Gods, Graves, Glyphs
Weekly Digest #15
Ancient Europe
Golden treasures from Cornwall's past
Posted by SunkenCiv
On Bloggers & Personal10/24/2004 9:25:23 PM PDT · 5 replies · 86+ views
Meyn Mamvro | prior to 2004 | Cheryl Straffon
Perhaps the most famous gold object discovered in Cornwall is the magnificent cup made from corrugated sheet gold found in a cist in Rillaton barrow on the edge of Bodmin Moor (SX2603 7191), about a quarter of a mile NNE of the Hurlers stone circles. It was discovered in 1837 together with the skeleton of a man, a bronze dagger, pieces of ivory and glass beads (all now lost)... Patricia M. Christie in an essay entitled ìCornwall in the Bronze Ageî (Cornish Archaeology, 25. p.96) makes the intriguing suggestion that the cup may be connected to the Aegean, specifically the...
Epigraphy and Language
Coin From an 'Alien Civilization'
Posted by billorites
On News/Activism10/29/2004 4:09:29 AM PDT · 54 replies · 2,079+ views
Arab News | October 29, 2004 | Staff
† Al-JOUF, 29 October 2004 ó A Saudi newspaper yesterday reported the discovery of what it called a rare coin with unique features that belonged to an ancient civilization. The paper said the coin had an inscription in an unknown language that was not English. It described the coin as having a palm tree with eight branches, a woman sunbathing, a ship and a castle with a dome.According to the newspaper, the coin belonged to an ancient civilization that flourished in Al-Jouf. The strange thing is that the ìstrangeî coin, which the paper claimed had an inscription in an...
PreColumbian, Clovis, PreClovis
Vikings/Norse in Minnesota
Posted by DoloresCobbPhifer
On General/Chat10/26/2004 10:23:31 AM PDT · 7 replies · 92+ views
freerepublic.com | 10/26-2004 | DoloresCobbPhifer
Did the Vikings Stay... Vatican Files May Offer Clues. / How did the Swedes end up in Minnesota?
Vikings/Norse in Minnesota
Posted by DoloresCobbPhifer
On General/Chat10/26/2004 10:34:20 AM PDT · 2 replies · 64+ views
freerepublic.com | 10/26/2004 | DoloresCobbPhifer
Did the Vikings Stay... Vatican Files May Offer Clues. / How did the Swedes end up in Minnesota?
Let's Have Jerusalem!
The Cave Of Lot's Seduction And The Monestary It Inspired
Posted by blam
On News/Activism10/25/2004 7:59:47 AM PDT · 2 replies · 367+ views
Daily Star | 10-25-2004 | Konstantine D. Politis
The Cave Of Lot's Seduction And The Monestary It InspiredBy konstantine D. Politis Special to The Daily Star Monday, October 25, 2004The cave of Lot's seduction and the monastery it inspired Jordanian site of Deir Ain Abata testifies to a thriving Byzantine and Umayyad-era Christian community Amman: The ruins were first discovered during an archaeological survey at the south-east end of the Dead Sea in 1986, near a spring named Ain Abata. After further investigations it was evident that the site - near today's Ghor al-Safi, the biblical city of Zoara - was none other that the Sanctuary of Agios...
Offshore Find Dates To Kind David's Time Archaeologist Hopes 3,000 Year Old Wood Is From Ship
Posted by blam
On News/Activism10/28/2004 12:41:09 PM PDT · 13 replies · 587+ views
Sf Chronicle | 10-28-2004 | Matthew Kalman
Offshore find dates to King David's time Archaeologist hopes 3,000-year-old wood is from ancient ship Matthew Kalman, Chronicle Foreign Service Thursday, October 28, 2004 Hof Dor, Israel -- An archaeologist's dog may have discovered the first ship ever found from the period of King David and his son, Solomon, who ruled the holy land 3, 000 ago. The remains, which have been carbon-dated to the ninth century B.C., include a huge stone anchor believed to be the largest ever unearthed. The wreckage is lying under a few inches of sand off the Mediterranean coast in shallow waters, and has yet...
A Proverbial Heritage
Posted by blam
On News/Activism10/25/2004 7:45:22 AM PDT · 3 replies · 84+ views
Al-Ahram | 10-24-2004
A proverbial heritage For 50 years, scholarship has tended to play down the interrelations between Ancient Egyptian culture and the religion of the biblical Hebrews. Jill Kamil argues it is time to re-open investigations Egyptian guards bring in pairs of Semitic prisoners (with long beards and heavy robes), their hands in long wooden manacles; the Pharaoh Akhenaten worshipping the solar orb as the creator and preserver of mankind; an Egyptian official receiving Semitic immigrants (tomb of Haremhab) Egypt is indisputably a part of the Biblical tradition. This much is clear, not only from the role the country plays in providing...
Asia
2,000-year-old 6ft 6ins warrior giant discovered
Posted by vannrox
On News/Activism07/31/2002 8:30:13 AM PDT · 46 replies · 136+ views
ANANOVA post of BBC Report | Story filed: 10:01 Wednesday 31st July 2002 | BBC
2,000-year-old 6ft 6ins warrior giant discovered The remains of an enormous warrior who fought more than 2,000 years ago have been found in Kazakhstan. The soldier was heavily armed and stood around 6ft 6ins tall. Archaeologists believe he was well-built and revered by people who buried him with his weapons. The BBC says the warrior lived around the first century BC. Historians say this may lead them to re-examine the origins of the region's people.
7,000 Year Old Civilisation Site Needs Attention (Pakistan)
Posted by blam
On News/Activism10/26/2004 5:50:36 PM PDT · 11 replies · 275+ views
Jang Group/The News | 10-26-2004 | Muhammad Ejaz Khan
7,000-year-old civilisation site needs attention By Muhammad Ejaz Khan QUETTA: Mehrgarh necropolis is one of the archaeological sites discovered in Balochistan during the last five decades, where a city had been buried for centuries under tons of earth. It tells us about the oldest human settlements in the South Asian region.The site, 140 kms southeast of the provincial capital, is located on the bank of the Bolan river near a settlement of Raisani tribe in the Bolan district. Archaeologists say it is one of the three oldest villages in the world, the other two being in Palestine and Iraq. French...
China Unearths Ancient Caucasian Tombs
Posted by blam
On News/Activism10/24/2004 12:43:53 PM PDT · 123 replies · 2,074+ views
The Australian/AFP | 10-25-2004
China unearths ancient Caucasian tombs AFP October 25, 2004 BEIJING: Chinese archaeologists have started unearthing hundreds of tombs in an arid north-western region once home to a mysterious civilization that most likely was Caucasian, state media said Sunday. The researchers have begun work at Xiaohe, near the Lop Nur desert in Xinjiang region, where an estimated 1000 tombs await excavation, according to Xinhua news agency. Their findings could help shed light on one of the greatest current archaeological riddles and answer the question of how this isolated culture ended up thousands of kilometres from the nearest Caucasian community. The tombs,...
Origins and Prehistory
Dispute Over Classification Of New Species Of Prehistoric 'Human'
Posted by blam
On News/Activism10/30/2004 7:53:02 AM PDT · 25 replies · 412+ views
ABC Net | 10-28-2004 | Alison Caldwell
Dispute over classification of new species of prehistoric 'human' The World Today - Thursday, 28 October, 2004 12:22:00 Reporter: Alison Caldwell ELEANOR HALL: The discovery of the dwarf humans or hobbits, as we just heard one the scientists calling them, has generated enormous interest and excitement among anthropologists around the world. But not all of them agree with the Australian scientists that this is a new species of human. Jeffrey Schwartz, who is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh in the Untied States, says while the discovery is extraordinary, the creature is more like an ape than...
Hobbit remains found in Australia
Posted by presidio9
On General/Chat10/27/2004 10:51:55 AM PDT · 154 replies · 2,980+ views
Reuters | Wed, Oct 27, 2004 | Patricia Reaney
Scientists in Australia have found a new species of hobbit-sized humans who lived about 18,000 years ago on an Indonesian island in a discovery that adds another piece to the complex puzzle of human evolution. The partial skeleton of Homo floresiensis, found in a cave on the island of Flores, is of an adult female that was a metre (3 feet) tall, had a chimpanzee-sized brain and was substantially different from modern humans. It shared the isolated island to the east of Java with miniature elephants and Komodo dragons. The creature walked upright, probably evolved into its dwarf size because...
Indonesia's Lost World: Shaking Up The Family Tree (More - New Human Species)
Posted by blam
On News/Activism10/29/2004 2:11:55 PM PDT · 32 replies · 455+ views
Archaeology | 10-28-2004 | Davisd Keys
Indonesia's Lost World: Shaking Up the Family Tree October 28, 2004 by David Keys Homo floresiensis skull (© Peter Brown) New archaeological discoveries by Australian and Indonesian scientists on the Indonesian island of Flores are revealing that until at least 13,000 to 12,000 years ago, modern humans--our species, Homo sapiens--shared this planet with a totally different species of human being--a three-foot-high dwarf hominid with physical features usually seen as dating from 1.5 to 4 million years ago. The scientists, mainly from Australia's University of New England and University of Wollongong, have found the skeletal remains of up to seven individuals...
Island of the Little People
Posted by farmfriend
On General/Chat10/29/2004 4:48:24 PM PDT · 4 replies · 50+ views
Tech Central Station | 10/29/2004 | Jackson Kuhl
Island of the Little People By Jackson Kuhl The impact on physical anthropology of the diminutive hominid Homo floresiensis cannot be overstated. The discovery in a rock shelter on the Indonesian island of Flores, announced in the October 28 issue of Nature, included a near-complete skeleton of an adult female found in close context with stone tools. Bones and teeth of seven other individuals were also uncovered. Standing three feet tall, floresiensis appears to be the result of "island dwarfing," wherein species isolated in resource-poor areas shrink over time so that their consumption needs are fewer. Archaeologists believe floresiensis, whose...
Scientists Find Prehistoric Dwarf Skeleton
Posted by Borges
On News/Activism10/27/2004 11:33:07 AM PDT · 47 replies · 1,006+ views
Yahoo
Science - AP By JOSEPH B. VERRENGIA, AP Science Writer In a breathtaking discovery, scientists working on a remote Indonesian island say they have uncovered the bones of a human dwarf species marooned for eons while modern man rapidly colonized the rest of the planet. AP Photo Missed Tech Tuesday? Is your PC possessed? Learn eight ways to repel the monsters: hackers intent on causing trouble One tiny specimen, an adult female measuring about 3 feet tall, is described as "the most extreme" figure to be included in the extended human family. Certainly, she is the shortest. This hobbit-sized creature...
Tiny new species of human unearthed - most important palaeoanthropological find for 50 years
Posted by Truth666
On General/Chat10/27/2004 11:28:18 AM PDT · 41 replies · 701+ views
newscientist. | 27 October 04
The remains of a tiny and hitherto unknown species of human that lived as recently as 13,000 years ago have been discovered on an Indonesian island. The discovery has been heralded as the most important palaeoanthropological find for 50 years, and has radically altered the accepted picture of human evolution. The female skeleton, known as LB1 - or by the nickname "Ebu" - has been assigned to a new species within the genus Homo - Homo floresiensis. Examination of the remains shows members of the species stood just 1 metre tall and had a brain no bigger than a grapefruit....
Miscellany
Lady Eleanor Talbot
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat10/24/2004 8:31:05 PM PDT · 7 replies · 63+ views
Fact-Index.com | prior to today | Wikipedia
No records survive of the meeting of the Parliamentary lords on June 9, 1483, where Stillington is said to have presented the evidence of the pre-contract, including documents and other witnesses. The Duke of Buckingham is supposed to have told Morton afterwards that he had believed that evidence when he saw it but had later changed his mind. When Henry VII of England came to the throne, he ordered all documents relating to the case to be destroyed, as well as the act of parliament by which Richard was enabled to claim the throne; so efficiently were his orders carried...
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Ancient Amazon Settlements Uncovered ^
Posted by aruanan
On News/Activism ^ 09/18/2003 7:38:01 PM PDT · 7 replies · 96+ views
Science--AP ^ | Thu Sep 18, 7:26 PM ET | PAUL RECER, AP Science Writer
Ancient Amazon Settlements Uncovered Thu Sep 18, 7:26 PM ET Add Science - AP to My Yahoo! By PAUL RECER, AP Science Writer WASHINGTON - The Amazon River basin was not all a pristine, untouched wilderness before Columbus came to the Americas, as was once believed. Researchers have uncovered clusters of extensive settlements linked by wide roads with other communities and surrounded by agricultural developments. The researchers, including some descendants of pre-Columbian tribes that lived along the Amazon, have found evidence of densely settled, well-organized communities with roads, moats and bridges in the Upper Xingu part of the vast...
Ancient writing found in Turkmenistan ^
Posted by SunkenCiv
On Bloggers & Personal ^ 11/01/2004 10:24:57 PM PST · 28 replies · 45+ views
BBC ^ | Tuesday, 15 May, 2001, 05:57 GMT 06:57 UK | staff
A previously unknown civilisation was using writing in Central Asia 4,000 years ago, hundreds of years before Chinese writing developed, archaeologists have discovered... The discovery suggests that Central Asia had a civilisation comparable with that of Mesopotamia and ancient Iran as far back as the Bronze Age, University of Pennsylvania archaeologist Fredrik Hiebert told the BBC... It is not known what the people of the civilisation called themselves, so researchers have dubbed the society the Bactria Margiana Archaeology Complex (B-Mac), after the ancient Greek names for the two regions it covers.
'Earliest Writing' Found In China ^
Posted by blam
On News/Activism ^ 04/18/2003 9:35:03 AM PDT · 27 replies · 109+ views
BBC ^ | 4-17-2003 | Paul Rincon
'Earliest writing' found in China By Paul Rincon BBC Science First attempt at writing .. on a tortoise shell Signs carved into 8,600-year-old tortoise shells found in China may be the earliest written words, say archaeologists. The symbols were written down in the late Stone Age, or Neolithic Age. They predate the earliest recorded writings from Mesopotamia - in what is now Iraq - by more than 2,000 years. The archaeologists say they bear similarities to written characters used thousands of years later during the Shang dynasty, which lasted from 1700-1100 BC. But the discovery has already generated controversy, with...
An origin of new world agriculture in coastal Ecuador (12,000 BP) ^
Posted by vannrox
On News/Activism ^ 02/14/2003 1:34:27 PM PST · 9 replies · 163+ views
Eureka ^ | Public release date: 13-Feb-2003 | Dr. Dolores Piperno
Contact: Dr. Dolores Pipernopipernod@tivoli.si.edu 011-507-212-8101Smithsonian Institution An origin of new world agriculture in coastal Ecuador New archaeological evidence points to an independent origin of agriculture in coastal Ecuador 10,000 to 12,000 years ago. Suddenly, the remains of larger squash plants appear in the record. The Las Vegas site, described by Dolores Piperno of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) and Karen Stothert, University of Texas at Austin in the February 14th issue of Science, may predate plant domestication sites in the Mesoamerican highlands. The fertile and amazingly diverse lowland tropics seem like a likely place for agriculture to develop. But...
Submerged Himachal Temples To Be Relocated ^
Posted by blam
On News/Activism ^ 11/05/2004 2:33:48 PM PST · 53+ views
New Kerala.com/India News ^ | 11-5-2004
Submerged Himachal temples to be relocated: [India News]: Shimla, Nov 5 : Eight medieval temples in Himachal Pradesh that have been lying submerged inside a lake for decades will now be relocated by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). The 15th century Nagara style temples in Bilaspur town, 90 km from here, have been lying submerged under the Gobind Sagar Lake, the backwards of the Bhakra hydro project built nearly four decades ago. The tops of some of these stone temples are visible when the water level drops in summer. "We have approached the ASI to transplant these temples as...
Traces Of An Ancient Settlement Found On Dry Botton Of Aral (Sea) ^
Posted by blam
On News/Activism ^ 11/05/2004 2:26:18 PM PST · 14 replies · 410+ views
Kasinform ^ | 11-5-2004
Traces of an ancient settlement found on the dry bottom of the Aral Kyzylorda. November 5. KAZINFORM. The scientists of the Institute of Archeology named after Alkey Margulan found some traces of an ancient town on the dry bottom of the Aral Sea. The area of the town amounts to about 6 ha and goes back to the 13-14 centuries, i.e. the epoch of the Golden Horde. As a result of archeological researches there have also been found the relics of different workshops, windmills and storehouses for ceramic articles and the burial ground where the noble representatives of that...
Women See Scarlet, Men See Red ^
Posted by blam
On News/Activism ^ 11/03/2004 3:34:16 PM PST · 74 replies · 1,270+ views
ABC Net/Discover News ^ | 8-4-2004 | Jennifer Viegas
Women see scarlet, men see red Jennifer Viegas Discovery News Wednesday, 4 August 2004 The world may appear a more colourful place to women, according to a new study that finds many women perceive a greater range of colours than men, particularly shades of red. The U.S. study, which analysed DNA from populations around the world, is published in the September issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics. How men and women see the world appears to relate to evolution and how our early ancestors found food. Men were likely to have been surveying the landscape for prey to...