Museum | 8-3-2007 | Graham Spicer
PERTHSHIRE ROCK ART SHEDS LIGHT ON SCOTLAND'S PREHISTORIC PAST By Graham Spicer 03/08/2007 Archaeologists have discovered a large group of ancient rock art in Perthshire, which they hope will shed more light on the area's prehistoric inhabitants. A team working on National Trust for Scotland (NTS) land as part of the Ben Lawers Historic Landscape Project found the previously undiscovered ëcup-and-ring' style markings on a hillside overlooking Loch Tay and Kenmore. The carvings could date back to Neolithic times and be up to 5,000 years old. Cup-and-ring rock art features abstract symbols of circles and cups, chipped out of the...
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Ancient Europe
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Scientists say 'Iceman' died from arrow
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Posted by presidio9
On General/Chat 06/07/2007 1:57:15 PM EDT · 54 replies · 1,481+ views
Associated Press | 6/6/7 | FRANK JORDANS
A prehistoric hunter known as Oetzi whose well-preserved body was found on a snow-covered mountain in the Alps died more than 5,000 years ago after being struck in the back by an arrow, scientists said in an article published Wednesday. Researchers from Switzerland and Italy used newly developed medical scanners to examine the hunter's frozen corpse to determine that the arrow had torn a hole in an artery beneath his left collarbone, leading to a massive loss of blood. That, in turn, caused Oetzi to go into shock and suffer a heart attack, according to the article published online in...
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Central Asia
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Russia: Ancient Uyghur Fortress on a Tuvan Lake to Turn into a Recreation and Tourist Centre
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Posted by TigerLikesRooster
On News/Activism 08/09/2007 1:38:16 AM EDT · 12 replies · 249+ views
Tuva-onlines | 01/19/07 | Dina Oyun
Ancient Uyghur Fortress on a Tuvan Lake to Turn into a Recreation and Tourist Centre An ancient Uigur Fortress (Por-Bazhyn) on a Tere-Khol lake in the eastern part of Tuva (near Kungurtuk village) can become a 'Russian Shaolin' as Sergei Shoigu, native Tuvan and currently Russian minister for Extraordinary Situations (second in popularity after President Putin Russian) put it in today's Rossiiskaya Gazeta daily. A research expedition to the ruined fortress of Por-Bazhyn will take place this summer with an archeological team numbering over 200 people. 'We shall build there a Russian Shaolin and invite everybody to come there. And...
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Navigation
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Marco Polo discovered America 200 years before Colombus, according to map
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Posted by HAL9000
On News/Activism 08/09/2007 6:28:45 AM EDT · 89 replies · 2,149+ views
AFP via translation | August 9, 2007
Possible discovered of America by Marco Polo before Colomb: account in VSD 'America - its West coast - would have been discovered by Marco Polo some 200 years before Christophe Colomb, according to a chart of the Library of the Congress in Washington examined since 1943 by the FBI and whose history is told in published review VSD Wednesday. This document, brought to the Library in 1933 by Marcian Rossi, an American naturalized citizen originating in Italy, "represents a boat beside a chart showing part of India, China, Japan, the Eastern Indies and North America", indicates the report/ratio of...
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Panspermia
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Rutgers scientists debunk a life-origin theory
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Posted by Bladerunnuh
On News/Activism 08/09/2007 6:23:00 PM EDT · 26 replies · 574+ views
North Jersey Media | 8-7-07 | BOB GROVES
For the first time, there are solid data to refute a popular theory that life came to the Earth aboard a comet, Rutgers researchers said Monday. Deteriorated DNA from microbes, frozen for millions of years in the Antarctic ice, shows that organisms could not have survived the bombardment of cosmic radiation during deep space travel from outside the solar system, said Paul Falkowski, a Rutgers biologist and oceanographer. "It's almost an impossibility for comets to seed other planets with life after they've been in space for millions of years," Falkowski said. That's because genetic material is severely damaged or destroyed...
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Greece
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Alexander's Gulf outpost uncovered
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Posted by fishhound
On News/Activism 08/07/2007 1:22:58 PM EDT · 15 replies · 476+ views
BBC | Tuesday, 7 August 2007, | Neil Arun
Alexander the Great's awe-inspiring conquest of Asia is drawing archaeologists to a desert island off the shores of Iraq. Failaka ruins (pic: Greek Ministry of Culture) The Greek and Kuwaiti governments are co-operating at the site Greek government experts are going to Failaka - a Gulf outpost of Alexander's army, now governed by Kuwait. The island's bullet-holed buildings tell of a conflict still fresh in people's memories - Saddam Hussein's brief occupation of Kuwait in the early 1990s. Beneath the sun-baked sands of Failaka, archaeologists hope to unearth the secrets of an earlier conquest - a settlement established by Alexander's...
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Egypt
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Queen Nefertiti: More Than A Pretty Face
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 08/08/2007 11:02:53 PM EDT · 35 replies · 1,280+ views
Expatica | 8-8-2007
Queen Nefertiti: More than a pretty face German scientists have discovered that the world's most beautiful woman allowed herself to be sculpted with wrinkles to appear more beautiful. Maybe wrinkles are not so bad, after all, some German scientists have discovered. In ancient times, such laugh lines and wrinkles around the mouth improved the face of Nefertiti, the Egyptian queen acclaimed as the world's most beautiful woman. X-ray pictures of the bust by a computer tomography machine at the nearby Charite Hospital in Berlin revealed that the sculpture is a piece of limestone with details added using four outer layers...
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Epigraphy and Language
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Timbuktu Hopes Ancient Texts Spark a Revival
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 08/07/2007 1:47:24 PM EDT · 13 replies · 173+ views
NY Times | August 7, 2007 | Lydia Polgreen
Ismael Diadie Haidara held a treasure in his slender fingers that has somehow endured through 11 generations -- a square of battered leather enclosing a history of the two branches of his family, one side reaching back to the Visigoths in Spain and the other to the ancient origins of the Songhai emperors who ruled this city at its zenith. [Candace Feit for The New York Times]
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Faith and Philosophy
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In Afghanistan, 900-Foot Sleeping Buddha Eludes Archaeologists
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 08/07/2007 6:24:52 PM EDT · 30 replies · 896+ views
CS Monitor | 8-7-2007 | Mark Sappenfield
In Afghanistan, 900-foot Sleeping Buddha eludes archaeologistsBut researchers are finding and preserving other ancient riches. By Mark Sappenfield | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor from the August 7, 2007 edition BAMIYAN, AFGHANISTAN - After the Taliban fell, France sent Zemaryalai Tarzi to this Afghan valley on a quest bordering on the mythological. His goal: to find Sleeping Buddha, the reclining sculpture that, at 900 feet long, would be nearly 10 times the size of the Buddhas destroyed by the Taliban in 2001. He brought the ultimate treasure map -- the journal of a 7th- century Chinese pilgrim who...
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Climate
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Ancient Glacier Creatures Brought Back To Life (8-Million-Years-Old)
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 08/06/2007 7:14:01 PM EDT · 39 replies · 1,000+ views
The Telegraph (UK) | 8-6-2007 | Roger Highfield
Ancient glacier creatures brought back to life By Roger Highfield, Science Editor Last Updated: 8:35pm BST 06/08/2007 Creatures that once lived eight million years ago have been successfully thawed from the ice of an Antarctic glacier, in an experiment that sounds like a scene from a science fiction film. The feat of revival was managed with as yet unidentified single-celled microbes and should pose no health issues, say the scientists. However, it does show that evolution of simpler organisms is complicated by thawing glaciers which allow ancient bugs to contribute their old genes to modern populations. The finding is significant,...
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Sunken Civilizations
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Underwater Stone Formation at Bimini: Ancient Harbor Evidence (Uncovering the Bimini Hoax)
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Posted by Renfield
On General/Chat 08/06/2007 8:27:45 PM EDT · 25 replies · 431+ views
Mysterious America | 11/2005 | Greg Little
In 1968 a 1600-foot long J-shaped formation of stone blocks was reportedly discovered about one mile off the west coast of North Bimini, Bahamas by a Miami-based biologist, Dr. J. Manson Valentine. The formation was initially thought to resemble a collapsed wall or a road and the unfortunate name "Bimini Road" was attached to it. Media coverage speculated that the site was associated with Atlantis and sensationalized reports about the formation were widely disseminated. Shortly thereafter, four geologists asserted that the formation was nothing but natural limestone. Most archaeologists and geologists have accepted the four geologists' claims without question. However,...
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Catastrophism and Astronomy
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Mammoth Discovery
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Posted by dynachrome
On News/Activism 07/11/2007 7:17:12 PM EDT · 55 replies · 1,408+ views
cnn.com | 7-11-07 | Cnn
A mammoth that died 10,000 years ago was unearthed in Siberia.
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Paleontology
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Archaeologists discover 8-million-year-old forest in Hungary
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Posted by DaveLoneRanger
On News/Activism 08/08/2007 6:09:13 PM EDT · 91 replies · 1,442+ views
BreitBart | August 6, 2007 | Staff
Archaeologists have found an eight-million-year old forest of cypresses, well preserved and not fossilised, in Bukkabrany in north eastern Hungary. "The discovery is exceptional as the trees kept their wooden structure, they neither turned into coal nor were petrified," Tamas Pusztai, the deputy director and head of the archaeological department at the local Otto Herman museum who oversaw the excavation, told AFP. Archaelogists announced the find last week after uncovering the mysterious forest of taxodiums, a kind of swamp cypress, after a few days of digging. Miners working in a brown coal mine had first uncovered several tree trunks that...
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PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
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Ancient Ruler's Tomb, Gold Trove Found in Bolivia Pyramid
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Posted by BGHater
On News/Activism 08/07/2007 12:22:59 PM EDT · 9 replies · 613+ views
National Geographic News | 06 Aug 2007 | Kelly Hearn
A 1,300-year-old skeleton buried with a cache of gold artifacts has been found in a Bolivian pyramid, archaeologists say. The remains are believed to belong to an elite member of the ancient Tiwanaku culture, which thrived on the shores of Lake Titicaca from about A.D. 400 to 1200 (see Bolivia map). Scientists found the bones and offerings this spring in the upper reaches of the Akapana pyramid, a heavily looted temple experts say is one of the largest pre-Hispanic structures in South America. The condition of the artifacts and the skeleton's location inside the pyramid lead researchers to believe the...
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Let's Have Jerusalem
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Archaeologists discover sixth-century mosaic floor near Palmahim
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 08/08/2007 11:44:09 AM EDT · 10 replies · 127+ views
Haaretz | Wednesday, August 8, 2007 | Ofri Ilani
A floor mosaic dating back to the sixth century, depicting trees and fruit baskets, was uncovered this week at the Yavneh-Yam archaeological site near Kibbutz Palmahim. The floor, discovered during excavations by Tel Aviv University's Institute of Archaeology, decorated the dining room of a Byzantine villa, containing unbroken pottery... The numerous artifacts uncovered at the site point to extensive cultural and trade ties with Egypt, Lebanon, Cyprus and the Greek Isles. At the end of the fifth century, it was home to a monk known as Peter the Iberian - a charismatic bishop of Georgian origin who gathered around him...
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Helix, Make Mine a Double
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Researchers re-identify Titanic child
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Posted by DancesWithCats
On General/Chat 08/05/2007 10:38:26 PM EDT · 21 replies · 392+ views
Yahoo News | august 6 2007 | DancesWithCats
Wed Aug 1, 7:54 PM OTTAWA (AFP) - Canadian researchers on Wednesday said they positively identified the remains of a young child who died when the RMS Titanic sank in 1912. (Advertisement) The remains belong to a 19-month-old English boy named Sidney Leslie Goodwin who died with his family as they were setting out for a new life in Niagara Falls, New York, researchers said. Goodwin's body was found floating in the waters of the North Atlantic six days after the luxury liner sank on April 15,9 1912, killing 1,503 passengers and crew. Many of the Titanic victims are buried...
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Longer Perspectives
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The 2007 FreeRepublic Lexicon (Lingo, Dictionary, Lore Handbook)
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Posted by batter
On News/Activism 08/06/2007 5:06:00 PM EDT · 107 replies · 1,747+ views
FReepers | 6 August 2007 | FReepers (batter)
The 2007 FreeRepublic LexiconAKA "The Freepism, Freepology, Lingo, Dictionary, Terminology, Lore Handbook" A revised and condensed version of The Lexicon of FreeRepublic, culled from Lexicon of FreeRepublic - 4th Edition and Freeper Lingo Thread (the history and meening of 'Freepisms' including pictures). Thanks to the many Freepers who contributed! (see also The 2006 FreeRepublic LexiconI have attempted to include all definitions and histories provided to me and give credit to those who provided me the information. I apologize, in advance to those I failed to credit, but please understand that it was very difficult to keep up with all the...
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Early America
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Mesa State accepts donated journals of trailblazers of West, Lewis and Clark
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Posted by george76
On News/Activism 08/08/2007 11:29:18 AM EDT · 16 replies · 177+ views
The Daily Sentinel | August 08, 2007 | KYLENE KIANG
The foundation marked Gormley's achievement with a donation of books -- seven volumes of the journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition -- to the Tomlinson Library at Mesa State College. The journals of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark... were edited by Gary Moulton and published by the University of Nebraska Press. They are known among today's historians as the best and most current version of the duo's journey through the American West. Mesa State College Library Director Elizabeth Brodak said the fact that the books are forms of primary source material... "Anyone who wishes to get that flavor for...
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Sifting Through History (Acadia)
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 08/06/2007 1:55:47 PM EDT · 12 replies · 273+ views
The Chronicle Herald | 8-5-2007 | Tom McCoag
Sifting through historyLong-lost Acadian settlement reveals itself layer by layer in new excavation By TOM MCCOAG Amherst Bureau | 6:08 AM Gilbert Losier, of Dieppe, N.B., holds up a metal object he unearthed while participating in the dig at Beaubassin. A shard of glass and a piece of a pipe, two of the artifacts dug from the earth at the site of what was once an Acadian village.Amateur archeologists work pits and trenches that dot the field where the Acadian village of Beaubassin once stood. They were participating in a public dig sponsored by Parks Canada."Archeologist Clarice Valotaire leans into...
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Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
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Edmund Fitzgerald life ring found
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On News/Activism 08/08/2007 1:24:07 AM EDT · 58 replies · 2,502+ views
WOOD TV 8 (Grand Rapids) | Tuesday, August 7, 2007 | Rachael Ruiz
Joe Rasch and his two daughters, Emily and Elizabeth, were looking for agates on the Lake Superior coastline last Friday. Instead, they found a piece of history - a life ring from the Edmund Fitzgerald. Rasch admits he didn't realize what he found when he first saw the orange ring lying under a with pine tree that had fallen. Only when his daughter Emily read the words on the ring, it hit him. "It was pretty hard to read," Emily said. "I saw the Ed pretty good, then Fitz, so." They made the discovery near the Keweenau Peninsula, about 200 miles...
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