Gods, Graves, Glyphs
Weekly Digest #113
Saturday, September 16, 2006
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Neandertal
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Modern Humans, Not Neanderthals, May Be Evolution's 'Odd Man Out'
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 09/08/2006 10:50:32 PM EDT · 83 replies · 1,325+ views
EurekAlert | 9-8-2006 | Neil Schoenherr - University Of Washington
Contact: Neil Schoenherr nschoenherr@wustl.edu 314-935-5235 Washington University in St. Louis Modern humans, not Neandertals, may be evolution's 'odd man out'Looking incorrectly at Neandertals Could it be that in the great evolutionary "family tree," it is we Modern Humans, not the brow-ridged, large-nosed Neandertals, who are the odd uncle out? New research published in the August, 2006 journal Current Anthropology by Neandertal and early modern human expert, Erik Trinkaus, professor of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis, suggests that rather than the standard straight line from chimps to early humans to us with Neandertals off on a side graph, it's...
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Anthropologist: Neanderthals More Normal Than We Are
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Posted by ryan71
On News/Activism 09/11/2006 11:17:32 AM EDT · 45 replies · 1,256+ views
foxnews.com | Monday, September 11, 2006 | By Charles Q. Choi
Neanderthals are often thought of as the stray branch in the human family tree, but research now suggests the modern human is likely the odd man out.
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Neanderthals And Humans Lived Side By Side
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 09/13/2006 2:09:49 PM EDT · 64 replies · 1,293+ views
New Scientist | 9-13-2006 | Rowan Hooper
Neanderthals and humans lived side by side 18:00 13 September 2006 NewScientist.com news service Rowan Hooper Neanderthals were thought to have died out as modern humans arrived in Europe. Now, artifacts found in a cave in Gibraltar reveal that the two groups coexisted for millenia before Neanderthals finally dwindled out of existence. Homo sapiens moved into Europe about 32,000 years ago. But the newly unearthered artefacts shows that a remnant population of Homo neanderthalensis clung on until at least 28,000 years ago, a significant overlap. Clive Finlayson at the Gibraltar Museum, and colleagues, recovered 240 stone tools and artefacts from...
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Neanderthals' 'last rock refuge' (survived much longer than previously thought)
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Posted by Mark Felton
On News/Activism 09/13/2006 3:25:14 PM EDT · 53 replies · 1,215+ views
BBC | 9/13/06 | BBC
Our evolutionary cousin the Neanderthal may have survived in Europe much longer than previously thought. A study in Nature magazine suggests the species may have lived in Gorham's Cave on Gibraltar up to 24,000 years ago. The Neanderthal people were believed to have died out about 35,000 years ago, at a time when modern humans were advancing across the continent. The new evidence suggests they held on in Europe's deep south long after the arrival of Homo sapiens. The research team believes the Gibraltar Neanderthals may even have been the very last of their kind. "It shows conclusively that Gorham's...
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Neandertals Had Long Childhoods, Tooth Study Suggests
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Posted by billorites
On News/Activism 09/14/2006 9:04:20 AM EDT · 39 replies · 761+ views
National Geographic News | September 14, 200 | James Owen
Our prolonged childhoods make us Homo sapiens unique among primates. Scientists have a theory to explain this lengthy maturation process: Our brains need many years of learning and physical growth before we're equipped for the complexities of human living. Now a new study says we weren't the only humans who took their time growing up. Analysis of Neandertal teeth suggests that the extinct species had similarly lengthy childhoods. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Online Early Edition, compared growth rates of Neandertal front teeth with those of three modern human populations: Inuit (Eskimo), English,...
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Ancient Europe
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Stone Age female statue unearthed
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 09/11/2006 12:12:00 PM EDT · 26 replies · 434+ views
ANSA News in English | 9/11/2006 | unattributed
The 7,000-year-old stone statuette, discovered during excavations of a burial site near the northern Italian city of Parma, is over 20 centimetres tall, the archaeological monthly Archeo reported. It depicts a woman with an oval face, slit eyes, a prominent nose and long hair. Her arms are bent at her elbows, sticking out at right-angles to her body... Her back is perfectly vertical, leading experts to conclude that she was probably originally carved to sit on a some kind of throne or support made of a material that has disintegrated over the centuries, such as wood. The figure was unearthed...
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Megaliths and Archaeoastronomy
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Dig unearths evidence of Neolithic partying
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 09/11/2006 12:16:22 PM EDT · 10 replies · 207+ views
This Is Wiltshire | 9/11/2006 | Corey Ross
A team of 100 archaeologists, from various universities around Britain, along with Wessex Archaeology, has been carrying out excavations as part of the seven-year Riverside Project at Woodhenge, Durrington Walls and Stonehenge Cursus to find out more about the sites and their links with Stonehenge in the 26th Century BC... Professor of archaeology at Sheffield University Mike Parker- Pearson is leading the dig: "I think our most exciting discovery is the ceremonial avenue which leads from Durrington Walls to the river." ...The road, which formed an avenue aligned on the Midsummer Solstice sunset, suggested that Durrington Walls and Woodhenge were...
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Asia
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Stone Age Cave In Central Vietnam Has Neighbor
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 09/12/2006 5:38:59 PM EDT · 12 replies · 332+ views
Thanh Nien News | 9-12-2006 | Nguoi Lao Dong - Luu Thi Hong
Stone Age cave in central Vietnam has neighbor Vietnamese researchers, studying a grotto discovered a decade ago in which Paleolithic period tools were found, a few days ago stumbled upon another nearby also containing ancient tools. Experts from the Vietnam Archaeology Institute and the Quang Tri Museum in central Vietnam were researching the Hang Doi (bat) cave in Cam Lo districtís Dragon mountain when they found "Hang Doi 2". The grotto is 65 meters underground and its vault is 10-20 meter high. They found 11 stone tools inside. Hang Doi was acknowledged as a provincial relic in 1996 and recently...
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Japan
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3,500-year-old stone carving found [ Jomon ]
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 09/15/2006 3:04:59 PM EDT · 22 replies · 108+ views
Yomiuri Shimbun | Friday, September 15, 2006 | unattributed
A 3,500-year-old stone artifact from the late Jomon period (ca. 10,000 B.C.-ca. 300 B.C.) decorated with carved images of three people has been unearthed at the Chikano archaeological site in Aomori... The find is known as a stone crown because of its shape, with the upper part narrower than the bottom. It is rare for a stone artifact with drawings from the Jomon period to be discovered, and it is the first time a stone crown depicting more than one person has been found... The Chikano archaeological site is located near the Sannai-Maruyama dig--the biggest Jomon period village remains... The...
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China
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Parties To Tackle China's Distortion Of History (Koguryo Kingdoms - Korea)
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 09/09/2006 1:59:39 PM EDT · 10 replies · 117+ views
The Korean Times | 9-9-2006 | Lee Jin-woo
Parties to Tackle China°Øs Distortion of History By Lee Jin-woo Floor leaders of the governing and opposition parties yesterday agreed to cooperate to address China's distortion of history. The five parties also decided to fully support a resolution unanimously proposed by a National Assembly panel on Thursday. In the resolution, members of the Unification, Foreign Affairs and Trade Committee denounced China for intentionally distorting ancient Korean history. They said the controversial research results of the state-funded Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) are not purely a scholastic product, but the Chinese government's intention to claim ancient Korean kingdoms originated in...
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Sole Music
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Chinese Archaeologists Discover 2,000-Year-Old Leather Shoes
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 09/09/2006 2:19:11 PM EDT · 17 replies · 349+ views
The Hindu | 9-9-2006
Chinese archaeologists discover 2,000-year-old leather shoes Beijing, Sept. 9 (PTI): Six leather shoes, made some 2,000 years ago, have been discovered at a relic site in Dunhuang in northwest China's Gansu Province, taking the Chinese shoe-making industry older by some 1,000 years.The leather shoes, from the Han Dynasty (205 BC-220 AD), are the oldest leather shoes found in China, indicating that the history of China's leather shoe-making is some 1,000 years longer than previously believed, an archaeologist from Gansu Province, He Shuangquan said. The newly found, well-preserved shoes were made for children, aged three to six years old, said He,...
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India
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Skeletons, Script Found At Ancient Burial Site In Tamil Nadu
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 05/30/2004 6:02:52 PM EDT · 5 replies · 156+ views
The Hindu | 5-25-2004 | T.S. Subramanian
Skeletons, script found at ancient burial site in Tamil Nadu By T.S. Subramanian An urn containing a human skull and bones unearthed by the Archaeological Survey of India at Adhichanallur, near Tirunelveli town in Tamil Nadu. Twelve of these urns (below) contain human skeletons. Three of them, which may be 2,800 years old, bear inscriptions that resemble the early Tamil Brahmi script. -- Photos: A. Shaikmohideen CHENNAI, MAY 25. In spectacular finds, the Archaeological Survey of India, Chennai Circle, has unearthed a dozen 2,800-year-old human skeletons intact in urns at Adichanallur, 24 km from Tirunelveli in Tamil Nadu. Three of...
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Ancient Rome
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Roman relics found near Elephanta
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 09/15/2006 3:58:33 PM EDT · 13 replies · 82+ views
Daily News & Analysis | Friday, September 15, 2006 | Ninad D Sheth
The marine branch of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has discovered Roman artefacts dating back to the 5th and 6th centuries from the inter-tidal zone (the area between the high-tide and low-tide lines) of Elephanta Island. The find, made last winter, includes artefacts like wine amphorae (vases), pot sheds, storage devices, and stone anchors. The discovery shows that trade between Rome and India continued much later than previously thought... Alok Tripathi, ASI's head of underwater archaeology, said, "The entire Maharashtra coast has evidence of Roman contact on a large scale. We are particularly interested in Elephanta, Sindhudurg, Malvan, and...
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The Etruscans
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Archaeologists May Have Found What Was Once The Biggest City In Italy
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/07/2004 8:27:22 PM EST · 47 replies · 1,395+ views
The Economist | 11-4-2004
Scientific treasure hunters Nov 4th 2004 | CLUSIUM, OR POSSIBLY NOT From The Economist print edition Archaeologists may have found what was once the biggest city in Italy REAL archaeology bears about as much resemblance to an Indiana Jones movie as real spying bears to James Bond. Excavation -- at least if it is to be meaningfully different from grave robbing -- is a matter of painstaking trowel work, not gung-ho gold-grabbing. But there is still a glimmer of the grave robber in many archaeologists, and the search for a juicy royal tomb can stimulate more than just rational, scientific instincts. Few tombs would...
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Etruscan Holy City Discovered
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 09/08/2006 10:56:21 PM EDT · 18 replies · 631+ views
ANSA | 9-8-2006
Etruscan holy city discovered Fledgling Rome 'trembled' when leaders of 12 cities met (ANSA) - Rome, September 7 - Italian archaeologists believe they have found the mysterious sanctuary which was the religious and political centre of the Etruscan civilisation. The Etruscans were an ancient people known to have lived in the area of Italy between Rome and Florence from the 8th century BC until they were absorbed by Rome about 600 years later. For centuries they dominated the fledgling city on the Tiber and even supplied its first kings. But most traces of the Etruscan civilisation, which produced sophisticated art,...
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Ancient Greece
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Unprecedented mathematical knowledge found in (Minoan) Bronze Age wall paintings.
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Posted by S0122017
On General/Chat 03/02/2006 8:01:38 AM EST · 50 replies · 1,350+ views
www.nature.com/news | 28 February 2006 | Philip Ball
Published online: 28 February 2006; | doi:10.1038/news060227-3 Were ancient Minoans centuries ahead of their time? Unprecedented mathematical knowledge found in Bronze Age wall paintings. Philip Ball Did the Minoans understand the Archimedes' spiral more than 1,000 years before him? A geometrical figure commonly attributed to Archimedes in 300 BC has been identified in Minoan wall paintings dated to over 1,000 years earlier. The mathematical features of the paintings suggest that the Minoans of the Late Bronze Age, around 1650 BC, had a much more advanced working knowledge of geometry than has previously been recognized, says computer scientist Constantin Papaodysseus of...
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Climate
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Eureka! Quarry near oilsands full of ancient artifacts [ Quarry of the Ancestors ]
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 09/15/2006 3:52:39 PM EDT · 21 replies · 169+ views
Hamilton Spectator | Friday, September 15, 2006 | Bob Weber / Canadian Press
Oilsands activity has uncovered vast wealth of a different kind -- a 10,000-year-old quarry rich with tools and weapons from some of the first Albertans, including a pristine spearpoint still smeared with the blood of a woolly mammoth... The so-called Quarry of the Ancestors, which scientists suspect may be one of the first places where humans put down roots in northern Alberta after the retreat of the glaciers, is found on an outcrop of hard, fine-grained sandstone adjacent to the Albian Sands oilsands lease about 75 kilometres north of Fort McMurray... The quarry was discovered in 2003 when Birch Mountain...
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Epigraphy and Language
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Oldest writing in the New World discovered
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Posted by flevit
On News/Activism 09/14/2006 4:09:26 PM EDT · 90 replies · 1,554+ views
NewScientist.com | 14 September 2006 | Jeff Hecht
A slab inscribed with the oldest writing yet discovered in the New World has been discovered in the Veracruz lowlands in Mexico. The writing dates back nearly 3000 years to the height of the Olmec culture that was the first Mesoamerican civilisation, Mexican archaeologists report. Called the Cascajal slab, it had been rescued along with other artefacts from a quarry at Lomas de Tacamichapa, in 1999, where it had been destined for use in road fill. Isolated symbols have been found on a few Olmec artefacts, but the slab is the first solid evidence of a true written language, says...
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'Oldest' New World writing found
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Posted by Jedi Master Pikachu
On News/Activism 09/15/2006 12:39:19 AM EDT · 19 replies · 315+ views
BBC | September 15, 2006 | Helen Briggs
Ancient civilisations in Mexico developed a writing system as early as 2,000 years ago, new evidence suggests. The discovery in the state of Veracruz of a block inscribed with symbolic shapes has astounded anthropologists. Researchers tell Science magazine that they consider it to be the oldest example of writing in the New World. The inscriptions are thought to have been made by the Olmecs, an ancient pre-Columbian people known for creating large statues of heads. The finding suggests that New World people developed writing some 400 years before their contemporaries in the Western hemisphere. ...... "I think it could...
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PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
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Mayan Ruins Said Center Of Mysterious Civilization
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 09/09/2006 1:42:41 PM EDT · 15 replies · 503+ views
Reuters | 9-8-2006 | Science News
Mayan ruins said center of mysterious civilization Fri Sep 8, 2006 11:43pm ET TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (Reuters) - Experts are examining the ruins of a pre-Columbian culture in an area of Honduras where there had been no previous evidence of major indigenous civilization. The site, discovered earlier this year, consists of 14 mounds that form part of what are believed to be ceremonial grounds, the Honduran Institute of Anthropology said. "They are part of a very important site, a governing center of a pre-Columbian civilization," Oscar Neils, the institute's head of research, told Reuters. "We had no idea that there was...
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Middle Ages and Renaissance
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Skeletons Of Bloodiest Day (Towton - 1461AD)
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 09/12/2006 5:45:57 PM EDT · 66 replies · 1,679+ views
The Press | 9-12-2006 | Nadia Jefferson-Brown
Skeletons of bloodiest day By Nadia Jefferson-Brown SKELETONS bearing marks of horrendous sword injuries have been unearthed beneath a North Yorkshire hall. The victims of a medieval battle were discovered beneath the floor of the dining room of Towton Hall, between Tadcaster and Sherburn-in- Elmet, dating from the Battle of Towton in 1461. The discovery was made as part of a ten-year investigation into the archaeological evidence of the longest and bloodiest battle ever fought in England. Taking place on Palm Sunday, March 29, 1461, the Lancastrian army was handed an enormous blow with its leader, King Henry VI, forced...
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British Isles
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Black music from Scotland? It could be the gospel truth
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Posted by Between the Lines
On News/Activism 09/01/2003 8:57:11 PM EDT · 57 replies · 416+ views
Scotsman | Sun 31 Aug 2003 | BEN McCONVILLE
THE church elderís reaction was one of utter disbelief. Shaking his head emphatically, he couldnít take in what the distinguished professor from Yale University was telling him. "No," insisted Jim McRae, an elder of the small congregation of Clearwater in Florida. "This way of worshipping comes from our slave past. It grew out of the slave experience, when we came from Africa." But Willie Ruff, an Afro-American professor of music at Yale, was adamant - he had traced the origins of gospel music to Scotland. The distinctive psalm singing had not been brought to Americaís Deep South by African slaves...
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Medieval Scotland
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DNA Test Can Detect Picts' Descendants
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 08/14/2006 9:17:14 PM EDT · 48 replies · 1,161+ views
The Telegraph (UK) | 8-14-2006 | Auslan Cramb
DNA test can detect Picts' descendants By Auslan Cramb, Scottish Correspondent (Filed: 14/08/2006) A geneticist has created a DNA test for "Scottishness" that will tell people whether they are direct descendants of the Picts. The test, expected to cost about £130, checks a sample of saliva against 27 genetic markers linked to some of the earliest inhabitants of Scotland. Dr Jim Wilson, of the public health sciences department at Edinburgh University, said: "We started this work a few years ago, looking at the Norse component, and we proved that a large proportion of people on Orkney are descended from Vikings....
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Medieval Ireland
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The scale and nature of Viking settlement in Ireland from Y-chromosome admixture analysis
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Posted by CobaltBlue
On News/Activism 09/10/2006 8:44:28 AM EDT · 62 replies · 1,025+ views
European Journal of Human Genetics | September 6, 2006 | Brian McEvoy, Claire Brady, Laoise T Moore and Daniel G Bradley
The Vikings (or Norse) played a prominent role in Irish history but, despite this, their genetic legacy in Ireland, which may provide insights into the nature and scale of their immigration, is largely unexplored. Irish surnames, some of which are thought to have Norse roots, are paternally inherited in a similar manner to Y-chromosomes. The correspondence of Scandinavian patrilineal ancestry in a cohort of Irish men bearing surnames of putative Norse origin was examined using both slow mutating unique event polymorphisms and relatively rapidly changing short tandem repeat Y-chromosome markers. Irish and Scandinavian admixture proportions were explored for both systems...
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Navigation
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The Nitrogen The Vikings Left Behind
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 09/11/2006 5:55:50 PM EDT · 24 replies · 748+ views
New Scientist | 9-11-2006
nitrogen the Vikings left behind 11 September 2006 From New Scientist Print Edition. Discovering ancient settlements is often rather hit and miss, but the odds would be improved with a bit of chemical analysis. Plants growing over old sites of human habitation have a different chemistry from their neighbours, and these differences can reveal the location buried ruins. Plants mostly take in nitrogen from the soil as the isotope nitrogen-14, with just a dash of nitrogen-15. Plants growing above archaeological sites in Greenland, however, seem to have absorbed a larger dose of nitrogen-15. Rob Commisso and Erle Nelson from...
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Vikings In South America?
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 09/15/2006 5:11:03 PM EDT · 9 replies · 87+ views
Science Frontiers | Science Frontiers #62, Mar-Apr 1989 | William R. Corliss
[T]he latest number of the Belgian journal Kadath is devoted entirely to Viking (hyperboreene) contacts in South America! Now that's a far piece from Greenland. This long article (40 pages) is replete with photographs, interpretations, and translations of runic inscriptions found in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. It is impossible to do justice to this mass of inscriptions here, but we will reproduce one of the figures below. (de Mahieu, Jacques; "Corpus des Inscriptions Runiques d'Amerique du Sud," Kadath, no. 68, p. 11, 1988.) Comment. To American anomalists, the frustrating part of this whole business is the need to go to...
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Faith and Philosophy
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In The Towers Of Silence, An Ancient Ritual Of Death Comes Under Threat
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 09/11/2006 11:20:59 PM EDT · 35 replies · 878+ views
The Telegraph (UK) | 9-12-2006 | Peter Foster
In the Towers of Silence, an ancient ritual of death comes under threat By Peter Foster in New Delhi (Filed: 12/09/2006) The viability of the centuries-old Zoroastrian custom of allowing vultures to consume the corpses of its devotees has been called into question after a relative of one of the dead discovered piles of rotting bodies lying almost untouched by the birds. Dhun Baria, a member of Bombay's Zoroastrian community, known as Parsis, was shocked to be told that the body of her mother had lain untouched for nine months after she was laid to rest at the Towers of...
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Biology and Cryptobiology
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Melungeon descendants celebrate their mysterious heritage
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Posted by hispanarepublicana
On News/Activism 08/02/2005 1:20:13 PM EDT · 177 replies · 3,739+ views
Biloxi Sun Herald (Knight Ridder) | 7/30/05 | Steve Ivey
FRANKFORT, Ky. - (KRT) - When S.J. Arthur started tracing her lineage more than 20 years ago, a fellow researcher stammered as she noticed recurring family names. Was she connected to a unique group of people known as Melungeons, the researcher timidly asked, afraid Arthur might slap her. The reference was once considered a racial slur. "I could be," Arthur replied. "I just don't know yet." This weekend Arthur was one of dozens of Melungeon descendants who gathered in Frankfort, Ky., to shed the stigma that plagued their ancestors and try to grasp their mysterious heritage. The Melungeons have been...
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Oh So Mysteriouso
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Myths & Mysteries: The pharaoh's daughter who was the mother of all Scots
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Posted by martin_fierro
On General/Chat 09/15/2006 5:08:29 PM EDT · 16 replies · 160+ views
scotsman.com | Thu 14 Sep 2006 | Diane Maclean
Myths & Mysteries Thu 14 Sep 2006 The pharaoh's daughter who was the mother of all Scots Diane Maclean "From various writings of ancient chroniclers we deduce that the nation of the Scots is of ancient stock, taking its first beginning from the Greeks and those of the Egyptians." - Walter Bower, Scotichronicon WALTER Bower wrote his compendium of Scottish history, Scotichronicon, in the 1440s. This sweeping Latin text aimed to set down the history of the Scottish people from the earliest times ñ and by so doing to show what race of people we were. He referenced his chronicle...
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Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
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Sons of American Revolution welcome Gates
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Posted by Pharmboy
On News/Activism 09/14/2006 7:38:49 PM EDT · 19 replies · 257+ views
Harvard University Gazette | 9-14-06 | Anon
Gates learned of the Revolutionary War veteran in his lineage while filming his PBS documentary, 'African American Lives.' (Staff file photo Justin Ide/Harvard News Office) Henry Louis Gates Jr., W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard, was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) on July 10 at the societyís 116th annual convention, held in Addison, Texas. Gates learned of the Revolutionary War veteran in his lineage while filming his PBS documentary, "African American Lives," a program that used innovations in...
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Longer Perspectives
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Bernard Lewis. Race and Slavery in the Middle East
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Posted by Bad~Rodeo
On News/Activism 07/26/2006 2:16:33 AM EDT · 10 replies · 596+ views
fordham.edu | Oxford Univ Press 1994.
Chpt. 1 Slavery In 1842 the British Consul General in Morocco, as part of his government's worldwide endeavor to bring about the abolition of slavery or at least the curtailment of the slave trade, made representations to the sultan of that country asking him what measures, if any, he had taken to accomplish this desirable objective. The sultan replied, in a letter expressing evident astonishment, that "the traffic in slaves is a matter on which all sects and nations have agreed from the time of the sons of Adam . . . up to this day." The sultan continued that...
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end of digest #113 20060916
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