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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #90 Saturday, April 8, 2006
Let's Have Jerusalem
Anti-social Samson
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 04/05/2006 2:57:10 AM EDT · 5 replies · 21+ views New Scientist | February 14 2001 | Alison Motluk Eric Altschuler from the University of California at San Diego and his colleagues say that Samson showed signs of no fewer than six of the seven behaviours associated with antisocial personality disorder. Samson routinely got into fights, and once killed 1000 Philistines single-handedly and then gloated over it, showing no remorse. He also showed a reckless disregard for his own safety when he told Delilah, a woman who'd tried to kill him three times before, the secret of his strength. The researchers note that Samson also burned Philistine fields, which showed both his impulsivity and his inability to conform to...
Road to Temple Mount uncovered
	Posted by Between the Lines On Religion 04/03/2006 12:57:26 AM EDT · 50 replies · 538+ views Jerusalem Post | Mar. 31, 2006 | ETGAR LEFKOVITS The main road that ran from Jerusalem's City of David to the Temple Mount during the time of the Second Temple has been uncovered by Israeli archeologists, those involved in the dig said Thursday. The road connected the Shiloah pool in the City of David to the Temple Mount compound. The 2,000-year-old road was discovered adjacent to the Shiloah pool during ongoing excavations at the site, said Israeli Antiquities Authority archeologist Eli Shukrun. He is directing the dig together with University of Haifa archeologist Prof. Ronny Reich. The road was used by the tens of thousands of people who came...
New Discoveries Point To 'Cave Of John The Baptist' As Important Site In The Time Of Isaiah
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/01/2006 5:47:00 PM EST · 13 replies · 679+ views Eureka Alert/University Of North Carolina - Charlotte | 4-1-2006 | James Tabor New discoveries point to 'cave of John the Baptist' as important site in the time of Isaiah The interior of Suba Cave New Discoveries Point to "Cave of John the Baptist" as Important Site in the Time of Isaiah Recently completed digging at Israel's Suba Cave, an archaeological site that is possibly connected with John the Baptist, or Jewish groups of his time has revealed features that deepen the mystery of the site's ancient origins, according to University of North Carolina at Charlotte archaeologist James D. Tabor, associate director of the excavation. The site was brought to international attention in...
Exegesis
Did Jesus Christ Really Live? (Help Debunk this scepticism at Easter season.)
	Posted by xzins On Religion 03/26/2002 7:00:55 AM EST · 90 replies · 1,409+ views The Freethought Web | Marshall J. Gauvin Did Jesus Christ Really Live? by Marshall J. Gauvin Scientific inquiry into the origins of Christianity begins to-day with the question: "Did Jesus Christ really live?" Was there a man named Jesus, who was called the Christ, living in Palestine nineteen centuries ago, of whose life and teachings we have a correct account in the New Testament? The orthodox idea that Christ was the son of God -- God himself in human form -- that he was the creator of the countless millions of glowing suns and wheeling worlds that strew the infinite expanse of the universe; that the forces...
Image of Jesus' crucifixion may be wrong, says study
	Posted by Flavius On Religion 03/29/2006 9:56:47 PM EST · 80 replies · 1,451+ views afp | 3.29.06 | afp PARIS (AFP) - The image of the crucifixion, one of the most powerful emblems of Christianity, may be quite erroneous, according to a study which says there is no evidence to prove Jesus was crucified in this manner. ADVERTISEMENT Around the world, in churches, on the walls of Christian homes, on crucifixes worn as pendants, in innumerable books, paintings and movies, Jesus Christ is seen nailed to the cross by his hands and feet, with his head upwards and arms outstretched. But a paper published by Britain's prestigious Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) says this image has never been substantiated...
Jesus Walked on Ice, Not Water, Study Says (BS alert)
	Posted by charming_harmonica On Religion 04/04/2006 12:50:23 PM EDT · 217 replies · 3,396+ views Physorg.coim | April 4, 2006 | Libby Fairhurst The New Testament story describes Jesus walking on water in the Sea of Galilee but according to a study led by Florida State University Professor of Oceanography Doron Nof, it's more likely that he walked on an isolated patch of floating ice. The study points to a rare combination of optimal water and atmospheric conditions for development of a unique, localized freezing phenomenon that Nof and his co-authors call "springs ice." In what is now northern Israel, such ice could have formed on the cold freshwater surface of the Sea of Galilee -- known as Lake Kinneret by modern-day Israelis...
Jesus Could Have Walked on Ice, Scientist Says
	Posted by Serb5150 On News/Activism 04/04/2006 7:48:26 PM EDT · 70 replies · 864+ views Yahoo! News | Apr 4, 2006 | Sara Goudarzi Rare conditions could have conspired to create hard-to-see ice on the Sea of Galilee that a person could have walked on back when Jesus is said to have walked on water, a scientist said today. The study, which examines a combination of favorable water and environmental conditions, proposes that Jesus could have walked on an isolated patch of floating ice on what is now known as Lake Kinneret in northern Israel.
Jesus Could Have Walked on Ice, Scientist Says
	Posted by ZGuy On Religion 04/05/2006 12:08:01 AM EDT · 16 replies · 188+ views LiveScience | 4/4/6 | Sara Goudarzi Rare conditions could have conspired to create hard-to-see ice on the Sea of Galilee that a person could have walked on back when Jesus is said to have walked on water, a scientist said today. The study, which examines a combination of favorable water and environmental conditions, proposes that Jesus could have walked on an isolated patch of floating ice on what is now known as Lake Kinneret in northern Israel. Looking at temperature records of the Mediterranean Sea surface and using analytical ice and statistical models, scientists considered a small section of the cold freshwater surface of the lake....
Judas
Judas the Misunderstood
	Posted by NYer On Religion 01/12/2006 9:32:30 AM EST · 33 replies · 494+ views Times Online | January 12, 2005 | Richard Owen JUDAS ISCARIOT, the disciple who betrayed Jesus with a kiss, is to be given a makeover by Vatican scholars. The proposed "rehabilitation" of the man who was paid 30 pieces of silver to identify Jesus to Roman soldiers in the Garden of Gethsemane, comes on the ground that he was not deliberately evil, but was just "fulfilling his part in God's plan". Christians have traditionally blamed Judas for aiding and abetting the Crucifixion, and his name is synonymous with treachery. According to St Luke, Judas was "possessed by Satan". Now, a campaign led by Monsignor Walter Brandmuller, head of the...
Vatican moves to clear Judas' name
	Posted by Alouette On Religion 01/12/2006 10:42:57 AM EST · 255 replies · 2,229+ views YNet News | Jan. 12, 2006 Proposed ërehabilitation' of the man who was paid 30 pieces of silver to identify Jesus to Roman soldiers in the Garden of Gethsemane, comes on the ground that he was not deliberately evil, but was just ëfulfilling his part in God's plan, the London Times reports Judas Iscariot, the disciple who betrayed Jesus with a kiss, is to be given a makeover by Vatican scholars, according to the London Times. The proposed "rehabilitation" of the man who was paid 30 pieces of silver to identify Jesus to Roman soldiers in the Garden of Gethsemane, comes on the ground that he...
The wrong Judas article in The Times
	Posted by Petrosius On Religion 01/14/2006 6:00:33 PM EST · 9 replies · 335+ views Rorate Caeli | January 14, 2006 Mea culpa - Why it is important to directly read mistranslated texts/ The wrong Judas article in The Times A few days ago, The Times [of London] published a story of a "campaign" to "rehabilitate" Judas. I myself mentioned it here as soon as a friend sent me the link. Naturally, I should rather have checked the story in the Italian daily which had published it, La Stampa, since The Times is known to have botched Catholic news before. The problematic Times' quotes are the following: Vatican moves to clear reviled disciple's name JUDAS ISCARIOT, the disciple who betrayed...
A Drive to Clear Judas' Name? Hardly, Says Official - Msgr Calls Media Reports Baseless
	Posted by NYer On Religion 01/19/2006 8:05:46 PM EST · 27 replies · 361+ views Zenit News Agency | January 19, 2006 VATICAN CITY, JAN. 19, 2006 (Zenit.org).- The Holy See has not launched a campaign to rehabilitate Judas, the apostle who betrayed Jesus, says a Vatican representative to whom the media have attributed words he never said. The question arose after the news that the Swiss-based Maecenas Foundation for Ancient Art and U.S.-based National Geographic magazine intended to publish at Easter the content of a first-century manuscript, with the apocryphal gospel of Judas. Until now, knowledge of this writing came only from the second-century bishop, St. Irenaeus. The announced publication sparked a debate in Italy over the figure of Judas Iscariot....
Expert Doubts 'Gospel of Judas' Revelation
	Posted by xzins On Religion 03/06/2006 11:22:31 AM EST · 4 replies · 145+ views The Christian Post | Richard Ostling Expert Doubts 'Gospel of Judas' Revelation Thursday, Mar. 2, 2006 Posted: 7:24:32PM EST 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?...
The "Gospel of Judas"
	Posted by NYer On Religion 04/05/2006 8:28:14 PM EDT · 32 replies · 557+ views Zenit News Agency | April 5, 2006 Interview With Father Thomas Williams, Theology Dean ROME, APRIL 5, 2006 (Zenit.org).- The National Geographic Society has announced its intentions to publish an English translation of an ancient text called "The Gospel of Judas" later this month. The 31-page manuscript, written in Coptic, purportedly surfaced in Geneva in 1983 and has only been translated now. ZENIT asked Legionary Father Thomas D. Williams, dean of theology at the Regina Apostolorum university in Rome, to comment on the relevance of the discovery. Q: What is the "Gospel of Judas"? Father Williams: Though the manuscript still must be authenticated, it likely represents a...
'Gospel of Judas' gives new view of Jesus' betrayer
	Posted by freedom44 On Religion 04/06/2006 10:11:35 PM EDT · 52 replies · 698+ views Reuters | 4/6/06 | Deborah Zabarenko WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Judas Iscariot, vilified as Christ's betrayer, acted at Jesus' request in turning him over to the authorities who crucified him, according to a 1,700-year-old copy of the "Gospel of Judas" unveiled on Thursday. In an alternative view to traditional Christian teaching, the Judas gospel shows the reviled disciple as the only one in Jesus' inner circle who understood his desire to shed his earthly body. "He's the good guy in this portrayal," said Bart Ehrman, a religion professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "He's the only apostle who understands Jesus." The Judas gospel's...
Traitor or ally: gospel sheds new light on Judas (New ancient manuscript found)
	Posted by Justice On News/Activism 04/06/2006 3:41:01 PM EDT · 170 replies · 3,419+ views AFP via Yahoo | Apr 6, 2006 | AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) - Lost for almost 1,700 years, a manuscript entitled "Gospel of Judas" is putting a new spin on the case of the biblical bad guy, maintaining that Jesus actually asked disciple Judas to betray him. The third- or fourth-century ancient Coptic manuscript -- authenticated, translated and displayed Thursday at National Geographic headquarters here -- paints a different picture of Judas and Jesus. The papyrus manuscript known as a codex maintains, as the bible does not, that Jesus requested that Judas "betray" him by handing him to authorities, something it says pained Judas greatly."The codex has been authenticated as...
Prehistory and Origins
Science Journal: Caveman Crooners May Have Aided Early Human Life
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/01/2006 6:09:41 PM EST · 24 replies · 333+ views Post Gazette | 3-31-2006 | Sharon Begley Science Journal: Caveman crooners may have aided early human life Friday, March 31, 2006 By Sharon Begley, The Wall Street Journal In Steven Mithen's imagination, the small band of Neanderthals gathered 50,000 years ago around the caves of Le Moustier, in what is now the Dordogne region of France, were butchering carcasses, scraping skins, shaping ax heads -- and singing. One of the fur-clad men started it, a rhythmic sound with rising and falling pitch, and others picked it up, indicating their willingness to cooperate both in the moment and in the future, when the group would have to hunt...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Scientific American: Does Race Exist?
	Posted by presidio9 On News/Activism 11/17/2003 2:55:10 PM EST · 96 replies · 416+ views Scientific American | December 2003 issue | Michael J. Bamshad and Steve E. Olson Look around on the streets of any major city, and you will see a sampling of the outward variety of humanity: skin tones ranging from milk-white to dark brown; hair textures running the gamut from fine and stick-straight to thick and wiry. People often use physical characteristics such as these -- along with area of geographic origin and shared culture -- to group themselves and others into "races." But how valid is the concept of race from a biological standpoint? Do physical features reliably say anything informative about a person's genetic makeup beyond indicating that the individual has genes for blue eyes or curly...
Chinese Archaeologists Probe Origin Of Domestic Horses Through DNA
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/01/2006 5:55:30 PM EST · 15 replies · 182+ views Xinhuanet - China View | 4-1-2006 | Mo Hong'e Chinese archaeologists probe origin of domestic horses through DNA www.chinaview.cn 2006-04-01 15:55:19 BEIJING, April 1 (Xinhua) -- Chinese archaeologists are studying the DNA samples extracted from the bones of horses unearthed from ancient sites to probe the origin of domestic horses in China. It's still a mystery to archaeologists when and where horses were first tamed in China, said Cai Dawei, a researcher with the center of archaeological research for China's border area under the Jilin University in Northwest China. The DNA research will offer valuable clues on the study of migration, spread and domestication of horses, Cai said. A...
Asia
Are We All Asians?
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/07/2006 6:57:42 PM EDT · 28 replies · 544+ views Discover Magazine | May-2006 | Susan Kruglinski Are We All Asians? Renegade anthropologists rethink where humans came from. By Susan Kruglinski DISCOVER Vol. 27 No. 05 | May 2006 Courtesy of G. Tsibahashivili (National Museum of Georgia) One of the best-known theories about human evolution -- that the ancestors of Homo sapiens originated in Africa before populating the rest of the world 2 million years ago -- is coming under fire. In a challenge to conventional wisdom, Robin Dennell of the University of Sheffield in England and Wil Roebroeks of Leiden University in the Netherlands argue that the "out of Africa" interpretation is built on shaky evidence. Maybe, they say, it...
Population origins in Mongolia: Genetic structure analysis of ancient and modern DNA
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 04/07/2006 12:23:57 PM EDT · 16 replies · 126+ views National Center for Biotechnology Information | Apr 4, 2006 | Keyser-Tracqui C, Crubezy E, Pamzsav H, Varga T, Ludes B. In the present study, nuclear (autosomal and Y-chromosome short tandem repeats) and mitochondrial (hypervariable region I) ancient DNA data previously obtained from a 2,300-year-old Xiongnu population of the Egyin Gol Valley (south of Lake Baikal in northern Mongolia) (Keyser-Tracqui et al. 2003 Am. J. Hum. Genet. 73:247-260) were compared with data from two contemporary Mongolian populations: one from the same location (Egyin Gol Valley plus a perimeter of less than 100 km around the valley), and one from the whole of Mongolia. The principal objective of this comparative analysis was to assess the likelihood that genetic continuity exists between ancient...
Clues Lead To A Shared Past - Newly Discovered 4th-Century Ceramics Show Korean Influence
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/03/2006 7:36:12 PM EDT · 4 replies · 137+ views Daily Yomiuri | 4-3-2006 | Kazuya Sekiguchi - Hiroshi Tanaka Clues lead to a shared past / Newly discovered 4th-century ceramics show Korean influence Kazuya Sekiguchi and Hiroshi Tanaka / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writers The recent discovery of Sueki unglazed ceramics at an archaeological site in Uji, Kyoto Prefecture, has experts rethinking the chronology of early exchanges between Japan and the Korean Peninsula. The discovery revealed that the production of Sueki wares began in Japan in the late fourth century, 20 to 30 years earlier than archaeologists had believed, indicating that people from the Korean Peninsula who produced the ceramics arrived in Japan around the same time. Horseback riding and...
Australia and the Pacific
Mitochondrial genomics identifies major haplogroups in Aboriginal Australians
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 04/07/2006 12:33:20 PM EDT · 8 replies · 126+ views National Center for Biotechnology Information | April 4, 2006 | van Holst Pellekaan SM, Ingman M, Roberts-Thomson J, Harding RM We classified diversity in eight new complete mitochondrial genome sequences and 41 partial sequences from living Aboriginal Australians into five haplogroups. Haplogroup AuB belongs to global lineage M, and AuA, AuC, AuD, and AuE to N. Within N, we recognize subdivisions, assigning AuA to haplogroup S, AuD to haplogroup O, AuC to P4, and AuE to P8. On available evidence, (S)AuA and (M)AuB are widespread in Australia. (P4)AuC is found in the Riverine region of western New South Wales, and was identified by others in northern Australia. (O)AuD and (P8)AuE were clearly identified only from central Australia. Our eight Australian...
Africa
How Africa Became Black
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/07/2006 5:19:00 PM EDT · 71 replies · 1,912+ views Discover Magazine | 2-1994 | Jared Diamond How Africa Became Black Africa's racial history was not necessarily its racial destiny. To unravel the story of Africa's past, you must not only look at its faces but listen to its languages and harvest its crops. By Jared Diamond DISCOVER Vol. 15 No. 02 | February 1994 | Anthropology Despite all I'd read about Africa, my first impressions upon being there were overwhelming. As I walked the streets of Windhoek, the capital of newly independent Namibia, I saw black Herero people and black Ovambo; I saw Nama, a group quite unlike the blacks in appearance; I saw whites, descendants...
Ancient Europe
Aurignacian ethno-linguistic geography of Europe revealed by personal ornaments
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 04/07/2006 12:15:55 PM EDT · 2 replies · 77+ views Journal of Archaeological Science | 20 March 2006 | Marian Vanhaerena and Francesco d'Erricoc Abstract: Our knowledge of the migration routes of the first anatomically modern populations colonising the European territory at the beginning of the Upper Palaeolithic, of their degree of biological, linguistic, and cultural diversity, and of the nature of their contacts with local Neanderthals, is still vague. Ethnographic studies indicate that of the different components of the material culture that survive in the archaeological record, personal ornaments are among those that best reflect the ethno-linguistic diversity of human groups. The ethnic dimension of beadwork is conveyed through the use of distinct bead types as well as by particular combinations and arrangements...
Ancient Greece
Odyssey's End? The Search for Ancient Ithaca
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 04/03/2006 12:48:35 AM EDT · 10 replies · 137+ views Smithsonian Magazine | Fergus M. Bordewich, Photographs by Jeffrey Aaronson Scholars have long agreed that ancient and modern Zachynthos are one and the same. Similarly, ancient Same was certainly the main body of modern Cephalonia, where a large town named Sami still exists. But modern Ithaca -- a few miles east of Cephalonia -- was hardly "the farthest out to sea," and its mountainous topography doesn't fit Homer's "lying low" description. (Bittlestone believes ancient Doulichion became modern Ithaca after refugees came there following an earthquake or other disaster and changed its name.) "The old explanations just felt unsatisfactory," says Bittlestone. "I kept wondering, was there possibly a radical new solution to this?" Back home...
Ancient Rome
Virgil's Demi-God City 'Found'
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/07/2006 2:09:48 PM EDT · 13 replies · 555+ views ANSA | 4-6-2006 Virgil's demi-god city 'found'Castor and Pollux fought Aeneas at Amyclae (ANSA) - Rome, April 6 - Italian archaeologists believe they have found an ancient city where the demi-gods Castor and Pollux fought Aeneas, the Trojan hero whose descendants founded Rome . Lorenzo and Stefania Quilici of Bologna and Naples universities claim the large, massive-walled settlement dating from the VI to III Century BCE was the city of Amyclae, believed by Renaissance scholars to be somewhere near Lake Fondi between Rome and Naples . "The road there is a perfectly preserved stretch of the ancient Via Appia," said Lorenzo Quilici ....
Rare Painted Roman Sculpture Found
	Posted by VeniVidiAuferi On General/Chat 04/02/2006 12:30:36 AM EST · 4 replies · 95+ views dsc.discovery.com March 31, 2006ó The marble head of an Amazon warrior woman has emerged from Vesuvius' volcanic rock with her make up still on, archaeologists announced this week. (with images) See full story: http://dsc.discovery.com
British Isles
Unearthing Welsh History
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/01/2006 6:17:12 PM EST · 50 replies · 751+ views The Telegraph (UK) | 4-1-2006 | Jonny Beardsall Unearthing Welsh history (Filed: 01/04/2006) An archaeologist digs deep in his pocket to find a medieval town, reports Jonny Beardsall That an amateur archaeologist was prepared to pay £32,000 for 4.5 unremarkable acres at Trelleck, Monmouthshire, must mean Welsh sons of the soil are salivating with glee. But so convinced is Stuart Wilson that the field is the site of a lost medieval town, he still insists it was money well spent a year after he bought the land. Broken but valuable: archaeologist Stuart Wilson holds a roof tile dug up at the site Mr Wilson, 27, and friends at...
Epigraphy and Language
Kensington Rune Stone
	Posted by crystalk On News/Activism 01/09/2002 3:52:12 PM EST · 160 replies · 567+ views myself | 1-9-02 | myself Kensington Rune Stone This subject used to fascinate me when I was 9 or 11. I read everything the late Hjalmar Holand ever wrote. It has fascinated many others, unfortunately mainly "professional Scandinavians" who have made their lives out of their ethnicity, especially as professors of that language or culture. Most have used it only as a way to get a cheap Ph.D. thesis by demolishing it once again, or by using its possible validity to back up some ulterior theory or hobby-horse they may have. Few if any mainstream observers of American antiquities have been willing to touch it. ...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Ancient Pyramid Discovered in Mexico
	Posted by BenLurkin On General/Chat 04/05/2006 7:50:52 PM EDT · 20 replies · 287+ views Associated Press | 2 hours, 7 minutes ago | MARK STEVENSON, MEXICO CITY - Archeologists said Wednesday they have discovered a massive 6th-century Indian pyramid beneath the site of a centuries-old re-enactment of the crucifixion of Christ. Built on a hillside by the mysterious Teotihuacan culture, the pyramid was abandoned almost 1,000 years before Catholics began re-enacting the Crucifixion there in the 1800s, unaware they were celebrating one of the holiest moments of their faith on a site originally dedicated to gods of earth, wind and rain. While residents around the hillside in Iztapalapa, on the east side of Mexico City, express pride at the discovery, it illustrates the difficulty of...
Ancient pyramid unearthed in Mexico
	Posted by NYer On News/Activism 04/07/2006 1:12:21 PM EDT · 21 replies · 703+ views Guardian | April 6, 2006 | David Fickling and agencies Archaeologists have discovered a previously unknown pyramid standing 22 metres high inside a hill on the outskirts of Mexico city, it emerged today.The earth pyramid, believed to have been built by the pre-Columbian Teotihuac·n culture in around AD500, measures 150 metres on each side and sits underneath another historical site, on which Mexicans have re-enacted the crucifixion of Christ for nearly 200 years.Archaeologist Jesus Sanchez said that the people of Iztapalapa were proud of the discovery. "When they first saw us digging there, the local people just couldn't believe there was a pyramid there," he said.
India
9,000-Year-Old Dental Drill Is Found
	Posted by The_Victor On News/Activism 04/05/2006 4:33:23 PM EDT · 97 replies · 1,867+ views Yahoo (AP) | Wed Apr 5, 1:05 PM ET | SETH BORENSTEIN WASHINGTON - Proving prehistoric man's ingenuity and ability to withstand and inflict excruciating pain, researchers have found that dental drilling dates back 9,000 years. Primitive dentists drilled nearly perfect holes into live but undoubtedly unhappy patients between 5500 B.C. and 7000 B.C., an article in Thursday's journal Nature reports. Researchers carbon-dated at least nine skulls with 11 drill holes found in a Pakistan graveyard.That means dentistry is at least 4,000 years older than first thought -- and far older than the useful invention of anesthesia.This was no mere tooth tinkering. The drilled teeth found in the graveyard were hard-to-reach molars....
Ancient Agriculture
Under the Spell of Malthus
	Posted by neverdem On News/Activism 09/13/2005 12:12:10 AM EDT · 19 replies · 546+ views Reason | August/September 2005 | Ronald Bailey Biology doesn't explain why societies collapseCollapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, by Jared Diamond, New York: Viking, 592 pages, $29.95 Jared Diamond's new book, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, is neither "superb" (The New Statesman), "incisive" (The Washington Post), "magisterial" (BusinessWeek), nor "insightful and very important" (Boston Herald). It is, instead, a telling example of how a smart man can be terribly misled by a fixation on one big idea. In this case, Diamond, a biologist, is trying to apply biology's master narrative to human societies. In 1838 the founding father of modern biology, Charles...
Climate
Initial Findings of Arctic Expedition Upend Old Notions
	Posted by workerbee On News/Activism 11/29/2004 7:01:46 PM EST · 29 replies · 868+ views NYT via Adelphia webpage | 11/29/04 | ANDREW C. REVKIN he ice-cloaked Arctic Ocean was once apparently a warm, biologically brewing basin so rich in sinking organic material that some scientists examining fresh evidence pulled from a submerged ridge near the North Pole say the seabed may now hold significant oil and gas deposits. This is just one of many findings from a pioneering expedition that in late summer sent dozens of scientists and technicians on three icebreakers - one with a drilling rig nine stories tall - into the drifting, crunching plates of sea ice to retrieve the first long-term record of climate and ocean conditions there. The expedition...
Wine-makers raise a glass to global warming
	Posted by quantim On General/Chat 03/10/2006 11:49:52 PM EST · 18 replies · 211+ views Philedelphia Enquirer | Mar. 10, 2006 | Brian Rademaekers Climate change may be making some wine tastier and more potent. Forget France.In the future, wine buffs may be praising the merits of a fine Canadian pinot noir, the subtleties of English chardonnay, or even the complexity of a world-class Pennsylvania cabernet sauvignon.The cause: climate change.Some scientists believe that rising temperatures and longer growing seasons are already affecting wine, making vintages sweeter and stronger, and changing where grapes can be grown around the world.Previously unheralded German wines have gotten surprisingly better in the last two decades. The alcohol in California wine has risen - which can be both a good...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Catastrophism
	Posted by SunkenCiv On Bloggers & Personal 04/02/2006 5:13:59 PM EDT · 89 replies · 332+ views Various | Various Did a planetary wobble kill the dinosaurs? by Nicola JonesNew ScientistJune 27 2001Bruce Runnegar from the University of California at Los Angeles' Center for Astrobiology... and his colleagues used computer models to map out the Solar System for the past 250 million years. In particular, they looked at the perihelion of each planet - the point in its orbit where it is closest to the Sun. The perihelion of Earth rotates around the Sun with a period of hundreds of thousands of years. Because of subtle tugs and pulls between the planets, this period changes slightly with time... Their...
Asteroid 'Hit Northern Russia'
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/05/2002 3:02:00 PM EDT · 156 replies · 642+ views Ananova | 10-4-2002 Asteroid 'hit northern Russia' A large meteorite is thought to have smashed into a forest in a remote area of Russia. Residents in the town of Bodaibo, in the Irkutsk region of Siberia, saw a large luminous body fall from the sky. They say the impact caused the ground to shake and made a sound like thunder. Flashes of bright light could be seen above the impact site, which was a long way from any settlements according to the Russian newspaper Pravda. "Locals felt a strong shock, which could be comparable to an earthquake," said the report. "In addition to...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Argentina Unearths Forgotten Past
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/03/2006 7:54:06 PM EDT · 13 replies · 223+ views BBC | 4-3-2006 | Daniel Schweimler Argentina unearths forgotten past By Daniel Schweimler BBC News, Buenos Aires Workers renovating a plaza in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, have stumbled across a forgotten cemetery. It was used by early immigrants in the first half of the 19th Century. The bodies have rested under what today is a neighbourhood plaza It was called the dissident cemetery since it was used by the Protestant and Jewish communities who were not allowed to bury their dead in the Roman Catholic cemeteries used by the majority of the population. The find has excited experts keen to learn more about their country's...
Sound Interview of Jules Verne Discovered
	Posted by RightWingAtheist On General/Chat 04/04/2006 10:20:43 AM EDT · 21 replies · 283+ views University of Utrecht | Garmt DeVries This week I did an amzing discovery that I'd like to share with my fellow Vernians: an audio recording of an interview with Jules Verne by a Dutch journalist! A couple of days ago, I received an email from a Mrs Rina Appel from Amersfoort, a town not far from where I live. Among the inheritance left by her aunt, who passed away last year, she had found a small wooden crate containing five wax cilinders, each wrapped in a leather case. On the crate was a handwritten label that read "Jules Verne 1903". The crate had belonged to Rina...
Canada's Arctic spat with Denmark hits Internet
	Posted by Rodney King On News/Activism 07/28/2005 8:01:17 PM EDT · 31 replies · 475+ views Yahoo! | today | David Lyungren A spat between Canada and Denmark over a tiny Arctic island has moved to the Internet, where a Canadian man is dueling an unknown opponent over who really owns the disputed lump of rock. The two have placed online ads about which country controls the 1.3 square km (half a square mile) Hans Island, located between Canada's Ellesmere Island and Greenland, which belongs to Denmark. Toronto author Rick Broadhead said he bought an advertisement on Internet search engine Google after spotting a Danish ad that said "Does Hans sound Canadian? Danish name, Danish island." That ad linked to the Danish...
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #91 Saturday, April 15, 2006
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Archaeologists Find 10,000 Years Of History At Lowcountry Site (South Carolina)
	Posted by blam On General/Chat 04/14/2006 2:18:09 PM PDT · 10 replies · 120+ views WCNC | 4-13-2006 | AP Archaeologists find 10,000 years of history at Lowcountry site 12:51 PM EDT on Thursday, April 13, 2006 HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. -- Archaeologists reviewing a site for a highway bridge over the Combahee River have found nearly 10,000 years of history art the location. The archaeologists are reviewing the site before work begins to build a wider bridge to take U.S. 17 across the river, which marks the boundary between Beaufort and Colleton counties. The new bridge will be named for Harriet Tubman, who in 1863 led black Union soldiers on a raid that freed 700 slaves from plantations in...
Epigraphy and Language
UK's New Official Language: 9th Century Cornish
	Posted by yankeedame On News/Activism 08/22/2002 5:49:57 AM PDT · 2 replies · 65+ views BBC On-Line | Thursday, 22 August, 2002 | Johathan Duffy Thursday, 22 August, 2002, 06:03 GMT 07:03 UK Back from the dead: UK's new languageBy Jonathan Duffy,BBC News OnlineBritain is about to get a new official language. It dates back to the 9th Century and is hundreds of years older than modern English. But there's one problem - which version to use? The English language is far and away Britannia's greatest export. It is geographically the most widespread language on Earth and 40% of Europeans claim to know English as a foreign tongue. What does Cornish sound like? Click here to find out. At home however, things are rather different....
Ancient Coins Found At Construction Site in Shaanxi (China)
	Posted by Daralundy On General/Chat 04/11/2006 12:38:40 PM PDT · 6 replies · 63+ views China View | April 11, 2006 Ancient coins found at construction site in Shaanxi XI'AN, April 11 (Xinhua) -- One ton of ancient coins dating back about 900 years were unearthed Sunday at a construction site in northwest China's Shaanxi Province. The coins were found in a brick cellar about 6-7 meters underground when an excavator was working on the site in Pucheng County. The owner of the coins remained a mystery. A witness said the cellar was full of scattered coins and others bunched with rotten leather strips. Many coins are rusty. Some coins have been confirmed to belong to Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) while...
Asia
Artifacts In Ancient Chinese City Reveal Superb Technology
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/09/2006 5:10:51 PM PDT · 13 replies · 415+ views Epoch Times | 4-1-2006 Artifacts in Ancient Chinese City Reveal Superb TechnologySuperb drilling technology and the world's earliest stone drill bits were found at site Epoch Times Staff Apr 01, 2006 A worker looks over an excavation site. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images)In Lingjiatan, Hanshan County of Anhui Province in China, archaeologists have discovered a primitive tribal site that was inhabited 5,000 years ago. Superb drilling technology and the world's earliest stone drill bits were found at the site. Archaeology professor Zhang Jingguo said there are still many mysteries in the Lingjiatan ruins waiting to be solved. The Lingjiatan ruins are located in Lingjiatan Village,...
Japan
Explosive Evidence Found In A 13th-Century Shipwreck Off The Coast Of Japan (Kublia Khan)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/17/2003 3:32:10 PM PST · 22 replies · 567+ views The Times (UK) | 1-17-2002 | Norman Hammond January 17, 2003 Explosive evidence found in a 13th-century shipwreck off the coast of Japan By Norman Hammond, Archaeology Correspondent JAPANESE underwater archaeologists have found evidence of the great invasion fleet sent by Kublai Khan in the 13th century, which tradition says was destroyed by a kamikaze or ìdivine wind" sent by the Emperor's deified ancestors to save Japan from its enemies. Only a small proportion of the force was Mongol, the evidence shows: the majority was drawn from conquered China, and used advanced weaponry including shrapnel-filled projectile bombs. The discovery, by Kenzo Hayashida of the Kyushu Okinawa Society for...
Central Asia
East-West Exchanges Began 5,000 Years Ago: Experts
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/18/2002 9:32:39 AM PST · 10 replies · 181+ views Hindustan Times | 12-18-2002 East-West exchanges began 5,000 years ago: Experts Press Trust of India Beijing, December 18 Contact between the East and West probably began more than 5,000 years ago - 3,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to Chinese archaeologists. New research on relics unearthed along the famous silk road, an ancient commercial route linking China and Central Asia, has lead to the conclusion, Xinhua news agency reported on Wednesday. Li Shuicheng, a professor of archaeology at Beijing University, said many people held that east-west exchanges started after the opening of the silk road over 2,000 years ago, but recent archaeological discoveries...
Australia and the Pacific
Ancient Celtic / Scottish Viking sites in New Zealand!(?)
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 04/11/2006 9:19:16 AM PDT · 9 replies · 113+ views The Little Doctors & Martin DoutrÈ? | October 2003 Remains of a typical Scottish/Celtic homestead. (from 12th Century New Zealand?) A modern native NZ Scottish/Celt surveys the ruins. Drystone walls have been pushed out and over. The typical hearthstone, the rock for the family's patron saint, the rock on which the dwellings protective God would have sat, and others are all still in traditional and recogniseable positions. Other such remains abound. This site is now difficult to reach by sea and little known. The original boat access is much changed and boat access is best achieved from an adjacent bay. It is also in the vicinity of a...
Who Built The Kaimanawa Wall?
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 04/10/2006 2:58:26 PM PDT · 12 replies · 108+ views Science Frontiers | Sep-Oct 1996 | William R. Corliss Some 30 kilometers south of Lake Taupo, in New Zealand, stands an enigmatic array of stone blocks. It "looks" like a wall; a human-built wall. It also "looks" old; perhaps 2,000 years old according to some... B. Brailsford, of Christchurch, has been the chief investigator of the Kaimanawa wall, aided by American D.H. Childress, and others. The stones that make up the wall are 4-ton blocks of ignimbrite, a soft volcanic rock that could have been easily dressed with stone tools. The wall is topped by a red beech tree 2.9 meters in circumference and over a meter of accumulated...
India
India's children of Israel find their roots
	Posted by swarthyguy On News/Activism 07/20/2002 11:47:58 PM PDT · 54 replies · 1,245+ views Timesof India | 7.21.02 | RASHMEE Z AHMED LONDON: More than 2,000 years after they first claimed to have set foot in India, the mystery of the world's most obscure Jewish community - the Marathi-speaking Bene Israel - may finally have been solved with genetic carbon-dating revealing they carry the unusual Moses gene that would make them, literally, the original children of Israel. Four years of DNA tests on the 4,000-strong Bene Israel, now mainly based in Mumbai, Pune, Thane and Ahmedabad, indicates they are probable descendants of a small group of hereditary Israelite priests or Cohanim, according to new results exclusively made available to the Sunday Times...
Africa
Shipwreck Adventurer's Fiction Revealed As True After 270 Years
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/14/2002 3:54:58 PM PDT · 16 replies · 223+ views The Guardian (UK) | 10-13-2002 | Robin McKie Shipwreck adventurer's fiction revealed as true after 270 years British writer of a stirring adventure tale is unmasked as its real hero Robin McKie Sunday October 13, 2002 The Observer An eighteenth-century adventure story involving slavery on a desert island, violent death and escape became the literary sensation of its day and has been pronounced by experts since as exciting stuff but utter fiction. Now a British archaeologist has discovered the startling truth about Robert Drury and the story of his escape from Madagascar. The experts were wrong. His fantastic, graphic tale of torture, enslavement, battles between rival tribes and...
Climate
Scientists Prepare to Excavate Black Sea
	Posted by vannrox On News/Activism 07/22/2003 7:13:41 PM PDT · 32 replies · 680+ views AP Science | 7-21-2003 | By RICHARD C. LEWIS, Associated Press Writer NARRAGANSETT, R.I. - In 1994, archaeologist Fredrik Hiebert rode around northern Turkey in a dirty white Toyota van looking for evidence of ancient civilizations around the Black Sea. Every time he and his team would ask locals for the whereabouts of centuries-old ruins, they'd get the same response. "Everyone kept pointing us to the sea," Hiebert recalled. Hiebert knows now why they did. After some preliminary trips, the University of Pennsylvania professor and other scientists will go on a first-ever effort to excavate ancient ships and a possible human settlement left mummified in the Black Sea's oxygen-free waters. Scientists hope...
Ancient Greece
Black Sea Starts to Yield a Rich Ancient History
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 04/12/2006 7:36:48 PM PDT · 1 reply · 1+ view Washington Post | Monday 20 January 2003 | Guy Gugliotta The ship had a cargo hold filled with ceramic jars, some -- and perhaps all -- of them filled with salt fish. It probably left from a seaport in what is now Turkey and sailed northwest through the Black Sea to the Crimea to pick up its load. Then, for unknown reasons, it sank in 275 feet of water off the present-day Bulgarian coast, coming softly to rest on a carpet of mud. Last week, archaeologists announced they had found the long-lost vessel. Sunk sometime between 490 B.C. and 280 B.C., it is the oldest wreck ever found in the...
Ancient Rome
Treasure myth inspires Cypriots to dig into past
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 04/14/2006 7:04:05 AM PDT · 3 replies · 44+ views Reuters | Fri Apr 14, 2006 | Michele Kambas ...residents of Tseri village in central Cyprus have begun excavating the 1,500-year-old tunnel and stairway. Antiquities officials say the stone structure is part of an ancient irrigation network. Residents romanticise, half jokingly, that it may lead to "Aphrodite's Golden Carriage" -- a euphemism for a hidden treasure dating from Roman times, between 58 BC and AD 330... Archaeologists date the structure to AD 500, which, by default, effectively debunks the Roman-era treasure theory. "Its just a cistern," says Pavlos Flourentzos, director of Cyprus's Department of Antiquities.
The Phoenicians
The Marsala Punic Warship
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 04/13/2006 12:31:09 PM PDT · 4 replies · 97+ views Rˆmisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum | circa 1999 | Honor Frost Punta Scario is opposite to and only twenty minutes by sail from, the Egadi Islands which gave their name to the Roman naval victory that took place on the morning of March the 10th, 241 BC and ended the First Punic War. The wreck's contents, epigraphy and Carbon 14 determinations are consistent with this period, while circumstantial evidence points to a connection with the Battle itself. The Ship's architecture and contents show that it was not a merchantman, but some kind of hastily built auxiliary warship, possibly a Liburnian. After the Battle the wind had changed direction, so that by...
Mesopotamia
Iraq Antiquities Find Sparks Controversy
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/11/2006 1:23:44 PM PDT · 16 replies · 523+ views Science Now | 4-10-2006 | Sue Biggin - Andrew Lawler Iraq Antiquities Find Sparks Controversy By Sue Biggin and Andrew Lawler ScienceNOW Daily News 10 April 2006 TRIESTE, ITALY--Italian researchers in Iraq claim to have stumbled upon an important cache of ancient clay tablets in one of the world's oldest cities. But others dispute the claim, and Iraqi authorities say the scientists have been acting illegally. No archaeologist has been given permission to do excavations since the U.S. invasion in March 2003 toppled Saddam Hussein. But last month, Italy's National Research Council announced that it had discovered some 500 rare tablets on the surface of Eridu, a desert site in...
British Isles
Burial Find Reveals Ancient Lives
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/10/2006 3:07:19 PM PDT · 12 replies · 401+ views BBC | 4-10-2006 | Greig Watson Burial find reveals ancient lives Greig Watson BBC News, Leicester A huge amount can be learnt from skeletal remains They are dust and dry bones. Hundreds of people, generation upon generation, reduced to neatly boxed scraps and splinters. But a team from the University of Leicester archaeology unit has a rare opportunity to tell us about the lives these people led. Work on the extension to a shopping centre in Leicester city centre unearthed the largest medieval parish cemetery outside London, containing more than 1,300 skeletons. As well as the sheer scale of the site, the significance lies in its...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Director posits proof of biblical Exodus
	Posted by timsbella On News/Activism 04/14/2006 5:58:16 AM PDT · 89 replies · 1,279+ views The Globe and Mail | 14 April 2006 | Michael Posner A provocative $4-million documentary by Toronto filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici claims to have found archeological evidence verifying the story of the biblical Exodus from Egypt, 3,500 years ago. Religious Jews consider the biblical account incontrovertible ó the foundation story of the creation of the nation of Israel. Indeed, they celebrated the Exodus Wednesday night and last night with the annual Passover recitation of the Haggadah. But among scholars, the question of if and when Moses led an estimated two million Israelite slaves out of pharaonic Egypt, miraculously crossed the Red Sea ahead of the pursuing Egyptian army and received the Ten...
Arrests Won't Stop Looting Of Antiquities (op-ed)
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 04/13/2006 7:39:34 AM PDT · 4 replies · 45+ views Jewish Week | Thursday, April 13, 2006 | Hershel Shanks Eshel's prosecution reflects a movement within the academic community, especially in the United States, to fight looting by ignoring the loot ó forbidding it from being bought, exhibited in a museum or published. The idea is that this will stop, or at least reduce, looting, but it is universally agreed that looting is worse than ever. This approach has had absolutely no effect on looting; it has simply driven the trade in looted antiquities underground. Instead of looted antiquities from the West Bank coming into Israel, they now go through Jordan into private collections in East Asia. And the scholarly...
Ancient Europe
Researchers trawl the origins of sea fishing in Northern Europe
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 04/13/2006 7:34:45 AM PDT · 11 replies · 63+ views Innovations Report | April 13 2006 | James Barrett et al Dr James Barrett, of the University of York's Department of Archaeology, who is co-ordinating the project, has pinpointed the century between 950AD and 1050AD as the critical period when this fisheries revolution took place. By studying fish bones from archaeological sites such as York, Gent in Belgium, Ribe in Denmark, Schleswig in Germany and Gdansk in Poland, the researchers hope to establish what long-term impact this rapid switch to intensive sea fisheries had on medieval trading patterns... Dried cod was traded from the Arctic in the Middle Ages and, around 1000AD, trade routes opened up across the Viking world to...
Neanderthals Were Not Stupid, Just A Bit Anti-Social
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/10/2006 2:45:19 PM PDT · 66 replies · 1,068+ views Scotsman | 4-10-2006 | Ian Johnson Neanderthals were not stupid, just a bit anti-social IAN JOHNSTON SCIENCE CORRESPONDENT "CRUDE, boorish and slow- witted" - even dictionaries give Neanderthals a hard time. But our prehistoric cousins were in reality just as smart as we are and did not die out as a result of a lack of brain power, according to a new archaeological study. Until now, the leading theory of why the Neanderthals disappeared has been that a lack of intelligence meant they were less efficient hunters. But a team of US archaeologists believe they met their evolutionary end because of a failure to maintain social...
Prehistory and Origins
Unearthing The Lost Peking Man
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/09/2006 5:22:11 PM PDT · 12 replies · 366+ views The Standard | 4-10-2006 Unearthing the lost Peking Man After years of searching, a new initiative aims to trace these historic missing fossils, says Ching-Ching Ni Monday, April 10, 2006 After years of searching, a new initiative aims to trace these historic missing fossils, says Ching-Ching Ni It's a mystery that has baffled the world for more than half a century. Whatever happened to the fossils of the prehistoric human ancestor known as Peking Man? Their discovery in the late 1920s and 1930s in limestone caves on the outskirts of Beijing, then called Peking in the West, was one of the 20th century's greatest...
Megaliths and Archaeoastronomy
The Stone Pages are BACK!
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 04/11/2006 11:32:17 AM PDT · 18 replies · 219+ views Stone Pages | Last updated: 3 April 2006 | Paola Arosio & Diego Meozzi Over the last 14 years we have personally visited and photographed all 529 archÊological sites you will find in these pages (117 in the six national sections and 412 in our Tours section), creating the first Web guide to European megaliths and other prehistoric sites, online since February 1996
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Leaking Earth could run dry
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 04/12/2006 10:01:52 AM PDT · 80 replies · 533+ views BBC | Wednesday, September 8, 1999 Researchers from the Tokyo Institute of Technology have calculated that about 1.12 billion tonnes of water leaks into the Earth each year. Although a lot of water also moves in the other direction, not enough comes to the surface to balance what is lost. Eventually, lead researcher Shigenori Maruyama and his colleagues believe, all of it will disappear... His figures, which he describes as conservative, suggest the leakage has caused sea levels to drop by around 600 metres in the last 750 million years. This trend has been largely obscured in the geological record by shorter-term variations in sea levels.
Medieval Wilding
A Prolific Genghis Khan, It Seems, Helped People the World
	Posted by vannrox On News/Activism 02/13/2003 1:47:34 PM PST · 16 replies · 418+ views NY Times | February 11, 2003 | By NICHOLAS WADE February 11, 2003 A Prolific Genghis Khan, It Seems, Helped People the WorldBy NICHOLAS WADE remarkable living legacy of the Mongol empire has been discovered by geneticists in a survey of human populations from the Caucasus to China. They find that as many as 8 percent of the men dwelling in the confines of the former Mongol empire bear Y chromosomes that seem characteristic of the Mongol ruling house. If so, some 16 million men, or half a percent of the world's male population, can probably claim descent from Genghis Khan. The finding seems to be the first proof, on...
Genghis Khan: Father To Millions
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 06/22/2004 9:49:06 AM PDT · 146 replies · 1,664+ views Discovery News | 6-22-2004 | Rossella Lorenzi Genghis Khan: Father to Millions? By Rossella Lorenzi, Discovery Newshttp://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs Statue of the Mongol Emperor June 22, 2004 óGenghis Khan left a legacy shared by 16 million people alive today, according to a book by a Oxford geneticist who identified the Mongol emperor as the most successful alpha male in human history. Regarded by the Mongolians as the father of their nation, Genghis Khan was born around 1162. A military and political genius, he united the tribes of Mongolia and conquered half of the known world with a cavalry riding on grass-fed ponies. By the time Genghis died in 1227,...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Seeking Ancestry in DNA Ties Uncovered by Tests
	Posted by Pharmboy On News/Activism 04/12/2006 3:07:14 AM PDT · 37 replies · 777+ views NY Times | April 12, 2006 | AMY HARMON Alan Moldawer's adopted twins, Matt and Andrew, had always thought of themselves as white. But when it came time for them to apply to college last year, Mr. Moldawer thought it might be worth investigating the origins of their slightly tan-tinted skin, with a new DNA kit that he had heard could determine an individual's genetic ancestry. The results, designating the boys 9 percent Native American and 11 percent northern African, arrived too late for the admissions process. But Mr. Moldawer, a business executive in Silver Spring, Md., says they could be useful in obtaining financial aid. "Naturally when you're...
Ancient Egypt
Fatwa against statues triggers uproar in Egypt
	Posted by jmc1969 On News/Activism 04/03/2006 4:05:26 PM PDT · 77 replies · 1,581+ views AFP | April 3 2006 A fatwa issued by Egypt's top religious authority, which forbids the display of statues has art-lovers fearing it, could be used by Islamic extremists as an excuse to destroy Egypt's historical heritage. Egypt's Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa, the country's top Islamic jurist, issued the religious edict which declared as un-Islamic the exhibition of statues in homes, basing the decision on texts in the hadith (sayings of the prophet). Many fear the edict could prod Islamic fundamentalists to attack Egypt's thousands of ancient and pharaonic statues on show at tourist sites across the country. "We don't rule out that someone will...
Oh So Mysteriouso
Digging Starts On 'Europe's First Pyramids' In Bosnia
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/14/2006 2:00:42 PM PDT · 15 replies · 204+ views Metimes | 4-14-2006 Digging starts on 'Europe's first pyramids' in Bosnia April 14, 2006 VISOKO, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- Excavation work started on Friday on what a Bosnian explorer claims to be Europe's first pyramids in an area north of Sarajevo. A team of experts started digging at the site of a 3.8-kilometer (2.3-mile) tunnel believed to lead to one of the two structures resembling pyramids, about 30 kilometers from the Bosnian capital. As residents of the nearby town of Visoko eagerly watched, digging also began on one of ten 20-by-50 meter (65-by-165 foot) wells on the lower slopes of a hill. Last year explorer...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
A fascinating new look at America before Columbus
	Posted by Between the Lines On News/Activism 08/17/2005 11:43:12 AM PDT · 137 replies · 2,761+ views The Charlotte Observer | Aug. 14, 2005 | CHARLES MATTHEWS 1491: New Revelations Of The Americas Before Columbus By Charles C. Mann. Knopf. 480 pages. $30. Charles C. Mann's engagingly written, utterly absorbing "1491" tells us what scientists have recently learned about the American civilizations that vanished with the arrival of Columbus. Most of what we were taught about them may be wrong. For example, I thought of North America before Columbus as sparsely settled by people who had little impact on their environment: a place with great herds of buffalo like the ones that rumble through movies like "Dances With Wolves," where migrating flocks of passenger pigeons darkened the...
The Myth of the Passive Indian - Was America before Columbus just a ìcontinent of patsies"?
	Posted by neverdem On News/Activism 04/13/2006 1:27:46 PM PDT · 67 replies · 1,625+ views Reason | April 2006 | Amy H. Sturgis 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, by Charles C. Mann, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 465 pages, $30 In 1950 the anthropologist Allan R. Holmberg published his classic text Nomads of the Longbow, a study of the Bolivian natives known as the SirionÛ. Holmberg had lived with the Indians and studied their habits for two years. His assessment, which generations of scholars took as gospel and applied to other indigenous groups, was that the SirionÛ were an unimpressive people who had existed for thousands of years without innovation or progress. He claimed the SirionÛ had no real history...
Terms Of Enstrangement (Anthropology)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/08/2006 11:39:32 AM PDT · 27 replies · 458+ views Discover Magazine | 11-1994 | James Shreeve Terms of Estrangement Race is small but volatile word. It lacks a clear definition or scientific purpose. Yet it persists. Not only in the lingo of the streets but in the language of the laboratory. By James Shreeve DISCOVER Vol. 15 No. 11 | November 1994 | Anthropology In 1984, Norm Sauer, a forensic anthropologist at Michigan State University, received a call from the state police. Somebody had found a body in the woods. The decomposed corpse displayed the typical mute profile of an unknown homicide victim: no clothing, no personal possessions at the scene, not even enough soft tissue...
Iraq Accuses U.S. of Damaging Ancient City
	Posted by SUSSA On News/Activism 03/30/2006 10:51:36 PM PST · 15 replies · 446+ views LAS VEGAS SUN | 3/30/06 | AP BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - American forces are damaging the ancient city of Kish and must withdraw from the 5,000-year-old archaeological site, an Iraqi ministry said Thursday. The Ministry of State for Tourism and Antiquities Affairs said U.S. forces had set up a camp in Kish, near Hillah, about 60 miles south of Baghdad. In a statement, the ministry said the U.S. military was preventing anyone from entering this important archaeological site to assess the damage, which was not specified. The U.S. military had no immediate comment.
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Quite a bit of nautical / undersea archaeology stuff this week, also a bunch of Blasts from the Past, including a few which have been in past digests (probably) but had a little keyword failure at some point. An hour or so early, because I wish to get to bed at a reasonable hour. Filed my tax forms today, finally.

Gods Graves Glyphs Digest #91 20060415

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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #92 Saturday, April 22, 2006
Oh So Mysteriouso
Indiana Jones of the Balkans and the mystery of a hidden pyramid
	Posted by MadIvan On News/Activism 04/15/2006 5:35:41 AM EDT · 17 replies · 721+ views The Times | April 15, 2006 | Nick Hawton DRIVE 20 miles northwest of Sarajevo through the mountains of central Bosnia and you enter the broad Visoko valley, dissected by the meandering Bosna River. Beyond the river sits the town of Visoko, watched over by its minarets. And beyond Visoko rises an extraordinary triangular hill, 700ft (213m) high and looking for all the world like an ancient pyramid.Some say that is precisely what it is ó a huge pyramid built perhaps 12,000 years ago by an unknown civilisation. And yesterday they set out to prove it. In the spring sunshine, watched by crowds of locals, journalists and the contestants...
Experts Find Evidence of Bosnia Pyramid
	Posted by Flavius On News/Activism 04/20/2006 12:14:14 AM EDT · 17 replies · 451+ views Yahoo News & AP | April 19, 2006 | AMEL EMRIC VISOKO, Bosnia-Herzegovina - Researchers in Bosnia on Wednesday unearthed the first solid evidence that an ancient pyramid lies hidden beneath a massive hill ó a series of geometrically cut stone slabs that could form part of the structure's sloping surface. ADVERTISEMENT click here Archaeologists and other experts began digging into the sides of the mysterious hill near the central Bosnian town of Visoko last week. On Wednesday, the digging revealed large stone blocks on one side that the leader of the team believes are the outer layer of the pyramid. "These are the first uncovered walls of the pyramid," said...
Researchers Find Possible Evidence of Bosnian Pyramid(europe has a pyramid)
	Posted by Halfmanhalfamazing On News/Activism 04/20/2006 10:21:24 PM EDT · 12 replies · 347+ views Fox Researchers on Wednesday unearthed geometrically cut stone slabs that they said could form part of the sloping surface of what they believe is an ancient pyramid lying beneath a huge hill.
Ancient Greece
Bringing the secrets of Antigoneia to light
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 04/15/2006 10:14:22 PM EDT · 4 replies · 97+ views Kathimerini | Iota Sykka A team of Greek and Albanian archaeologists are cooperating on a three-year excavation project in Epirus, northwestern Greece... Joint research is being carried out at ancient Antigoneia under the supervision of the institute, headed by Muzafer Korkuti, and the 12th Ephorate, headed by Constantinos Zachos... Albanian archaeologist Dhimosten Budina identified the city on a 35-hectare site at roughly 600 meters altitude, with walls 4 kilometers long. The identification was made on the basis of bronze ballots bearing the inscription "ANTIGONEON" on a Hellenistic-era house... Zachos said the impressive tomb, which contained fragments of jars, a glass vase, loom weights, a...
Ancient Rome
Ancient Roman holiday villa found
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 04/15/2006 10:16:33 PM EDT · 6 replies · 87+ views ANSA | April 14 2006 The remains of the luxury residence turned up recently in Torvaianica, a coastal resort south of Rome... Historians knew from written sources that the villa of Titus Flavius Claudanius and Titus Flavius Sallustius was somewhere in the area but the precise location had long been forgotten... It covers about a hectare and includes a large area given over to relaxation, including a gymnasium, hot and cold baths and various swimming pools.
Ancient Egypt
Nile releases city's deep history [ Rhakotis and Alexandria ]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 04/21/2006 11:50:42 AM EDT · 13 replies · 81+ views New Scientist | 22 April 2006 | unattributed Alexander wasn't quite so great after all. Sure, he conquered most of the world known to the ancient Greeks, but he didn't found the Egyptian city of Alexandria - he just rebranded it. It now seems that this part of the Nile has been settled for at least 4500 years, pre-dating Alexander's arrival by a good two millennia. Alain VÈron from the Paul CÈzanne University in Aix-en-Provence, France, and colleagues made the discovery by measuring the variations in lead concentration in a mud core from Alexandria's ancient harbour. They determined how lead levels had changed over time by carbon-dating seashells...
Africa
Slow death of Africa's Lake Chad
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 04/16/2006 5:29:22 PM EDT · 16 replies · 272+ views BBC News | Friday, 14 April 2006 | Andrew Bomford Lake Chad, which once straddled the borders of Chad, Niger, Nigeria and Cameroon, has shrunk by an estimated 95% since the mid 1960s, due to the growth of agriculture and declining rainfall. Image: Unep
Out Of Africa
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/08/2001 7:51:53 PM EDT · 3 replies · 444+ views Science News Magazine | 9-29-2001 | Sid Perkins Out Of AfricaDust, the Thermostat How tiny airborne particles manipulate global climate Sid Perkins On April 15, 1998, Mongolia's Gobi Desert lay between an area of low atmospheric pressure on the eastern end of the country and a zone of high pressure to the west. As swift winds rushed across the desert floor, they lofted sand and dust into the heart of a storm system racing southward into China. During the next 2 days, a yellow, muddy, acidic rain fell in a wide swath that covered Beijing and the Korean peninsula. On April 16, 1998, a strong storm system passing ...
Climate
Ice Disappearing from Kilimanjaro? Let me guess. It's the all the pollution. NOT
	Posted by Yzerman On News/Activism 10/18/2002 5:29:24 PM EDT · 11 replies · 199+ views MSNBC ASSOCIATED PRESS | Oct. 17th, 2002 | ASSOCIATED PRESS Snows of Kilimanjaro gone by 2020? Researchers trace past and future of famed African ice fields The picture on the left shows Mount Kilimanjaro as seen from the space shuttle in November 1990. The picture on the right was taken by a shuttle crew in December 2000. The pictures show the retreat of glaciers over the course of a decade. ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 ó The snow cap of Mount Kilimanjaro, famed in literature and beloved by tourists, first formed some 11,000 years ago but will be gone in two decades, according to researchers who say the ice fields...
Global Warming: Medieval Era Hotter than Today
	Posted by Francohio On News/Activism 04/06/2003 2:04:51 PM EDT · 62 replies · 947+ views The London Telegraph | 06/04/2003) | Robert Matthews Middle Ages were warmer than today, say scientistsBy Robert Matthews, Science Correspondent (Filed: 06/04/2003) Claims that man-made pollution is causing "unprecedented" global warming have been seriously undermined by new research which shows that the Earth was warmer during the Middle Ages. From the outset of the global warming debate in the late 1980s, environmentalists have said that temperatures are rising higher and faster than ever before, leading some scientists to conclude that greenhouse gases from cars and power stations are causing these "record-breaking" global temperatures. Last year, scientists working for the UK Climate Impacts Programme said that global temperatures were...
Scientists blame sun for global warming (February 13, 1998)
	Posted by george76 On General/Chat 04/07/2006 3:09:17 PM EDT · 120 replies · 2,263+ views BBC News | Climatologists and astronomers Climate changes such as global warming may be due to changes in the sun rather than to the release of greenhouse gases on Earth. Climatologists and astronomers speaking at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Philadelphia say the present warming may be unusual - but a mini ice age could soon follow. The sun provides all the energy that drives our climate, but it is not the constant star it might seem. Careful studies over the last 20 years show that its overall brightness and energy output increases slightly as sunspot activity rises to the peak...
Asia
Beheaded Skeletons Replay War History (China - 221BC)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/19/2006 5:51:20 PM EDT · 6 replies · 233+ views People's Daily | 4-19-2006 Beheaded skeletons replay war history Chinese archaeologists have unearthed some 30 beheaded skeletons dating back more than 2,000 years in central China's Henan Province, a cradle of the Chinese civilization. The skeletons were obviously warriors, the tallest of whom was at least 1.85 meters, said Sun Xinmin, head of the Henan Provincial Institute of Cultural Heritage and Archeology. The human remains were found scattered in a pit in the city of Xinzheng, adjacent to a major battlefield where State Qin overthrew State Han toward the end of the Warring States Period (475 to 221 BC), said Sun. He and his...
Let's Have Jerusalem
The Jesus Dynasty
	Posted by Swordmaker On Religion 04/08/2006 3:42:35 AM EDT · 20 replies · 341+ views ABC News Home | 4/7/2006 | Excerpt from JAmes D. Tabor book The Jesus Dynasty Excerpt: 'The Jesus Dynasty' by James D. Tabor New Book Challenges Christian Philosophy April 7, 2006 -- James Tabor is the chairman of religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His book challenges many of the beliefs that Christians hold dear, maintaining that Jesus is neither the son of God nor the son of Joseph but most likely the child of a Roman soldier named Pantera. Jesus, Tabor maintains, became the head of the household when Joseph died and looked after his six half-brothers and sisters. When Jesus died, his brother James took over...
Kabbalist Blesses Jones to Uncover Holy Lost Ark
	Posted by STD On Religion 05/19/2005 12:59:26 AM EDT · 32 replies · 653+ views Israel Newswire | May 18, '05 | Jones Exclusive: Kabbalist Blesses Jones to Uncover Holy Lost Ark 23:39 May 18, '05 / 9 Iyar 5765 An unnamed Kabbalist has granted blessing to famed archeologist Dr. Vendyl Jones, to uncover the Holy Ark of the Covenant. Jones plans to excavate the Lost Ark by the Tisha BíAv Fast this summer.
Epigraphy and Language
The incomparable, illum. 8th century, celtic Lindisfarne Gospels (eye-popping pics.)
	Posted by yankeedame On Religion 01/14/2006 12:02:04 PM EST · 33 replies · 571+ views "Throught their long history as a brotherhood -- even while they were casting about for a permanent -- the monks (of Saint Cuthbert,Northumberland) continued a Celtric tradition of making exquidite manuscriptes, including amonth their triumphs one masterpiece that is esteemed the most precious book in the United Kingdom. Produced on Holy Island (a sandy spit of land off the Northumberland coast)in the seventh century by illustrators and calligraphers as a tribute Cuthbert, the incomparable folio known as the Lindisfarne Gospels lay open on the altar of the saint's tomb for six humdred years...." "Patience & Fortitude" by Nicholas Basbanes,2001. Gospel...
Ancient Europe
Shetland's past comes to life amid the ruins
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 04/18/2006 1:29:09 AM EDT · 9 replies · 83+ views The Scotsman | Tuesday, 18th April 2006 | Caroline Wickham-Jones The people of Jarlshof threw garbage into dumps from before 2500 BC but, although their waste was unwanted, their refuse has been anything but rubbish for archaeologists investigating their lives. We know that the Stone Age settlers lived in small circular stone houses, that they tilled crops, kept cattle and sheep, and harvested the sea for fish and whales, seals and shellfish. They also made tools - some finely decorated - from stone, pottery and bone... In the 19th century the site was visited by Sir Walter Scott who christened the ruined hall "Jarlshof", and the name has stuck since....
Ancient Agriculture
Early Farmers Took Time To Tame Wheat
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/20/2006 4:33:04 PM EDT · 9 replies · 306+ views Science News | 4-20-2006 | Bruce Bower Week of April 15, 2006; Vol. 169, No. 15 , p. 237 Early farmers took time to tame wheat Bruce Bower Domesticated varieties of wheat emerged gradually in the prehistoric Near East over a roughly 3,000-year span, a new investigation suggests. CULTIVATED FINDS. Microscopic analysis of wheat grains such as these from a 6,500-year-old Syrian site revealed clues to plant domestication in prehistoric times. Willcox/CNRS Ken-ichi Tanno of the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature in Kyoto, Japan, and George Willcox of the National Center for Scientific Research in Berrias, France, examined 804 wheat-ear remnants recovered at four ancient villages...
Megaliths and Archaeoastronomy
Japanese Researchers Find New Giant Picture On Peru's Nazca Plateau
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/20/2006 6:07:33 PM EDT · 33 replies · 1,439+ views Mainichi | 4-20-2006 Japanese researchers find new giant picture on Peru's Nazca Plateau The new Nazca Plateau image discovered by the research team from Yamagata University. (Photo courtesy of Yamagata University)A new giant picture on the Nazca Plateau in Peru, which is famous for giant patterns that can be seen from the air, has been discovered by a team of Japanese researchers. The image is 65 meters long, and appears to be an animal with horns. It is thought to have been drawn as a symbol of hopes for good crops, but there are no similar patterns elsewhere, and the type of the...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Tale Of (King) Arthur Points To Comet Catastrophe
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/21/2006 7:39:40 PM EDT · 58 replies · 966+ views The Times | 9-9-2000 | Nick Nuttall TALE OF ARTHUR POINTS TO COMET CATASTROPHE From The Times, 9 September 2000 http://www.the-times.co.uk BY NICK NUTTALL Arthur: myth links him to fire from the sky THE story of the death of King Arthur and its references to a wasteland may have been inspired by the apocalyptic effects of a giant comet bombarding the Earth in AD540, leading to the Dark Ages, a British scientist said yesterday. The impacts filled the atmosphere with dust and debris; a long winter began. Crops failed, and there was famine, Dr Mike Baillie of Queen's University, Belfast, told the British Association for the Advancement...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Dig Finds Long-Term Use At Hell's Half Acre (6,000BC)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/17/2006 5:45:58 PM EDT · 12 replies · 547+ views Billings Gazette | 4-17-2006 | AP Dig finds long-term use at Hell's Half AcreSite was home to Indians at least 1,200 years ago By The Associated Press CASPER, Wyo. -- A preliminary report on an archaeological dig says Hell's Half Acre, west of Casper, was home to prehistoric American Indians at least 1,200 years ago, and perhaps as long as 8,000 years ago. John Albanese, chairman of the Natrona County Historic Preservation Society, told Natrona County commissioners on Thursday that archaeological evidence shows Indians were hunting bison at Hell's Half Acre between 1,200 and 3,000 years ago, and that some evidence appeared to be much older....
Mammoth meals helped early tribes thrive
	Posted by george76 On News/Activism 04/17/2006 10:13:44 PM EDT · 46 replies · 731+ views The Times | April 18, 2006 | Mark Henderson REGULAR meals of mammoth meat helped some early human tribes to expand more quickly than their largely vegetarian contemporaries, according to a genetic study. Human populations in east Asia about 30,000 years ago developed at dramatically different rates, following a pattern that appears to reflect the availability of mammoths and other large game. In the part of the region covering what is now northern China, Mongolia and southern Siberia, vast plains teemed with mammals such as mammoths, mastodons and woolly rhinoceroses and the number of early human beings grew between 34,000 and 20,000 years ago. Further south, where the terrain...
Sabre-tooths and Hominids
	Posted by Sabertooth On News/Activism 11/22/2002 5:18:45 PM EST · 44 replies · 2,578+ views Instituto Geologico y Minero de Espana | Alfonso Arribas & Paul Palmqvist On the Ecological Connection Between Sabre-tooths and Hominids: Faunal Dispersal Events in the Lower Pleistocene and a Review of the Evidence for the First Human Arrival in Europe †Alfonso ArribasMuseo Geominero, Instituto TecnolÛgico Geominero de EspaÒa. RÌos Rosas, 23. 28003 Madrid, Spain.Paul PalmqvistDepartamento de GeologÌa y EcologÌa (¡rea de PaleontologÌa), Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de M·laga. 29071 M·laga, Spain. A reconstruction of a community of the large mammals of the Grecian Pleistocene .African Species in the Lower Pleistocene of Europe ÖThe sabre-tooth genus Megantereon shares much in common with Smilodon, and both genera form the tribe Smilodontini. The earliest...
Prehistory and Origins
Impossibly Old America?
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/18/2006 3:24:02 PM EDT · 48 replies · 1,372+ views Archaeology Magazine | 4-18-2006 | Mike Toner Impossibly Old America? Volume 59 Number 3, May/June 2006 by Mike Toner New sites and controversial theories fuel the debate over the origins of America's first people. Archaeologist Al Goodyear believes people were at South Carolina's Topper site 50,000 years ago. (Mike Toner) Al Goodyear's renowned barbecued pig is roasting on the grill a mile away, but the 200 professional and amateur archaeologists peering into the steep-walled pit where he's standing have other things on their minds. Goodyear, director of the University of South Carolina's Allendale Paleoindian Expedition, is explaining why he thinks people were here--on the banks of the...
'Oldest Sculpture' Found In Morocco (400K Years Old)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 05/23/2003 8:52:37 AM EDT · 114 replies · 655+ views BBC | 5-23-2003 | Paul Rincon 'Oldest sculpture' found in Morocco By Paul Rincon BBC Science A 400,000-year-old stone object unearthed in Morocco could be the world's oldest attempt at sculpture. The figurine was found 15 metres below ground That is the claim of a prehistoric art specialist who says the ancient rock bears clear signs of modification by humans. The object, which is around six centimetres in length, is shaped like a human figure, with grooves that suggest a neck, arms and legs. On its surface are flakes of a red substance that could be remnants of paint. The object was found 15 metres below...
Multiregionalism / Replacement
Java Man's First Tools
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/21/2006 2:14:50 PM EDT · 74 replies · 849+ views Science Magazine | 3-26-2006 | Richard Stone Java Man's First Tools Richard Stone INDO-PACIFIC PREHISTORY ASSOCIATION CONGRESS, 20-26 MARCH 2006, MANILA About 1.7 million years ago, a leggy human ancestor, Homo erectus, began prowling the steamy swamps and uplands of Java. That much is known from the bones of more than 100 individuals dug up on the Indonesian island since 1891. But the culture of early "Java Man" has been a mystery: No artifacts older than 1 million years had been found--until now. At the meeting, archaeologist Harry Widianto of the National Research Centre of Archaeology in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, wowed colleagues with slides showing stone tools found...
African cousins behind extinction of Indians 70,000 years ago!
	Posted by CarrotAndStick On News/Activism 11/06/2005 4:00:32 AM EST · 45 replies · 881+ views New Kerala.com & ANI | 05 Nov 2005 Washington : Scientists have said that that the arrival of modern humans from Africa to South Asia some 70,000 years ago may have led to the extermination of the native populations. Researchers from the University of Cambridge have said that the arrival of Homo sapiens in regions like India and other parts of South Asia had most probably led to conflicts and competition between the Homo sapiens and the indigenous hominids (Homo heidelbergensis), leading to the latterís extinction over the years. ìWhile the precise explanations for the demise of the archaic populations is not yet obvious, it is abundantly clear...
New evidence we all have the same ancestors Cal student's discovery should resolve dispute
	Posted by Phil V. On News/Activism 03/22/2002 5:24:28 AM EST · 35 replies · 795+ views San Francisco Chronicle | Thursday, March 21, 2002 | David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor <p>Fossil hunters say they have found the strongest evidence yet that mankind's direct ancestors were members of a single unique species of skilled tool-using creatures who thrived a million years ago across much of the world from China and Java to Africa and Europe.</p>
Theory on origins of man gets genetic overhaul
	Posted by johnandrhonda On News/Activism 03/07/2002 6:27:07 AM EST · 35 replies · 436+ views USA Today newspaper | March 7, 2002 | Dan Vergano Theory on origin of man gets genetic overhaul By Dan Vergano, USA TODAY Modern man evolved from a mixture of ancient African immigrants and primitive humans elsewhere, suggests a genetic analysis released today that raises new questions about long-held theories of human origins. For decades, archaeologists, paleontologists and genetics experts have argued about the evolution of modern man. While the various disciplines had remained divided, the weight of genetic studies had recently favored the "Out of Africa" theory. It says modern-looking humans originated in Africa and spread worldwide about 100,000 years ago, slowly replacing Neanderthals and other evolutionary dead-end humans ...
New Out-Of-Africa Theory Unveiled
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 02/27/2002 7:56:58 PM EST · 95 replies · 617+ views Discovery News | 2-25-2002 | Larry O'Hanlon New Out-of-Africa Theory Unveiled By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News Leaving the Mother Country Feb. 25 ó The human family just got even smaller. Everyone outside of Africa ó Asians, Europeans, Native Americans, Southeast Asians, Australian Aborigines, etc. ó came from the same small band of humans that left the mother continent some 80,000 years ago by way of Ethiopia, according to a new theory unveiled Monday by geneticists and DNA detectives. "No, we haven't found the bones of the original Eve," said DNA tracker Stephen Oppenheimer of Oxford University in a press teleconference. Instead, researchers have followed the trail of ...
Ancient Navigation
When In Vietnam, Build Boats As The Romans Do
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/21/2006 2:03:33 PM EDT · 25 replies · 787+ views Science Magazine | 3-26-2006 | Richard Stone When in Vietnam, Build Boats as the Romans Do Richard Stone INDO-PACIFIC PREHISTORY ASSOCIATION CONGRESS, 20-26 MARCH 2006, MANILA In December 2004, researchers drained a canal in northern Vietnam in search of ancient textiles from graves. They found that and a whole lot more. Protruding from the canal bank at Dong Xa was a 2000-year-old log boat that had been used as a coffin. After a closer look at the woodwork, archaeologists Peter Bellwood and Judith Cameron of Australia National University in Canberra and their colleagues were astounded to find that the method for fitting planks to hull matched that...
Erectus Ahoy (Stone Age Voyages)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/22/2003 3:28:49 PM EDT · 29 replies · 311+ views Science News | 10-22-2003 | Bruce Bower Erectus AhoyPrehistoric seafaring floats into view Bruce Bower As the sun edged above the horizon on Jan. 31, 2000, a dozen men boarded a bamboo raft off the east coast of the Indonesian island of Bali. Each gripped a wooden paddle and, in unison, deftly stroked the nearly 40-foot-long craft into the open sea. Their destination: the Stone Age, by way of a roughly 18-mile crossing to the neighboring island of Lombok. Project director Robert G. Bednarik, one of the assembled paddlers, knew that a challenging trip lay ahead, even discounting any time travel. Local fishing crews had told him...
Graves Of The Pacific's First Seafarers Revealed
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/21/2006 2:26:39 PM EDT · 6 replies · 283+ views Science Magazine | 3-26-2006 | Richard Stone Graves of the Pacific's First Seafarers Revealed Richard Stone INDO-PACIFIC PREHISTORY ASSOCIATION CONGRESS, 20-26 MARCH 2006, MANILA Little is known about the Lapita peoples, the first settlers of the Western Pacific, other than their ubiquitous calling card: red pottery fragments with intricate designs. But in what's being hailed as one of the most dramatic finds in years, researchers at the meeting offered a glimpse of the first-known early Lapita cemetery. "This is the closest we're going to get to the first Polynesians," says archaeologist Matthew Spriggs of Australia National University (ANU) in Canberra, a member of the excavation team. Face...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
First Knights Templar Discovered
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/17/2006 5:34:31 PM EDT · 122 replies · 3,407+ views Daily Telegraph (UK) | 4-10-2006 First Knights Templar are discovered April 10, 2006 LONDON: The first bodies of the Knights Templar, the mysterious religious order at the heart of The Da Vinci Code, have been found by archaeologists near the River Jordan in northern Israel. British historian Tom Asbridge yesterday hailed the find as the first provable example of actual Knights Templar. The remains were found beneath the ruined walls of Jacob's Ford, an overthrown castle dating back to the Crusades, which had been lost for centuries. They can be dated to the exact day -- August 29, 1179 -- that they were killed by...
British Isles
A moving picture postcard
	Posted by kiriath_jearim On General/Chat 04/18/2006 1:27:56 PM EDT · 3 replies · 40+ views BBC | 4/18/06 | Simon Ford A moving picture postcard By Simon Ford Executive producer, The Lost World of Friese-Greene In 1926, pioneering film-maker Claude Friese-Greene travelled from Land's End to John O'Groats. His unique film - one of the first in colour - reveals not only how life has changed, but what remains unaltered. Britain between the world wars enjoyed a golden age, yet it is a period typically captured in monochrome. But a recently restored film from the British Film Institute's vaults puts the colour back into this bygone age. The Open Road was made by Claude Friese-Greene in 1926 to showcase his new...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Profile: Victor Davis Hanson. USA needs a dose of ancient Greece's warrior culture
	Posted by TheWillardHotel On News/Activism 05/26/2003 10:31:17 AM EDT · 134 replies · 951+ views The Boston Globe | 5/25/2003 | Laura Secor <p>VICTOR DAVIS HANSON leads a double life. A fifth-generation raisin farmer in California's fertile Central Valley, Hanson is also a historian of ancient Greece, a lyrical defender of American agrarianism, and a prolific contributor to conservative opinion magazines. His columns so caught the fancy of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney that he has enjoyed audiences with both. It's hard to say which is stranger: that a raisin farmer should exert such influence, or that a classics scholar should.</p>
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #93 Saturday, April 29, 2006
Catastrophism and Astronomy
ARCHAEOLOGY: New Carbon Dates Support Revised History of Ancient Mediterranean
	Posted by Lessismore On News/Activism 04/27/2006 7:59:30 PM EDT · 57 replies · 1,082+ views Science Magazine | 4/28/2006 | Michael Balter During the Late Bronze Age, the Aegean volcanic island of Thera erupted violently, spreading pumice and ash across the eastern Mediterranean and triggering frosts as far away as what is now California. The Theran town of Akrotiri was completely buried. Tsunamis up to 12 meters high crashed onto the shores of Crete, 110 kilometers to the south, and the cataclysm may ultimately have sped the demise of Crete's famed Minoan civilization. For nearly 30 years, archaeologists have fought over when the eruption took place. Those who rely on dates from pottery styles and Egyptian inscriptions put the event at roughly...
Olive branch solves a Bronze Age mystery
	Posted by The_Victor On News/Activism 04/28/2006 8:59:40 AM EDT · 10 replies · 472+ views Yahoo/MSNBC (Science) | 3:04 p.m. ET April 27, 2006 | Kathleen Wren WASHINGTON - Compared to the well-studied world of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, the civilizations that flourished in the eastern Mediterranean just before Homer's time are still cloaked in mystery. Even the basic chronology of the region during this time has been heatedly debated. Now, a resolution has finally emerged -- initiated, quite literally, by an olive branch.Scientists have discovered the remains of a single olive tree, buried alive during a massive volcanic eruption during the Late Bronze Age. A study that dates this tree, plus another study that dates a series of objects from before, during and after the eruption,...
Tale Of (King) Arthur Points To Comet Catastrophe
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/21/2006 7:39:40 PM EDT · 80 replies · 1,341+ views The Times | 9-9-2000 | Nick Nuttall TALE OF ARTHUR POINTS TO COMET CATASTROPHE From The Times, 9 September 2000 http://www.the-times.co.uk BY NICK NUTTALL Arthur: myth links him to fire from the sky THE story of the death of King Arthur and its references to a wasteland may have been inspired by the apocalyptic effects of a giant comet bombarding the Earth in AD540, leading to the Dark Ages, a British scientist said yesterday. The impacts filled the atmosphere with dust and debris; a long winter began. Crops failed, and there was famine, Dr Mike Baillie of Queen's University, Belfast, told the British Association for the Advancement...
Taking Out A Killer Asteroid - With A Tame One
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/26/2006 6:36:12 PM EDT · 35 replies · 383+ views New Scientist | 4-26-2006 | Maggie McKee Taking out a killer asteroid ñ with a tame one 17:38 26 April 2006 NewScientist.com news service Maggie McKee It sounds like a Hollywood blockbuster. A potentially deadly asteroid is heading for Earth, and scientists mount a mission to intercept it ñ using another asteroid. But that is exactly what two French researchers propose in a plan to capture and "park" a small asteroid near the Earth for just such emergencies. But a second group of researchers says shooting a spacecraft into the asteroid would be simpler and more effective. Other experts warn that both plans risk having fragments of...
Asteroid near-miss, June 14 [2002]
	Posted by cogitator On News/Activism 06/20/2002 11:43:49 AM EDT · 79 replies · 633+ views Space Daily | June 20, 2002 Asteroid gives Earth closest shave in yearsPARIS (AFP) Jun 20, 2002 A football-pitch-sized asteroid capable of razing a major city came within a whisker of hitting the Earth on June 14, but was only spotted three days later, scientists said Thursday. Asteroid 2002 MN, estimated at up to 120 metres (yards) long, hurtled by the Earth at a distance of 120,000 kilometers (75,000 miles), well within the orbit of the Moon and just a hair's breadth in galactic terms. It is the closest recorded near-miss by any asteroid, with the exception of a 10-metre (33-feet) rock, 1994 XM1, which...
Africa
'Oldest Sculpture' Found In Morocco (400K Years Old)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 05/23/2003 8:52:37 AM EDT · 115 replies · 685+ views BBC | 5-23-2003 | Paul Rincon 'Oldest sculpture' found in Morocco By Paul Rincon BBC Science A 400,000-year-old stone object unearthed in Morocco could be the world's oldest attempt at sculpture. The figurine was found 15 metres below ground That is the claim of a prehistoric art specialist who says the ancient rock bears clear signs of modification by humans. The object, which is around six centimetres in length, is shaped like a human figure, with grooves that suggest a neck, arms and legs. On its surface are flakes of a red substance that could be remnants of paint. The object was found 15 metres below...
Axum's ancient treasure
	Posted by SJackson On News/Activism 04/23/2006 8:56:54 AM EDT · 18 replies · 591+ views Jerusalem Post | 4-23-06 | URIEL HEILMAN Church art in Axum depicts the Ark of the Covenant from King Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem to Ethiopia.Photo: Courtesy † Nestled in the highlands of northern Ethiopia, ignored by most historians and unknown to most tourists to Africa, is the site of one of the ancient world's most powerful empires. The monuments to its former glory stand tall - 20 meters high, to be precise, in the form of dozens of stone obelisks - but the city that is their home is determinedly inauspicious, as authentically Ethiopian and undeveloped as any of Ethiopia's modest cities. Situated in the northern Ethiopian...
Ancient Egypt
Ancient gold cartouches unearthed in Egypt [ Hatshepsut and Thotmusis III ]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 04/22/2006 3:50:00 PM EDT · 15 replies · 199+ views Middle East Online | April 21, 2006 | unattributed A team of French and Egyptian archeologists have discovered two sets of nine solid gold cartouches bearing the name of Thotmusis III (who ruled from 1479-1425 BC) near the pharaoh's stepmother Queen Hatshepsut's temple in Luxor, 700 kilometres south of Cairo. "These cartouches... which have the names of Hatshepsut and Thotmusis III have been found near Hatshepsut's obelisk which proves that the obelisk was erected by both rulers," said Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities. Thotmusis III, who was Hatshepsut's stepson and co-ruler after the death of his father Thotmusis II in 1479 BC, was widely...
Czech archaeologists may uncover royal palace in Egypt
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 04/28/2006 9:15:48 AM EDT · 4 replies · 89+ views Czech News Agency | April 26, 2006 | unattributed Czech archaeologists have a chance to uncover a royal palace and a royal government seat from the Pharaohs' era in Abusir, Egypt. Miroslav Verner, long-term head of the Czech archaeological expedition in Egypt, told the Czech Archaeology Abroad conference that the royal buildings were probably situated at the border between the Nile valley and large burial grounds. Czech archaeologists have also uncovered a number of shaft graves in Abusir dating back to 530-525 B.C. One of the large tombs they have studied belonged to admiral Wedjahor-Resne, labelled as "the traitor of Egypt" over his collaboration with the Persians, said Czech...
Nile releases city's deep history [ Rhakotis and Alexandria ]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 04/21/2006 11:50:42 AM EDT · 13 replies · 81+ views New Scientist | 22 April 2006 | unattributed Alexander wasn't quite so great after all. Sure, he conquered most of the world known to the ancient Greeks, but he didn't found the Egyptian city of Alexandria - he just rebranded it. It now seems that this part of the Nile has been settled for at least 4500 years, pre-dating Alexander's arrival by a good two millennia. Alain VÈron from the Paul CÈzanne University in Aix-en-Provence, France, and colleagues made the discovery by measuring the variations in lead concentration in a mud core from Alexandria's ancient harbour. They determined how lead levels had changed over time by carbon-dating seashells...
Ancient Greece
Bringing the secrets of Antigoneia to light
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 04/15/2006 10:14:22 PM EDT · 4 replies · 136+ views Kathimerini | Iota Sykka A team of Greek and Albanian archaeologists are cooperating on a three-year excavation project in Epirus, northwestern Greece... Joint research is being carried out at ancient Antigoneia under the supervision of the institute, headed by Muzafer Korkuti, and the 12th Ephorate, headed by Constantinos Zachos... Albanian archaeologist Dhimosten Budina identified the city on a 35-hectare site at roughly 600 meters altitude, with walls 4 kilometers long. The identification was made on the basis of bronze ballots bearing the inscription "ANTIGONEON" on a Hellenistic-era house... Zachos said the impressive tomb, which contained fragments of jars, a glass vase, loom weights, a...
Ancient Rome
Ancient Roman holiday villa found
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 04/15/2006 10:16:33 PM EDT · 6 replies · 107+ views ANSA | April 14 2006 The remains of the luxury residence turned up recently in Torvaianica, a coastal resort south of Rome... Historians knew from written sources that the villa of Titus Flavius Claudanius and Titus Flavius Sallustius was somewhere in the area but the precise location had long been forgotten... It covers about a hectare and includes a large area given over to relaxation, including a gymnasium, hot and cold baths and various swimming pools.
Italians Dig Deep to Reveal Forgotten Roman City
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 04/22/2006 11:04:40 PM EDT · 7 replies · 117+ views Ancient Worlds (Reuters, Yahoo) | Sun Aug 17, 2003 | Estelle Shirbon for 10 years, an Italian team has been beavering away underground to reveal the wonders of Pozzuoli, once the port of ancient Rome, which is buried under a 16th century city. Excavators at Pompeii, entombed in ash and toxic debris by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, were able to remove the volcanic material and expose the city to the open air. But in Pozzuoli, whose beauty was such that the great Roman orator Cicero called it "little Rome," the ancient streets were encased in the foundations of a new city built by the Spanish in the 1500s,...
Ancient Europe
Italy owes wine legacy to Celts, history buffs say
	Posted by Pharmboy On News/Activism 04/22/2006 10:56:23 PM EDT · 115 replies · 1,240+ views Reuters via Wash. Post | April 21, 2006 | Svetlana Kovalyova ROBBIO, Italy (Reuters) - Wine conjures up the image of cultured drinkers sipping their way delicately through a full-bodied vintage. But for two history buffs with a passion for the tipple, northern Italy has the barbarians to thank for its long wine-making tradition. Luca Sormani, from Como, and Fulvio Pescarolo, from the tiny town of Robbio near Milan, have traced the region's wine culture all the way back to its Celtic roots and have started making it according to ancient methods. Celtic tribes from farther north -- known to the Romans as "Barbari" -- conquered northern parts of Italy about...
Italy owes wine legacy to Celts, history buffs say
	Posted by sully777 On News/Activism 04/24/2006 11:55:46 AM EDT · 15 replies · 397+ views Reuters | Fri Apr 21, 2006 9:04am ET | by Svetlana Kovalyova ROBBIO, Italy (Reuters) - Wine conjures up the image of cultured drinkers sipping their way delicately through a full-bodied vintage. But for two history buffs with a passion for the tipple, northern Italy has the barbarians to thank for its long wine-making tradition. Luca Sormani, from Como, and Fulvio Pescarolo, from the tiny town of Robbio near Milan, have traced the region's wine culture all the way back to its Celtic roots and have started making it according to ancient methods. Celtic tribes from farther north -- known to the Romans as "Barbari" -- conquered northern parts of Italy about...
British Isles
Shetland's past comes to life amid the ruins
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 04/18/2006 1:29:09 AM EDT · 9 replies · 83+ views The Scotsman | Tuesday, 18th April 2006 | Caroline Wickham-Jones The people of Jarlshof threw garbage into dumps from before 2500 BC but, although their waste was unwanted, their refuse has been anything but rubbish for archaeologists investigating their lives. We know that the Stone Age settlers lived in small circular stone houses, that they tilled crops, kept cattle and sheep, and harvested the sea for fish and whales, seals and shellfish. They also made tools - some finely decorated - from stone, pottery and bone... In the 19th century the site was visited by Sir Walter Scott who christened the ruined hall "Jarlshof", and the name has stuck since....
50 PLACES TO VISIT BEFORE YOU DIE (not one in Britain)
	Posted by Jakarta ex-pat On News/Activism 11/09/2002 1:23:28 PM EST · 111 replies · 2,612+ views The Independent | 10/11/02 | Deborah sheldon AMERICA'S Grand Canyon tops a list of 50 dream holiday destinations - but none of them is in Britain. Twenty thousand BBC viewers voted for the chart of places to see before you die. There was no room for home-grown attractions such as Stonehenge, Buckingham Palace, the Tower of London and Edinburgh Castle. Areas of outstanding natural beauty like the Lake District and the Scottish Highlands are also not rated as worthwhile. But Disney World and Las Vegas are both in the top 10. English Tourism Council spokesman Ken Kelling said: "It's disappointing as Britain has got an equal range...
Politically Correcting the Legend (King Arthur for our post-modern times)
	Posted by quidnunc On News/Activism 07/20/2004 12:45:48 PM EDT · 406 replies · 4,877+ views Tech Central Station | July 20, 2004 | Michael Brandon McClellan Jerry Bruckheimer's most recent rendition of King Arthur raises a fascinating question: is the political correcting process implemented intentionally, or does such revision simply occur by momentum once patterns of thought start heading in a certain direction? The newest King Arthur purports to tell the "real story" that inspired the legend of Camelot. The Cliff's notes version is this: King Arthur was really the Roman commander named Lucius Artorius Castus, leading a group of conscripted "eastern knights" charged with repelling Rome's enemies at Hadrian's Wall in Britain. These "knights" are pagan cavalrymen from the Central Asian region that lies between...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Japanese Researchers Find New Giant Picture On Peru's Nazca Plateau
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/20/2006 6:07:33 PM EDT · 37 replies · 1,542+ views Mainichi | 4-20-2006 Japanese researchers find new giant picture on Peru's Nazca Plateau The new Nazca Plateau image discovered by the research team from Yamagata University. (Photo courtesy of Yamagata University)A new giant picture on the Nazca Plateau in Peru, which is famous for giant patterns that can be seen from the air, has been discovered by a team of Japanese researchers. The image is 65 meters long, and appears to be an animal with horns. It is thought to have been drawn as a symbol of hopes for good crops, but there are no similar patterns elsewhere, and the type of the...
Dig Finds Long-Term Use At Hell's Half Acre (6,000BC)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/17/2006 5:45:58 PM EDT · 12 replies · 547+ views Billings Gazette | 4-17-2006 | AP Dig finds long-term use at Hell's Half AcreSite was home to Indians at least 1,200 years ago By The Associated Press CASPER, Wyo. -- A preliminary report on an archaeological dig says Hell's Half Acre, west of Casper, was home to prehistoric American Indians at least 1,200 years ago, and perhaps as long as 8,000 years ago. John Albanese, chairman of the Natrona County Historic Preservation Society, told Natrona County commissioners on Thursday that archaeological evidence shows Indians were hunting bison at Hell's Half Acre between 1,200 and 3,000 years ago, and that some evidence appeared to be much older....
Impossibly Old America?
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/18/2006 3:24:02 PM EDT · 52 replies · 1,468+ views Archaeology Magazine | 4-18-2006 | Mike Toner Impossibly Old America? Volume 59 Number 3, May/June 2006 by Mike Toner New sites and controversial theories fuel the debate over the origins of America's first people. Archaeologist Al Goodyear believes people were at South Carolina's Topper site 50,000 years ago. (Mike Toner) Al Goodyear's renowned barbecued pig is roasting on the grill a mile away, but the 200 professional and amateur archaeologists peering into the steep-walled pit where he's standing have other things on their minds. Goodyear, director of the University of South Carolina's Allendale Paleoindian Expedition, is explaining why he thinks people were here--on the banks of the...
Sabre-tooths and Hominids
	Posted by Sabertooth On News/Activism 11/22/2002 5:18:45 PM EST · 44 replies · 2,663+ views Instituto Geologico y Minero de Espana | Alfonso Arribas & Paul Palmqvist On the Ecological Connection Between Sabre-tooths and Hominids: Faunal Dispersal Events in the Lower Pleistocene and a Review of the Evidence for the First Human Arrival in Europe †Alfonso ArribasMuseo Geominero, Instituto TecnolÛgico Geominero de EspaÒa. RÌos Rosas, 23. 28003 Madrid, Spain.Paul PalmqvistDepartamento de GeologÌa y EcologÌa (¡rea de PaleontologÌa), Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de M·laga. 29071 M·laga, Spain. A reconstruction of a community of the large mammals of the Grecian Pleistocene .African Species in the Lower Pleistocene of Europe ÖThe sabre-tooth genus Megantereon shares much in common with Smilodon, and both genera form the tribe Smilodontini. The earliest...
Report Examines Ancient Mexican Footprints
	Posted by The_Victor On News/Activism 12/01/2005 8:32:22 AM EST · 25 replies · 560+ views Yahoo (AP) | Wed Nov 30, 8:34 PM ET | JENN WIANT LONDON - Footprints discovered in Mexico are either more than 1 million years older than other evidence of humans in the Western Hemisphere or not footprints at all, according to a new report to be published in the journal Nature on Thursday. In July, researchers in England claimed the prints proved that humans were in the Americas 40,000 years ago ó much earlier than the accepted date of 11,500 years ago.But Paul Renne, director of the Berkeley Geochronology Center and an adjunct professor at University of California-Berkeley, says the prints are about 1.3 million years old."You're really only left with...
Human Footprints older than thought
	Posted by Tzimisce On News/Activism 12/01/2005 2:01:48 PM EST · 16 replies · 490+ views eurekalert.org Berkeley -- Alleged footprints of early Americans found in volcanic rock in Mexico are either extremely old - more than 1 million years older than other evidence of human presence in the Western Hemisphere - or not footprints at all, according to a new analysis published this week in Nature. The study was conducted by geologists at the Berkeley Geochronology Center and the University of California, Berkeley, as part of an investigative team of geologists and anthropologists from the United States and Mexico. Earlier this year, researchers in England touted these "footprints" as definitive proof that humans were in the...
Cloud Of Scholarly Dust Rises Over Ancient (Human) Footprints Claim (40K YO - Mexico)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/25/2006 2:15:18 PM EDT · 28 replies · 657+ views Columbus Dispatch | 4-25-2006 | Bradley T Lepper Cloud of scholarly dust rises over ancient footprints claim Tuesday, April 25, 2006 BRADLEY T. LEPPER Are the footprints of surprisingly ancient Americans preserved in 40,000-year-old volcanic ash in southern Mexico? In December, an article in the journal Science cast a cloud of doubt over that claim. The authors, Michael Waters and Paul Renne, argue that the ash dated to 1.3 million years ago, much too old for humans on this continent, and that the so-called footprints were nothing more than marks made by the tools of modern workers quarrying the stone with crowbars. Now, Silvia Gonzalez, an archaeologist from...
Kennewick Man Skeletal Find May Revolutionalize Continent's History
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/24/2006 2:09:14 PM EDT · 95 replies · 2,029+ views Newswise | 4-24-2006 Kennewick Man Skeletal Find May Revolutionalize Continent's HistoryKennewick Man's Skull, front view A forensic anthropologist at Middle Tennessee State University is one of a select number of scientists to participate in the examination of a 9,300-year-old skeleton known as Kennewick Man that could force historians to rewrite the story of the entire North American continent. Newswise ó A forensic anthropologist at Middle Tennessee State University is one of a select number of scientists to participate in the examination of a skeleton that could force historians to rewrite the story of the entire North American continent. Dr. Hugh Berryman, research professor,...
Professor shares Andean discovery, a 4,000-year-old temple
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 04/26/2006 11:44:19 PM EDT · 7 replies · 101+ views Columbia Missourian | April 25, 2006 | Ryan B. Schreiber The Temple of the Fox lay covered by dirt and sand for 4,000 years in the barren hills of Buena Vista, Peru, before it was unearthed in June 2004 by Robert Benfer, professor emeritus of anthropology at MU... In the 33-foot high Andean temple, Benfer's team found the earliest known astronomical alignment and sculptures in the New World... For Benfer, the most significant finds from the temple were the numerous astronomical alignments, suggesting that the Andeans used constellations to guide their lives... However, these astronomical alignments no longer point to significant constellations and will not do so again for approximately...
Ancient Agriculture
Potatoes came from Peru, US study finds
	Posted by Junior On News/Activism 10/04/2005 10:45:50 AM EDT · 39 replies · 991+ views Reuters - Science | 2005-10-03 | Maggie Fox WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The first cultivated potato was grown in what is now Peru, researchers said on Monday, and it originated only once, not several times, as some experts had proposed. Their genetic study shows the first potato known to have been farmed is genetically closest to a species now found only in southern Peru, the U.S. and British researchers said. "This result shows the potato originated one time and from a species that was distributed in southern Peru," said David Spooner, a U.S. Department of Agriculture researcher at the University of Wisconsin who, led the study. The findings challenge...
Early Farmers Took Time To Tame Wheat
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/20/2006 4:33:04 PM EDT · 9 replies · 317+ views Science News | 4-20-2006 | Bruce Bower Week of April 15, 2006; Vol. 169, No. 15 , p. 237 Early farmers took time to tame wheat Bruce Bower Domesticated varieties of wheat emerged gradually in the prehistoric Near East over a roughly 3,000-year span, a new investigation suggests. CULTIVATED FINDS. Microscopic analysis of wheat grains such as these from a 6,500-year-old Syrian site revealed clues to plant domestication in prehistoric times. Willcox/CNRS Ken-ichi Tanno of the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature in Kyoto, Japan, and George Willcox of the National Center for Scientific Research in Berrias, France, examined 804 wheat-ear remnants recovered at four ancient villages...
Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
"7000-Year-Old sleepin' beauty" in Bolaghi Gorge discovered
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 04/28/2006 9:28:42 AM EDT · 27 replies · 352+ views Iranian News | Apr 27, 2006 | unattributed Archeological excavations in Bolaghi Gorge historical site led to discovery of the skeleton of a young girl belonging to 7000 years ago, who apparently died in her sleep due to an unknown reason... According to Seyedein, eight stone beads have also been discovered with the skeleton of the girl. These stone beads were close to her wrist and neck... According to Seyedein, the skeleton of this girl is completely intact, and even after the passing of 7000 years, her teeth have remained unharmed. Considering the broken clays around the grave of the girl, archeologists believe that she should have lived...
Asia
Beheaded Skeletons Replay War History (China - 221BC)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/19/2006 5:51:20 PM EDT · 6 replies · 233+ views People's Daily | 4-19-2006 Beheaded skeletons replay war history Chinese archaeologists have unearthed some 30 beheaded skeletons dating back more than 2,000 years in central China's Henan Province, a cradle of the Chinese civilization. The skeletons were obviously warriors, the tallest of whom was at least 1.85 meters, said Sun Xinmin, head of the Henan Provincial Institute of Cultural Heritage and Archeology. The human remains were found scattered in a pit in the city of Xinzheng, adjacent to a major battlefield where State Qin overthrew State Han toward the end of the Warring States Period (475 to 221 BC), said Sun. He and his...
China Scientists to Probe 'ET' Launch Tower
	Posted by vannrox On News/Activism 07/21/2002 11:42:47 AM EDT · 23 replies · 747+ views Yahoo News | FR post 07-21-02 | BEIJING (Reuters) BEIJING (Reuters) - A team of Chinese scientists is to head out to the far west of the country to investigate a mystery pyramid that local legend says is a launch tower left by aliens from space, Xinhua news agency said Wednesday. Nine scientists would probe origins of the 165 to 198-foot tall structure -- dubbed "the ET relics" -- in the western province of Qinghai this month, the agency said. It sits on Mount Baigong, has three caves with triangular openings on its facade and is filled with red-hued pipes leading into the mountain and a nearby salt water...
Australia and the Pacific
Graves Of The Pacific's First Seafarers Revealed
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/21/2006 2:26:39 PM EDT · 6 replies · 283+ views Science Magazine | 3-26-2006 | Richard Stone Graves of the Pacific's First Seafarers Revealed Richard Stone INDO-PACIFIC PREHISTORY ASSOCIATION CONGRESS, 20-26 MARCH 2006, MANILA Little is known about the Lapita peoples, the first settlers of the Western Pacific, other than their ubiquitous calling card: red pottery fragments with intricate designs. But in what's being hailed as one of the most dramatic finds in years, researchers at the meeting offered a glimpse of the first-known early Lapita cemetery. "This is the closest we're going to get to the first Polynesians," says archaeologist Matthew Spriggs of Australia National University (ANU) in Canberra, a member of the excavation team. Face...
Ancient Navigation
Greek shipbuilders bring mythical Argo to life
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 04/25/2006 3:33:31 AM EDT · 6 replies · 132+ views Yahoo! | Monday August 24 2006 | Deborah Kyvrikosaios The Naudomos Institute, a group of shipbuilders and historians heading the project, is using ancient Greek tools and techniques to build the new Argo, and plans to retrace the mythical journey when the ship is ready. The team had to ignore everything they knew about modern boat-building and employ the same wood and iron tools used by Jason's warriors more than 3,000 years ago.
When In Vietnam, Build Boats As The Romans Do
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/21/2006 2:03:33 PM EDT · 25 replies · 787+ views Science Magazine | 3-26-2006 | Richard Stone When in Vietnam, Build Boats as the Romans Do Richard Stone INDO-PACIFIC PREHISTORY ASSOCIATION CONGRESS, 20-26 MARCH 2006, MANILA In December 2004, researchers drained a canal in northern Vietnam in search of ancient textiles from graves. They found that and a whole lot more. Protruding from the canal bank at Dong Xa was a 2000-year-old log boat that had been used as a coffin. After a closer look at the woodwork, archaeologists Peter Bellwood and Judith Cameron of Australia National University in Canberra and their colleagues were astounded to find that the method for fitting planks to hull matched that...
Erectus Ahoy (Stone Age Voyages)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/22/2003 3:28:49 PM EDT · 32 replies · 335+ views Science News | 10-22-2003 | Bruce Bower Erectus AhoyPrehistoric seafaring floats into view Bruce Bower As the sun edged above the horizon on Jan. 31, 2000, a dozen men boarded a bamboo raft off the east coast of the Indonesian island of Bali. Each gripped a wooden paddle and, in unison, deftly stroked the nearly 40-foot-long craft into the open sea. Their destination: the Stone Age, by way of a roughly 18-mile crossing to the neighboring island of Lombok. Project director Robert G. Bednarik, one of the assembled paddlers, knew that a challenging trip lay ahead, even discounting any time travel. Local fishing crews had told him...
Prehistory and Origins
Java Man's First Tools
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/21/2006 2:14:50 PM EDT · 77 replies · 924+ views Science Magazine | 3-26-2006 | Richard Stone Java Man's First Tools Richard Stone INDO-PACIFIC PREHISTORY ASSOCIATION CONGRESS, 20-26 MARCH 2006, MANILA About 1.7 million years ago, a leggy human ancestor, Homo erectus, began prowling the steamy swamps and uplands of Java. That much is known from the bones of more than 100 individuals dug up on the Indonesian island since 1891. But the culture of early "Java Man" has been a mystery: No artifacts older than 1 million years had been found--until now. At the meeting, archaeologist Harry Widianto of the National Research Centre of Archaeology in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, wowed colleagues with slides showing stone tools found...
Mammoth meals helped early tribes thrive
	Posted by george76 On News/Activism 04/17/2006 10:13:44 PM EDT · 46 replies · 731+ views The Times | April 18, 2006 | Mark Henderson REGULAR meals of mammoth meat helped some early human tribes to expand more quickly than their largely vegetarian contemporaries, according to a genetic study. Human populations in east Asia about 30,000 years ago developed at dramatically different rates, following a pattern that appears to reflect the availability of mammoths and other large game. In the part of the region covering what is now northern China, Mongolia and southern Siberia, vast plains teemed with mammals such as mammoths, mastodons and woolly rhinoceroses and the number of early human beings grew between 34,000 and 20,000 years ago. Further south, where the terrain...
Multiregionalism / Replacement
Neanderthals Lived In Iran's Kermanshah Caves
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/27/2006 3:19:25 PM EDT · 14 replies · 446+ views Persian Journal | 4-27-2006 Neanderthals Lived in Iran's Kermanshah Caves Apr 27, 2006 The latest excavations by Iranian and French joint team at prehistoric caves of Kermanshah, west of Iran, revealed them to have been early settlements of Neanderthals who used to live there about 85000 to 40000 years ago. The joint team was to continue its studies on other Paleolithic caves in Kermanshah province, but as the term of the agreement has reached an end, the French team have returned back home. This team is to resume its activities in March 2006 in prehistoric caves in Kermanshah province if the agreement is renewed...
New Out-Of-Africa Theory Unveiled
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 02/27/2002 7:56:58 PM EST · 95 replies · 634+ views Discovery News | 2-25-2002 | Larry O'Hanlon New Out-of-Africa Theory Unveiled By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News Leaving the Mother Country Feb. 25 ó The human family just got even smaller. Everyone outside of Africa ó Asians, Europeans, Native Americans, Southeast Asians, Australian Aborigines, etc. ó came from the same small band of humans that left the mother continent some 80,000 years ago by way of Ethiopia, according to a new theory unveiled Monday by geneticists and DNA detectives. "No, we haven't found the bones of the original Eve," said DNA tracker Stephen Oppenheimer of Oxford University in a press teleconference. Instead, researchers have followed the trail of ...
Theory on origins of man gets genetic overhaul
	Posted by johnandrhonda On News/Activism 03/07/2002 6:27:07 AM EST · 35 replies · 461+ views USA Today newspaper | March 7, 2002 | Dan Vergano Theory on origin of man gets genetic overhaul By Dan Vergano, USA TODAY Modern man evolved from a mixture of ancient African immigrants and primitive humans elsewhere, suggests a genetic analysis released today that raises new questions about long-held theories of human origins. For decades, archaeologists, paleontologists and genetics experts have argued about the evolution of modern man. While the various disciplines had remained divided, the weight of genetic studies had recently favored the "Out of Africa" theory. It says modern-looking humans originated in Africa and spread worldwide about 100,000 years ago, slowly replacing Neanderthals and other evolutionary dead-end humans ...
New evidence we all have the same ancestors Cal student's discovery should resolve dispute
	Posted by Phil V. On News/Activism 03/22/2002 5:24:28 AM EST · 35 replies · 825+ views San Francisco Chronicle | Thursday, March 21, 2002 | David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor <p>Fossil hunters say they have found the strongest evidence yet that mankind's direct ancestors were members of a single unique species of skilled tool-using creatures who thrived a million years ago across much of the world from China and Java to Africa and Europe.</p>
Biology and Cryptobiology
African cousins behind extinction of Indians 70,000 years ago!
	Posted by CarrotAndStick On News/Activism 11/06/2005 4:00:32 AM EST · 45 replies · 904+ views New Kerala.com & ANI | 05 Nov 2005 Washington : Scientists have said that that the arrival of modern humans from Africa to South Asia some 70,000 years ago may have led to the extermination of the native populations. Researchers from the University of Cambridge have said that the arrival of Homo sapiens in regions like India and other parts of South Asia had most probably led to conflicts and competition between the Homo sapiens and the indigenous hominids (Homo heidelbergensis), leading to the latter's extinction over the years. ìWhile the precise explanations for the demise of the archaic populations is not yet obvious, it is abundantly clear...
How many darwinists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
	Posted by JCEccles On General/Chat 04/19/2006 4:47:20 PM EDT · 24 replies · 303+ views Cartego Delenda Est | April 17, 2006 | Matteo Charles Darwin: None. But if it could be shown that the bulb entered the socket without a series of clockwise turns, my theory would absolutely break down. ACLU: None! We have separation of church and state in this country. Eugenie Scott: None. To say a Darwinist did it is not a scientific explanation. Panda's Thumb: None. To say that light bulbs don't screw themselves in is not a testable proposition. You can't prove they don't. That would be an argument from incredulity. You are committing a ëDarwinist Of The Gaps' fallacy. Generic 1: None. Time and chance are sufficient. Eventually...
Climate
Slow death of Africa's Lake Chad
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 04/16/2006 5:29:22 PM EDT · 16 replies · 314+ views BBC News | Friday, 14 April 2006 | Andrew Bomford Lake Chad, which once straddled the borders of Chad, Niger, Nigeria and Cameroon, has shrunk by an estimated 95% since the mid 1960s, due to the growth of agriculture and declining rainfall. Image: Unep
Scientists blame sun for global warming (February 13, 1998)
	Posted by george76 On General/Chat 04/07/2006 3:09:17 PM EDT · 120 replies · 2,367+ views BBC News | Climatologists and astronomers Climate changes such as global warming may be due to changes in the sun rather than to the release of greenhouse gases on Earth. Climatologists and astronomers speaking at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Philadelphia say the present warming may be unusual - but a mini ice age could soon follow. The sun provides all the energy that drives our climate, but it is not the constant star it might seem. Careful studies over the last 20 years show that its overall brightness and energy output increases slightly as sunspot activity rises to the peak...
Ice Disappearing from Kilimanjaro? Let me guess. It's the all the pollution. NOT
	Posted by Yzerman On News/Activism 10/18/2002 5:29:24 PM EDT · 11 replies · 207+ views MSNBC ASSOCIATED PRESS | Oct. 17th, 2002 | ASSOCIATED PRESS Snows of Kilimanjaro gone by 2020? Researchers trace past and future of famed African ice fields The picture on the left shows Mount Kilimanjaro as seen from the space shuttle in November 1990. The picture on the right was taken by a shuttle crew in December 2000. The pictures show the retreat of glaciers over the course of a decade. ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 ó The snow cap of Mount Kilimanjaro, famed in literature and beloved by tourists, first formed some 11,000 years ago but will be gone in two decades, according to researchers who say the ice fields...
Out Of Africa
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/08/2001 7:51:53 PM EDT · 3 replies · 451+ views Science News Magazine | 9-29-2001 | Sid Perkins Out Of AfricaDust, the Thermostat How tiny airborne particles manipulate global climate Sid Perkins On April 15, 1998, Mongolia's Gobi Desert lay between an area of low atmospheric pressure on the eastern end of the country and a zone of high pressure to the west. As swift winds rushed across the desert floor, they lofted sand and dust into the heart of a storm system racing southward into China. During the next 2 days, a yellow, muddy, acidic rain fell in a wide swath that covered Beijing and the Korean peninsula. On April 16, 1998, a strong storm system passing ...
Let's Have Jerusalem
The incomparable, illum. 8th century, celtic Lindisfarne Gospels (eye-popping pics.)
	Posted by yankeedame On Religion 01/14/2006 12:02:04 PM EST · 33 replies · 599+ views "Throught their long history as a brotherhood -- even while they were casting about for a permanent -- the monks (of Saint Cuthbert,Northumberland) continued a Celtric tradition of making exquidite manuscriptes, including amonth their triumphs one masterpiece that is esteemed the most precious book in the United Kingdom. Produced on Holy Island (a sandy spit of land off the Northumberland coast)in the seventh century by illustrators and calligraphers as a tribute Cuthbert, the incomparable folio known as the Lindisfarne Gospels lay open on the altar of the saint's tomb for six humdred years...." "Patience & Fortitude" by Nicholas Basbanes,2001. Gospel...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Global Warming: Medieval Era Hotter than Today
	Posted by Francohio On News/Activism 04/06/2003 2:04:51 PM EDT · 62 replies · 970+ views The London Telegraph | 06/04/2003) | Robert Matthews Middle Ages were warmer than today, say scientistsBy Robert Matthews, Science Correspondent (Filed: 06/04/2003) Claims that man-made pollution is causing "unprecedented" global warming have been seriously undermined by new research which shows that the Earth was warmer during the Middle Ages. From the outset of the global warming debate in the late 1980s, environmentalists have said that temperatures are rising higher and faster than ever before, leading some scientists to conclude that greenhouse gases from cars and power stations are causing these "record-breaking" global temperatures. Last year, scientists working for the UK Climate Impacts Programme said that global temperatures were...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
A moving picture postcard
	Posted by kiriath_jearim On General/Chat 04/18/2006 1:27:56 PM EDT · 3 replies · 92+ views BBC | 4/18/06 | Simon Ford A moving picture postcard By Simon Ford Executive producer, The Lost World of Friese-Greene In 1926, pioneering film-maker Claude Friese-Greene travelled from Land's End to John O'Groats. His unique film - one of the first in colour - reveals not only how life has changed, but what remains unaltered. Britain between the world wars enjoyed a golden age, yet it is a period typically captured in monochrome. But a recently restored film from the British Film Institute's vaults puts the colour back into this bygone age. The Open Road was made by Claude Friese-Greene in 1926 to showcase his new...
A New Billy the Kid?
	Posted by robowombat On General/Chat 04/25/2006 7:08:31 PM EDT · 2 replies · 54+ views Tucson Weekly | April 13, 2006 | LEO W. BANKS A New Billy the Kid? April 13, 2006 The mad search for the bones of an American outlaw icon has come to Arizona By LEO W. BANKS Billy the Kid's legend has hovered over the Landscape of the American West for 125 years, a Hindenburg of hype and fantasy, always there to nourish those who merely look up. It will never crash and never burn. The only question is: Where will it go next? In its latest incarnation, Airship Billy has come to Arizona, and it's entirely fitting. After all, unknown to most, the Kid shot his first man right...
Frontier mystery, modern answer?
	Posted by robowombat On General/Chat 04/25/2006 5:59:55 PM EDT · 3 replies · 147+ views San Luis Obispo News | February 10, 2006 | LAURA BAUER Frontier mystery, modern answer? February 10, 2006 Exhumation sought in Lawrence, Kan.: Frontier mystery, modern answer? BY LAURA BAUER KANSAS CITY, Mo. - In a grave in a Lawrence cemetery lies what some hope is the answer to a mystery that dates to the days of the Wild West. The grave is in Oak Hill cemetery, lot 555. The man inside the wooden coffin was buried in 1879. His death and the circumstances surrounding it prompted six trials and two U.S. Supreme Court decisions, one that created a legal ruling still used in courtrooms throughout the nation. Attorneys know it...
Profile: Victor Davis Hanson. USA needs a dose of ancient Greece's warrior culture
	Posted by TheWillardHotel On News/Activism 05/26/2003 10:31:17 AM EDT · 134 replies · 967+ views The Boston Globe | 5/25/2003 | Laura Secor <p>VICTOR DAVIS HANSON leads a double life. A fifth-generation raisin farmer in California's fertile Central Valley, Hanson is also a historian of ancient Greece, a lyrical defender of American agrarianism, and a prolific contributor to conservative opinion magazines. His columns so caught the fancy of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney that he has enjoyed audiences with both. It's hard to say which is stranger: that a raisin farmer should exert such influence, or that a classics scholar should.</p>
Oh So Mysteriouso
The Bosnia-Atlantis Connection
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/28/2006 2:31:52 PM EDT · 10 replies · 308+ views Archaeology Magazine | 1-26-2006 | Mark Rose The Bosnia-Atlantis Connection April 27, 2006 by Mark Rose Frenzied reporting of supposed pyramids in the Balkans ignores the truth and embraces the fantastic. The world's oldest and largest pyramid found in Bosnia? It sounds incredible. The story has swept the media, from the Associated Press and the BBC, from papers and websites in the U.S. to those in India and Australia. Too bad that it is not a credible story at all. In fact, it is impossible. Who is the "archaeologist" who has taken the media for a ride? Why did the media not check the story more carefully?...
Researchers Find Possible Evidence of Bosnian Pyramid(europe has a pyramid)
	Posted by Halfmanhalfamazing On News/Activism 04/20/2006 10:21:24 PM EDT · 14 replies · 432+ views Fox Researchers on Wednesday unearthed geometrically cut stone slabs that they said could form part of the sloping surface of what they believe is an ancient pyramid lying beneath a huge hill.
Experts Find Evidence of Bosnia Pyramid
	Posted by Flavius On News/Activism 04/20/2006 12:14:14 AM EDT · 18 replies · 639+ views Yahoo News & AP | April 19, 2006 | AMEL EMRIC VISOKO, Bosnia-Herzegovina - Researchers in Bosnia on Wednesday unearthed the first solid evidence that an ancient pyramid lies hidden beneath a massive hill ó a series of geometrically cut stone slabs that could form part of the structure's sloping surface. ADVERTISEMENT click here Archaeologists and other experts began digging into the sides of the mysterious hill near the central Bosnian town of Visoko last week. On Wednesday, the digging revealed large stone blocks on one side that the leader of the team believes are the outer layer of the pyramid. "These are the first uncovered walls of the pyramid," said...
The Jesus Dynasty
	Posted by Swordmaker On Religion 04/08/2006 3:42:35 AM EDT · 20 replies · 425+ views ABC News Home | 4/7/2006 | Excerpt from JAmes D. Tabor book The Jesus Dynasty Excerpt: 'The Jesus Dynasty' by James D. Tabor New Book Challenges Christian Philosophy April 7, 2006 -- James Tabor is the chairman of religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His book challenges many of the beliefs that Christians hold dear, maintaining that Jesus is neither the son of God nor the son of Joseph but most likely the child of a Roman soldier named Pantera. Jesus, Tabor maintains, became the head of the household when Joseph died and looked after his six half-brothers and sisters. When Jesus died, his brother James took over...
Kabbalist Blesses Jones to Uncover Holy Lost Ark
	Posted by STD On Religion 05/19/2005 12:59:26 AM EDT · 33 replies · 682+ views Israel Newswire | May 18, '05 | Jones Exclusive: Kabbalist Blesses Jones to Uncover Holy Lost Ark 23:39 May 18, '05 / 9 Iyar 5765 An unnamed Kabbalist has granted blessing to famed archeologist Dr. Vendyl Jones, to uncover the Holy Ark of the Covenant. Jones plans to excavate the Lost Ark by the Tisha B'Av Fast this summer.
First Knights Templar Discovered
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/17/2006 5:34:31 PM EDT · 122 replies · 3,407+ views Daily Telegraph (UK) | 4-10-2006 First Knights Templar are discovered April 10, 2006 LONDON: The first bodies of the Knights Templar, the mysterious religious order at the heart of The Da Vinci Code, have been found by archaeologists near the River Jordan in northern Israel. British historian Tom Asbridge yesterday hailed the find as the first provable example of actual Knights Templar. The remains were found beneath the ruined walls of Jacob's Ford, an overthrown castle dating back to the Crusades, which had been lost for centuries. They can be dated to the exact day -- August 29, 1179 -- that they were killed by...
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Australia and the Pacific
Archaeologist Says Johor "Lost City" Does Not Exist
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 05/02/2006 1:55:07 AM EDT · 1 reply · 29+ views Bernama | April 28, 2006 18:24 PM | "oh yes, we have no Bernamas" The "lost city" of Gelanggi or Linggiu, claimed to have been hidden in the jungles of Johor for more than a thousand years, does not exist, said an archaeologist in the National Heritage Department... The search was launched following a claim made by an independent researcher Raimy Che Ros that he had found evidence of the "lost city" after 12 years of research. The claim, published in a newspaper in February last year, created public excitement because Linggiu was said to be older than the Borobudur Buddhist temple in Indonesia built between 750 and 842 A.D. and Cambodia's Angkor Wat...
Asia
Kashmir bronzes in focus: four ninth century idols unearthed
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 05/01/2006 1:20:58 PM EDT · 8 replies · 125+ views The Hindu | April 28, 2006 | unattributed They depict Vishnu and Vaishnavi and were found at Zurhama... the first of its kind in Kupwara and bore testimony to the distinctive bronze art history of Kashmir, the earliest evidence of which was found in the southern Kashmir districts of Anantnag and Pulwama. The biggest of the sculptures, measuring 27 cm x 15 cm, was of Vaishnavi, seated cross-legged on a pedestal designed as a lotus. A second one, measuring 23 cm x 13 cm, was of Vishnu riding the Garuda. In addition, pottery pieces were found during a trial dig at the site. The finds are considered very...
India
Indus cities dried up with monsoon
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 05/02/2006 10:20:20 AM EDT · 7 replies · 80+ views India Telegraph | Sunday, April 30, 2006 | G.S. Mudur The earliest settlement in the subcontinent with evidence of agriculture and domestication at Mehrgarh -- now in Pakistan -- is about 9,000 years old. This coincides with the peak intensification of the monsoon, the study said... The Arabian Sea sediments and other geological studies show that the monsoon began to weaken about 5,000 years ago. The dry spell, lasting several hundred years, might have led people to abandon the Indus cities and move eastward into the Gangetic plain, which has been an area of higher rainfall than the northwestern part of the subcontinent... About 1,700 years ago, the monsoon began...
Massive hunt for ancient manuscripts in Tamil Nadu [original was "TN"]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 05/02/2006 10:26:20 AM EDT · 3 replies · 29+ views Zee News | Monday, May 01, 2006 | Bureau Report In ancient India, scholars used to pass on traditional knowledge orally down the generations. Later on, a written tradition also existed using a variety of writing media from granite slabs to copper plates, tree barks and most importantly palm leaves. The manuscripts chiefly written in three different scripts called the Tamil Brahmi, Vatteluttu and Drantha scripts are treasure troves holding answers to the age-old era. The National Mission for Manuscripts, the federal Ministry of Culture department together with the state's Development, Culture and Religious Endowment department have started a survey aimed at locating and documenting such historical manuscripts possessing literary,...
Epigraphy and Language
Significance of Mayiladuthurai find -- Links between Harappa and Neolithic Tamil Nadu
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 04/30/2006 6:01:01 PM EDT · 9 replies · 72+ views The Hindu | May 01, 2006 | T.S. Subramanian The discovery of a Neolithic stone celt, a hand-held axe, with the Indus script on it at Sembian-Kandiyur in Tamil Nadu is, according to Iravatham Mahadevan, "a major discovery because for the first time a text in the Indus script has been found in the State on a datable artefact, which is a polished neolithic celt." He added: "This confirms that the Neolithic people of Tamil Nadu shared the same language family of the Harappan group, which can only be Dravidian. The discovery provides the first evidence that the Neolithic people of the Tamil country spoke a Dravidian language." Mr....
Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
Discovery Of A Cemetary To Unveil People's Migration Path (Iran)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/29/2006 3:35:18 PM EDT · 4 replies · 113+ views CHN | 4-28-2006 4/28/2006 2:30:00 PM Discovery of a Cemetery to Unveil Peopleís Migration Path Discovery of an ancient cemetery in Mazandaran Province connects the lives of its dead to those buried in Kharand cemetery in the nearby city of Semnan. Tehran, 28 April 2006 (CHN) -- Discovery of a 3200-year-old cemetery in Zarin Abad near Sari in Mazandaran province, revealed the migration path of those who were buried in Kharand historical cemetery in the nearby city of Semnan. Prior to this discovery, it was believed that cultural domain of the Kharand nomads only covered an area between Semnan plain and low heights...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Judas Saves; Why the lost gospel makes sense (Christopher Hitchens)
	Posted by churchillbuff On News/Activism 05/04/2006 1:20:30 PM EDT · 146 replies · 2,518+ views slate | Ap 13 06 | Christopher Hitchens the idea of a sacred Judas always seemed rational to me, at least in Christian terms. The New Testament tells us firmly that Jesus went to Jerusalem at Passover to die and to fulfill certain ancient prophecies by doing so. How could any agent of this process, witting or unwitting, be acting other than according to the divine will? ...[snip] Now we have, recovered from the desert of Egypt, a 26-page "Gospel of Judas," . ...[snip] The Judas gospel puts legend's most notorious traitor in a new light -- as the man who enjoyed his master's most intimate confidence, and who was...
Dead Sea Scrolls photographer John Trever dies
	Posted by Borges On News/Activism 05/01/2006 9:42:52 PM EDT · 3 replies · 193+ views Daily Comet - AP | 5/1/06 John C. Trever, the American scholar who photographed the Dead Sea Scrolls in Jerusalem in 1948, has died, his family reported. He was 90. Trever died Saturday at his home in Lake Forest in Orange County, said his son, Albuquerque Journal political cartoonist John Trever. The younger Trever said it was by chance that his father happened to be in Jerusalem doing unrelated research when Father Boutros Sowmy brought several scrolls to the American School of Oriental Research in February 1948 that were said to have been found in a cave the year before by a Bedouin shepherd. Although he...
Prehistory and Origins
The Genetic Bonds Between Kurds and Jews
	Posted by white trash redneck On News/Activism 05/04/2006 10:03:48 AM EDT · 39 replies · 736+ views Barzan (Kurdish Newspaper) | 4 may 06 | kevin brook "The Genetic Bonds Between Kurds and Jews"by Kevin Alan BrookKurds are the Closest Relatives of JewsIn 2001, a team of Israeli, German, and Indian scientists discovered that the majority of Jews around the world are closely related to the Kurdish people -- more closely than they are to the Semitic-speaking Arabs or any other population that was tested. The researchers sampled a total of 526 Y-chromosomes from 6 populations (Kurdish Jews, Kurdish Muslims, Palestinian Arabs, Sephardic Jews, Ashkenazic Jews, and Bedouin from southern Israel) and added extra data on 1321 persons from 12 populations (including Russians, Belarusians, Poles, Berbers, Portuguese,...
Ancient Egypt
King Tut, Totally Intact -- King Tut's Penis Rediscovered
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 05/04/2006 2:10:56 AM EDT · 49 replies · 665+ views Discovery News | May 3, 2006 | Rossella Lorenzi King Tutankhamun's rediscovered penis could make the pharaoh stand out in the shrunken world of male mummies, according to a close look into old pictures of the 3,300-year-old mummified king... Photographed intact by Harry Burton (1879-1940) during Howard Carter's excavation of Tut's tomb in 1922, the royal penis was reported missing in 1968, when British scientist Ronald Harrison took a series of X-rays of the mummy. Speculation abounded that the penis had been stolen and sold. "Instead, it has always been there. I found it during the CT scan last year, when the mummy was lifted. It lay loose in...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Ancient Volcano, Seeds And Treerings, Suggest Rewriting Late Bronze Age Mediterranean History (More)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/29/2006 3:24:20 PM EDT · 12 replies · 288+ views Cornell University | 4-28-2006 | Alex Kwan April 28, 2006Cornell study of ancient volcano, seeds and tree rings, suggests rewriting Late Bronze Age Mediterranean history By Alex Kwan Separated in history by 100 years, the seafaring Minoans of Crete and the mercantile Canaanites of northern Egypt and the Levant (a large area of the Middle East) at the eastern end of the Mediterranean were never considered trading partners at the start of the Late Bronze Age. Until now. Trenchmaster Vronwy Hankey and foreman Antonis Zidianakis excavate storage jars from the Minoan settlement Myrtos-Pyrgos. The jars were analyzed in the Cornell study using radiocarbon analyses. Cultural links between...
Ancient Greece
The Antikythera Mechanism (Computer - 56BC)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/30/2006 10:21:04 PM EDT · 32 replies · 1,012+ views Economist | 9-19-2002 The Antikythera mechanism The clockwork computer Sep 19th 2002 From The Economist print edition An ancient piece of clockwork shows the deep roots of modern technology WHEN a Greek sponge diver called Elias Stadiatos discovered the wreck of a cargo ship off the tiny island of Antikythera in 1900, it was the statues lying on the seabed that made the greatest impression on him. He returned to the surface, removed his helmet, and gabbled that he had found a heap of dead, naked women. The ship's cargo of luxury goods also included jewellery, pottery, fine furniture, wine and bronzes dating...
Treasure (Archaeology) Dig Threatens Bosphorus Rail Link
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 05/02/2006 2:44:06 PM EDT · 11 replies · 418+ views BBC | 5-2-2006 | Sarah Rainsford Treasure dig threatens Bosphorus rail link By Sarah Rainsford BBC News, Istanbul The port has been uncovered at the site designated for a railway hub It's been called the project of the century: a mission to connect two continents with a $2.6bn rail-tunnel running deep beneath the Bosphorus Straits. The idea of linking the two sides of Istanbul underwater was first dreamt of by Sultan Abdul Mecit 150 years ago. See how the tunnel will cross the Bosphorus Now that Ottoman dream is finally being realised. But the modern version of that vision has hit a historical stumbling block. Istanbul...
Ancient Rome
Archaeologists discover unusual network of burial chambers in Rome
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 05/03/2006 1:16:28 AM EDT · 17 replies · 244+ views Catholic News Service | May 2, 2006 | John Thavis Archaeologists repairing a Roman catacomb have discovered an unusual network of underground burial chambers containing the elegantly dressed corpses of more than 1,000 people... The rooms appear to date back to the second century and are thought to be a place of early Christian burial. Because of the large number of bodies deposited over a relatively short period, experts believe a natural disaster or epidemic may have occurred at the time. The corpses, dressed in fine clothes embroidered with gold thread, were carefully wrapped in sheets and covered in lime. Balsamic fragrances were also applied, according to Raffaella Giuliani, chief...
Spain destroys lost Roman city for a car park
	Posted by gd124 On News/Activism 04/30/2006 7:38:05 PM EDT · 69 replies · 1,466+ views The Sunday Times | April 30, 2006 | Jon Clarke THE archeologists could barely hide their excitement. Beneath the main square of Ecija, a small town in southern Spain, they had unearthed an astounding treasure trove of Roman history. They discovered a well-preserved Roman forum, bath house, gymnasium and temple as well as dozens of private homes and hundreds of mosaics and statues -- one of them considered to be among the finest found. But now the bulldozers have moved in. The last vestiges of the lost city known as Colonia Augusta Firma Astigi -- one of the great cities of the Roman world -- have been destroyed to build...
Ancient Europe
A Preface to Paris: New Clues to the Roman Legacy
	Posted by Pharmboy On News/Activism 04/30/2006 5:58:25 AM EDT · 16 replies · 482+ views NY Times | April 30, 2006 | ALAN RIDING Charles Platiau/ReutersArchaeological work at a 2,000-year-old site in Sainte-GeneviËve must stop in June when construction begins on a university research building. PARIS, April 29 -- snip... This week, they were reminded of a far earlier Paris, one that was still called Lutetia. On a Left Bank hillside, which carries the name of Sainte-GeneviËve, the patron saint of Paris, French archaeologists have found remnants of a road and several houses dating back some 2,000 years to when Rome ruled Gaul. The New York Times On the Left Bank, scholars are studying a Roman road and ruins. snip... The significance of...
Ancient Navigation
Norwegian Team Embarks on 'Kon-Tiki' Trip - Tangaroa
	Posted by NormsRevenge On News/Activism 04/29/2006 12:00:50 AM EDT · 22 replies · 366+ views ap on Yahoo | 4/28/06 | ap A Norwegian team that includes the Thor Heyerdahl's grandson paddled Friday into the Pacific Ocean to repeat the famed adventurer's journey aboard the balsa raft Kon-Tiki. "My personal motivation is to have a great adventure," 28-year-old Olav Heyerdahl told The Associated Press before he and five shipmates embarked for the trip across the Pacific on the balsa raft Tangaroa _ named for the Polynesian god of the ocean. In 1947, Thor Heyerdahl and his team sailed their primitive raft 5,000 miles from Peru to Polynesia in 101 days to support Heyerdahl's theory that the South Sea Islands were settled by...
Kon-Tiki tour draws to a close (Thor Heyerdahl just about dead)
	Posted by dead On News/Activism 04/17/2002 12:32:14 PM EDT · 23 replies · 329+ views Sydney Morning Herald | April 18 2002 One of the greatest adventure stories of all time is about to end with the death of a controversial Norwegian explorer. Thor Heyerdahl, skipper of the famous raft Kon-Tiki. Thor Heyerdahl, 87, who won worldwide acclaim in 1947 for his daring Kon-Tiki expedition, is greeting his demise with all the eccentricity with which he lived his life. Heyerdahl lapsed into a coma on Tuesday, a week after he started refusing food, water and medical treatment. The scientist and adventurer had been taken to the Santa Conora hospital on the Italian Riviera over Easter after becoming ill during a family gathering...
Adventurer Thor Heyerdahl Dies
	Posted by blam On General/Chat 04/18/2002 3:31:21 PM EDT · 13 replies · 127+ views Ananova | 4-18-2002 Adventurer Thor Heyerdahl dies Norweigian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl has died in his sleep in Italy, aged 87. He became famous for crossing the Pacific ocean from Peru to Polynesia on a balsa log raft in 1947. His book "Kon-Tiki" about the harrowing, 101-day feat made him world famous. Mr Heyerdahl stopped taking food, water or medication in early April after being diagnosed with a terminal brain tumour at a hospital near his family retreat in Italy. He spent his final days surrounded by family at Colla Michari, a Roman-era Italian village he bought and restored in the 1950s. His permanent...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Old Bones Are Telling New Tales (Son Of Kennewick Man)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 05/05/2006 3:01:01 PM EDT · 22 replies · 671+ views The State | 5-5-2006 | Sandi Doughton Old bones are telling new tales BY SANDI DOUGHTONMay 5, 2006 The Seattle Times ELLENSBURG, Wash. - Behind two locked doors at Central Washington University, what might be called Son of Kennewick Man sits inside a cardboard box. The faceless skull dates back 9,000 years - just 400 years younger than the superstar skeleton unearthed from the banks of the Columbia River. While Kennewick Man ignited a legal battle over the control of ancient bones, the skull at CWU has barely raised a ripple. "It just misses the mark in terms of people's interest," said CWU anthropology professor Steven Hackenberger....
Second Royal Tomb Discovered at Waka' (Site Q)
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 05/02/2006 2:10:06 AM EDT · 2 replies · 73+ views Southern Methodist University | May 2006 | unattributed, Waka Homepage A major royal tomb has been unearthed beneath the principal pyramid in the western center of Waka'. The discovery was made by Dr. HÈctor Escobedo of Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, co-director of the Waka' Project, and his student, Juan Carlos Melendez. This marks the second royal tomb discovered at Waka'. In the spring of 2004, SMU archaeologist David Freidel and his students discovered a queen's tomb more than 1,200 years old and dating to the Late Classic period of Maya civilization. The new tomb was discovered in a different pyramid and dates to the Early Classic period between...
Oldest Maya Mural Uncovered in Guatemala
	Posted by NormsRevenge On News/Activism 12/13/2005 3:05:10 PM EST · 47 replies · 1,058+ views AP on Yahoo | 12/13/05 | Randolph E. Schmid - ap WASHINGTON - Archaeologist William Saturno said Tuesday he was awe-struck when he uncovered a Maya mural not seen for nearly two millennia. Discovered at the San Bartolo site in Guatemala, the mural covers the west wall of a room attached to a pyramid, Saturno said at a briefing. In brilliant color, the mural tells the Maya story of creation, he said. It was painted about 100 B.C., but later covered when the room was filled in. "It could have been painted yesterday," Saturno said in a briefing organized by the National Geographic Society, which supported his work and will detail...
Archeologists discover Maya tomb, defy looters - El Peru Waka king
	Posted by NormsRevenge On General/Chat 05/03/2006 7:37:36 PM EDT · 7 replies · 43+ views Reuters on Yahoo | 5/3/06 | Mica Rosenberg EL PERU WAKA, Guatemala (Reuters) - Archeologists outsmarted tomb raiders to unearth a major Maya Indian royal burial site in the Guatemalan jungle, discovering jade jewelry and a jaguar pelt from more than 1,500 years ago. The tomb, found by archeologist Hector Escobedo last week, contains a king of the El Peru Waka city, now in ruins and covered in thick rainforest teeming with spider monkeys. He may have been the dynastic founder of the city, on major Mayan trade routes that could have stretched from the city of Tikal in Guatemala up through Mexico. "If this is indeed the...
Area Professor Breaks New Ground On Maya
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 09/28/2003 8:04:31 PM EDT · 28 replies · 265+ views San Antonio Express | 9-28-2003 | Roger Croteau Area professor breaks new ground on Maya By Roger Croteau San Antonio Express-News Web Posted : 09/28/2003 12:00 AM Findings by a Texas State University-San Marcos professor at an archaeological site in Belize have pushed back the date for the rise of the Maya civilization to 300 years earlier than previously believed. Anthropology professor James J. Garber has worked at the site, known as Blackman Eddy, each summer since 1990. Although smaller than many other Maya ruins, it was a major cultural center in the Upper Belize Valley. "I would say it's a very important finding," said Sandra Noble, executive...
A Mother Lode Of Jade Solves Maya Mystery
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 05/24/2002 10:14:54 AM EDT · 44 replies · 480+ views Seattle PI | 5-22-2002 | William J. Broad A mother lode of jade solves Maya mystery Hurricane exposes ancient mines Wednesday, May 22, 2002 By WILLIAM J. BROAD THE NEW YORK TIMES For half a century, scholars have searched for the source of the jade that the early civilizations of the Americas prized above all else and fashioned into precious objects of worship, trade and adornment. The searchers found some clues to the source of jadeite, as the precious rock is known, for the Olmecs and Mayas. But no lost mines came to light. Now, scientists exploring the wilds of Guatemala say they have found the mother lode...
Megaliths and Archaeoastronomy
2 men discover what may be hemisphere's oldest seasonal calendar
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 05/02/2006 12:15:49 PM EDT · 3 replies · 135+ views Orange County Register via Duluth News Tribune | Tuesday, May 2, 2006 | Tom Berg [S]omewhere between the lost Incan city of Machu Picchu and mountaintop observatories of Cerro Tololo, Chile, retiree Larry Adkins opened a mysterious e-mail from an old childhood pal. And suddenly, Adkins, 66, of Tustin was solving a 4,000-year-old riddle, wrapped around pyramids, buried temples, mummies and a dark-cloud constellation known as The Fox. The temple just may be the Western Hemisphere's equivalent of Stonehenge, an ancient calendrical device intended to mark the seasons by pinpointing the summer solstice sunrise and the winter solstice sunset. If Adkins and his friend's discovery stands up to academic scrutiny, "It would be the oldest...
Climate
Ice Ages Blamed On Tilted Earth
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/30/2006 7:35:48 PM EDT · 72 replies · 1,299+ views Live Science | 3-30-2005 Ice Ages Blamed on Tilted Earth By Michael Schirber LiveScience Staff Writer posted: 30 March 2005 In the past million years, the Earth experienced a major ice age about every 100,000 years. Scientists have several theories to explain this glacial cycle, but new research suggests the primary driving force is all in how the planet leans. The Earthís rotation axis is not perpendicular to the plane in which it orbits the Sun. It's offset by 23.5 degrees. This tilt, or obliquity, explains why we have seasons and why places above the Arctic Circle have 24-hour darkness in winter and constant...
Biology and Cryptobiology
This Could Be Your Oldest Relative . . .
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 04/30/2006 6:50:09 PM EDT · 47 replies · 1,057+ views Sunday Tribune | 4-29-2006 | Anna Cox This could be your oldest relative . . . April 29, 2006 By Anna Cox They lived more than two million years ago and almost 700 000 years apart. They belonged to the same species and they have finally been reunited at Maropeng at the Cradle of Humankind. In what has been described as an historic and important event by academics, the skull of Mrs, Mr or Ms Ples (the gender has not been agreed on) and the bones of the Taung child - a fossilised child's skull found in a quarry at Taung, in the North Western province -...
Multiregionalism / Replacement
Semi-News: Neanderthals Lived in Iranian Cave
	Posted by John Semmens On Bloggers & Personal 05/04/2006 3:45:18 PM EDT · 13 replies · 98+ views AZCONSERVATIVE | 28 Apr 2006 | John Semmens The latest excavations by an Iranian and French joint team at prehistoric caves of Kermanshah, west of Iran, revealed them to have been early settlements of Neanderthals who used to live there about 85,000 to 40,000 years ago. Current whereabouts any remaining Neanderthals are a matter of speculation. Nevertheless, many are convinced that they are now running the Iranian government.
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Archaeologists Debate Whether to Ignore the Pasts of Relics
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 05/02/2006 2:01:22 AM EDT · 3 replies · 54+ views New York Times | May 2, 2006 | Hugh Eakin As scholars grapple with the reality that a growing number of important works -- like the Ur-Nammu tablet and the recently unveiled Gospel of Judas -- lack a clear provenance, those ethics policies are the focus of heated debate. On one side are archaeologists and other experts who say that most objects without a clear record of ownership or site of origin were looted, and that the publication of such material aggrandizes collectors and encourages the illicit trade. On the other side are those who argue that ignoring such works may be even more damaging to scholarship than the destruction...
Jihad in the Days of Jefferson
	Posted by Super-Gung-Ho On General/Chat 05/04/2006 12:08:13 AM EDT · 16 replies · 401+ views The Jerusalem Post | Apr. 26, 2006 11:45 | Updated May. 1, 2006 7:19 | ERIK SCHECHTER Jihad in the days of Jefferson By Erik Schechter, The Jerusalem Post Apr. 26, 2006 Victory in Tripoli: How America's War with the Barbary Pirates Established the U.S. Navy and Shaped a Nation By Joshua E. London John Wiley & Sons 276pp., $24.95 A fledgling republic without a navy, the United States seemed ripe for the picking. In 1783, Muslim pirates - the sea-faring terrorists of their day - began attacking American merchant vessels in the Mediterranean, and the following year, the Moroccans captured a brig called Betsey and enslaved its crew. Soon afterwards, the ruler of Algiers declared war...
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PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Ancient American Skeleton Has European DNA Link
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 05/11/2006 8:09:23 PM EDT · 85 replies · 1,648+ views ABC News.com | 11-27-2000 Ancient American Skeleton Has European DNA Link[Original headline: Sinkhole Skeleton Skeletonís DNA Could Shed Light on American Migrations] Vanlue, Ohio [AP] -- The discovery of prehistoric tools from an Ohio cave is one of several finds that has scientists questioning the identity of settlers thought to have moved in 11,000 years ago. A just completed excavation of Sheriden Cave in Wyandot County, 100 miles southwest of Cleveland, revealed tools made from flaked stone and bone. The items are scheduled to go on display next year at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Kent State University archaeologist Kenneth Tankersley, who led...
Old bones are telling new tales (Son Of Kennewick Man)
	Posted by Spunky On News/Activism 05/09/2006 11:16:39 PM EDT · 8 replies · 248+ views The Seattle Times | May 8th 2006 | Sandi Doughton ELLENSBURG, Wash. - Behind two locked doors at Central Washington University, what might be called Son of Kennewick Man sits inside a cardboard box. The faceless skull dates back 9,000 years - just 400 years younger than the superstar skeleton unearthed from the banks of the Columbia River. While Kennewick Man ignited a legal battle over the control of ancient bones, the skull at CWU has barely raised a ripple. "It just misses the mark in terms of people's interest," said CWU anthropology professor Steven Hackenberger. Nicknamed "Stickman" for the mythical beings some tribes believe once inhabited the Columbia plateau,...
Ancient Navigation
Archaeologist says Va. bolsters claim on how people got to America [ Solutrean ]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 05/11/2006 1:09:18 AM EDT · 26 replies · 223+ views Richmond Times-Dispatch | May 11, 2006 | A.J. Hostetler The Smithsonian archaeologist pursuing the contentious claim that ancient Europeans fleeing the Ice Age settled in America says artifacts unearthed in the Chesapeake Bay region support his theory. Smithsonian Institution curator of archaeology Dennis Stanford argues that about 18,000 years ago, Solutrean hunters from the coasts of France, Spain and Portugal followed seals and other marine mammals for their fur, food and fuel across a partially frozen north Atlantic Ocean to the New World... "Pre-Clovis is a fact in North and South America," archaeologist Michael Collins of the University of Texas at Austin said this year at a symposium on...
Letter From Newfoundland: Homing In On The Red Paint People
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 05/09/2006 8:10:45 PM EDT · 45 replies · 645+ views Archaeology Magazine | 6-2000 | Angela M.H. Schuster Letter from Newfoundland: Homing in on the Red Paint People Volume 53 Number 3, May/June 2000 by Angela M.H. Schuster (Lynda D'Amico) Port au Choix, Newfoundland-- More than 5,000 years ago, this barren, sea-lashed coast was home to the Maritime Archaic Indians (MAI), who hunted and fished the coasts of Labrador and Newfoundland for more than 2,000 years. The first evidence of the Maritime Archaic culture was discovered more than 30 years ago when James A. Tuck of Memorial University of Newfoundland excavated 56 elaborate burials exposed during housing construction on a small promontory at Port au Choix, on the...
Epigraphy and Language
Mexico monolith may cast new light on Mesoamerica
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 05/09/2006 11:58:51 AM EDT · 35 replies · 275+ views Yahoo | Monday, May 8, 2006 | Reuters Findings at the newly excavated Tamtoc archeological site in the north-central state of San Luis Potosi may prompt scholars to rethink a view of Mesoamerican history which holds that its earliest peoples were based in the south of Mexico... Tamtoc, located about 550 miles northeast of Mexico City, will open to the public this week, while experts including linguists, historians, ethnographers and others study findings from the site to confirm their origins. The Olmecs are considered the mother culture of pre-Hispanic Mexico. Ruins of Olmec centers believed to have flourished as early as 1200 B.C. have been found in the...
Megaliths and Archaeoastronomy
Discovery Of Oldest Known Art And Agriculture Calendar In New World
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 05/11/2006 5:17:48 PM EDT · 10 replies · 371+ views Newswise | 5-11-2006 Discovery of Oldest Known Art and Agriculture Calendar in New World MU Researcher Unearths Earliest Known Western Sculptures and Astronomical Alignments in Peru's Temple of the Fox. Andeans Used Myth and Astronomical Markers to Determine Agricultural Calendar. Project Buena Vista unearths a personified disk flanked by foxes at the Temple of the Fox in Peru. Newswise -- In one of the most significant archaeological and anthropological finds in recent history, Robert Benfer, professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Missouri-Columbia, has discovered the earliest astronomical alignments and sculptures in the round, which is a sculpture designed to be viewed...
Multiregionalism / Replacement
New Scientist : Many human genes evolved recently ( As recent as 15,000 years ago )
	Posted by SirLinksalot On News/Activism 05/08/2006 5:59:09 PM EDT · 82 replies · 1,008+ views New Scientist | 03/07/2006 | Melissa Lee Phillips Many human genes evolved recently 01:00 07 March 2006 NewScientist.com news service Melissa Lee Phillips Human genes involved in metabolism, skin pigmentation, brain function and reproduction have evolved in response to recent environmental changes, according to a new study of natural selection in the human genome. Researchers at the University of Chicago, US, developed a statistical test to find genomic regions that evolution has favoured over the last 15,000 years or so -- when modern humans dealt with the end of the last ice age, the beginning of agriculture, and increased population densities. Many of the 700 genes the researchers...
Neanderthals And Humans: Perhaps They Never Met
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 05/08/2006 2:29:20 PM EDT · 34 replies · 1,204+ views Live Science | 5-8-2006 | Robin Lloyd Neanderthals and Humans: Perhaps They Never Met By Robin Lloyd Special to LiveScience posted: 08 May 2006 The number of years that modern humans are thought to have overlapped with Neanderthals in Europe is shrinking fast, and some scientists now say that figure could drop to zero. Neanderthals lived in Europe and western Asia from 230,000 to 29,000 years ago, petering out soon after the arrival of modern humans from Africa. There is much debate on exactly how Neanderthals went extinct. Theories include climate change and inferior tools compared to those made by modern humans. Anthropologists also disagree on whether...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Exploring The Wolves In Dogs' Clothing
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 05/10/2006 8:13:18 PM EDT · 64 replies · 909+ views BBC | 5-9-2006 | Helen Briggs Exploring the wolves in dogs' clothing By Helen Briggs BBC News science reporter Fox terrier (Canis familiaris) A boggle-eyed pooch tucked into a Balenciaga handbag; an elite greyhound tearing around the track in a flash of fur and claws; a sniffer dog on the trail of illicit drugs. Given that dogs come in every shape, size and colour, it is strange to think they are all wolves under the skin. According to DNA studies, domestic dogs owe their origins to a wolf cub that probably fell into the hands of humans some 40,000 years ago somewhere in Southeast Asia. Over...
Ancient Egypt
Cleopatra's gems rise from the deep
	Posted by wagglebee On News/Activism 05/11/2006 9:14:37 PM EDT · 28 replies · 909+ views London Times | 5/11/06 | Roger Boyes Franck Goddio shows off one of the sculptures he found (Markus Schreiber/AP) Cleopatra's gems rise from the deepBy Roger Boyes Hundreds of priceless finds will shed light on 1,500 years of Ancient Egyptian history THE lost world of Cleopatraís palaces has been dug out of the muddy Mediterranean sea bed by a man dubbed the Underwater Indiana Jones. The results of Franck Goddioís excavations, comprising 500 priceless finds that shed light on 1,500 years of ancient history, will be put on public view today for the first time. President Mubarak of Egypt will open the exhibition in Berlin, and...
Ancient Greece
DIGGING TO BYZANTIUM: Turkish Tunnel Project Unearths an Ancient Harbor
	Posted by a_Turk On News/Activism 05/10/2006 12:17:53 PM EDT · 28 replies · 723+ views Der Spiegel | 5/10/2006 | N/A Workers digging a railway tunnel under the Bosporus Strait have uncovered the remains of a major Byzantine harbor that archaeologists say is a trove of relics dating back to Roman Emperor Constantine the Great. The deepest underwater rail tunnel in the world will link Istanbul's Asian and European halves and ease bridge traffic across the Bosporus Strait. It may also be delayed by excited archaeologists. The tunnel, when it's finished, will end in a shining new railway station, the largest in Turkey -- a train and subway link surrounded by a 21st-century shopping center. Modern Turkish planners, though, weren't the...
Fisherman Nets Ancient Statue in Greece
	Posted by NormsRevenge On General/Chat 05/08/2006 9:04:28 PM EDT · 11 replies · 171+ views AP on Yahoo | 5/8/06 | AP ATHENS, Greece - A Greek fisherman has handed over to authorities a large section of an ancient bronze statue brought up in his nets in the Aegean Sea, officials said on Monday. The male torso was located last week near the eastern Aegean island of Kalymnos, the Culture Ministry said in an announcement. The one-meter (3-foot) high find belonged to a statue of a horseback soldier, and would have been part of the cargo of an ancient ship that sank in the area. It was taken to Athens to be cleaned and dated. Together with the torso, the fisherman brought...
Ancient Rome
Sabine Chariot Rewrites History
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 05/12/2006 7:17:08 PM EDT · 10 replies · 279+ views Ansa | 5-12-2006 Sabine chariot rewrites history'Exceptional' find proves independence of ancient city (ANSA) - Rome, May 12 - An ancient king's war chariot found in a tomb near Rome has helped rewrite the history of the Romans and their Sabine rivals . "This chariot is an exceptional find," said archaeologist Paola Santoro. "It shows that the city of Ereteum remained independent long after the Sixth Century BC." "In other Sabine cities like Custumerium, conquered by the Romans, the custom of putting regal objects in king's tombs had died out by that time". "We can say that Eretum kept its independence until the...
Parking lot replaces historic Roman city [ Colonia Augusta Firma Astigi in Spain ]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 05/08/2006 9:28:28 AM EDT · 11 replies · 81+ views United Press International | April 30, 2006 | unattributed Archeologists say the site contained a well-preserved Roman forum, bath house, gymnasium and temple -- as well as dozens of private homes and hundreds of mosaics and statues... The socialist local council says the remains never would have been found had the town not dug up the main square, Plaza de Espana, to build the car park in 1998, the newspaper said. Mayor Juan Wic said the parking lot is "essential for the commercial future of the square and city."
Asia
China Reports Discovery of Ancient City
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 05/10/2006 1:53:07 AM EDT · 12 replies · 128+ views Yahoo | May 9, 2006 | Associated Press The report said the ruins, near the present-day city of Ji'an, are believed to date to China's Han Dynasty in 202 B.C.-220 A.D. But Korea's Koguryo kingdom ruled the area at that time, and Xinhua said the city included tombs of Koguryo design. Another burial area found some 12 miles away on the reservoir floor has 2,360 tombs also believed to date from Koguryo, Xinhua said. The Koguryo kings reigned from 37 B.C. to A.D 668 over the Korean Peninsula and northeastern China. The era is regarded as one of the high points of Korean cultural and political power... The...
(Imperial-era) Tombs Found at China Olympic Site
	Posted by NormsRevenge On News/Activism 05/08/2006 6:41:14 PM EDT · 5 replies · 186+ views AP on Yahoo | 5/8/06 | Christopher Bodeen - ap BEIJING - Work on a shooting range for the 2008 Beijing Olympics has been suspended after the discovery of imperial-era tombs on the site, newspapers and an antiquities official said Monday. The tombs, found in mid-April, are believed to date back five to six centuries to the Ming dynasty, and may be those of eunuchs serving at the imperial court, the Beijing Morning Post said. Beijing has been the site of imperial and other capitals for more than 1,000 years, and many major building projects unearth gravesites or relics. Most are removed or destroyed before experts can examine them. A...
Buried relics uncovered at Angkor Wat.
	Posted by vannrox On News/Activism 07/21/2002 4:43:44 PM EDT · 12 replies · 250+ views Pacnews, Agence France-Presse (AFP) | 14:12:10 AEST | Editorial Staff Buried relics uncovered at Angkor Wat. Japanese archaeologists have made a rare underground find of relics at the temples of the Angkor Wat complex in Cambodia. The archaeology team comes from from Sophia University, a Jesuit school in Tokyo. It dug up 103 pieces of Buddhist statues in mid-March, at Banteay Kdei temple, one of the dozens of temples built near the northern Cambodian town of Siem Reap between the 9th and 14th centuries. The pieces likely date back to the Angkorian period from the reign of Jayavarman VII, who ruled at the end of the 12th century. Cambodian...
India
Remains Of Past Emerge From The Dark - Ancient Buddhist Stupas Discovered In Bihar
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 05/08/2006 5:50:38 PM EDT · 8 replies · 288+ views Telegraph India | 5-7-2006 | Santosh Singh Remains of past emerge from the dark - Ancient buddhist stupas discovered in bihar districts SANTOSH SINGH A mound discovered recently at Turki in Biharís Vaishali district. Telegraph picture Patna, May 7: A forgotten chapter of ancient history is emerging, slowly and silently, in Bihar with Patnaís KP Jaiswal Research Institute identifying as many as 70 Buddhist stupas, 50 of which remain buried underground. The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) approved project plans to document all the stupas by September this year, said director of the institute Vijay Chaudhary. Buddhist texts indicate that when the Buddha died, he was cremated...
Prehistory and Origins
Evolutionary Back Story: Thoroughly Modern Spine Supported Human Ancestor
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 05/07/2006 11:48:57 AM EDT · 23 replies · 406+ views Science News | 5-7-2006 | Bruce Bower Evolutionary Back Story: Thoroughly modern spine supported human ancestor Bruce Bower Bones from a spinal column discovered at a nearly 1.8-million-year-old site in central Asia support the controversial possibility that ancient human ancestors spoke to one another. WIDE OPEN. A recently discovered Homo erectus vertebra from central Asia (left) displays a larger spinal cord canal than does a corresponding bone (right) from a skeleton that had been found in Kenya. Meyer Excavations in 2005 at Dmanisi, Georgia, yielded five vertebrae from a Homo erectus individual, says anthropologist Marc R. Meyer of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. The finds occurred...
Prehistoric site found in Jerusalem
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 05/10/2006 1:59:32 AM EDT · 12 replies · 145+ views Jerusalem Post | May 9, 2006 | Etgar Lefkovits Israeli archaeologists have uncovered a large concentration of stone utensils on the southeastern rim of the city which were used by prehistoric man hundreds of thousands of years ago... The reason for the stone-age settlement at the site was apparently its proximity to exposed rock from which the men made their tools, according to Omri Barzilai and Michal Birkenfeld, the two archaeologists heading the dig... Although history-rich Jerusalem is immersed in archaeology from the Biblical period onwards, archaeologists have previously found only two other sites in the city - near Mount Scopus and on Emek Refaim Street - that date...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Jordan site may be Biblical city of Sodom
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 05/11/2006 1:25:28 AM EDT · 16 replies · 199+ views El Defensor Chieftain Reporter | Wednesday, May 10, 2006 | Argen Duncan He is having a number of people, including New Mexico Tech scientists, examine the potsherd to determine what the glaze is. Material engineers at the site said it looks like Trinitite, the substance materials such as sand turn into when subjected to a nuclear blast. However, Collins said he isn't suggesting a nuclear blast hit the site. He doesn't know the cause, but suspects a comet strike or electrical event.
Baldwin IV of Jerusalem (The Leper King)
	Posted by Hacksaw On News/Activism 05/08/2006 6:51:05 AM EDT · 8 replies · 411+ views Answers.com | undated | Answers.com Baldwin IV (Baldwin the Leper), c.1161¬ñ1185, Latin king of Jerusalem (1174¬ñ85), son and successor of Amalric I. Raymond, count of Tripoli, was regent from 1174 to 1176. Baldwin was constantly engaged, except for a truce (1180¬ñ82), in defending his kingdom against Saladin. In 1183 his leprosy began to spread very rapidly; he appointed Guy of Lusignan as his regent, but in the same year he withdrew the commission and had his five-year-old nephew crowned king as Baldwin V (d. 1186). Raymond was regent for Baldwin V, who was succeeded as king by Guy of Lusignan. Minority Baldwin spent his youth...
Ancient Europe
Fungus threatens famous prehistoric caves [ Lascaux cave paintings ]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 05/12/2006 9:41:50 AM EDT · 6 replies · 55+ views Monsters and Critics | 10 May 2006 | UPI A white fungus is reportedly threatening the caves of Lascaux in France, in which the rock art has been called the 'Sistine Chapel of prehistory.' The fungus is believed to have been introduced in 2001 when contractors installed an air conditioning system to preserve the 17,000-year-old cave paintings from heat and humidity generated by visitors, The Independent reported Wednesday. Researchers told the newspaper the historical importance of the Paleolithic caves is immeasurable, since the cave`s paintings are an evolutionary icon for the development of human art and consciousness... Scientists are removing, by hand, visible filaments of the fungus -- a...
British Isles
Muggings Were Rife In New Stone Age
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 05/11/2006 2:50:02 PM EDT · 59 replies · 1,134+ views New Scientist | 5-11-2006 | Emma Young Muggings were rife in New Stone Age 11 May 2006 From New Scientist Print Edition. Emma Young IF YOU are worried about being attacked or killed by a violent criminal, just be glad you are not living in Neolithic Britain. From 4000 to 3200 BC, Britons had a 1 in 14 chance of being bashed on the head, and a 1 in 50 chance of dying from their injuries. Grisly figures from the first systematic survey of early Neolithic British skulls reveal that life then was no rural idyll. "It's certainly more violent than we'd considered," says Rick Schulting of...
Brutal lives of Stone Age Britons
	Posted by wagglebee On News/Activism 05/12/2006 5:24:42 PM EDT · 31 replies · 734+ views BBC News | 5/11/06 | Paul Rincon A survey of British skulls from the early part of the New Stone Age, or Neolithic, shows societies then were more violent than was supposed. Early Neolithic Britons had a one in 20 chance of suffering a skull fracture at the hands of someone else and a one in 50 chance of dying from their injuries. Details were presented at a meeting of the Society for American Archaeology and reported in New Scientist magazine. Blunt instruments such as clubs were responsible for most of the traumas. This is not the first time human-induced injuries have been identified in Neolithic...
Roman Graveyard Found In Quarry (UK)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 05/11/2006 5:29:30 PM EDT · 12 replies · 505+ views BBC | 5-11-2006 Roman graveyard found in quarry The cemetery contains the remains of more than 100 people Archaeologists have unearthed a large Roman cemetery in a Gloucestershire gravel quarry. More than 100 people are believed to have been buried at the site, near Fairford, which dates back 1,600 years. It is thought the dead were interred according to their age, as children's bodies have been found in one area with adults in another section. Experts said the find is unusual because no big settlements are known to have existed nearby in the Roman era. Dr Alex Smith, Oxford Archaeology's project manager said:...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Big Breakup: That's The Way The Comet Crumbles
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 05/07/2006 12:14:17 PM EDT · 32 replies · 670+ views Science News | 5-7-2006 | Ron Cowen Big Breakup: That's the way the comet crumbles Ron Cowen Scores of telescopes are watching a comet fall apart, and the main show may be only beginning. The comet has already fragmented into at least 59 pieces and may continue to break up as it reaches its position closest to the sun on June 6. In mid-May, the chunks will venture within 11.7 million kilometers of Earthóthe closest any comet has come to our planet in 20 yearsóand the largest fragments should be visible with binoculars. Called Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3, this body passes near the sun every 5.4 years and...
Relic of ancient asteroid found ..punched 160km-wide (100 miles) hole in the Earth's surface
	Posted by Ernest_at_the_Beach On News/Activism 05/11/2006 1:42:29 AM EDT · 36 replies · 881+ views BBC | Wednesday, 10 May 2006, 17:10 GMT 18:10 UK | Rebecca Morelle BBC News science reporter A large fragment of an asteroid that punched 160km-wide (100 miles) hole in the Earth's surface has been found. The beachball-sized fossil meteorite was dug out of the 145-million-year-old Morokweng crater in South Africa. It is a unique discovery because large objects are widely believed to completely melt or vaporise as they collide with the planet. Writing in the journal Nature, an international team says the find will further knowledge on asteroid impacts. The Morokweng crater is one of the largest on Earth, and was formed at the boundary of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. Created by an asteroid...
Climate
Ancient die-off blamed on climate, not humans
	Posted by holymoly On News/Activism 05/10/2006 3:16:27 PM EDT · 28 replies · 467+ views MSNBC | May 10, 2006 | Bjorn Carey Failure to adapt to a drastically changing climate, and not overkill by humans or disease, most likely lead to the extinction of mammoths, wild horses, and other large mammals after the last Ice Age, a new study suggests. But this fresh take on an old argument might not be the final word. Dale Guthrie of the University of Alaska has added 600 radiocarbon-dated fossils to the established collection, and his examination reveals that mammoths and wild horses were in serious decline before humans arrived on the scene in Alaska and the Yukon Territory.
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
1918 Letter Claims Geronimo's Bones Found
	Posted by NormsRevenge On News/Activism 05/08/2006 9:50:13 PM EDT · 44 replies · 784+ views AP on Yahoo | 5/8/06 | Stephen Singer - ap HARTFORD, Conn. - A Yale University historian discovered a 1918 letter that raises anew questions about a secretive Yale student society and the remains of the American Indian leader Geronimo. The letter, written by a member of Skull and Bones to another member of the society, purports that some of the Indian leader's remains were spirited from his burial plot in Fort Sill, Okla., to a stone tomb in New Haven that serves as the club's headquarters. A portion of the letter and an accompanying story were posted Monday on the Yale Alumni Magazine's Web site. At one of the...
Yale Historian Finds Geronimo Clue
	Posted by Pontiac On News/Activism 05/09/2006 11:35:19 AM EDT · 24 replies · 754+ views AP via Breitbart.com | 5/9/06 | STEPHEN SINGER A Yale University historian has uncovered a 1918 letter that seems to lend validity to the lore that Yale University's ultra-secret Skull and Bones society swiped the skull of American Indian leader Geronimo. The letter, written by one member of Skull and Bones to another, purports that the skull and some of the Indian leader's remains were spirited from his burial plot in Fort Sill, Okla., to a stone tomb in New Haven that serves as the club's headquarters. According to Skull and Bones legend, members _ including President Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush _ dug up Geronimo's grave when a...
Researcher Finds Letter Linking Geronimo, Secret Yale Society
	Posted by Warthogtjm On News/Activism 05/09/2006 1:16:27 PM EDT · 41 replies · 1,084+ views AP via FoxNews HARTFORD, Conn. -- A Yale University historian has uncovered a 1918 letter that seems to lend validity to the lore that Yale University's ultra-secret Skull and Bones society swiped the skull of American Indian leader Geronimo. The letter, written by one member of Skull and Bones to another, purports that the skull and some of the Indian leader's remains were spirited from his burial plot in Fort Sill, Okla., to a stone tomb in New Haven that serves as the club's headquarters. According to Skull and Bones legend, members -- including President Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush -- dug up Geronimo's...
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Multiregionalism / Replacement
Ancient Islanders Get A Leg Up ('Hobbits')
	Posted by blam On General/Chat 05/16/2006 3:45:36 PM EDT · 12 replies · 409+ views Science News | 5-16-2006 | Bruce Bower Ancient islanders get a leg up Bruce Bower From San Juan, Puerto Rico, at the Paleoanthropology Society and Society for American Archaeology meeting Fossils of a humanlike species dubbed Homo floresiensis that lived on the Pacific island of Flores between 18,000 and 12,000 years ago recently grabbed headlines because scientists deduced that this creature stood no more than 1 meter tall and possessed a surprisingly small brain. Nonetheless, H. floresiensis packed considerable weight on its diminutive frame and possessed far stronger legs than people do today, says William L. Jungers of the State University of New York at Stony Brook....
"Hobbit" Humans Were Diseased, Not New Species, Study Says
	Posted by nickcarraway On General/Chat 05/18/2006 6:00:14 PM EDT · 5 replies · 159+ views National Geographic News | May 18, 2006 | John Roach The "hobbit" humans that lived on the Indonesian island of Flores some 18,000 years ago were actually a population of modern humans stricken with a genetic disease that causes small brains, a new study says. The argument is being made by a group of scientists who have analyzed all the scientific evidence presented so far about the evolution of the proposed species Homo floresiensis. The discovery of the hobbit-like humanóso-called for their small statureówas first announced in 2004 after a fossil skull and bones of several individuals turned up on Flores. Preliminary analysis of the remains pegged them as belonging...
Debate on Little Human Fossil Enters Major Scientific Forum
	Posted by Pharmboy On News/Activism 05/19/2006 6:09:39 AM EDT · 24 replies · 504+ views NY Times | May 19, 2006 | JOHN NOBLE WILFORD Ira Block/National GeographicSome scientists say this skull, smaller than those of modern humans, is from a newfound species. Not all scientists agree that the 18,000-year-old "little people" fossils found on the Indonesian island of Flores should be designated an extinct human-related species. Some expressed their opposition in news interviews and informal symposiums, but papers arguing their case were rejected by major journals. snip... In today's issue of the journal Science, researchers led by Robert D. Martin of the Field Museum in Chicago present evidence they say supports their main argument, that the skull in question is not that of...
Indonesia's Hobbits lose their magic
	Posted by Mikey_1962 On News/Activism 05/19/2006 1:18:17 PM EDT · 3 replies · 310+ views The Age | 5/19/06 | Mikey_1962 NEW report disputes scientists' claims that bones of a dwarf human discovered on an Indonesian island are those of an entirely new human species. The 18,000-year-old bones found on Flores Island in 2003 were given the scientific name Homo floresiensis, and the nickname "Hobbit" after the diminutive figures in J. R. R. Tolkien's novel. Anthropologists from Australia and Indonesia said it was an entirely new human species. The discovery of a new hominid excited scientists around the world. But a group of scientists led by primatologist Robert Martin said in the May 19 issue of Science magazine that the bones...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Interspecies Sex Probably Occurred Between Humans, Chimps
	Posted by NativeNewYorker On News/Activism 05/17/2006 1:27:46 PM EDT · 204 replies · 4,323+ views upi via email no link | 5/17/6 May 17 (UPI) -- Humans and chimpanzees may have interbred millions of years ago after the two species initially separated, according to a study published in Nature. If hybridization -- creating a new form of plant or animal life by combining two species -- did occur between humans and chimpanzees, ``one might need to modify the evolution displays in museums,'' Harvard Medical School Assistant Professor David Reich wrote in an e-mail message. The study, ``Genetic evidence for complex speciation of humans and chimpanzees,'' says the X chromosome is much younger than previously thought and may mean that after human and...
Did Humans And Chimps Once Interbreed?
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 05/17/2006 2:51:33 PM EDT · 108 replies · 2,159+ views New Scientist | 5-17-2006 | Bob Holmes Did humans and chimps once interbreed? 17 May 2006 From New ScientistBob Holmes IT GOES to the heart of who we are and where we came from. Our human ancestors were still interbreeding with their chimp cousins long after first splitting from the chimpanzee lineage, a genetic study suggests. Early humans and chimps may even have hybridised completely before diverging a second time. If so, some of the earliest fossils of proto-humans might represent an abortive first attempt to diverge from chimps, rather than being our direct ancestors. We can observe the traces of this complex history in the human...
Neandertal / Neanderthal
Neanderthal Yields Nuclear DNA
	Posted by blam On General/Chat 05/16/2006 6:33:16 PM EDT · 59 replies · 903+ views BBC | 5-16-2006 Neanderthal yields nuclear DNA Neanderthals died out about 29,000 years ago The first sequences of nuclear DNA to be taken from a Neanderthal have been reported at a US science meeting. Geneticist Svante Paabo and his team say they isolated the long segments of genetic material from a 45,000-year-old Neanderthal fossil from Croatia. The work should reveal how closely related the Neanderthal species was to modern humans, Homo sapiens. Details were presented at a conference at New York's Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and reported by News@Nature. It is a significant advance on previous research that has extracted mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)...
Neanderthals Take Out Their Small Blades
	Posted by blam On General/Chat 05/16/2006 3:51:33 PM EDT · 39 replies · 863+ views Science News | 5-16-2006 | Bruce Bower Neandertals take out their small blades Bruce Bower From San Juan, Puerto Rico, at the Paleoanthropology Society and Society for American Archaeology meeting Excavations of Neandertal artifacts at two caves in northern Spain have yielded an unexpected discoveryóa trove of thin, double-edged stone blades that researchers usually regard as the work of Stone Age people who lived much later. In 2005, Federico Bernaldo de Quiros of the University of LÈon in Spain and his coworkers unearthed small stone blades, which they called bladelets, lying amid larger, characteristic Neandertal stone implements in a cave called El Castillo. All the finds came...
Anatomically Modern Humans
Making Sacrifices In Stone Age Societies
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 05/16/2006 3:56:23 PM EDT · 8 replies · 358+ views Science News | 5-16-2006 | Bruce Bower Making sacrifices in Stone Age societies Bruce Bower From San Juan, Puerto Rico, at the Paleoanthropology Society and Society for American Archaeology meeting Double and triple burials at 23,000-to-27,000-year-old sites in Europe and western Asia suggest prehistoric human sacrifices, says Vincenzo Formicola of the University of Pisa in Italy. Of 30 known burials from that time period and area, 6 held more than one person. These graves contain two or three children, adolescents, or young adults apparently buried at the same time, positioned in curious ways, and accompanied by unusually valuable objects, Formicola says. Most of the multiple burials include...
Ancient Europe
Cattle's Call Of The Wild: Domestication May Hold Complex Genetic Tale
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 05/16/2006 4:02:49 PM EDT · 24 replies · 459+ views Science News | 5-16-2006 | Bruce Bower Cattle's Call of the Wild: Domestication may hold complex genetic tale Bruce Bower A new investigation of DNA that was obtained from modern cattle and from fossils of their ancient, wild ancestors puts scientists on the horns of a domestication dilemma. The new data challenge the mainstream idea, based on earlier genetic and archaeological evidence, that herding and farming groups in southeastern Turkey or adjacent Near Eastern regions domesticated cattle perhaps 11,000 years ago. According to that view, these groups then introduced the animals throughout Europe, so current European cattle breeds would trace their ancestry directly back to early Near...
Prehistory and Origins
Fossil "Pompeii" of Prehistoric Animals Named U.S. Landmark
	Posted by texas_mrs On News/Activism 05/16/2006 4:19:43 PM EDT · 14 replies · 504+ views National Geographic News | 5/12/2006 | Stefan Lovgren The U.S. Department of Interior has designated Nebraska's Ashfall Fossil Beds as a national natural landmark, the first such landmark to be designated in almost two decades. The site, near the town of Neligh (see Nebraska map), is home to hundreds of skeletons of extinct rhinos, camels, three-toed horses, and other vertebrates that were killed and buried by ash from a huge volcanic eruption some 12 million years ago. It is the only place on Earth where large numbers of fossil mammals have been found as whole, three-dimensionally preserved skeletons. "Ashfall has tremendous value for science and education and great...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
NOVA | Mystery of the Megaflood | PBS
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 05/13/2006 8:26:15 PM EDT · 27 replies · 262+ views PBS Nova | Fall 2005 | WGBH In this companion Web site to the NOVA program Mystery of the Megaflood, explore the Channeled Scabland through an interactive map, read an interview with geologist Vic Baker, take a geology quiz, visit our teacher's guide, and more... Mystery of the Megaflood: What unleashed a catastrophic flood that scarred thousands of square miles in the American Northwest? Airs on PBS September 20, 2005... Airs on PBS May 16, 2006.
Very Large Meteorite Fell Down in Siberia
	Posted by ckilmer On News/Activism 06/13/2004 6:24:49 PM EDT · 88 replies · 456+ views Pravda | 15:33 2003-03-18 Pravda.RU:Top Stories:More in detail 15:33 2003-03-18Very Large Meteorite Fell Down in Siberia The falling of the meteorite is still mysterious. Scientists say that it might weigh 60 tons The night was rather dull in the north-east of the Russian Irkutsk region on September 25, 2002. All of a sudden, night turned into day. A very bright glow covered the sky, it was hard to look at it. Those people, who happened to be outside at 2 a.m., saw a ball of fire that was flying very fast across the sky. Weird rusting sounds could be heard. A few seconds...
Explorer Ballard heads exploration of undersea volcano
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 05/19/2006 3:42:02 PM EDT · 8 replies · 60+ views Narragansett Times | 5/19/2006 | Chris Church University of Rhode Island professor Robert Ballard... was slated to... meet up with the crew of the... 185-foot-long research vessel Endeavor... Ballard, notably known for his 1985 discovery of the Titanic, will be heading up a team of scientists from URI's Graduate School of Oceanography, the Institute for Exploration, and the Institute of Oceanography of the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research in Athens. Scientific operations for the expedition began on Apr. 26 and will continue through June 18... The first leg of the expedition will be to the Greek island of Thera, also known as Santorini, to study the sea...
Ancient Greece
Dig Unearths Mycenaean 'Homeric Capital'
	Posted by blam On General/Chat 04/17/2002 9:28:25 PM EDT · 11 replies · 111+ views IOL | 4-16-2002 Dig unearths Mycenaean 'Homeric capital' April 16 2002 at 06:35PM Athens, Greece - An archaeologist thinks he may have found the ancient Mycenaean capital of Salamis, the island where one of the greatest recorded battles of antiquity took place. Archaeologist Yannos Lolos said on Tuesday that he found two buildings and uncovered several small hamlets scattered around the ancient acropolis of old Salamis, now known as Kanakia. The ancient town is on the south-western part of the island, located in the Saronic Gulf. Lolos, assistant professor of archaeology at the University of Ioannina in northern Greece, has been digging at...
Phoenicians
6th century Arroyo Vaquero burial ground
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 05/19/2006 10:11:43 PM EDT · 1 reply · 1+ view SUR in English / Costa del Sol News | May 19, 2006 | Mercedes Perianez Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans and Muslims have all left their mark on Estepona. A small part of the municipality's history lies at Arroyo Vaquero, the site of a Roman settlement. It is two decades since the first remains of a Roman villa were discovered at the site surrounded by several tombs... The most recent finds consist of about 50 tombs with human remains dating from the sixth to the seventh century AD. Among the artefacts are Visigoth jars made of pottery, rings, a buckle and several Roman coins from the fourth and fifth century... Recent excavation work on the Palaeo-Christian necropolis...
Ancient Rome
Tuscany's Etruscan Claim Knocked
	Posted by blam On General/Chat 05/16/2006 2:30:01 PM EDT · 17 replies · 447+ views ANSA | 5-16-2006 Tuscany's Etruscan claim knockedModern Tuscans not descendants of ancient people, DNA says (ANSA) - Rome, May 16 - The Tuscans' proud claim to be the descendants of the ancient Etruscans has taken a knock . A DNA comparison of Etruscan skeletons and a sample of living Tuscans has thrown up only "tenuous genetic similarities", said lead researcher Guido Barbujani of Ferrara University . "If the Tuscans were the direct descendants of the Etruscans the DNA should be the same," said Barbujani, a genetecist who coordinated the study with Stanford University in the United States . The study, which appears in...
Nero was innocent of burning down Rome
	Posted by H.R. Gross On News/Activism 12/10/2001 9:16:55 AM EST · 40 replies · 1,060+ views Sunday Times of London | 12/9/01 | DIPESH GADHER AND JACK GRIMSTON THE Roman emperor Nero, a byword for cruelty and excess, has been falsely blamed for burning down Rome by propagandists covering up for Christian and Jewish saboteurs, according to new research. The fire, which destroyed most of the ancient city in AD64, has traditionally been blamed on a plot by Nero to destroy his opponents. However, Gerhard Baudy, professor of antiquities at Konstanz University in Bavaria, claims the fire was part of a revolt to overthrow the Roman empire by a group who believed they were fulfilling divine prophecies. ìIt was highly unlikely this fire was an accident,î said Baudy. ...
British Isles
Experts Find Rare Romani DNA In Norwich Anglo Saxon Skeleton
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 05/13/2006 1:43:55 PM EDT · 49 replies · 1,124+ views 24 Hour Museum | 5-12-2006 | Sarah Morley EXPERTS FIND RARE ROMANI DNA IN NORWICH ANGLO SAXON SKELETON By Sarah Morley 12/05/2006 The recent discovery of Romani DNA in an Anglo Saxon skeleton has made experts re-think the nature of the city's early population. Picture courtesy Sophie Cabot. © HEART Experts from Norfolk Archaeology Unit based at Norwich Castle have discovered a rare form of mitochondrial DNA identified as Romani in a skeleton discovered during excavations in a large area of Norwich for the expansion of the castle mall. The DNA was found in an 11th century young adult male skeleton, and with the first recorded arrival of...
Anatolia
Hittite winds blow in Istanbul
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 05/19/2006 3:46:21 PM EDT · 12 replies · 61+ views Turkish Daily News | Friday, May 19, 2006 | Dogan Daily News An exhibition titled "The Hittite Winds" by sculptor and ceramic artist ErdinÁ Bakla opened on Tuesday at the Istanbul Archaeology Museum in Topkapõ Palace. The exhibition, which interprets Hittite artifacts in various materials, features 35 pieces of marble, bronze, plexiglas and fiberglass as well as a golden dinner set and silver tea set. The exhibition will run until May 28 and will also be on display in Ankara in June, reported the Anatolia news agency.
Underwater Archaeology
Murder, Mayhem and Mystery on Display [Ancient Alexandria]
	Posted by aculeus On News/Activism 05/13/2006 9:30:52 AM EDT · 16 replies · 405+ views Spiegel on line | May 11, 2006 | By Matthias Schulz Treasure hunter Franck Goddio has spent years bringing the sunken city of Alexandria to the surface. The results of his labors, now premiering in Berlin, reveal incest, fratricide and iniquity. And breathtaking beauty. It's a good thing that the Martin Gropius Building has such high ceilings. It'll need them. The exhibit at the Berlin museum includes 15-ton statues sculpted from rose-colored granite that have spent millennia on the ocean floor. The pieces that will be on display in the exhibit entitled "Egypt's Sunken Treasure," opening to the public on May 13, but ceremoniously unveiled by German President Horst Kˆhler and...
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Tombs Sheds New Light On Egyptian Colonialism
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 05/17/2006 3:04:50 PM EDT · 2 replies · 78+ views Eureka Alert | 5-17-2006 Ancient tomb sheds new light on Egyptian colonialismSkeletal remains suggest conquered Nubians participated in governance of colonized state New evidence from ancient grave site reveals that Egyptian colonialists shared administrative responsibilities with conquered Nubians. In approximately 1550 B.C., Egypt conquered its southern neighbor, ancient Nubia, and secured control of valuable trade routes. But rather than excluding the colonized people from management of the region, new evidence from an archaeological site on the Nile reveals that Egyptian immigrants shared administrative responsibilities for ruling this large province with native Nubians. "The study of culture contact in the past has conventionally used ideas...
Ancient tomb sheds new light on Egyptian colonialism
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 05/19/2006 10:01:28 PM EDT · 3 replies · 8+ views EurekAlert | Suzanne Wu Through an examination of the archaeological site of Tombos, a strategic point of control in Egyptian-controlled Nubia, Buzon sought to determine whether the people buried in a colonial cemetery were immigrants from Egypt or Nubians who had adopted Egyptian practices. Comparing skull measurements with other revealing features such as tomb architecture, grave objects, and burial position, Buzon founds that the imperial officials who were buried in symbolically-marked tombs were of both Egyptian and Nubian descent. Egyptians were generally laid to rest on their backs in small tombs or pyramids, while Nubians were buried in fetal position on a bed or...
Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
Palace Of Darius The Great Discovered In Bolaghi Gorge
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 05/15/2006 5:54:46 PM EDT · 24 replies · 613+ views CHN | 5-15-2006 Palace of Darius the Great Discovered in Bolaghi Gorge Discovery of remains of a gigantic palace in Bolaghi Gorge and its similarity to the constructions of the time of Darius I, Achaemenid King, in Persepolis show that it was built during the same period of time. Tehran, 15 May 2006 (CHN) -- Iran-French joint archeology team at Bolaghi Gorge succeeded in discovering and identifying the remains of a gigantic palace, believed to be from the Achaemenid era (648 BCñ330 BC), during their second season of excavations in the area. ìBefore the start of this season of excavations, our geophysical tests...
India
4,500 year-old bricks found near 'Mahabharata' battlefield Kurukshetra
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 05/16/2006 1:00:20 AM EDT · 6 replies · 137+ views New Kerala | Monday May 15 2006 Huge bricks belonging to the ancient Indian Kushan Dynasty have been found near the famous Kurukshetra battlefield, around which the Indian epic, Mahabharata, involving a fatricidal conflict between the Pandavas and Kauravas, is centered. According to the Haryana Archaeology Department, the significant archaeological find was found at Brahamsar Teeratha, about 40 km from Kurukshetra. Officials said that the bricks are as old as 4,500 years and measured 70 by 47 by 10 cm. They were discovered during the desilting process of the Brahamsar Teeratha in Thana village, and were probably used for the construction of bathing places near the water...
Asia
Murals Reveal Aristocrats' Lives 1,500 Years Ago (China)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 05/18/2006 9:11:06 PM EDT · 12 replies · 387+ views People's Daily | 5-18-2006 Murals reveal aristocrats' lives 1,500 years ago Some well-preserved murals have been discovered in a tomb of more than 1,500 years old in Datong, North China's Shanxi Province, supplying rich first-hand evidence for the research of early ethnic apparel and rituals. The tomb was identified to belong to a general's mother who died in AD 435. Taking up an area of 24 square metres, it was found in a cemetery of 12 tombs excavated last summer by local archaeologists. Lying on a plateau in the rural suburbs of Datong, the cemetery dates back to the Northern Wei Dynasty (AD 386-534)....
Climate (prediction)
Bumper sunspot crop forecast for next solar cycle
	Posted by S0122017 On General/Chat 03/09/2006 11:42:56 AM EST · 15 replies · 356+ views newscientist space | 7 March 2006 | Kimm Groshong Bumper sunspot crop forecast for next solar cycle 11:57 07 March 2006 NewScientist.com news service Kimm Groshong Print this pageEmail to a friendRSS Feed Enlarge image Increasing sunspot activity was clearly visible as our star approached its latest maximum, in 1999 (Image: SOHO/NASA/ESA)Related Articles Solar flare causes widespread radio blackout 09 September 2005 Sunspot cluster ejects huge radiation storm 21 January 2005 Giant sunspots continue to erupt 27 October 2003 Search New Scientist Contact us Web Links High Altitude Observatory, National Center for Atmospheric Research Space Environment Center, NOAA Space Weather The next 11-year sunspot cycle will be late but...
Dead Sea Drying Up
	Posted by repentant_pundit On News/Activism 11/04/2003 12:03:22 AM EST · 22 replies · 216+ views Guardian Unlimited - AP | November 4, 2003 | PETER ENAV JERUSALEM (AP) - The Dead Sea is dying, and only a major engineering effort can save it, Israel's Minister of the Environment said Monday. The Dead Sea gets its name from its heavy salt content, because no aquatic creatures can live in it. Now there's a new ``death threat'' - the Dead Sea is drying up and disappearing. An Israeli TV reporter, illustrating the government report, stood on a spot where, just 20 years ago, water met land. Now that point is 2,000 feet of parched ground away, he said, as the sea gradually recedes. Because it is landlocked in...
Burning Fossil Fuels Has A Measurable Cooling Effect On The Climate
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/19/2004 6:20:28 PM EST · 34 replies · 682+ views Science Daily | 1-19-2004 | Universiry Of Michigan Source: University Of Michigan Date: 2004-01-19 Burning Fossil Fuels Has A Measurable Cooling Effect On The Climate Atmospheric researchers have provided observational evidence that burning fossil fuels has a direct impact on the solar radiation reflectivity of clouds, thereby contributing to global climate change. Joyce Penner, professor in the University of Michigan Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, U-M graduate student Yang Chen, and assistant professor Xiquan Dong from the University of North Dakota Department of Atmospheric Science, reported their findings in the Jan. 15 issue of the journal Nature. Most evidence that increased levels of fossil fuel particles...
Climate (medieval)
Medieval Climate Not So Hot
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/21/2003 9:32:19 AM EDT · 46 replies · 285+ views University Of Arizona | 10-20-2003 | U of Arizona Source: University Of Arizona Date: 2003-10-20 Medieval Climate Not So Hot The idea that there's no need to worry about human-induced global warming because the world's climate in medieval time was at least as warm as today's is flawed, according to a recent analysis. There's not enough evidence to conclude that the Medieval Warm Period was global, or that regional warm spells between 500 and 1500 A.D. occurred simultaneously, leading paleoclimatologists report in the Oct. 17 issue of Science. "The balance of evidence does not point to a High Medieval period (1100 to 1200 A.D.) that was as warm or...
Climate (ancient)
Climate Change May Be Key To 10,000-Year-Old Mystery...Disappearance Of Ancient People
	Posted by blam On General/Chat 05/16/2006 2:41:02 PM EDT · 31 replies · 777+ views Newswire | 5-16-2006 Climate change may be key to 10,000-year-old mystery - University of Alberta leads investigation into disappearance of ancient people OTTAWA, May 16 /CNW Telbec/ - Today, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) announced an investment of $2.5 million in a research project that will investigate the link between climate change, human genetics and the disappearance of an entire culture from the Boreal forest region of Siberia between 7,000 and 6,000 BC. With the help of DNA analysis, radiocarbon dating and climate modeling, University of Alberta professor Andrzej Weber will lead an international team of scholars in...
Man changed climate for 8,000 years?
	Posted by anymouse On News/Activism 12/10/2003 2:36:58 PM EST · 48 replies · 187+ views CNN/Associated Press | Wednesday, December 10, 2003 <p>Beginning 8,000 years ago, atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide began to rise as humans started clearing forests, planting crops and raising livestock, a scientist said Tuesday. Methane levels started increasing 3,000 years later.</p> <p>The combined increases of the two greenhouse gases implicated in global warming were slow but steady and staved off what should have been a period of significant natural cooling, said Bill Ruddiman, emeritus professor at the University of Virginia.</p>
Disaster Averted (paleoclimate & the Biblical Timeline)
	Posted by dzzrtrock On News/Activism 02/10/2005 4:24:09 PM EST · 14 replies · 654+ views Feb. 4, 2005 | Ruddiman, W.F., Vavrus, S.J., and Kutzbach, J.E., 2005 Disaster Averted?Human activities may have averted the next ice age. This conclusion from recent research is sure to make global warming alarmists cringe. Ongoing human activities during the past 8,000 years likely have served to prevent us from falling into an ice age, says William Ruddiman, former chairman of the University of Virginia environmental sciences department and his research team in Quaternary Research Reviews.. ìWithout any anthropogenic warming,î they write, ìearthís climate would no longer be in a full-interglacial state [warm period] but be well on its way toward the colder temperatures typical of glaciations.î Ruddimanís team carefully studied carbon...
Climate (glaciation / ice ages)
Ice Cores Unlock Climate Secrets
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 06/09/2004 6:27:33 PM EDT · 74 replies · 301+ views BBC | 6-9-2004 | Julianna Kettlewell Ice cores unlock climate secrets By Julianna Kettlewell BBC News Online science staff Tiny bubbles of ancient air are locked in the ice Global climate patterns stretching back 740,000 years have been confirmed by a three kilometre long ice core drilled from the Antarctic, Nature reports. Analysis of the ice proves our planet has had eight Ice Ages during that period, punctuated by rather brief warm spells - one of which we enjoy today. If past patterns are followed in the future, we can expect our "mild snap" to last another 15,000 years. The data may also help predict how...
Climate (prehuman)
Global warming 55 million years ago shifted ocean currents
	Posted by Ma3lst0rm On News/Activism 01/04/2006 6:27:36 PM EST · 33 replies · 645+ views AFP | Jan 04 1:50 PM US/Eastern | AFP An extraordinary burst of global warming that occurred around 55 million years ago dramatically reversed Earth's pattern of ocean currents, a finding that strengthens modern-day concern about climate change, a study says. The big event, the Palaeocene/Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), saw the planet's surface temperature rise by between five and eight degrees C (nine and 16.2 F) in a very short time, unleashing climate shifts that endured tens of thousands of years. ...
Climate (politics)
Climate of Fear
	Posted by rellimpank On News/Activism 04/12/2006 4:07:19 PM EDT · 20 replies · 567+ views WSJ Online | 12 Apr 06 | Richard Lindzen Global-warming alarmists intimidate dissenting scientists into silence. There have been repeated claims that this past year's hurricane activity was another sign of human-induced climate change. Everything from the heat wave in Paris to heavy snows in Buffalo has been blamed on people burning gasoline to fuel their cars, and coal and natural gas to heat, cool and electrify their homes. Yet how can a barely discernible, one-degree increase in the recorded global mean temperature since the late 19th century possibly gain public acceptance as the source of recent weather catastrophes? And how can it translate into unlikely claims about future...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Tattooed Mummy With Jewelry Found in Peru
	Posted by NormsRevenge On General/Chat 05/16/2006 2:51:15 PM EDT · 14 replies · 136+ views AP on Yahoo | 5/16/06 | AP WASHINGTON - A female mummy with complex tattoos on her arms has been found in a ceremonial burial site in Peru, the National Geographic Society reported Tuesday. The mummy was accompanied by ceremonial items including jewelry and weapons, and the remains of a teenage girl who had been sacrificed, archaeologists reported. The burial was at a site called El Brujo on Peru's north coast near Trujillo. They said the woman was part of the Moche culture which thrived in the area between A.D. 1 and A.D. 700. The mummy was dated about A.D. 450. The presence of gold jewelry and...
A Peruvian Woman Warrior of A.D. 450
	Posted by Pharmboy On News/Activism 05/17/2006 6:00:42 AM EDT · 19 replies · 758+ views NY Times | May 17, 2006 | JOHN NOBLE WILFORD Ira Block/National Geographic A woman buried with a golden bowl on her face was wrapped in mummy cloths and buried with military items, hinting at a role as a ruler. A mummy of mystery has come to light in Peru. She was a woman who died some 1,600 years ago in the heyday of the Moche culture, well before the rise of the Incas. Her imposing tomb suggests someone of high status. Her desiccated remains are covered with red pigment and bear tattoos of patterns and mythological figures. But the most striking aspect of the discovery, archaeologists said yesterday,...
On Ancient Walls, a New Maya Epoch
	Posted by nickcarraway On General/Chat 05/16/2006 4:23:01 PM EDT · 11 replies · 540+ views New York Times | May 16, 2006 | JOHN NOBLE WILFORD On the sacred walls and inside the dark passageways of ancient ruins in Guatemala, archaeologists are making discoveries that open expanded vistas of the vibrant Maya civilization in its formative period, a time reaching back more than 1,000 years before its celebrated Classic epoch. The intriguing finds, including art masterpieces and the earliest known Maya writing, are overturning old ideas of the Preclassic period. It was not a kind of dark age, as once thought, of a culture that emerged and bloomed in Classic times, at places like the spectacular royal ruin at Palenque beginning about A.D. 250 and extending...
New finds rewriting the history of Mayans: Experts try to decipher brightly painted murals
	Posted by Utah Girl On News/Activism 05/17/2006 10:26:19 PM EDT · 25 replies · 589+ views The Deseret News | 5/16/2006 | John Noble Wilford On the sacred walls and inside the dark passageways of ancient ruins in Guatemala, archaeologists are making discoveries that open expanded vistas of the vibrant Maya civilization in its formative period, a time reaching back more than 1,000 years before its celebrated Classic epoch. The intriguing finds, including art masterpieces and the earliest known Maya writing, are overturning old ideas of the Preclassic period. It was not a kind of dark age, as once thought, of a culture that emerged and bloomed in Classic times, at places like the spectacular royal ruin at Pelanque beginning about A.D. 250 and extending...
"El Dorado" discovered in Peruvian Amazon, explorers claim
	Posted by HAL9000 On News/Activism 07/27/2002 6:35:59 PM EDT · 11 replies · 246+ views Agencia EFE | July 27, 2002 | David Blanco Bonilla Lima, Jul 27, 2002 (EFE via COMTEX) -- An international team of explorers claims to have found the legendary Inca city of gold that the Spanish knew as "El Dorado," deep in the heart of the Peruvian Amazon. The quest began on June 30, when more than two dozen researchers began combing the wild and unexplored jungle region along the basin of the Madre de Dios River. El Dorado, called "Paititi" by the region's Indian population, is known as the last bastion of the Incas as they sought refuge from advancing Spanish conquistadors. The leader of the expedition, the...
Megaliths and Archaeoastronomy
'Brazilian Stonehenge' discovered
	Posted by Jedi Master Pikachu On News/Activism 05/13/2006 3:19:52 AM EDT · 32 replies · 1,292+ views BBC | May 13, 2006 | Steve Kingston Brazilian archaeologists have found an ancient stone structure in a remote corner of the Amazon that may cast new light on the region's past. The site, thought to be an observatory or place of worship, pre-dates European colonisation and is said to suggest a sophisticated knowledge of astronomy. Its appearance is being compared to the English site of Stonehenge. It was traditionally thought that before European colonisation, the Amazon had no advanced societies. Winter solstice The archaeologists made the discovery in the state of Amapa, in the far north of Brazil. A total of 127 large blocks of stone were...
'Amazon Stonehenge' found in Brazil
	Posted by NormsRevenge On General/Chat 05/13/2006 7:26:36 PM EDT · 10 replies · 110+ views AFP on Yahoo | 5/13/06 | AFP RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) - Archaeologists discovered a pre-colonial astrological observatory possibly 2,000 years old in the Amazon basin near French Guiana, said a report. "Only a society with a complex culture could have built such a monument," archaeologist Mariana Petry Cabral, of the Amapa Institute of Scientific and Technological Research (IEPA), told O Globo newspaper. The observatory was built of 127 blocks of granite each three meters (10 feet) high and regularly placed in circles in an open field, she said. Cabral said the site resembles a temple which could have been used as an observatory, because the blocks...
Let's Have Jerusalem
THE "EGYPTIAN WATERGATE"
	Posted by PioneerDrive On News/Activism 05/10/2005 4:57:11 PM EDT · 6 replies · 422+ views Anchor Stone International | April 1993 | Wyatt Newsletters The year is about 1446 BC. The Egyptian pharaoh, his army and all the members of all the priesthoods have left in great haste. They are enraged that their entire slave population has fled, even though less than a week earlier the pharaoh and his ministers had virtually begged them to leave. The Egyptians lavished the great multitude of slaves with objects of gold, silver and precious stones as supposed "payment" for all the work they had done as slaves. EXO 12:35 And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians...
Site of the Dome of the Rock Not Site of Jewish Temples
	Posted by gscc On News/Activism 01/16/2004 12:05:30 PM EST · 43 replies · 528+ views Associates for Scriptural Knowledge | April 4, 1998 | Dr. Ernest L. Martin We all remember the proverb that a picture is worth a thousand words. This is so true. When we are able to view a site that we have been reading or hearing about, the historical and architectural information associated with the area becomes much more meaningful and the subject better understood. That is certainly the case with the Temple built by Herod the Great that existed in the time of Christ Jesus along with the adjacent fortress that dominated the landscape known as Fort Antonia. The truth is, no one in modern history (nor for the past 1900 years) has...
Oh So Mysteriouso
UFOs, ancient aircraft, NASA coverup, mumbo-jumbo etc etc (Hmmmmm + tinfoil alert)
	Posted by spetznaz On General/Chat 08/03/2002 10:24:12 AM EDT · 130 replies · 1,532+ views Egyptian Temple Wall in Abydos with panel above columnsEgyptian Temple Wall Panel on which the images are raisedIs this an Ancient Helicopter?Is this an Ancient Aircraft?Another Ancient Aircraft?A small model of what has been called a "glider" plane was found in a museum in Cairo. Its body was just over 6" long and its wingspan was a little over 7". Made of light sycamore wood, it would glide a short distance when thrown by hand. Other models of aircraft have been found in Egypt and South America. One of them bears a striking resemblance to a modern delta-winged jet! Sanskrit...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Renaissance Faire
	Posted by SunkenCiv On Bloggers & Personal 05/13/2006 10:41:26 PM EDT · 43 replies · 232+ views Silver Leaf Renaissance Faire | Weekends, July 8 through August 6, 2006 | various Silver Leaf Renaissance Faire is excited to announce its partnership with the Calhoun County Parks system and Emmett Township to produce the 15th season of Silver Leaf Renaissance Faire at Kimball Pines Park... With a permanent home for the event, SLRF Productions is looking forward to creating new relationships in Calhoun County and Emmett Township while maintaining solid ties with its current Kalamazoo County suppliers. The faire and park have entered into a 30-year lease allowing the production company to develop its area of the park and plans are in the works to produce several events year round.
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Director of Getty Is Unrattled by Claims of Italy and Greece to Antiquities
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 05/17/2006 11:53:13 AM EDT · 9 replies · 87+ views New York Times | May 15, 2006 | Hugh Eakin But in the case of an Etruscan terra-cotta antefix, or roof ornament, installed on the ground floor of the Getty Villa, Mr. Brand said that a photograph seized from Mr. Medici was only a partial match. The photograph shows the bottom half of the antefix that is now in the museum, yet is paired with a different top half that was never acquired by the Getty. The Getty's top half does not appear in any of the photographs. "So what do you do?" Mr. Brand asked. "Break it apart again and send them half?" ...Mr. Brand went out of his...
Removing relics vs. preserving history (op-ed)
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 05/17/2006 11:48:46 AM EDT · 5 replies · 79+ views Christian Science Monitor | May 17, 2006 | Randy Salzman My state, Virginia, is gearing up for the 400th anniversary of Jamestown, and buried in Oxford's Ashmolean Museum is one of the crowning pieces of early American history. According to Capt. John Smith, Jamestown's military leader, native American Chief Powhatan gave another colonist his royal shell-covered mantle not long after the colonists' landing in 1607. In his diary, Captain Smith proclaimed that American nobles wore such deerskin capes. Two decades later, Smith willed his accumulations to an English "curiosity" collector who gathered rarities from sea captains, ambassadors, and merchants. By 1634, people were coming to John Tradescant the Elder's house...
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[SunkenCiv]

My apologies, there are two identical topics about Egyptian ancient colonialism in Nubia, and I think both got pinged. I managed to forget all about Blam's, and post another one.

If anyone has any suggestions as to what to do (if anything) in observation of the second anniversary of this Digest, drop me FReepmail. I still haven't completed the first anniversary gala idea of organizing the archives by heading, so any second anniversary ideas should not be all that ambitious. :')

I'm going to drop the graphic for now, to save bandwidth for all concerned.

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I don't know the mechanics of this website and the GGG articles and archives, but it seems that we should have our own website location on another server if we are using Jim's bandwidth. Would this be impossibly expensive if we all pitched in?

[SunkenCiv]

The bandwidth trouble isn't as much of an issue for Jim, but for the individuals getting the Digest when it has the graphic in each message. :') We've tried setting up a couple of GGG 'blogs, but those aren't as convenient or full-featured as FR, not to mention the volume. Also, I find it really handy to have the copyright complaint list ready to hand as it is, and built into the topic origination screen. S'cool.

[SunkenCiv]

Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #97 Saturday, May 27, 2006
Underwater Archaeology
Egypt to excavate Roman city submerged in sea
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 05/23/2006 11:44:27 AM EDT · 7 replies · 335+ views Reuters | Mon May 22, 2006 CAIRO (Reuters) - The Egyptian authorities have given the go ahead for the underwater exploration of what appears to be a Roman city submerged in the Mediterranean, Egypt's top archaeologist said on Monday. Zahi Hawass said in a statement that an excavation team had found the ruins of the Roman city 35 km (20 miles) east of the Suez Canal on Egypt's north coast. Archaeologists had found buildings, bathrooms, ruins of a Roman fortress, ancient coins, bronze vases and pieces of pottery that all date back to the Roman era, the statement said. Egypt's Roman era lasted from 30 BC...
Ancient Rome
Bones In Togas Puzzle Vatican Arhaeologists
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 05/20/2006 10:30:15 PM EDT · 41 replies · 1,274+ views The Telegraph (UK) | 5-21-2006 | Nick Pisa Bones in togas puzzle Vatican archaeologists By Nick Pisa in Rome (Filed: 21/05/2006) Archaeologists exploring one of Rome's oldest catacombs are baffled by neat piles of more than 1,000 skeletons dressed in elegant togas. The macabre find emerged as teams of historians slowly picked their way through the complex network of underground burial chambers, which stretch for miles under the city. They say the tomb, which has been dated to the first century AD, is the first known example of a "mass burial". The archaeologists are unable to explain why so many apparently upper-class Romans - who would normally have...
British Isles
Boadicea May Have Had Her Chips On Site Of McDonald's
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 05/24/2006 11:59:01 PM EDT · 39 replies · 1,016+ views The Telegraph (UK) | 5-25-2006 | Nick Britten Boadicea may have had her chips on site of McDonald's By Nick Britten (Filed: 25/05/2006) Archaeologists believe they may have found the final battle site for the warrior queen Boadicea - on the site of a McDonald's restaurant. Having spent her life in fierce resistance to one empire - the Romans - her last stand is thought to have been overshadowed by another one, this time corporate. Having found ancient artefacts where new houses and flats are due to be built, experts have now asked the local authority to allow a full excavation of the area. Little is known about...
Spectacular Brooch Find May 'Unlock Secrets Of Hadrian's Wall'
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 05/20/2006 6:19:11 PM EDT · 33 replies · 1,345+ views Dash24 | 5-17-2006 | Jon Land Spectacular brooch find may 'unlock secrets of Hadrian's Wall' Publisher: Jon Land Published: 17/05/2006 - 12:08:01 PM Hadrian's Wall A 'spectacular' small brooch has been uncovered at a Roman fort that may reveal secrets about the men that built Hadrian's Wall. The discovery of the legionary soldier's expensive and prestigious cloak brooch has excited archaeologists in Northumberland. Experts have discovered that the brooch belonged to soldier Quintus Sollonius who would have been stationed at the forefront of the Roman empire 2,000 years ago. Historians are continuing to examine the artefact and believe it could reveal more secrets behind the men...
Anatolia
Most precious Zeugma mosaics on display on Internet
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 05/23/2006 2:00:05 PM EDT · 18 replies · 188+ views Turkish Daily News | Tuesday, May 23, 2006 | unattributed
Ancient Europe
Bulgaria's ancient golden treasures on display in unique exhibition
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 05/22/2006 3:22:55 PM EDT · 10 replies · 161+ views Turkish Daily News | Monday, May 22, 2006 | AP Bulgaria's most famous archaeological finds -- including a collection thought to be the world's oldest golden treasure -- were shown together for the first time in an exhibition that opened Saturday in the Black Sea city of Varna... The centerpiece of the exhibition -- the Varna necropolis finds -- includes 6,400-year-old golden jewelry found in the grave of an ancient king or priest. The artifacts -- discovered in the 1970s in a vast ancient burial complex near Varna -- are internationally renowned as the world's oldest golden treasures -- so old that scientists know nothing about the origins of the...
Africa
Kenya Orders Italian To Stop Ruining Historic Site (1415AD Chinese Explorer Prayer Site)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 05/22/2006 7:32:35 PM EDT · 7 replies · 280+ views Buiness In Africa | 5-22-2006 Kenya orders Italian to stop ruining historic site Posted Mon, 22 May 2006 Nairobi - Kenyan authorities have moved quickly to protect one of the country's historical sites along the Indian Ocean coast by ordering a foreign investor from Italy to immediately stop developing a piece of land where an ancient ruin with historical values stands. The piece of land holds the ruins of an ancient mosque where a prominent Chinese sailor, Zheng Hess, prayed when he visited the historical town of Malindi in 1415.The ruins of Khatiba mosque lie less than a kilometre from the Indian Ocean shores in...
Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
(Iranian) MP: Village with cavemen discovered at Jiroft heights
	Posted by PghBaldy On News/Activism 05/26/2006 4:39:03 PM EDT · 34 replies · 734+ views IRNA | May 24 | Staff Iran-Cave MP from Jiroft, Ali Zadsar here Wednesday said that a village whose residents are cavemen has been discovered at the heights of the city of Jiroft near Anbarabad in the southeastern province of Kerman. Speaking on the sidelines of Majlis open session, he said that a village was discovered 120 kms from the town of Anbarabad in the winter of 2005. He added that the residents of the newly-discovered village put on no clothes and feed on leaves. Zadsar said, "The village, called Pid-Nekoupieh, is situated in the mountain and the 200 people who live there have never left...
Climate (prediction)
The Dead Sea is 'dying'
	Posted by Bubba_Leroy On News/Activism 04/17/2006 4:48:58 PM EDT · 51 replies · 1,197+ views www.breitbart.com | April 17, 2006 | AFP The Dead Sea is dying, with the world's saltiest water body threatened by a lack of fresh water and an increasingly tense political situation, environmentalists have warned. The bare, sun-baked landscape around the Dead Sea -- the lowest point on earth which is bordered by Israel, Jordan and the West Bank -- has since Biblical times been fed by the Jordan river's fresh water. But that has been systematically diverted for agricultural and hydroelectric projects, while an evaporation basin for farming world-famous Dead Sea minerals has lowered the water level by one metre (three feet) a year for the past...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Second Temple model to link history, archaeology
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 05/26/2006 1:34:01 AM EDT · 5 replies · 10+ views Jerusalem Post | May 25, 2006 | Etgar Lefkovits The Second Temple Model, which was located for the last four decades since its construction in the mid-1960's on the grounds of Jerusalem's Holyland Hotel, was moved to the Israel Museum this winter due to the construction of a new residential complex on the slopes of the Holyland hill. The model, an exceptional cultural artifact depicting the Jerusalem of two millennia ago, was created before the reunification of the city at a time when Jews could not go to the Old City or the Temple Mount... A year and half ago, one of the owners of the Holyland property, Hillel...
The Destruction of the Temple Mount
	Posted by SJackson On News/Activism 01/16/2003 8:03:20 AM EST · 31 replies · 398+ views FrontPageMagazine.com | January 16, 2003 | Steven Plaut How many priceless Jewish artifacts and religious objects will be destroyed in the name of appeasing the PLO? One of the most exciting pieces of news in years is that of the remarkable archeological find, a clay tablet in ancient Hebrew from the 9th century BC, about which the entire Jewish world and much of the Christian world is suddenly abuzz. The tablet appears to be from one of the ancient kings of Judea, Jehoash, describing repairs performed on the First Temple, the original Temple of Solomon, repairs described in the Second Book of Kings in the Bible. It...
Asia
Discovery Channel special on Ghengis Khan
	Posted by Spktyr On Bloggers & Personal 10/23/2005 8:33:36 PM EDT · 6 replies · 344+ views Discovery Channel | Self The Discovery Channel is running a *very* good special on the life of Ghengis Khan. It's about half over now, but it will rerun again at 11pm Central Time. It's been shown before, but it's very accurate. Well worth watching.
Prehistoric Oriental 'Venus' Carved On Cliff Discovered In Ningxia
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/23/2003 5:43:09 PM EST · 23 replies · 183+ views Peoples Daily | 12-23-2003 Prehistoric oriental 'Venus' carved on cliff discovered in Ningxia A figure of a pregnant woman carved into a cliff, known as a prehistoric oriental "Venus", the Goddess of love, has been discovered by Chinese archaeologists in Zhongwei county, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. The "Venus" has a plump figure, full breasts and a bulbous belly. The woman, standing straight with her legs together, has slender fingers but no facial features. The image was a typical reproduction of figures of naked women carved on stone by ancients in the late Paleolithic period, said Zhou Xinhua, curator of the museum of...
Prehistory and Origins
Ancient City Reveals Life In Desert 2,200 Years Ago (China - Caucasians)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 05/22/2006 7:11:59 PM EDT · 19 replies · 624+ views China Daily | 5-22-2006 | Xinhua Ancient city reveals life in desert 2,200 years ago (Xinhua) Updated: 2006-05-22 14:58 Chinese and French archaeologists claim to have discovered the ruins of an ancient city which disappeared in the desert in Northwest China more than 2,200 years ago. The ancient city, shaped like a peach, is located in the center of the Taklimakan Desert, the second largest shifting desert in the world, covering a total area of 337,600 square kilometers, in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The perimeter of the city walls is 995 meters, with the height ranging from three meters to 11 meters. Archaeologists found traces...
Agriculture and Domestication
Fruit seeds help archaeologists shed light on 2,000-year-old imperial garden
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 05/25/2006 11:11:49 AM EDT · 8 replies · 105+ views People's Daily Online | May 25, 2006 | Xinhua Archaeologists have developed a clear image of a 2,000-year-old imperial garden found in south China's Guangdong Province by studying more than 100,000 seeds found in an ancient well at the relic site. Various kinds of vegetation, including banyans and waxberries, were planted more than 2,000 years ago in the imperial garden, which belonged to the ancient state of Southern Yue, archaeologists report. The garden is the oldest imperial garden to be excavated in China... A large amount of waxberry stones and melon seeds have been discovered in the ancient well in the garden. This is the first time that remains...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Pyramid is giant farming clock (South America)
	Posted by ApplegateRanch On News/Activism 05/21/2006 3:08:09 PM EDT · 33 replies · 768+ views The Sunday Times -- Times Online | May 21, 2006 | John Harlow Pyramid is giant farming clock John Harlow, Los Angeles THE archeologist Bob Benfer will never forget the moment when he realised that a pyramid he had unearthed high in the Andes was the New World's oldest alarm clock. On a barren hillside just north of Lima, he had found an observatory more than 4,000 years old that had been built by a lost civilisation with astonishing sophistication. The oldest astronomical observatory in the Americas, it told farmers exactly when to sow their crops. Its discovery has provided startling clues to the way in which early man learnt to cultivate his...
First Americans
	Posted by blam On Bloggers & Personal 05/23/2006 7:30:48 PM EDT · 32 replies · 329+ views Abotech | 4-26-1999 | Sharon Begley - Andrew Murr The First Americans By Sharon Begley and Andrew Murr Newsweek, April 26, 1999 New digs and old bones reveal an ancient land that was a mosaic of peoplesóincluding Asians and Europeans. Now a debate rages: who got here first? 'Skull wars:' Facial reconstruction of the 'Spirit Cave Man,' based on bones found in Spirit Cave, Churchill County, Nevada (David Barry--Courtesy Nevada State Museum; facial reconstruction by Sharon Long) As he sat down to his last meal amid the cattails and sedges on the shore of the ancient lake, the frail man grimaced in agony. A fracture at his left temple...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Grappling With The Chicken Genome
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 05/26/2006 1:56:27 AM EDT · 37 replies · 133+ views Science Magazine "Random Samples" | 26 May 2006 | unattributed Hoping to get their roosters in a row, chicken researchers gathered earlier this month at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York and hatched plans for analyzing the first bird genome. Eighteen months after an initial draft of the chicken sequence was released, bioinformaticists are still struggling to identify the fowl's 20,000 or so genes. Chicken genome researchers face a host of obstacles including insufficient funding, confusing new gene names, conflicting computer predictions, and the need to nudge other chicken scientists into the genomics world. The ancestor of domesticated chickens, the red jungle fowl (Gallus gallus), is the lone avian...
Dinosaur Shocker (YEC say dinosaur soft tissue couldn't possibly survive millions of years)
	Posted by SirLinksalot On Smoky Backroom 05/01/2006 11:29:14 AM EDT · 1,689 replies · 16,666+ views Smithsonian Magazine | May 1, 2006 | Helen Fields Dinosaur Shocker By Helen Fields Neatly dressed in blue Capri pants and a sleeveless top, long hair flowing over her bare shoulders, Mary Schweitzer sits at a microscope in a dim lab, her face lit only by a glowing computer screen showing a network of thin, branching vessels. That's right, blood vessels. From a dinosaur. "Ho-ho-ho, I am excite-e-e-e-d," she chuckles. "I am, like, really excited." After 68 million years in the ground, a Tyrannosaurus rex found in Montana was dug up, its leg bone was broken in pieces, and fragments were dissolved in acid in Schweitzer's laboratory at North...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Race against time to unearth Wolds history
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 05/26/2006 2:12:19 AM EDT · 1 reply Yorkshire Today | 25 May 2006 | Alexandra Wood Archaeologists face a race against time to excavate ancient sites found along the path of a 32-mile pipeline in East Yorkshire. So much has been uncovered... -- including an unknown Bronze Age burial mound in the Yorkshire Wolds -- that workers have been drafted in from all over Europe... While they were expecting some interesting results, none of them realised just what would turn up. So far the archaeologists have discovered Iron Age settlements -- and possibly the site of a Roman temple. But one of the most fascinating finds is that of a previously unrecorded Bronze Age barrow, or...
Oh So Mysteriouso
New photo resparks 'Noah's Ark mania'
	Posted by Tim Long On News/Activism 03/10/2006 2:30:41 AM EST · 321 replies · 7,974+ views WorldNetDaily.com | March 10, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern | Joe Kovacs Digital image of 'Ararat Anomaly' has researchers taking closer look A new, high-resolution digital image of what has become known as the "Ararat Anomaly" is reigniting interest in the hunt for Noah's Ark. Satellite image of 'Ararat Anomaly,' taken by DigitalGlobe's QuickBird Satellite in 2003 and now made public for the first time (courtesy: DigitalGlobe) The location of the anomaly on the northwest corner of Mt. Ararat in eastern Turkey has been under investigation from afar by ark hunters for years, but it has remained unexplored, with the government of Turkey not granting any scientific expedition permission to explore on...
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Gods Graves Glyphs Digest #97 20060527

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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #98 Saturday, June 3, 2006
Ancient Europe
Are cave paintings really little more than the testosterone-fuelled scribblings of young men?
	Posted by S0122017 On General/Chat 06/01/2006 10:17:07 AM EDT · 32 replies · 286+ views nature news | 31 may | some guy Nature Published online: 31 May 2006; | doi:10.1038/441575a Sex and violence in rock art Are cave paintings really little more than the testosterone-fuelled scribblings of young men? Reviewed by: Paul G. Bahn It is an odd fact that the art of the last Ice Age (the Upper Palaeolithic) is characterized by its numerous stylized or naturalistic animal images, and yet its study has rarely involved animal ethologists, apart from an occasional article by specialists in bison or big cats, or by a veterinarian keen to argue that some of the depicted animals were dead or dying. A palaeobiologist has now...
Ancient cave in France throws up rare finds [ Vilhonneur ]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 06/03/2006 1:51:42 AM EDT · 11 replies · 48+ views Hindustan Times | Saturday, June 3, 2006 | Associated Press An ancient cave discovered in December in western France contains a rare find: a 27,000-year-old human skeleton in a painted room and a drawing of a human face, experts announced Friday after months of study... A single painted face found in the cave also could be among the oldest graphic representations of a human face, said Jean-Yves Baratin, archaeology curator for the Poitou-Charentes region... The other instance in which a body was found in a decorated cave is in the hamlet of Cussac, a grotto that experts have said was as important for engravings as paintings are for the famed...
Prehistory and Origins
Hominids' Cave Rave-Ups May Link Music And Speech
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 05/31/2006 1:52:10 PM EDT · 7 replies · 207+ views Reuters (UK) | 5-31-2006 | Michael Roddy Hominids' cave rave-ups may link music and speech Wed May 31, 2006 2:15 AM BST By Michael Roddy (Reuters) - It was a dark and stormy night, and in a cave in what is now southern France, Neanderthals were singing, dancing and tapping on stalagmites with their fingernails to pass the time. Did this Ice-Age rave-up happen, perhaps 50,000 to 100,000 years ago, on a cold night in the Pleistocene Epoch? Or is it purely a figment of the imagination of Steven Mithen, professor of early prehistory at the University of Reading in England? Impossible to know, Mithen, 45, readily...
Scientists Sequence Neanderthal Genome For First Time
	Posted by truthfinder9 On General/Chat 05/31/2006 11:02:01 PM EDT · 28 replies · 297+ views reasons.org Scientists Sequence Neanderthal Genome For First Time Biochemist predicts that nuclear DNA sequences will show Neanderthals did not evolve into modern humans NEWS ADVISORY, June 01, 2006, /Christian Wire Service/ - - At the Biology of Genomes meeting held recently at New York's Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, scientific teams from the Max Plank Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany and the Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, California reported on the first-ever Neanderthal nuclear DNA sequences. These researchers sequenced about 1 million base pairs, or genetic letters, of the Neanderthal genome for a 45,000-year-old male specimen recovered from the...
Study: Sexual Desire is in Your Genes
	Posted by anymouse On General/Chat 05/29/2006 2:53:37 PM EDT · 33 replies · 569+ views LiveScience.com | 5/29/06 Your sexual desire or lack thereof could be in your genes, scientists announced today. The discovery might change how psychologists view sexuality. The researchers found that individual differences in human sexual desire can be attributed to genetic variations. The study is the first to provide data to show that common variations in the sequence of DNA impact on sexual desire, arousal and function, the researchers said. The scientists, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, examined the DNA of 148 healthy male and female university students and compared the results with questionnaires asking for the students' self-descriptions of their sexual desire,...
Homo Floresiensis: tiny toolmaker or microcephalic? (The debate continues)
	Posted by S0122017 On General/Chat 06/01/2006 10:43:39 AM EDT · 5 replies · 46+ views nature news | 31 may | dude #4352 Old tools shed light on hobbit origins Tiny toolmaker or microcephalic? The 'hobbit' debate continues. Michael Hopkin They may have been tiny, but the hobbits of the Indonesian island of Flores are still the focus of the biggest controversy in anthropology. The latest twist in the tale suggests that these one-metre-tall hominids, with a brain the size of a grapefruit, were the final members of a tool-making tradition stretching back more than 800,000 years. But amid fresh doubts over the species' evolutionary history, the idea that the curious creatures were deformed modern humans refuses to go away. Tools from Liang...
Asia
Hookworms Hitched Rides With Nomads
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 05/31/2006 6:26:53 PM EDT · 13 replies · 362+ views Science News | 5-31-2006 | Ben Harder Hookworms hitched rides with nomads Ben Harder Horseback-riding herders known as Scythians or Scythes once traveled far and wide across Eurasia. Their dead have the parasites to prove it. FEEDING THE WORMS. Researchers found hookworm eggs in the remains of two nomads buried in Central Asia 2,300 years ago. Lancet A man and a woman who were buried separately about 2,300 years ago and recently excavated in Berel, Kazakhstan, were infected with hookworms during their lifetimes, researchers have determined. Hookworms weren't then and still aren't typically found in the steppes of central Asia. "This finding demonstrated that Scythes, a nomadic...
Research identifies accountant as descendant of Genghis Khan
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 06/01/2006 12:34:04 AM EDT · 29 replies · 255+ views Financial Express of India | Tuesday, May 30, 2006 | Associated Press Tom Robinson had long wondered about his family tree. He never suspected its roots might lie in the Mongolian Steppe. The Florida accountant knew that his great, great-grandfather had come to the United States from England - but beyond that his research drew a blank... Robinson thinks his forebear, whose name has long been a byword for violence and cruelty, has had a bad press. "In addition to being a conqueror, he was a great administrator," said Robinson, who has been reading up on Genghis Khan. "Their system of governance was fairly sophisticated."
Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
Tamerlane (1336 - 1405) - The Last Great Nomad Power
	Posted by Hacksaw On General/Chat 05/28/2006 10:49:55 AM EDT · 10 replies · 162+ views The Silkroad Foundation | undated | Silkroad Foundation Tamerlane, the name was derived from the Persian Timur-i lang, "Temur the Lame" by Europeans during the 16th century. His Turkic name is Timur, which means 'iron'. In his life time, he has conquered more than anyone else except for Alexander. His armies crossed Eurasia from Delhi to Moscow, from the Tien Shan Mountains of Central Asia to the Taurus Mountains in Anatolia. From 1370 till his death 1405, Temur built a powerful empire and became the last of great nomadic leaders. Character and Personality There are abundant ancient sources written about Tamerlane. We have the primary source from...
Epigraphy and Language
Cylindrical Seal With A Strange Design Discovered In Dezful (Iran)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 05/28/2006 8:49:03 PM EDT · 36 replies · 1,608+ views CHN | 5-28-2006 5/28/2006 2:34:00 PM Cylindrical Seal with a Strange Design Discovered in DezfulArcheological excavations in Khuzestan province led to discovery of a cylindrical seal designed with a winged horse with a lionís head and a cowís hooves! Tehran, 28 May 2006 (CHN) -- Archeological excavations in Sanjar Tepe in Khuzestan province resulted in discovery of a cylindrical seal with the design of a winged horse on its end. Although it is not the first time archeologists are confronted with the design of a winged horse in Iran, what makes this one special compared to the previous ones is that this winged...
Ancient Greece
Ancient Scroll May Yield Religious Secrets
	Posted by Pharmboy On Religion 06/01/2006 12:50:15 PM EDT · 25 replies · 490+ views AP via Breibart via Drudge | Jun 01, 2006 | NICHOLAS PAPHITIS and Costas Kantouris A collection of charred scraps kept in a Greek museum's storerooms are all that remains of what archaeologists say is Europe's oldest surviving book _ which may hold a key to understanding early monotheistic beliefs. More than four decades after the Derveni papyrus was found in a 2,400- year-old nobleman's grave in northern Greece, researchers said Thursday they are close to uncovering new text _ through high-tech digital analysis _ from the blackened fragments left after the manuscript was burnt on its owner's funeral pyre. Large sections of the mid-4th century B.C. book _ a philosophical treatise on ancient religion...
Let's Have Jerusalem
cave of john the baptist discovered?
	Posted by freepatriot32 On News/Activism 12/09/2005 5:10:57 AM EST · 3 replies · 598+ views comcast.net | 12 8 05 | abcnews http://www.comcast.net link has high speed video from comcast has a news report stating that archaeologists believe they have found the cave where john the baptist performed many of his baptisms along with a crude rendition of john the baptist carved into one of the walls dial up will probably take forever to load but might be worth the wait its a very interesting story
Hebrew University researchers uncover eight previously unknown species (Secret cave found in Israel)
	Posted by DaveLoneRanger On News/Activism 05/31/2006 10:19:28 AM EDT · 21 replies · 776+ views EurekAlert! News | May 31, 2006 | Staff Discovery of eight previously unknown, ancient animal species within "a new and unique underground ecosystem" in Israel was revealed today by Hebrew University of Jerusalem researchers. In a press conference on the Mt. Scopus campus of the Hebrew University, the researchers said the discovery came about when a small opening was found, leading to a cave extending to a depth of 100 meters beneath the surface of a quarry in the vicinity of Ramle, between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. The quarry is operated by cement manufacturer Nesher Industries. The cave, which has been dubbed the Ayalon Cave, is "unique in...
Unique Underground Ecosystem: Eight Previously Unknown Species [Hebrew Univ]
	Posted by PatrickHenry On News/Activism 05/31/2006 11:03:44 AM EDT · 143 replies · 1,684+ views Hebrew University of Jerusalem | 31 May 2006 | Staff (press release) Discovery of eight previously unknown, ancient animal species within ìa new and unique underground ecosystemî in Israel was revealed today by Hebrew University of Jerusalem researchers. In a press conference on the Mt. Scopus campus of the Hebrew University, the researchers said the discovery came about when a small opening was found , leading to a cave extending to a depth of 100 meters beneath the surface of a quarry in the vicinity of Ramle, between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. The quarry is operated by cement manufacturer Nesher Industries. The cave, which has been dubbed the Ayalon Cave, is ìunique...
Prehistoric ecosystem found in Israeli cave
	Posted by jasoncann On News/Activism 05/31/2006 3:45:48 PM EDT · 25 replies · 605+ views Reuters / Yahoo | Wed May 31, 8:10 AM ET | n/a JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli scientists said on Wednesday they had discovered a prehistoric ecosystem dating back millions of years. The discovery was made in a cave near the central Israeli city of Ramle during rock drilling at a quarry. Scientists were called in and soon found eight previously unknown species of crustaceans and invertebrates similar to scorpions. "Until now eight species of animals were found in the cave, all of them unknown to science," said Dr Hanan Dimantman, a biologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He said the cave's ecosystem probably dates back around five million years when the...
Anatolia
King Croesus' Treasure Stolen in Turkey
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 05/29/2006 10:37:33 PM EDT · 8 replies · 160+ views Guardian | Monday May 29, 2006 11:01 AM | unattributed Two pieces from the treasure of King Croesus that were returned to Turkey from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York after a long legal battle have been stolen and replaced with fakes, the culture and tourism minister said Sunday. Croesus' golden broach in the shape of a sea horse and a coin were switched with replicas at the Usak Museum in western Turkey, said the minister Atilla Koc, confirming a newspaper report on Sunday... The broach was one of 363 artifacts from the so-called "Lydian Hoard" that was purchased by the Metropolitan Museum in the 1960s. Some 30...
Ancient Egypt
Mystery tomb could hold Tutankhamen's widow
	Posted by wagglebee On News/Activism 06/02/2006 7:46:30 PM EDT · 33 replies · 596+ views The Daily Telegraph | 6/2/06 | The Daily Telegraph LONDON: It has been 84 years since Egypt's famed Valley of the Kings revealed its last great riches ñ the fabulous gold of Tutankhamen's tomb. Now archaeologists believe they have stumbled across one final secret: The mummified remains of the boy king's widow buried 3000 years ago. In a mysterious shaft less than 15m from Tutankhamen's burial ground, US archaeologists found seven coffins. They believe one they have not yet been able to open may contain the remains of Queen Ankhesenpaaten. The tomb ñ found by accident by Memphis University team leader Dr Otto Schaden ñ contained seven coffins stacked...
King Tut returns to Chicago
	Posted by NormsRevenge On General/Chat 05/30/2006 3:50:43 PM EDT · 17 replies · 142+ views AP on Yahoo | 5/30/06 | Tara Burghart - ap CHICAGO - You can kick back with a King Tuttini cocktail, learn to decipher hieroglyphs or indulge in an "Egyptian Golden Body Wrap" complete with exfoliating Dead Sea salts and a dusting of golden powder. Yes, King Tut is back, and Chicago is fired up for the pharaoh. The traveling exhibit "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" has opened at The Field Museum, attracting a line of ticket buyers. Organizers believe the show, which opened Friday, could draw 1 million visitors before it closes here on Jan. 1, 2007, and businesses, restaurants and universities are lining up special...
Ancient Rome
Ancient skeleton discovered in Rome - Caesar's Forum
	Posted by NormsRevenge On News/Activism 05/30/2006 7:54:21 PM EDT · 23 replies · 709+ views AP on Yahoo | 5/30/06 | AP ROME - Archaeologists said Tuesday they have dug up a woman skeleton dating to the 10th century B.C. in an ancient necropolis in the heart of Rome. The well-preserved skeleton appears to be that of a woman aged about 30, said Anna De Santis, one of the archaeologists who took part in the excavations under the Caesar's Forum, part of the sprawling complex of the Imperial Forums in central Rome. An amber necklace and four pins were also found near the 5.25 foot-long skeleton, she said. The bones, dug up Monday, would likely be put on display in a museum...
British Isles
Roman remains face obliteration at Southwark site
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 06/01/2006 12:44:40 AM EDT · 2 replies · 5+ views The Guardian | Wednesday May 31, 2006 | Maev Kennedy Archaeologists fear 1,000 years of history may be shovelled into skips as time runs out on a key site in London. Harvey Sheldon, an officer of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, called the situation at the church of St George the Martyr, in Southwark, where substantial evidence of Roman buildings may be destroyed without being recorded, "a disgrace". Yesterday he made a last ditch appeal...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Researchers find ancient pottery operation at Angel Mounds
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 05/30/2006 1:18:10 PM EDT · 2 replies · 32+ views Fort Wayne News-Sentinel | Associated Press An archaeological dig at southern Indiana's Angel Mounds complex has uncovered a pottery-making operation that reveals the artistic skills of the Indians who lived there hundreds of years ago. Indiana University researchers believe they've uncovered remains of a potter's house once used by the Indians who inhabited the area overlooking the Ohio River from 1100 to 1450 A.D. Excavations have revealed pottery tools and masses of prepared but unfired clay awaiting shaping into bowls, jars or figures which suggest that the structure that once stood there was used to make the pottery now found in shards across the site... The...
Columbus's first excited letter home goes on sale
	Posted by wagglebee On News/Activism 06/01/2006 8:44:24 PM EDT · 33 replies · 645+ views UK Telegraph | 6/1/06 | Nigel Reynolds One of the world's earliest printed documents, Christopher Columbus's account of his first voyage to discover the New World, will come up for sale in London this month with a price tag of £500,000.The Columbus Letter, or Epistola Christofori Colom, is the explorer's remarkably humane description of his first encounters with the natives of Hispaniola and other Caribbean islands early in 1493. † For sale: The Columbus Letter He wrote it on his return voyage to Spain for his sponsors, Ferdinand and Isabella of Aragon and Castile, and it was rushed into print so that the news could be...
Agriculture and Domestication
Was Fig First Fruit Of Man's Agricultural Endeavours?
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 06/01/2006 8:48:33 PM EDT · 24 replies · 355+ views The Telegraph (UK) | 6-2-2006 | Roger Highfield Was fig first fruit of man's agricultural endeavours? By Roger Highfield, Science Editor (Filed: 02/06/2006) The dawn of agriculture may have come with the domestication of fig trees near Jericho some 11,400 years ago, archaeologists report today. The discovery of ancient carbonised figs suggests that fruit, rather than grains that are traditionally thought to have heralded agriculture, may yield the earliest evidence of purposeful planting. The figs date back roughly 1,000 years before wheat, barley and legumes were domesticated in the region, making the fruit trees the oldest known domesticated crop, a team reports today in the journal Science. Nine...
Figs said to be first domesticated crop
	Posted by Fractal Trader On General/Chat 06/01/2006 10:58:10 PM EDT · 4 replies · 26+ views Science Mag via Boston.com | 1 June 2006 WASHINGTON --Gourmets savoring their roasted figs with goat cheese may not realize it, but they're tasting history. Archaeologists report that they have found evidence that ancient people grew fig trees some 11,400 years ago, making the fruit the earliest domesticated crop. The find dates use of figs some 1,000 years before the first evidence that crops such as wheat, barley and legumes were being cultivated in the Middle East. Remains of the ancient fruits were found at Gilgal I, a village site in the Jordan Valley north of ancient Jericho, Ofer Bar-Yosef of Harvard University and Mordechai E. Kislev and...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Worlds largest living creature discovered in Ibiza (sea grass 5 miles long and 100,000 years old)
	Posted by LibWhacker On News/Activism 05/31/2006 2:14:02 AM EDT · 100 replies · 1,767+ views Ibiza News | 5/27/06 What is the world's largest living creature? Scientists from the CSIC. the University of the Balearic Islands, Portugal, Carribean and the USA have discovered a Posidonia Oceanica, of more than 8 kilometers in length, and 100,000 years old. The 'Posideonia Oceanica' is, in layman's terms 'sea grass', and the wavy plains of this plant found off the coasts Ibiza and Formentera, have been, since 1999, part of the reason for the award to Ibiza as a 'Heritage of Humanity'. The huge plant was discovered between 'Es Freus' (the straits that separate Ibiza from Formentera) and the 'Ses Salines' beach....and quite...
New dinosaur found looking like dragon - named after Harry Potter dragon
	Posted by S0122017 On General/Chat 05/28/2006 9:09:41 AM EDT · 39 replies · 401+ views animal discovery | 24 mei | Larry O'Hanlon 'Hogwarts' Dragon Unveiled By Larry O'Hanlon, Animal Planet News May 24 ó A dragon-like dinosaur named after Harry Potter's alma mater has performed a bit of black magic on its own family tree, say paleontologists who unveiled the "Dragon King of Hogwarts" on Monday in Albuquerque. The newly described horny-headed dinosaur Dracorex hogwartsia lived about 66 million years ago in South Dakota, just a million years short of the extinction of all dinosaurs. But its flat, almost storybook-style dragon head has overturned everything paleontologists thought they knew about the dome-head dinos called pachycephalosaurs. "What you knew about pachycephalosaurs ó you...
Woolly mammoth genome comes to life (Jurassic Park, here we come)
	Posted by DaveLoneRanger On News/Activism 12/23/2005 12:33:04 AM EST · 62 replies · 1,798+ views EurekAlert! | December 22, 2005 | Staff Decoding extinct genomes now possible, says geneticist A McMaster University geneticist, in collaboration with genome researchers from Penn State University and the American Museum of Natural History has made history by mapping a portion of the woolly mammoth's genome. The discovery, which has astounded the scientific world, surpasses an earlier study released today by Nature that also concerns the woolly mammoth. Hendrik Poinar, a molecular evolutionary geneticist in the department of anthropology and pathology at McMaster University, says his study involves the vital nuclear DNA within a Mammoth rather than the lesser mitochondria, on which the Nature study is based....
The scrambling continues (Fallout over T-rex bone tissue continues)
	Posted by DaveLoneRanger On Bloggers & Personal 03/10/2006 9:25:07 AM EST · 237 replies · 2,163+ views Answers in Genesis | March 6, 2006 | Staff Last year at about this time, it was disclosed that scientists had made an amazing discovery of a Tyrannosaurus rex thigh bone that still retained well-preserved soft tissue (which included blood vessels and cells). For evolutionists who argue that dinosaurs died about 65 million years ago, it was a startling discovery. AiGñUSAís Dr. David Menton (who holds a Ph.D. in cell biology from Brown University) wrote at the time that it ìcertainly taxes oneís imagination to believe that soft tissue and cells could remain so relatively fresh in appearance for the tens of millions of years of supposed evolutionary history.î...
Climate
BBC: Arctic's tropical past uncovered ~~ ( So Global Warming isn't someting new....?)
	Posted by Ernest_at_the_Beach On News/Activism 05/31/2006 4:19:27 PM EDT · 72 replies · 1,150+ views BBC | Wednesday, 31 May 2006, 17:21 GMT 18:21 UK | Rebecca Morelle Science reporter, BBC News Arctic's tropical past uncovered By Rebecca Morelle Science reporter, BBC News The cores contain layers of fossils and minerals Fifty-five million years ago the North Pole was an ice-free zone with tropical temperatures, according to research. A sediment core excavated from 400m (1,300ft) below the seabed of the Arctic Ocean has enabled scientists to delve far back into the region's past. An international team has been able to pin-point the changes that occurred as the Arctic transformed from green house to ice house. The findings are revealed in a trio of papers published in the journal Nature. Unlocked secrets...
Mysterious Arctic skull raises questions about what animals once roamed North
	Posted by Marius3188 On News/Activism 05/31/2006 2:20:11 AM EDT · 26 replies · 716+ views CNews | 30 May 2006 | JOHN THOMPSON IQALUIT, Nunavut (CP) - A mysterious skull discovered on the edge of the Arctic Circle has sparked interest in what creatures roamed Baffin Island in the distant past, and what life a warming climate may support in the future. Andrew Dialla, a resident of Pangnirtung, Nunavut, says he found the skull protruding from the frozen tundra during a walk near the shore with his daughter about a month ago. The horned skull is about the size of a man's fist. It resembles a baby caribou skull, except at that age, a caribou wouldn't have antlers, researchers and elders have pointed...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Asteroid Juno Has A "Bite" Out Of It
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 06/03/2006 2:16:51 AM EDT · 5 replies · 8+ views SpaceDaily | Aug 11, 2003 | unattributed Images of asteroid 3 Juno taken with the 100-inch Hooker telescope at Mt. Wilson Observatory show what appears to be a 60-mile-wide crater. The crater is visible as a darkened area in the lower left quadrant in the 833 nm and 934 nm images. The material excavated by the collision that produced the crater "bite" has low reflectance, especially at the wavelength of 934 nm. An adaptive optics system provided a remarkably clear view of Juno's surface by reducing interference from the Earth's atmosphere. (Sallie Baliunas et al.)Their surface maps showed that Juno, like other asteroids, is misshapen rather than...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
The Historical Dracula (long but very interesting)
	Posted by Hacksaw On General/Chat 07/15/2002 7:09:36 PM EDT · 13 replies · 445+ views www.eskimo.com | April 30, 1992 | Ray Porter == THE HISTORICAL DRACULA: VLAD III TEPES, 1431-1476 == == I. Historical Background == M ost of you ("the members of this list", R.P.'92, -Ed.) are probably aware of the fact that when Bram Stoker penned his immortal classic, Dracula, he based his vampire villian on an actual historical figure. Stoker's model was Vlad III Dracula (called Tepes, pronounced tse-pesh); a fifteenth century viovode, or prince, of Wallachia of the princely House of Basarab. Wallachia is a provence of Romania bordered to the north by Transylvania and Moldavia, to the east by the Black Sea and to the south by...
Oh So Mysteriouso
The Hidden Records by Wayne Herschel... face of Mars, Pyramids and Cydonia... the Mystery Star
	Posted by SunkenCiv On Bloggers & Personal 05/27/2006 10:24:43 PM EDT · 33 replies · 427+ views The Hidden Records | when the last nut crop ripened | Wayne Herschel A magnificent Christian secret is about to be revived. It is also found in the paintings of Poussin, Salimbeni and Tenier, and at the Rosslyn Chapel. It ties in with the Judas Gospel (see news page) and the secret behind ALL the pyramids and Stonehenge... The key to decoding the star maps: A forgotten 4,000 year old coffin lid from a priestess of Hathor depicts the precise stars of the Pleiades in Taurus. Scholars have missed this 'hidden' evidence and presume the 'Bull's thigh constellation' to be the Big Dipper.
Major Weir - The Wizard of the West Bow
	Posted by robowombat On General/Chat 05/31/2006 12:23:13 PM EDT · 2 replies · 25+ views Scot's Clans The narrow winding streets and dark cavernous closes of Edinburgh can feel eerie enough at night as you walk alone. But listen out for the wrap of a cane on the cobbles and look out for a dark shadowy figure for it may be the ghost of Major Weir -The Wizard of the West Bow! Major Thomas Weir was born in 1599 and had a significant military career as a covenanting soldier. He led the escort that carried the Marquis of Montrose to his execution and was captain of the Town Guard in Edinburgh until 1650. A tall stern looking...
Faith and Philosophy
Semi-News: 25,000 Years Old Cave Drawings Spark Muslim Protests
	Posted by John Semmens On Bloggers & Personal 02/16/2006 10:45:04 AM EST · 5 replies · 156+ views azconservative | 10 Feb 2006 | John Semmens Cave drawings thought to 25,000 years old have been discovered in a grotto in western France. Several of the drawingsóone showing an apparently turban-wearing human figure eating a wild pigóare deemed to be offensive to Islam. Coming on top of the cartoons of Mohammed published in Denmark and reprinted in several other European countries, Muslim anger has continued to swell. ìThese infidels cannot continue to mock us without consequence,î said Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah. ìThe West should be prepared for the real holocaust. When Iran has the bomb there will be no mercy for these blasphemers.î In an effort to...
World Watches In Silence As Azerbaijan Wipes Out Armenian Culture (ROP)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 05/29/2006 9:49:31 PM EDT · 19 replies · 512+ views The Art Newspaper | 5-25-2006 | Lucian Harris World watches in silence as Azerbaijan wipes out Armenian cultureWestern governments have failed to condemn the destruction of a unique medieval cemetery by Azerbaijani soldiers By Lucian Harris | Posted 25 May 2006 Armenia says the Christian cemetery of Jugha, dating from the ninth to 16th centuries, has been completely destroyed by Azerbaijani soldiers. LONDON. A delegation of European members of Parliament was last month refused access to Djulfa, in the Nakhichevan region of Azerbaijan, to investigate reports that an ancient Armenian Christian cemetery has been destroyed by Azerbaijani soldiers. The delegation of ten MEPs from the commission on EU-Armenia...
Cal State Fullerton Teaches Evolution, ID and Creationism (Senior Seminar on Evolution and Creation)
	Posted by SirLinksalot On News/Activism 05/04/2006 11:53:16 PM EDT · 14 replies · 337+ views Cal State Fullerton Website Liberal Studies 487: Senior Seminar on Evolution and Creation¬† Spring 2006James R. Hofmann Professor of Liberal Studies California State University Fullerton jhofmann@fullerton.edu¬† H223-E¬†¬† 714-278-7049¬†¬†¬† (webmaster)¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬† (CV ) Spring 2006 Syllabus¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬† Spring 2006 Schedule Philosophy/Liberal Studies 333: Evolution and Creation¬†¬†¬†Spring 2006Craig Nelson,¬† Liberal Studies & Department of Comparative ReligionCalifornia State University Fullerton¬†¬†¬† Short Bio¬†¬†¬†¬† ¬†cnelson540@aol.com¬†¬†¬†¬†¬† 714-278-2442 Spring 2006 Syllabus & Schedule¬† ¬†Liberal Studies 487: Senior Seminar on Evolution and Creation¬†¬†¬†Spring 2007Bruce H. Weber¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬† (Short CV )¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬† ¬†¬† ( Long CV ) Spring Semesters:¬† Professor of Biochemistry,¬†¬†¬†¬† California State University Fullerton¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬† bhweber@fullerton.edu¬†¬† MH 504A¬† 714-278-3885 SPRING 2005 SYLLABUS¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬† SPRING 2005 SCHEDULEFall...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
"Up, Up and Oy Vey!" [New Book Explores the Jewish Roots of the American Superhero Comic]
	Posted by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle On General/Chat 05/22/2006 4:09:22 AM EDT · 12 replies · 182+ views RabbiSimcha.com | 05/22/2006 | Rabbi Simcha Weinstein UP, UP AND OY VEY!: How Jewish History, Culture and Values Shaped the Comic Book Superhero Release Date: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 Publisher: Leviathan Press ISBN: 1-881927-32-6 Format: Paperback "Up, Up, and Oy Vey chronicles how Jewish history, culture, & values helped shape the early years of the comic book industry."The early comic book creators were almost all Jewish, and as children of immigrants, they spent their lives trying to escape the second-class mentality which was forced on them by the outside world. Their fight for truth, justice, and the American Way is portrayed by the superheroes they created. The...
Volunteers To Dig Into Croatan Indian Village Site Again ("Lost Colony")
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 05/28/2006 9:25:38 PM EDT · 15 replies · 581+ views Virginian - Pilot | 5-28-2006 | Catherine Kozak Volunteers to dig into Croatan Indian village site again By CATHERINE KOZAK, The Virginian-Pilot © May 28, 2006 The last time the long-dormant Croatan site was investigated, a team of archaeologists unearthed a 16th-century gold ring that may be the most significant archaeological find of early American history. In June, the team, with many of the same members who were there in 1998 when the English nobleman's ring was found, will be back to revive exploration of the ancient capital of the Croatan Indians in Buxton. Organized by The Lost Colony Center for Science and Research , the team of...
Navy discovers centuries-old Spanish ship buried in sand [ Pensacola ]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 06/03/2006 1:47:05 AM EDT · 4 replies · 22+ views Albuquerque Tribune | June 2, 2006 | Associated Press Navy construction crews have unearthed a rare Spanish ship that was buried for centuries under sand on Pensacola's Naval Air Station, archaeologists confirmed. The vessel could date to the mid-16th century, when the first Spanish settlement in what is now the United States was founded here... But the exposed portion looks more like ships from a later period because of its iron bolts, said Elizabeth Benchley, director of the Archaeology Institute at the University of West Florida... The exposed keel of the ship juts upward from the sandy bottom of the pit and gives some guess of the vessel's form....
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