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Gods, Graves, Glyphs -- Weekly Digest #6
Anatolia
Ancestors Of Turks Came To Anatolia In 2000s BC
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/27/2004 9:18:36 AM PDT · 27 replies · 370+ views Turkish Press | 8-27-2004 Ancestors Of Turks Came To Anatolia In 2000s B.C. AFP: 8/27/2004 ERZURUM - Various archeological and cultural findings prove that Turks had come to Anatolia around 2000s B.C., Associated Prof. Semih Guneri said on Friday. Prof. Guneri and his team recently unearthed artifacts in excavations in Turkey's eastern provinces of Erzurum and Hakkari. According to experts, steles discovered by Associated Prof. Veli Sevin in Hakkari in the past will shed light on the question of ''When did Turks first come to Anatolia?''. Experts started to discuss this matter when a statue head which was sculpted around 2000s B.C. and was...
Ancient Greece
The Argonaut Epos and Bronze Age Economic History
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 08/25/2004 10:30:51 PM PDT · 2 replies · 72+ views Economics Department, City College of New York | Revised May 14, 1999 | Morris Silver The island group of the northeast Aegean (Lemnos, Lesbos, Chios, and others) was the cradle of the culture which created the prehistoric cities of Polichne on Lemnos and Therme on Lesbos, both of which may be considered the earliest urban centres in Europe. Their origins can be traced back as far as the end of the fourth millennium B.C.. ... The origins of these "urban" settlements, at least in the case of Poliochne, may be traced back much further than the time of the founding of Troy. ... Troy with its long-lived occupation, is but a small fortified village...
Franchthi Excavations: 17,000 Years of Greek Prehistory
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 08/22/2004 8:41:28 PM PDT · 1 reply · 79+ views Indiana University | Last Updated 11 May 1996 | KTG Prehistoric Figurines from Franchthi Cave by Lauren E. TalalayFranchthi Cave has produced the second largest collection, after Corinth, of Neolithic figurines from the Peloponnese. Forty-five possible pieces came to light during excavations, and subsequent study classified 24 animal and human images unequivocally as "figurines." Of those, two are dated to the Early Neolithic, one to an Early/Middle transitional phase, eleven to the Middle Neolithic, six to the Late Neolithic and four to the Final Neolithic. This chronological distribution accords well with what is known from the rest of southern Greece where EN figurines are rare. The pattern stands in...
SCIENTISTS REVISIT AN AEGEAN ERUPTION FAR WORSE THAN KRAKATOA
	Posted by Mike Darancette On News/Activism 10/24/2003 11:14:14 AM PDT · 22 replies · 126+ views For decades, scholars have debated whether the eruption of the Thera volcano in the Aegean more than 3,000 years ago brought about the mysterious collapse of Minoan civilization at the peak of its glory. The volcanic isle (whose remnants are known as Santorini) lay just 70 miles from Minoan Crete, so it seemed quite reasonable that its fury could have accounted for the fall of that celebrated people. This idea suffered a blow in 1987 when Danish scientists studying cores from the Greenland icecap reported evidence that Thera exploded in 1645 B.C., some 150 years before the usual date. That...
Ancient Middle East
Marsh Arabs, Modern Sumerians
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 05/14/2003 4:07:17 PM PDT · 13 replies · 27+ views Oregon Live | 5-14-2003 | Joe Rojas-Burke Marsh Arabs, modern Sumerians 05/14/03 JOE ROJAS-BURKE Amid the ruined temples of a civilization abandoned 4,000 years ago in southern Iraq, archaeologists on a 1968 expedition noted a striking parallel: Fragments of the long-extinct Sumerian civilization they were unearthing seemed to depict the present-day lives of the nearby tribal people. From Our Advertiser They speared fish from slender wooden boats, herded water buffalo and fashioned fantastic vaulted houses from the few building materials the marshes had to offer: reeds, clay and buffalo dung. Their secluded villages dotted the vast marshes and stream-braided lower reaches of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers....
First Toilet And Sewer System Of Prehistoric Period Found In Van
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/24/2004 8:16:56 AM PDT · 34 replies · 720+ views Turkish Press.com | 8-22-2004 First Toilet And Sewer System Of Prehistoric Period Found In Van Anadolu Agency: 8/22/2004 VAN - The first toilet and sewer system of prehistoric period was found in an Urartian castle in Gurpinar town of eastern province of Van. In an interview with the A.A correspondent, Istanbul University Eurasian Archaeology Institute Director Prof. Dr. Oktay Belli said on Saturday that they had unearthed a toilet in the western part of Cavustepe Castle built by Urartian King Sarduri II in 764 BC. ''We revealed that Urartian architects had formed a sewer system before building the castle. The toilet and sewer system...
Second Temple Village Uncovered
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/26/2004 9:04:41 AM PDT · 24 replies · 608+ views Jerusalem | 8-25-2004 | Etgar Lefkovits Aug. 25, 2004 23:03 | Updated Aug. 26, 2004 11:02Second Temple village uncoveredETGAR LEFKOVITS Israeli archeologists have uncovered a 5,000-year-old Canaanite city and a 2,000-year-old Jewish village from the Second Temple period alongside each other in the Modi'in area. The adjacent ancient sites, which were known to exist but previously lay untouched, lie on a barren, wind-whipped hilltop spanning 120 dunams near the present-day Israeli town of Shoham. The area of the sites was to be converted into an industrial zone, but the finds ñ which include the remnants of ancient streets in each city, being excavated now by archeologists...
Stone Circles In Saudi Arabia
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 08/25/2004 11:42:13 PM PDT · 23 replies · 246+ views Science Frontiers | No. 3: April 1978 | William R. Corliss Enigmatic circular stone formations reminiscent of those in Europe are found on remote hilltops and valleys throughout Saudi Arabia. The rings are 5 to 100 meters in diameter and are surrounded by stone walls a foot or two tall. Some of the rings have "tails" that stretch out for hundreds of meters. From the air, the patterns have a striking resemblance to designs etched in Peru's Nazca plateau. Little is known about the circles and virtually nothing about their purpose.
Uncovering Ice Age Archaeology In Jordan
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/24/2004 8:05:50 AM PDT · 10 replies · 265+ views Daily Star | 8-24-2004 | Staff Uncovering Ice Age archaeology in JordanEarly humans hunted large game near now-vanished lakes By Daily Star Staff Tuesday, August 24, 2004 AMMAN: The early prehistory and archaeology of the Middle Pleistocene, or Ice Age, is being revealed in remarkable detail in studies in southern Jordan. The work, begun in the late 1990s, has documented the presence of Homo erectus, our ancient ancestor, at a series of archaeological sites at Ayoun Qedim in the al-Jafr Basin. Today al-Jafr Basin is one of the most arid places in the Middle East. During the Pleistocene, the basin was filled with an enormous freshwater...
Ancient Persia
The First Persian War - Greek Wars
	Posted by freedom44 On News/Activism 08/21/2004 7:35:01 PM PDT · 26 replies · 367+ views Iranian Cultural Heritage | 8/21/04 | Iranian Cultural Heritage Our main sources for early Hoplite warfare come from the writings of Herodotus, who was born in the Greek city of Halicarnassus, on the southwest coast of Asia Minor, in 484 bc. He was an Ionian Greek who traveled widely and lived for a while in Athens, before settling in Thurii, a Greek colony in southern Italy. He died about 424 BC. We also get information from Thucydides, an Athenian who wrote of the Pelopponnesian Wars. We can also find references in the works of several of the Greek playwrights' material on Hoplite warfare. We can find an account of...
Historic site in Iran turned into garbage dump, official complains
	Posted by BlackVeil On News/Activism 08/24/2004 8:47:00 PM PDT · 16 replies · 237+ views Tehran Times | August 25 2004 | Anon TEHRAN (AFP) -- One of Iran's main historical sites, the ancient Elamite capital of Susa, has been used for the secret nightly dumping of rubbish by the local municipality, a culture official in the area told AFP Tuesday. "We have filed several complaints against the municipality, but it firmly denies its workers have ever done such a thing -- even though they have been frequently spotted by our guards," said the head of the Cultural Heritage Organization in Shush, the modern name for Susa. But the official, Mahdi Qanbari, also complained that the municipality was also planning to build a...
Australia
3,000-Year-Old Bodies Studied in Australia
	Posted by TigerLikesRooster On News/Activism 08/27/2004 7:27:50 AM PDT · 12 replies · 350+ views AP via Yahoo! News | 08/27/04 | N/A 3,000-Year-Old Bodies Studied in Australia 25 minutes ago -- SYDNEY, Australia - Headless bodies buried 3,000 years ago in the oldest cemetery in the Pacific could reveal much about the earliest settlers of Vanuatu, Fiji and Polynesia, Australian archeologists said on Friday. The burial site ó which was accidentally uncovered by a bulldozer driver building an embankment for a prawn farm ó contains the oldest human remains yet found in the region. Archeologists say the discovery will unearth many clues about the appearance and culture of the Lapita people ó some of the earliest...
US History
Hunt begins for Civil War sub [USS Alligator]
	Posted by Constitution Day On News/Activism 08/25/2004 10:05:58 AM PDT · 17 replies · 441+ views The News and Observer [Raleigh, N.C.] | August 25, 2004 | Jerry Allegood, Staff Writer Hunt begins for Civil War subResearchers use high-tech equipment to scan the ocean floor for the USS Alligator By JERRY ALLEGOOD, Staff WriterOCRACOKE -- In the battle for submarine fame, the CSS Hunley has far outclassed the USS Alligator. Consider their Civil War service: The Confederate Hunley was credited with sinking a Union ship. The Union Alligator aborted its first mission because it couldn't dive in shallow river water. The Hunley was believed to have sunk in combat. The Alligator went down in a storm while being towed to Charleston, S.C. The Hunley sank with nine men aboard. The Alligator...
Shipwreck in the Gulf Clings Tenaciously to its Mysteries
	Posted by vannrox On News/Activism 01/28/2003 12:34:32 PM PST · 7 replies · 77+ views NY Times | January 28 2003 | By KENNETH CHANG January 28, 2003 Shipwreck in the Gulf Clings Tenaciously to its MysteriesBy KENNETH CHANG BOARD THE RYLAN T, off Louisiana ó Those who believe in ghosts might conclude that those aboard a shipwreck at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico do not want to be disturbed. For nearly two centuries, the ship has lain under a half-mile of water, forgotten until ExxonMobil, by infinitesimal chance, bisected it with an oil pipeline two years ago. Marine archaeologists at Texas A&M University saw it as an opportunity to use undersea technology to uncover maritime history. With robotic submarines able to...
Central Asia
Archaeologists Make Unique Find In Southern Russia
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/26/2004 8:57:28 AM PDT · 13 replies · 616+ views Novosti | 8-26-2004 ARCHEOLOGISTS MAKE UNIQUE FIND IN SOUTHERN RUSSIA MOSCOW, August 25 (RIA Novosti) - Archeologists working in the Russian republic of North Ossetia, in the Caucasus, have made a unique find. They have unearthed remains of a horse with outfit. The horse is reported to have belonged to a dignitary of Alan, the state that presumably existed here in the 7th-9th centuries. The horse's outfit is elaborately decorated with gold-plated silver pendants, openwork pendants, and jingle bells, says Ruslan Dzatiati, a senior official at the North Ossetian Humanities Institute. Scholars believe that the horse was buried together with its owner to...
Genghis Khan's Pen As Mighty As His Sword
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/23/2004 6:46:57 AM PDT · 24 replies · 536+ views IOL | 8-23-2004 Genghis Khan's pen as mighty as his sword? August 23 2004 at 11:45AM Beijing - A Chinese historian says he has evidence that ruthless conqueror and master of the Mongol horde Genghis Khan was as masterful with the pen as he was with the sword. Historians have long assumed the ancient Mongolian ruler was illiterate, primarily because the Mongolian written language was created in the early 13th century, when Genghis Khan would have been in his 40s and not have had time to learn, the official Xinhua news agency said. However, Tengus Bayaryn, a professor at China's Inner Mongolia University,...
China, Korea, Japan
Chinese Lady Dai Leaves Egyptian Mummies For Dead
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/25/2004 10:39:57 AM PDT · 18 replies · 474+ views China Daily | 8-25-2004 | Yu Chunhong Chinese Lady Dai leaves Egyptian mummies for dead By Yu Chunhong (chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2004-08-25 08:59 People all over the world think of Egypt when talking about body preservation and mummies, but how many people know that the best preserved bodies in the world are actually in China? The body of Lady Dai [special to chinadaily.com.cn] According to some scientists, what the ancient Chinese were able to achieve in body preservation leaves the Egyptians in their dust. The body of Lady Dai of the Western Han Dynasty, housed in the state of the art Hunan Museum, attracts flocks of visitors every...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
'First Americans' May Be Johnnies-Come-Lately (Topper Site)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/22/2004 8:17:24 AM PDT · 19 replies · 523+ views Atlanta Journal Constitution | 8-20-2004 | Mike Toner 'First Americans' may be Johnnies-come-lately By MIKE TONER The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 08/20/04 Human history is being written óand rewritten ó a shovelful at a time on a shaded hillside along the Savannah River. Each summer Al Goodyear's team of archaeologists digs deeper into the riverbank in South Carolina's Allendale County. Each summer the story of the first Americans, the primitive hunters who first populated the continent, grows longer. And more complex. And more controversial. David Tulis/AJC (ENLARGE) Archaeologist Al Goodyear holds a hand-made 'microblade,' one of the hundreds of artifacts unearthed during his team's seven years of excavations...
Mystery Hill: America's Stonehenge?
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 08/26/2004 10:56:54 PM PDT · 5 replies · 148+ views The Museum of Unnatural Mystery | 1997 | Lee Krystek How old is the site? Pottery fragments have been tested and found to go back as far as 1000 BC. Charcoal from one fire pit, measured by radiocarbon dating, was found to be 4000 years old.
Stone Age Columbus - Questions And Answers
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/22/2004 12:06:57 PM PDT · 40 replies · 542+ views BBC | 8-22-2004 | BBC Stone Age Columbus - questions and answersWhat was the Ice Age climate like in southern France/Spain? During the last glacial maximum around 20,000 years ago the climate was a lot colder and drier than now. In southern France one could expect summer temperatures of between 5-10?C and winter temperatures dropping below -20?C. Even so, there were three basic land types that had their own advantages and disadvantages for people: Wide coastal plain that was probably an open grass land with sparse vegetation Uplands that would have been much like the Arctic tundra today Inland valleys that were well sheltered and...
Biology, Cryptobiology, Origins
Neanderthal DNA Sequencing
	Posted by vannrox On News/Activism 02/03/2003 1:02:30 PM PST · 26 replies · 44+ views Neanderthal DNA Sequencing | FR Post 2-3-03 | Essays by James Q. Jacobs Neanderthal DNA Sequencing In July of 1997 the first ever sequencing of Neanderthal DNA was announced in the Jouranl Cell (Krings, et. al., 1997), a breakthrough in the study of modern human evolution. The DNA was extracted for the type specimen and the mitochondrial DNA sequence was determined. This sequence was compared to living human mtDNA sequences and found to be outside the range of variation in modern humans. Age estimation of the Neanderthal and human divergence is four times older than the age of the common mtDNA ancestor of all living humans. The authors suggest that the Neanderthals...
Neanderthal Extinction Pieced Together
	Posted by vannrox On News/Activism 01/30/2004 6:27:14 AM PST · 16 replies · 22+ views Discovery News | Jan. 27, 2004 | By Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News Jan. 27, 2004 ? In a prehistoric battle for survival, Neanderthals had to compete against modern humans and were wiped off the face of the Earth, according to a new study on life in Europe from 60,000 to 25,000 years ago. The findings, compiled by 30 scientists, were based on extensive data from sediment cores, archaeological artifacts such as fossils and tools, radiometric dating, and climate models. The collected information was part of a project known as Stage 3, which refers to the time period analyzed. he number three also seems significant in terms of why the Neanderthals became extinct....
Neanderthal Man 'Never Walked In Northern Europe'
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/21/2004 7:25:32 PM PDT · 184 replies · 2,505+ views The Telegraph (UK) | 8-22-2004 | Tony Paterson Neanderthal Man 'never walked in northern Europe' By Tony Paterson in Berlin (Filed: 22/08/2004) Historians of the Stone Age fear that they will have to rip up their theories about Neanderthal Man after doubt has been cast on the carbon dating of skeletons by a leading German anthropologist. Work by the flamboyant Professor Reiner Protsch von Zieten showed that Neanderthal Man existed in northern Europe. Calculations on skeletal remains found at Hahnofersand, near Hamburg, stated they were 36,000 years old. Yet recent research at Oxford University's carbon-dating laboratory has suggested that they date back a mere 7,500 years. By that...
Neanderthal Skeleton Rediscovered
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 09/05/2002 7:24:37 AM PDT · 30 replies · 29+ views BBC | 9-4-2002 | Dr David Whitehouse Wednesday, 4 September, 2002, 18:32 GMT 19:32 UKNeanderthal skeleton rediscovered Neanderthals became extinct more than 20,000 years ago By Dr David Whitehouse BBC News Online science editor The beautifully preserved and extremely rare skeleton of a newborn Neanderthal, thought to have been lost to science for almost 90 years, has been rediscovered. It could lead to new insights into the evolution of modern humans and our relationship with our extinct cousins. Anthropologists during the first half of the 20th Century were not interested in juvenile specimens Bruno Maureille The fossil is of a baby Neanderthal that was just four months...
Neanderthals 'used violence'
	Posted by Gladwin On News/Activism 04/22/2002 11:13:21 PM PDT · 33 replies · 27+ views BBC Online | Monday, 22 April, 2002, 23:04 GMT 00:04 UK | Helen Briggs Evidence has emerged to suggest the Neanderthals had a war-mongering nature. The early hunter-gatherers got into fights and used weapons, according to the results of a study of a skeleton uncovered in French caves. A crack in the skull of the 36,000 year-old Neanderthal was caused by a sharp tool, say anthropologists. An early modern human may have struck the blow. They think another Neanderthal or an early human attacked the young adult. The Neanderthal survived but would have had to be nursed by other members of the tribe. The findings indicate that the contemporaries of early modern humans were...
New Evidence of Neanderthal Violence
	Posted by blam On General/Chat 04/23/2002 3:06:24 PM PDT · 13 replies · 7+ views BBC | 4-22-2002 | Helen Biggs Monday, 22 April, 2002, 23:04 GMT 00:04 UK New evidence of Neanderthal violence Reconstruction of Neanderthal skull Helen Briggs BBC News Online Evidence has emerged to suggest the Neanderthals had a war-mongering nature. The early hunter-gatherers got into fights and used weapons, according to the results of a study of a skeleton uncovered in French caves. A crack in the skull of the 36,000 year-old Neanderthal was caused by a sharp tool, say anthropologists. An early modern human may have struck the blow They think another Neanderthal or an early human attacked the young adult. The Neanderthal survived but would...
Parrot's oratory stuns scientists
	Posted by aculeus On News/Activism 01/26/2004 8:36:46 AM PST · 136 replies · 312+ views BBC News On Line | 2004/01/26 | Alex Kirby The finding of a parrot with an almost unparalleled power to communicate with people has brought scientists up short. The bird, a captive African grey called N'kisi, has a vocabulary of 950 words, and shows signs of a sense of humour. He invents his own words and phrases if he is confronted with novel ideas with which his existing repertoire cannot cope - just as a human child would do. N'kisi's remarkable abilities, which are said to include telepathy, feature in the latest BBC Wildlife Magazine. N'kisi is believed to be one of the most advanced users of human language...
Parrot's oratory stuns scientists
	Posted by unspun On News/Activism 01/26/2004 10:48:01 PM PST · 56 replies · 16+ views BBC News | 1/26/2004 | Alex Kirby Parrot's oratory stuns scientists By Alex Kirby BBC News Online environment correspondent The finding of a parrot with an almost unparalleled power to communicate with people has brought scientists up short. The bird, a captive African grey called N'kisi, has a vocabulary of 950 words, and shows signs of a sense of humour. He invents his own words and phrases if he is confronted with novel ideas with which his existing repertoire cannot cope - just as a human child would do. N'kisi's remarkable abilities, which are said to include telepathy, feature in the latest BBC Wildlife Magazine. N'kisi...
Parrot's oratory stuns scientists
	Posted by Revel On News/Activism 01/27/2004 8:17:11 PM PST · 26 replies · 11+ views BBC | 1/26/04 | By Alex Kirby BBC:(Picture Below) Parrot's oratory stuns scientists By Alex Kirby BBC News Online environment correspondent The finding of a parrot with an almost unparalleled power to communicate with people has brought scientists up short. The bird, a captive African grey called N'kisi, has a vocabulary of 950 words, and shows signs of a sense of humour. He invents his own words and phrases if he is confronted with novel ideas with which his existing repertoire cannot cope - just as a human child would do. N'kisi's remarkable abilities, which are said to include telepathy, feature in the latest BBC Wildlife Magazine....
Astronomy and Catastrophism
Alaska Volcano West of Anchorage Stirs After 12-Year Slumber
	Posted by BenLurkin On General/Chat 07/28/2004 9:48:13 PM PDT · 8 replies · 105+ views Associated Press | Jul 28, 2004 | Associated Press ANCHORAGE (AP) - Noting a swarm of tiny earthquakes beneath volcanic Mount Spurr, scientists have warned that the volcano 80 miles west of Anchorage could erupt in the next few weeks. Eruptions most often follow a pattern of quakes, said geophysicist John Power of the U.S. Geological Survey, one of three federal and state partners in the Anchorage-based Alaska Volcano Observatory. Power added, however, that the earthquakes will most likely end without an eruption. Mount Spurr was last significantly active in 1992. In an August explosion that year, it spread a thin layer of ash over Anchorage. The mountain's recent...
Antarctic Craters Reveal Strike
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/23/2004 6:58:34 AM PDT · 107 replies · 1,641+ views BBC | 8-23-2004 Antarctic craters reveal strike The asteroid may have raised sea levels by up to 60cm Scientists have mapped enormous impact craters hidden under the Antarctic ice sheet using satellite technology. The craters may have either come from an asteroid between 5 and 11km across that broke up in the atmosphere, a swarm of comets or comet fragments. The space impacts created multiple craters over an area of 2,092km (1,300 miles) by 3,862km (2,400 miles). The scientists told a conference this week that the impacts occurred roughly 780,000 years ago during an ice age. When the impacts hit, they would have...
Comets,Meteors & Myth: New Evidence For Toppled Civilizations And Bibical Tales
	Posted by blam On General/Chat 08/11/2002 5:32:56 PM PDT · 16 replies · 111+ views Science Tuesday/Space.com | 11-13-2002 | Robert Roy Britt Comets, Meteors & Myth: New Evidence for Toppled Civilizations and Biblical Tales By Robert Roy Britt Senior Science Writer posted: 07:00 am ET 13 November 2001 "...and the seven judges of hell ... raised their torches, lighting the land with their livid flame. A stupor of despair went up to heaven when the god of the storm turned daylight into darkness, when he smashed the land like a cup." -- An account of the Deluge from the Epic of Gilgamesh, circa 2200 B.C. If you are fortunate enough to see the storm of shooting stars predicted for the Nov. 18...
Dark Days Doomed Dinosaurs, Say Purdue Scientists
	Posted by vannrox On News/Activism 07/07/2004 1:44:10 PM PDT · 12 replies · 518+ views Purdue University | 2004-06-24 | news release issued by Purdue University Dark Days Doomed Dinosaurs, Say Purdue Scientists WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. ? Though the catastrophe that destroyed the dinosaurs' world may have begun with blazing fire, it probably ended with icy darkness, according to a Purdue University research group. By analyzing fossil records, a team of scientists including Purdue's Matthew Huber has found evidence that the Earth underwent a sudden cooling 65 million years ago that may have taken millennia to abate completely. The fossil rock samples, taken from a well-known archaeological site in Tunisia, show that tiny, cold-loving ocean organisms called dinoflagellates and benthic formanifera appeared suddenly in an ancient...
Dino impact gave Earth the chill
	Posted by TigerLikesRooster On News/Activism 06/01/2004 1:02:01 AM PDT · 30 replies · 66+ views BBC NEWS | 05/31/04 | N/A Dino impact gave Earth the chill A cloud of sulphate particles may have blocked out the sun's warmth Evidence has been found for a global winter following the asteroid impact that is thought to have killed off the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Rocks in Tunisia reveal microscopic cold-water creatures invaded a warm sea just after the space rock struck Earth. The global winter was probably caused by a pollutant cloud of sulphate particles released when the asteroid vapourised rocks at Chicxulub, Mexico. The results are reported in the latest issue of the journal Geology. Italian, US and Dutch...
Grains Found in Ga. Traced to Asteroid
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 08/24/2004 11:32:23 AM PDT · 7 replies · 149+ views Yahoo / AP | August 24 2004 | editors Microscopic analysis, reported in the current issue of the journal Geology, revealed a 3-inch-thick layer of "shocked quartz" ó a form of the mineral produced only under intense pressure like that of an impact ó that dated to 35.5 million years ago, when a space rock slammed into the Earth about 120 miles southeast of present-day Washington.
SIBERIA METEORITE FLATTENS 40 SQ MILES
	Posted by Mike Darancette On News/Activism 06/09/2003 5:25:21 PM PDT · 64 replies · 91+ views The Times | 7 June 2003 | Robin Shepherd IF IT had hit Central London, Britain would no longer have a capital city. The force of the meteorite that hit eastern Siberia last September destroyed 40 square miles of forest and caused earth tremors felt 60 miles away. An expedition from Russia's Kosmopoisk institute has only recently reached the site in a remote area north of Lake Baikal because of bad weather and difficult terrain, the Interfax news agency said yesterday. Fragments of the meteorite had apparently exploded into shrapnel 18 miles above the Earth with the force of at least 200 tonnes of TNT. At the time, Russian...
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