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| Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #431 Saturday, October 20, 2012 |
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| The Vikings | |
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| Evidence of Viking Outpost Found in Canada |
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· 10/19/2012 6:11:45 PM PDT · · Posted by Engraved-on-His-hands · · 76 replies · · National Geographic News · · October 19, 2012 · · Heather Pringle · |
For the past 50 years -- since the discovery of a thousand-year-old Viking way station in Newfoundland -- archaeologists and amateur historians have combed North America's east coast searching for traces of Viking visitors. It has been a long, fruitless quest, littered with bizarre claims and embarrassing failures. But at a conference in Canada earlier this month, archaeologist Patricia Sutherland announced new evidence that points strongly to the discovery of the second Viking outpost ever discovered in the Americas. |
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| Earth Was A Baking Lifeless Desert For 5 Million Years |
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· 10/19/2012 9:11:14 AM PDT · · Posted by SeekAndFind · · 28 replies · · The Register · · 10/19/2012 · · By Brid-Aine Parnell · |
Boffins have discovered that "lethally hot" ocean temperatures kept the Earth devoid of life for millions of years after the mass extinction that occurred 250 million years ago. The global wipeout that ended the Permian era, before dinosaurs, wiped out nearly all of the world's species. Mass extinctions like these in Earth's history are usually followed by a "dead zone", a period of tens of thousands of years before new species crop up. But the early Triassic dead zone lasted millions of years, not thousands. Boffins now reckon that the extra-long five million year dead zone was caused by screaming... |
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| Megaliths & Archaeoastronomy | |
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| Ancient tomb found at 'Sweden's Stonehenge' |
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· 10/17/2012 3:41:11 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 20 replies · · The Local (Sweden) · · October 15, 2012 · · Rebecca Martin · |
Swedish archaeologists have unearthed what is presumed to be a dolmen, or a portal tomb, that is believed to be over 5,000 years old near the megalithic monument Ale's stones in southern Sweden... Despite a few days of rain, the archaeologists have managed to uncover enough of the site to see that what they have found is like to be a dolmen, a type of megalithic tomb, most often consisting of three or more upright stones supporting a large flat horizontal capstone... According to reports, the archaeologists have found what they believe is an imprint of the tomb, which must... |
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| 'Fox hole' opens passage to Neolithic past, possibly Hades |
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· 10/20/2012 9:19:10 AM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 26 replies · · WBEZ 91.5 Chicago · · Thursday, October 18, 2012 · · Cassidy Herrington · |
A Field Museum curator is digging around a cave in Southern Greece that's been compared to the mythical underworld, Hades. That cave might help explain why people choose to migrate to big cities or high tail it to the suburbs. And it has a surprising Chicago tie. William Parkinson is the associate curator of Eurasian anthropology at the Field Museum. He is on a research team, called The Diros Project, made up of two Greek and two American archaeologists (both Chicago natives). They are excavating Alepotrypa Cave, which is nearly four football fields long. The researchers compare the most striking... |
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| Ancient 'sauna' unearthed in Assynt |
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· 10/20/2012 9:09:48 AM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 3 replies · · BBC · · Wednesday, October 17, 2012 · · unattributed · |
Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of what they believe could be an Bronze Age bathing site, or a sauna. The metre-deep pit with a channel to a nearby stream was discovered at Stronechrubie, Assynt, in the north west Highlands. The find was made by the Fire and Water Project, which is run by archaeology and history group Historic Assynt. The project team had been trying to understand what a crescent shaped mound of stones had been created for. Excavations at the mound by archaeologists and volunteers unearthed the pit and channel from beneath a layer of clay. Archaeologists believe it... |
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| The Most Important Records For Dating Old Objects Were Just Found In A Japanese Lake |
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· 10/18/2012 2:09:47 PM PDT · · Posted by blam · · 22 replies · · TBI · · 10-18-2012 · · Dina Spector · |
Lake Suigetsu in Japan -- For tens of thousands of years, leaf and twig fossils have remained undisturbed at the bottom of Lake Suigetsu in Japan. By drilling into well-preserved layers of sediment and extracting cores containing those leaves and twigs, researchers have obtained some of the most accurate records of radiocarbon in the atmosphere yet. These records give a precise estimation of how much radioactive carbon there was in the atmosphere in any given year, and could help increase... |
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| Core sample sends carbon clock farther back in time |
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· 10/20/2012 12:07:06 PM PDT · · Posted by neverdem · · 4 replies · · Nature News · · 18 October 2012 · · Ewen Callaway · |
Sediment from Japanese lake provides more accurate timeline for dating objects as far back as 50,000 years. The carbon clock is getting reset. Climate records from a Japanese lake are set to improve the accuracy of the dating technique, which could help to shed light on archaeological mysteries such as why Neanderthals became extinct. Carbon dating is used to work out the age of organic material -- in effect, any living thing. The technique hinges on carbon-14, a radioactive isotope of the element that, unlike other more stable forms of carbon, decays away at a steady rate. Organisms capture a... |
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| Archaeologists Uncover Roman Mosaic in Downtown Sofia |
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· 10/19/2012 9:17:36 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 1 replies · · Novinite · · Monday, October 15, 2012 · · Live News · |
Archaeologists have discovered colorful floor mosaic from the Roman era near the so-called West Gate of Serdica in downtown Sofia. The news was announced Monday by the Mayor of Sofia, Yordanka Fandakova, who visited the archaeological excavations in the company of her Deputy in charge of Culture, Todor Chobanov. The mosaic has an area of 40 square meters and is located in the ruins of a Roman building discovered for the first time between 1975 and 1980 when archaeologists began exploring the site. The works were later abandoned and remained unfinished. Serdica's West Wall followed the current "Washington" and "Lavelle"... |
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| Cat discovers 2,000-year-old Roman catacomb |
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· 10/19/2012 9:53:26 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 8 replies · · Guardian · · Thursday, October 18, 2012 · · Tom Kington in Rome · |
Rome may not exactly be short of catacombs, but one discovered this week is more deserving of the name than the city's countless other subterranean burial chambers. For Mirko Curti stumbled into a 2,000-year-old tomb piled with bones while chasing a wayward moggy yards from his apartment building. Curti and a friend were following the cat at 10pm on Tuesday when it scampered towards a low tufa rock cliff close to his home near Via di Pietralata in a residential area of the city... Inside the small opening in the cliff the two men found themselves surrounded by niches dug... |
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| Tomb raiders lead to new archaeological find |
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· 10/19/2012 9:47:29 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 4 replies · · Gazzetta del Sud On Line · · Friday, October 19, 2012 · · ANSA · |
Investigations into the activities of four tomb raiders in the Alban hills near Rome have led to the discovery of a previously unknown site containing ancient Roman votive offerings. The ex-votos date from the fourth to the second century BC and include life-sized statues and depictions of parts of the human anatomy in terracotta offered to the ancient Roman goddess Juno. Police caught the tomb robbers in action as they were stealing the devotional objects from a natural cavity in a tufa wall near Lanuvio and Genzano that did not appear on archaeological maps of the area. The cavity appears... |
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| A Weak Case for Inaction in Syria |
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· 10/20/2012 6:34:28 AM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 14 replies · · Commentary · · Friday, October 19, 2012 · · Max Boot · |
There is something that I don't get about opponents of greater American action in Syria, such as the freelance reporter Benjamin Hall, who was recently in Aleppo. He points out, as other observers have, that the rebels are disorganized and that various factions are often at odds with one another. They don't have a central, unified leadership... Hall recommends not arming the rebels -- although he is open to the imposition of a no-fly zone. Here's where I don't follow the logic... while the U.S. is not arming the rebels and is not imposing a no-fly zone or helping to... |
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| Islamic Salafists Destroy Ancient Morocco Carvings: NGO (Carvings Date Back 8,000 Years) |
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· 10/18/2012 8:17:56 PM PDT · · Posted by DogByte6RER · · 29 replies · · AFP · · October 18, 2012 · · AFP · |
NGO RABAT -- Stone carvings in Morocco's High Atlas mountains dating back more than 8,000 years and depicting the sun as a pagan divinity have been destroyed by Salafists, a local rights group said on Wednesday. "These stone carvings of the sun are more than 8,000 years old. They were destroyed several days ago," Aboubakr Anghir, a member of the Amazigh (Berber) League for Human Rights, told AFP. "One of the carvings, called 'the plaque of the sun,' predates the arrival of the Phoenicians in Morocco," Anghir said. "It lies in a well-known archaeological site... |
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| Bulgarian Archaeologists Rescue Thracian Treasure from Hwy Construction |
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· 10/19/2012 7:46:21 AM PDT · · Posted by curmudgeonII · · 9 replies · · Sofia News Agency · · Oct. 19, 2012 · |
A real archaeological treasure has popped out underneath the "Struma" highway construction works in western Bulgaria. Archaeologists at the site have managed a last-minute rescue operation, pulling "under the nose" of waiting construction workers and machinery gold soldier breastplates, gold earrings and hairpins, and a number of silver and amber items, the Bulgarian Standard daily writes Friday. The finds came from an unseen so far in size Thracian necropolis in the vicinity of the village of Dren, near the town of Radomir. They have been unearthed in the spring of 2012,... |
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| The "Grand Design" for Europe of Henry IV and the Duc de Sully |
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· 10/13/2012 3:54:36 PM PDT · · Posted by Cronos · · 4 replies · · Henri IV · · 1635 · · Duc de Sully · |
The "Grand Design" The "Grand Design" was a European confederation project that was progressively drawn up by the duc de Sully between the end of Henri IV's reign in 1610 and Sully's own death in 1641. Sully stated on several occasions that it was Henri IV's concept, and although it is likely that Sully and the king discussed the major points, the evidence seems to indicate that the lion's share of the work was done after 1610. On 26 January 1611, Maximilien de BÈthune , the duc de Sully, submitted his resignation to Marie de MÈdicis, who was acting as... |
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| Obituary | |
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| Modern-Day Galileo: J. Philippe Rushton (1943-2012) |
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· 10/13/2012 11:41:04 AM PDT · · Posted by River Hawk · · 21 replies · · Big Think · · Oct. 10th, 2012 · · Satoshi Kanazawa · |
Last week the world of science lost one of its most courageous and brilliant practitioners, and I have lost a dear friend and colleague. On 02 October, J. Philippe Rushton passed away at an infuriatingly young age of 68. I first learned of Phil's work in 1999 when, as a then member of the Social Psychology Section of the American Sociological Association, I received a complimentary copy of the abridged edition of Race, Evolution and Behavior, which Phil had sent to all 600+ members of the Section at his personal expense. I read it right away, then I purchased and... |
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| Oh So Mysteriouso | |
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| VANITY You Are Transported To The Year 742 AD Europe And Allowed To Bring 3 Items From The Future |
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· 10/14/2012 8:02:34 AM PDT · · Posted by trailhkr1 · · 214 replies · · Internet · · 10-14-12 · · Internet · |
What would they be? A gun? Then you are only allowed to bring 2 bullets..see how that works?? Some basic ground rules..has to be a realistic items you can get you hands on today..no tanks etc. You are going with just the clothes on your back + the 3 items to survive an mingle with the folks of the day. Never coming back. Saw this question on another site and wanted to see what you guys would come up with..I will post that link tomorrow after everyone has a chance to come up with their ideas..some people came up with... |
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| The Revolution | |
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| Colonial Baptists used Bible to rally support for revolution |
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· 10/17/2012 9:42:02 AM PDT · · Posted by Alex Murphy · · 5 replies · · The Baptist Standard · · October 16, 2012 · · Ken Camp · |
From the days surrounding the American Revolution, Baptists used religious arguments to make political points and political arguments to make religious points, historian James P. Byrd, associate dean at Vanderbilt Divinity School, told a conference at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor. At the same time Baptists argued for separation of church and state, they did not hesitate to preach on political topics or embrace patriotic causes with religious fervor, Byrd said, addressing an Oct. 12-13 conference on "Baptists and the Shaping of American Culture." In a sense, Baptists reflected their culture. Neither Thomas Jefferson nor Benjamin Franklin accepted orthodox Christian... |
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| "I Saw John Wilkes Booth Shoot Abraham Lincoln (April 14, 1965)" - 1956 I've Got A Secret on YouTube |
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· 10/18/2012 7:39:31 PM PDT · · Posted by DogByte6RER · · 110 replies · · YouTube · · February 9, 1956 · · I've Got A Secret · |
Lincoln Assassination Eyewitness appears on television's "I've Got a Secret" on February 9, 1956. On a 1956 game show, a man appeared who had been present at Ford's Theatre on the night of April 14, 1865. (Note: Link over to the YouTube site provided to watch this amazing historical video.) |
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| The Ghosts of World War II: The photographs found at flea markets superimposed on to modern street |
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· 10/19/2012 2:43:51 PM PDT · · Posted by lowbridge · · 26 replies · · www.dailymail.co.uk · · october 18, 2012 · · Emma Reynolds · |
This haunting collection of images shows what it would look like if the ghosts of World War II returned to our streets. The remarkable pictures overlay modern scenes from France with atmospheric photographs taken in the same place during the war. Historical expert Jo Teeuwisse, from Amsterdam, began the project after finding 300 old negatives at a flea market in her home city depicting familiar places in a very different context. |
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| Cops: Man Says Bigfoot Behind Winnebago Attack |
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· 10/19/2012 4:09:37 PM PDT · · Posted by EveningStar · · 22 replies · · The Smoking Gun · · October 19, 2012 · |
Amazingly, "victim" happens to head sasquatch hunters group OCTOBER 19--A Pennsylvania man today told police that a Bigfoot attacked his 1973 Winnebago motor home, smashing out windows and taillights with a fusillade of rocks. |
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| Revisiting History: Did JFK Lose the Popular Vote? |
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· 10/19/2012 12:02:16 PM PDT · · Posted by SeekAndFind · · 28 replies · · RCP · · 10/19/2012 · · Sean Trende · |
Right now the RCP Averages are showing an odd situation. Mitt Romney leads nationally by one point, but trails in the Electoral College by a 294-244 count. Moreover, electoral vote number 270 (right now, Wisconsin) favors President Obama by a two-point margin. While I believe that an electoral vote/popular vote disconnect of this magnitude is unlikely, it certainly is possible that we'll see another split between the two, especially if the popular vote is decided by less than a point. If that happens, Americans will once again receive a civics lesson in how presidents are really chosen. In particular, we'll... |
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| America's most attractive politicians: Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin head scientists' list... |
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· 09/03/2012 2:29:50 PM PDT · · Posted by 2ndDivisionVet · · 35 replies · · The London Daily Mail · · September 2, 2012 · · Staff · |
Political scientists from UCLA compare candidates based on 'competence' -- Most students interpreted 'competence' as 'attractiveness' -- Mitt Romney scored in the 99th percentile, Sarah Palin in the 95th and Paul Ryan in the 67th -- 'If the election were decided on looks, it would be no contest' -- Republican duo Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are one of the hottest tickets this nation has ever seen, and now there's proof that its not just their politics. According to professors at the University of California, Mitt Romney scores in the 99th percentile of all politicians for his looks alone, far outpacing his running mate... |
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| Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #432 Saturday, October 27, 2012 |
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| Breakthrough in world's oldest undeciphered writing |
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· 10/22/2012 8:03:13 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 53 replies · · BBC News · · Monday, October 22, 2012 · · Sean Coughlan · |
The world's oldest undeciphered writing system, which has so far defied attempts to uncover its 5,000-year-old secrets, could be about to be decoded by Oxford University academics. This international research project is already casting light on a lost bronze age middle eastern society where enslaved workers lived on rations close to the starvation level... Dr Dahl's secret weapon is being able to see this writing more clearly than ever before... a big black dome is clicking away and flashing out light... It's being used to help decode a writing system called proto-Elamite, used between around 3200BC and 2900BC in a... |
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| New analysis of how humans expanded out of Africa |
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· 10/24/2012 2:40:39 AM PDT · · Posted by Natufian · · 20 replies · · Daily Mail (U.K.) · · 10/24/2012 · · Damien Gayle · |
The emergence of wheat and milk allergies could be explained by a new account of the human race's 'out of Africa' expansion that began 60,000 years ago. The comprehensive review of humans' anthropological and genetic records gives the most up-to-date story of how the global migration had a dramatic effect on human genetic diversity. |
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| Helix, Make Mine a Double | |
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| How scientists recreated Neanderthal man |
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· 10/23/2012 10:06:27 AM PDT · · Posted by Renfield · · 29 replies · · BBC · · 10-23-2012 · |
A team of scientists has created what it believes is the first really accurate reconstruction of Neanderthal man, from a skeleton that was discovered in France over a century ago. In 1909, excavations at La Ferrassie cave in the Dordogne unearthed the remains of a group of Neanderthals. One of the skeletons in that group was that of an adult male, given the name La Ferrassie 1. These remains have helped scientists create a detailed reconstruction of our closest prehistoric relative for a new BBC series, Prehistoric Autopsy. La Ferrassie 1 is one of the most important discoveries made in... |
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| Most Ancient Pottery Prehistoric Figurine of the Iberian Peninsula Found in Begues |
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· 10/26/2012 3:18:49 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 4 replies · · Science News · · Friday, October 26, 2012 · · Universidad de Barcelona · |
In the course of the excavation process in Can SadurnÃŒ cave (Begues), members of the Col-lectiu per la Investigación de la Prehistória i l'Arqueologia del Garraf-Ordal (CIPAG), together with the University of Barcelona Seminar of Studies and Prehistoric Research (SERP), found the torso, with one complete arm and the initial part of the other, of a human figurine made of pottery. Its chronostratigraphic unit makes it, until now, the most ancient human figurine of the Prehistory in Catalonia; it is dated 6500 years ago. |
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| Rare findings dating back to the 6th millennium B. C. have been dug out in Masis hill |
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· 10/26/2012 3:21:19 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 5 replies · · Armenia Press · · Wednesday, October 24, 2012 · · unattributed · |
The excavation of 37 different monuments has been undertaken by the National Institute of Archeology and Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia and the results are satisfying. As the director of the Institute Pavel Avetisyan mentioned in the conversation with "Armenpress" not only excavations, but testing and research have been executed in those ancient places. Excavations in 10 archeological units are still being carried out. He said: "This year we have carried out excavation in Masis hill nearby Yerevan, which is a monument dating back to the Stone Age and probably the most part... |
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| Prehistoric 'Kennewick Man' Was All Beefcake |
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· 10/21/2012 2:59:58 PM PDT · · Posted by Renfield · · 43 replies · · NPR.org · · 10-21-2012 · · Anna King · |
For nearly a decade, scientists and Northwest tribes in Washington state fought bitterly over whether to bury or study the 9,500-year-old bones known as Kennewick Man. Scientists won the battle, and now, after years of careful examination, they're releasing some of their findings. For starters, Kennewick Man was buff. I mean, really beefcake. So says Doug Owsley, head of physical anthropology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, and the man who led the study of the ancient remains. Owsley can read the bones like we might read a book. He looks for ridge lines that indicate which muscles... |
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| Artifact of Chimu culture found in Machu Picchu |
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· 10/26/2012 3:27:22 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 10 replies · · Andina · · Monday, October 22, 2012 · · PHS/VVS/JOT/LOG/MOC · |
An offering featuiring pieces of pottery, stones and a ceremonial pot was found in Machu Picchu Inca citadel during archaeological excavations. The pieces, which were discovered by experts of Cusco's Regional Directorate of Culture, were found 70 centimeters underground. According to archeologist Carlos Werner Delgado, the artifacts were left as an offering to the gods of Machu Picchu and Salkantay snowcapped mountain due to the position they were placed underground. He noted that the pieces would date back to time of Pachacutec, between 1438 and 1470, but the ceremonial pot of Chimu culture would be the oldest one dating back... |
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| Guatemala excavates early Mayan ruler's tomb [700 - 400 BC!] |
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· 10/26/2012 12:04:57 PM PDT · · Posted by Red Badger · · 15 replies · · Phys.Org · · 10-25-2012 · · Staff · |
Archaeologists announced Thursday they have uncovered the tomb of a very early Mayan ruler, complete with rich jade jewelry and decoration. Experts said the find at Guatemala's Tak'alik Ab'aj temple site could help shed light on the formative years of the Mayan culture. Government archaeologist Miguel Orrego said carbon-dating indicates the tomb was built between 700 and 400 B.C., several hundred years before the Mayan culture reached its height. He said it was the oldest tomb found so far at Tak'alik Ab'aj, a site in southern Guatemala that dates back about 2,200 years. Orrego said a necklace depicting a vulture-headed... |
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| Bronze Age Golden Cup Unearthed in Italy |
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· 10/26/2012 3:25:20 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 5 replies · · Popular Archaeology · · Friday, October 26, 2012 · · Archaeofilia & AHER · |
The gold cup had been smashed and damaged in ancient times, and then finally under the plough... As reported, "No other elements -- from strictly the same period as the Montecchio cup -- were found in the gravel pit area: it thus must have been hidden away or placed there as a votive offering, although some information from the archives, presently under examination, might be able to link the cup to a finding of 13 gold objects, apparently from the Bronze Age, when a field in Montecchio was ploughed on January 18, 1782: unfortunately, the items were melted down. All... |
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| Molecular analysis supports controversial claim for dinosaur cells (How prehistoric is it?) |
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· 10/23/2012 10:22:36 AM PDT · · Posted by SeekAndFind · · 22 replies · · Nature · · 10/23/2012 · · Kate Wong · |
RALEIGH -- Twenty years ago, paleontologist Mary Schweitzer made an astonishing discovery. Peering through a microscope at a slice of dinosaur bone, she spotted what looked for all the world like red blood cells. It seemed utterly impossible -- organic remains were not supposed to survive the fossilization process -- but test after test indicated that the spherical structures were indeed red blood cells from a 67-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex. In the years that followed, she and her colleagues discovered other apparent soft tissues, including what seem to be blood vessels and feather fibers. But controversy accompanied their claims. Skeptics argued that the alleged organic tissues were... |
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| Today is Charles Martel Day |
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· 10/25/2012 12:33:01 PM PDT · · Posted by CharlesMartelsGhost · · 38 replies · · Infidel Bloggers Alliance · · October 25, 2011 · · Pastorius · |
October 25, 732, Charles Martel beat back an invading Muslim army at the Battle of Tours, also known as the Battle of Poitiers. A Muslim army, in a crusading search for land and the end of Christianity, after the conquest of Syria, Egypt, and North Africa, began to invade Western Europe under the leadership of Abd-er Rahman, governor of Spain. Abd-er Rahman led an infantry of 60,000 to 400,000 soldiers across the Western Pyrenees and toward the Loire River, but they were met just outside the city of Tours by Charles Martel, known as the Hammer, and the Frankish Army.... |
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| Egyptian Researcher...: Hitler Was a "Righteous Believer" According to the Old Testament |
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· 10/21/2012 7:39:22 AM PDT · · DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis · · 24 replies · · MEMRI TV · · 9-7-12 · · Al-Rahma TV (Egypt) · |
Following are excerpts from an interview with Egyptian researcher Muhammad Galaa Idris, which aired on Al-Rahma TV on September 7, 2012. Muhammad Galaa Idris: They now say that the worse genocide in history was committed by Nazism and Hitler -- the Holocaust. In my view, Hitler was one of the most fanatical believers in the Torah. [...] To those who believe that [the Torah] is a divine book, I say: If it is indeed a divine book, revealed by God, why do you blame Hitler for what he did to the Jews? The genocides that you talk about, which were... |
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| 8 Alleged Resting Places of the Ark of the Covenant |
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· 10/20/2012 4:56:17 PM PDT · · Posted by DogByte6RER · · 42 replies · · IO9 · · Oct 19, 2012 · · Keith Veronese · |
8 Alleged Resting Places of the Ark of the Covenant The Ark of the Covenant is an artifact associated with Jewish, Islamic, and Christian faiths. Depending on the source, the Ark holds the Ten Commandments, a staff that once became a snake, a portion of the Torah, and more. After the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem in the 6th Century B.C.E. (sic), the Ark of the Covenant disappeared from religious records. Where did it go? Here are eight incredible, conspiracy-minded theories. 1. The Tomb of King Tut A 1922 picture of the early excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun shows an... |
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| Welcome to our new lizard overlords: Alien worlds could be full of super-intelligent dinosaurs |
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· 09/30/2012 9:34:07 PM PDT · · Posted by 2ndDivisionVet · · 54 replies · · The Daily Mail · · April 12, 2012 · · Rob Waugh · |
NASA's Kepler telescope scans the skies for 'habitable worlds' - but an American chemist has suggested the whole project might be a terrible idea. Ronald Breslow suggests that life-forms based on slightly different amino acids and sugars could take the form of huge, ferocious dinosaurs that have evolved to have human-like intelligence and technologies. 'We would be better off not meeting them,' says Breslow, who claims that it was a stroke of luck that an asteroid wiped out dinosaurs on earth, leaving the field clear for mammals such as humans. On other worlds, dinosaurs could have evolved into huge, intelligent... |
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| Biblical-Type Floods Are Real, and They're Absolutely Enormous |
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· 09/30/2012 6:17:06 PM PDT · · Posted by 2ndDivisionVet · · 36 replies · · Discover Magazine · · August 29, 2012 · · David R. Montgomery · |
Geologists long rejected the notion that cataclysmic flood had ever occurred -- until one of them found proof of a Noah-like catastrophe in the wildly eroded river valleys of Washington State. After teaching geology at the University of Washington for a decade, I had become embarrassed that I hadn't yet seen the deep canyons where tremendous Ice Age floods scoured down into solid rock to sculpt the scablands. So I decided to help lead a field trip for students to see the giant erosion scars on the local landforms. We drove across the Columbia River and continued eastward, dropping into Moses Coulee,... |
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| The Revolution | |
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| 6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America |
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· 10/23/2012 6:57:26 AM PDT · · Posted by Renfield · · 59 replies · · Frontiers of Anthropology · · 5-15-2012 · · Jack O'Brien, Elford Alley · |
When it comes to the birth of America, most of us are working from a stew of elementary school history lessons, Westerns and vague Thanksgiving mythology. And while it's not surprising those sources might biff a couple details, what's shocking is how much less interesting the version we learned was. It turns out our teachers, Hollywood and whoever we got our Thanksgiving mythology from (Big Turkey?) all made America's origin story far more boring than it actually was for some very disturbing reasons. For instance ... |
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| Recordings made by Alexander Graham Bell Heard for the First Time |
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· 10/25/2012 12:52:40 AM PDT · · Posted by My Favorite Headache · · 24 replies · · Smithsonian/YouTube · · Jan 13, 2012 · |
Researchers and scientists work together to find a way to play recordings made by the studio of inventor Alexander Graham Bell. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94qEVX55JqY&feature=relmfu |
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| Thoroughly Modern Miscellany | |
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| Historical treasures missing from National Archives (calling Sandy Burglar) |
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· 10/26/2012 10:05:18 AM PDT · · Posted by RummyChick · · 13 replies · · cbs · · 10/26 · · cbs · |
Precious historical artifacts like the Wright Brothers airplane patent, the bombing maps for the nuclear attack on Japan, the original eyewitness radio report of the Hindenburg disaster and photos taken by the astronauts on the moon are just some of the items stolen from our National Archives. So much of our past has been pocketed by thieves that the National Archives has formed a recovery team to get them back. Bob Simon reports on this alarming trend -- and the conman now serving seven years in prison for the largest theft of historic artifacts in U.S. history -- in a... |
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| TV Game Show Appearance Of Last Surviving Man To Witness Abraham Lincoln's Assassination - YouTube |
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· 10/22/2012 6:47:41 AM PDT · · Posted by blam · · 6 replies · · The Daily Mail · · 10-20-2012 · |
On YouTube After Nearly 60 YEARS I've Got a Secret featured Samuel Seymour, a Maryland man who was the last surviving person to witness Abraham Lincoln's death Mr Seymour died about two months after his appearance on the show, at 96 years old. The video is from a February 1956 episode... |
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