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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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| Africa | |
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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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| Prehistory & Origins | |
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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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| Agriculture & Animal Husbandry | |
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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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| Ancient Autopsies | |
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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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| Climate | |
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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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| British Isles | |
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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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| Roman Empire | |
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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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| Age of Heroes | |
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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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| Alexander the Great | |
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| Apollo discovery tells a new story |
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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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| Middle Ages & Renaissance | |
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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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| Egypt | |
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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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| Farty Shades of Green | |
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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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| Large Side of Slaw | |
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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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| Paleontology | |
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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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| Early America | |
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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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· 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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· 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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· 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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· 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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· 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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| Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #324 Saturday, October 2, 2010 |
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| Mexican Archaeologists from INAH Explore Prehispanic Observatory in Tabasco |
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· 10/01/2010 7:38:56 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 1 replies · · Art Daily · · Friday, October 1, 2010 · · editors · |
Researchers of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) study a Prehispanic monticule known as Structure 12, at San Claudio Archaeological Zone in Tabasco, which may have had been used as an astronomical observatory to register the Sun movements at solstices when this city was dwelled by Maya people, between the first centuries of the Common Era to year 900. According to archaeologist Jose Luis Romero Rivera, director of the INAH project at the site located in Tenosique municipality, Structure 12 is a 2.5 meters high base, with other 2 bases slightly tallest at the north and south extremes...... |
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· 09/28/2010 3:45:43 PM PDT · · Posted by Palter · · 74 replies · · BBC · · 28 Sep 2010 · · Paul Rincon · |
Chemical tests on teeth from an ancient burial near Stonehenge indicate that the person in the grave grew up around the Mediterranean Sea. The bones belong to a teenager who died 3,550 years ago and was buried with a distinctive amber necklace. The conclusions come from analysis of different forms of the elements oxygen and strontium in his tooth enamel.Analysis on a previous skeleton found near Stonehenge showed that that person was also a migrant to the area.The findings will be discussed at a science symposium in London to mark the 175th anniversary of the British Geological Survey (BGS). The... |
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| Archaeologists on Crete Find Skeleton Covered with Gold Foil in 2,700-year-old Grave |
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· 10/01/2010 2:54:59 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 25 replies · · Canadian Press/Google News · · Tuesday, September 28, 2010 · · Nicholas Paphitis · |
Excavator Nicholas Stampolidis said his team discovered more than 3,000 pieces of gold foil in the 7th-century B.C. twin grave near the ancient town of Eleutherna... The tiny gold ornaments, from 1 to 4 centimetres (0.4 to 1.5 inches) long, had been sewn onto a lavish robe or shroud that initially wrapped the body of a woman and has almost completely rotted away but for a few off-white threads... The woman, who presumably had a high social or religious status, was buried with a second skeleton in a large jar sealed with a stone slab weighing more than half a... |
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· 10/01/2010 6:53:30 AM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 18 replies · · Associated Press · · October 1, 2010 · · Unknown · |
Imagine being so close to Botticelli's Venus that you can see the strands of her blond hair, the shades of pink in her cheeks, the cracks in the centuries-old paint. That sensation is now just a click away. This week, an Italian company has put high-resolution images online of "The Birth of Venus" and five other masterpieces from the Uffizi gallery in Florence, including works by Caravaggio and Leonardo da Vinci. |
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| Let's Have Jerusalem | |
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| Experts Reveal the Full Beauty of Petra's 2K year-old Cave Painting |
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· 09/29/2010 7:28:25 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 10 replies · · ArtDaily · · Thursday, September 30, 2010 · · unattributed · |
Experts from London's Courtauld Institute of Art recently completed the conservation of a rare and exquisite Nabataean wall painting at the World Heritage site of Petra in Jordan, for the Petra National Trust. Conservators Stephen Rickerby and Lisa Shekede from the Courtauld's Conservation of Wall Painting Department worked on the project for three years. The remarkable painting, that can now be clearly seen for the first time in many years, was unveiled on Wednesday 18 August 2010 in a ceremony marking the conclusion of the fifth and final phase of conservation work... Dating from around the 1st century AD, the... |
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| The Sound of Akkadian -- Listen to Ancient Babylonian online |
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· 10/01/2010 7:06:36 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 8 replies · · Heritage Key · · Thursday, September 30, 2010 · · Ann Wuyts · |
Almost 2,000 years after its last native speakers disappeared... [t]he recordings include excerpts from some of the earliest known works of world literature, dating back to the first years of the second millennium BC... readings of Babylonian poems, myths and other texts in the original tongue... -- available online for free at www.speechisfire.com -- are given by Dr. Worthington's fellow Assyriologists. Babylonian is one of two variants (or dialects) of Akkadian, the other being Assyrian. Akkadian became the 'lingua franca' of the Near East around, until its use began to decline around the 8th century BC. The last Akkadian cuneiform... |
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| Art Appreciation/Education series II class #1: Greco-Roman Realism and Early Christian Abstraction |
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· 09/25/2005 10:50:47 AM PDT · · Posted by Republicanprofessor · · 25 replies · 16,539+ views · · 9/25/05 · · republicanprofessor · |
The title of this first lecture in a new chronological series is: Greco-Roman Realism and Early Christian Abstraction. Christian abstraction in art? How and why can that be? Well, let's see how early art developed and why the Christians rebelled against Roman values in art and culture. This is the first "lecture" in my second series of Art Appreciation/Education classes. I figure we need to establish more of a base in how early art developed before we can explore Renaissance and other exciting periods of art. Let's look back even to Egyptian art, because then we can see how Greek... |
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· 09/29/2010 8:09:41 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 26 replies · · Hexham Courant · · Monday, September 27, 2010 · · Ruth Lognonne · |
Britain's favourite treasures, the Vindolanda Tablets, are coming home to Tynedale. The world famous wooden blocks, detailing the minutiae of life in Roman Britain, will be housed at Vindolanda, near Bardon Mill, where they were first discovered in a muddy ditch in 1973. A £4 million grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund has made it possible to bring nine of the precious artefacts back to the Roman fort and museum, where they will go on permanent display. After the initial find, by former Vindolanda Trust director Robin Birley in 1973, around 400 of the perfectly preserved archaeological treasure chests have... |
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| Jobless Man Uncovers Gold Hoard with Metal Detector |
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· 09/25/2009 10:10:49 AM PDT · · Posted by Justaham · · 36 replies · 1,454+ views · · Sky News · · 9-25-09 · |
An unemployed man has unearthed the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever found with the help of his metal detector. Experts are now calculating its value -- a process that could take more than a year because of its size. Terry Herbert from Burntwood, Staffordshire, stumbled on the hoard in a private field with his trusty 14-year-old metal detector. Over five days in July, the 55-year-old dug up a fortune on the farmland near to his home. The find was declared as treasure by coroner Andrew Haigh, which means the cache will be offered for sale after it is valued. See the... |
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| Ancient Egypt's Pyramids: Norwegian Researcher Unlocks Construction Secrets |
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· 09/25/2010 1:07:46 AM PDT · · Posted by Palter · · 61 replies · · Science Daily · · 24 Sep 2010 · · Science Daily · |
Scientists from around the world have tried to understand how the Egyptians erected their giant pyramids. Now, an architect and researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) says he has the answer to this ancient, unsolved puzzle. Researchers have been so preoccupied by the weight of the stones that they tend to overlook two major problems: How did the Egyptians know exactly where to put the enormously heavy building blocks? And how was the master architect able to communicate detailed, highly precise plans to a workforce of 10,000 illiterate men? A 7-million-ton structure These were among the... |
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· 09/27/2010 12:18:16 PM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 36 replies · · BBC · · September 24, 2010 · · Katia Moskvitch · |
Neanderthals were keen on innovation and technology and developed tools all on their own, scientists say.A new study challenges the view that our close relatives could advance only through contact with Homo sapiens. The team says climate change was partly responsible for forcing Neanderthals to innovate in order to survive. The research is set to appear in the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory in December. "Basically, I am rehabilitating Neanderthals," said Julien Riel-Salvatore, assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Colorado in Denver, who led the seven-year study. "They were far more resourceful than we have given them... |
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| Early humans lived in PNG highlands 50,000 years ago (Papua New Guinea) |
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· 09/30/2010 4:14:44 PM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 20 replies · · Reuters · · September 30, 2010 · · by Tan Ee Lyn · · ed by Kim Coghill · |
Archeologists have uncovered evidence suggesting that early humans braved cold temperatures to occupy highlands in Papua New Guinea 50,000 years ago in search of food. Working on five archeological sites about 2,000 meters above sea level, researchers from Papua New Guinea, Australia and New Zealand found charred nut shells from the pandanus tree and stone tools which carbon dated back to 50,000 years ago. "This is the first evidence of people at such a high altitude at the earliest of time," said anthropology professor Glenn Summerhayes at the University of Otago in New Zealand. Experts have... |
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| PreColumbian, Clovis, & PreClovis | |
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| Did Australian Aborigines reach America first? |
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· 09/30/2010 2:04:50 PM PDT · · Posted by Palter · · 39 replies · · Cosmo Online · · 30 Sep 2010 · · Jacqui Hayes · |
Cranial features distinctive to Australian Aborigines are present in hundreds of skulls that have been uncovered in Central and South America, some dating back to over 11,000 years ago. Evolutionary biologist Walter Neves of the University of São Paulo, whose findings are reported in a cover story in the latest issue of Cosmos magazine, has examined these skeletons and recovered others, and argues that there is now a mass of evidence indicating that at least two different populations colonised the Americas.He and colleagues in the United States, Germany and Chile argue that first population was closely related to the Australian... |
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| No evidence for Clovis comet catastrophe, archaeologists say |
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· 09/29/2010 3:41:46 PM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 34 replies · · U of Chicago Press Journals · · September 29, 2010 · · Unknown · |
New research challenges the controversial theory that an ancient comet impact devastated the Clovis people, one of the earliest known cultures to inhabit North America. Writing in the October issue of Current Anthropology, archaeologists Vance Holliday (University of Arizona) and David Meltzer (Southern Methodist University) argue that there is nothing in the archaeological record to suggest an abrupt collapse of Clovis populations. "Whether or not the proposed extraterrestrial impact occurred is a matter for empirical testing in the geological record," the researchers write. "Insofar as concerns the archaeological record, an extraterrestrial impact is an unnecessary solution for an archaeological problem... |
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| Were Some Ancestral Puebloan People the Victims of Ethnic Conflict? |
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· 09/27/2010 5:06:29 PM PDT · · Posted by Little Bill · · 19 replies · · archaeology.org · · September 24, 2010 · · Heather Pringle · |
Not so very long ago that many archaeologists regarded the Ancestral Puebloan people -- or the Anasazi, as researchers once called them -- as a rather peaceful, mystical group of astronomers, artists, priests and farmers. They based this idea largely on their observations of modern Puebloan peoples: the Hopi, the Zuni and others who lived in traditional pueblos, such as Taos, and who often lived quiet lives of ritual and spirituality. In the early 90s, some Southwestern archaeologists began questioning this received wisdom. David Wilcox, an archaeologist at the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff, hypothesized that the rulers of Chaco Canyon, a massive... |
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| Panama Canal fossils reveal ancient collision of worlds |
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· 09/30/2010 6:48:09 PM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 22 replies · · BBC · · Howard Falcon-Lang · |
It was the biggest event in our planet's history since the extinction of the dinosaurs. Three million years ago, the Americas collided. The creation of the Panama Isthmus -- the narrow land bridge that joins the two continents -- wreaked havoc on land, sea and air. It triggered extinctions, diverted ocean currents and transformed climate. Now a multi-billion dollar project to widen the Panama Canal is set to reveal new secrets about the event that changed the world. Panama is a tiny country, but in a perfect location. > The formation of the Panama Isthmus, however, did not only affect the... |
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| Ancient Penguins Were Giant, Colorful Beasts, New Fossils Reveal |
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· 10/01/2010 5:05:40 AM PDT · · Posted by ilovesarah2012 · · 35 replies · · foxnews.com · · September 30, 2010 · · Stephanie Pappas · |
Penguins didn't always boast tuxedo-like black-and-white markings, according to a new study. The discovery of the first ancient penguin fossil with evidence of feathers reveals the aquatic birds were once reddish-brown and gray. The 36 million-year-old fossil represents one of the largest ancient penguins ever found. The bird would have been 5 feet (1.5 meters) tall, and probably weighed twice as much as modern Emperor penguins, which average about 66 pounds (30 kilograms). Its long, grooved beak suggests that, like modern penguins, it hunted by diving for fish. Imprints of feathers in the rock around the bones could help researchers... |
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| Helix, Make Mine a Double | |
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| The "Population Bomb" Has Fizzled |
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· 09/01/2010 2:05:11 PM PDT · · Posted by WOBBLY BOB · · 14 replies · · Gwinnett Gazette · · 8-30-10 · · Harold Brown · |
Predicted calamities are always the worst; until the future comes. Then, they don't show up, or they shrink to ordinary. Overpopulation is a prime example. Calamity resulting from too many of us has been the subject of countless prophecies, but those never came true. More humans are living on the planet now than ever and living better, rather than being starved and desperate. |
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| Epidemics, Pandemics, Plagues, the Sniffles | |
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| Cerebral Malaria May Have Passed From Gorillas To Us |
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· 09/27/2010 7:53:39 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 20 replies · · BBC News · · September 22, 2010 · · Katie Alcock · |
Humans may have originally caught malaria from gorillas, scientists say... researchers from the US, three African countries, and Europe have examined malaria parasites in great ape faeces. They found the DNA from western gorilla parasites was the most similar to human parasites. Malaria is caused by a parasite called Plasmodium, and is carried by mosquitoes. The most common species found in Africa, Plasmodium falciparum, causes dangerous cerebral malaria. Over 800,000 people die from malaria each year in the continent. Until now, scientists had assumed that when the evolutionary tree of humans split off from that of chimpanzees -- around five... |
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| Tanzania, Ethiopia origin for humans |
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· 04/03/2003 4:25:54 PM PST · · Posted by vannrox · · 8 replies · 614+ views · · BBC News · · 4-3-2003 · · By Paul Rincon · |
New DNA evidence suggests "African Eve", the 150,000-year-old female ancestor of every person on Earth, may have lived in Tanzania or Ethiopia. A genetic study has shown that the oldest known human DNA lineages are those of East Africans. The most ancient populations include the Sandawe, Burunge, Gorowaa and Datog people who live in Tanzania. Researchers found a very high amount of genetic variation, or diversity, between the mitochondrial DNA of different individuals in these populations. Mitochondrial DNA is passed down exclusively through the maternal line. The longer a population has existed, the more variation accumulates in its DNA... |
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| Spotted 'Mysterious Pulse Of Light' From Direction Of Newly-discovered '2nd Earth' Two Years Ago |
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· 10/01/2010 3:22:54 AM PDT · · Posted by tlb · · 94 replies · · Daily Mail · · 1st October 2010 · · Niall Firth · |
An astronomer picked up a mysterious pulse of light coming from the direction of the newly discovered Earth-like planet almost two years ago, it has emerged. Dr Ragbir Bhathal, a scientist at the University of Western Sydney, picked up the odd signal in December 2008, long before it was announced that the star Gliese 581 has habitable planets in orbit around it. Dr Bhathal had been sweeping the skies when he discovered a 'suspicious' signal from an area of the galaxy that holds the newly-discovered Gliese 581g. The remarkable coincidence adds another layer of mystery to the announcement last night... |
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| The Absurdity of 'Thinking in Language' |
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· 05/23/2003 3:59:51 PM PDT · · Posted by unspun · · 1,286 replies · 1,084+ views · · author's site · · 1972 · · Dallas Willard · |
This paper has been read to the University of Southern California philosophy group and the Boston 1972 meeting of the American Philosophical Association, as well as to the Houston meeting of the Southwestern Philosophical Society. Appeared in The Southwestern Journal of Philosophy, IV(1973), pp. 125-132. Numbers in "<>" refer to this journal. Among the principal assumptions of major portions of philosophy in recent decades have been: (1) That philosophy somehow consists of (some sort of) logic, and (2) that logic is a study of and theory about (some sort of) language. There, of... |
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| OC District Pushes Pause On Hip-hop Curriculum [Founding Fathers Called "Old Dead White Men"] |
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· 10/02/2010 12:12:50 AM PDT · · Posted by Daffynition · · 45 replies · · NewsOK.com · · October 1, 2010 · · Megan Rolland · |
Concern over a new hip-hop curriculum that refers to the founding fathers as "old dead white men" has delayed the program's rollout for at-risk students, Oklahoma City Public Schools Superintendent Karl Springer said. "We're making sure that whatever we do, first, we do no harm," Springer said. "The science behind the concept is wonderful. There may be some things, though, that are inappropriate that we need to be careful about." Known as Flocabulary, the program is a music-based educational tool that uses raps, rhythms and rhymes to help students learn and memorize everything from vocabulary and English to math and... |
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| Researchers Resume Hunt for Artifacts at QAR Shipwreck Site (Blackbeard's Flagship) |
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· 09/26/2010 4:33:48 PM PDT · · Posted by nickcarraway · · 7 replies · · encToday · · September 23, 2010 · |
As underwater archaeologists dive to recover 300-year-old artifacts from the shipwreck presumed to Blackbeard's flagship, the effort to keep the public a part of the project are all 21st century. A six-week dive expedition at the Queen Anne's Revenge shipwreck site began this week, and anyone interested in following its progress can do so via the Facebook page Blackbeard's-Queen Anne's Revenge. Full information on the project is also available at the website qaronline.com. After a day of field preparations, a Wednesday afternoon Facebook post announced the biggest news of the expedition: "Returning to USCG Fort Macon. Still need to get... |
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| Two Revolutions, Two Views of Man |
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· 07/25/2010 1:37:12 PM PDT · · Posted by betty boop · · 822 replies · 58+ views · · Conservative Underground · · July 6, 2010 · · Jean F. Drew · |
As every American schoolchild has been taught, in Western history there were two great sociopolitical revolutions that took place near the end of the eighteenth century: The American Revolution of 1775; and the French, of 1789. Children are taught that both revolutions were fought because of human rights in some way; thus bloody warfare possibly could be justified, condoned so long as the blood and treasure were shed to protect the "rights of man." The American schoolchild is assured that the American and French revolutions were both devoted to the... |
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· 09/28/2010 10:13:36 AM PDT · · Posted by Pharmboy · · 7 replies · · NY Daily News · · Nicholas Hirshon · |
The cannon at Nathaniel Woodhull School (PS 35) in Hollis is the only marker of death of the Revolutionary War general Nathaniel Woodhull. Historians are lobbying for official state signage. Exactly 234 years ago this month, a Revolutionary War general died from wounds incurred during a defiant showdown with the British -- a gripping tale of patriotism that began in Queens. But the spot where Nathaniel Woodhull was mortally wounded in 1776 does not bear tribute to the first high-ranking colonial officer to become a prisoner of war and die in enemy captivity. "It needs to be preserved as a... |
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| Meriwether Lewis's Final Journey Remains a Mystery |
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· 09/25/2010 1:18:49 AM PDT · · Posted by Palter · · 22 replies · · WSJ · · 25 Sep 2010 · · Mike Esterl · |
Famous Explorer's Relatives Deny Suicide Talk, Seek to Dig Up Body -- Meriwether Lewis conquered rivers, mountains and bears leading the Lewis and Clark Expedition across 8,000 miles of wilderness from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean and back. Two centuries later, relatives of Mr. Lewis are having a tough time moving his remains down 80 miles of paved Tennessee highway from a national park to a forensic lab. Mr. Lewis's body rests beneath a 20-foot-high stone monument at milepost 385.9 of the Natchez Trace Parkway. A plaque next to the gravesite states that it was here, in 1809, three years... |
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· 06/08/2010 2:21:28 PM PDT · · Posted by Eleutheria5 · · 24 replies · 59+ views · · AP/AOL News · · 8/6/10 · |
A Massachusetts teacher cleaning up her classroom in preparation for a move has discovered a Colonial-era document buried in a pile of outdated textbooks and dusty scraps of papers. Michelle Eugenio, a fourth-grade teacher in Peabody, Mass., found the yellowed sheet of paper two weeks ago. Dated April 1792 and protected by plastic, it appears to document the payment of a debt by a Vermont man named Jonathan Bates. Peabody Historical Society President Bill Power verified the paper's authenticity. He tells The Salem News he was thrilled with the discovery. No one knows how the paper ended up... |
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· 07/02/2003 11:55:26 AM PDT · · Posted by flutters · · 34 replies · 2,288+ views · · The Columbus Dispatch · · July 2, 2003 · · Gerald Tebben · |
James A. Garfield, the last of the nation's presidents to have been born in a log cabin, barely made it to the White House and spent only a few months there before he was felled by an assassin's bullets. Garfield, who was born to a farm family in Cuyahoga County on Nov. 19, 1831, was named president of Hiram College at 26 and became the youngest brigadier general in the Union Army in 1862. Garfield was an accidental president. In 1880, delegates to the Republican convention were deadlocked after 34 votes. Garfield's name was offered as a compromise. That fall,... |
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| Germany end World War One reparations after 92 years with £59m final payment |
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· 09/28/2010 6:49:01 AM PDT · · Posted by C19fan · · 126 replies · · Daily Mail · · September 28, 2010 · · Allan Hall · |
World War One finally ends for Germany on Sunday -- 92 years after the guns fell silent and nearly nine million men lay dead -- as it pays off the last chunk of reparations imposed on it by the Allies. A final payment of 69.9 million euros, or £59.3 million, writes off the crippling debt which was the price for one world war -- and laid the foundations for another. |
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| Muscular Movement -- A review of "Neoconservatism: The Biography of a Movement" by Justin Vaïsse |
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· 10/01/2010 4:36:38 PM PDT · · Posted by mojito · · 3 replies · · TNR · · 7/20/2010 · · Adam Kirsch · |
By the middle of 2003, as it became clear that the American invasion of Iraq would result not in a quick "mission accomplished" but a long, bloody occupation, a certain narrative of what went wrong began to take root in some precincts of the anti-war left. The decision to invade Iraq, this story went, was the result of the government falling under the sway of a dangerous ideology, called neoconservatism. The neocons, as they were often derisively called, believed in the naked assertion of American power -- in a kind of imperialism, really, which gave America the right to invade other countries... |
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