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| Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #322 Saturday, September 18, 2010 |
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| Diet & Cuisine | |
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| New study finds milk drinkers may have a healthy weight advantage |
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· 09/15/2010 1:37:56 PM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 42 replies · · Weber Shandwick Worldwide · · September 15, 2010 · · Unknown · |
Research suggests boosting key milk nutrients calcium and vitamin D could aid weight lossNow there's a new reason to grab a glass of milk when you're on diet, suggests a new study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. In a 2-year weight loss study, milk drinkers had an advantage over those who skipped the milk. Israeli researchers found that adults who drank the most milk (nearly 2 glasses per day) and had the highest vitamin D levels at 6 months, lost more weight after 2 years than those who had little or no milk or milk products --... |
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| Alexander the Great | |
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| Laminated Linen Protected Alexander the Great |
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· 09/16/2010 5:17:28 AM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 19 replies · · Discovery News · · September 11, 2010 · · Rossella Lorenzi · |
A Kevlar-like armor might have helped Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.) conquer nearly the entirety of the known world in little more than two decades, according to new reconstructive archaeology research. Presented at the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America in Anaheim, Calif., the study suggests that Alexander and his soldiers protected themselves with linothorax, a type of body armor made by laminating together layers of linen. "While we know quite a lot about ancient armor made from metal, linothorax remains something of a mystery since no examples have survived, due to the perishable nature of the material,"... |
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| Experts question claim that Alexander the Great's half-brother is buried at Vergina |
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· 09/12/2010 5:48:55 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 14 replies · · Eurekalert · · September 8, 2010 · · Hannah Johnson, U of Bristol · |
The tomb was discovered during the excavation of a large mound -- the Great Tumulus -- at Vergina in 1977. Along with many treasures including ceremonial military equipment, bronze utensils, silver tableware, and gold wreaths, the tomb contained two sets of skeletal remains. Those of a man were found in a gold casket in the main chamber and those of a woman in a smaller gold casket in the second chamber. Both individuals had been cremated and evidence of a wooden funerary house containing a pyre was also found near the tomb. Dr Jonathan Musgrave of the University of Bristol's... |
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| Catastrophism & Astronomy | |
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| 2 Billion Year Old Nuclear Reactors Found In Africa |
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· 09/15/2010 3:31:11 PM PDT · · Posted by Dallas59 · · 54 replies · · NASA · · 9/12/10 · · NASA · |
Oklo: Ancient African Nuclear Reactors Explanation: The remnants of nuclear reactors nearly two billion years old were found in the 1970s in Africa. These reactors are thought to have occurred naturally. No natural reactors exist today, as the relative density of fissile uranium has now decayed below that needed for a sustainable reaction. Pictured above is Fossil Reactor 15, located in Oklo, Gabon. Uranium oxide remains are visible as the yellowish rock. Oklo by-products are being used today to probe the stability of the fundamental constants over cosmological time and distance scales and to develop more effective means for... |
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| Prehistory & Origins | |
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| Research shows radiometric dating still reliable (again) |
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· 09/16/2010 3:35:58 AM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 36 replies · · NIST · · September 16, 2010 · · Unknown · |
Recent puzzling observations of tiny variations in nuclear decay rates have led some to question the science of using decay rates to determine the relative ages of rocks and organic materials. Scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), working with researchers from Purdue University, the University of Tennessee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Wabash College, tested the hypothesis that solar radiation might affect the rate at which radioactive elements decay and found no detectable effect. Atoms of radioactive isotopes are unstable and decay over time by shooting off particles at a fixed rate, transmuting the material into... |
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| Agriculture & Animal Husbandry | |
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| Taking molecular snaps of ancient crops |
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· 09/16/2010 3:04:27 AM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 8 replies · · Nature · · September 13, 2010 · · Ewen Callaway · |
Archaeologists interested in the genetics of ancient organisms have a new molecular tool at hand -- RNA. Two teams of scientists have decoded RNA from ancient crops in the hope of understanding the subtle evolutionary changes that accompanied the process of plant domestication. Unlike DNA, which remains largely unchanged throughout the life of an organism, RNA molecules offer a snapshot of the activity of a cell, indicating which genes are turned on and off, and to what extent. "With ancient DNA you can see what an ancient organism might have looked like. With ancient RNA we can see what it... |
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| PreColumbian, Clovis, & PreClovis | |
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| Undersea Cave Yields One of Oldest Skeletons in Americas |
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· 09/15/2010 12:56:28 PM PDT · · Posted by nickcarraway · · 27 replies · · National Geographic · · September 14, 2010 · · Ker Than · |
Apparently laid to rest more than 10,000 years ago in a fiery ritual, one of the oldest skeletons in the Americas has been retrieved from an undersea cave along Mexico's Yucat·n Peninsula, researchers say. Dating to a time when the now lush region was a near desert, the "Young Man of Chan Hol" may help uncover how the first Americans arrived -- and who they were. About 80 miles (130 kilometers) south of Canc˙n, the cave system of Chan Hol -- Maya for "little hole" -- is like a deep gouge into the Caribbean coast. In 2006, after entering the cave's opening, about 30 feet (10... |
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| Peru & the Andes | |
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| History Of Peru Series Part 5: The Pucllana Period |
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· 09/14/2010 5:39:58 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 15 replies · · Peruvian Times · · Monday, September 13, 2010 · · Paul Goulder · |
In this Peruvian Times tour of early Peru we are now visiting the fourth site, Pucllana or the Huaca Juliana, part of the "intermediate" Lima Culture. Please see Part 2 for map and Part 3 for aerial views and context. I hope that during the course of the next five parts of the series -- which all have to do with the same time period as Pucllana, approximately 200-800 AD -- a more intimate understanding of this remarkable era in Peru's development will emerge. It is remarkable also because of the "flowering" of two neighboring cultures: those of the Moche... |
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| A Medieval Coin in New England Soil |
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· 09/12/2010 3:35:25 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 21 replies · · Beachcombing 'blog · · September 11, 2010 · · eponymous blogger · |
It was only when the coin was later identified as Viking that the game heated up. By then poor Mellegren -- who, Beachcombing must say was someone with a reputation for integrity -- had passed away. Beachcombing has no illusions about much of the nonsense written about pre-Columbian visits to North America. But in this case he would give a thumb and a half followed by two cheers and three quarters. There is a good chance that this really is what it seems: A European coin that found its way to North America in the twelfth century. Minted in Norway,... |
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| Climate | |
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| Home of "Ice Giants" thaws, shows pre-Viking hunts |
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· 09/14/2010 1:49:49 PM PDT · · Posted by NormsRevenge · · 30 replies · · Reuters on Yahoo · · 9/14/10 · · Alister Doyle · |
JUVFONNA, Norway (Reuters) -- Climate change is exposing reindeer hunting gear used by the Vikings' ancestors faster than archaeologists can collect it from ice thawing in northern Europe's highest mountains. "It's like a time machine...the ice has not been this small for many, many centuries," said Lars Piloe, a Danish scientist heading a team of "snow patch archaeologists" on newly bare ground 1,850 meters (6,070 ft) above sea level in mid-Norway. Specialized hunting sticks, bows and arrows and even a 3,400-year-old leather shoe have been among finds since 2006 from a melt in the Jotunheimen mountains, the home of the... |
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| Roman Empire | |
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| New finds suggest Romans won big North Germany battle [ Maximinus Thrax ] |
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· 09/15/2010 8:16:18 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 37 replies · · Monsters and Critics (DPA) · · Wednesday, September 15, 2010 · · Jean-Baptiste Piggin · |
Until only two years ago, northern Germany was believed to have been a no-go area for Roman troops after three legions were wiped out by German tribesmen in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in AD 9. The revelation that two centuries later a Roman force mounted a punitive raid deep inside the tribal areas in AD 235 has changed all that, suggesting that a soldier-emperor, Maximinus Thrax, seriously attempted to subjugate the north of Germany. The debris from the battle is scattered over a wooded hill, the Harzhorn. An archeological dig there this summer turned up 1,800 artefacts. A... |
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| Rome's Ancient Aqueduct Found |
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· 09/17/2010 7:54:05 AM PDT · · Posted by wildbill · · 34 replies · · Discovery News · · 9/17/10 · · Dislcovery News Staff · |
The long-sought source of the aqueduct that brought clean fresh water to ancient Rome lies beneath a pig pasture and a ruined chapel, according to a pair of British filmmakers who claim to have discovered the headwaters of Aqua Traiana, a 1,900-year-old aqueduct built by the Emperor Trajan in 109 A.D. |
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| British Isles | |
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| Treasure hunter finds rare antique in Cumbria (Roman helmet with mask) |
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· 09/13/2010 5:41:22 PM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 34 replies · · BBC · · September 13, 2010 · · Unknown · |
A metal detector enthusiast in Cumbria has discovered a rare Roman bronze helmet complete with face-mask. It is believed to be one of only three of its kind to be found in Britain. The helmet would have been worn, possibly with colourful streamers attached, as a mark of excellence by Roman soldiers at sport parades. Described as a "hugely important discovery", it is now expected to fetch £300,000 at Christie's Antiquities auction in London on 7 October. The Crosby Garrett Helmet has been named after the hamlet in Cumbria where it was found in a field in May. |
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| Ancient Autopsies | |
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| Hadrian's Wall child murder: estimated time of death pre-367AD |
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· 09/16/2010 7:59:09 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 24 replies · · Guardian · · Wednesday, September 15, 2010 · · Martin Wainwright · |
The murderous reputation of one of Britain's best-known Roman towns has been raised by the discovery of a child's hastily buried skeleton under a barrack room floor. Archaeologists at Vindolanda fort near Hadrian's Wall are preparing for a repeat of a celebrated coroner's inquest in the 1930s that concluded two other corpses unearthed near the site were "victims of murder by persons unknown shortly before 367AD". The latest discovery at the frontier settlement in Northumberland is thought to be the remains of a girl aged between eight and 10 who may have been tied up before she died. Her burial... |
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| Africa | |
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| British archaeologist finds cave paintings at 100 new African sites |
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· 09/18/2010 2:55:15 AM PDT · · Posted by Islander7 · · 17 replies · · Guardian UK · · Sept 17, 2010 · · Dalya Alberge · |
Striking prehistoric rock art created up to 5,000 years ago has been discovered at almost 100 sites in Somaliland on the Gulf of Aden in eastern Africa. A local team headed by Dr Sada Mire -- of the Institute of Archaeology at University College London (UCL) -- made the finds which included a man on horseback, painted around 4,000 years ago -- one of the earliest known depictions of a mounted hunter. |
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| China | |
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| Kenya: National Museums Defends the Digging Up of Ancient Kingdom |
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· 09/16/2010 8:42:51 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 9 replies · · All Africa · · 13 September 2010 · · Mazera Ndurya · |
The National Museums of Kenya has defended archaeological work to locate the ancient settlement of Malindi Kingdom. A press release by the joint Sino-Kenya archaeological team said digging at the ancient sites in Mambrui Village in Magarini District was legal and all procedures had been followed. The head of the Chinese team, Prof Qin Dashu and his Kenyan counterpart, Dr Herman Kiriama of the NMK, said the sites were selected on the recommendations of Kenyan scholars. "The sites are not in the burial sections and the team tried to strictly adhere to Islamic laws where graves are not supposed to... |
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| India | |
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| India's lost university to rise from ashes |
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· 09/13/2010 10:39:27 AM PDT · · Posted by James C. Bennett · · 34 replies · · AFP · · 12 September, 2010 · · AFP · |
NEW DELHI -- Indian academics have long dreamt of resurrecting Nalanda University, one of the world's oldest seats of learning which has lain in ruins for 800 years since being razed by foreign invaders. Now the chance of intellectual life returning to Nalanda has come one step closer after the parliament in New Delhi last month passed a bill approving plans to re-build the campus as a symbol of India's global ambitions. Historians believe that the university, in the eastern state of Bihar, once catered for 10,000 students and scholars from across Asia, studying subjects ranging from science and philosophy... |
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| Paleontology | |
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| CT scan for 50 million year old snake |
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· 09/14/2010 7:22:42 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 15 replies · · PhysOrg · · Monday, September 13, 2010 · · Methodist Hospital System · |
Clarisse is a snake, found in the Fossil Butte region of Wyoming, perfectly fossilized in limestone and the only one of her kind known to be in existence. Palentologist Hussan Zaher found her, and he brought her to Houston in hopes of learning more about her. He brought his precious find to The Methodist Hospital and subjected her to a detailed CT (computerized tomography) scan in hopes of finding where Clarisse fits along the timeline of evolution. [You need Flash installed to watch this video] ...CT scan technician Pam Mager conducted the scan on a 64-slice scanner that is capable... |
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| The Civil War | |
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| This Day in Civil War History September 13th, 1862 The Union Discovers "Lost Order" |
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· 09/13/2010 5:01:47 AM PDT · · Posted by mainepatsfan · · 13 replies · · History.com · |
Sep 13, 1862: The Union Discovers "Lost Order" Union soldiers find a copy of Confederate General Robert E. Lee's orders detailing the Confederates' plan for the Antietam campaign near Frederick, Maryland. But Union General George B. McClellan was slow to act, and the advantage the intelligence provided was lost. On the morning of September 13, the 27th Indiana rested in a meadow outside of Frederick, Maryland, which had served as the site of a Confederate camp a few days before. Sergeant John Bloss and Corporal Barton W. Mitchell found a piece of paper wrapped around three cigars. The paper was... |
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| The Great War | |
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| Communists Lured To Their Deaths By MI6 With Promise Of Sex |
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· 09/17/2010 9:04:21 PM PDT · · Posted by fight_truth_decay · · 12 replies · · Telegraph · · 7:10PM BST 17 Sep 2010 · · Duncan Gardham · |
Sidney Reilly, nicknamed the 'Ace of Spies,' planned to kill the whole of the Soviet leadership during a meeting at the Bolshoi Theatre in 1918 An MI6 agent became a serial killer as he used pretty young women to lure Russians to their deaths with the promise of sex, new documents reveal. A Cossack colonel called Mohammed Bek Hadji Lashet, and his gang used the women to attract communists to a lakeside villa where they were tortured and then killed, according to a new history of the intelligence service. The book, Six, by former military intelligence officer Michael Smith, reveals... |
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| Thoroughly Modern Miscellany | |
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| Diaries of a 19th Century Military Wife Uncovered |
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· 09/12/2010 10:29:28 AM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 22 replies · · Live Science · · September 11, 2010 · · Jeremy Hsu · |
Modern military wives typically don't ship out alongside their husbands, but the young wife of a British naval officer did just that during the Napoleonic Wars of the 19th century. Now a historian who tracked down 40 unpublished volumes of her diaries has gotten the go-ahead to write a book investigating her life. Elizabeth "Betsey" Wynne accompanied her husband aboard his warship during a disastrous British assault on the Spanish Canary Islands. She spent the voyage home-nursing the wounded Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson, whom lost his right arm during the attack and would go on to become one of England's greatest... |
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| Arctic | |
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| Russia finds last-days log of famed 1912 Arctic expedition [ Georgy Brusilov ] |
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· 09/14/2010 6:51:23 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 4 replies · · PhysOrg · · Monday, September 13, 2010 · · AFP · |
For decades mystery clouded the fate of the adventurer Georgy Brusilov -- captain of the first Russian crew to seek the elusive Arctic trade route from Asia to the West -- inspiring a generation of books and films. But the famed voyagers' remains and a journal -- dated to May 1913 from aboard their vessel, the Saint Anna -- were found this summer on the icy shores of Franz Josef Land, Europe's northernmost land mass... Midway into its epic journey along the Siberian coast, after navigating the perilous Vilkitsky Strait into the Kara Sea, the expedition ran aground on thick... |
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| The Collapse of Complex Societies, Joseph A. Tainter PhD |
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· 09/13/2010 4:15:07 PM PDT · · Posted by Lorianne · · 17 replies · · Financial Sense · · 13 September 2010 · · Joseph A. Tainter PhD · · interviewer Jim Paplava · |
Political disintegration is a persistent feature of world history. The Collapse of Complex Societies, though written by an archaeologist, will therefore strike a chord throughout the social sciences. Any explanation of societal collapse carries lessons not just for the study of ancient societies, but for the members of all such societies in both the present and future. Dr. Tainter describes nearly two dozen cases of collapse and reviews more than 2000 years of explanations. He then develops a new and far-reaching theory that accounts for collapse among diverse kinds of societies, evaluating his model and clarifying the processes of disintegration... |
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| Longer Perspectives | |
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| Amazing Photo's of Ten Little Known Ancient Ruins. (Must See Photo's) |
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· 09/16/2010 2:50:54 PM PDT · · Posted by Proud Socialist · · 82 replies · · 9/16/10 · · ??? · |
Many places like the Gaza Pyramids, Taj Mahal, Machu Picchu, Angkor Wat, and the ruins of ancient Greece, all seem to get the publicity and headlines for the beauty and history, but have you ever wondered about the places you never heard of but you know they exist if for no other reason then it's a big world that has existed a long time? Sometimes these unheard of ancient ruins offer even better images than the ones we know about, just because they are rarely seen by the eye if the general public.Well for the viewing pleasure of all freepers,... |
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| Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #323 Saturday, September 25, 2010 |
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| Catastrophism & Astronomy | |
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| Volcanoes Killed Off Neanderthals, Study Suggests |
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· 09/24/2010 8:52:38 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 2 replies · · National Geographic News · · September 22, 2010 · · Ker Than · |
The Neanderthals were a hardy species that lived through multiple ice ages and would have been familiar with volcanoes and other natural calamities. But the eruptions 40,000 years ago were unlike anything Neanderthals had faced before, Cleghorn and company say. For one thing, all the volcanoes apparently erupted around the same time. And one of those blasts, the Campanian Ignimbrite, is thought to have been the most powerful eruption in Europe in the last 200,000 years... The researchers acknowledge that there are gaps in the volcanoes theory. For instance, the time line needs to be better defined -- did... |
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| Neandertal / Neanderthal | |
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| Neanderthals more advanced than previously thought |
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· 09/21/2010 4:51:39 PM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 51 replies · · U of Co Denver · · September 21, 2010 · · Unknown · |
They innovated, adapted like modern humans -- For decades scientists believed Neanderthals developed -- modern' tools and ornaments solely through contact with Homo sapiens, but new research from the University of Colorado Denver now shows these sturdy ancients could adapt, innovate and evolve technology on their own. The findings by anthropologist Julien Riel-Salvatore challenge a half-century of conventional wisdom maintaining that Neanderthals were thick-skulled, primitive -- cavemen' overrun and outcompeted by more advanced modern humans arriving in Europe from Africa. "Basically, I am rehabilitating Neanderthals," said Riel-Salvatore, assistant professor of anthropology at UC Denver. "They were far more resourceful... |
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| Stone tools 'change migration story' (Out of Africa) |
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· 09/19/2010 5:12:44 PM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 8 replies · · BBC · · September 19, 2010 · · Katie Alcock · |
A research team reports new findings of stone age tools that suggest humans came "out of Africa" by land earlier than has been thought. Geneticists estimate that migration from Africa to South-East Asia and Australia took place as recently as 60,000 years ago. But Dr Michael Petraglia, of Oxford University, and colleagues say stone artefacts found in the Arabian Peninsula and India point to an exodus starting about 70,000 to 80,000 years ago - and perhaps even earlier. Petraglia, whose co-workers include Australian and Indian researchers, presented his ideas at the British Science Festival, which is hosted this year at... |
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| Australia & the Pacific | |
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| Australian Aborigines 'world's first astronomers' |
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· 09/18/2010 1:58:35 PM PDT · · Posted by Fred Nerks · · 18 replies · · Yahoo News · · Fri Sep 17, 5:39 am ET · · U/A · |
SYDNEY (AFP) -- An Australian study has uncovered signs that the country's ancient Aborigines may have been the world's first stargazers, pre-dating Stonehenge and Egypt's pyramids by thousands of years. Professor Ray Norris said widespread and detailed knowledge of the stars had been passed down through the generations by Aborigines, whose history dates back tens of millennia, in traditional songs and stories. "We know there's lots of stories about the sky: songs, legends, myths," said Norris, an astronomer for Australia's science agency, the Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organization (CSIRO). "We wondered how much further does it go than that. It... |
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| Inside Lascaux: Rare, Unpublished (cave drawings - link only) |
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· 09/23/2010 4:59:37 AM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 24 replies · · LIFE · · September 8, 2010 · · Unknown · |
Link only: An 'orse, of course |
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| Water buffalo, goats can distort Stone Age sites |
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· 09/23/2010 1:32:37 PM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 19 replies · · So Methodist U · · September 23, 2010 · · Unknown · |
Taking a new look at old digs: Trampling animals can alter muddy Paleolithic sites Archaeologists who interpret Stone Age culture from discoveries of ancient tools and artifacts may need to reanalyze some of their conclusions. That's the finding suggested by a new study that for the first time looked at the impact of water buffalo and goats trampling artifacts into mud. In seeking to understand how much artifacts can be disturbed, the new study documented how animal trampling in a water-saturated area can result in an alarming amount of disturbance, says archaeologist Metin I. Eren, a graduate student at Southern... |
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| Anatolia | |
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| 8,000-year-old seal unearthed in western Turkey |
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· 09/20/2010 7:22:06 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 12 replies · · Hurriyet · · Monday, September 20, 2010 · · Anatolia News Agency · |
The seal shows that the settlement in Izmir began some 8,500 year ago. Archaeologists have unearthed a seal believed to be 8,000 years old during excavations in the Yesilova Tumulus, one of the oldest settlements in western Turkey. Associate Professor Zafer Derin, who has been leading the excavations from Ege University's Department of Archaeology, said they found a historical artifact that proved that settlement in the western province of Izmir began some 8,500 years ago. "The seal is dated back to 6,200 B.C. It is evident that the seal belonged to an administrator. This bull-shaped seal is one of the... |
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| Researchers unearth 8,500-year-old bodies near Bursa [ Turkey ] |
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· 09/18/2010 9:32:15 AM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 8 replies · · Hurriyet · · Thursday, September 16, 2010 · · Anatolia News Agency · |
Ancient bodies believed to be 8,500 years old have been unearthed at a burial mound in the Akçalar area of the Marmara province of Bursa. The five bodies, reportedly belonging to two adults and three children aged between 3 and 5, were found at the Aktopraklek mound... One of the children were hogtied while the other children were found between the legs of the adults, he said... Karul said it was too early yet to determine whether the bodies belonged to a single family, whether they had been punished, their exact age or any other particular details... "We have... |
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| Did Uruk soldiers kill their own people? 5,500 year old fratricide at Hamoukar Syria |
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· 09/24/2010 3:17:03 PM PDT · · Posted by Little Bill · · 24 replies · · heritage-key.com · · 09/23/2010 · · owenjarus · |
Five years ago an archaeological team broke news of a major find that forever changed our views about the history of the Middle East. Researchers from the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, and the Department of Antiquities in Syria, announced in a press release that they had found the "earliest evidence for large scale organized warfare in the Mesopotamian world." They had discovered that a city in Syria, named Hamoukar, had been destroyed in a battle that took place ca. 3500 BC by a hostile force. Using slings and clay bullets these troops took over the city, burning... |
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| The Impact of Abrupt Climate Change around 2650 BP in NW-Europe, Evidence for Climatic Teleconnections, and a Tentative Explanation |
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· 09/23/2010 6:01:49 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 29 replies · · knowledge.co.uk · · 11th-13th July 1997 · · Bas van Geel & Hans Renssen · |
A sudden and sharp rise in the 14C-content of the atmosphere, which occurred between ca 850 and 760 calendar years BC (ca 2750-2450 BP on the radiocarbon time scale), was contemporaneous with an abrupt climate change. In NW-Europe (as indicated by palaeoecological and geological evidence) climate changed from relatively warm and continental to oceanic (cooler and wetter). Archaeological and palaeoecological evidence for the abandonment of low-lying areas at the Bronze Age/Iron Age transition in The Netherlands is interpreted as the effect of a rise of the water table and the extension of fens and bogs. ... The discussed oscillation of... |
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| Cambridge dig looking for Anglo-Saxon skeletons finds Roman settlement |
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· 09/24/2010 6:31:56 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 11 replies · · Heritage Key · · Wednesday, September 22, 2010 · · Ann Wuyts · |
A dig in search of Anglo-Saxon skeletons has instead unearthed signs of a sprawling Roman settlement. The discovery was made last week, on the grounds of Cambridge's Newnham College. Evidence of a 16th or 17th century farmhouse that could date back to the reign of Henry VIII was unearthed at the site as well. "We knew there was a Roman settlement here before but we had no idea of the size," said Dr Catherine Hills. "The village has been buried under the gardens for nearly 2,000 years, and may have seen the Roman conquest of Britain and Boudicca's revolt. The... |
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| Turkish farmer finds Roman settlement in backyard [ Zonguldak ] |
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· 09/24/2010 2:28:43 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 13 replies · · Hurriyet Daily News · · Tuesday, September 21, 2010 · · unattributed · |
The discovery of a mosaic in a backyard in Turkey's Black Sea region has led to two years of excavations and the recent revelation that the area housed a third century Roman settlement. Farmer Nizamettin Oral found a mosaic in 2008 while working on expanding a greenhouse in his backyard in a village in Zonguldak. After Oral found the mosaic two-and-a-half years ago, an excavation was launched, leading to the discovery of a Roman villa that a museum director believes could be part of a larger Roman settlement, including a shrine. "The mosaic found in 2008 depicts Thracian King Lykurgos... |
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| Two tumuluses found in Turkey's ancient Daskyleion |
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· 09/24/2010 6:28:15 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 21 replies · · World Bulletin · · Tuesday, 21 September 2010 · · AA · |
Archaeologists have discovered two tumuluses during the excavations in the ancient city of Daskyleion in the northwestern province of Balikesir. Associate Professor Kaan Iren from the Mugla University who heads the excavation team, told reporters, "we found a gate in one of the tumuluses which leads to a grave chamber. There were remains of two skeletons in the grave. We believe that they belonged to noble people or to members of the royal family." "We also unearthed remains of a wooden desk in the tumulus. A glass bracelet, a silver earring, a perfume bottle and more than 30 coins were... |
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| The Greeks | |
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| Greek archaeologists uncover ancient tombs |
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· 09/22/2010 6:16:18 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 28 replies · · Yahoo! · · Thursday, September 16, 2010 · · AFP · |
Greek archaeologists on Thursday announced the discovery of 37 ancient tombs dating back to the iron age in a cemetery near the ancient Macedonian capital of Pellas. Discoveries at the site included a bronze helmet with a gold mouthplate, with weapons and jewellery, in the tomb of a warrior from the 6th century BC. A total of 37 new tombs were discovered during excavation work this year, adding to more than 1,000 tombs since work began in 2000, researchers said. The tombs date from 650-280 BC, covering the iron age up to the Hellenistic period (323-146 BC). The tombs contain... |
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· 09/20/2010 7:31:45 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 9 replies · · U of Haifa · · Sunday, September 19, 2010 · · Communications and Media Relations · |
A rare bronze signet ring with the impression of the face of the Greek sun god, Apollo, has been discovered at Tel Dor, in northern Israel, by University of Haifa diggers. "A piece of high-quality art such as this, doubtlessly created by a top-of-the-line artist, indicates that local elites developing a taste for fine art and the ability to afford it were also living in provincial towns, and not only in the capital cities of the Hellenistic kingdoms," explains Dr. Ayelet Gilboa, Head of the Department of Archaeology at the University of Haifa, who headed the excavations at Dor along... |
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| Goddess of fortune found in Sussita [ Tyche, the Greek goddess of fortune ] |
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· 09/19/2010 5:32:52 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 12 replies · · EurekAlert! · · September 16, 2010 · · Rachel Feldman, U of Haifa · |
A wall painting (fresco) of Tyche, the Greek goddess of fortune, was exposed during the 11th season of excavation at the Sussita site, on the east shore of the Sea of Galilee, which was conducted by researchers of the University of Haifa. Another female figure was found during this season, of a maenad, one of the companions of the wine god Dionysus. "It is interesting to see that although the private residence in which two goddesses were found was in existence during the Byzantine period, when Christianity negated and eradicated idolatrous cults, one can still find clear evidence of earlier... |
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| Let's Have Bet She'an | |
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| Archaeologists in Israel Find a 1,500 Year Old Samaritan Synagogue |
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· 09/20/2010 7:14:53 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 18 replies · · Art Daily · · Monday, September 20, 2010 · · unattributed · |
According to Dr. Walid Atrash and Mr. Ya'aqov Harel, directors of the excavation for the Israel Antiquities Authority, "The discovery of another Samaritan synagogue in the agricultural hinterland south of Bet She'an supplements our existing knowledge about the Samaritan population in this period. It seems that the structures uncovered there were built at the end of the fifth century CE and they continued to exist until the eve of the Muslim conquest in 634 CE, when the Samaritans abandoned the complex. The synagogue that is currently being revealed played an important part in the lives of the farmers who inhabited... |
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| Let's Have Jerusalem | |
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| Archaeologists uncover theater box at Herod's palace |
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· 09/22/2010 11:59:58 AM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 27 replies · · Associated Press · · September 22, 2010 · · Aisha Mohammed · |
JERUSALEM -- Israeli archaeologists have excavated a lavish, private theater box in a 400-seat facility at King Herod's winter palace in the Judean desert, the team's head said Tuesday. Ehud Netzer of Jerusalem's Hebrew University said the room provides further evidence of King Herod's famed taste for extravagance. Herod commissioned Roman artists to decorate the theater walls with elaborate paintings and plaster moldings around 15 B.C., Netzer said. Its upper portions feature paintings of windows overlooking a river and a seascape with a large sailboat. This is the first time this painting style has been found in Israel, Netzer said.... |
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| Dynamics of Wind Setdown at Suez and the Eastern Nile Delta [ Exodus computer modelling ] |
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· 09/21/2010 8:30:47 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 13 replies · · Public Library of Science [ PLoS ONE ] · · September 2010 · · Carl Drews & Weiqing Han · |
Background Wind setdown is the drop in water level caused by wind stress acting on the surface of a body of water for an extended period of time. As the wind blows, water recedes from the upwind shore and exposes terrain that was formerly underwater. Previous researchers have suggested wind setdown as a possible hydrodynamic explanation for Moses crossing the Red Sea, as described in Exodus 14. Methodology/Principal Findings This study analyzes the hydrodynamic mechanism proposed by earlier studies, focusing on the time needed to reach a steady-state solution. In addition, the authors investigate a site in the eastern... |
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| Parting the waters: Computer modeling applies physics to Red Sea escape route (Physics of Moses) |
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· 09/22/2010 7:16:05 AM PDT · · Posted by SeekAndFind · · 18 replies · · UCAR · · 09/22/2010 · · Carl Drews & Weiqing Han · |
September 21, 2010 BOULDER -- The biblical account of the parting of the Red Sea has inspired and mystified people for millennia. A new computer modeling study by researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU) shows how the movement of wind as described in the book of Exodus could have parted the waters. The computer simulations show that a strong east wind, blowing overnight, could have pushed water back at a bend where an ancient river is believed to have merged with a coastal lagoon along the Mediterranean Sea. With the water... |
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| China | |
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| Big noses, curly hair on empress's coffin suggests deep cultural exchange on Silk Road |
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· 09/20/2010 7:40:59 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 40 replies · · People's Daily · · September 14, 2010 · · Xinhua · |
Chinese archeologists have found new evidence of international cultural exchange on the ancient Silk Road. Four European-looking warriors and lion-like beasts are engraved on an empress's 1,200-year-old stone coffin that was unearthed in Shaanxi Province, in northwestern China. The warriors on the four reliefs had deep-set eyes, curly hair and over-sized noses -- physical characteristics Chinese typically associate with Europeans. The 27-tonne Tang Dynasty (618-907) sarcophagus contained empress Wu Huifei (699-737), Ge Chengyong, a noted expert on Silk Road studies, said Tuesday. Ge said one of the warriors was very much like [Zeus], the "father of gods and men" in... |
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| Giant teenage caveman discovered in China |
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· 09/21/2010 1:39:22 AM PDT · · Posted by Palter · · 37 replies · · Global Times · · 20 Sep 2010 · · Global Times · |
The "little giant," a 1.93-meter tall human skeleton, was recently identified by experts at China's Archaeology Academy as the tallest prehistoric man ever found. Researcher Yang Yachang determined that the "little giant," which was discovered intact in an ancient cave dwelling in Guofenglou township, Shanxi province in 2006, to have been a 16 to 18 year-old male who lived about 4,200 years ago. Through morphological study and skeletal measurements, Cheng Liang, a professor at the academy found the "little giant" to have Asian features, his bone structure similar to that of modern day humans in South Asia.Researchers were confused as... |
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| Fortress uncovered: Co Louth Viking site of international importance |
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· 09/22/2010 5:52:44 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 8 replies · · Irish Times · · Friday, September 17, 2010 · · Frank McConald & Elaine Keogh · |
A Viking fortress of international importance has been uncovered at Annagassan, Co Louth. It is believed to be the longphort (ship fortress) of Linn Duchaill, founded in AD 841 -- the same year as Viking Dublin... A defensive rampart, consisting of a deep ditch and a bank, was excavated and, while the results of radio carbon tests are awaited to confirm the date, it "has all the appearances of the main fortification of the Viking fortress," he said. The excavations have also uncovered part of a human skull, a whorl for spinning thread and a brooch pin. Dr Pat Wallace,... |
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| Spreading Their Wings to Longest on Record |
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· 09/21/2010 6:34:19 PM PDT · · Posted by Inappropriate Laughter · · 5 replies · · New York Times · · September 20, 2010 · · Sindya N. Bhanoo · |
The wandering albatross has the largest known wingspan of any living bird, at times reaching nearly 12 feet. But millions of years ago, there was a bird with wings that dwarfed those of the albatross, researchers now report. The newly named species, Pelagornis chilensis, which lived about 5 million to 10 million years ago, had a wingspan of at least 17 feet. This is the largest wingspan known in any bird. Although other, larger estimates have been made, they were based on fossils of feathers, and not on an intact skeleton, as in this case. The report is in The... |
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| Calif. utility stumbles on 1.4M-year-old fossils |
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· 09/21/2010 11:03:24 AM PDT · · Posted by NYer · · 21 replies · · Yahoo News · · September 21, 2010 · · Gillian Flaccus · |
Riverside, Calif. -- A utility company preparing to build a new substation in an arid canyon southeast of Los Angeles has stumbled on a trove of animal fossils dating back 1.4 million years that researchers say will fill in blanks in Southern California's history.The well-preserved cache contains nearly 1,500 bone fragments, including a giant cat that was the ancestor of the saber-toothed tiger, ground sloths the size of a modern-day grizzly bear, two types of camels and more than 1,200 bones from small rodents. Other finds include a new species of deer, horse and possibly llama, researchers affiliated with the... |
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| Workers unearth huge fossil cache in California |
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· 09/22/2010 2:35:51 PM PDT · · Posted by billorites · · 128 replies · · BBC · · September 21, 2010 · |
Workers building a substation in California have discovered 1,500 bone fragments from about 1.4 million years ago. The fossil haul includes remains from an ancestor of the sabre-toothed tiger, large ground sloths, deer, horses, camels and numerous small rodents. Plant matter found at the site in the arid San Timoteo Canyon, 85 miles (137km) south-east of Los Angeles, showed it was once much greener. The bones will go on display next year. The find is a million years older than the famous haul from the tar pits at Rancho La Brea in Los Angeles, said Rick Greenwood, a microbiologist and... |
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| Dinosaurs | |
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| Amazing Horned Dinosaurs Found on 'Lost Continent' (Fifteen Horns) |
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· 09/23/2010 4:04:05 AM PDT · · Posted by tlb · · 24 replies · · Fox · · September 22, 2010 · · staff · |
The Utah reptiles belong to the horned-dinosaur family, which is known for outlandish anatomy, and are wowing seasoned fossil hunters. The species named Kosmoceratops had 15 horns decorating its massive head, giving it the most elaborate dinosaur headdress known to science. At 15 feet long, it was larger than a Ford Fiesta. Its name means "ornate horned-face" in Latin. The newly discovered dinosaurs, close relatives of the famous Triceratops, were announced today. Utah scientists believe most of the horns were used to attract mates and intimidate rivals of the same species. The dinosaur fossils were found in the Grand Staircase-Escalante... |
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| Outlandish species alert: A dinosaur with 15 horns? |
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· 09/23/2010 6:39:34 PM PDT · · Posted by 2ndDivisionVet · · 13 replies · · The Week · · September 23, 2010 · |
Fossil hunters have unearthed the remains of two new dinosaur species that roamed Utah's swamps 76 million years ago. Here's a brief guide to what exactly they found: What are the two new species? Kosmoceratops and Utahceratops, which have been classified (for obvious reasons) in the horned-dinosaur family which also includes the Triceratops. What did they look like? Kosmoceratops, whose hulking head sprouted 15 horns, was about 15 feet long, the size of a small car. Scott Sampson, the study leader at the Utah Museum of Natural History, calls it "one of the most amazing animals known." Utahceratops was 30... |
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| Peru & the Andes | |
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| Ceremonial Temples 4,000 Years Old Found in Peruvian Jungle |
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· 09/20/2010 7:08:29 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 4 replies · · Latin American Times · · Monday, September 20, 2010 · · unattributed · |
...the most ancient in the country and identifies them with the Bracamoros culture, the daily El Comercio said on Saturday. On both sites were found 14 burial vaults that typically contain the skeletons of newborns and adolescents placed there as offerings at different times in the course of the 800 years these buildings were in use, the newspaper said. The Bracamoros culture occupied part of the current Ecuadorian province of Zamora Chinchipe and the Peruvian regions of Amazonas and Cajamarca, where the temples were found, the daily said. It said that the place where the archaeological remains were uncovered was... |
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| PreColumbian, Clovis, & PreClovis | |
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| Genocide Wiped Out Native American Population [ early 800s, inside job ] |
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· 09/20/2010 7:01:01 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 72 replies · · Discovery News · · Monday, September 20, 2010 · · Jennifer Viegas · |
A massive deposit of mutilated and processed human remains has been found in the American Southwest. The remains and other artifacts at the site, Sacred Ridge in Colorado, indicate ethnic cleansing took place there in the early ninth century. The genocide likely occurred due to conflict between different Anasazi Ancestral Puebloan ethnic groups. Crushed leg bones, battered skulls and other mutilated human remains are likely all that's left of a Native American population destroyed by genocide that took place circa 800 A.D., suggests a new study... The entire assemblage comprises 14,882 human skeletal fragments, as well as the mutilated remains... |
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| Rock Art with your Cart Out | |
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| Portals to Other Realities |
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· 09/18/2010 6:54:20 AM PDT · · Posted by Palter · · 18 replies · · WSJ · · 18 Sep 2010 · · Michael FitzGerald · |
Legend Rock carries 10,000 years of profound beliefs Ice Age paintings and carvings in Europe are revered as sublime achievements of early humans, yet the prehistoric rock art in the American West is far less known. At Legend Rock in central Wyoming, 10,000 years of profound beliefs are inscribed on red sandstone cliffs. As the Pleistocene period ended approximately 12,000 years ago with the passing of the last Ice Age, people were spreading from Asia to North America and south into what is now the U.S. Archaeologists have found evidence that the early immigrants took advantage of the moderating climate... |
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| Vandals strike N. Arizona archaeological site [ 1,000 year-old rock art ] |
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· 09/21/2010 8:14:36 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 9 replies · · Associated Press · · September 16, 2010 · · unattributed · |
["ACE" was there -- AP story, link only] |
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| The Revolution | |
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| The most under-rated general in American history: Nathaniel Greene? |
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· 09/22/2010 3:17:47 PM PDT · · Posted by Palter · · 36 replies · · Foreign Policy · · 22 Sep 2010 · · Tom Ricks · |
My friend and CNAS colleague Bob Killebrew nominates the Revolutionary War's Nathaniel Greene as the most under-rated general in American history: Regarded by peers and historians as the second-best American general in the war (after Washington) he would have assumed command if W. had been disabled. A Quaker who learned war from textbooks, he was both a field operator and the commissary-general, a trying position in the best of times. Sent by Washington to take over the Southern campaign after Gates' disaster (and personal cowardice) at Camden, Greene fought a masterly fabian campaign through the South, leading Cornwallis further and... |
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| America's Unjust Revolution: What British Tyranny? (Was the American Revolution a Just War?) |
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· 09/19/2010 9:50:49 AM PDT · · Posted by SeekAndFind · · 75 replies · · The American Spectator · · 09/13/2010 · · John Keown · |
EXCERPT: Imagine that thousands of American citizens, wanting to leave the mainland in search of a better life and to populate a large, uninhabited island a thousand miles off the west coast of the U.S., petition the U.S. Government to live on the island under U.S. jurisdiction, ruled by a Federal Governor. The Government agrees. No sooner have the emigrants planted the Stars and Stripes on the island than they strike gold, build up a healthy trade with the mainland, and become hugely wealthy. However, the Japanese, wanting to expand their sphere of influence and enrich their coffers,... |
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| Alamo displays cannon likely used during battle |
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· 09/24/2010 10:31:29 AM PDT · · Posted by BradtotheBone · · 19 replies · · Houston Chronicle · · Sept. 24, 2010 · |
SAN ANTONIO -- A cannon thought to have been cast in Mexico and possibly used by the Texan army during the 1836 Alamo battle has taken its place at the historic mission. If its presumed link to the Alamo is proven, it would be the only known bronze Spanish cannon used by defenders that has been recovered, the San Antonio Express-News reported Friday. As was the case with other cannons seized and disabled by Mexican troops after the famous 1836 battle, the cannon's cascabel and trunnions, which are used to pivot and aim the weapon, have been broken off. "It's... |
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| Helix, Make Mine a Double | |
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| DNA points to royal roots in Africa |
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· 09/19/2010 5:12:03 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 38 replies · · MSNBC blogs · · September 8, 2010 · · Alan Boyle · |
William Holland, a genealogical researcher living in Atlanta, has seen some pretty strange twists in his family tree. Several years ago, he found out that his great-grandfather was a black slave ... who wound up serving as a Confederate soldier during the Civil War. But this year Holland's research resulted in something even stranger. Thanks to DNA testing, Holland is being welcomed as a long-lost relative by a ruling family of the West African nation of Cameroon... Holland plugged his genetic markers into a database provided by the Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation, which draws upon GeneTree results as well as... |
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| Faith & Philosophy | |
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| Pope's visit: 'Science cannot explain human existence' |
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· 09/22/2010 11:07:29 AM PDT · · Posted by NYer · · 8 replies · · Guardian · · September 17, 2010 · · Riazat Butt & John Hooper · |
The pope intervened in the debate over the origins of the universe today by claiming that science could not explain the "ultimate meaning" of human existence.Speaking at St Mary's University College in Strawberry Hill, south-west London, Benedict told an audience of religious leaders from different faiths that the human and natural sciences provided us with an "invaluable understanding" of aspects of our existence.But he said science could not satisfy the "fundamental" question about why we exist."They cannot satisfy the deepest longings of the human heart, they cannot fully explain to us our origin and our destiny, why and for what... |
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| Titanic Sinking Was Falsified |
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· 09/22/2010 4:49:55 PM PDT · · Posted by Germanicus Cretorian · · 49 replies · · Yahoo · · Today · · Mike Collet-White · · Edited:Paul Casciato · |
The Titanic hit an iceberg in 1912 because of a basic steering error, and only sank as fast as it did because an official persuaded the captain to continue sailing, an author said in an interview published on Wednesday. Louise Patten, a writer and granddaughter of Titanic second officer Charles Lightoller, said the truth about what happened nearly 100 years ago had been hidden for fear of tarnishing the reputation of her grandfather, who later became a war hero. Lightoller, the most senior officer to have survived the disaster, covered up the error in two inquiries on both sides of... |
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| "Collapse" NatGeo's Over-the-Top Enviro-Prop |
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· 09/18/2010 10:35:56 PM PDT · · Posted by TruthHound · · 33 replies · |
Billed as.... "How could a civilization that mastered the planet suddenly Collapse? Inspired by the New York Times best-selling book "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed", NGC time travels 200 years into the future to see what the world would look like after civilization as we know it collapsed. Guided by author Jared Diamond, we'll piece together the remarkable story of what on earth triggered our decline." |
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| Missing Iraqi antiquities discovered in warehouse |
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· 09/20/2010 9:44:28 PM PDT · · Posted by Company Man · · 8 replies · · mcclatchydc.com · · Shashank Bengali · |
BAGHDAD -- More than 600 looted artifacts that were retrieved by the United States, shipped back to Iraq and then mysteriously lost finally have been found in the prime minister's warehouse alongside boxes of kitchen supplies, the Iraqi tourism minister said Monday. The ancient pieces -- including clay pots, a bronze Sumerian figurine and stone tablets etched with cuneiform writing -- were returned to the Iraqi National Museum, resolving a real-life caper that began when many of them were stolen from a museum in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk in 1991. |
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| Missing Relics Found in PM's Office |
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· 09/20/2010 11:48:55 PM PDT · · Posted by nickcarraway · · 8 replies · · ABC · · 9/21/2010 · |
The Iraqi National Museum has found more than 600 missing artefacts stashed away in a storeroom of the prime minister's office, two years after the US government returned them to Iraq. Most of the artefacts were among 15,000 relics looted during the chaos that followed the 2003 US-led invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein. The 638 pieces were recovered, handed over to the premier's office and promptly lost again, officials said. "We found these artefacts in one of the storerooms of the prime minister's office along with some kitchen appliances. When we opened the boxes we found them," Iraq's minister of... |
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