Posted on 12/30/2008 2:28:57 PM PST by CE2949BB
This year got historians and archaeologists all hot under the elbow patches, with important finds coming in from points across the globe. There was the great-grandfather of soul from Turkey and a true jaw-dropper in Spain, plus one little archaeological nugget that really hit the fan. We've boiled down all the juiciest archaeology news to just the top five finds:
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
Dang. Thought sure Obama’s original birth certificate would be on the list.
Maybe next year ;o)
Thank for the link. From the article...
“The most interesting “artifact” of the year award is a piece of crap. Literally. When a pile of poop discovered in an Oregon cave in 2002 was retested this year thanks to new techniques in DNA extraction, excited researchers determined that the ancient feces — officially called coprolites in polite archaeological terms — were human and were more than 14,000 years old, marking the earliest evidence of human presence in North America by almost two thousand years. Other bits and pieces of cultural material have turned up in the Americas and called the date into question, but the coprolites are the oldest of definite human ... extraction.”
That’s a no shitter right there.
Too much Indiana Jones.
Yup and sea stories ALWAYS start with “I $hit you not...”
Michael Moore’s belly button?
I think she was in one of those early James Bond films.
I guess it was too much to hope that they would put ‘Global Warming was Proved To Be A Hoax’ on the list.
That is so true! I must have said that a thousand times...
Thanks for the reminder!
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