Gods, Graves, Glyphs (alpha order)

Gods, Graves, Glyphs ^ | 7/17/2004 | various

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• 14 Warring States (464-222BC) Tombs Discovered In Sichuan  ^ 6 posted on 07/15/2004 7:20:44 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#6]
• Achaemenid, Worldís First Empire to Respect Cultural Diversity  ^ 3 posted on 07/05/2004 6:45:53 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#3]
• Ancient European Remains Discovered In Qinghai (China)  ^ 27 posted on 07/06/2004 7:23:57 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#27]
• Archaeologists Dig Up World War II Plane  ^ 21 posted on 05/31/2004 9:46:55 AM PDT by farmfriend [#21]
• Archaeologists Reveal Utah Canyon Filled With Ancient Settlements  ^ 22 posted on 07/01/2004 9:37:46 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#22]
• Archaeologists Startled To Discover Neolithic Ritual Site (Scotland)  ^ 3 posted on 05/29/2004 5:41:16 PM PDT by farmfriend [#3]
• Archaeologists tackle China mystery  ^ 3 posted on 07/05/2004 6:43:37 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#3]
• Archeologists discover ancient graffiti on China's Great Wall  ^ 16 posted on 07/11/2004 7:44:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv [#16]
• Archeologists discover ancient graffiti on China's Great Wall  ^ 2 posted on 07/11/2004 4:19:46 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#2]
• Battlements Found At Egypt's Ancient East Gateway  ^ 5 posted on 07/01/2004 9:07:00 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#5]
• Bird's-Eye View Of The Amazon (Airborne Archaeologist Challenges The Myth Of A Pristine Wilderness)  ^ 32 posted on 05/31/2004 9:45:45 AM PDT by farmfriend [#32]
• Books, Magazines, Movies, Music  ^ 17 posted on 07/14/2004 12:02:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv [#17]
• Books, Magazines, Movies, Music  ^ 11 posted on 07/11/2004 9:53:58 PM PDT by SunkenCiv [#11]
• Buddha's New Birthplace Discovered  ^ 24 posted on 05/26/2004 9:32:54 AM PDT by farmfriend [#24]
• Catapult-Makers Were Once Ye Olde Celebrities  ^ 4 posted on 07/05/2004 3:22:48 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#4]
• Caves Hold Clue To The Riddle Of The Three Hares  ^ 25 posted on 07/03/2004 4:45:03 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#25]
• China Publishes Research Results On Korguryo Kingdom Ruins  ^ 8 posted on 07/02/2004 6:40:49 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#8]
• China: Cemetery dig yields clues 3000 years ago(more on Western Zhou Dynasty)  ^ 9 posted on 05/28/2004 9:10:43 AM PDT by farmfriend [#9]
• Cooks' Crew Hid First Antarctica Painting  ^ 5 posted on 07/09/2004 7:14:36 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#5]
• Dig Under Manezh Yields Suprises  ^ 6 posted on 06/02/2004 2:46:35 PM PDT by farmfriend [#6]
• Drilling Finds Crater Beneath Va. Bay  ^ 16 posted on 06/01/2004 5:11:52 PM PDT by farmfriend [#16]
• Forgotten culture  ^ 21 posted on 07/04/2004 12:32:15 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#21]
• Fossil Findings Blur Picture Of Art's Birth (Neanderthals?)  ^ 18 posted on 07/09/2004 7:18:51 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#18]
• Georgian Archaeologists Discover Basilica Of Middle Ages  ^ 8 posted on 07/07/2004 9:03:00 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#8]
• Halls of Ancient Alexandria's Ivy Found  ^ 22 posted on 05/31/2004 9:47:50 AM PDT by farmfriend [#22]
• Humanity's Strange Face  ^ 19 posted on 05/25/2004 8:32:58 AM PDT by farmfriend ( In Essentials, Unity...In Non-Essentials, Liberty...In All Things, Charity.) [#19]
• Keeping Up With The Empire (Romans In Netherlands)  ^ 4 posted on 05/26/2004 9:28:27 AM PDT by farmfriend [#4]
• Macbeth's Castle Unearthed In Inverness Garden?  ^ 6 posted on 05/28/2004 1:08:34 PM PDT by farmfriend [#6]
• Major Excavation To Open Viking Graves  ^ 16 posted on 06/01/2004 5:17:35 PM PDT by farmfriend [#16]
• Medici's Secret Crypt Unearthed  ^ 4 posted on 07/11/2004 12:29:59 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#4]
• New Plan to Renovate Iran's Historical Cyrus Mausoleum  ^ 4 posted on 07/11/2004 4:11:14 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#4]
• New Twist On Out-Of-Africa Theory  ^ 64 posted on 07/14/2004 10:51:36 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#64]
• The Oldest Americans May Prove Even Older  ^ 3 posted on 06/29/2004 4:24:38 PM PDT by NukeMan [#3]
• Persepolis 3d [Virtual 3d tour Capital of Persian Empire]  ^ 5 posted on 07/11/2004 10:11:25 AM PDT by FairOpinion [#5]
• Pompeii Find Shows Secrets Of The Samnites  ^ 3 posted on 07/04/2004 5:49:47 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#3]
• The Poop On Ancient Man  ^ 4 posted on 07/02/2004 7:51:18 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#4]
• Quarries Providing Stone for Persepolis Discovered  ^ 3 posted on 07/11/2004 10:13:03 AM PDT by FairOpinion [#3]
• Rare Artifacts Shed New Light On Spanish Outpost On (Florida) Panhandle  ^ 4 posted on 07/11/2004 12:54:46 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#4]
• Rat DNA Clues To Sea Migration  ^ 5 posted on 06/08/2004 2:09:28 PM PDT by farmfriend [#5]
• Remains Of Colonial Teen Pose A 'History Mystery'  ^ 35 posted on 07/14/2004 10:53:24 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#35]
• Replica Of Roman Murder Victim (1,700 Years Old)  ^ 9 posted on 05/26/2004 10:37:34 PM PDT by farmfriend [#9]
• Scientist: DNA Disputes Russian Tsar Remains  ^ 4 posted on 07/14/2004 10:49:15 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#4]
• Signs of 8,000-year-old culture found near Bedford  ^ 34 posted on 06/08/2004 12:36:40 PM PDT by farmfriend [#34]
• Silk painting, brassiere unearthed from ancient tombs in N. China(1,000 year-old golden brassiere)  ^ 27 posted on 06/08/2004 12:18:58 PM PDT by farmfriend [#27]
• Sistine Chapel of the ice age revealed  ^ 15 posted on 07/14/2004 11:09:19 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#15]
• Star Chart In Ancient Nara Tomb To Under Go Restoration (Japan)  ^ 5 posted on 07/14/2004 10:45:25 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#5]
• Study: Dinosaurs Died Within Hours After Asteroid Hit  ^ 154 posted on 07/09/2004 7:21:14 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#154]
• Study: Dinosaurs Died Within Hours After Asteroid Hit  ^ 163 posted on 07/09/2004 11:08:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv [#163]
• Syria - Archaeological Finding (80K Year Old Human Sites)  ^ 3 posted on 05/29/2004 5:47:24 PM PDT by farmfriend [#3]
• Teeth Show How Society Was Shaped By Old Age  ^ 4 posted on 07/05/2004 6:40:46 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#4]

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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #79 Saturday, January 21, 2006
British Isles
Hair-Gelled Celt May Have Been Sacrificed
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/19/2006 11:13:27 AM PST · 40 replies · 1,139+ views The Scotsman | 1-19-2006 | Laura Roberts Hair-gelled Celt may have been sacrificed LAURA ROBERTSExperts recreated the head of the Iron Age man. THE hair-gelled head of an ancient Celt, dubbed the Iron Age Beckham because of his slicked-back look, has been reconstructed by Scots scientists. Examinations of the Clonycavan man, found fully preserved in a peat bog in Ireland, revealed he used a gel made from a mixture of plant oil and pine resin, believed to be from south-west France or Spain, on his hair. The discovery has been held up as the first evidence of the trade of luxury goods between Ireland and Southern Europe...
Irish Y Chromosome
Irish History Takes a Paternity Test
	Posted by neverdem On News/Activism 12/27/2005 12:10:30 AM PST · 64 replies · 1,382+ views ScienceNOW Daily News | 21 December 2005 | Michael Schirber Legend has it that, while raiding England around 500 C.E., the Irish warlord Niall of the Nine Hostages took a young St. Patrick prisoner and brought him to Ireland. Historians disagree about whether Niall was really the kidnapper, but one thing is for certain: This ancient king went on to found the most powerful ruling dynasty in Irish medieval history, the UÌ NÈill (literally "descendants of Niall"). Now, a study reveals that this royal lineage may be imprinted in the genes of roughly a tenth of Irish men living today. Although most of our genetic makeup comes from both parents,...
Anchor babies: the Irish got it right
	Posted by dennisw On News/Activism 01/04/2006 9:25:39 PM PST · 42 replies · 1,145+ views usbc. | Jul 27, 2004 | Stephany Gabbard and Frosty Wooldridge Anchor babies: the Irish got it right By Stephany Gabbard and Frosty Wooldridge Jul 27, 2004 Ireland is a microcosm of the United States with less ability to deal with the skyrocketing costs and the endless line of immigrant mothers birthing their children on Irish soil. It matters little whether a country is big or small, rich or poor. Given enough time, a nation cannot continue when its sovereign shores suffer an invading armada of humanity. It was happening in Ireland. "Children born to foreign parents in Dublin maternity hospitals accounted for 25 per cent of total births this year,"...
Scientists discover most fertile Irish male
	Posted by NormsRevenge On News/Activism 01/17/2006 9:16:45 AM PST · 106 replies · 2,298+ views Reuters on Yahoo | 1/17/06 | Siobhan Kennedy DUBLIN (Reuters) - Scientists in Ireland may have found the country's most fertile male, with more than 3 million men worldwide among his offspring. The scientists, from Trinity College Dublin, have discovered that as many as one in twelve Irish men could be descended from Niall of the Nine Hostages, a 5th-century warlord who was head of the most powerful dynasty in ancient Ireland. His genetic legacy is almost as impressive as Genghis Khan, the Mongol emperor who conquered most of Asia in the 13th century and has nearly 16 million descendants, said Dan Bradley, who supervised the research. "It's...
If New York's Irish Claim Nobility, Science May Back Up the Blarney
	Posted by neverdem On News/Activism 01/17/2006 9:53:58 PM PST · 20 replies · 374+ views NY Times | January 18, 2006 | NICHOLAS WADE Listen more kindly to the New York Irishmen who assure you that the blood of early Irish kings flows in their veins. At least 2 percent of the time, they are telling the truth, according to a new genetic survey. The survey not only bolsters the bragging rights of some Irishmen claiming a proud heritage but also provides evidence of the existence of Niall of the Nine Hostages, an Irish high king of the fifth century A.D. regarded by some historians as more legend than real. The survey shows that 20 percent of men in northwestern Ireland carry a distinctive...
Scientist Discover Most Fertile Irish Male
	Posted by strider44 On News/Activism 01/17/2006 11:34:03 PM PST · 12 replies · 518+ views Reuters | 1/17/06 | Siobhan Kennedy By Siobhan Kennedy | January 17, 2006 DUBLIN (Reuters) - Scientists in Ireland may have found the country's most fertile male, with more than 3 million men worldwide among his offspring. Article Tools Printer friendly E-mail to a friend Science RSS feed Available RSS feeds Most e-mailed More: Globe front page | Boston.com Sign up for: Globe Headlines e-mail | Breaking News Alerts The scientists, from Trinity College Dublin, have discovered that as many as one in twelve Irish men could be descended from Niall of the Nine Hostages, a 5th-century warlord who was head of the most powerful dynasty...
Scientists discover most fertile Irish male
	Posted by voletti On News/Activism 01/18/2006 4:59:48 AM PST · 18 replies · 713+ views Sify news | 1/18/06 | Reuters Dublin: Scientists in Ireland may have found the country's most fertile male, with more than 3 million men worldwide among his offspring. The scientists, from Trinity College Dublin, have discovered that as many as one in twelve Irish men could be descended from Niall of the Nine Hostages, a 5th-century warlord who was head of the most powerful dynasty in ancient Ireland. His genetic legacy is almost as impressive as Genghis Khan, the Mongol emperor who conquered most of Asia in the 13th century and has nearly 16 million descendants, said Dan Bradley, who supervised the research. "It's another link...
Up to three million men descended from medieval Irish warlord: study
	Posted by mjp On News/Activism 01/19/2006 8:02:19 AM PST · 41 replies · 1,034+ views Yahoo News | Wed Jan 18, 11:01 AM ET DUBLIN (AFP) - Up to three million men around the world could be descended from a prolific medieval Irish king, according to researchers at Trinity College Dublin. A genetics study suggests that the fifth-century warlord known as "Niall of the Nine Hostages" may be the ancestor of about one in 12 Irishmen. He established a dynasty of powerful chieftains that dominated the island for six centuries. In a study of the Y chromosomes -- which are only passed down through the male line -- scientists found there is a genetic fingerprint hot-spot in northwest Ireland where 21.5 percent carry it,...
Medieval Irish warlord boasts three million descendants
	Posted by wagglebee On News/Activism 01/19/2006 6:04:01 PM PST · 33 replies · 694+ views NewScientist.com | 1/18/06 | AFP and NewScientist.com staff Up to three million men around the world could be descended from a prolific medieval Irish king, according to a new genetic study.It suggests that the 5th-century warlord known as "Niall of the Nine Hostages" may be the ancestor of about one in 12 Irishmen, say researchers at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Niall established a dynasty of powerful chieftains that dominated the island for six centuries.In a study of the Y chromosome - which is only passed down through the male line - scientists found a hotspot in northwest Ireland where 21.5% carry Niallís genetic fingerprint, says Brian McEvoy,...
Prehistory and Origins
New Study Reveals Neanderthals Were As Good At Hunting As Early Modern Humans
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/19/2006 11:28:01 AM PST · 65 replies · 817+ views Science Daily | 1-19-2006 | University Of Chicago Source: University of Chicago Press Journals Date: 2006-01-19 New Study Reveals Neanderthals Were As Good At Hunting As Early Modern Humans The disappearance of Neanderthals is frequently attributed to competition from modern humans, whose greater intelligence has been widely supposed to make them more efficient as hunters. However, a new study forthcoming in the February issue of Current Anthropology argues that the hunting practices of Neanderthals and early modern humans were largely indistinguishable, a conclusion leading to a different explanation, also based on archaeological data, to explain the disappearance of the Neanderthals. This study has important implications for debates surrounding...
Ancient Navigation
Neanderthal Man Floated Into Europe, Say Spanish Researchers
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/16/2006 3:13:24 PM PST · 35 replies · 632+ views The Guardian (UK) | 1-16-2006 | Giles Tremlett Neanderthal man floated into Europe, say Spanish researchers Giles Tremlett in Madrid Monday January 16, 2006 The Guardian (UK) Spanish investigators believe they may have found proof that neanderthal man reached Europe from Africa not just via the Middle East but by sailing, swimming or floating across the Strait of Gibraltar. Prehistoric remains of hunter-gatherer communities found at a site known as La Cabililla de Benz?, in the Spanish north African enclave of Ceuta, are remarkably similar to those found in southern Spain, investigators said. Stone tools at the site correspond to the middle palaeolithic period, when neanderthal man emerged,...
Of Course The Chinese Didn't Discover America. But Then Nor Did Columbus
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/20/2006 8:18:53 AM PST · 62 replies · 950+ views The Guardian (UK) | 1-20-2006 | Simon Jenkins Of course the Chinese didn't discover America. But then nor did Columbus A map supporting claims that the admiral Zheng He reached the New World in the early 15th century is plainly a hoax Simon Jenkins Friday January 20, 2006 The Guardian (UK) We all know that a lie goes halfway round the world while truth is putting on its boots. But what if the lie goes the whole way? What if it claims to circumnavigate the globe? Last week came purported evidence that the Chinese admiral Zheng He sailed his great fleet of junks round the world a century...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Whence the First Americans?
	Posted by neverdem On News/Activism 01/03/2006 11:43:13 PM PST · 23 replies · 736+ views ScienceNOW Daily News | 13 December 2005 | Michael Balter The largest collection of early American skulls ever studied is lending credence to a controversial theory that two distinct populations of humans--rather than one--colonized the New World. If true, the findings indicate that people who shared an ancestry with modern day Australians and Melanesians may have settled on the continents somewhat earlier than immigrants from northeast Asia. Not so long ago, the origins of the first Americans seemed fairly certain: Beginning about 12,000 years ago, people from northeast Asia entered North America via the Bering landbridge in several waves of immigration. These ancestors of present-day Native Americans spread out to...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Controversy over 'early Paleolithic' stone 'tools' in Canada continues (old article but interesting)
	Posted by mlc9852 On General/Chat 01/19/2006 3:27:17 PM PST · 8 replies · 83+ views AnswersinGenesis | August 1, 2001 | Michael J. Oard Have you ever wondered about those stone 'tools' that evolutionists discover? Sure, some of them are obviously of human origin -- even works of art. Others look more questionable. Last year I reported in TJ on a controversy over the discovery of what are claimed to be early Paleolithic stone tools in North America (Oard, 2000). These primitive stone 'tools' were unearthed near Calgary and Peace River, Alberta, Canada (Chlachula, 1996; Chlachula and Leslie, 1998). The 'artefacts' consist mainly of various chipped quartzite cobbles interpreted as choppers. These 'tools' are similar to 'early Paleolithic tools' commonly found in Europe and Africa, including...
'Footprints' Debate To Run And Run (40K YO Human Footprints, Mexico)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/17/2006 4:01:30 PM PST · 36 replies · 550+ views BBC | 1-16-2006 | Martin Redfern 'Footprints' debate to run and run By Martin Redfern BBC radio science unit The markings in the quarry were first identified in 2003 It was a sensational discovery - human footprints said to be 40,000 years old, preserved by volcanic ash in an abandoned quarry in Mexico. The announcement, in July last year, created a flurry of excitement, but was then promptly dismissed by a second team of researchers who re-dated the rocks at 1.3 million years old, impossibly ancient to bear human traces. The original claim has not gone away, however. The first widespread evidence for the human occupation...
The First Americans by James M. Adovasio with Jake Page (review)
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 01/17/2006 10:40:50 PM PST · 3 replies · 34+ views Athena Review | Vol.3,no.4. | George Wisner From Meadowcroft, Adovasio discusses South American pre-Clovis research, exploring the differences in flora, fauna and Ice Age glacial impact that would have produced a much different settlement scenario than in North America. Here the cast of characters include Alan Bryan and Ruth Gruhn from the University of Calgary in Canada, who remain staunch pre-Clovis advocates despite a long string of failed pre-Clovis sites they dug or investigated from Baja Mexico to the tip of South America. And his description of contested sites there includes Taima Taima in Venezuela and Pedra Furada rockshelter in Brazil where unique stone tools were found....
Ancient 'Kitchen' Unearthed In Southern Indiana
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/16/2006 3:25:53 PM PST · 12 replies · 422+ views Fort Wayne.com | 1-16-2006 Ancient ëkitchení unearthed in southern IndianaFrom The Associated PressCHARLESTOWN -- Workers building a boat ramp at southeastern Indianaís Charlestown State Park have uncovered the apparent remains of a 4,000-year-old ìkitchenî ancient American Indians tribes may have used to prepare their winter food supply. The discovery of the site in eastern Clark County prompted the state to temporarily halt work on the Ohio River boat ramp project. Bob McCullough, who heads an archaeological survey team from Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, said the low-lying area was probably used by nomadic tribes of hunters and gatherers. He said they appear to have...
Drunk Peruvians Torched Ancient Brewery
	Posted by SJackson On News/Activism 11/15/2005 6:54:41 PM PST · 26 replies · 483+ views Discovery Channel | 11-15-05 | Jennifer Viegas Nov. 15, 2005 -- Around a thousand years ago, a group of people gathered in a Peruvian brewery, drank copious amounts of brew, smashed their drinking vessels to the ground and torched the building as part of a complicated abandonment ritual, according to a new study. The authors of the study in the latest Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences believe the structure was one of the earliest and largest state-sponsored breweries in the Andes. They also discovered that a group of elite women served as the brewmasters, unusual both for ancient times and even for today. Remnants of ingredients,...
Human Remains Unearthed In Miami Form Picture Of Tequesta Indian Life
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/19/2006 11:47:22 AM PST · 7 replies · 268+ views Sun-Sentinel | 1-19-2006 | Madeline Baro Diaz Human remains unearthed in Miami form picture of Tequesta Indian life By Madeline BarÛ Diaz Miami Bureau Posted January 19 2006 Ancient Florida history is meeting the modern building boom in downtown Miami, where archaeological excavations at two construction sites have unearthed 2,000-year-old human remains. Archaeologists said the discoveries are helping them piece together what life was like for the ancestors of the Tequesta Indians, who lived at the mouth of the Miami River in what is now the Brickell section of Miami. Archaeologists had previously found evidence of a village in the area, but not a cemetery. The remains...
Australia and the Pacific
Stone Age Footwork: Ancient Human Prints Turn Up Down Under
	Posted by furball4paws On News/Activism 01/16/2006 10:13:24 AM PST · 60 replies · 766+ views ScienceNews | 1/7/06 | B. Bower Stone age human footprints have been found near an ancient lake in Australia. The prints date from 19,000-23,000 years and include children and several adults. Kangaroo prints are also among the finds.
Ancient Egypt
Egypt Mummy Shows Taste For Pork
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/15/2006 5:28:17 PM PST · 29 replies · 586+ views Discovery News | 1-10-2006 | Rossella Lorenzi Egypt Mummy Shows Taste for Pork By Rossella Lorenzi, Discovery News Jan. 10, 2005 -- Ancient Egyptians -- unlike their Muslim modern descendents -- had a taste for pork, according to a mummy autopsy. In a study to be published in the coming months in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Fabrizio Bruschi, a pathologist from Italy's Pisa University, and colleagues report the discovery of the oldest known case of cysticercosis -- a pig-related disease -- in a mummy from the late Ptolemaic period (II-I century B.C.). Often contracted from undercooked pork, cysticercosis is an infection caused by...
Ancient Greece
New discovery in Valley of Temples
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 01/17/2006 11:16:21 AM PST · 2 replies · 2+ views Gruppo Ansa | Jan 17 2006 Archaeologists working in Sicily's Valley of the Temples have found traces of a settlement thought to pre-date the famous Greek temples built there in around 600 BC... The discovery of a structure possibly built before the Greeks arrived came during preparatory work ahead of a project to shore up the ground near the Temple of Hera. Archaeologists uncovered a mysterious walled structure on top of which ancient Greeks had apparently built a shrine and a burial ground. Until now it has been thought that Agrigento was settled by the Greeks soon after they began starting colonies in much of the...
Ancient Rome
Ancient 'Cyclops' Wall Collapses
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/18/2006 3:00:30 PM PST · 21 replies · 488+ views Ansa | 1-18-2006 Ancient 'Cyclops' wall collapsesExperts study rubble in central Italian town of Amelia (ANSA) - Amelia, January 18 - Part of a massive wall started in around 600 BC around the central Italian town of Amelia collapsed on Wednesday morning for reasons still unclear . The so-called Polygonal walls around Amelia are famous not only for their age but also their size. Built out of huge polygonal stones, they are 8-10 metres high and about 3.5 metres thick . The 20-metre section of wall which collapsed was undergoing restoration work in recent weeks although activity had been suspended for a few...
Archaeologists Find Tomb Under Roman Forum
	Posted by The_Republican On News/Activism 01/20/2006 2:48:28 PM PST · 24 replies · 758+ views AP | Jan 20th, 2006 | AP ROME - Archaeologists digging beneath the Roman Forum have discovered a 3,000-year-old tomb that pre-dates the birth of ancient Rome by several hundred years. State TV Thursday night showed an excavation team removing vases from the tomb, which resembled a deep well. Archaeologists were excavating under the level of the ancient forum, a popular tourist site, when they dug up the tomb, which they suspect is part of an entire necropolis, the Italian news agency ANSA reported. "I am convinced that the excavations will bring more tombs to light," ANSA quoted Rome's archaeology commissioner, Eugenio La Rocca, as saying. Also...
Asia
Nearly 3,000-year-old ancient state found in north China province
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 01/14/2006 11:26:58 PM PST · 3 replies · 57+ views China Daily | January 14 2006 | Xinhua Archaeologists deduced the existence of the previously unknown state, Peng, from inscriptions on bronzeware excavated from two ancient Western Zhou Dynasty tombs (1100 BC-771 BC)... One of the most important findings in the graves is the remains of a pall covering the coffins. The remains of the pall, already blended with earth after several thousand years, are still a vivid red color. Phoenix patterns can be seen on the pall, said Song. "This is the oldest, best preserved and largest tomb decoration object so far discovered in China," said Song.
Epigraphy and Language
Tomb Of Ancient Coin Collector Unearthed (China)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/15/2006 5:59:00 PM PST · 10 replies · 312+ views Xinhuanet - China View | 1-15-2006 | Xinhuanet Tomb of ancient coin collector unearthed www.chinaview.cn 2006-01-15 14:05:53 XI'AN, Jan. 15 (Xinhuanet) -- Archaeologists in northwest China's Shaanxi Province have discovered an ancient tomb, possibly of a coin collector, dating back more than 600 years. During a recent excavation at a Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) tomb in the suburb of Xi'an, capital of Shaanxi, archaeologists found over 150 coins of different dynasties, together with 60 ceramic utensils. Twenty kinds of coins were in circulation in the dynasties of Tang (618-907), Song (960-1279) and Jin (1115-1234), spanning about 600 years. They might have been collected by the owner of the tomb...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
To-do lists, pay stubs: Archive details St. Peter's construction
	Posted by NYer On Religion 01/15/2006 5:53:31 AM PST · 8 replies · 131+ views Catholic News Service | January 13, 2006 | Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- For every sack of cement that was purchased, for every block of stone quarried and hauled to Rome, architects in charge of building St. Peter's Basilica filled out and filed away receipts and penned detailed notations in thick, bound ledgers. Even every artisan and worker hired, every on-the-job accident, lawsuit and progress report on the construction of the world's largest church were recorded and stored away in a little-known -- but priceless -- Vatican archive. The archives of the Fabbrica di San Pietro, the Vatican office responsible for the basilica's construction matters, certainly do not carry...
Oh So Mysteriouso
Australian In Bosnia Pyramid Riddle
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/20/2006 3:11:01 PM PST · 34 replies · 339+ views The Age | 1-20-2006 Australian in Bosnia pyramid riddle January 20, 2006 - 7:39AM Australian archaeologist Royce Richards is among a team preparing to look for the truth behind a theory that Bosnia-Herzegovina has an ancient pyramid. Archaeologists from Australia, Scotland, Ireland, Austria, and Slovenia will begin excavation work in April on the Visocica hill, 32 kilometres north-west of Sarajevo. The hill is quite symmetrical, and the theory that it was once a pyramid is supported by preliminary investigations. If true, it would rewrite world history, putting Europe alongside South America and of course Egypt as homes of ancient pyramids. Bosnian Semir Osmanagic put...
Mormon connection to Masons explored ahead of 'Da Vinci Code' sequel
	Posted by TFFKAMM On News/Activism 01/20/2006 10:28:11 AM PST · 167 replies · 2,332+ views Salt Lake City Tribune | 1/13/06 | Peggy Fletcher Stack Dan Brown clearly enjoys playing with legends, history, symbols and secrets. And readers' minds. In his best-selling novel, The Da Vinci Code, Brown wove all these - real and imagined - into a breathless mystery about Christianity, Mary Magdalene and the Divine Feminine that has spawned an industry of de-coders eager to separate fact from fiction. ††† Now that he has turned his attention to the mysteries of Freemasonry, the centuries-old fraternal order, the new book also might deal with Mormonism. †††But rather than announce the Da Vinci sequel in a news release, Brown embedded tantalizing clues to its subject...
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #80 Saturday, January 28, 2006
Ancient Navigation
Archeologists Find Ancient Ship Remains (cargo carriers between Pharaonic Egypt and Punt)
	Posted by NormsRevenge On General/Chat 01/27/2006 6:14:52 PM PST · 14 replies · 88+ views AP on Yahoo | 1/27/06 | AP CAIRO, Egypt - An American-Italian team of archaeologists has found the remains of 4,000-year-old ships that used to carry cargo between Pharaonic Egypt and the mysterious, exotic land of Punt, the Supreme Council of Antiquities has announced. The ships' remains were found during a five-year excavation of five caves south of the Red Sea port of Safaga, about 300 miles southeast of Cairo, the chairman of the supreme council, Zahi Hawass, said in a statement late Thursday. The archaeologists, who came from Boston and East Naples universities, found Pharaonic seals from the era of Sankhkare Mentuhotep III, one of seven...
Ancient Egypt
Rare Egyptian sculpture [record price set for ancient sculpture]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 01/22/2006 6:41:18 PM PST · 9 replies · 50+ views Christian Science Monitor | January 18, 2006 | Christopher Andreae The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, set a world record when it bought this ancient Egyptian limestone sculpture at auction Dec. 9. Extraordinarily, earlier in the same sale, another statue, a granite figure, also set a record for an Egyptian antiquity, when it sold for $2,256,000. But the granite figure didn't hold that record for long. It was spectacularly overtaken by this "Group Statue of Ka-nefer and His Family," which sold for $2,816,000. According to inscriptions, this tomb sculpture represents the "Overseer of Craftsmen, Priest of Ptah," "His wife, the Royal Confidant, Tjen-tety," and "His son, the Overseer...
Team Unearths Statue of Egypt's Queen Ti
	Posted by NormsRevenge On News/Activism 01/23/2006 8:00:39 PM PST · 50 replies · 841+ views AP on Yahoo | 1/23/06 | AP LUXOR, Egypt - A Johns Hopkins University archaeological team has unearthed a statue of Queen Ti, one of the most important women in ancient Egypt and wife of Pharaoh Amenhotep III, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities announced Monday. The statue, mostly intact, was found under a statue of Amenhotep III in the sprawling Karnak Temple in Luxor, which was a royal city in ancient Egypt. Ti was the first queen of Egypt to have her name appear on official acts alongside that of her husband. She was known for her influence in state affairs in the reigns of both her...
Near East
Largest Ever Ancient Temple Discovered In Shabwa (Yemen)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/21/2006 11:02:05 AM PST · 12 replies · 388+ views The Yemen Observer | 1-21-2006 Largest Ever Ancient Temple Discovered in Shabwa By Observer Staff Jan 21, 2006 - Vol.IX Issue 02 SANAíA- Archeologists in Shabwa governorate have discovered what is said to be the biggest temple ever discovered in the Arabian Peninsula, dating back to the 5th Century BC. The Italian archeological expedition, who have been digging in the ancient Royal Palace in Tamnaía city, say it is one of the oldest and most extensive temples ever discovered in the region. They found the temple on their recent dig, which lasted for 25 days. Khyran Mohsen Al-Zubairi, the Director of Archeology in Shabwa, told...
Oh, those Babylonians!
	Posted by kiriath_jearim On General/Chat 01/21/2006 1:56:58 PM PST · 17 replies · 234+ views Fordham University | 5th Century B.C. | Herodotus From Book I of Herodotus' "History": "The Babylonians have one most shameful custom. Every woman born in the country must once in her life go and sit down in the precinct of Venus, and there consort with a stranger. Many of the wealthier sort, who are too proud to mix with the others, drive in covered carriages to the precinct, followed by a goodly train of attendants, and there take their station. But the larger number seat themselves within the holy enclosure with wreaths of string about their heads-and here there is always a great crowd, some coming and others...
Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
An Ancient Catacomb Discovered In Gilan
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/26/2006 10:26:32 AM PST · 10 replies · 384+ views Persian Journal | 1-25-2006 An Ancient Catacomb Discovered in Gilan Jan 25, 2006 The first catacomb belonging to the infamous Islamic era, which was used as a safekeeping place for the dead, was discovered in Manjil during the excavations in the east bank of Sefidrud River in Gilan province. Most probably this catacomb dates back to the Ilkhanid era. Since the Parthian era, catacombs were built most often on the ways of caravans in Iran. These catacombs were used as a place for temporarily keeping of the dead. Whenever one of the members of a caravan died during the trip, his or her body...
Epigraphy and Language
New Discoveries in Jiroft May Change History of Civilization
	Posted by robowombat On News/Activism 01/26/2006 11:19:36 AM PST · 17 replies · 611+ views Persian Journal | Jan 26, 2006 New Discoveries in Jiroft May Change History of Civilization Jan 26, 2006 Latest archeological excavations in Jiroft, known as the hidden paradise of world archeologists, resulted in the discovery of a bronze statue depicting the head of goat which dates back to the third millennium BC. This statue was found in the historical cemetery of Jirof where recent excavations in the lower layers of this cemetery revealed that the history of the Halil Rud region dates back to the fourth millennium BC, a time that goes well beyond the age of civilization in Mesopotamia "One of the reasons the archeologists...
Anatolia
German Paper Reports World's Oldest Temple Is In Sanliurfa (Turkey- 10,000BC)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/21/2006 10:34:38 AM PST · 22 replies · 423+ views Turkish Daily News | 1-21-2006 German paper reports worldís oldest temple is in fianl´´urfa Saturday, January 21, 2006 ANKARA - Turkish Daily News One of Germany's leading newspapers, Die Welt, reported this week that the world's oldest temple, dating back around 12,000 years, is located on Gˆbekli Hill in Turkey's province of fianl´´urfa, said the Anatolia news agency. According to an article titled ìHoly Hill of the Hunters,î the temple was discovered by German archaeologist Klaus Schmidt, standing around 15 meters in height and located on a hill upon which a single tree stands. Defining the area as the ìcradle of civilization,î the paper said...
Mediterranean
Ancient Furnace Sparks Archaeological Interest
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/22/2006 3:32:36 PM PST · 5 replies · 403+ views Cypress Weekly | 1-22-2006 Ancient furnace sparks archaeological interest A UNIQUE site in the whole of the Eastern Mediterranean and expected to shed more light on ancient copper mining has been uncovered in the Mathiatis area, about 20km south of Nicosia. It consists of the base of a copper smelting furnace with its last charge of slag still in place. The discovery was made by students participating in an educational research programme in cooperation with Inter Community School Cyprus Project 2005, under the direction of Dr Walter Fasnacht. The participants from the staff of the Department of Antiquities were G. Georgiou, archaeologist, and E...
Ancient Greece
A Minoan Settlement After Destruction By Earthquakes
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/22/2006 10:36:49 AM PST · 13 replies · 281+ views Kathimerini | 1-21-2006 | Iota Sykka A Minoan settlement after destruction by earthquakesDig at Fournoi Afiatis on Karpathos uncovers ancient buildings A view of the flat area with the roof knocked down by the earthquake, along with part of the supporting wall and the adjoining wall. By Iota Sykka - Kathimerini Earthquakes were responsible for the destruction of a Minoan settlement on the island of Karpathos. That was the conclusion drawn following excavations conducted last year at Fournoi Afiatis on Karpathos under the direction of Manolis Melas, a professor of archaeology. The dig was part of a research program by the Dimokritio University of Thrace. The...
Secret Of Ancient Athens Plague Is Being Unraveled
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/21/2006 10:26:35 AM PST · 28 replies · 675+ views Kathimerini | 1-21-2006 Secret of ancient Athens plague is being unraveled Kerameikos, Athensís ancient cemetery, has yielded conclusive evidence as to the nature of the plague that decimated a third of the population of the ancient city and influenced the outcome of the Peloponnesian Wars. Scientists at Athens Universityís School of Dentistry have used molecular biology to help solve the riddle of one of historyís biggest mysteries.Greek scientists find typhoid after excavating graves By Dr Manolis Papagrigorakis (1) Recent findings from a mass grave in the Ancient Cemetery of Kerameikos in central Athens show typhoid fever may have caused the plague of Athens,...
Ancient Rome
Rescuing a Roman Mosaic
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 01/22/2006 7:40:39 PM PST · 11 replies · 55+ views Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | Tuesday, March 1, 2005 - Wednesday, March 15, 2006 | mfa staff The mosaic was acquired by the MFA in 2002 from Dumbarton Oaks Research Center in Washington, DC, where it had been stored, unseen, for more than sixty years. Since its acquisition, the fragile mosaic surface has been stabilized, and crumbling concrete and rusting iron backings replaced with new supports. Our conservators are now meticulously cleaning the surface of the mosaic and reconstructing its patterned outer borderówork that is taking place on view to the public through early 2006.
Asia
Fossil of "Sphinx" discovered in NE China
	Posted by Tyche On News/Activism 01/24/2006 5:42:09 PM PST · 47 replies · 1,350+ views People's Daily Online | 24 Jan 2006 | People's Daily Online The legendary "Sphinx" eventually found its counterpart version in archeological fossil. Chinese and American paleontologists found two distinct kinds of bone characteristics in the fossil of a sharp-mouthed mammal excavated in China's Liaoning province. The mammal's upper part makes people believe it was viviparous while its lower part looks like oviparous, reports Wen Hui Daily. The latest issue of the British magazine Nature reports the unprecedented discovery. The magazine editor as well as paleontologists marveled at the discovery and believed it might change the traditional theory on mammals evolution. Li Gang, one of the coauthors of the paper, said the...
Fossil of "Sphinx" discovered in Liaoning
	Posted by K4Harty On News/Activism 01/25/2006 2:44:36 PM PST · 5 replies · 432+ views China View | 01/24/06 | Unk. BEIJING, Jan. 24 (Xinhuanet) -- Photo of the fossil (Source: CRIENGLISH.com) The legendary "Sphinx" eventually found its counterpart version in archeological fossil. Chinese and American paleontologists found two distinct kinds of bone characteristics in the fossil of a sharp-mouthed mammal excavated in China's Liaoning province. The mammal's upper part makes people believe it was viviparous while its lower part looks like oviparous, reports Wen Hui Daily. continued...
Biology and Cryptobiology
DNA Offers New Insight Concerning Cat Evolution
	Posted by MRMEAN On News/Activism 01/05/2006 8:39:51 PM PST · 77 replies · 1,309+ views The New York Times | January 6, 2006 | By NICHOLAS WADE Researchers have gained a major insight into the evolution of cats by showing how they migrated to new continents and developed new species as sea levels rose and fell. About nine million years ago - two million years after the cat family first appeared in Asia - these successful predators invaded North America by crossing the Beringian land bridge connecting Siberia and Alaska, a team of geneticists ... Later, several American cat lineages returned to Asia. With each migration, evolutionary forces morphed the pantherlike patriarch of all cats into a rainbow of species, from ocelots and lynxes to leopards, lions...
Hardwired To Seek Beauty
	Posted by blam On General/Chat 01/21/2006 5:59:01 PM PST · 28 replies · 335+ views The Australian | 1-13-2006 | Denis Dutton Same source: Persistent themes in art suggest an evolutionary adaptation. We, as well as the ancient Greeks, admire the Hermes of Praxiteles, above Hardwired to seek beauty Denis Dutton January 13, 2006 THROUGHOUT history and across cultures, the arts of homo sapiens have demonstrated universal features. These aesthetic inclinations and patterns have evolved as part of our hardwired psychological nature, ingrained in the human species over the 80,000 generations lived out by our ancestors in the 1.6 million years of the Pleistocene. The existence of a universal aesthetic psychology has been suggested, not only experimentally, but by the fact that...
Archeologists Unearth 1,300 Skeletons
	Posted by nuconvert On General/Chat 01/24/2006 2:24:18 PM PST · 34 replies · 490+ views yahoo news/AP | Jan 24, 2006 Archeologists Unearth 1,300 Skeletons Jan 24, 2006 A large medieval cemetery containing around 1,300 skeletons has been discovered in the central English city of Leicester, archaeologists said Tuesday. The bones were found during a dig before the site is developed as part of a 350 million-pound ($630 million) shopping mall. University of Leicester archaeologists say the find promises to shed new light on the way people lived and died in the Middle Ages. "We think, probably outside London, this must be one of the largest parish graveyards ever excavated," said Richard Buckley, director of University of Leicester Archaeology Services. "Archaeology...
Ancient Europe
Neolithic Europeans Made Cheese, Yogurt
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 01/25/2006 10:09:11 AM PST · 24 replies · 131+ views Discovery News | January 25, 2006 | Jennifer Viegas Dirty cooking pots dating to nearly 8,000 years ago reveal that some of Europe's earliest farming communities produced dairy products, such as cheese and yogurt. Two separate studies indicate that Neolithic dairying took place in what are now Romania, Hungary and Switzerland... Craig and his team studied fatty residues stuck on ceramic cooking vessels found at the left bank of the Danube near Romania and at the Great Hungarian Plain. The dirty pots date from 5,950-5500 B.C. Analysis of the fats suggests they belonged to goat or sheep milk... In another paper published in the current Journal of Archaeological Science,...
Italians Unveil Secret Of Bulgaria's Precious Head
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/23/2006 2:34:02 PM PST · 14 replies · 537+ views Novinite | 1-22-2006 Italians Unveil Secret of Bulgaria's Precious Thracian Head Lifestyle: 22 January 2006, Sunday. Italy's restorers have unveiled the secret hidden in the eyes of King Sevt III's unique bronze mask discovered in Bulgaria, archeologist Georgi Kitov has said. The sculptors who have worked on the mask probably knew a lot about chemistry too, Kitov was quoted as saying by actualno.com. Italian restorer Edilberto Formili has discovered that the eyes of the unique Thracian mask were made from a glass paste mixed with alabaster and iron, which produced the brownish tint in Sevt III's look. The bottoms of the eyeballs were...
Swedish bog man murdered - 700 years ago
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 01/25/2006 10:57:53 AM PST · 12 replies · 225+ views The Local | 24th January 2006 | Sweden's News in English editor Seven hundred years after he lived, the cause of death of Sweden's oldest human skeleton has been solved. He was murdered - with three blows to the head... "The last blow split the skull," said Claus Lauritzen... The model was constructed with the help of computer tomography. During the operation the lower jaw and the skull damage were reconstructed. The face was widened slightly, since the original was thought to have been pressed together after hundreds of years in the bog. Eventually model maker Oscar Nilsson will give the Bocksten Man a 'real' face. The final result will be displayed...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Oregon State University Archaeologists Uncover 10,000 Year Old Coastal Site (Bandon, Oregon)
	Posted by blam On General/Chat 01/27/2006 1:05:10 PM PST · 7 replies · 168+ views Apple Gate | 1-26-2006 | Mark Floyd 7:27 am PT, Thursday, Jan 26, 2006 Using New Methods, Oregon State University Archaeologists Uncover 10,000-Year-Old Coastal Site By Mark Floyd, 541-737-0788/OSU CORVALLIS, Oregon - Researchers from Oregon State University have analyzed a second archaeological site on the southern Oregon coast that appears to be about 10,000 years old, and they are hopeful that their newly fine-tuned methodology will lead to the discovery of more and older sites. Results of their study were just published in the journal Radiocarbon. The site, located on a bluff just south of Bandon, Ore., included a large number of stone flakes, charcoal pieces and...
Mexican Painting Has Both Christian, Aztec Influences
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/22/2006 3:24:22 PM PST · 16 replies · 369+ views Lansing State Journal | 1-22-2006 | Mark Stevenson Published January 22, 2006 [ From the Lansing State Journal ] Mexican painting has both Christian, Aztec influencesUnearthed mural shows melding of cultures(Photo by Associated Press) Flying into view: This image of a bird is part of the 16-yard-long mural at an excavation in Mexico City. By Mark Stevenson Associated Press Salvador Guilliem dangles on a narrow beam over the sunken remains of a mural painted by Indians shortly after the Spanish conquest. Guilliem, an archaeologist, points out the newly excavated red, green and ochre flourishes in one of the earliest paintings to show the mixing of the two cultures....
Prehistory and Origins
We are all related to man who lived in Asia in 1,415BC
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 01/25/2006 12:00:47 AM PST · 15 replies · 159+ views Telegraph | David Derbyshire Using a computer model, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology attempted to trace back the most recent common ancestor using estimated patterns of migration throughout history. They calculated that the ancestor's location in eastern Asia allowed his or her descendants to spread to Europe, Asia, remote Pacific Islands and the Americas. Going back a few thousand years more, the researchers found a time when a large fraction of people in the world were the common ancestors of everybody alive today - while the rest were ancestors of no one alive. That date was 5,353BC, the team reports in Nature.
DNA helps unscramble the puzzles of ancestry
	Posted by farmfriend On News/Activism 08/03/2003 5:43:41 PM PDT · 34 replies · 338+ views Sacramento Bee | August 3, 2003 | Stephen Magagnini <p>Almost from the time he was old enough to read the "whites only" signs on department stores in Montgomery, Ala., Ulysses Moore has been on a quest. Where did I come from? he wondered.</p> <p>He knew he was more than just a "colored" child of the segregated South, that his legacy extended beyond the slave ships that brought 12 million Africans across the Atlantic. Was he descended from Shaka Zulu or the great Mandinka warriors, or the builders of the ancient world's greatest library in Egypt?</p>
"Love You, K2a2a, Whoever You Are"
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 01/22/2006 7:41:14 AM PST · 39 replies · 449+ views New York Times | January 22, 2006 | Amy Harmon The trauma some experience when their tests conflict with what they have always believed to be true has prompted some researchers to call for counseling to accompany the results. ... The adoption of new ancestral identities does not come so easy to everyone. Given her previous research, Lisa B. Lee, a black systems administrator in Oakland, Calif., was sure she would find a link to Africa when she submitted her father's DNA for testing. Family lore had it that his people were from Madagascar. But after tests at three companies, the results stubbornly reported that he shared genetic ancestry with...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Study: Viking Teeth Were Groovy
	Posted by GreenFreeper On General/Chat 01/24/2006 1:05:27 PM PST · 10 replies · 445+ views Discovery News | Jan. 23, 2006 | Rossella Lorenzi Viking warriors filed deep grooves in their teeth, and they likely had to smile broadly to show them off, according to new finds in four major Viking Age cemeteries in Sweden. Caroline Arcini of Sweden's National Heritage Board analyzed 557 skeletons of men, women and children from between 800 and 1050 A.D. They discovered that 22 of the men bore deep, horizontal grooves across the upper front teeth. "The marks are traces of deliberate dental modifications ... they are so well-made that most likely they were filed by a person of great skill," Arcini wrote in the current issue of...
Norwegian job ad seeks friendly Vikings
	Posted by RedBloodedAmerican On News/Activism 04/05/2005 7:38:55 AM PDT · 113 replies · 1,689+ views NJOnline | 4.05.05 | ap Norwegian job ad seeks friendly VikingsOSLO, Norway (AP) -- Help wanted: Vikings. Must be friendly, tourist-oriented and interested in ancient Norse traditions. Crazed, bloodthirsty pillagers need not apply.In a rare employment opportunity for Vikings, whose job market peaked about 1,000 years ago when they terrorized Europe in their longboats, southern Norway's Vestfold county wants to fill slots at its local historical park.The ad, to appear in local media Saturday, will be simple: "Jobs available. Vikings in Vestfold," with a link to the center's Internet home page, said Lars Kobro, self-described chieftain of the Midgard Historical Center."More and more we see...
British Isles
Henry VII's chapel found at Greenwich (England)
	Posted by NYer On News/Activism 01/25/2006 10:12:32 AM PST · 59 replies · 1,436+ views Telegraph | January 25, 2006 | Nigel Reynolds As muddy holes go, they don't get much more romantic. Beneath four feet of heavy south London clay, archaeologists have uncovered the remains of Henry VII's lost chapel at Greenwich. The site is where he and a host of his Tudor successors - Henry VIII, Mary Tudor and Elizabeth I - worshipped. † Click to enlarge The existence of the chapel, part of the Royal Palace of Placentia, a Tudor favourite but pulled down in the 17th century to be replaced by Greenwich Hospital - now the Old Naval College - has long been known from paintings and records.But until...
Australia and the Pacific
Foreign Contact With Hawai'i Before Captain Cook
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 01/25/2006 11:22:29 AM PST · 7 replies · 133+ views European Influences in Ancient Hawaii | 2001 or before (the date of the saved file) | Captain Rick [Captain Cooke] continued by stating that the people he met on Kauai were not "aquainted with our commodities, Except iron; which however, it was plain, they had....in some quantity, brought to them at some distant period.... They asked for it by the name of Hamaite." It is interesting to note that a Spanish word for iron is "Hematitas"... No Spanish map has yet been found which shows the location of a shipwreck in the mid-Pacific., However, many maps show these islands. In fact most charts of the Pacific printed in Europe after 1570 show a group of Islands in this...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Digging for a Subway, but Hitting a Wall, Again
	Posted by Pharmboy On News/Activism 01/23/2006 3:51:20 AM PST · 78 replies · 1,600+ views NY Times | January 23, 2006 | PATRICK McGEEHAN Workers digging up Battery Park for a 21st-century subway station keep bumping into the 18th century at every turn. For the second time in a few months, workers have uncovered a stone wall that archaeologists believe has stood near the southern tip of Manhattan since New York was a British colony. Like the one found in November, this wall stands in the way of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's plan to replace the South Ferry station, where the No. 1 train turns around to head back uptown. City officials said they did not yet have a clear idea of when the...
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Ancient Greece
Greek Shipwreck from 350 BC Revealed
	Posted by NormsRevenge On General/Chat 02/02/2006 3:53:32 PM PST · 18 replies · 183+ views LiveScience.com on yahoo | 2/2/06 | Ker Than The remains of an ancient Greek cargo ship that sank more than 2,300 years ago have been uncovered with a deep-sea robot, archaeologists announced today. The ship was carrying hundreds of ceramic jars of wine and olive oil and went down off Chios and the Oinoussai islands in the eastern Aegean Sea sometime around 350 B.C. Archeologists speculate that a fire or rough weather may have sunk the ship. The wreckage was found submerged beneath 200 feet (60 meters) of water. The researchers hope that the shipwreck will provide clues about the trade network that existed between the ancient Greek...
Deep-Sea Robot Photographs Ancient Greek Shipwreck
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 02/03/2006 2:51:12 PM PST · 14 replies · 717+ views MIT | 2-3-2006 | MIT Deep-sea robot photographs ancient Greek shipwreck Deborah Halber, News Office Correspondent February 2, 2006Image © / Chios 2005 Shipwreck Survey -- WHOI, Hellenic Ministry of Culture: Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities, Hellenic Center for Marine ResearchThis image shows a sample of the data collected by the SeaBed autonomous underwater vehicle as it swam over the Chios shipwreck in July 2005. The 3-D color mesh represents a topographic map of the sea floor, created using data collected by multibeam sonar. The brown strip shows the area captured in digital images, which were used to create the photomosaic of the wreck. Sometime in...
Ancient Navigation
Syracusia [Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 01/28/2006 8:46:55 PM PST · 9 replies · 142+ views Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia | prior to 2006 | Houghton Mifflin One of the most complete descriptions of a ship from antiquity is that described by the Greek writer Athenaeus. Writing in the second century ce, but basing his account on more contemporary descriptions (now lost), he described a huge grain ship built by Hieron II, king of Syracuse from 269 to 215 bce. Lionel Casson considers this to be the largest ship built in antiquity... There were cabins for 142 first-class passengers on the second deck in addition to accommodations for steerage, the lower deck being reserved for cargo and the upper deck for soldiers, said to number 400. The...
Underwater Archaeology
A Sunken Warship Sets Off a New Mediterranean Battle
	Posted by aculeus On News/Activism 01/28/2006 2:16:25 PM PST · 12 replies · 778+ views The New York Times | January 28, 2006 | By WILLIAM J. BROAD What is probably the world's richest sunken treasure -- the Sussex, a British warship that went to the bottom of the Mediterranean in 1694 with a cargo of coins now worth up to $4 billion -- has become embroiled in a bitter diplomatic dispute that pits Spain against Britain, the United States and an American company that wants to salvage the wreck. The conflict turns on arcane and often disputed aspects of international law that govern sovereign waters and the rights of shipwreck owners and finders. Spain claims the waters, off the coast of Gibraltar. Britain claims the ship, says...
Epigraphy and Language
New Mexico's Mystery Stone
	Posted by Muleteam1 On News/Activism 01/09/2006 6:45:23 PM PST · 108 replies · 3,282+ views New Mexico State Land Office website | Unknown | New Mexico State Land Office It is a mystery in the desert hills near Los Lunas, New Mexico. It has puzzled experts for more than 50 years. It has been referred to by many different names -- Ten Commandments Rock, Mystery Rock, The Los Lunas Decalogue Stone. It is most commonly known as the Mystery Stone. Mystery Stone is located at the base of Hidden Mountain, on New Mexico state trust land, about 16 miles west of Los Lunas. It is a boulder weighing an estimated 80 to 100 tons and is about eight meters in length. Nine rows of 216 characters were chiseled at...
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egyptian royal head puzzles archaeologists
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 01/30/2006 11:36:54 PM PST · 2 replies · 34+ views Mail&Guardian online | 30 January 2006 | Sapa-dpa The Sakhmet statues, which date to the New Kingdom's 18th dynasty (circa 1533 to 1292 BC), hail from the same period as most of the finds in the area. The head, believed to date to the 25th dynasty (circa 760 to 656 BC) that is characterised by its Nubian features, seems out of place, however.
The Sarcophagus Of Mycerinus
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 01/29/2006 8:18:20 PM PST · 9 replies · 111+ views Skoob Occult Review #2 | 1990 | Frater Choronzon From lengthy searches in the Lloyd's marine loss books for the period it seems most likely that the sarcophagus was loaded on board 'The Beatrice', a relatively small vessel, at Alexandria, bound for London via Malta. She got to Malta OK, but after departing from there on 14th October 1838 she was "never heard of again", as Lloyd's List so succinctly puts it. This may not be true. There is a barely legible pencil margin note in a surviving copy of Vyse's account (not the one in the British Library) which records fishermen reporting that wreckage identifying the vessel had...
Tutankhamen Died of Gangrene
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 05/12/2005 12:25:42 AM PDT · 14 replies · 585+ views Middle East Times | May 11, 2005 CAIRO -- Egyptian scientists claim that they have finally lifted the veil of mystery surrounding famed Pharaoh Tutankhamen's death, saying that he died of a swift attack of gangrene after breaking his leg. "After consultations with Italian and Swiss experts Egyptian scientists ... have found that a fracture in the boy king's left leg a day before his death was infected with gangrene and led to his passing," Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities said. "The fracture was not sustained during the mummification process or as a result of some damage to the mummy as claimed by [British archaeologist Howard] Carter,"...
Demonstrators say King Tut exhibit depicts wrong skin color
	Posted by Rebelbase On News/Activism 12/18/2005 12:08:30 PM PST · 133 replies · 2,634+ views centredaily.com | Dec. 17, 2005 | MACOLLVIE JEAN-FRANCOIS FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A "King Tut is back and he's still black" placard drew the gaze of visitors making their way to view the acclaimed exhibit at the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale Saturday. Across from the entrance, about 25 demonstrators donning T-shirts marked with various pro-black slogans held up the placards. Waving the red, black and green African flag, at times moving to the beat of djembe drums on the sidewalk, they asked drivers in passing cars to honk in support of their goal: reminding people not to take the lighter-skinned portrait of King Tutankhamun on display...
King Tut slain by sword in the knee
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 02/04/2006 8:27:21 AM PST · 2 replies · 9+ views Gruppo Ansa | February 4, 2006 The group found traces of gold leaf bearing animal symbols in the late pharaoah's right kneecap, leading them to surmise that it had fallen off Tutankhamun's raiments and lodged in a hole during mummification. The hole in question appears to have been caused by a sword, they say.
Anatolia
Anatolian tree-ring studies are untrustworthy
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 02/03/2006 8:59:13 AM PST · 16 replies · 165+ views The Limehouse Cut | 30 October 2005 | Douglas J. Keenan The approach that was adopted for Anatolia, however, was to rely largely on what is called a "D-score". The D-score does not exist in statistics. It has been used solely with tree rings. D-scores do not have a mathematical derivation -- unlike t-scores, g-scores, and times series. In fact, D-scores were more or less just made up (in an unpublished 1987 thesis), and using them to evaluate a tree-ring match turns out to be little better than rolling dice... The most important of those dates was perhaps for wood from a shipwreck, which was claimed to resolve some of the...
Ancient Europe
Neanderthals: Top-Notch Hunters
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 02/02/2006 11:47:20 AM PST · 44 replies · 920+ views Discovery News | 2-1-2006 | Rossella Lorenzi Neanderthals: Top-Notch Hunters By Rossella Lorenzi, Discovery NewsNeanderthal And Modern Humans Feb. 1, 2006 -- Neanderthals did not disappear because modern humans were better hunters and thus out-competed them for resources, according to U.S. and Israeli anthropologists. On the contrary, they were top predators who knew how to hunt the biggest and fastest of the animals. Neanderthals went extinct about 30,000 years ago, after having inhabited Europe and parts of Asia for roughly 200,000 years. The reason for their demise has been long debated and frequently attributed to modern humans' greater intelligence and consequently greater hunting skills. However, evidence from animal...
Asia
7000 Year-Old Sacrificial Altar Found In Hunan
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/29/2006 2:23:12 PM PST · 36 replies · 734+ views Xinhuanet/China View | 1-29-2006 7000 year-old sacrificial altar found in Hunan www.chinaview.cn 2006-01-29 11:23:54 BEIJING, Jan. 29 (Xinhuanet) -- A sacrificial altar, dating back about 7,000 years, has been discovered in central China's Hunan Province, according to Chinese archaeologists. The altar is the earliest sacrificial site so far found in China, said He Gang, a researcher with the Hunan Institute of Archaeology. "Ancients prayed to the gods of nature, such as the gods of the earth, river and heaven," said He at a archaeological forum held by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences recently in Beijing. Archaeologists have found China's oldest white pottery specimens...
Origins Of The Ainu
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 02/02/2006 4:16:59 PM PST · 54 replies · 1,049+ views Nova/PBS | 2-2-2006 | Gary Crawford A map of Japan showing the fateful site of Sakushukotoni-gawa on Hokkaido. Origins of the Ainu by Gary Crawford The ringing telephone broke the evening silence. It was the fall of 1983, and my research partner, Professor Masakazu Yoshizaki, was calling from Japan. "Gary, I have some news," Yoshi said. "We have a few grains of barley from a site on the Hokkaido University campus. I think you should come and look at them." The Japanese language is notorious for its ambiguity, so I wasn't quite sure of the full meaning of what I had just heard. But I didn't...
China map lays claim to Americas
	Posted by West Coast Conservative On News/Activism 01/13/2006 10:31:34 AM PST · 115 replies · 2,139+ views BBC News | January 13, 2006 A map due to be unveiled in Beijing and London next week may lend weight to a theory a Chinese admiral discovered America before Christopher Columbus. The map, which shows North and South America, apparently states that it is a 1763 copy of another map made in 1418. If true, it could imply Chinese mariners discovered and mapped America decades before Columbus' 1492 arrival. The map, which is being dated to check it was made in 1763, faces a lot of scepticism from experts. Chinese characters written beside the map say it was drawn by Mo Yi Tong and copied...
Australia and the Pacific
Ancient Find (30K Year-Old Village, Australia)
	Posted by blam On General/Chat 02/01/2006 10:48:50 AM PST · 13 replies · 208+ views The Standard | 2-1-2006 | Liz McKinnon ANCIENT FIND By LIZ McKINNON February 1, 2006 Damein Bell stands in the remains of an ancient stone house uncovered by a bushfire at Tyrendarra. Picture: LEANNE PICKETT THE bushfire at Tyrendarra last month has unearthed some of the biggest Aboriginal stone houses ever seen in Gunditjmara land. Undocumented sites have been uncovered including a village thought to be 30,000 years old. The Winda-Mara Aboriginal Co-operative made the discovery yesterday during an analysis of its Tyrendarra Indigenous Protected Area. On January 22 fire burnt 240 hectares, blackening 90 per cent of the property's rocky outcrop on the Mt Eccles lava...
Ancient Rome
Roman-Era Benefactors' Tomb Unearthed
	Posted by NormsRevenge On General/Chat 02/01/2006 6:33:25 PM PST · 15 replies · 111+ views AP on Yahoo | 2/1/06 | Nicholas Paphitis - ap ATHENS, Greece - A well-preserved underground tomb belonging to a prominent Roman-era family has been unearthed on the island of Crete, archaeologists said Wednesday. The large first or second century A.D. structure beside one of the main gates to the walled city of Aptera was looted during Christian times, archaeologist Vanna Niniou-Kindeli said. It still yielded a wealth of finds, including 10-inch pottery statuettes of the ancient Greek love deity Eros, glass and pottery vases and lamps. Built of large stone blocks, the grave is reached by a flight of steps. It has an antechamber and a main room measuring...
Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
Buried Warrior, Warrior Found Buried In Attack Position
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 01/29/2006 9:54:37 PM PST · 11 replies · 229+ views Discovery News | Jan. 27, 2006 | Jennifer Viegas Archaeologists have unearthed a 3,000-year-old skeleton of a man who appears to be clutching a dagger and is posed as though he were about to thrust the weapon into something, or someone, according to a Cultural Heritage News report from Iran... Gohar Tepe is located in northeastern Iran near the town of Behshahr and the Caspian Sea. "Beside the skeleton, a number of dishes have also been found which seem to have been presented to the warrior," Mahforuzi said. "One of the dishes has some holes in it containing the remains of coal. "Archaeologists had discovered such dishes before, but...
Mediterranean
Charting The Past: Surveys Map Two Lost Harbors Of Phoenicia
	Posted by blam On General/Chat 01/31/2006 12:01:24 PM PST · 5 replies · 83+ views Science News Online | 1-28-2006 | Sid Perkins Charting the Past: Surveys map two lost harbors of Phoenicia Sid Perkins By analyzing long tubes of sediment drilled from locations in and around the Mediterranean ports of Tyre and Sidon, scientists have discovered the locations of the harbors from which legions of ancient Phoenician mariners set sail. Tyre and Sidon, located in what is now Lebanon, were the two most important city-states of Phoenicia, a trading empire founded more than 3,000 years ago. Although archaeologists knew much about the two cities and Phoenician civilization, they have long debated the sizes and locations of the ancient harbors, says Christophe Morhange,...
India
Questions on Ancient India, Gupta Civilization (Vanity)
	Posted by DeuceTraveler On General/Chat 02/01/2006 4:22:13 AM PST · 43 replies · 302+ views I just thought I'd throw this question out for the history fans to see what they think. I've been asked to research the military and cultural aspects of India's ancient Gupta civilization. I have to publish an article for a magazine on the subject, but am living in Germany and my personal library consists of American, European and Japanese historical works. I have hardly anything on India and have been searching the internet for factual information. Besides an English translation of the Siva-Dhanur-Veda, I have not found anything of historical quality. Most of what I've seen focuses on some post-Modernist...
India Cultivated Homegrown Farmers
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/31/2006 11:42:30 AM PST · 10 replies · 195+ views Science News Online | 1-28-2006 | Bruce Bower India cultivated homegrown farmers Bruce Bower Approximately 10,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers living in what's now India adapted agricultural practices for their own purposes rather than giving way to an influx of foreign farmers, a new genetic study suggests. Y SPREAD. Maps of India and surrounding regions denote where a Y chromosome marker occurs more frequently (dark green) and less frequently (light green) in caste populations (larger map) and tribal groups (inset). Kashyap/PNAS Comparisons of men's Y chromosomes show that nearly all Indian men today, regardless of their tribe or caste, are descendants of populations that inhabited South Asia before agriculture's...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Boys discover intact Second Temple burial cave
	Posted by SmithL On General/Chat 01/30/2006 8:02:48 AM PST · 14 replies · 269+ views Jerusalem Post | 1/30/6 | ETGAR LEFKOVITS In a scene out of the Hollywood blockbuster 'Indiana Jones,' three Israeli children stumbled upon an ancient Second Temple cave in the Beit Shemesh area filled with skeletons and ossuaries inside, Israel's Antiquities Authority announced Monday. The boys, aged 11-13, who discovered the heretofore unknown cave during a hike were awarded a certificate of recognition for reporting their find to the Antiquities Authority. The cave was subsequently sealed by Antiquities Authority inspectors.
2,000-Year-Old Judean Date Seed Growing Successfully
	Posted by SJackson On News/Activism 01/30/2006 5:46:16 PM PST · 38 replies · 941+ views Arutz Sheva | 1-30-06 | Ezra HaLevi A 2,000 year old date seed planted last Tu BíShvat has sprouted and is over a foot tall. Being grown at Kibbutz Ketura in the Negev, it is the oldest seed to ever produce a viable young sapling. The Judean date seed was found, together with a large number of other seeds, during archaeological excavations carried out close to Massada near the southern end of the Dead Sea, the last Jewish stronghold following the Roman destruction of the Holy Temple. The age of the seeds was determined using carbon dating, but has a margin of error of 50 years --...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
The City Of The White Men (Who Built Tiahuanaco)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 02/01/2006 4:27:40 PM PST · 80 replies · 1,352+ views UNMuseum | unknown The City of the White MenThere isn't much left of the city of Tiahuanaco in Bolivia, South America. In the 1500's, the Spanish systematically destroyed the buildings. Later, many of the stone blocks were looted for houses in a nearby village. Most recently more stone was taken to lay a railroad right-of-way. Despite this, what is left is still a sight to see. Tiahuanaco is old. It was already in ruins when the Incas took over the area in 1200 A.D.. It is situated on a mountain at an altitude of 12,500 feet and boasts a pyramid 700 feet long,...
Human bones raise dispute between museum and Alaska Natives
	Posted by Tyche On News/Activism 01/29/2006 8:30:05 PM PST · 12 replies · 275+ views Kenai Peninsula Online | 29 Jan 2006 | AP ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Inupiats in Barrow want the Smithsonian Institution to return dozens of human skeletal remains unearthed in northern Alaska. The American Museum of Natural History refuses to give up the remains of 85 individuals, saying they came from a group of Arctic people who predated the ancestors of the modern-day Inupiat. The Washington D.C.-based institution believes those remains, excavated in the early 20th century, belong to the ancient Birnirk culture, whose descendants apparently left Alaska to resettle in Greenland and Canada around 1,000 A.D. The Smithsonian said the remains, excavated from four sites, are more likely related to...
Who came first, Chinese or Columbus?
	Posted by SteveH On News/Activism 05/16/2005 3:26:15 AM PDT · 29 replies · 682+ views Herald Today | May 14, 2005 | Dana Sanchez Who came first, Chinese or Columbus? DANA SANCHEZ Herald Staff Writer SARASOTA - A local company could help rewrite history if it can prove, using DNA testing, that Chinese explorers landed in the New World about 70 years before Columbus. But it's going to take money - up to $2 million in research funding - to test a hypothesis that hasn't been popular. Sarasota-based DNAPrint genomics plans to make a presentation Monday at the U.S. Library of Congress Symposium in Washington, D.C., commemorating the 600th anniversary of Chinese Admiral Zheng He's first voyage. Zheng He was a Ming Dynasty explorer...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Sons I gave birth to are 'unrelated' to me
	Posted by NYer On News/Activism 11/17/2003 10:20:10 AM PST · 171 replies · 1,215+ views The Telegraph | November 13, 2003 | Roger Highfield One human chimera came to light when a 52-year-old woman demanded an explanation from doctors after tests showed that two of her three grown-up sons were biologically unrelated to her.Although the woman, "Jane", conceived them naturally with her husband, tests to see if she could donate a kidney suggested that somehow she had given birth to somebody else's children.A study in the New England Journal of Medicine by Dr Margot Kruskall, of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre in Boston, Massachusetts, showed that Jane is a chimera, a mixture of two individuals - non-identical twin sisters - whose cells intermingled...
A Real-Life Jurassic Park
	Posted by Calpernia On General/Chat 01/31/2006 8:22:33 AM PST · 25 replies · 189+ views MSNBC | Jan. 30, 2006 | Mac Margolis (snip) Most scholars now agree that hunters -- more than climate change or a mystery epidemic -- are what doomed the mammoths. Whatever the cause, by 11,000 years ago the king of the Pleistocene was a goner. (snip) If a group of devotees has its way, this shaggy ice-age mascot -- and a host of other bygone megafauna besides -- may yet walk again. (snip) The scientists, in other words, had managed to assemble half the woolly-mammoth genome; they claimed that in three years they could finish the job. That would put scientists within striking distance of an even greater feat: repopulating the earth with creatures that vanished...
Only 40 Genes Separate Your Pet Dog From A Wolf
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 11/21/2005 6:18:45 PM PST · 76 replies · 1,088+ views The Telegraph (UK) | 11-22-2005 | Roger Highfield Only 40 genes separate your pet dog from a wolf By Roger Highfield, Science Editor (Filed: 22/11/2005) The difference between an obedient, friendly dog and a big bad wolf could be down to as few as 40 genes, according to a study into tameness. The research also found that to adapt to a life on the farm or in the home takes many more changes in gene activity than that required to love humans. A Swedish team compared two groups of farm-raised silver foxes in Siberia, one where for 40 generations the foxes have been selected for their friendly nature,...
Researchers Decode Dog Genome
	Posted by neverdem On News/Activism 12/07/2005 5:14:45 PM PST · 58 replies · 753+ views NY Times | December 7, 2005 | NICHOLAS WADE Researchers have decoded the dog genome to a high degree of accuracy, allowing deep insights into the evolutionary history not only of Canis familiaris but also of its devoted companion species, Homo sapiens. The dog whose genome has been sequenced is Tasha, a female boxer whose owners wish to remain anonymous, said Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, a biologist at the Broad Institute in Cambridge who led a large group of colleagues in the DNA sequencing effort. Their findings are being reported in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature. The world's dog population numbers some 400 million, divided into about 400 breeds. The...
Man's best friend stands test of time, study says
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 01/31/2006 9:09:16 AM PST · 42 replies · 343+ views Lawrence Journal-World | Saturday, January 28, 2006 | Sophia Maines The man was buried in Sweden with a dog laid out across his legs. It could have been yesterday, but that burial site actually dates back 7,000 years to the Mesolithic period... "Nothing," he wrote in his paper, "signifies the social importance that people have attached to dogs more conspicuously than their deliberate interment upon death." There are burial sites on every continent, except Antarctica, where the ground surface makes burial practically impossible. Morey's map of dog burial sites includes spots in current-day Greenland, Sweden, Sudan, Siberia, Japan and the United States, including Alaska. Some date back 14,000 years... In...
Prehistory and Origins
Scientists Find Gene That Controls Type of Earwax in People
	Posted by Pharmboy On News/Activism 01/30/2006 3:02:26 AM PST · 66 replies · 1,108+ views NY Times | January 30, 2006 | NICHOLAS WADE Earwax may not play a prominent part in human history but at least a small role for it has now been found by a team of Japanese researchers. Earwax comes in two types, wet and dry. The wet form predominates in Africa and Europe, where 97 percent or more of people have it, and the dry form among East Asians. The populations of South and Central Asia are roughly half and half. By comparing the DNA of Japanese with each type, the researchers were able to identify the gene that controls which type a person has, they report in today's...
DNA Testing: In Our Blood (Genetic Genealogy)
	Posted by martin_fierro On General/Chat 01/30/2006 6:26:16 AM PST · 15 replies · 129+ views Newsweak | Week of 2/6/06 | Claudia Kalb DNA Testing: In Our Blood It is connecting lost cousins and giving families surprising glimpses into their pasts. Now scientists are using it to answer the oldest question of all: where did we come from? By Claudia Kalb Newsweek Feb. 6, 2006 issue - Brian Hamman had always wondered: what was up with his great-grandfather Lester? Hamman, an avid genealogist, could trace his patrilineal line back to 19th-century rural Indiana, but there was a glitch in the family records. Great-Grandpa Lester, the documents showed, was born before his parents were married. So was Lester really a Hamman? Was Brian? Three...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Tall Tales / Medieval people weren't shorter
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 01/31/2006 10:35:59 PM PST · 10 replies · 188+ views Discover | October 28, 2005 | Eric Slyter Low doorways and laughably small suits of armor led to conventional thinking that people in the middle ages were significantly shorter than we are. After an exhaustive study of hundreds of churchyard skeletons, British archaeologists Charlotte Roberts and Margaret Cox say that height discrepancy is little more than a tall tale. Although medieval children were in fact shorter -- 10-year-olds then were around 8 inches shorter than 10-year-olds now -- most likely due to poorer nutrition and slow growth, adult European heights really haven't changed much over the past few centuries. Adult heights of men and women have remained constant...
Historic vases smashed in stumble
	Posted by untenured On General/Chat 01/30/2006 12:54:01 PM PST · 24 replies · 306+ views BBC | 1/30/06 | Anon. A stumbling visitor to a top museum has destroyed a set of priceless vases which stood on a shelf for 40 years. The 300-year-old Qing vases were among the best known artefacts at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. The visitor is said to have slipped on a loose shoelace and fallen down a staircase bringing the vases crashing down as he tried to steady himself. The vases, donated in 1948, were said to hold a "significant value" and were among the best known pieces on display. The museum declined to identify the man who had tripped. The accident happened last...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
At Burial Site, Teeth Tell Tale of Slavery
	Posted by Pharmboy On News/Activism 01/31/2006 3:29:26 AM PST · 43 replies · 1,234+ views NY Times | January 31, 2006 | JOHN NOBLE WILFORD American Journal of Physical AnthropologyHINTS OF DIASPORA Archaeologists found the remains of at least 180 people -- European, Indian and African -- near the ruins of a colonial church in Campeche, Mexico. While remodeling the central plaza in Campeche, a Mexican port city that dates back to colonial times, a construction crew stumbled on the ruins of an old church and its burial grounds. Researchers who were called in discovered the skeletal remains of at least 180 people, and four of those studied so far bear telling chemical traces that are in effect birth certificates. The particular mix of...
Archaeologists find evidence of earliest African slaves brought to new world
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 02/01/2006 8:48:12 AM PST · 12 replies · 102+ views University of Wisconsin-Madison via EurekAlert | 31-Jan-2006 | T. Douglas Price The African origin of the slaves was determined through the reading of telltale signatures locked at birth into the tooth enamel of individuals by strontium isotopes, a chemical which enters the body through the food chain as nutrients pass from bedrock through soil and water to plants and animals. The isotopes found in the teeth are an indelible signature of birthplace, as they can be directly linked to the bedrock of specific locales, giving archaeologists a powerful tool to trace the migration of individuals on the landscape.
Research: Genes Made Abe Lincoln 'Clumsy'
	Posted by wagglebee On News/Activism 01/27/2006 6:59:00 AM PST · 39 replies · 545+ views NewsMax | 1/27/06 | AP Abraham Lincoln's appearance and historical documents that note his especially clumsy gait have long caused researchers to puzzle over whether he may have had a genetic disorder called Marfan syndrome. Now, members of the beloved president's family tree are wondering if Lincoln had a different, incurable hereditary disease called ataxia that affects the coordination it takes to walk, write, speak and swallow. Researchers at the University of Minnesota have discovered a gene mutation in 11 generations of relatives who descended from Lincoln's grandparents. There's a 25 percent chance that Lincoln also inherited the gene, said Laura Ranum, a genetics professor...
The View From Suribachi
	Posted by gunnyg On Bloggers & Personal 01/21/2006 5:23:44 AM PST · 16 replies · 177+ views Sgt Grit's Marine Forums | Jan 20, 2006 | Ray Jacobs "D + 4 on Iwo Jima was Friday,February 23,1945.At about 10:30 hours I was standing on the broad rim of the crater on top of Suribachi looking up at our colors snapping in the breeze. Suddenly something extraordinary happened.We could clearly hear cheering from the Marines in combat on the plain of Iwo below us.They had spotted the flag and as the word spread more Marines joined in cheering our flag crowning Suribachi some 500 feet above.Soon the boats along the landing beaches and the ships at sea joined in blowing horns and whistles.It was a remarkable moment in Marine...
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Ancient Egypt
US dig uncovers King Tut's neighbours
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 02/08/2006 10:48:04 AM PST · 11 replies · 194+ views The Age | February 9, 2006 - 2:26AM AN American archaeological mission discovered a tomb in Luxor's Valley of the Kings next to the burial place of King Tut, Egyptian antiquities authorities have announced. An excavation team from the University of Memphis made the find five metres from Tutankhamun's tomb, while the mission was doing routine excavation work, said Zahi Hawass, secretary-general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities. Some three metres beneath the ground, the tomb contained five human mummies with coloured funerary masks enclosed in sarcophagi and several large storage jars. The mummies date to the 18th dynasty (circa 1539-1292 BC).
Intact tomb found in Egypt's Valley of the Kings
	Posted by AdmSmith On News/Activism 02/09/2006 7:32:55 AM PST · 59 replies · 1,483+ views reuters | February 9, 2006 | staff CAIRO (Reuters) - An American team has found what appears to be an intact tomb in the Valley of the Kings, the first found in the valley since that of Tutankhamun in 1922, one of the archaeologists said on Thursday. ADVERTISEMENT The tomb contains five or six mummies in intact sarcophagi from the late 18th dynasty, about the same period as Tutankhamun, but the archaeologists have not yet had the time or the access to identify them, the archaeologist added. The 18th dynasty ruled Egypt from 1567 BC to 1320 BC, a period during which the country's power reached a...
Tomb Found in Egypt's Valley of Kings
	Posted by Founding Father On News/Activism 02/10/2006 7:21:28 AM PST · 9 replies · 448+ views The Houston Chronicle | February 10, 2006 | TANALEE SMITH LUXOR, Egypt -- Through a partially opened underground door, Egyptian authorities gave a peek Friday into the first new tomb uncovered in the Valley of the Kings since that of King Tutankhamun in 1922. U.S. archaeologists said they discovered the tomb by accident while working on a nearby site. The tomb, which has five wooden sarcophagi with painted funeral masks, probably contains members of an 18th Dynasty pharaoh's court, Edwin Brock, co-director of the University of Memphis excavating team, told The Associated Press. So far, archaeologists have not entered the tomb, having only opened part of its four-foot-high door last...
Pharaonic tomb find stuns Egypt [Possibly Nefertiti ... find by American archaeologists]
	Posted by aculeus On News/Activism 02/10/2006 3:57:33 PM PST · 35 replies · 982+ views BBC News on line | February 10, 2006 | Unsigned Archaeologists have discovered an intact, ancient Egyptian tomb in the Valley of the Kings, the first since King Tutankhamun's was found in 1922. A University of Memphis-led team found the previously unknown tomb complete with sarcophagi and five mummies. The archaeologists have not yet been able to identify them. But Egypt's chief archaeologist Zahi Hawass says they "might be royals or nobles" moved from "original graves to protect them from grave robbers". "We don't really know what kind of people are inside but I do believe they look royal. Maybe they are kings or queens or nobles," he told Reuters...
Part of colossus found near Luxor ( Amenhotep III statue )
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 02/07/2006 10:27:48 PM PST · 17 replies · 214+ views Egypt Online | Tuesday, February 07, 2006 | some online Egyptian A German expedition has unearthed part of a colossal statue of an XVIII dynasty pharaoh. Minister of Culture Farouq Hosni said that "the red granite head and shoulders of Amenihotep III (1390-1352 BC) were unearthed in the pharaoh's temple area at Kom el-Hetan on the west bank of the Nile at Luxor." Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), Zahi Hawass said that "The one-metre, high bust is in good condition' except for a slight crack on the right side." For her part, the leader of the German team described the bust as "the best portrait of King...
Ancient Rome
Archaeologists Unearth Headless Sphinx (in Italy)
	Posted by NYer On General/Chat 02/08/2006 5:49:57 AM PST · 22 replies · 603+ views Breitbart | February 7, 2006 Archaeologists who have been digging for more than a year at the villa of Roman Emperor Hadrian in Tivoli have unearthed a monumental staircase, a statue of an athlete and what appears to be a headless sphinx. The findings were presented Tuesday by government officials who described the discoveries as extremely important for understanding the layout of the ruins. The staircase is believed to be the original entrance to the villa, which was built for Hadrian in the 2nd century A.D. So far, 15 steps, each 27 feet wide, have been identified and archaeologists did not rule out uncovering more....
Ancient ashes found buried in Rome
	Posted by wagglebee On News/Activism 02/08/2006 4:54:26 PM PST · 17 replies · 445+ views UPI | 2/8/06 | UPI ROME, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Archeologists have reportedly found the ashes of an ancient chief or priest who lived three centuries before the legendary founding of Rome. The remains, dating to about 1,000 B.C., were discovered last month in a funerary urn at the bottom of a deep pit, along with several bowls and jars -- all encased in a hutlike box near the center of modern Rome, National Geographic News reported. A team of archaeologists, led by Alessandro Delfino of Rome's Department of Cultural Heritage, discovered the prehistoric tomb while excavating the floor of Caesar's Forum, the remains of...
Carausius
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 02/05/2006 6:21:30 PM PST · 6 replies · 53+ views De Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors | Updated: 28 October 1996 | Michael DiMaio, Jr. This one has to be reproduced in entire, and it won't fit here, so it will be below. This Carausius topic came to mind as an idea due to Blam's topic on 15,000 wrecks in Irish waters (even though Carausius probably didn't operate there; he may have, but I've seen nothing). Just adding this to the GGG catalog, not sending a general distribution. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. Thanks. Please FREEPMAIL me if you want on or off the Gods, Graves, Glyphs PING list or GGG weekly digest...
Archeologists: Caligula was 'maniac'
	Posted by LibWhacker On News/Activism 08/11/2003 12:44:41 PM PDT · 25 replies · 135+ views MSNBC | 8/11/03 ROME, Aug. 11 -- For centuries scholars have debated whether Caligula, the Roman empire's eccentric third ruler, was a megalomaniac who dared to defy the gods or a maligned emperor whose caprices were exaggerated after his death. NOW A GROUP of archaeologists digging up Caligula's ancient palace say they have finally found concrete evidence that he was indeed a 'maniacî who turned one of Rome's most revered temples into the front porch of his residence. 'Everyone knows this guy was a little crazy. But now we have proof that he was completely off his rocker, that he thought he was...
Fragments of Ancient Empire
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 04/06/2005 1:41:43 AM PDT · 2 replies · 351+ views The archaeological season has begun at the Roman site of Vindolanda, bringing in volunteers from all over the world. Jamie Diffley went along to ask why they dig it. Pressed down in the clay, almost completely covered by the dirt, lies an object. Could be a piece of Roman pottery, perhaps some glass. To the untrained eye it could just be a piece of ordinary rubble. "It is ordinary rubble," says archaeologist Andrew Birley, loading it into a wheelbarrow, which will then be dumped by the side. Unlike me Andrew does have a trained eye. Indeed he has two. They're trained...
British Isles
Britain is likely to lose magnificent Roman tombstone
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 02/09/2006 10:59:33 PM PST · 3 replies · 11+ views The Times | February 09, 2006 | Dalya Alberge Archaeologists said yesterday that the gravestone, which depicts with great clarity a mounted trooper holding a sword and the head of a man he has just killed, was a unique find. The stone has yet to be dried, conserved and studied, but its owner -- the developer on whose land it has been found -- has already sought valuation advice from Sotheby's. Christopher Tudor-Whelan, director of Tudor-Whelan Property Holdings, which specialises in commercial investment properties, hopes to sell it in New York. He confirmed yesterday that he has been told that he can expect to sell it for "up to...
BBC History Team Solves Riddle Of Llywelyn
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 02/05/2006 3:21:23 PM PST · 35 replies · 1,315+ views The Telegraph (UK) | 1-31-2006 | Ben Fenton BBC history team solves riddle of Llywelyn By Ben Fenton (Filed: 31/01/2006) One of the last great mysteries of the history of the independent Welsh nation was apparently solved yesterday by a group of English historians working for the BBC. For centuries, people living in and around the chicken farm called Pen y Bryn on top of a hill overlooking the Menai Straits in Caernarvonshire have been convinced that it is a royal place. More than that, they all firmly believed that the 36-acre farm was the last remnant of the palace of Llywelyn, the first and last prince of...
Bronze Age man's burial site unearthed
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 02/04/2006 2:27:25 PM PST · 9 replies · 160+ views BBC | Last Updated: Thursday, 2 February 2006 Human remains dating back almost 4,000 years have been uncovered on Rathlin Island off the County Antrim coast... The skeleton was found in a crouched foetal-like position, which would indicate a cist burial in about 2000 BC. The body was accompanied by a food vessel. The remains were uncovered on Monday on the north coast, close to Rathlin Island's only pub, during work... Other recent archaeological discoveries indicate the island may have been settled as early as 7000 BC, placing it among the oldest such sites in all of Ireland. A Neolithic stone axe factory uncovered on the pistol-shaped island's...
Ancient Europe
Infertility link in iceman's DNA
	Posted by Red Badger On News/Activism 02/03/2006 12:16:35 PM PST · 49 replies · 946+ views BBC | 2/3/2006 | By Rebecca Morelle BBC News science reporter Oetzi, the prehistoric man frozen in a glacier for 5,300 years, could have been infertile, a new study suggests. Genetic research, published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, also confirms that his roots probably lie in Central Europe. Oetzi's body was found in the melting ice of the Schnalstal glacier in the Italian Alps in 1991. Examination of his remains has already revealed the Copper Age man almost certainly died as a result of a fight. The assessment is based on the presence of an arrowhead that is lodged in his back and extensive cuts to his hands. The...
Italy's Frozen Mummy May Have Been Sterile
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 02/05/2006 10:53:53 AM PST · 10 replies · 141+ views Yahoo | Sat Feb 4 ROME - New DNA analysis indicates that a 5,000-year-old mummy found frozen in the Italian Alps may have been sterile -- a hypothesis that would support the theory that he may have been a social outcast, officials said Friday. Franco Rollo, an anthropologist and ancient DNA specialist, also determined that the man's genetic makeup belonged to one of the eight basic groups of DNA occurring in Europe, although his particular DNA belonged to a subgroup that has been identified for the first time, officials said. The South Tyrol Archaeological Museum in Italy's northern Alto Adige region, where the remains are...
Science Shows Cave Art Developed Early
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/03/2001 12:16:47 PM PDT · 117 replies · 1,212+ views BBC | 10-3-2001 Wednesday, 3 October, 2001, 18:00 GMT 19:00 UK Science shows cave art developed early Chauvet cave paintings depict horses and other animals By BBC News Online science editor Dr David Whitehouse A new dating of spectacular prehistoric cave paintings reveals them to be much older than previously thought. Carbon isotope analysis of charcoal used in pictures of horses at Chauvet, south-central France, show that they are 30,000 years old, a discovery that should prompt a rethink about the development of art. The remarkable Chauvet drawings were discovered in 1994 when potholers stumbled upon a narrow entrance to several underground chambers ...
Earliest Star Chart Found (More)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 02/01/2003 3:27:16 PM PST · 9 replies · 106+ views Discovery News | 2-1-2003 | Rossella Lorenzi Earliest Star Chart Found By Rossella Lorenzi, Discovery News Left: Man-Being on Ivory Jan. 29 -- A 32,000-year-old ivory table has revealed what might be the oldest image of a star chart, according to new research to be published by the European Society for Astronomy in Culture. Found in 1979 in a cave in the Alb-Danube region of Germany, the small rectangular mammoth ivory plate shows an anthropoid figure, and a row of 86 mysterious notches is carved on its sides and on its back. "On the front side it shows a man-like being with his leg apart and arms...
Cave Drawings Reportedly 25,000 Years Old
	Posted by Pharmboy On News/Activism 02/05/2006 7:34:22 PM PST · 86 replies · 1,593+ views Associated Press | February 5, 2006 | Anon PARIS -- Cave drawings thought to be older than those in the famed caves of Lascaux have been discovered in a grotto in western France, officials from the Charente region said Sunday. A first analysis by officials from the office of cultural affairs suggests the drawings were made some 25,000 years ago, Henri de Marcellus, mayor of the town of Vilhonneur where the cave is located, told France-Info radio. He said, however, that the date could only be confirmed by further investigations. Cavers exploring a part of a grotto in the Vilhonneur forest made the discovery in December, the local...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Meteor Clue To End Of Middle East Civilisations
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 06/08/2003 7:17:12 PM PDT · 69 replies · 404+ views The Telegraph (UK) | 4-11-2001 | Robert Matthews Meteor clue to end of Middle East civilisations By Robert Matthews, Science Correspondent (Filed: 04/11/2001) SCIENTISTS have found the first evidence that a devastating meteor impact in the Middle East might have triggered the mysterious collapse of civilisations more than 4,000 years ago. satellite images of southern Iraq have revealed a two-mile-wide impact crater caused by a meteor Studies of satellite images of southern Iraq have revealed a two-mile-wide circular depression which scientists say bears all the hallmarks of an impact crater. If confirmed, it would point to the Middle East being struck by a meteor with the violence equivalent...
Mesopotamia
IRAQ: Gilgamesh tomb believed found
	Posted by Constitution Day On News/Activism 04/29/2003 6:13:45 AM PDT · 57 replies · 758+ views BBC News Online | Tuesday, 29 April, 2003 | BBC staff Gilgamesh tomb believed found Archaeologists in Iraq believe they may have found the lost tomb of King Gilgamesh - the subject of the oldest book in history. The Epic Of Gilgamesh - written by a Middle Eastern scholar 2,500 years before the birth of Christ - commemorated the life of the ruler of the city of Uruk, from which Iraq gets its name. Now a German-led expedition has discovered what is thought to be the entire city of Uruk - including, where the Euphrates once flowed, the last resting place of its famous King. "I don't want to say...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Archaeologists discover 6000-year-old burial ground near Kiryat Gat
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 02/07/2006 11:42:05 AM PST · 2 replies · 62+ views Haaretz | February 7 2006 | Itim Archeologists uncovered dozens of ancient tombs at the Highway 6 construction site near Kiryat Gat, the Itim news agency reported Tuesday. The find yielded a trove of artifacts, including mint-condition pottery, statues, jewelry and the remains of sacrifices offered to the religious deities the inhabitants believed in. Peter Fabian, who is conducting the dig at the behest of the company building the highway, said they discovered cave drawings depicting deer that used to roam free in the Negev desert region. He added that the find was the biggest of its kind and was invaluable for historians to deepen their understanding...
Ancient Synagogue Discovered in Ramallah Area
	Posted by SJackson On News/Activism 02/07/2006 5:15:26 AM PST · 20 replies · 683+ views Arutz Sheva | Feb 07, '06 | Scott Shiloh Three weeks ago, Israeli police found a mosaic floor in an Arab car. The Antiquities Authority has confirmed that the floor be belongs to a previously undiscovered synagogue in the Ramallah area. Researchers from the Israeli Antiquities Authority believe that the mosaic formed part of an ancient synagogue floor because it contained depictions of Jewish symbols, such as the base of a menorah (a seven branched candelabrum), a lulav (palm branch), and dates. Another, no less interesting feature of the mosaic, are the words 'Shalom (peace) on Israel' which are inscribed on it. At first, researchers thought the thieves had...
After 2000 years, A Seed from Ancient Judea Sprouts
	Posted by wildbill On News/Activism 06/12/2005 7:39:01 AM PDT · 22 replies · 826+ views nytimes | 6/12/2005 | Steve Erlanger Israeli doctors and scientists have succeeded in germinating a date seed nearly 2,000 years old. The seed, nicknamed Methuselah, was taken from an excavation at Masada, the cliff fortress where, in A.D. 73, 960 Jewish zealots died by their own hand, rather than surrender to a Roman assault. The point is to find out what was so exceptional about the original date palm of Judea, much praised in the Bible and the Koran for its shade, food, beauty and medicinal qualities, but long ago destroyed by the crusaders
2,000-Year-Old Judean Date Seed Growing Successfully
	Posted by Fred Nerks On News/Activism 02/07/2006 3:18:12 PM PST · 14 replies · 416+ views Arutz Sheva | 11:03 Feb 06, '06 / 8 Shevat 5766 | By Ezra HaLevi A 2,000-year-old date seed planted last Tu BíShvat has sprouted and is over a foot tall. Being grown at Kibbutz Ketura in the Arava, it is the oldest seed to ever produce a viable young sapling. The Judean date seed was found, together with a large number of other seeds, during archaeological excavations carried out close to Massada near the southern end of the Dead Sea. Massada was the last Jewish stronghold following the Roman destruction of the Holy Temple over 1,930 years ago. The age of the seeds was determined using carbon dating, but has a margin of error...
Epigraphy and Language
Near-Extinct 'Whistling Language' Returns (sample audio clip - very cool!)
	Posted by AM2000 On News/Activism 11/16/2003 6:33:41 PM PST · 40 replies · 190+ views Yahoo! News | Sun Nov 16 2003, 1:22 PM ET | SARAH ANDREWS, Associated Press Writer SAN SEBASTIAN, Canary Islands - Juan Cabello takes pride in not using a cell phone or the Internet to communicate. Instead, he puckers up and whistles. Cabello is a "silbador," until recently a dying breed on tiny, mountainous La Gomera, one of Spain's Canary Islands off West Africa. Like his father and grandfather before him, Cabello, 50, knows "Silbo Gomero," a language that's whistled, not spoken, and can be heard more than two miles away. This chirpy brand of chatter is thought to have come over with early African settlers 2,500 years ago. Now, educators are working hard to save...
Ancient Greece
Papyrus Reveals Ancient Stories (Artemidorus "Geography" "Ta geographumena")
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 02/09/2006 11:16:44 PM PST · 6 replies · 116+ views Discovery News | February 8, 2006 | Rossella Lorenzi Born in Ephesus around 100 B.C., Artemidorus wrote 11 books on his Mediterranean travels, which are now lost in their entirety. Indeed, his "Ta geographumena" (Geography) treatise has been known only through 1st century B.C. Greek geographer, historian, and philosopher Strabo, who mentioned it in his books. Featuring a detailed description of Spain, the papyrus is believed to be the most extensive remaining portion of Artemodorus' monumental work. "Three historical sources quote the exact text found in the papyrus as by Artemidorus... . We concluded that the roll featured the transcription of the second book of Artemidorus' lost 'Geography,'" Gallazzi...
India
Stone Age Tribe Kills Fishermen Who Strayed On To Island
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 02/07/2006 5:58:05 PM PST · 130 replies · 3,332+ views The Telegraph (UK) | 2-8-2006 | Peter Foster Stone Age tribe kills fishermen who strayed on to island By Peter Foster in New Delhi (Filed: 08/02/2006) One of the world's last Stone Age tribes has murdered two fishermen whose boat drifted on to a desert island in the Indian Ocean. The Sentinelese, thought to number between 50 and 200, have rebuffed all contact with the modern world, firing a shower of arrows at anyone who comes within range. Sentinelese tribesmen prepare to fire arrows at the coastguard helicopter after the fishermen's murder They are believed to be the last pre-Neolithic tribe in the world to remain isolated and...
Asia
Ancient village found in China
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 02/08/2006 8:34:03 AM PST · 4 replies · 46+ views ZeeNews | Feb 07 2006 | Bureau Report Four well-preserved residences in an ancient village, probably submerged by a flood, have been unearthed in central China, providing an insight into rural life about 2,000 years ago, archaeologists said. The village in Neihuang county, Henan province, belongs to the late western Han dynasty (206 BC - AD25), director of the Henan provincial institute of cultural relics and archaeology, Sun Xinmin said. "With the excavation, archaeologists are able to map out the layout of the ancient village and the architecture of village residences in the western Han dynasty for the first time," Sun said. Every residence, surrounded by farmland, has...
The Secret In The Steppes Thought Safe For All Time (Genghis Khan)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 02/09/2006 11:00:19 AM PST · 22 replies · 1,117+ views Washington Post | 2-9-2006 | Edward Cody The Secret in the Steppes Thought Safe for All TimeDespite Misgivings in Mongolia, Explorers Hope to Find Site of Genghis Khan's 800-Year-Old Tomb By Edward Cody Washington Post Foreign Service Thursday, February 9, 2006; Page A20 ULAN BATOR, Mongolia -- On the vast flatlands of eastern Mongolia, enclosed by a two-mile wall in the form of an oval, diggers have uncovered tantalizing clues to the solution of one of history's enduring mysteries: the site of Genghis Khan's secret grave. Finding the spot where the great Mongolian conqueror was laid to rest in 1227 by his famed horseback warriors would fill...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Researcher Seeks Secrets Of Kennewick Man
	Posted by blam On General/Chat 02/06/2006 10:55:05 AM PST · 22 replies · 339+ views The State | 2-6-2006 | Susanne Rust Posted on Mon, Feb. 06, 2006Researcher seeks secrets of Kennewick ManBY SUSANNE RUSTMilwaukee Journal Sentinel MILWAUKEE - Ground to the bone, the teeth of the famous fossil skeleton, Kennewick Man, look as if they've spent a lifetime gnashing rocks. But it's from these worn choppers that Thomas Stafford Jr., a research fellow in the department of geology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and president of Stafford Research Laboratories in Boulder, Colo., plans to learn about the origins, movement and lifestyle of this highly controversial, 9,000-year-old North American. In 1996, Kennewick Man was discovered on the banks of the Columbia River...
Austria, Mexico battle over 'symbol of power'
	Posted by Willie Green On News/Activism 02/05/2006 9:37:39 AM PST · 58 replies · 896+ views Houston Chronicle | Feb. 5, 2006 | MARION LLOYD At stake is the revered headdress called the 'crown of Moctezuma' MEXICO CITY - For nearly 500 years, the jewel-encrusted, plumed headdress Mexicans revere as the "crown of Moctezuma" has been hidden away in the private collections of European royalty or behind bulletproof glass in a museum in Austria. Now Mexico wants it back. And Mexican officials said last month that they would formally petition Austria for the return of the relic, on display in the Ethnological Museum of Vienna. Many scholars think the headdress once belonged to the Aztec Emperor Moctezuma II, who was defeated by the Spanish in...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Trove Of Teutonic Weapons Uncovered In Krusne Hory Region
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 02/10/2006 11:30:11 AM PST · 11 replies · 770+ views Radio CZ | 2-9-2006 | Jan Velinger - Martina Scheibergova Trove of Teutonic weapons uncovered in Krusne Hory region [09-02-2006] By Jan Velinger, Martina Schneibergova Listen 16kb/s ~ 32kb/s It's not unusual in this country to come across weapons caches dating back to the Second World War. But, finding a pile of javelin tips, parts of shields and a sword dating back to the 2nd century A.D., doesn't happen every day. -- Lenka Onderkova -- According to museum officials in the north Bohemian town of Chomutov it was a find that almost "never happened": a trove of twenty-two Teutonic items, weapons or parts of shields, dating back 1,800 years, that one finder almost failed...
Anglo-Saxon Gold Coin Leaves British Museum Out Of Pocket
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 02/09/2006 4:47:45 PM PST · 20 replies · 603+ views The Telegraph (UK) | 2-9-2006 | Nigel Reynolds Anglo-Saxon gold coin leaves British Museum out of pocket By Nigel Reynolds, Arts Correspondent (Filed: 09/02/2006) A gold coin lost 1,200 years ago on a river bank in Bedfordshire became the most expensive British coin when it was bought by the British Museum for £357,832 yesterday. A little smaller than a pound coin in diameter and much thinner, the glittering mancus, the value of 30 days' wages for a skilled Anglo-Saxon worker, now ranks among the museum's most valuable artefacts. Anglo-Saxon coin depicting Coenwulf, King of Mercia Experts described the coin as "the find of the last 100 years". But...
Lucky Coin Found In Medieval Ship
	Posted by blam On General/Chat 02/07/2006 10:57:53 AM PST · 16 replies · 277+ views BBC | 2-7-2006 Lucky coin found in medieval ship The coin is inscribed in Latin and has a cross on one face A French silver coin has been found embedded in the keel of a medieval ship uncovered on the banks of the river Usk in Newport three years ago. The discovery of the 15th Century coin is being interpreted as a sign that the ship came originally from France. Experts believe the coin was new and was intended to be a good luck charm. Project leader Kate Hunter said a colleague was shaking when she found the coin. She said: "We all...
Grace O'Malley: Pirate Queen of Connacht (1530-1603)
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 02/07/2006 11:54:20 AM PST · 7 replies · 116+ views Irish Clans | May 2000 | Brian Workman Grace and her small army were captured again in 1586 by the forces of the new Governor of the area, Sir Richard Bingham. Sir Richard promptly repossessed all of the property of the captives and quickly built a gallows to hang and forever rid the area of the Pirates. In a move that saved her life, Grace's son-in-law took her place as captive. Impoverished, Grace returned to her lifestyle as a raider and pirate.
Underwater Archaeology
15,000 Wrecks Lie Buried On Irish Seabed
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 02/05/2006 3:12:21 PM PST · 56 replies · 1,396+ views The Times (UK) | 2-5-2006 | Andrew Bushe 15,000 wrecks lie buried on Irish seabed Andrew Bushe LUSITANIA, the Cunard Line steamer sunk by a German U-boat off the coast of Cork in 1915 drowning all 1,200 on board, is one of the most famous shipwrecks in Irish waters. But a new study has discovered that the seas surrounding Ireland are littered with evidence of thousands of other maritime tragedies, with as many as 15,000 wrecks resting on the seabed. Following one of the most extensive research programmes ever carried out by underwater archeologists, the number of wrecks discovered has soared from an initial examination six years ago...
Biology and Cryptobiology
DNA Kits Aim to Link You to the Here and Then (Genetic Genealogy)
	Posted by martin_fierro On General/Chat 02/05/2006 10:23:49 AM PST · 8 replies · 89+ views NYT | 2/5/06 | Jennifer Alsever DNA Kits Aim to Link You to the Here and Then By JENNIFER ALSEVER Published: February 5, 2006 THE past comes at a price for Georgia Kinney Bopp. Retired and living in Kailua, Hawaii, Ms. Bopp has spent about $800 on tests to trace her ancestry, using samples of DNA from inside her cheek and from possible relatives. She and her husband, Thomas, even plan vacations around genealogy research, seeking DNA samples from distant cousins. "If we travel, we keep a DNA kit with us, just in case we meet someone who might help identify an ancient ancestor," Ms. Bopp...
Can Genes Unravel A Viking Mystery
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 02/10/2006 11:15:24 AM PST · 15 replies · 630+ views MSNBC | 2-9-2006 Can genes unravel a Viking mystery?DNA tests could shed new light on remains found in longboat Scanpix / Reuters A1904 image shows the Oseberg Viking ship after its recovery in southern Norway. Scientists say DNA tests could yield new information about a queen and another woman whose remains were found in the ship. OSLO, Norway - The grave of a mysterious Viking queen may hold the key to a 1,200-year-old case of suspected ritual killing, and scientists are planning to unearth her bones to find out. She is one of two women whose fate has been a riddle ever since...
Prehistory and Origins
New analysis shows three human migrations out of Africa, Replacement theory 'demolished'
	Posted by PatrickHenry On News/Activism 02/10/2006 2:54:05 AM PST · 113 replies · 2,054+ views Washington University in St. Louis | 02 February 2006 | Tony Fitzpatrick A new, more robust analysis of recently derived human gene trees by Alan R. Templeton, Ph.D, of Washington University in St Louis, shows three distinct major waves of human migration out of Africa instead of just two, and statistically refutes -- strongly -- the 'Out of Africa' replacement theory. That theory holds that populations of Homo sapiens left Africa 100,000 years ago and wiped out existing populations of humans. Templeton has shown that the African populations interbred with the Eurasian populations -- thus, making love, not war. "The 'Out of Africa' replacement theory has always been a big controversy," Templeton...
Origins of Domestic Horse Revealed
	Posted by jimtorr On General/Chat 07/16/2002 7:03:04 PM PDT · 11 replies · 135+ views BBC News | 16 July 2002 | Helen Briggs The story of how wild horses were tamed by ancient people has been pieced together by gene hunters. DNA evidence shows modern horses are descended from not one but several wild populations. It suggests horses were domesticated - for meat, milk or to carry loads - in more than one place. As few as 77 wild mares passed on their genes to today's modern horse breeds, from the American mustang to the Shetland pony. "We see traces of original wild populations of horses that have been incorporated into the domestic horses of today," says co-researcher Dr Peter Forster of the...
Humankind's family tree reshaped
	Posted by whattajoke On News/Activism 02/21/2003 9:50:34 AM PST · 105 replies · 175+ views msnbc.com | 2/21/03 | whattajoke WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 -- A 1.8-million-year-old jawbone and other fossils uncovered in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge have reignited a longstanding controversy about the family tree of humankind's earliest ancestors. At the same time, the finds offer a new look at how and where early humans lived, according to a study in the journal Science, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Oldest human footprints found on volcano
	Posted by CobaltBlue On News/Activism 03/12/2003 12:47:19 PM PST · 38 replies · 369+ views New Scientist | March 12 2003 | Hazel Muir Oldest human footprints found on volcano -- 19:00 12 March 03 -- NewScientist.com news service -- The trails of footprints (A and B) have as many as 27 steps (Image: Paolo Mietto and Marco Avanzini) -- Three primitive humans who scrambled down a volcano's slopes more than 325,000 years ago left their footprints fossilised in volcanic ash. If the ages of the trails are confirmed, they could be the earliest known footprints of our Homo ancestors. Paolo Mietto of Padua University and his colleagues examined three tracks of footprints on the Roccamonfina volcano in southern Italy, known to locals as...
Oldest Human Skulls Found
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 06/11/2003 8:03:26 AM PDT · 375 replies · 624+ views BBC | 6-11-2003 | Jonathan Amos Oldest human skulls found By Jonathan Amos BBC News Online science staff Three fossilised skulls unearthed in Ethiopia are said by scientists to be among the most important discoveries ever made in the search for the origin of humans. Herto skull: Dated at between 160,000 and 154,000 years old (Image copyright: David L. Brill) The crania of two adults and a child, all dated to be around 160,000 years old, were pulled out of sediments near a village called Herto in the Afar region in the east of the country. They are described as the oldest known fossils of modern...
Oh So Mysteriouso
Human skeletons found at falls
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 02/08/2006 7:37:27 AM PST · 2 replies · 15+ views Bay of Plenty Times | February 8 2006 | Rachel Tiffen In TV2 show Sensing Murder, three psychics independently identified a spot at the falls as the burial site of Williams. The Tauranga woman disappeared without trace from her Gate Pa home on June 5, 1986. Her body has never been found. A man phoned police the day after the show screened, saying he knew of a skull at the falls. But his discovery was kilometres away from the spot the pyschics were drawn to - at the top lake end of McLaren Falls... Historic Places Trust archaeologists were able to determine that the bones were ancient, likely "pre-European" by marks...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Chatty Host Who Makes Archaeology Glamorous
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 02/07/2006 10:28:30 AM PST · 32 replies · 213+ views New York Times from New York City, New York County, and New York State | February 6, 2006 | Felicia R. Lee "The History Channel had put the word out that they wanted someone who was hands-on and who could travel around the world," Mr. Bernstein said of his decision to try out for the show. "It's been an exhilarating ride because it's who I am. I do get a lot of people reaching out now that we've done the first season. They say they learn a lot, and it makes them feel like they don't need a Ph.D. to appreciate it. Some people say it's the only family show they watch all together."
What kind of thinker are you?
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Ancient Learning
Artful Surgery
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 02/18/2006 1:35:16 AM PST · 2 replies · 2+ views Archaeology magazine, Archaeological Institute of America | Volume 59 Number 2 | March/April 2006 | Anagnostis P. Agelarakis The patient was among those sent north by Clazomenae, a Greek city in Ionia, to establish a colony at Abdera around 654 B.C. She was successfully treated--a difficult operation performed by a master surgeon saved her--and lived for another 20 years. Her remains, which were excavated at Abdera by Eudokia Skarlatidou of the Greek Archaeological Service and which I have had the privilege to study, provide incontrovertible evidence that two centuries before Hippocrates drew breath, surgical practices described in the treatise On Head Wounds were already in use.
Ancient Greece
Greek Hiker Finds 6,500-Year-Old Pendant
	Posted by NormsRevenge On General/Chat 02/16/2006 1:37:32 PM PST · 25 replies · 322+ views AP on Yahoo | 2/16/06 | Costas Kantouris - ap THESSALONIKI, Greece - A Greek hiker found a 6,500-year-old gold pendant in a field and handed it over to authorities, an archaeologist said Thursday. The flat, roughly ring-shaped prehistoric pendant probably had religious significance and would have been worn on a necklace by a prominent member of society. Only three such gold artifacts have been discovered during organized digs, archaeologist Georgia Karamitrou-Mendesidi, head of the Greek archaeological service in the northern region where the discovery was made, told The Associated Press. "It belongs to the Neolithic period, about which we know very little regarding the use of metals, particularly gold,"...
'Salonica, City of Ghosts': Edge City
	Posted by Destro On General/Chat 05/07/2005 11:19:27 PM PDT · 3 replies · 342+ views nytimes.com | May 8, 2005 | ROBERT D. KAPLAN May 8, 2005 'Salonica, City of Ghosts': Edge City By ROBERT D. KAPLAN IN the 1980's, with cold war divisions having cut Greece off from its Communist neighbors, the northern city of Salonika was a sterile panorama of apartment buildings with tacky Greek signage -- so thoroughly monolingual that when I went there I saw no reference to its multiethnic past. The Jewish cemetery, torn up under the Nazis in 1942, lay beneath the Aristoteleion University without a marker to venerate it. As for the Muslim Turks and Orthodox Christian Bulgarians who once had lived there, if I or any...
Macedonia
Greeks find largest Macedonian tomb of nobles
	Posted by Pharmboy On General/Chat 02/12/2006 9:55:49 AM PST · 7 replies · 81+ views Reuters via Yahoo | Sun Feb 12, 2006 | Deborah Kyvrikosaios Greek archaeologists said on Sunday they had discovered the largest underground tomb in Greek antiquity in the ancient city of Pella in northern Greece, birthplace of Alexander the Great. The eight-chamber tomb rich in painted sculpture dates to the Hellenistic period between the 3rd and 2nd century BC and offers scholars a rare glimpse into the life of nobles around the time of Alexander's death. "This is the largest, sculptured, multi-chambered tomb found in Greece, and is significant in that it is a new architectural style -- there are many chambers and a long entrance arcade," the chief archaeologist at...
Greek tomb find excites experts
	Posted by fanfan On General/Chat 02/12/2006 3:02:35 PM PST · 23 replies · 169+ views BBC | Sunday, 12 February 2006 | BBC Alexander the Great was ruler of Macedonia The tomb is thought to be from the time of Alexander the Great,Archaeologists in Greece say they are examining the largest underground tomb ever found in the country. They said a farmer had stumbled across the tomb carved into the rock near the ancient city of Pella, the birthplace of Alexander the Great. Archaeologists believe it dates to the period after Alexander's death, which was marked by mass power struggles. The tomb was probably used by a noble family about 2,300 years ago - some of whose names are still visible. Archaeologists said...
Archaeologists Find Massive Tomb in Greece
	Posted by wagglebee On General/Chat 02/12/2006 5:26:10 PM PST · 9 replies · 249+ views Breitbart.com | 2/12/06 | COSTAS KANTOURIS/AP Archaeologists have unearthed a massive tomb in the northern Greek town of Pella, capital of the ancient kingdom of Macedonia and birthplace of Alexander the Great. The eight-chambered tomb dates to the Hellenistic Age between the fourth and second century B.C., and is the largest of its kind ever found in Greece. The biggest multichambered tombs until now contained three chambers. The 678-square-foot tomb hewn out of rock was discovered by a farmer plowing his field on the eastern edge of the ancient cemetery of Pella, some 370 miles north of Athens, archaeologists said. "This is the largest and most...
Archaeologists unearth Alexander the Great era wall - ancient Macedonian city, Dion
	Posted by NormsRevenge On News/Activism 02/17/2006 7:23:59 PM PST · 5 replies · 272+ views AFP on Yahoo | 2/17/06 | AFP ATHENS (AFP) - Greek archaeologists excavating an ancient Macedonian city in the foothills of Mount Olympus have uncovered a 2,600-metre defensive wall whose design was "inspired by the glories of Alexander the Great," the site supervisor said Thursday. Built into the wall were dozens of fragments from statues honouring ancient Greek gods, including Zeus, Hephaestus and possibly Dionysus, archaeologist Dimitrios Pantermalis told a conference in the northern port city of Salonika, according to the Athens News Agency. Early work on the fortification is believed to have begun under Cassander, the fourth-century BC king of Macedon who succeeded Alexander the Great....
Ancient Egypt
Enigmatic Discovery (Granite Nubian Head)
	Posted by blam On General/Chat 02/17/2006 10:22:17 AM PST · 17 replies · 435+ views Al-Ahram | 2-17-2006 Enigmatic discoveryThe discovery of a red granite head of a king with Nubian features in the precinct of Amenhotep III's temple on Luxor's West Bank has puzzled Egyptologists, writes Nevine El-Aref "This really is a very surprising discovery," Hourig Sourouzian, director of the German conservation project for the Colossi of Memnon and Amenhotep III's temple, told Al-Ahram Weekly. She explained that since excavation of the site began in 1998 the mission had consistently stumbled upon homogenous New Kingdom statuaries until last week, when a well-preserved red granite royal head with Kushite features -- full cheeks and bulging lips -- was...
Setting Ancient Nefertiti Bust on Bronze Nude Touches off a Tussle
	Posted by Kaslin On News/Activism 06/17/2003 11:25:16 AM PDT · 18 replies · 278+ views AP Breaking | Jun 17, 2003 | Donna Bryson Associated Press Writer CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - They were together only a few hours. But that brief union of a celebrated, 3,000-year-old bust of the Egyptian queen Nefertiti with a modern bronze nude body touched off a furor. Some Egyptians are calling the art project at Berlin's Egyptian Museum an insult to their culture and demanding the return of the ancient bust, charging it isn't safe in German hands. The museum director, Dietrich Wildung, answers that his museum's most famous piece was never at risk and defends the videotaping of Nefertiti's head on a nude torso as a legitimate artistic experiment. The tape...
Sailing To Punt
	Posted by blam On General/Chat 02/17/2006 10:11:15 AM PST · 2 replies · 44+ views Al-Ahram | 2-17-2006 Sailing to PuntWell-preserved wrecks of Pharaonic seafaring vessels unearthed last week on the Red Sea coast reveal that the Ancient Egyptians enjoyed advanced maritime technology, Nevine El-Aref reports The long-held belief that the Ancient Egyptians did not tend to travel long distances by sea because of poor naval technology proved fallacious last week when timbers, rigging and cedar planks were unearthed in the ancient Red Sea port of Marsa Gawasis, 23 kilometres south of Port Safaga. The remains of seafaring vessels were found in four large, hand-hewn caves which were probably used as storage or boat houses from the Middle...
Tutankhamen Liked His White Wine
	Posted by blam On General/Chat 02/16/2006 10:23:56 AM PST · 17 replies · 171+ views New Scientist | 2-16-2006 Tutankhamen liked his wine white 16 February 2006 From New Scientist Print Edition IT SEEMS that Tutankhamen, the teenage king of ancient Egypt, sloped off to the afterlife with a good supply of fine white wine. It's a surprising discovery, considering there is no record of white wine in Egypt until the 3rd century AD, 1600 years after the young pharaoh died. Rosa Lamuela-RaventÛs and her colleagues from the University of Barcelona, Spain, used liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry to analyse the residue from six of the jars in Tutankhamen's tomb. All contained tartaric acid, a chemical characteristic of grapes,...
Climate
Ancient lakes of the Sahara
	Posted by Tyche On News/Activism 01/21/2006 4:14:03 AM PST · 44 replies · 1,005+ views Innovations Report | Jan 19, 2006 | University of Reading The Sahara has not always been the arid, inhospitable place that it is today -- it was once a savannah teeming with life, according to researchers at the Universities of Reading and Leicester. Eight years of studies in the Libyan desert area of Fazzan, now one of the harshest, most inaccessible spots on Earth, have revealed swings in its climate that have caused considerably wetter periods, lasting for thousands of years, when the desert turned to savannah and lakes provided water for people and animals. This, in turn, has given us vital clues about the history of humans in the...
Millions 'Wasted' Planting Trees That Reduce Water
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 07/28/2005 6:17:29 PM PDT · 34 replies · 761+ views The Telegraph (UK) | 7-29-2005 | Charles Clover Millions 'wasted' planting trees that reduce water By Charles Clover, Environment Editor (Filed: 29/07/2005) Millions of pounds in overseas aid are wasted every year planting trees in dry countries in the belief that they help attract rainfall and act as storage for water, scientists said yesterday. In fact, forests usually increase evaporation and help to reduce the amount of water available for human consumption or growing crops, according to a four-year study. Research on water catchments on three continents says it is "a myth" that trees always increase the availability of water. Even the cloud forests of tropical Costa Rica...
Last 100 years warmest since 9th century, say British researchers
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 02/10/2006 10:39:17 PM PST · 18 replies · 196+ views Monsters and Critics | Feb 10, 2006 | Deutsche Presse-Agentur Researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in eastern Britain, measured changes in fossil shells, tree rings, ice cores and other past temperature records or 'proxies' to reach their findings, which were published in the journal Science Friday. They also looked at people's diaries from the last 750 years... The analysis confirmed periods of significant warmth in the northern hemisphere from about 890 to 1170 AD - the so-called Medieval Warm Period - and for much colder periods from about 1580 - 1850, known as the Little Ice Age.
Plants revealed as methane source
	Posted by f zero On News/Activism 01/17/2006 11:40:11 AM PST · 28 replies · 540+ views BBC News | Wednesday, 11 January 2006 | Tim Hirsch Scientists in Germany have discovered that ordinary plants produce significant amounts of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas which helps trap the sun's energy in the atmosphere. The findings, reported in the journal Nature, have been described as "startling", and may force a rethink of the role played by forests in holding back the pace of global warming. And the BBC News Website has learned that the research, based on observations in the laboratory, appears to be corroborated by unpublished observations of methane levels in the Brazilian Amazon. Until now, it had been thought that natural sources of methane were mainly...
Methane burps disproved? Gassy emissions no longer in suspect dock for melting the last ice age.
	Posted by neverdem On News/Activism 02/10/2006 10:14:04 PM PST · 35 replies · 578+ views news@nature.com | 9 February 2006 | Quirin Schiermeier Close window Published online: 9 February 2006; | doi:10.1038/news060206-9 Methane burps disproved? Gassy emissions no longer in suspect dock for melting the last ice age. Quirin Schiermeier Strange ice: no evidence that melting methane triggered global warming after the last ice age.© Punchstock Methane escaping from the sea floor to the atmosphere has been a popular suspect for causing rapid climate changes during and at the end of the last ice age. But new data derived from a Greenland ice core have delivered a killer blow to the idea. Methane (CH4) is a much stronger greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. It...
Ancient Europe
European Faces Reflect Stone Age Ancestry, Study Says
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 02/14/2006 3:31:25 PM PST · 59 replies · 1,002+ views National Geographic | 12-20-2005 | James Owens European Faces Reflect Stone Age Ancestry, Study Says James Owen for National Geographic News December 20, 2005Europeans inherit their looks from Stone Age hunters, new research suggests. Scientists studied ancient skeletons from Scandinavia to North Africa and Greece, comparing ancient and modern facial features. Their analysis suggests modern Europeans are closely related and descended from prehistoric indigenous peoples. Later Neolithic settlersónotably immigrants who introduced farming from the Near East some 7,500 years agoócontributed little to how Europeans look today, the researchers add. The scientists described their findings in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Online Early Edition. The...
Stone Age artists are getting older
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 02/13/2006 10:11:37 PM PST · 23 replies · 198+ views The Times | February 13, 2006 | Norman Hammond Among the motifs is an "anthropomorph", a humanoid figure, according to Dr Alberto Broglio. It is full face, with two horns which "may be a mask" on its head; the arms are by its side and the legs are spread. "The right hand is holding something which is hanging downwards, probably a ritual object," Dr Broglio says. Another figure shows a four-legged animal seen from the side and "resembles the profile of a small statuette from Vogelherd". Radiocarbon dates from the Vogelherd caves, near Ulm on the upper Danube, also give dates between 36,000 and 30,000 years ago, Dr Nicholas...
Most cave art the work of teens, not shamans - A landmark study of Paleolithic art
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 02/15/2006 8:52:37 AM PST · 23 replies · 207+ views University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Arctic Biology | 10 February 2006 | Dale Guthrie and Marie Gilbert This ancient art was made during the late Pleistocene, about 10,000 to 35,000 years ago, and has typically been the purview of art historians and anthropologists, many of whom view Paleolithic art as done by accomplished shaman-artists... Using new forensic techniques on fossil handprints of the artists and examining thousands of images, "I found that all ages and both sexes were making art, not just the senior male shamans," Guthrie said. These included hundreds of prints made as ocher, manganese, or clay negatives and a few positive prints made with pigments or mud applied to hands that were then placed...
British Isles
New View Of Mr Boudica
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 02/13/2006 10:49:35 AM PST · 14 replies · 448+ views EDP24 | 2-13-2006 | Rachel Buller New view of Mr Boudica RACHEL BULLER 13 February 2006 10:49 For centuries, he has remained in the shadow of his famous wife, the warrior Queen of East Anglia's Iceni tribe. But while Boudica outshines him in history, new research shows that Prasutagus was not quite the down-trodden husband previously suggested. For it was he, and not his wife, who graced the coinage of the period. Until now, Prasutagus has only existed in historical conjecture and myth as King of the Iceni, the tribe occupying East Anglia, which was ruled with Boudica under Roman authority. However, new studies on a...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Early California: A Killing Field -- Research Shatters Utopian Myth, Finds Indians Decimated Birds
	Posted by ConservativeMind On News/Activism 02/13/2006 7:31:14 AM PST · 60 replies · 1,546+ views ScienceDaily | February 13, 2006 | University of Utah "The wild geese and every species of water fowl darkened the surface of every bay ... in flocks of millions.... When disturbed, they arose to fly. The sound of their wings was like that of distant thunder." --George Yount, California pioneer, at San Francisco Bay in 1833 When explorers and pioneers visited California in the 1700s and early 1800s, they were astonished by the abundance of birds, elk, deer, marine mammals, and other wildlife they encountered. Since then, people assumed such faunal wealth represented California's natural condition -- a product of Native Americans' living in harmony with the wildlife and...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
1,400-year-old moccasin found in Canadian glacier
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 02/17/2006 8:26:47 AM PST · 11 replies · 163+ views Yahoo! | Thu Feb 16, 6:41 PM ET VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - Archeologists studying melting alpine ice for clues on early life in Canada's North have uncovered a 1,400-year-old moccasin, officials said on Thursday. Researchers at first thought the artifact found in the southwest Yukon in 2003 was a hunter's bag, but after cleaning and reassembling the hide they realized it was the oldest aboriginal moccasin ever found in Canada. The discovery is considered especially important because it far predates any European trade contact with the region, and it likely belonged to the early Athapaskan people who lived in the boreal forests. "It is a significant addition...
NASA, UNH Scientists Uncover Lost Maya Ruins - From Space
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 02/15/2006 10:53:23 AM PST · 22 replies · 866+ views Newswise - UNH | 2-15-2006 | UNH Source: University of New Hampshire Released: Wed 15-Feb-2006, 09:15 ET NASA, UNH Scientists Uncover Lost Maya Ruins -- from Space NASA and University of New Hampshire scientists are using space- and aircraft-based "remote-sensing" technology to uncover remains of the ancient Maya culture using the chemical signature of the civilization's ancient building materials. Newswise ó Remains of the ancient Maya culture, mysteriously destroyed at the height of its reign in the ninth century, have been hidden in the rainforests of Central America for more than 1,000 years. Now, NASA and University of New Hampshire scientists are using space- and aircraft-based "remote-sensing"...
Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
Turquoise-like Stones Unearthed in Burnt City, Iran
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 02/11/2006 9:14:34 PM PST · 20 replies · 199+ views Persian Journal | February 10, 2006 Burnt City, located in Sistan va Balushistan province in southeast of Iran, is one of the prominent historical sites of Iran. It is a 5000-year-old ancient site with historical graveyards and buildings with unique architectural structures. The city was the habitat of a developed civilization with a rich culture and economy. Studies show that the site was once the center of international trade.
India
Ancient Sea Link Discovered By ASI (India)
	Posted by blam On General/Chat 02/12/2006 3:22:25 PM PST · 12 replies · 268+ views The Statesman | 2-12-2006 Ancient sea link discovered by ASI Press Trust of India CHANDIGARH, Feb. 12. ó Unraveling some facts buried in history, experts from Archaeological Survey of India said the possibility of a sea link between south India and the rest of Asia about 3,800 years ago could not be ruled out. Mr Arun Malik, an archaeologist with ASI, Chennai, while throwing light on Adichannallur civilisation, said here that the observation of human morphological types based on the cranial evidences point to the existence of more than one racial and ethnic group in that region during the period of the civilisationís long...
Prehistory and Origins
Digging Deep For A Clue To A Global Mystery (Peking Man)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 02/11/2006 10:58:19 AM PST · 21 replies · 608+ views Globe & Mail | 2-11-2006 | Geoffrey York Digging deep for a clue to a global mysteryThe search for the ancient skulls of Peking Man, missing since 1941, sits firmly on Beijing's agenda, GEOFFREY YORK writes GEOFFREY YORK ZHOUKOUDIAN, CHINA -- For more than two decades, Yang Shoukai had hoarded his secret, unsure what to do with a possible clue to one of China's most baffling mysteries. As construction supervisor on the site of an abandoned U.S. military barracks in Tianjin in 1982, he had discovered a strange cement box in the basement of the old wartime barracks. He tried to dig it up, but lacked the proper...
Early Human Ancestors Walked On The Wild Side
	Posted by blam On General/Chat 02/16/2006 10:14:54 AM PST · 14 replies · 259+ views Eureka Alert - ASU | 2-16-2006 | Garu Schwartz - Skip Derra Contact: Skip Derra skip.derra@asu.edu 480-965-4823 Arizona State University Early human ancestors walked on the wild side Tempe, Ariz. -- Arizona State University anthropologist and Institute of Human Origins researcher Gary Schwartz, along with fellow anthropologist Dan Gebo from Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, have studied fossil anklebones of some early ancestors of modern humans and discovered that they walked on the wild side. It seems some of our earliest ancestors possessed a rather unsteady stride due to subtle anatomical differences. Schwartz and Gebo's findings will be published in the April 2006 edition of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, but the...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Water Found In Meteorite
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/25/2006 8:52:11 PM PST · 19 replies · 555+ views BBC | 8-27-1999 Water found in meteorite Tiny bubbles are caught in the water Scientists have made the first discovery of liquid water in a meteorite. The space rock was recovered by a group of boys in a small Texas town who saw it fall out of the sky in 1998. Specimens taken to Nasa's Johnson Space Center in Houston were subjected to tests by Michael Zolensky and his colleagues. When they cracked open the rock they found tiny, purple spots of halite - crystals of sodium chloride, or table salt - along with minute amounts of briny water. Others who have looked...
Iron meteorites may be solar system boomerangs
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 02/17/2006 9:06:57 AM PST · 7 replies · 45+ views New Scientist | 17 February 2006 | Maggie McKee Iron meteorites thought to have originated in the asteroid belt beyond Mars may actually have formed near Earth, a new study reports... Iron meteorites are made up of iron and nickel alloys and comprise about 6% of all catalogued space rocks on Earth... Studies show that the known iron meteorites come from about 80 different parent asteroids, while the thousands of known stony meteorites broke off from just 40 or so parent bodies. That suggests astronomers should see many "differentiated" asteroids in the asteroid belt today, says William Bottke of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, US. But observations...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Experts plan to exhume Shakespeare's body
	Posted by SpringheelJack On Bloggers & Personal 11/02/2005 7:30:05 PM PST · 58 replies · 1,056+ views icBirmingham | Nov 1, 2005 | Name not given Controversial plans to dig up William Shakespeare's grave, to find out whether he was murdered by his son-in-law, have been revealed by American scientists. The US experts, who are convinced the Bard's death was anything but natural, are hoping to be granted permission by his descendants to exhume his body. Shakespeare died on his birthday on April 23, 1616, and was buried two days later at Stratford-upon-Avon's Holy Trinity Church. His grave has remained untouched for more than 350 years, but now American pathologists want to disturb his resting place, in spite of warnings of a curse on Shakespeare's tomb...
Ben Jonson's encomium to William Shakespeare
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 02/12/2006 9:46:35 PM PST · 3 replies · 11+ views The First Folio | A.D. 1623 | Ben Jonson The First Folio To the memory of my beloved, The Author MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: and what he hath left us. [by Ben Jonson] ...Soule of the Age! The applause! delight! the wonder of our Stage! My Shakespeare, rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lye A little further, to make thee a roome:Thou art a Moniment, without a tombe, And art alive still, while thy Booke doth live, And we have wits to read, and praise to give. That I not mixe thee so, my braine excuses; I meane with great, but disproportion'd Muses:...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
A History lesson: LAUS DEO
	Posted by SandRat On General/Chat 02/11/2006 2:18:44 PM PST · 11 replies · 106+ views email | Feb 11, 2006 | email Subject: A history lesson: LAUS DEO LAUS DEO: A little history lesson you may enjoy. I thought that you and others may like to see this. One detail that is not mentioned, in DC, is that there can never be a building of greater height than the Washington Monument. With all the uproar about removing the ten commandments, etc... This is worth a moment or two of your time. I was not aware of this historical information. On the aluminum cap, atop the Washington Monument in Washington, DC, are displayed two words: Laus Deo. No one can see these words....
The Civil War: Honoring Courageous Soldiers
	Posted by ZGuy On General/Chat 02/09/2006 7:48:42 AM PST · 6 replies · 62+ views Wallbuilders | February 2006 | David Barton Casual students of the Civil War often disagree about whether the War was fought over slavery, unjust economic policies, or ìstatesí rights.î Yet for millions of Americans in the 1860s, their reason for going to war can be found in the words of a famous 1830 speech made by Daniel Webster in the US Senate. At that time, South Carolina was threatening secession. On the floor of the Senate, Webster eloquently proved that there was no such right under the Constitution and that to secede would be an act of treason. (Numerous Founding Fathers -- including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson,...
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Neandertal
Humans vs. Neanderthals: Game Over Earlier
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 02/23/2006 1:25:12 AM EST · 16 replies · 239+ views LiveScience | 22 February 2006 | Associated Press Humans and Neanderthals, thought to have coexisted for 10,000 years across the whole of Europe, are more likely to have lived at the same time for only 6,000 years, the new study suggests. Scientists believe the two species could have lived side by side at specific sites for periods of only about 2,000 years, but Mellars claims they would have lived in competition at each site for only 1,000 years... Two new studies of stratified radiocarbon in the Cariaco Basin, near Venezuela, and of radiocarbon on fossilized coral formations in the tropical Atlantic and Pacific have given scientists a better...
Modern humans took over Europe in just 5,000 years
	Posted by S0122017 On News/Activism 02/23/2006 7:20:40 AM EST · 13 replies · 460+ views www.nature.com/news | 22 February 2006 | Michael Hopkin Published online: 22 February 2006; | doi:10.1038/news060220-11 Better bone dates reveal bad news for Neanderthals Modern humans took over Europe in just 5,000 years. Michael Hopkin These drawings from the Chauvet cave were originally dated to around 31,000 years ago. But a new analysis pushes that back four or five thousand years. © Nature, with permission from the French Ministry of Culture and Communication. Advances in the science of radiocarbon dating - a common, but oft-maligned palaeontological tool - have narrowed down the overlap between Europe's earliest modern humans and the Neanderthals that preceded them. Refinements to the technique, which...
Modern humans 'blitzed Europe'(Radiocarbon Dating Development)
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 02/23/2006 1:22:51 PM EST · 21 replies · 671+ views The Telegraph (U.K.) | 23/02/2006 | Roger Highfield Our ancestors colonised Europe and wiped out their Neanderthal cousins even faster than we thought, says a study published today. Argument has raged for years about whether our ancestors from Africa outsurvived, killed or bred with the Neanderthals, who were stronger, bulkier and shorter but had equally large brains. Now developments in radiocarbon dating suggest that many of the dates published over the past 40 years are likely to underestimate the true ages of the samples. Prof Paul Mellars, of the University of Cambridge, describes today in the journal Nature how better calibration of radiocarbon ages have led to revisions...
Prehistory and Origins
Predators 'Drove Human Evolution'
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 02/19/2006 3:18:49 PM EST · 112 replies · 1,196+ views BBC | 2-19-2006 | Paul Ricon Predators 'drove human evolution' By Paul Rincon BBC News science reporter, St Louis The alternative view that man was the one hunted was suggested The popular view of our ancient ancestors as hunters who conquered all in their way is wrong, researchers have told a major US science conference. Instead, they say, early humans were on the menu for predatory beasts. This may have driven humans to evolve increased levels of co-operation, according to their theory. Despite humankind's considerable capacity for war and violence, we are highly sociable animals, according to anthropologists. James Rilling at Emory University in Atlanta, US,...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Molecular Clockwork And Related Theories
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 02/25/2006 5:40:40 PM EST · 12 replies · 293+ views Athena Review Molecular clockwork and related theories Testing the basis for "Mitochondrial Eve." Molecular clocks, a complex topic central to current debates on human evolution, first came into prominence in paleoanthropology in the 1960's. One well-known study by Vincent Sarich and Alan Wilson of the University of California (1967) measured the immunological reactions in primates and other animals to a control sample of the blood protein serum albumin. The differences, assumed due to a constant rate of evolution through mutations, were then plotted on a linear scale showing time elapsed since each species diverged from a common ancestor. On the same principle, DNA,...
New Analysis of Chinese Fossil Provides Clearer Picture of Pleistocene Humans
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 02/24/2006 12:33:10 PM EST · 9 replies · 173+ views Scientific American | February 21, 2006 | David Biello In 1984 researchers working at a site called Jinniushan, near the town of Yinkou in northeastern China, found the fossilized remains of a woman who lived roughly 260,000 years ago. Though the climate may have been milder then, she still lived near the edge of human existence in a time before fire... the lady from Jinniushan is the biggest woman yet found from the Pleistocene, weighing in at an estimated 173 pounds or so and standing some five feet tall. This led some researchers to classify her as a male specimen, but the shape of her pelvis suggests differently. "If...
Big Woman with a Distant Past: Stone Age gal embodies humanity's cold shifts
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 02/25/2006 2:39:26 PM EST · 18 replies · 773+ views Science News | Bruce Bower A 260,000-year-old partial skeleton excavated in northwestern China 22 years ago represents our largest known female ancestor, according to a new analysis of the individual's extensive remains. This ancient woman puts a modern twist on Stone Age human evolution, say Karen R. Rosenberg of the University of Delaware in Newark, L¸ ZunÈ of Peking University in Beijing, and Chris B. Ruff of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore. The fossil individual's large size and the apparent adaptation of her body to cold conditions are "consistent with the idea that patterns of human anatomical variation that we see today...
Faith and Philosophy
Worship Of Phoenix May Have Started 7,400 Years Ago In Central China
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 02/23/2006 1:37:30 PM EST · 20 replies · 352+ views People's Daily - Xinhua | 2-22-2006 Worship of phoenix may start 7,400 years ago in central China New archaeological discoveries show that the worship of the phoenix by ancient Chinese can be dated back as early as 7,400 years ago in central China. A large amount of pottery, decorated with the patterns of beasts, the sun and birds have been excavated at the Gaomiao relics site in Hongjiang, Huaihua City of central China's Hunan Province, according to a report by the Guangming Daily. "The patterns of birds should be the phoenix worshipped by ancient Chinese," said He Gang, a researcher with the Hunan Institute of Archaeology....
Asia
8,000-Year-Old Drill To Make Fire Found In Zhejiang (China)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 02/21/2006 2:57:59 PM EST · 19 replies · 644+ views Xinhuanet - China View | 2-21-2006 8,000-year-old drill to make fire found in Zhejiang www.chinaview.cn 2006-02-21 17:54:57 BEIJING, Feb. 21 (Xinhuanet) -- Chinese archaeologists said that parts of an instrument to make fire, dating back to 8,000 years ago, have been found in east China's Zhejiang Province. The relics, made of bones and wood, were discovered at the Kuahuqiao Relics Site in Xiaoshan, Zhejiang Province, according to Qianjiang Evening News. Liu Zhiqing, a retired professor from Zhejiang University, was quoted by the newspaper as saying that the relics were part of an instrument to drill wood to get fire. Some relics in strange shapes were unearthed...
China
Excavation of tomb ruled out [Mausoleum of Qinshihuang]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 02/21/2006 10:34:55 PM EST · 8 replies · 96+ views China Daily | Updated: 2006-02-22 | Ma Lie With its tales of buried treasure and the elixir of youth, the recent movie "Myth" has heightened interest in the mystical Mausoleum of Qinshihuang (259-210 BC). Starring Hong Kong actor Jackie Chan as an archaeologist, the film focuses on what could be hidden within the tomb, which was built more than 2,000 years ago... "It is the best choice to keep the ancient tomb untouched, because of the complex conditions inside," said Duan Qingbo, archaeologist and researcher in the Shaanxi Provincial Archaeology Institute. Duan, who is also the head of the archaeological team working on the ancient mausoleum, told China...
The Terra-cotta soldiers of Qin Shihuang
	Posted by Dr. Marten On Bloggers & Personal 05/04/2005 3:16:49 AM EDT · 8 replies · 1,244+ views The Horses Mouth | 05.04.05 | Gordon The photos contained in this album are of the Terra-cotta warriors located in the Shaanxi province, just outside of Xi'an. The Terra-cotta army was constructed by order of Qin Shihuang,†who ruled as the†first emperor of China from 259 BC - 210 BC.The soldiers†were†first discovered by a peasant farmer in 1976 and were thought to be an insignificant discovery by the communist government. Later, a Chinese reporter caught wind of the discovery and†used his position to bring proper recognition to the matter and the farmer was later given a whopping 10元 as a reward for his find. If he's still alive...
Five more chambers of first emperor's tomb found
	Posted by vannrox On News/Activism 01/11/2003 7:32:12 PM EST · 38 replies · 1,151+ views STI | 1-12-3 | Editorial Staff JAN 10, 2003 Five more chambers of first emperor's tomb found Rooms are even bigger than pits that hold his terracotta armyBEIJING - Archaeologists say they have found five more chambers in the sprawling tomb complex of China's legendary first emperor - rooms even bigger than the pits that hold his famed terracotta army. Qin Shihuang is credited with creating the first Chinese empire in 220 BC after conquering neighbouring kingdoms. His tomb near the city of Xi'an has not been opened, but the thousands of life-size clay soldiers unearthed in the 1970s are a major tourist attraction. Archaeologists...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
First Americans May Have Been European
	Posted by anymouse On News/Activism 02/20/2006 12:08:52 AM EST · 132 replies · 2,316+ views LiveScience.com | 2/19/06 | Bjorn Carey ST. LOUISóThe first humans to spread across North America may have been seal hunters from France and Spain. This runs counter to the long-held belief that the first human entry into the Americas was a crossing of a land-ice bridge that spanned the Bering Strait about 13,500 years ago. The new thinking was outlined here Sunday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The tools don"t match Recent studies have suggested that the glaciers that helped form the bridge connecting Siberia and Alaska began receding around 17,000 to 13,000 years ago, leaving very little...
Ancient People Followed 'Kelp Highway' To America, Researcher Says
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 02/20/2006 6:32:34 PM EST · 30 replies · 759+ views Live Science | 2-19-2006 | Bjorn Carey Ancient People Followed 'Kelp Highway' to America, Researcher Says Bjorn Carey LiveScience Staff Writer Sun Feb 19, 9:00 PM ET ST. LOUISóAncient humans from Asia may have entered the Americas following an ocean highway made of dense kelp. The new finding lends strength to the "coastal migration theory," whereby early maritime populations boated from one island to another, hunting the bountiful amounts of sea creatures that live in kelp forests. This research was presented here Sunday at the annual American Association for the Advancement of Science by anthropologist Jon Erlandson of the University of Oregon. Today, a nearly continuous "kelp...
Kennewick Man
Report: Kennewick Man Deliberately Buried
	Posted by Pharmboy On News/Activism 02/24/2006 10:06:28 AM EST · 28 replies · 692+ views Reuters via Yahoo | Fri Feb 24, 2006 | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID Kennewick Man was laid to rest alongside a river more than 9,000 years ago, buried by other people, a leading forensic scientist said Thursday. The skeleton, one of the oldest and most complete ever found in North America, has been under close analysis since courts sided with researchers in a legal battle with Indian tribes in the Northwest who wanted the remains found near the Columbia River reburied without study. Douglas Owsley, an anthropologist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, discussed his findings in remarks prepared for delivery Thursday evening at a meeting of the American Academy of...
Pieces falling into place (Kennewick Man)
	Posted by Spunky On News/Activism 02/24/2006 8:51:38 AM EST · 260 replies · 2,689+ views Tri-City Herald | February 24th, 2006 | By Anna King, Herald staff writer SEATTLE -- Kennewick Man was buried by other humans. That finding, which scientists have pondered for nearly 10 years, was finally confirmed Thursday at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Scientists here. The scientists also have concluded the ancient skull appears different than those of Indian tribes who lived in the area. Scientists long had wondered whether Kennewick Man, whose 9,000-year-old skeleton was found 10 years ago in Columbia Park alongside the Columbia River, was naturally covered with silt or if others had laid him to rest. The answer is he was laid out on his back,...
Speaker: ancient skeleton led to new view of human settlement in America [ Kennewick and Chatters ]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 02/22/2006 10:33:22 AM EST · 10 replies · 173+ views UConn Advance | February 6, 2006 | Cindy Weiss James C. Chatters, a forensic archaeologist and paleoecologist whose life and career changed 10 years ago when the 9,400-year-old "Kennewick Man" was discovered, warned anthropology students here last week that "you never know where your career will take you." ...He told them that the aftermath of the Kennewick Man discovery has been "a hard thing," with the press portraying him as a racist and an Indian tribe with which he once had a good relationship blacklisting him. One of the first findings about the skeleton was that it had Caucasian features... His research has also revised his opinion about how...
Scientists releasing Kennewick Man research
	Posted by Spunky On News/Activism 02/22/2006 4:25:48 PM EST · 68 replies · 1,352+ views Tri-City Herald | February 22, 2006 | Anna King, Herald staff writer Scientists plan to disclose their findings about Kennewick Man on Thursday in Seattle, nearly a decade after the discovery of the 9,000-year-old skeleton that attracted worldwide interest and sparked a lengthy legal fight. "Kennewick's story is finally going to get told," said Cleone Hawkinson, president of Friends of America's Past. Hawkinson has been working for years to ensure Kennewick Man's bones would be studied by the top scientists in the country. Kennewick Man's bones are significant to scientists because they are considered one of the most complete ancient skeletons ever found. Scientists have theorized he was about 45 years old...
Invasion of the Kennewick Men
	Posted by farmfriend On News/Activism 02/24/2004 2:16:05 AM EST · 43 replies · 246+ views Tech Central Station | 02/24/2004 | Jackson Kuhl Invasion of the Kennewick Men By Jackson Kuhl After almost eight years of labyrinthine litigation the case of Kennewick Man has ended with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and archaeological science is the winner -- for now. In a February 4 decision, the Ninth upheld the district court ruling stating that since no relationship could be established between modern American Indians and Kennewick Man -- physically, contextually, or otherwise -- he is not a Native American as defined under NAGPRA, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, thus NAGPRA isn't applicable. The Archaeological Resources Protection Act (ARPA) therefore...
9th Circuit Court of Appeals to have final say on disposition of Kennewick Man.
	Posted by vannrox On News/Activism 01/11/2003 5:18:04 PM EST · 11 replies · 178+ views Oregon Live | 01/09/03 | RICHARD L. HILL Tribes fail to halt study of ancient skeleton 01/09/03RICHARD L. HILL Four Northwest tribes lost another round in federal court Wednesday in their effort to halt a scientific study of the ancient skeleton called Kennewick Man. U.S. Magistrate John Jelderks in Portland rejected the tribes' request to delay the study until the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals can hear the legal dispute. In August, Jelderks ruled that eight anthropologists who sued the federal government could proceed to study the 9,300-year-old remains. The Nez Perce, Umatilla, Colville and Yakama tribes appealed his decision and later asked Jelderks to delay...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blocks study of Kennewick Man bones! (they just won't let it go!)
	Posted by vannrox On News/Activism 02/24/2003 8:56:23 AM EST · 69 replies · 317+ views AP via SF Gate | Thursday, February 20, 2003 | AP Editorial Staff <p>Eight anthropologists who want to study an ancient skeleton must want until a federal court has heard an appeal of the case by four Northwest tribes that consider the bones sacred.</p> <p>The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' decision, made last week, prevents any study of the 9,300-year-old skeleton known as Kennewick Man, which scientists have sought to examine since 1996.</p>
Kennewick Man Saga Lives On
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 06/17/2002 5:13:28 PM EDT · 30 replies · 293+ views Tri-City Herald | 6-17-2002 | Mike Lee Kennewick Man saga lives on This story was published 6/17/02 By Mike Lee Herald staff writer With the fate of the ancient bones found in Kennewick six years ago remaining in legal limbo, Peter Lampson has decided to take action. It's been a year, and the judge still hasn't issued a public pronouncement about the future of Kennewick Man. But the 17-year-old Lampson isn't waiting for the ruling to make his mark. In one of a handful of developments related to the once high-profile case, Lampson is erecting a sign in Columbia Park to commemorate Kennewick's world-famous former resident, who...
Climate
Global Warming Can Trigger Extreme Ocean, Climate Changes
	Posted by cogitator On General/Chat 01/18/2006 1:18:38 PM EST · 16 replies · 123+ views SpaceRef | 01/15/2006 | National Science Foundation Scientists use deep ocean historical records to find an abrupt ocean circulation reversalNewly published research results provide evidence that global climate change may have quickly disrupted ocean processes and lead to drastic shifts in environments around the world. Although the events described unfolded millions of years ago and spanned thousands of years, the researchers, affiliated with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, say they provide one of the few historical analogs for warming-induced changes in the large-scale sea circulation, and thus may help to illuminate the potential long-term impacts of today's climate warming. Writing in this week's issue of the journal...
Underwater Archaeology
Beneath the Seven Seas: Adventures with the Institute of Nautical Archaeology
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 02/22/2006 11:30:02 AM EST · 8 replies · 98+ views LibraryJournal.com | February 14, 2006 | Joan W. Gartland The first person to fully excavate an ancient shipwreck on the seabed, and founder of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA), he brings together in this handsomely illustrated book accounts by many distinguished archaeologists associated with the INA. They tell of the discovery, excavation, and preservation of more than 40 shipwrecks -- and one sunken city -- the world over, from ancient times through the Byzantine, medieval, and Renaissance eras and on through World War II. The shipwrecks featured range from an ancient Sea of Galilee fishing boat to the Titanic and a D-day landing craft. The sunken city is...
India
Ruins of Harrappan city found in Haryana
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 02/21/2006 3:07:44 PM EST · 10 replies · 131+ views Business Standard (India) | February 21, 2006 | Press Trust Of India/New Delhi/Chandigarh A department spokesman termed the find, discovered at Farmana Khas, about 12 kilometers from Meham on Julana Road, as very significant. He said till now urban settlements of the civilisation -- Banawali, Bhirdana and Rakhigarhi -- had come to light in the state, but this was the first discovery of the ruins of a city. He said the site of the discovery, popularly known as Daksh Khera, was spread over 32 acres and the ruins were under a three-metre high hillock.
Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
Two Ancient Caves Discovered In Qasr-e-Shirin (Iran/Iraq)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 02/18/2006 2:32:33 PM EST · 19 replies · 513+ views Pendar/CHN | 2-17-2006 Two Ancient Caves Discovered in Qasr-e Shirin 2006-2-17 - 22:11 - CHN Archeological excavations in the city of Qasr-e Shirin led to the discovery of two caves belonging to the Neolithic and Middle Elamite periods. Tehran, 16 February 2006 (CHN) -- Archeological excavations in the city of Qasr-e Shirin resulted in the discovery of two caves belonging to the Neolithic epoch and the Middle Elamite period. "Two caves were discovered in the southern foothills of Bazidar Mountains, one of them dates back to some 9000 years ago that is Neolithic epoch, and the other belongs to the Middle Elamite period...
Mesopotamia
The tombs of Ur reveal treasures [ Houston and Univ of Pennsylvania ]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 02/22/2006 1:58:29 PM EST · 5 replies · 50+ views Houston Chronicle | February 22, 2006 | Eileen McClelland Royal Tombs of Ur: Ancient Treasures From Modern Iraq is a timely, traveling sample of artifacts discovered in the 1920s and '30s at the Sumerian site of ancient Ur, the traditional home of the biblical prophet Abraham, which is now southern Iraq. The Ur exhibit is on loan from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, Friday-Aug. 13. Col. Matthew Bogdanos, U.S. Marines Corps, led a task force across the desert to track stolen antiquities from the Iraq Museum. The mission resulted in the recovery of more than 5,000 artifacts. Bogdanos...
Mediterranean
Cyrenaica Archaeological Project
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 02/20/2006 12:57:10 AM EST · 5 replies · 85+ views Cyrenaica Archaeological Project http://www.cyrenaica.org/ | 2004 | somebody et al One of the largest and best-preserved sanctuaries dedicated to Demeter and Persephone in the eastern Mediterranean, the hillside sanctuary is terraced on at least three levels supported by various retaining walls. The Upper Sanctuary area is still largely unexcavated. Its importance and the richness of finds are a testament to the prosperity of the city of Cyrene: in seven seasons of excavation, a great quantity of votive materials spanning the life of the sanctuary were unearthed: these include ca 4.500 terracotta figurines, ca 750 pieces of marble and limestone sculpture and reliefs, a large amount of high quality Attic Black...
TALK OF THE TOWN LEADS STRAIGHT TO DISCOVERY
	Posted by vannrox On News/Activism 02/07/2003 10:51:57 AM EST · 5 replies · 135+ views UC News | Date: 1/22/2003 | Marianne Kunnen-Jones † Date: 1/22/2003 Contact: Marianne Kunnen-Jones ; E-mail: Marianne.Kunnen-Jones@UC.Edu Phone: (513) 556-1826 Photos By: Robin Cobb TALK OF THE TOWN LEADS STRAIGHT TO DISCOVERY In a cafe in Cyprus, the University of Cincinnati scholar overheard conversations about an ancient tomb. Her interest piqued, she listened intently as the locals described an apparently undisturbed archaeological site. It might be only a tall tale or a local legend, Gisela Walberg thought, but what if...? That bit of eavesdropping in the town of Episkopi led Walberg to a Late Bronze-Age tomb yielding more than 200 artifacts. She'll discuss her findings in a...
Anatolia
Alinda ancient city awaits discovery
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 02/18/2006 11:34:39 PM EST · 5 replies · 46+ views Turkish Daily News | Saturday, February 18, 2006 Karpuzlu Mayor Hayretin Anmak announced that archeological excavations in the ancient city of Alinda are to be launched by Austria's Vienna University. The ancient city is located within the boundaries of today's town of Karpuzlu in the Aegean province of Aydƒ±n... Alinda was founded by the Carians on the slope of a mountain looking east over today's Karpuzlu town... Seven aqueduct arches -- called the "seven eyes" by the locals -- still grace the old site. Another of the city's important structures is its ancient theater, which is located in an olive-producing area. Additional buildings are expected to be identified...
Ancient Egypt
Out of Egypt [Saint Louis Art Museum, Ka-Nefer-Nefer mask]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 02/18/2006 11:17:53 PM EST · 3 replies · 65+ views Riverfront Times | Feb 15, 2006 | Malcolm Gay Goneim dubbed the woman Ka-Nefer-Nefer: the Twice-Beautiful Ka. So taken was Goneim with Ka-Nefer-Nefer (pronounced caw nef-er nef-er) that he would publish photographs of the mask in three subsequent books about the excavation. But amid the excitement of the dig in 1952, her fate was obscured. She would disappear from public view for nearly 50 years. More precisely, until 1998, when the Saint Louis Art Museum purchased the mask for a half-million dollars from Phoenix Ancient Art, an antiquities dealership owned by the Lebanese brothers Hicham and Ali Aboutaam.
Ancient Rome
Scholars Unearth Mystery (Romans)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 02/19/2006 7:46:32 PM EST · 4 replies · 627+ views Rocky Mountain News | 2-13-2006 | Jim Erickson Scholars unearth mysteryVilla of Roman emperor raises new questions for researchers on dig in Italy Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maxentius is depicted on a coin. Print By Jim Erickson Rocky Mountain News February 13, 2006 In The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon portrays the pagan emperor Maxentius as a licentious youth and "a tyrant as contemptible as he was odious." Historians have long assumed that the reviled Roman emperor lived part-time at an 80-acre suburban villa complex until he was killed by his rival Constantine at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge in A.D. 312....
Roman villa found in Sicily
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 02/23/2006 11:42:21 AM EST · 11 replies · 95+ views Gruppo Ansa | February 20 2006 A Roman villa dating back to the III Century AD has been found near Catania in Sicily... The villa, which is thought to cover about 2,500 square metres, may be the same one discovered by a famous Italian archaeologist, Paolo Orsi, at the beginning of the last century. Orsi found traces of a mosaic floor but no excavation followed his preliminary dig and the site is believed to have been covered up again by subsequent earth movements and vegetation.
Gladiators
Where's my copy of the Gladiator Rulebook?
	Posted by wagglebee On News/Activism 02/23/2006 9:31:14 PM EST · 22 replies · 610+ views Reuters | 2/23/06 | Reuters LONDON (Reuters) - Gladiators may have fought and died to entertain others in the brutality of the Roman arena but they appear to have abided by a strict code of conduct which avoided savage violence, forensic scientists say. Tests on the remains of 67 gladiators found in tombs at Ephesus in Turkey, center of power for ancient Rome's eastern empire, show they stuck to well defined rules of combat and avoided gory free-for-alls. Injuries to the front of each skull suggested that each opponent used just one type of weapon per bout of face-to-face contact, two Austrian researchers report in...
Veni Vidi, Veggie...(Roman Gladiators)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 03/01/2004 9:03:18 PM EST · 21 replies · 265+ views The Telegraph (UK) | 2-3-2004 | Tom Leonard Veni, vidi, veggie... By Tom Leonard, Media Editor (Filed: 02/03/2004) Roman gladiators were overweight vegetarians who lived on barley and beans, according to a scientific study of the largest gladiator graveyard discovered. Analysis of the bones of more than 70 gladiators recently found near Ephesus, the Roman capital of Asia Minor, puts paid to traditional Hollywood images of macho carnivores with the physique of boxers. The dietary findings of the scientists from the University of Vienna are detailed in a forthcoming documentary on Channel Five. They may give vegetarians a new, harder image. But the vegetarian stereotype is shattered by...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Possible wall of King David's Palace unearthed in Jersulam
	Posted by Liberty1970 On News/Activism 12/06/2005 9:02:09 PM EST · 40 replies · 928+ views Cleveland Jewish News Amazing discovery in heart of biblical Jerusalem By: DAVID HAZONY Special to the CJN Recent archaeological find, thought by some to be the biblical palace built by King David, stirs controversy over the right of the Jewish people to claim Jerusalem. In what many archaeologists hail as the potential find of the century, remains of a massive structure dating to the time of King David have been discovered in the heart of biblical Jerusalem. Eilat Mazar, the Israeli archaeologist leading the excavation, has suggested that it may, in fact, be the palace built by David as described in the Bible....
Harvard museum exhibit shows "The Houses of Ancient Israel"
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 02/23/2006 11:19:52 AM EST · 4 replies · 48+ views WorldNow and WFSB | February 2006 | AP The exhibit, "The Houses of Ancient Israel: Domestic, Royal, Divine," focuses on everyday life around the year 700 B.C. A cut-away model of an Iron Age home shows how the upper floor was used for eating and sleeping. The exhibit lays out a typical meal _ melon, figs, olives, cheese _ in anticipation of the family's return home from the harvest. The lower floor, used for keeping animals and storage, features a small sheep pen that gives a sense of how farm animals lived among people... The exhibit was inspired by the book, "Life in Biblical Israel," written by the...
Biblical Pool of Siloam uncovered in Jerusalem
	Posted by restornu On Religion 02/24/2006 10:45:58 AM EST · 41 replies · 358+ views Los Angeles Times | Tuesday, August 09, 2005 | By Thomas H. Maugh II Workers repairing a sewage pipe in the old city of Jerusalem have discovered the biblical Pool of Siloam, a freshwater reservoir that was a major gathering place for ancient Jews making religious pilgrimages to the city and the reputed site where Jesus cured a man blind from birth, according to the Gospel of John. The pool was fed by the now-famous Hezekiah's Tunnel and is "a much grander affair" than archaeologists previously believed, with three tiers of stone stairs allowing easy access to the water, according to Hershel Shanks, editor of Biblical Archeology Review, which reported the find yesterday. "Scholars...
King David's Palace Found in East Jerusalem?
	Posted by restornu On Religion 02/24/2006 12:09:21 PM EST · 5 replies · 111+ views taipeitimes | 2006 01 05 | By Robert Morley Does an amazing new discovery show that the Bible is supported by science? Many archeologists are calling the latest Israeli archeological discovery "the find of the century" (Canadian Jewish News, October 20). Eilat Mazar, an Israeli archeologist, is claiming to have unearthed, in East Jerusalem, the palace of biblical King David. King David was the 10th century b.c. poet-warrior and slayer of Goliath, whom the Bible says consolidated and expanded the ancient Israelite kingdom into a regional power. In approximately 1000 b.c., King David conquered Jerusalem from the Jebusites (Washington Post, December 2), and subsequently made it his capital....
Megaliths and Archaeoastronomy
Carmarthenshire Cairn Reveals Link With Bronze Age Scotland
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 02/18/2006 2:23:12 PM EST · 8 replies · 217+ views 24hourmuseum | 2-17-2006 | Roz Yappenden CARMARTHENSHIRE CAIRN REVEALS LINKS WITH BRONZE AGE SCOTLAND by Roz Tappenden 17/02/2006 The excavation took place in 2004. © Cambria Archaeology New research on an excavated Bronze Age burial mound in south Wales has revealed links to funeral sites as far away as the Orkney Islands. The burial mound on the Black Mountain in Carmarthenshire was unearthed by Cambria Archaeology in 2004 after it was feared that the weather and visitors to the area were causing permanent damage to the site. Fan Foel from Llanddeusant. © Cambria Archaeology Archaeologists discovered a large rectangular stone cist at the centre of the...
Ancient Refuge Found By Workmen (Ireland)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 02/25/2006 1:44:53 PM EST · 46 replies · 732+ views BBC | 2-25-2006 Ancient refuge found by workmen The stone-built tunnel leads into the hillside Workmen have unearthed 1,000 years of history on a County Down building site. They have come upon an underground stone-built tunnel in Raholp, where our ancestors might have hidden from the Vikings or from warring neighbours. Archaeologist Ken Neill said that with chambers off from the main tunnel it was a quite complicated souterrain, and probably built by better off farmers. The opening that led to the tunnel - which leads into the hillside - will be sealed and the passage left alone. "It was really somewhere for...
Neolithic site wins reprieve from diggers
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 02/21/2006 10:26:10 PM EST · 3 replies · 56+ views Guardian | Tuesday February 21, 2006 | Martin Wainwright It seems careless to overlook Britain's largest prehistoric site for the best part of 1,000 years - but that it what has happened in the case of the threat to the Thornborough Henges... And perhaps we will now take note of other ghostly palimpsests on the map of England such as the under-appreciated British Camp complex of the Malvern Hills and the mysterious drovers' highways that saw Serengeti-like movements of cattle in the prehistoric East Riding of Yorkshire and in Lincolnshire.
British Isles
Archangel Sculpture Rises From Lichfield Nave
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 02/20/2006 5:36:26 PM EST · 2 replies · 167+ views The Guardian (UK) | 2-20-2006 | Maev Kennedy Archangel sculpture rises from Lichfield nave Maev Kennedy Monday February 20, 2006 Simply red ... the carving of the Archangel Gabriel recently discovered under the nave of Lichfield Cathedral. Photograph: Shelley Stratford The Archangel Gabriel, his wings still fiery with colour applied over 1200 years ago, has emerged from beneath the nave of Lichfield Cathedral. The Anglo-Saxon carved figure was found when builders, watched over by archaeologists, took up part of the floor of the nave to build a new rising platform for concerts and recitals. "None of us imagined that the project would provide a priceless gem, with the...
A Visigoth In Kent?
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 02/21/2006 3:03:31 PM EST · 8 replies · 403+ views Wessex Archaeology | 2-21-2006- A Visigoth in Kent? The excavations at Springhead uncovered a large number of brooches. One in particular has turned out to be a very exciting discovery. X-ray photography showed that the 5th-6th century iron bow brooch was of Visigothic design, of a type known as Estagel. The Visigoths (West Goths) were one of the German tribes. Settled near the Black Sea in the 3rd century AD, by the 6th century they had migrated west and reached Spain and northern France. Kent was probably the most cosmopolitan region in the country at this time and Saxons and Jutes have left evidence...
A Visigoth in Kent?
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 02/21/2006 3:19:07 PM EST · 9 replies · 108+ views Wessex Archaeology | January 2006 | Roman Finds Group Newsletter Kent was probably the most cosmopolitan region in the country at this time and Saxons and Jutes have left evidence of their culture here. In the last 30 years or so, a number of objects of Visigothic design have come to light, mainly in south-east England. Now this brooch adds to the evidence for connections between the people of Kent and the small number of Visigothic groups known to have lived in northern France at the time.
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Villagers Claim Church Fresco Is Lost Michaelangelo
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 02/23/2006 1:46:13 PM EST · 34 replies · 666+ views The Guardian (UK) | 2-23-2006 | John Hooper Villagers claim church fresco is lost Michelangelo Parishioner's confession leads to discovery of monogram behind altar John Hooper in Rome Thursday February 23, 2006 The Guardian (UK) The fresco, attributed to Michelangelo, was discovered behind an altar in a village church in Chianti, Italy. Photography: Marco Bucco/EPA No one else knows what the pensioner told the priest about what he got up to when he was a naughty altar boy. But his confession holds out the tantalising possibility that there could be a lost Michelangelo on the wall of a village church in Chianti. For centuries the inhabitants of Marcialla...
Egypt Ruler Moved To Pull Down Cheops Pyramid For Noble Reasons
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 02/19/2006 7:27:58 PM EST · 36 replies · 783+ views Makfax | 2-19-2006 Egypt ruler moved to pull down Cheops Pyramid of noble motives Cairo, 13:30 An Albanian with Macedonian origin, Muhammad Ali Pasha, ruler of Egypt, Syria and Arabia in 19th century, had ordered his French engineer Linan to pull down the Cheops Pyramid. The Great Pyramid of Cheops had been rescued with two piastres, the then Egyptian currency. This information was documented in archive paperwork kept in Revolution Museum depots. Media in Egypt cited extracts of these documents. According to documents, the then Egypt ruler Muhammad Ali wanted to remove stone blocks from their pyramid in order to build a dam...
Lady Of Wells Reveals Her Secrets
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 02/19/2006 7:18:47 PM EST · 14 replies · 952+ views BBC | 2-19-2006 Lady of Wells reveals her secrets The current bishop wants to restore the throne room A mysterious medieval wall painting found beneath the floor of the Bishop of Bath and Well's bedroom has given up its secrets. The painting, which shows a partly-clad woman wearing a transparent dress, dates from between 1460 and 1470. It was part of the decoration of the throne room of Bishop Thomas Beckynton. Dr Mark Horton, of Bristol University, who researched the painting discovered it is most likely to be part of a scene representing a medieval paradise. "It was rather like something out of...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Google bringing search to historical manuscripts
	Posted by JerseyHighlander On News/Activism 02/18/2006 12:38:16 PM EST · 14 replies · 244+ views pcadvisor.co.uk | February 11, 2006 | Nancy Gohring Google bringing search to historical manuscripts Using shape-matching technology Nancy Gohring History buffs can search George Washington's manuscripts online today for terms such as 'revolution', but only thanks to the tireless workers who transcribed the hand-written documents into digital form. Soon, many other hand-written historical documents could be made available for the public to search - and through considerably less effort - if a research project funded by Google and being executed by three universities works out as planned. The project, announced by DCU (Dublin City University) yesterday, started on a whim. DCU professor Alan Smeaton has been working on...
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Catastrophism and Astronomy
Huge Crater Found in Egypt - Kebira
	Posted by NormsRevenge On News/Activism 03/03/2006 11:58:45 PM EST · 60 replies · 1,961+ views Space.com | 3/3/06 | Robert Roy Britt Scientists have discovered a huge crater in the Saharan desert, the largest one ever found there. The crater is about 19 miles (31 kilometers) wide, more than twice as big as the next largest Saharan crater known. It utterly dwarfs Meteor Crater in Arizona, which is about three-fourths of a mile (1.2 kilometers) in diameter. In fact, the newfound crater, in Egypt, was likely carved by a space rock that was itself roughly 0.75 miles wide in an event that would have been quite a shock, destroying everything for hundreds of miles. For comparison, the Chicxulub crater left by a...
Apocalypse Then
	Posted by tbird5 On News/Activism 02/27/2006 12:39:21 AM EST · 45 replies · 918+ views washingtonpost.com | February 26, 2006 | Joshua Foer A mysterious cataclysm almost brought about the end of the world some 250 million years ago The last time Earth experienced a mass extinction, some 65 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous period, there is little doubt about what happened. A humongous meteor slammed into the Yucatan Peninsula, incinerating everything around for thousands of miles. Plumes of vaporized rock blanketed the planet in a layer of thick ash, blocking the sun and choking off photosynthesis. The entire global ecosystem virtually collapsed in a geological eye-blink. Though the dinosaurs might find it crass to say so, the late...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
An enchanted forest (pictures)
	Posted by lizol On Bloggers & Personal 02/27/2006 2:18:21 PM EST · 25 replies · 270+ views The Sydney Morning Herald | February 27, 2006 | Mat Schulz Mat Schulz goes hunting for the endangered bison in a primeval corner of Poland. For most people, Poland is connected with images of factories, coalmines and shipyards. But between the industrial landscapes there are mountains, lakes and sea. Most surprisingly, on the border with Belarus, Poland also has mainland Europe's last primeval forest - 8000 years old and 1250 square kilometres in size. The Bialowieza Forest still exists because Polish and Lithuanian royalty used it for hunting from the 14th century. When, in the 19th century, the land became part of Russia, the tsar reserved it for the same purpose....
Europe's Chill Linked To Disease (Black Death Caused Little Ice Age?)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 02/27/2006 1:53:31 PM EST · 81 replies · 1,306+ views bbc | 2-27-2006 Europe's chill linked to disease By Kate Ravilious Bubonic plague may have wiped out over a third of Europe's population Europe's "Little Ice Age" may have been triggered by the 14th Century Black Death plague, according to a new study. Pollen and leaf data support the idea that millions of trees sprang up on abandoned farmland, soaking up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. This would have had the effect of cooling the climate, a team from Utrecht University, Netherlands, says. The Little Ice Age was a period of some 300 years when Europe experienced a dip in average temperatures. Dr...
Climate
1816 - The Year without a Summer (For Libs who think humans effect climate)
	Posted by new yorker 77 On General/Chat 02/24/2006 8:12:19 PM EST · 14 replies · 201+ views dandantheweatherman.com Introduction The period 1812-1817 was one of exceptional volcanic activity, and the sheer volume of volcanic dust pumped into the atmosphere by these volcanic eruptions caused a general, temporary cooling in the earthís climate around this time. This temporary climatic cooling peaked during the summer of 1816 was the peak of this cooling and the reason the peak fell in the summer of 1816 is almost certainly die to the eruption of the Tamboro volcano east of Java in April 1815 (believed to be one of the most explosive eruptions of the last 10,000 years). At the time sunspots were...
Early Americans faced late Pliestocene climate change
	Posted by redpoll On News/Activism 02/26/2006 6:50:38 PM EST · 15 replies · 666+ views Eureka Alert! | Feb. 19, 2006 | no author Early Americans faced rapid late Pleistocene climate change and chaotic environments The environment encountered when the first people emigrated into the New World was variable and ever-changing, according to a Penn State geologist. "The New World was not a nice quiet place when humans came," says Dr. Russell Graham, associate professor of geology and director of the Earth & Mineral Sciences Museum. Archaeologists agree that by 11,000 years ago, people were spread across North and South America, but evidence is building for an earlier entry into the New World, a date that would put human population of North and South...
Scientists unravel 8,200-year-old climate riddle
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 03/02/2006 12:54:12 PM EST · 13 replies · 237+ views University of Southampton | April 23, 2005 | PhysOrg Palaeoceanographers from the Southampton Oceanography Centre have shed new light on the world's climate behaviour over 8,200 years ago. In an article published this week in Nature, they demonstrate that a sudden drop in temperature lasting 200 years cannot be used as a template for the modern day threat of rapid climate change... Professor Rohling explained: 'Many scientists are using this 200-year-old cold snap to validate their computer climate models when, in fact, many of the global climate changes around that time seem related to the "underlying" longer-term variability. This confusion has complicated efforts to unravel a pattern of climate...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
NAGPRA and scientists
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 02/26/2006 11:32:23 PM EST · 2 replies · 16+ views Native American Times | 2/22/2006 | Sam Lewin ...NAGPRA, has had the unintentional result of preventing the gathering of information. Elizabeth Weiss, an anthropology professor at San Jose State University, says she examined data from the past three decades to determine how NAGPRA affected research. "I know there were a lot of predictions about NAGPRA, but standardizations did not occur, the number of sites looked at decreasedÖin the meantime, research in South America and Europe by scholars has increased, which would suggest they are avoiding America because of NAGPRA," Weiss told the Native American Times, saying that she thought some anthropologists could be worried by the possibility of...
Prehistoric Milling Site Found In California (8,000-Years-Old)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 03/03/2006 7:25:44 PM EST · 29 replies · 404+ views Yahoo/AP | 3-3-2006 Prehistoric Milling Site Found in Calif. Fri Mar 3, 6:24 AM ET AZUSA, Calif. - Archaeologists excavating a housing development site found a prehistoric milling area estimated to be 8,000 years old, officials said. Large arrowheads, hearths and stone slabs used to grind seeds and acorns were among the items found at the site at the base of the Angeles National Forest, according to archeologists from Cogstone Resource Management Inc. No human or animal bones were discovered, the company said. The consulting firm was hired by Azusa Land Partners, which is developing 1,250 homes on the 520-acre site. Workers removed...
Peru, Mexico Finds Hint At Woman's Role
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 03/03/2006 7:37:15 PM EST · 11 replies · 162+ views Newsday | 3-3-2006 | Carl Hartman Peru, Mexico Finds Hint At Women's RolesBy CARL HARTMAN Associated Press Writer March 3, 2006, 2:33 PM EST (In a March 2 story about an archaeological exhibit on pre-Columbian women, The Associated Press erroneously reported where it's on view. The exhibit is at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, not the Smithsonian Institution's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. A corrected version of the story appears below.) WASHINGTON (AP) -- Archaeological finds from Mexico and Peru show that, long before Europeans arrived, women served as warriors, governors and priestesses. An exhibit at the National Museum of Women in the Arts...
Prehistory of Kansas is not what you thought
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 02/25/2006 10:46:35 PM EST · 9 replies · 191+ views Lawrence Journal-World | Friday, February 24, 2006 | Dave Ranney "There were people farming here a thousand years before the Kansa got here," said Robert Hoard, state archaeologist at the Kansas State Historical Society. "Corn didn't really kick in as a crop until about 1000 A.D." The first known crops, he said, were sunflowers and weeds, namely lamb's quarters, goose foot and pig weed. Agriculture got its first boost from pottery. "Imagine trying to cook seeds without a pot," Hoard said. "You could do it with a skin bag, water and hot stones, but it would be a lot easier to just put a pot in the fire and cook...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Evidence Of 'Jungle-Yeti' Found (Orang-Pendek)
	Posted by blam On General/Chat 02/27/2006 11:25:18 PM EST · 32 replies · 337+ views BBC | 10-12-2004 | David Green Evidence of 'jungle yeti' found By David Green BBC News Online, Manchester Adam Davies plans to write a scientific paper on the discovery Fresh evidence has been found in the jungles of Sumatra supporting claims that a mythical 'jungle yeti' may exist, claim two UK explorers. Adam Davies and Andrew Sanderson found footprints which seem to match examples they found three years ago, which were shown to be from a new species of ape. The orang pendek, as it is known, is said by islanders to walk like a man. The pair, from Stockport and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, now plan to write...
The Great DNA Hunt (Genetic archaeology)
	Posted by restornu On News/Activism 02/26/2006 12:58:16 AM EST · 20 replies · 537+ views Archaeological Institute of America | Volume 49 Number 5, September/October 1996 | by Tabitha M. Powledge and Mark Rose DNA can be used to understand the evolution of modern humans, trace migrations of people, identify individuals, and determine the origins of domestic plants and animals. DNA analysis, as one scholar put it, is "the greatest archaeological excavation of all time." Because ancient DNA molecules are normally so few and fragmented, and preserved soft tissues so rare, scientists had little hope of finding and analyzing it. But two breakthroughs have made this possible: the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), a method for copying any fragment of DNA, and the successful recovery of DNA from preserved hard tissues, bones and teeth, that...
The Evolution Of Right- And Left-handednes
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 03/02/2006 1:37:46 AM EST · 5 replies · 106+ views Science Daily | March 1, 2006 | University of Chicago Press Journals "The predominant right-handedness of humans has been noted since at least the time of the Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle," write Amanda Blackburn (University of Manitoba) and Christopher Kn--sel (University of Bradford). "Modern research has shown that hand preference occurs across human cultures and, through observations of ancient art, in ancient peoples." The researchers compared two test groups -- a modern sample of Canadians and a sample of medieval English villagers -- to determine the effect repeated movement had on human skeletons separated by over a thousand years. They found that the majority of active individuals display a high degree...
Australia and the Pacific
"Lost Kingdom" Discovered on Volcanic Island in Indonesia
	Posted by annie laurie On General/Chat 02/27/2006 9:48:58 PM EST · 17 replies · 732+ views National Geographic | February 27, 2006 | John Roach Scientists announced today the discovery of a small "kingdom" on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa thought to have been obliterated by the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history. The eruption of the volcano Tambora in 1815 killed 117,000 people in Southeast Asia, including those believed buried under ten feet (three meters) of pumice and ash in the recently discovered village. The team, led by University of Rhode Island volcanologist Haraldur Sigurdsson, hailed the discovery as the "Pompeii of the East" ...
Lost Kingdom of Tambora Uncovered
	Posted by uglybiker On News/Activism 03/01/2006 5:16:48 PM EST · 52 replies · 1,050+ views Discovery Channel | Feb. 28, 2006 | Rossella Lorenzi, Feb. 28, 2006 -- A Pompeii of the East has emerged from 10 feet of pumice and ash on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa, according to a U.S. volcanologist who has discovered what appear to be the remnants of the lost kingdom of Tambora. Wiped out in 1815 by the largest volcanic eruption in human history, the tiny kingdom is known only from a few reports from the Dutch and British colonial governments that ruled the East Indies in the 18th and early 19th centuries. < snip >Like Pompeii, frozen in time by Mount Vesuvius's eruption in Italy in 79 A.D.,...
China
3,000-year-old cliff painting found in Yunnan
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 02/27/2006 12:19:08 AM EST · 6 replies · 148+ views China View | February 26 2006 | Xinhua ...The painting, 1.4 by 1.6, meters was made with 11 prints of human palms, which are as large as those of modern people. There are two dancing figures -- the bigger one represents a man while the other stands for a woman -- in the painting, according to Ji...
India
Treasure trove seals worth of site [Dhosa and Tilpi, in Joynagar]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 02/28/2006 2:09:27 AM EST · 3 replies · 12+ views Telegraph (Calcutta) | February 28 2006 | Sebanti Sarkar The terracotta seal and dedicatory brick bearing Brahmi inscriptions, that were brought to the city on February 18, confirmed the view of archaeologists like Gautam Sengupta, Bengal's director of archaeology and museums, that they belonged to a highly-evolved civilisation of the 2nd and 1st Century BC... Found recently is a terracotta Buddha head and a male torso, which bear "the typical features of early Gupta era -- a blend of high refinement and formal power and the single-beaded necklace", said Sengupta. Both items found at Dhosa bear markings suggesting their having once been fixed to an architectural niche. "There is...
Epigraphy and Language
First Elamite Inscription Discovered Near Bandar Abbas
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 03/01/2006 2:46:59 PM EST · 9 replies · 267+ views Tehran Times | 3-1-2006 First Elamite inscription discovered near Bandar Abbas Tehran Times Culture Desk TEHRAN -- The archaeologists working at an ancient site near Bandar Abbas recently discovered a fragment of an inscription which seems to be written in Elamite cuneiform, the Persian service of CHN reported on Tuesday. The director of the team said that the discovery was made in a cemetery from the Qajar era near Sarkhun village, adding that the archaeologists estimate that it dates back to about 1500 BC, which was the middle Elamite era. The inscription is one of the most important and rare artifacts discovered in Hormozgan...
Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
Qasr'e Shirin's 6,000-Year-Old Mystery
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 02/26/2006 6:45:38 PM EST · 4 replies · 408+ views Persian Journal | 2-26-2006 Qasr'e Shirin's 6,000-Year-Old Mystery Feb 26, 2006 Discovery of some clay relics from Obeid Site (an ancient site in Mesopotamia and current Iraq belonging to the 4th Millennium BC) in the city of Qasr'e Shirin has laid the origin and destination of this cityís migrants about 6,000 years ago under ambiguity. Archeologists want to know whether these migrants came to this region from Mesopotamia or they were traveling among different regions of Zagros Mountains. "Continuation of the surveys and identifications in this city led to the discovery of 75 ancient sites most of which belong to the Obeid Site," said...
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Sun Temple Uncovered in Cairo
	Posted by freepatriot32 On News/Activism 02/27/2006 3:19:47 PM EST · 14 replies · 482+ views comcast.net | 2 26 06 | OMAR SINAN CAIRO, Egypt - Archaeologists discovered a pharaonic sun temple with large statues believed to be of King Ramses II under an outdoor marketplace in Cairo, Egypt's antiquities chief said Sunday. The partially uncovered site is the largest sun temple ever found in the capital's Aim Shams and Matariya districts, where the ancient city of Heliopolis _ the center of pharaonic sun worship _ was located, Zahi Hawass told The Associated Press. Among the artifacts was a pink granite statue weighing 4 to 5 tons whose features "resemble those of Ramses II," said Hawass, head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities....
Egypt announces discovery of Ramses II statues
	Posted by FairOpinion On General/Chat 02/26/2006 5:49:43 PM EST · 23 replies · 333+ views Reuters | Feb. 26, 2006 | Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - Statues weighing up to five tonnes and thought to be of one of ancient Egypt's greatest pharaohs, Ramses II, have been found northeast of Cairo, Egypt's Supreme Antiquities Council said in a statement on Sunday. Ramses II ruled Egypt from 1304 to 1237 BC, and presided over an era of great military expansion, erecting statues and temples to himself all over Egypt. He is traditionally believed to be the pharaoh mentioned in the biblical story of Moses. "Many parts of red granite statues were found, the most important of which had features close to Ramses II ......
Deterioration of Egypt archeological sites deplored
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 03/04/2006 10:17:49 AM EST · 6 replies · 66+ views Yahoo! | February 15 2006 | Agence France Presse The governor of Cairo, Abdul Azim Wazir, said "certain government agencies degrade archeological sites ... as happened with the higher education ministry and (Cairo's) Taz Palace, which it has turned into a depot for books and old desks." For his part, Hawas said as many of 90 percent of the caretakers of sites allow improper activities in exchange for bribes. In another example, he said "residents of the village of Gourna have built mosques atop an archeological site to stop us from tearing down the village and relocating them." Hawass said part of the problem is that the current law...
Anatolia
Archaeologists say the Urartians failed to overcome harsh winter conditions
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 03/03/2006 11:19:01 AM EST · 19 replies · 157+ views Turkish Daily News | Friday, March 3, 2006 | Dogan Daily News The Urartians established a kingdom around Lake Van in eastern Anatolia but failed to deal with severe winter conditions, especially snow, in an effective way, said Professor Veli Sevin on Wednesday, according to archaeological findings... Urartu was an ancient kingdom in eastern Anatolia centered in the mountainous region around Lake Van that existed from about 1,000 B.C. until 585 B.C. It stretched from northern Mesopotamia through the southern Caucasus, including parts of present-day Armenia up to Lake Sevan. The name Urartu is actually Assyrian, a dialect of Akkadian, and was given to the kingdom by its chief rivals to the...
Thieves steal goddess head while museum awaits restoration
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 03/02/2006 11:50:18 AM EST · 14 replies · 110+ views Turkish Daily News | March 2, 2006 A head belonging to a statue of the goddess of health that was stored in the garden of the Eskiflehir Archaeology Museum has been stolen, reported the Anatolia news agency on Tuesday. Artifacts languishing on the grounds of Eskiflehir Archeology Museum are waiting for restoration to begin.
Ancient Greece
An Ancient Colony Of Andros Uncovered
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 03/01/2006 2:56:23 PM EST · 7 replies · 421+ views Kathimerini | 3-1-2006 An ancient colony of Andros uncoveredThe remains of buildings found in excellent condition at Argilos, an important commercial town, on the estuary of the Strymonas River Houses in the foothills of Argilos dating from the sixth and fifth centuries BC. The surviving walls are up to 4 meters high. They form part of Argilosís residential quarter, which spreads out on either side of a paved road leading from the port to the acropolis. The shape of the houses, the roads to either side and the organization of the city reflect island architecture and planning notions that the colonists brought with...
Parthenon sculptures were coloured blue, red and green
	Posted by FairOpinion On General/Chat 02/26/2006 5:58:29 PM EST · 28 replies · 282+ views Yahoo News | Feb. 26, 2006 | AFP ATHENS (AFP) - Its austere white is on every postcard, but the Athens Parthenon was originally daubed with red, blue and green, the Greek archaeologist supervising conservation work on the 2,400-year-old temple said. "A recent cleaning operation by laser revealed traces of haematite (red), Egyptian blue and malachite-azurite (green-blue) on the sculptures of the western frieze," senior archaeologist Evi Papakonstantinou-Zioti told AFP. While archaeologists had found traces of the first two colours elsewhere on the temple years ago, the malachite-azurite colouring was only revealed in the latest restoration process, Papakonstantinou-Zioti said. Given the testimony of ancient writers, it is not...
MET CONCEDES ANCIENT BATTLE (Euphronios Krater---6th century B.C. painted vase---in turnback deal)
	Posted by Liz On News/Activism 02/21/2006 7:47:28 AM EST · 31 replies · 501+ views NY POST | 2/21/06 | AP <p>ROME -- New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art agreed yesterday to return six antiquities that Italy says were taken out of that country illegally......A signing ceremony between Met chief Philippe de Montebello and Culture Minister Rocco Buttiglione was scheduled for today.</p>
Ancient Europe
Polish Archaeologist Unearths Europe's Most Ancient Graves
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 03/02/2006 2:11:13 PM EST · 32 replies · 784+ views M & C Science And Nature | 3-2-2006 Polish archaeologist unearths Europe's most ancient graves Mar 2, 2006, 14:15 GMT Warsaw - Five of Europe's most ancient graves, dating back 10,000 years, have been unearthed in the village of Dwreca, central Poland. Archaeologist Marian Marciniak found the graves on the site of ancient post-glacial dunes, the Rzeczpospolita daily reported. In them, a young woman, believed aged 18 to 21, was put to rest with a baby, a child aged 5 to 7 and another aged 7 to 11. An adult male found at the site was buried sitting upright, as if on a throne or chair. The bodies...
Obituary: John Wymer
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 03/03/2006 2:04:29 AM EST · 1 reply Telegraph | March 3 2006 John Wymer, who died on February 10 aged 77, was Britain's foremost authority on early Stone Age settlement and had a major impact on the development of Stone Age studies in Western Europe. His career as an archaeologist began with the discovery in 1955 of Swanscombe Woman, the fossil remains of a skull of a woman who lived in the Thames Valley around 400,000 BC; they are among the oldest human remains ever discovered in Europe... He also carried out major programmes of research in South Africa, most notably at Klasies River Mouth, west of Port Elizabeth, where a remarkable...
British Isles
The missing library of Iona
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 03/02/2006 1:34:42 AM EST · 15 replies · 163+ views The Scotsman | Thu 2 Mar 2006 | Diane MacLean St Columba landed there in 563 AD with 13 followers and established a monastery. This isolated island, off the south-western tip of Mull, was soon to become the intellectual powerhouse of the medieval world... Pre-Columba the island was sometimes referred to as Innis nam Druidneach, the Isle of Druids. Old stories record St Columba and his followers fighting off the local Druid elders when they landed to take possession of the island... some histories have King Fergus II joining forces with Alaric the Goth to fight the Roman Empire during its decline and fall. This version of history reports that...
Faith and Philosophy
The article Science Magazine doesn't want you to read
	Posted by Coleus On News/Activism 02/25/2006 4:56:39 PM EST · 41 replies · 1,658+ views CERC | 02.16.06 | PETER A. LAWRENCE An academic controversy recently erupted over the decision of Science Magazine editors to refuse publication of an article about gender difference by British biologist Peter Lawrence. Though the prestigious journal had given Dr. Lawrence a publication date and article proofs, Science editor-in-chief Donald Kennedy abruptly notified the author that the piece could not be published because it did not offer "a strategy on how to deal with the gender issue." The article, in edited form, is reproduced below. Some have a dream that, one fine day, there will be equal numbers of men and women in all jobs, including those...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Long-lost Gospel of Judas to be published
	Posted by laney On Religion 12/19/2005 10:19:55 AM EST · 236 replies · 1,707+ views Religion News | Dec 19th, 2005 The heresy-fighting bishop Irenaeus of Lyon, France, mentioned the Gospel of Judas about 180 AD, linking the writing to a Gnostic sect. Some two centuries later, Epiphanius, bishop of Cyprus, criticized the Gospel of Judas for treating the betrayer of Jesus as commendable, one who "performed a good work for our salvation." Until recent years, no copy of the text was generally known to exist. It was not among, for instance, the 46 different apocryphal texts of the Nag Hammadi Library discovered 60 years ago this month in Egypt. Other fragmentary texts, such as the Gospel of Mary, were discovered...
'Gospel of Judas' to Be Published
	Posted by NYer On Religion 02/23/2006 9:28:24 AM EST · 257 replies · 2,068+ views Beliefnet | Stacy Meichtry The first translation of an ancient, self-proclaimed "Gospel of Judas" will be published in late April, bringing to light what some scholars believe are the writings of an early Christian sect suppressed for supporting Jesus Christ's infamous betrayer. If authentic, the manuscript could add to the understanding of Gnosticism, an unorthodox Christian theology denounced by the early church. The Roman Catholic Church is aware of the manuscript, which a Vatican historian calls "religious fantasy." According to scholars who have seen photographs of the brittle manuscript, it argues that Judas Iscariot was carrying out God's will when he handed Christ over...
Expert Doubts 'Gospel of Judas' Revelation
	Posted by NormsRevenge On Religion 03/02/2006 7:37:30 PM EST · 5 replies · 90+ views AP on Yahoo | 3/2/06 | Richard N. Ostling - AP NEW YORK - An expert on ancient Egyptian texts is predicting that the "Gospel of Judas" -- a manuscript from early Christian times that's nearing release amid widespread interest from scholars -- will be a dud in terms of learning anything new about Judas. James M. Robinson, America's leading expert on such ancient religious texts from Egypt, predicts in a new book that the text won't offer any insights into the disciple who betrayed Jesus. His reason: While it's old, it's not old enough. "Does it go back to Judas? No," Robinson told The Associated Press on Thursday. The text,...
Mediterranean
The Xemxija Prehistoric Tombs
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 03/02/2006 1:30:03 AM EST · 1 reply di-ve | Wednesday, March 01, 2006 | Vincent Zammit These are rock-cut tombs, and they belong to the period just before the freestanding buildings started to be constructed. These tombs were scientifically excavated in 1955, although they had been known to exist long before that time. The unfortunate thing about it is that they had always been thought to belong to the Phoenician and Roman periods, and thus there was no real hurry to investigate them, as in Malta there are hundreds of tombs belonging to the classical period... Upon excavation, many animal and human remains were discovered in the tombs.
The Phoenicians
Phoenician Temple Found In Sicily
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 02/28/2006 2:37:16 PM EST · 21 replies · 733+ views ANSA | 2-28-2006 Phoenician temple found in SicilySite believed to be 'unique', archaeologists say (ANSA) - Palermo, February 28 - An ancient Phoenician temple unearthed in Sicily is "unique" in the West, the head of the Italian dig team claims. "You have to go all the way to Amrit in Syria to find a similar one," said Lorenzo Nigro of the Rome University team. The temple came to light last year after a portion of a lagoon surrounding the Phoenician city of Motya (present-day Mozia) was drained. The pool began to fill up again and a fresh-water spring was found - a fact...
Neandertal
A Good Neanderthal Was Hard to Find
	Posted by Pharmboy On News/Activism 02/26/2006 6:25:01 AM EST · 250 replies · 3,467+ views NY Times:Week in Review | February 26, 2006 | JOHN NOBLE WILFORD Maybe they just didn't have time to get to know each other. The question of what Neanderthals and Homo sapiens might have done on cold nights in their caves, if they happened to get together and the fire burned down to embers, has intrigued scientists since the 19th century, when the existence of Neanderthals was discovered. A correction in the way prehistoric time is measured using radiocarbon dating, described last week in the journal Nature, doesn't answer the enduring question, but it might at least help explain why no DNA evidence of interbreeding has been found: the two species spent...
Study: Modern Humans Killed Off Neanderthals Quickly
	Posted by ThreePuttinDude On News/Activism 02/25/2006 8:11:22 AM EST · 355 replies · 4,128+ views foxnews.com | Saturday, February 25, 2006 | AP LONDON -- Neanderthals in Europe were killed off by the advance of modern humans thousands of years earlier than previously believed, losing a competition for food and shelter, according to a scientific study published Wednesday. The research uses advances in radiocarbon dating to revise understanding of early humans, suggesting they colonized Europe more rapidly and coexisted for a much shorter period with genetic ancestors. Paul Mellars, professor of prehistory and human evolution at the University of Cambridge and author of the study, said Neanderthals -- the species of the Homo genus that lived in Europe and western Asia from around...
Prehistory and Origins
Author says prehistoric humans were a lot like us [Jean Auel]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 03/01/2006 1:36:38 AM EST · 29 replies · 304+ views Register-Guard | Tuesday, February 28, 2006 | Jeff Wright If someone calls you a Neanderthal, maybe you should take it as a compliment. When it comes to defending the reputation of prehistoric humans, you'd be hard pressed to find a better advocate than Jean Auel, the Portland author of the hugely popular Earth's Children series of novels... Auel first introduced readers to Ayla, a 5-year-old Cro-Magnon orphan girl adopted by a clan of Neanderthals, in "The Clan of the Cave Bear," published in 1980. In that and four subsequent books, Auel has honed her reputation for tireless research that allows her to place her characters amid the details of...
Early Humans Walked Perculiarly
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 02/28/2006 2:27:44 PM EST · 171 replies · 2,440+ views Discovery News | 2-28-2006 | Jennifer Viegas Early Humans Walked Peculiarly? By Jennifer Viegas Discovery NewsEvidence In The Bones Feb. 27, 2006 -- At least two species of early humans were knock-kneed and walked rather uniquely, according to a new study on seven anklebones that belonged to various early human ancestors from eastern and southern Africa. The study, which will be published in the April issue of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, suggests that although the early humans walked on two feet, they did not always do so with our relatively smooth stride. "This is hard to explain, but easy to demonstrate," said Dan Gebo, who...
Cavegirls were first blondes to have fun
	Posted by wagglebee On General/Chat 02/26/2006 2:56:29 PM EST · 155 replies · 1,764+ views London Times | 2/26/06 | Roger Dobson and Abul Taher THE modern gentleman may prefer blondes. But new research has found that it was cavemen who were the first to be lured by flaxen locks. According to the study, north European women evolved blonde hair and blue eyes at the end of the Ice Age to make them stand out from their rivals at a time of fierce competition for scarce males. The study argues that blond hair originated in the region because of food shortages 10,000-11,000 years ago. Until then, humans had the dark brown hair and dark eyes that still dominate in the rest of the world. Almost...
Cavegirls were first blondes to have fun
	Posted by mathprof On General/Chat 02/26/2006 8:18:06 PM EST · 58 replies · 1,136+ views The Sunday Times - Britain | 2/26/06 | Roger Dobson and Abul Taher THE modern gentleman may prefer blondes. But new research has found that it was cavemen who were the first to be lured by flaxen locks. According to the study, north European women evolved blonde hair and blue eyes at the end of the Ice Age to make them stand out from their rivals at a time of fierce competition for scarce males. The study argues that blond hair originated in the region because of food shortages 10,000-11,000 years ago. Until then, humans had the dark brown hair and dark eyes that still dominate in the rest of the world. Almost...
Why cavemen preferred blondes
	Posted by Lorianne On News/Activism 02/27/2006 1:23:02 AM EST · 40 replies · 1,557+ views Sun | 27 February 2006 | Arifa Akbar BLONDES have been having more fun for 10,000 years, new research shows. Flaxen hair and blue eyes spread when there was a desperate shortage of men at the end of the last Ice Age in northern Europe. The striking combination made women with the traits more attractive and boosted their reproductive success. As glaciers retreated 10,000 years ago, herds of bison, mammoths and reindeer moved north and were followed by tribes of humans. The new environment was ideal for hunting but did not have the fruits, seeds and vegetables that humans were used to gathering. "Hunter-gatherers encountered an environment that...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Ancient Maps To Soon Go Online
	Posted by blam On General/Chat 02/26/2006 6:38:18 PM EST · 12 replies · 175+ views Herald - Sun | 2-19-2006 | Jamie Schuman Ancient maps to soon go online By Jamie Schuman : The Herald-Sun jschuman@heraldsun.com Feb 19, 2006 : 5:43 pm ET CHAPEL HILL -- While they may study places and people that are thousands of years old, scholars at UNC are at the forefront of modernizing antiquity. Researchers long have had to dip into hefty and static atlases to study the stomping grounds of Alexander the Great or the Roman emperors, but they soon will be able to do so on a comprehensive, open-source database on the Internet -- thanks to UNC's Ancient World Mapping Center. The group started the project...
Expert's legendary finds tour in exhibit [ Flinders Petrie ]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 03/02/2006 11:42:06 AM EST · 5 replies · 46+ views Rocky Mountain News | March 2, 2006 | Ellen R. Stapleton Some of his best discoveries from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology at University College London are currently touring the United States. "Excavating Egypt" is at the Albany Institute of History & Art through June 4... the bead-net dress that is one of two such garments that have survived from the Old Kingdom period, about 2400 B.C. Worn over another garment, it would have rattled with movement. One of Petrie's students found a box containing thousands of beads and shells in the previously robbed tomb of a girl, and they were restrung based on pictures from the period... He saw...
Egypt asks US museum to return gold mummy mask
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 03/01/2006 1:35:43 PM EST · 41 replies · 709+ views Middle East Times | February 24, 2006 CAIRO -- Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities said on Thursday that it has asked a US museum to return a Pharaoh's golden mask, which it said had disappeared from a storage area in Cairo's Egyptian Museum. It asked the Saint Louis Art Museum in Missouri to return the mask of Ka-Nefer-Nefer, which it said dated to the XIX dynasty and had been spotted by an Egyptologist in a recent tour of the Missouri museum collection. The mummy mask "was discovered by Egyptian archaeologist Mohammed Zakaria Ghoneim in 1952 and was placed in the museum's storage area in 1959", said a...
Malaysian plan to cover Great Pyramid with Muslim nation flags hits snag
	Posted by HAL9000 On News/Activism 12/29/2005 5:38:03 AM EST · 30 replies · 674+ views Associated Press | December 28, 2005 KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- Malaysian authorities suffered a setback Wednesday in their plan to send a 35-member team to drape Egypt's Great Pyramid at Giza with the flags of the world's 57 Muslim countries. The chairman of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, the body responsible for the Giza site, said in Cairo that he would not allow it to be draped. "This cannot take place," chairman Zahi Hawass said. "The pyramid cannot be draped by any person in this world. Nobody is allowed to do this." Malaysia's Defense Minister Najib Razak announced the project during a ceremony Tuesday, when...
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"Gods, Graves, Glyphs" PING list or GGG weekly digest
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs (alpha order)