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Top 10 Discoveries of 2007 (Archaeology magazine)
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| January/February 2008, v61 n1
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Posted on 12/20/2007 11:52:08 AM PST by SunkenCiv
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(count is too high due to the HTML. How does Blam *do* that?)
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12/20/2007 11:52:10 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
Okay, even though I remembered to fix the graphic pointers, I forgot to fix the links, so they go nowhere. Fixin' 'em here...
Solar Observatory at Chankillo, Peru |
Nebo-Sarsekim Cuneiform Tablet |
New Dates for Clovis Sites |
Early Squash Seeds, Peru |
Ancient Chimpanzee Tool Use |
Urbanization at Tell Brak, Syria |
Lismullin Henge, Tara, Ireland |
Polynesian Chickens in Chile |
Homo habilis & Homo erectus |
Greater Angkor, Cambodia |
Of course, we couldn't agree on our own top ten, and many of us lobbied for stories that didn't make the final cut. So, we have added here nine of 2007's other most important finds... |
Baby Mammoth, Russia |
Alexander's Isthmus, Tyre, Lebanon |
Ötzi's Final Moments, Italy |
Neolithic Mural, Syria |
Imperial Standards, Rome |
Building the Great Pyramid, Giza |
Paleolithic Tools, India |
5,800-Year-Old Mass Grave, Syria |
Polynesian Breakthroughs |
What did we leave out? What would you have picked as the year's most important find, whether it's something we picked or something we missed, rounding out the year's 20 most important discoveries? |
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12/20/2007 11:54:10 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
place holder to check each item
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12/20/2007 12:04:57 PM PST
by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
(Rudy,Romney,McCain, Huckabee will send a self-abused stomped elephant to the DRNC.)
Wow. Okay. I started to compile a list of the same topics from FR, using Google, and this topic we’re in already popped up in their database. Anyway, having done their top ten, I’ve gotten tired of it, and will let you do the nine runners-up. :’)
Towers Point To Ancient Sun Cult (Peru)
BBC | 3-1-2007
Posted on 03/01/2007 4:16:57 PM EST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1793520/posts
Towers in Peru Called Solar Observatory
South Florida Sun-Sentinel | 02 March 07 | Thomas Maugh
Posted on 03/04/2007 1:00:49 PM EST by ameribbean expat
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1795050/posts
Experts doubt Clovis people were first in Americas
yahoo...Reuters | Feb 22 | Will Dunham
Posted on 02/23/2007 12:34:17 PM EST by george76
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1789921/posts
Tiny Tablet Provides Proof For Old Testament
The Telegraph (UK) | 7-10-2007 | Nigel Reynolds
Posted on 07/10/2007 8:48:08 PM EDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1863897/posts
Ancient Document Confirms Existence Of Biblical Figure
The New York Sun | July 11, 2007 | Nigel Reynolds
Posted on 07/11/2007 12:39:39 PM EDT by Sopater
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1864272/posts
Museum’s tablet lends new weight to Biblical truth
Times Online | July 11, 2007 | Dalya Alberge
Posted on 07/13/2007 1:19:37 PM EDT by GodGunsGuts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1865478/posts
Squash grown 10,000 years ago in Peru
Yahoo | Thu Jun 28, 6:09 PM ET | By Randolph E. Schmid, AP Science Writer
Posted on 06/28/2007 9:39:04 PM EDT by Fred Nerks
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1858039/posts
Trying To Fathom Farming’s Origins
The Columbus Dispatch | 8-14-2007 | Bradley T Lepper
Posted on 08/15/2007 1:42:04 PM EDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1881608/posts
When animals show signs of a mind
Source: The Detroit Free Press
Published: February 14, 2001
Author: Robert S. Boyd — Free Press Washington Staff
Posted on 02/14/2001 15:06:30 PST by Willie Green
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a8b0f764389.htm
Monkey say, monkey do
(wild chimps teach others to use tools, probably planning takeover)
SMH | May 25 2002
Posted on 05/24/2002 11:01:45 AM EDT by dead
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/688904/posts
Spear-wielding chimps snack on skewered bushbabies [ chimps suck ]
New Scientist | February 22, 2007 | Rowan Hooper
Posted on 02/23/2007 3:41:24 AM EST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1789678/posts
Recent Work on Middle Eastern Chronology
Source: Velikovskian Journal
Published: 5/14/2001 Author: self
Posted on 05/14/2001 20:11:37 PDT by medved
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b009e6920a9.htm
New Discoveries In Syria Confirm Theory On Spread Of Early Civilization
Newswise.com | 6-2-2002 | Carrie Golus
Posted on 06/03/2002 4:42:03 PM EDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/694010/posts
Investigating Canals Across Time, From Space
The Gazette - Harvard | 3-17-2006 | Alvin Powell
Posted on 03/17/2006 3:28:23 PM EST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1598328/posts
Ruins in Northern Syria Bear the Scars of a City’s Final Battle
New York Times | January 16, 2007 | John Noble Wilford
Posted on 01/16/2007 10:36:52 AM EST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1768351/posts
Burial Clue To Early Urban Strife
BBC | 8-31-2007
Posted on 08/31/2007 6:25:13 PM EDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1889597/posts
Huge Temple Found Under Hill Of Tara (Ireland)
Irish Examiner | 11-12-2002 | Evelyn Ring
Posted on 11/12/2002 5:58:27 PM EST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/787663/posts
Ancient “Royal Temple” Discovered in Path of Ireland Highway
National Geographic | 5-15-2007 | James Owen
Posted on 05/16/2007 3:53:52 PM EDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1834693/posts
Polynesians Beat Columbus To The Americas
New Scientist | 6-4-2007 | Emma Young
Posted on 06/04/2007 8:58:20 PM EDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1844873/posts
First Chickens in Americas Were Brought From Polynesia
(came before Columbus)
NYT | 06/05/07 | JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
Posted on 06/04/2007 9:55:26 PM EDT by TigerLikesRooster
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1844910/posts
Chicken bones show Polynesians went to Chile (Told ya so!)
Reuters | 5 June 2007 | Maggie Fox
Posted on 06/05/2007 8:31:36 AM EDT by DieHard the Hunter
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1845088/posts
Finds test human origins theory
BBC News | James Urquhart
Posted on 08/08/2007 1:58:39 PM EDT by Domandred
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1878232/posts
Kenyan Fossils May Add New Branch to Human Family Tree
National Geographic | 8-8-2007 | John Roach
Posted on 08/08/2007 6:50:18 PM EDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1878391/posts
Evolutionary Theory Challenged By Fossils
CBS News | 08/09/2007
Posted on 09/18/2007 11:47:54 AM EDT by SirLinksalot
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1898410/posts
Climate Change Ended Angkor - Report
The Age | 3-14-2007
Posted on 03/14/2007 8:52:02 PM EDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1801010/posts
Revealed: Australia’s raiders of the lost wat
Canberra Times | 14 August 2007 | Rosslyn Beeby
Posted on 08/13/2007 7:55:10 PM EDT by BlackVeil
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1880693/posts
Sprawling Angkor Brought Down By Overpopulation, Study Suggests
National Geographic | 8-13-2007 | Susan Brown
Posted on 08/13/2007 11:23:51 PM EDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1880781/posts
Map reveals ancient urban sprawl (bad enviro-policy blamed).
BBC | August 14, 2007
Posted on 08/14/2007 7:44:29 AM EDT by Jedi Master Pikachu
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1880891/posts
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12/20/2007 12:17:13 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: blam; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 24Karet; 3AngelaD; 49th; ...
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12/20/2007 12:18:32 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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Some of my list. These aren't necessarily from 2007 (you'll probably have noticed that not all of theirs were, either).
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The Neandertal Enigma
by James Shreeve
Frayer's own reading of the record reveals a number of overlooked traits that clearly and specifically link the Neandertals to the Cro-Magnons. One such trait is the shape of the opening of the nerve canal in the lower jaw, a spot where dentists often give a pain-blocking injection. In many Neandertal, the upper portion of the opening is covered by a broad bony ridge, a curious feature also carried by a significant number of Cro-Magnons. But none of the alleged 'ancestors of us all' fossils from Africa have it, and it is extremely rare in modern people outside Europe." [pp 126-127] -
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12/20/2007 12:31:28 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: Coyoteman
Archeology Ping
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12/20/2007 12:45:41 PM PST
by
ASA Vet
(Does Hillary share Huma with Bill?)
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12/20/2007 1:04:20 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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12/20/2007 1:06:00 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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The 5,800 year old massacre at Tell Majnuna was covered in one of the Tell Brak topics linked above. :’)
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12/20/2007 1:08:04 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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12/20/2007 1:09:12 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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12/20/2007 1:11:03 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
I've been waiting for you to post this. I subscribe to this magazine and read this a week or so ago. My favorite is Polynesian Breakthroughs or Polynesian Chickens In Chile.
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12/20/2007 1:13:40 PM PST
by
blam
(Secure the border and enforce the law)
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12/20/2007 1:21:15 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: blam
So, you outwaited me, eh? ;’) There’s another topic or two I’ve not posted yet. Today was supposed to be the day I didn’t park my keister in front of the technipple. I guess I screwed that up.
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12/20/2007 1:22:53 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
"So, you outwaited me, eh? ;’)"Well...I did post this one.
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12/20/2007 1:31:42 PM PST
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blam
(Secure the border and enforce the law)
To: blam
Yeah, I wish I’d followed the link at that time. :’) I either never saw it, or saw it at work and forgot to go back when I got home.
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12/20/2007 1:33:40 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv; blam
With all the Mammoth stories we’ve noticed this year (we’ve had a trunk full of them)it’s only right that the Baby Mammoth make the final cut by a nose.
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12/20/2007 2:41:54 PM PST
by
wildbill
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12/20/2007 2:44:45 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Hey, you left out this amazing archaeological find:
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12/20/2007 6:12:55 PM PST
by
JewishRighter
(Anyone But Cankle (ABC))
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