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[infidel29]

wow...thanks I think, I guess I'll be reading today.

In all seriousness, that had to have been a LOT of work organizing this post many, many thanks to you.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks, my pleasure.

[ElkGroveDan]

Nice clean ping graphic. Really like it.

[SunkenCiv]

:’) Thanks!

[SunkenCiv]

Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #158 Saturday, July 28, 2007
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Major Quake Likely In Middle East, Survey Finds
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 07/26/2007 4:42:31 PM EDT · 39 replies · 732+ views National Geographic | 7-26-2007 | Kate Ravilious Major Quake Likely in Middle East, Survey Finds Kate Ravilious for National Geographic News July 26, 2007 In A.D. 551, a massive earthquake devastated the coast of Phoenicia, now Lebanon. The disaster is well-documented, but scientists had struggled over the years to locate the earthquake fault. Now a new underwater survey has uncovered the fault and shown that it moves approximately every 1,500 years -- which means a disaster is due any day now. "It is just a matter of time before a destructive tsunami hits this region again," said Iain Stewart, an earthquake expert at the University of Plymouth in the...
Climate
(For all you NOVA buffs) Megaflood 'made Island Britain' [sharp illustrations]
	Posted by yankeedame On General/Chat 07/19/2007 6:04:05 AM EDT · 5 replies · 143+ views BBC.com | Wednesday, 18 July 2007 | Jonathan Amos, science reporter Last Updated: Wednesday, 18 July 2007, 18:08 GMT 19:08 UK Megaflood 'made Island Britain' By Jonathan Amos Science reporter, BBC News The megaflood made Britain what it is today, geographicallyBritain became separated from mainland Europe after a catastrophic flood some time before 200,000 years ago, a sonar study of the English Channel confirms. The images reveal deep scars on the Channel bed that must have been cut by a sudden, massive discharge of water. Some event, or combination of events, resulted in a huge lake breaching the chalk ridge between what is now Dover and Calais. Scars from the torrent...
Greece
Hidden City Found Beneath Alexandria
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 07/25/2007 4:59:45 PM EDT · 6 replies · 668+ views Yahoo News/Live Science | 7-24-2007 | Charles Q Choi Hidden City Found Beneath Alexandria Charles Q. Choi Special to LiveScience LiveScience.com Tue Jul 24, 4:45 PM ET The legendary city of Alexandria was founded by Alexander the Great as he swept through Egypt in his quest to conquer the known world. Now scientists have discovered hidden underwater traces of a city that existed at Alexandria at least seven centuries before Alexander the Great arrived, findings hinted at in Homer's Odyssey and that could shed light on the ancient world. Alexandria was founded in Egypt on the shores of the Mediterranean in 332 B.C. to immortalize Alexander the Great. The...
Egypt
Cairo toe earliest fake body bit
	Posted by Daffynition On General/Chat 07/27/2007 2:57:48 PM EDT · 22 replies · 127+ views BBC News | Friday, 27 July 2007 | staff reporter An artificial big toe found on the foot of an ancient Egyptian mummy could be the world's earliest functional fake body part, UK experts believe. A Manchester University team hope to prove that the leather and wood "Cairo toe" not only looked the part but also helped its owner walk. They will test a replica in volunteers whose right big toe is missing. If true, the toe will predate the currently considered earliest practical prosthesis - a fake leg from 300BC. If we can prove it was functional then we will have pushed back prosthetic medicine by as much as...
World's first prosthetic limb found on 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy
	Posted by Pontiac On News/Activism 07/28/2007 1:02:17 AM EDT · 9 replies · 160+ views Daily Mail | 27th July 2007 | JAMES TOZER The false toe worn by a 3,000-year-old mummy has always been regarded as a simple ornament, added after death as part of burial rites. But British scientists who have studied it believe the reality is that it is the world's first working artificial body part, centuries older than anything previously found. Now they are looking for volunteers who are missing the big toe on their right foot to wear a replica and try out their theory. The original prosthetic, made out of wood and leather, is strapped to the foot of the mummified body of an Egyptian noblewoman currently on...
Mediterranean
Massive Egyptian Fort Discovered
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 07/23/2007 5:51:56 PM EDT · 36 replies · 1,129+ views iAfrica | 7-23-2007 Massive Egyptian fort discovered Mon, 23 Jul 2007 Egypt announced on Sunday the discovery of the largest-ever military city from the Pharaonic period on the edge of the Sinai desert, part of a series of forts that stretched to the Gaza border. "The three forts are part of a string of 11 castles that made up the Horus military road that went from Suez all the way to the city of Rafah on the Egyptian-Palestinian border and dates to the 18th and 19th dynasties (1560-1081 BC)," antiquities supreme Zahi Hawwas said in a statement. Teams have been digging in the...
Anatolia
The 'Ephesus' of the Black Sea to be unveiled [ Teion ]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 07/24/2007 1:59:48 PM EDT · 7 replies · 133+ views Turkish Daily News | Tuesday, July 24, 2007 | Anatolia News Agency The remains of an ancient city on the Black Sea coast will be unearthed for the first time next month. Archaeologists are beginning excavations and underwater dives with the aim of unveiling the architectural plan of Teion (or Tion), located in Zonguldak's Filyos district... archaeologist Sumer Atasoy said... they had outlined an aqueduct, a theater, defensive walls, a breakwater, a port and port walls by examining remains close to the surface. "The ancient city hosted many civilizations including Persians, Romans, Genoas and Ottomans..." ...He spoke as well of an 18-meter long structure within the borders of the brick factory in...
Ancient Art
Spiral Wall Motifs Reveal Catal Huyuk Migration
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 07/26/2007 3:21:04 PM EDT · 20 replies · 385+ views Todays Zaman | 7-26-2007 Spiral wall motifs reveal Catal Huyuk migration In the course of an excavation project currently under way at Catal Huyuk, researchers have recently discovered a burial chamber and wall paintings that echo spiral motifs first seen on ancient seals and kitchen utensils. Motifs discovered in the wall paintings may shed light on the migration routes of the people who lived in Catal Huyuk, a 9,000-year old Neolithic site. Catal Huyuk is a 9,000-year-old Neolithic site in central Turkey that displays evidence of animal domestication and agricultural activities and is considered to be one of the first permanent community settlements. The excavation is sponsored by...
Helix, Make Mine a Double
Elephants, Human Ancestors Evolved In Synch, DNA Reveals
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 07/26/2007 3:12:38 PM EDT · 55 replies · 754+ views National Geographic | 7-23-2007 | Hope Hamashige Elephants, Human Ancestors Evolved in Synch, DNA Reveals Hope Hamashige for National Geographic News July 23, 2007 The tooth of a mastodon buried beneath Alaska's permafrost for many thousands of years is yielding surprising clues about the history of elephants -- and humans. A team of researchers recently extracted DNA from the tooth to put together the first complete mastodon mitochondrial genome. The study, published in the journal PLoS Biology, significantly alters the evolutionary timeline for elephants and their relatives. The research may put to rest a contentious debate by showing that woolly mammoths are more closely related to Asian elephants than...
Prehistory and Origins
Chance And Isolation Gave Humans Elegant Skulls
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 07/25/2007 6:31:25 PM EDT · 14 replies · 323+ views New Scientist | 7-24-2007 Chance and isolation gave humans elegant skulls 24 July 2007 NewScientist.com news service Only chance kept us from looking like our crag-browed Neanderthal cousins. A statistical analysis suggests that the skull differences between the two species stems not from positive natural selection but from genetic drift, in which physical features change randomly, without an environmental driving force. Some anthropologists had put the cranial differences down to natural selection arising from Neanderthals' use of their teeth as tools, for instance, or from modern humans' speech. To test if genetic drift could have been responsible instead, Timothy Weaver of the University of...
Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
Iran, Germany, And Britain To Decide On Fate Of Salt Men
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 07/23/2007 4:53:00 PM EDT · 10 replies · 303+ views CHN | 7-23-2007 Iran, Germany, and Britan to Decide on Fate of Salt Men The fourth Chehrabad salt manA fear for the future of Zanjanís salt men and in an attempt to find the best approaches for preserving them, the Cultural Heritage and Tourism Department of Zanjan province will organize a conference with attendance of Iranian, German, and British experts. Tehran, 23 July 2007 (CHN Foreign Desk) -- In an international conference organized by the Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Department of Zanjan province, the status of Iranian salt men and the existing problems on the way for preserving them will be discussed...
Megaliths and Archaeoastronomy
Where the Leylines Led (Ley Lines = Ancient "Corpse Roads"?)
	Posted by Renfield On News/Activism 07/22/2007 8:43:01 AM EDT · 79 replies · 1,312+ views Fortean Times | 6-2007 | Paul Devereux Following Alfred Watkinsís famous vision of straight paths crossing the landscape, the concept of "leys" has evolved over several decades (see panel, pp31-32), but it has become increasingly obvious to research-minded ley students that there never were such features as "leys", let alone "leylines". At best, these were convenient labels to cover a multitude of both actual and imaginary alignments from many different eras and cultures. This was because most enthusiasts were projecting their own ideas onto the past in various ways. But the handful of research-minded ley hunters cared about actual archaeology, and they followed where the mythical leys...
Ancient Europe
Burial mounds to be excavated [ prehistoric Netherlands ]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 07/23/2007 12:28:22 PM EDT · 21 replies · 142+ views Leiden University | July 10, 2007 | Tristan Lavender Burial mounds are often 4000 to 5000 years old, they are visible to everyone and curious recreationists ask questions about them; questions the council are unable to answer as the research on burial mounds has for a number of decades been at a standstill... Fontijn: "Apeldoorn contains the oldest burial mounds in the Netherlands. The first were constructed in 3000 BCE. Added to this, the conservation conditions are good." What does Fontijn expect to unearth? "Definitely not only skeletons. In earlier excavations, weapons, jewellery and other objects were found. I am also curious about what we will find in the...
British Isles
Outline of Scotland's Scone Abbey found
	Posted by Renfield On News/Activism 07/24/2007 7:35:37 AM EDT · 12 replies · 456+ views PhysOrg.com | 7-22-07 Scottish archaeologists say they have located the exact location of Scone Abbey, where Robert the Bruce is believed to have been crowned king. The abbey -- founded by Alexander I in 1114 on a site believed to have been sacred for centuries -- was burned during the Reformation. Scone Palace, built in the 16th century and rebuilt in the 19th, survives. "The importance of Scone -- where kings were made and parliaments met -- is only matched by how little we know about the reality of the place," Oliver O'Grady of Glasgow University told The Scotsman. O'Grady, one of the...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Book of Jeremiah Confirmed?-Scholars link biblical and Assyrian records
	Posted by BGHater On News/Activism 07/26/2007 10:40:28 AM EDT · 22 replies · 821+ views Archaeology | 23 July 2007 | Laura Sexton Austrian Assyriologist Michael Jursa recently discovered the financial record of a donation made a Babylonian chief official, Nebo-Sarsekim. The find may lend new credibility to the Book of Jeremiah, which cites Nebo-Sarsekim as a participant in the siege of Jerusalem in 587 B.C. The tablet is dated to 595 B.C., which was during the reign of the Babylonian king, Nebuchadnezzar II. Coming to the throne in 604 B.C., he marched to Egypt shortly thereafter, and initiated an epoch of fighting between the two nations. During the ongoing struggle, Jerusalem was captured in 597, and again in 587-6 B.C. It was...
Epigraphy and Language
Lithuanian and Latvian languages are not Slavic and not Balto-Slavic.
	Posted by Dievas On General/Chat 07/26/2007 3:19:22 PM EDT · 18 replies · 146+ views Lithuanian and Latvian languages are not Slavic and not Balto-Slavic. I made a deep esearch and I can say that both Baltic languages are definitely not Slavic, not even close, and neither Balto-Slavic. They should be separated into a very early separation branch similar to Armenian. There are very few Slavic-sounding words in both Baltic languages and those words were borrowed in near modern times. All other words (99,999999%) in both Baltic languages don't even remind of any Slavic language. There are words that sound Arabic, Franco, Latin, Greek, even English and Italiamn and even Pacific, but very few Slavic...
Oh So Mysteriouso
Linguists seek a time when we spoke as one
	Posted by BGHater On General/Chat 07/23/2007 10:02:45 AM EDT · 73 replies · 1,217+ views The Christian Science Monitor | 18 July 2007 | Moises Velasquez-Manoff A controversial research project is trying to trace all human language to a common root. Around 50,000 years ago, something happened to our ancestors in Africa. Anatomically modern humans, who had existed for at least 150,000 years prior, suddenly began behaving differently. Until then, their conduct scarcely differed from that of their hominid cousins, the Neanderthals. Both buried their dead; both used stone tools; and as social apes, both had some form of communication, which some think was gestural. But then, "almost overnight, everything changes very rapidly," says Merritt Ruhlen, a lecturer in the Anthropological Sciences Department at Stanford University...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Mysteries of Mauvilla[Alabama][Hernando De Soto Battle]
	Posted by BGHater On News/Activism 07/27/2007 4:26:49 PM EDT · 3 replies · 308+ views The Press-Register | 25 July 2007 | CONNIE BAGGETT Archaeologists continue debate, search for battle site lost for centuries in Alabama It's out there. Somewhere underneath cat claw briars or mud flats or even modern subdivision tracts, there are shards of Spanish metal, burned clay and a palisaded wall waiting to be found, answering one of the South's famous mysteries: Where is Mauvilla? Historians gleaning descriptions from written accounts of Spanish explorer Hernando De Soto's expedition across the South say the earliest and bloodiest battle between Europeans and Indians happened at Mauvilla, a fortified village that researchers spell a variety of other ways, including Mabila and Mavila. It sat...
Australia and the Pacific
Wooden coffin cover clue to ancient times
	Posted by JimSEA On General/Chat 07/24/2007 1:30:29 PM EDT · 5 replies · 110+ views Bangkok Post | Tuesday July 24, 2007 | CHEEWIN SATTHA Lamphun _ Archaeologists are examining an ancient wooden coffin lid bearing a carved woman-like figure, hoping to find some link to a funeral culture thought to be uncommon in Southeast Asia. The coffin cover is 166cm long and about 30cm wide. It is made of teak and thought to be about 1,000 years old. It is believed to be part of an elegant funeral ceremony of a long-vanished tribe, scholars from Chiang Mai University say. They say the carving is a stylised human figure, representing a woman. It is not known which tribe created it and even its age is...
Navigation
Octopus helps unearth ancient pottery
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 07/24/2007 1:47:48 PM EDT · 4 replies · 112+ views Yahoooooooo | Tuesday, July 24, 2007 | AFP South Korean archaeologists said Tuesday they have discovered a sunken vessel packed with ancient pottery, in an exploration prompted by an octopus which attached its suckers to a plate. The 12th-century wooden vessel was found buried in mud flats off Taean, southwest of Seoul, the National Maritime Museum said. More than 2,000 pieces of 12th-century bowls, plates and other types of pottery were heaped inside the 7.7 meter (25-foot) vessel, it said. "I believe the pottery might have been made for royals and the ruling elite of the Koryo Dynasty," which ruled the peninsula from 916 to 1392, museum head...
Epidemics, Pandemics, Plagues
Korean Mummy Holds Clues to Disease
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 07/26/2007 11:33:57 AM EDT · 19 replies · 160+ views !oohaY | Wednesday, Jul 25, 2007 | Jeanna Bryner The liver of a child mummy preserved for 500 years still holds samples of the hepatitis B virus... Mark Spigelman of the Kuvin Center for the Study of Infectious and Tropical Diseases at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem... is a paleo-epidemiologist, who studies ancient diseases found on mummified bodies to shed light on the modern forms of such illnesses. This is the first time hepatitis B has been spotted in a mummified body. In South Korea, 12 percent of the population are hepatitis carriers, more than double the world average. The virus, responsible for about 1 million deaths each year,...
Longer Perspectives
New mutations implicated in half of autism cases
	Posted by neverdem On News/Activism 07/25/2007 3:12:34 AM EDT · 50 replies · 910+ views news@nature.com | 24 July 2007 | Heidi Ledford Close window Published online: 24 July 2007; | doi:10.1038/news070723-1 New mutations implicated in half of autism casesDisorder linked to genetic differences between parent and offspring.Heidi Ledford Autistic children display a wide range of different symptoms.HENNY ALLIS / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Half of all cases of male autism may be caused by spontaneous genetic mutations, say researchers who have studied the genetic patterns of the condition. Offspring who inherit such mutations are at a greater risk of having an autistic child themselves. Autistic people have difficulty relating socially with others and tend to focus obsessively on a narrow set of...
Paleontology
Big Chicken with Sharp Teeth
	Posted by rickdylan On General/Chat 07/21/2007 7:05:25 PM EDT · 43 replies · 658+ views I looked for an existing FR thread on this one and didn't find one. There were a couple of threads from a year or so ago describing the original find but nothing on the more recent news. Researchers in 2005 broke a tyrannosaur bone in half to get it on a small helicopter which was all they had available and found soft tissue inside the bone including what looked like raw meet, blood vessels, and blood. More recently, collagen and proteins from this bone have been sequenced and turnout to be altogether similar to those of chickens. The tyrannosaur apparently...
Fossil finds shake up dinosaur theories
	Posted by DaveLoneRanger On News/Activism 07/22/2007 11:19:41 PM EDT · 249 replies · 4,303+ views The Mercury News | July 19, 2007 | Betsy Mason Dinosaur fossils found in New Mexico are challenging the idea that when dinosaurs appeared on the scene some 235 million years ago, they quickly rose to dominate the landscape. Buried among the dinosaur bones, a team led by UC Berkeley paleontologists discovered the remnants of the dinosaurs' predecessors, dinosauromorphs, that lived 15-20 million years after the first dinosaur showed up. "It was very exciting because we knew this was a type of animal that no one thought you'd find anywhere at any time in North America," said paleontologist Randall Irmis, a graduate student at UC Berkeley and lead author of...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Enlightened Medicine Found In Dark Ages
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 07/27/2007 6:05:20 PM EDT · 22 replies · 642+ views Live Science | 7-23-2007 | Heather Whipps Enlightened Medicine Found in Dark Ages By Heather Whipps, Special to LiveScience posted: 23 July 2007 08:42 am ETThe way sick people are treated is a reflection of the prevalent cultural norms, and in the Dark Ages, being sick was much more common than today, so people accepted and dealt with ill people on a daily basis." People living in Europe during early Medieval times (400-1200 A.D.) actually had a progressive view of illness because disease was so common and out in the open, according to the research presented at a recent historical conference. Instead of being isolated or shunned,...
Arts and Literature for 1494, Alex
Researchers exhume 2 Renaissance writers
	Posted by BlackVeil On General/Chat 07/27/2007 10:55:14 PM EDT · 5 replies · 38+ views Yahoo News Page | 27 July 2007 | Anon MILAN, Italy - Scientists have exhumed the Renaissance-era remains of two intellectuals who belonged to Florence's powerful Medici family court, in an effort to learn more about their lives and deaths. The 15th century remains of humanist philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and writer Angelo Ambrogini -- better known as Poliziano -- were exhumed Thursday from Florence's St. Mark's Basilica. The men, who were possibly lovers, each died in 1494, and the exact cause of their deaths is unknown. "Bodies are an archive of information surrounding the life and death of a person. With today's technology, we can clear up...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
EU did deals with Libya to free HIV-medics
	Posted by knighthawk On News/Activism 07/24/2007 10:56:01 AM EDT · 6 replies · 164+ views Radio Netherlands | July 24 2007 Brussels - In the negotiations to secure the release of the six foreign medics held in Libya, deals were made between the European Union and the Libyan government. European Commission President JosÈ Manuel Barroso says talks covered scientific and technical co-operation. He stressed that the EU had not paid anything for the freeing of the five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor. However, the Emir of Qatar is reported to have donated a large sum. This morning, the six medics were put on a plane to Bulgaria after eight years in jail in Libya. On their arrival, Bulgarian President Georgi...
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Gods Graves Glyphs Digest #158 20070728 · Friday, July 28, 2007 · 27 topics · 1872819 to 1869823 · 641 members ·
	Saturday July 28 2007 v 4 n 02 view this issue	Welcome to the issue 158 of the Gods, Graves, Glyphs ping list Digest. We've had a nice recent run of new members joining up, and that continued this week. Welcome to all new members. Plenty of variety in topics this week. My apologies for re-pinging yesterday that May topic on, hmm, da Vinci? Something like that. I had someone join in that topic and didn't look too closely, thinking it was a new topic. Visit the Free Republic Memorial Wall -- a history-related feature of FR.
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #159 Saturday, August 4, 2007
Longer Perspectives
Beyond Mesopotamia: A Radical New View Of Human Civilization Reported In Science
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/02/2007 5:55:22 PM EDT · 39 replies · 854+ views Eureka Alert | 8-2-2007 | American Association For Advancement Of Science/Andrew Lawler Public release date: 2-Aug-2007 Contact: Natasha Pinol [email address removed] 202-326-7088 American Association for the Advancement of Science Beyond Mesopotamia: A radical new view of human civilization reported in ScienceMany urban centers crossed arc of Middle Asia 5,000 years ago A radically expanded view of the origin of civilization, extending far beyond Mesopotamia, is reported by journalist Andrew Lawler in the 3 August issue of Science. Mesopotamia is widely believed to be the cradle of civilization, but a growing body of evidence suggests that in addition to Mesopotamia, many civilized urban areas existed at the same time -- about 5,000 years ago...
Navigation
[Viking ship replica] Sea Stallion arrives in Inverie, Scotland
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 07/31/2007 2:54:23 PM EDT · 19 replies · 213+ views Sail World | Saturday, July 28, 2007 | Tinna Damgard-Sorensen The Sea Stallion right before arrival to the Orkney Islands Pastime and cosy atmosphere. Sea Stallion taken from the support vessel 'Cable One' by the Viking ship And the further on, 4 hours of rowing in between the Orkney - Sea Stallion.
The Vikings
New Viking Graves Discovered
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 07/30/2007 11:30:52 PM EDT · 12 replies · 548+ views Aftenposten | 7-30-32007 Arial photo of what could be traces of Viking graves. PHOTO: NORD-TRONDELAG LOCAL AUTHORITIES New Viking graves discovered 120 graves and traces of Viking houses discovered near the city of Trondheim.Traces of what could be a Viking Chief's hall. PHOTO: Orn E. Borgen A reconstructed Viking Chief's hall in the cultural monuments park near the town of Honefoss. What may be a Viking Chief's hall is among the new findings. PHOTO: Orn E. Borgen A total of 145 antiquities have been found at 32 different places around Stiklestad in the county of Nord-Trondelag. PHOTO: JON A. FOSSEIE While most parts...
Helix, Make Mine a Double
Ancient DNA May Be Misleading Scientists
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 07/30/2007 2:04:32 AM EDT · 22 replies · 825+ views ABC Science News | 2-18-2003 Ancient DNA may be misleading scientists Tuesday, 18 February 2003 Dating skeletal material with DNA may not be as acurate as thought Ancient DNA in skeletons has a tendency to show damage in a particular region, resulting in misleading genetic data and mistaken conclusions about the origin of the skeleton, British scientists said. A group of researchers at the Henry Wellcome Ancient Biomolecules Centre of the University of Oxford, in Britain, made the finding while studying Viking specimens. They found that about half of the specimens had DNA that suggested they were of Middle Eastern origin. But more detailed analysis...
Epidemics, Pandemics, Plagues
Black Death Casts A genetic Shadow Over England
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/01/2007 5:00:38 PM EDT · 82 replies · 1,854+ views New Scientist | Colin Barras Black Death casts a genetic shadow over England 12:26 01 August 2007 NewScientist.com news service Colin BarrasBlack Death as illustrated in a 15th century bible The Black Death continues to cast a shadow across England. Although the modern English population is more cosmopolitan than ever, the plagues known as the Black Death killed so many people in the Middle Ages that, to this day, genetic diversity is lower in England than it was in the 11th century, according to a new analysis. Rus Hoelzel at the University of Durham, UK and his colleagues looked at the mitochondrial DNA from human...
Anatolia
Major Find At Sagalassos (Colossal Statue - Hadrian)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/03/2007 2:26:56 PM EDT · 28 replies · 1,057+ views Archaeology Magazine | 8-3-2007 Major Find at Sagalassos August 2, 2007 Colossal statue of the emperor Hadrian discovered A huge, exquisitely carved marble statue of the Roman emperor Hadrian is the latest find from Sagalassos, an ancient Greco-Roman city in south-central Turkey. Archaeologists estimate that the figure was originally between 13 and 16 feet in height (four to five meters). It is, says excavation director Marc Waelkens, one of the most beautiful portraits of Hadrian ever found. The discovery was made by archaeologists from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), who, under Waelkens' direction, have been investigating the site since 1990. Last month a new...
Ancient Art
Shop Assistant Wore Ancient Necklace
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/02/2007 1:53:21 PM EDT · 44 replies · 2,220+ views Ananova | 7-31-2007 Shop assistant wore ancient necklace Archaeologists have found a valuable ancient gold necklace being worn by a cashier in a Bulgarian grocery after it was dug up by her husband. Boris Todorov, 43, from Karlovo in Bulgaria dug up hundreds of fine gold rings from a field on his farm and put them together to make a gift for his wife. But it was spotted by a group of archaeologists from the Bulgarian National Museum of History who were passing through - and went into her shop to buy provisions. They immediately identified the necklace as extremely valuable and now...
Ancient Europe
Ice Age Cave Art Preserved
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 07/30/2007 1:24:22 AM EDT · 22 replies · 556+ views BBC | 7-29-2007 | BBC Ice Age cave art site preserved The art was probably made by Ice Age hunter-gatherers Work to protect and preserve an Ice Age site in Derbyshire has been completed. The project at the Ice Age cave art centre at Creswell Crags was funded by the East Midlands Development Agency and the county council. It included building new scree banks to show how the gorge would have looked about 10 to 50,000 years ago. A county council spokesperson said archaeologists were consulted during the preservation project to ensure the site's natural beauty was not spoiled. 'Unique site' A £200,000 bridleway, which...
Epigraphy and Language
Discovery Of The Second Persian Geometrical Inscription
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 07/30/2007 1:41:52 AM EDT · 12 replies · 550+ views CHN Press | 7-25-2007 | Soudabeh Sadigh Discovery of the Second Persian Geometrical Inscription Kaftarlou inscriptionThe second Persian rock inscription in geometrical script has been discovered in Kaftarlou hill in Kurdistan province. Tehran, 25 July 2007 (CHN Foreign Desk) -- The second Persian geometrical inscription which was carved in Kaftarlou hill have been discovered in Akhtarabad region in Shahryar plain located in Iranian western province of Kurdistan. Due to the similarity of this geometrical writing with those previously found in Susa clay stamps and Jiroft's inscription, experts estimate that this newly discovered geometrical inscription must have dated back to at least 5000 years ago. After Kan Charmee...
Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
100,000-Year Old Knife Discovered In Iran
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 07/30/2007 1:18:09 AM EDT · 37 replies · 1,145+ views Press TV | 7-29-2007 100,000-year old knife discovered in Iran Sun, 29 Jul 2007 10:04:58 Iranian and Korean archeologists have discovered a 100,000-year-old civilization in the city of Roudbar, located in the north of Iran. Six Iranian archeologists in cooperation with nine Korean archeologists undertook a discovery project in the northern province of Iran around 10 days ago. The archeologists could unearth a stone tool comparable to a knife made of stone. The experts estimated the stone knife must date back at least 100 thousand years. According expert finding a knife in an archeological site is a sign of existence of a civilization in...
Scrolls Out the Barrels
Reference Libraries of the Persian Empire
	Posted by freedom44 On News/Activism 07/30/2007 2:40:39 AM EDT · 11 replies · 328+ views Persian Journal | 7/30/07 In ancient Iran, many libraries were established by the Zoroastrian elites and the Persian Kings. They were possibly one of the first Bibliophilists (more informally Bookworms) of the world. According to reliable documents the oldest library of Iran was possibly the Royal Library of Kohan Dej or Jay in Isfahan, which was founded during Achaemenids (550 BC-330 BC). In the north-eastern Iran there was a Royal Library in Nisa, one of the capital cities of Persian Empire during the Parthian Dynasty (248 BC-224 AD). Nisa is now one of the historical places in present day Republic of Turkmenistan. In the...
Australia and the Pacific
Scientists excited by Indonesian-caught coelacanth
	Posted by jsh3180 On General/Chat 07/30/2007 6:10:18 AM EDT · 9 replies · 296+ views AFP | Sat. Jul. 28, 2007 | Ronan Bourhis MANADO, Indonesia (AFP) - Two months ago Indonesian fisherman Justinus Lahama caught a fish so exceptional that an international team of scientists rushed here to investigate. French experts equipped with sonar and GPS asked Lahama to reconstruct, in his dugout canoe, exactly what it was he did that enabled him to catch a rare coelacanth fish, an awkward-swimming species among the world's oldest. Last May 19, Lahama and his son Delvy manoevred their frail canoe into the Malalayang river, on the outskirts of Manado, on northern Sulawesi island. Like any other morning, they rowed out to sea and fished within...
Paleontology
Rare fossilized cypress trees found in Hungary
	Posted by Fred Nerks On News/Activism 08/02/2007 11:29:50 PM EDT · 27 replies · 378+ views Reuters | Tue Jul 31, 9:19 AM ET | U/A BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungarian scientists said on Tuesday they have discovered a group of fossilized swamp cypress trees preserved from 8 million years ago which could provide clues about the climate of pre-historic times. Instead of petrifying -- turning to stone -- the wood of 16 Taxodium trees was preserved in an open-cast coal mine allowing geologists to study samples as if they were sections cut from a piece of living wood. "The importance of the findings is that so many trees got preserved in their original position in one place," Alfred Dulai, geologist at the Hungarian Natural History Museum...
Central Asia
One Million-Years-Old (Human) Footprints Found At Margalla Hills (Pakistan)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 07/28/2007 9:00:30 PM EDT · 434 replies · 5,651+ views Dawn | 7-27-2007 | Sher Baz Khan 1m-years-old footprints found at Margalla Hills By Sher Baz Khan ISLAMABAD, July 27: In what appears to be a major discovery, archaeologists have found two over one million years old human footprints preserved on a sandstone at the Margalla Hills. The Indusians Research Cell, which is working under the supervision of world renowned archaeologist and historian Dr Ahmad Hassan Dani of Taxila Institute of Asian Civilisations, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, has made the discovery, which is likely to add a new chapter to the archaeological history and heritage of the federal capital and attract visitors. A footprint of 1 feet is...
Meet the Flintstones
Dinosaur Bones: The Latest Status Symbol
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 07/29/2007 12:03:12 PM EDT · 9 replies · 322+ views The Telegraph (UK) | 7-29-2007 | Philip Sherwell Dinosaur bones: the latest status symbol By Philip Sherwell, Sunday Telegraph in Hulett, Wyoming, Sunday Telegraph Last Updated: 4:29pm BST 29/07/2007 The bidding war between the two Hollywood stars was intense as the price soared for the 67 million-year-old dinosaur skull. The Black Hills Institute of Geological Research has unearthed a jumble of dinosaur remains Only when it reached $276,000 did Leonardo DiCaprio blink - and Nicolas Cage walked away from the Beverley Hills auction with a ferocious-looking addition to his fossil collection. As this recent battle of the celebrities for the head of a tyrannosauras bataar -- the Asian...
Rome and Italy
Mussolini home Jewish graves opened [ Jewish catacombs ]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 07/30/2007 12:32:19 PM EDT · 3 replies · 43+ views ANSA News in English | July 26, 2007 | unattributed The Jewish catacombs under Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini's Rome villa are being restored and readied for visitors. "It's going to take several months to prepare the site and make it safe," said the head of Italy's Jewish Cultural Heritage Foundation, Bruno Orvieto. "We have to be very careful because there are delicate wall paintings down there that date back some 1,800 years," he stressed... However, a sneak preview of the 3rd and 4th century AD catacombs will be possible on September 2, when the European Day of Jewish Culture will be celebrated in 30 countries, including 55 sites around Italy....
British Isles
Roman holiday!
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 08/03/2007 9:16:44 AM EDT · 7 replies · 41+ views Huddersfield Daily Examiner | August 2, 2007 | Sam Casey Top Roman officials and well-to-do travellers could well have stopped off at Slack while out and about on vital business. And another exciting discover[y] during the project near Outlane was the remains of what could be an aqueduct... Project co-ordinator Granville Clay said... "It looks as though we have discovered the foundations of walls that would have formed the basis of a mansio -- effectively a Roman hotel or motel. The most exciting thing to emerge was what we believe to be the water supply to the Roman fort. All previous excavations have failed to uncover a well or water...
Greece
Greek experts to excavate Alexander's colony in Kuwait
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 08/03/2007 9:23:12 AM EDT · 9 replies · 134+ views Middle East Times | August 1, 2007 | unattributed Greek archaeologists plan to excavate an ancient colony founded by Alexander the Great in the Gulf of Kuwait in the fourth century BC, officials said Wednesday. "The site on Failaka Island is of particular importance to [Greece] as it was founded by Macedonians and other Greeks on Alexander the Great's expeditionary force," said culture ministry general secretary Christos Zahopoulos. The agreement between Greece and Kuwait signed in July will enable the Greek team to excavate the ancient town of Icarus on the island, organize the site, and restore its finds, the ministry said in a statement... Prior excavation on Failaka...
Egypt
Scientist stars in mummies film
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 08/02/2007 1:48:07 AM EDT · 5 replies · 88+ views Manchester Evening News | August 2, 2007 | Paul T Taylor A Manchester scientist is the star of a documentary that unwraps the secrets of Egyptian mummies. Dr Angelique Corthals, a lecturer at Manchester Univeristy, has just returned from the New York premiere of Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs. The film, narrated by The Lord Of The Rings star Christopher Lee, was shown on the giant 88ft-diameter IMAX screen at the Liberty Science Centre. It will be released here in September... Dr Corthals, 34, a lecturer in biomedical and forensic studies in Egyptology, said: "It was a strange experience seeing myself on a screen the size of a three-story building. I'd...
Mummy Told Me There'd Be Days Like This
Researchers Divulge Details About Mummy (Red-Headed Egyptian?)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 07/30/2007 1:11:04 AM EDT · 18 replies · 625+ views NPLA.com | 7-28-2007 | AP Researchers divulge details about mummy 7/28/2007, 4:13 p.m. CDT The Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- He was probably a redhead, tall and in good shape when he died of an unidentified cause by age 30. That's according to researchers, who used X-rays and a computerized topography scan to learn more about the 2,300-year-old mummy housed at the Louisiana Art and Science Museum. The release of their findings coincided with the unveiling of a major renovation of the museum's ancient Egypt gallery. The research also provided answers to questions left unresolved after X-rays done in the 1980s, and more...
Prehistory and Origins
Odd Skull Boosts Human, Neandertal Interbreeding Theory
	Posted by Renfield On News/Activism 08/04/2007 12:42:20 PM EDT · 28 replies · 655+ views National Geographic | 8-2-07 | Brian Handwerk A human skull from a Romanian bear cave is shaking up ideas about ancient sex. The Homo sapiens skull has a distinctive feature previously found only in Neandertals, providing further evidence of interbreeding between the two species, according to a new study. The human cranium was found during World War II mining operations in 1942, in a cave littered with Ice Age cave bear remains. Recently the fossil was radiocarbon dated to 33,000 years ago and thoroughly examined, revealing the controversial anatomical feature. The otherwise human skull has a groove at the base of the back of the skull, just...
Climate
A 30,000-year Record Of Sea Surface Temperatures Off South Australia
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/03/2007 2:57:24 PM EDT · 35 replies · 1,060+ views Science Daily | 8-3-2007 | American Geophysical Union Source: American Geophysical Union Date: August 3, 2007 A 30,000-year Record Of Sea Surface Temperatures Off South Australia Science Daily -- Continental glaciers originating at both poles reached their farthest extent about 20,000 years ago, marking a time known as the Last Glacial Maximum. Comparisons of ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica show that as these glaciers melted, warming occurred in asynchronous stages at the poles. While many northern hemisphere climate records match ice core records from Greenland, few southern hemisphere records exist to compare with ice core data from Antarctica. Calvo et al. analyze a marine core collected off...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Comet Theory Collides With Clovis Research, May Explain Disappearance of Ancient People
	Posted by ForGod'sSake On News/Activism 08/04/2007 2:29:34 AM EDT · 50 replies · 899+ views University of South Carolina(USC News) | June 28, 2007 | Staff June 28, 2007 Comet theory collides with Clovis research, may explain disappearance of ancient people A theory put forth by a group of 25 geo-scientists suggests that a massive comet exploded over Canada, possibly wiping out both beast and man around 12,900 years ago, and pushing the earth into another ice age. University of South Carolina archaeologist Dr. Albert Goodyear said the theory may not be such "out-of-this-world" thinking based on his study of ancient stone-tool artifacts he and his team have excavated from the Topper dig site in Allendale, as well as ones found in Georgia, North Carolina and...
She Turned Me Into Aleut
Whalebone Mask May Rewrite Aleut History
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 07/28/2007 9:18:44 PM EDT · 10 replies · 532+ views Anchorage Daily News | 7-28-2007 | Alex deMarban Whalebone mask may rewrite Aleut history By ALEX deMARBAN ademarban@adn.com Published: July 28, 2007 Last Modified: July 28, 2007 at 04:08 AMED ARTHUR / Cultural Resource Consultants LLCArchaeologists excavating on Amaknak Island in the Aleutians have discovered what may be a piece of the oldest-known Unangam whalebone mask. Archaeologists unearthing an ancient village from an Unalaska hillside believe they've found the remains of the oldest-known Aleut whalebone mask. Much of the mask is missing -- it's mostly intact above where the cheekbones would sit -- but archaeologists are pretty sure it's about 3,000 years old, said Mike Yarborough, lead archaeologist...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Aztec pyramid ruins found in Mexico City
	Posted by BGHater On News/Activism 08/02/2007 12:57:27 PM EDT · 41 replies · 734+ views Reuters | 02 Aug 2007 | Reuters Archaeologists have discovered what they think are ruins of an Aztec pyramid razed by vengeful Spanish conquerors in what is now one of Mexico City's most crime-ridden districts. Construction workers unearthed ancient walls in the busy Iztapalapa neighbourhood in June, and government archaeologists said on Wednesday they believe they may be part of the main pyramid of the Aztec city, destroyed by conquistador Hernan Cortes in the 16th century. Iztapalapa, now infamous for violent crime and drug dealing, has grown into a sprawling, poor district of the capital, obscuring the ruins. "We knew the general location but couldn't explore because...
Arts and Literature for 1492, Alex
AP Exclusive: Aztec leader's tomb found (emperor Ahuizotl)
	Posted by TigerLikesRooster On News/Activism 08/04/2007 6:26:13 AM EDT · 15 replies · 622+ views AP | 08/04/07 | MARK STEVENSON AP Exclusive: Aztec leader's tomb found By MARK STEVENSON, Associated Press Writer Sat Aug 4, 3:23 AM ET He was emperor at the apogee of the Aztec civilization, the last to complete his rule before the Spanish Conquest. But Ahuizotl's tomb has never been found. No Aztec ruler's funeral chamber ever has. But Mexican archaeologists believe that has finally changed. Using ground-penetrating radar, they have detected underground chambers that could contain the remains of Ahuizotl, who ruled the Aztecs when Columbus landed in the New World. The find could provide an extraordinary window into Aztec civilization at its peak. Ahuizotl...
Unexplained (The Meat Puppets)
OOPARTS (Out of Place Artifacts)
	Posted by 2ndDivisionVet On Bloggers & Personal 08/01/2007 6:28:51 AM EDT · 40 replies · 522+ views What If? | Unknown Ooparts ? What are Ooparts? That stands for Out of Place Artifacts. Things that show up where they shouldn't, a piece of gold chain found in a coal seam, what appears to be a sparkplug embedded in rock that is thousands of years old and what appears to be a bullet hole in the skull of a mastodon. These things are ooparts. A Gold Thread Workmen quarrying stone near the River Tweed below Rutherford, Scotland in 1844, found a piece of gold thread embedded in the rock of the quarry eight feet below ground level. A small piece of the...
Oh So Mysteriouso
Robbing the Cradle of Civilization [Page 6; bin Laden and the Face on Mars]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 08/03/2007 9:06:51 PM EDT · 6 replies · 52+ views Anomaly Hunters | last updated on 1/24/2003 | The Hero Twins By 1997, with the word out that NASA planned to land on Mars, bin Laden called for all Americans and Jews, including children, to be killed. That summer three of his operatives living in Yemen launched a little known threat against NASA, via the judicial system. They warn both NASA and the USA that the Yemeni people (of which bin Laden is a member and believes he can trace his blood line back to the time of Queen Sheba) own Mars and they have 3,000-year-old (Sumerian?) tablets to prove it. On July 24th of 1997 the Al-Thawn weekly newspaper reported...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Revealing Jerusalem
	Posted by Squidpup On News/Activism 07/30/2007 5:42:23 PM EDT · 2 replies · 177+ views The Jerusalem Post | Updated Jul. 29, 2007 13:24 | By LEAH ABRAMOWITZ There is a huge hole at each end of the Western Wall Plaza, one of which is expanding by the day. Both are significant archeological excavations now in progress under the auspices of the Israel Antiquities Authority, but they differ in their scope and implications for the area. The Mughrabi Gate excavation site and that where the police station once stood are both considered "rescue digs" - that is, important construction was about to take place in the area, but first the government wanted to check what was "going on underneath." As is typical in the Old City, excavators were...
Faith and Philosophy
Archaeologist Uncover Possible Medieval Mosque In Sicily
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 07/30/2007 11:41:07 PM EDT · 50 replies · 775+ views Physorg.com | 7-30-2007 | North Illinois University Archaeologist uncover possible medieval mosque in Sicily The Normans are believed to have built the medieval castle of Salemi. It fell into ruin during the mid-20th century and was closed after a devastating earthquake in 1968. The castle is shown here prior to recent exterior renovations. Photo by Michael Kolb" Earlier this summer, while standing in an archaeological pit adjacent to an ancient hilltop castle in west-central Sicily, Northern Illinois University graduate student Bill Balco could literally reach out and touch the centuries -- even the millennia. The dig site, about 7-by-10 meters near the castle entrance, reveals a crossroads of cultures...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Mass Grave Sheds Light On Europe's Bloody History (1636 Battle)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 07/31/2007 5:48:21 PM EDT · 63 replies · 1,703+ views Spiegel | 7-31-2007 | David Crossland Mass Grave Sheds Light on Europe's Bloody History By David Crossland in Berlin Europe's soil is blood-soaked from centuries of fighting but rarely yields mass graves from battles that took place before the two world wars. One such grave has now been found near Berlin with over 100 soldiers who died in the 1636 Battle of Wittstock. Archaeologists say they can learn much from the skeletons which show terrible wounds. An archaeologist gently uncovering a row of skeletons in the mass grave found in Wittstock near Berlin. Archaeologists in Germany are examining a mass grave containing the skeletons of more...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Aging Jersey farmer now tends to his memories of the land
	Posted by Coleus On General/Chat 07/29/2007 12:14:05 AM EDT · 3 replies · 127+ views Star Ledger | Mark Di Ionno | 07.28.07 The tree, like the man who planted it, is still here. The 200-year-old house is gone, the old southern Somerset County farm has been turned into some 200 new houses. But the sugar maple tree Charlie Grayson planted on Arbor Day when he was 8 is right where he put it. A little stooped and creaky, like Charlie Grayson himself, but still here. Charlie Grayson's tree has weathered nearly nine decades of change in the landscape. Once the smallest tree in a clump of mature shade trees in front of a Colonial- era farmhouse (circa 1700s), it's now the old-timer...
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Gods Graves Glyphs Digest #159 20070804 · Saturday, August 4, 2007 · 32 topics · 1876240 to 1873120 · 650 members ·
	Saturday August 4 2007 v 4 n 03 view this issue	Welcome to the issue 159 of the Gods, Graves, Glyphs ping list Digest. We've had still more join, and even had someone join the weekly digest version of the ping list. Welcome to all new members. This issue is a day late due to a power outage the previous week. That power outage occurred while the eMac was on, and scrambled the b-tree on the hard drive, making it unbootable and appearing to be unformatted. I swung by the Apple Store and was advised on which software would do the job of data recovery. Will tell you how it goes. The stuff I had is older, and wouldn't quite get 'er done. I've made up for it by plastering in more ridiculous category names than usual, so that's a break for you. The Freep-a-Thon went well and seemed shorter than usual. Congratulations to JimRob and thanks to all. Visit the Free Republic Memorial Wall -- a history-related feature of FR.
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Discoveries at Bimini: Columns, Marble Building Ruins, and Possible Building Foundations in 100-Feet of Water

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I can’t do pdf. Please post the article to FR.

[SunkenCiv]

Hey, so that’s what that is. Thanks again!

[SunkenCiv]

this may help, pdf to html freebie:
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #160 Saturday, August 11, 2007
Prehistory and Origins
First Europeans Came From Asia, Not Africa, Tooth Study Suggests
	Posted by BGHater On News/Activism 08/08/2007 12:17:01 PM EDT · 35 replies · 699+ views National Geographic News | 06 Aug 2007 | Kate Ravilious Europe's first early human colonizers were from Asia, not Africa, a new analysis of more than 5,000 ancient teeth suggests. Researchers had traditionally assumed that Europe was settled in waves starting around two million years ago, as our ancient ancestors -- collectively known as hominids -- came over from Africa. But the shapes of teeth from a number of hominid species suggest that arrivals from Asia played a greater role in colonizing Europe than hominids direct from Africa. These Asian hominids may have originally come from Africa, the scientists note, but had evolved independently for some time. (Related: "Did Early Humans First Arise in...
Study points to larger role of Asian ancestors in evolution (challenging "Out of Africa" theory)
	Posted by GeorgeKant On News/Activism 08/07/2007 11:51:06 AM EDT · 21 replies · 634+ views AFP (Yahoo!) | Tue Aug 7, 8:10 AM CHICAGO (AFP) - A new analysis of the dental fossils of human ancestors suggests that Asian populations played a larger role than Africans in colonizing Europe millions of years ago, said a study released Monday. The findings challenge the prevailing "Out of Africa" theory, which holds that anatomically modern man first arose from one point in Africa and fanned out to conquer the globe, and bolsters the notion that Homo sapiens evolved from different populations in different parts of the globe. The "Out of Africa" scenario has been underpinned since 1987 by genetic studies based mainly on the rate of...
Early Humans In China One Million Years Ago
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/06/2007 1:27:06 PM EDT · 32 replies · 693+ views Science Daily | 8-2-2007 | American Geophysical Union Source: American Geophysical Union Date: August 2, 2007 Early Humans In China One Million Years Ago Science Daily -- Chronology and adaptability of early humans in different paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental settings are important topics in the study of human evolution. China houses several early-human (Paleolithic) archaeological sites along the Nihewan Basin near Mongolia, some with artifacts that date back about 1 million years ago. Deng et al. analyze one specific locality in the Nihewan Basin, called the Feiliang Paleolithic Site, where several stone artifacts and mammalian bone fragments have been found buried in basin silts. By analyzing remnant magnetizations of...
Africa
Finds test human origins theory
	Posted by Domandred On News/Activism 08/08/2007 1:58:39 PM EDT · 97 replies · 1,219+ views BBC News | James Urquhart Two hominid fossils discovered in Kenya are challenging a long-held view of human evolution. The broken upper jaw-bone and intact skull from humanlike creatures, or hominids, are described in Nature. Previously, the hominid Homo habilis was thought to have evolved into the more advanced Homo erectus, which evolved into us. Now, habilis and erectus are now thought to be sister species that overlapped in time. The new fossil evidence reveals an overlap of about 500,000 years during which Homo habilis and Homo erectus must have co-existed in the Turkana basin area, the region of East Africa where the fossils were...
Fossils paint new picture of human evolution
	Posted by Brujo On News/Activism 08/08/2007 2:23:07 PM EDT · 37 replies · 641+ views AP via Yahoo | 2007-Aug-08 | Julie Steenhuysen An ancient skull and upper jawbone from two early branches of the human family tree -- Homo erectus and Homo habilis -- suggest the early human ancestors may have lived close together for half a million years, researchers said on Wednesday. The fossils, discovered in eastern Africa, challenge the understanding that humans evolved one after another like a line of dominoes, from ancient Homo habilis to Homo erectus and eventually to Homo sapiens, or modern people. "There has been a view that has suggested habilis very slowly evolved into erectus," said Susan Anton, a professor of anthropology at New York...
Kenyan Fossils May Add New Branch to Human Family Tree
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/08/2007 6:50:18 PM EDT · 24 replies · 476+ views National Geographic | 8-8-2007 | John Roach Kenyan Fossils May Add New Branch to Human Family Tree John Roach for National Geographic News August 8, 2007 A pair of fossils recently discovered in Kenya is challenging the straight-line story of human evolution. Traditional evolutionary theories of the genus Homo suggest a successive progression: Homo habilis gave rise to Homo erectus, which then begat modern humans, Homo sapiens. H. erectus is commonly seen as the most similar ancestor to modern humans, differing mostly by having a brain about three-quarters the size. But the newly found upper jawbone and skull, which come from two separate skeletons, suggest that H....
Skull Suggests Two Early Humans Lived at Same Time
	Posted by RDTF On News/Activism 08/08/2007 11:36:16 PM EDT · 40 replies · 688+ views Foxnews.com | August 8, 2007 | AP WASHINGTON -- Surprising fossils dug up in Africa are creating messy kinks in the iconic straight line of human evolution with its knuckle-dragging ape and briefcase-carrying man. The new research by famed paleontologist Meave Leakey in Kenya shows our family tree is more like a wayward bush with stubby branches, calling into question the evolution of our ancestors. The old theory was that the first and oldest species in our family tree, Homo habilis, evolved into Homo erectus, which then became us, Homo sapiens. But those two earlier species lived side-by-side about 1.5 million years ago in parts of Kenya...
Meet the Flintstones
Ancient Human Fossils Show Women Much Smaller
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/09/2007 4:18:21 PM EDT · 29 replies · 651+ views Reuters | 8-9-2007 Ancient human fossils show women much smaller Thu Aug 9, 2007 10:18AM EDT NAIROBI (Reuters) - Homo erectus, long viewed as a crucial evolutionary link between modern humans and their tree-dwelling ancestors, may have been more ape-like than previously thought, scientists unveiling new-found fossils said on Thursday. Revealing an ancient skull and a jawbone from two early branches of the human family tree -- Homo erectus and Homo habilis -- a team of Kenyan scientists said they were surprised to find that early female hominids were much smaller than males. The skull was the first discovery of a female Homo...
Lucy, No Ricky
Famous fossil Lucy leaves Ethiopia (on a U.S. tour)
	Posted by NormsRevenge On News/Activism 08/06/2007 10:10:14 PM EDT · 57 replies · 649+ views AP on Yahoo | 8/6/07 | Anita Powell - ap ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - After 3.2 million years in East Africa, one of the world's most famous set of fossils was quietly flown out of Ethiopia overnight for a U.S. tour that some experts say is a dangerous gamble with an irreplaceable relic. Although the fossil known as Lucy had been expected to leave the Ethiopian Natural History Museum this month, some in the nation's capital were surprised the departure took place under cover of darkness with no fanfare Sunday. "This is a national treasure," said Kine Arega, a 29-year-old attorney in Addis Ababa. "How come the public has no...
Rome and Italy
Fire Damages Rome's Famed Film Studios
	Posted by JACKRUSSELL On News/Activism 08/10/2007 9:46:38 PM EDT · 5 replies · 167+ views ABC News | August 10, 2007 | The Associated Press (ROME) -- A fire on the set of "Rome," a completed HBO series on the ancient empire, has damaged part of the famed Cinecitta film studios. No one was reported injured. The blaze, which started late Thursday, burned through about 32,000 square feet, firefighters said. The sprawling complex on the outskirts of Rome covers more than 715,000 square yards, including buildings, gardens, movie sets and offices. Officials said the site where the fire broke out contained a large amount of highly flammable, synthetic material. The cause of the fire wasn't clear, but officials ruled out arson. The main set of "Rome," which...
Ancient Art
Vandals destroy 8,000-year-old artwork
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 08/08/2007 11:34:41 AM EDT · 13 replies · 233+ views thinkSPAINtoday | Tuesday, August 7, 2007 | Samantha Kett Fluorescent yellow paint was sprayed over carvings, thought to be around 8,000 years old, inside the Cova de la Clau in Palma de Gandia, last week. However, they left a 16,000-year-old engraving of a horse in the Cova del Parpallo untouched... Some of the carvings, which were discovered in 2001, have been removed and are held in various museums throughout the province, but those that remain have been declared UNESCO heritage sites. This is not the first time prehistoric engravings in La Safor caves have been under threat from vandals. Three years ago, graffiti was found in the Cova del...
British Isles
Stone Age Site Surfaces After 8,000 Years
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/06/2007 2:28:14 PM EDT · 30 replies · 969+ views Science Daily | 8-5-2007 Source: University of Southampton Date: August 5, 2007 Stone Age Site Surfaces After 8000 Years Science Daily -- Excavations of an underwater Stone Age archaeological settlement dating back 8000 years took place at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton between 30 July ñ 3 August 2007. A diver working at the site just off the Isle of Wight coast. (Credit: Copyright Simon Brown 2007) Maritime archaeologists from the Hampshire and Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology (HWTMA) have been working at the site just off the Isle of Wight coast. Divers working at depths of 11 metres have raised sections of the...
Remains of 8000 year old Stone Age settlement found under English Channel
	Posted by neverdem On News/Activism 08/10/2007 2:53:32 PM EDT · 55 replies · 1,382+ views news.yahoo.com | August 10, 2007 | NA Washington, Aug 10 (ANI): Archaeologists have found the remains of a busy Stone Age settlement dating back 8000 years on the floor of the English Channel. The site, just off the Isle of Wight, dates back to the time when Europe and Britain were still linked by land. Garry Momber, director of the Hampshire and Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology, which led the recent excavations, said melting glaciers probably filled in the Channel, driving the settlement's last occupants north to higher ground. "This is the only site of its kind in the United Kingdom," said Momber. "It is important because...
Megaliths and Archaeoastronomy
Perthshire Rock Art Sheds Light On Scotland's Prehistoric Past
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/05/2007 7:00:40 PM EDT · 16 replies · 361+ views 24 Hour Museum | 8-3-2007 | Graham Spicer PERTHSHIRE ROCK ART SHEDS LIGHT ON SCOTLAND'S PREHISTORIC PAST By Graham Spicer 03/08/2007 Archaeologists have discovered a large group of ancient rock art in Perthshire, which they hope will shed more light on the area's prehistoric inhabitants. A team working on National Trust for Scotland (NTS) land as part of the Ben Lawers Historic Landscape Project found the previously undiscovered ëcup-and-ring' style markings on a hillside overlooking Loch Tay and Kenmore. The carvings could date back to Neolithic times and be up to 5,000 years old. Cup-and-ring rock art features abstract symbols of circles and cups, chipped out of the...
Ancient Europe
Scientists say 'Iceman' died from arrow
	Posted by presidio9 On General/Chat 06/07/2007 1:57:15 PM EDT · 54 replies · 1,481+ views Associated Press | 6/6/7 | FRANK JORDANS A prehistoric hunter known as Oetzi whose well-preserved body was found on a snow-covered mountain in the Alps died more than 5,000 years ago after being struck in the back by an arrow, scientists said in an article published Wednesday. Researchers from Switzerland and Italy used newly developed medical scanners to examine the hunter's frozen corpse to determine that the arrow had torn a hole in an artery beneath his left collarbone, leading to a massive loss of blood. That, in turn, caused Oetzi to go into shock and suffer a heart attack, according to the article published online in...
Central Asia
Russia: Ancient Uyghur Fortress on a Tuvan Lake to Turn into a Recreation and Tourist Centre
	Posted by TigerLikesRooster On News/Activism 08/09/2007 1:38:16 AM EDT · 12 replies · 249+ views Tuva-onlines | 01/19/07 | Dina Oyun Ancient Uyghur Fortress on a Tuvan Lake to Turn into a Recreation and Tourist Centre An ancient Uigur Fortress (Por-Bazhyn) on a Tere-Khol lake in the eastern part of Tuva (near Kungurtuk village) can become a 'Russian Shaolin' as Sergei Shoigu, native Tuvan and currently Russian minister for Extraordinary Situations (second in popularity after President Putin Russian) put it in today's Rossiiskaya Gazeta daily. A research expedition to the ruined fortress of Por-Bazhyn will take place this summer with an archeological team numbering over 200 people. 'We shall build there a Russian Shaolin and invite everybody to come there. And...
Navigation
Marco Polo discovered America 200 years before Colombus, according to map
	Posted by HAL9000 On News/Activism 08/09/2007 6:28:45 AM EDT · 89 replies · 2,149+ views AFP via translation | August 9, 2007 Possible discovered of America by Marco Polo before Colomb: account in VSD 'America - its West coast - would have been discovered by Marco Polo some 200 years before Christophe Colomb, according to a chart of the Library of the Congress in Washington examined since 1943 by the FBI and whose history is told in published review VSD Wednesday. This document, brought to the Library in 1933 by Marcian Rossi, an American naturalized citizen originating in Italy, "represents a boat beside a chart showing part of India, China, Japan, the Eastern Indies and North America", indicates the report/ratio of...
Panspermia
Rutgers scientists debunk a life-origin theory
	Posted by Bladerunnuh On News/Activism 08/09/2007 6:23:00 PM EDT · 26 replies · 574+ views North Jersey Media | 8-7-07 | BOB GROVES For the first time, there are solid data to refute a popular theory that life came to the Earth aboard a comet, Rutgers researchers said Monday. Deteriorated DNA from microbes, frozen for millions of years in the Antarctic ice, shows that organisms could not have survived the bombardment of cosmic radiation during deep space travel from outside the solar system, said Paul Falkowski, a Rutgers biologist and oceanographer. "It's almost an impossibility for comets to seed other planets with life after they've been in space for millions of years," Falkowski said. That's because genetic material is severely damaged or destroyed...
Greece
Alexander's Gulf outpost uncovered
	Posted by fishhound On News/Activism 08/07/2007 1:22:58 PM EDT · 15 replies · 476+ views BBC | Tuesday, 7 August 2007, | Neil Arun Alexander the Great's awe-inspiring conquest of Asia is drawing archaeologists to a desert island off the shores of Iraq. Failaka ruins (pic: Greek Ministry of Culture) The Greek and Kuwaiti governments are co-operating at the site Greek government experts are going to Failaka - a Gulf outpost of Alexander's army, now governed by Kuwait. The island's bullet-holed buildings tell of a conflict still fresh in people's memories - Saddam Hussein's brief occupation of Kuwait in the early 1990s. Beneath the sun-baked sands of Failaka, archaeologists hope to unearth the secrets of an earlier conquest - a settlement established by Alexander's...
Egypt
Queen Nefertiti: More Than A Pretty Face
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/08/2007 11:02:53 PM EDT · 35 replies · 1,280+ views Expatica | 8-8-2007 Queen Nefertiti: More than a pretty face German scientists have discovered that the world's most beautiful woman allowed herself to be sculpted with wrinkles to appear more beautiful. Maybe wrinkles are not so bad, after all, some German scientists have discovered. In ancient times, such laugh lines and wrinkles around the mouth improved the face of Nefertiti, the Egyptian queen acclaimed as the world's most beautiful woman. X-ray pictures of the bust by a computer tomography machine at the nearby Charite Hospital in Berlin revealed that the sculpture is a piece of limestone with details added using four outer layers...
Epigraphy and Language
Timbuktu Hopes Ancient Texts Spark a Revival
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 08/07/2007 1:47:24 PM EDT · 13 replies · 173+ views NY Times | August 7, 2007 | Lydia Polgreen Ismael Diadie Haidara held a treasure in his slender fingers that has somehow endured through 11 generations -- a square of battered leather enclosing a history of the two branches of his family, one side reaching back to the Visigoths in Spain and the other to the ancient origins of the Songhai emperors who ruled this city at its zenith. [Candace Feit for The New York Times]
Faith and Philosophy
In Afghanistan, 900-Foot Sleeping Buddha Eludes Archaeologists
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/07/2007 6:24:52 PM EDT · 30 replies · 896+ views CS Monitor | 8-7-2007 | Mark Sappenfield In Afghanistan, 900-foot Sleeping Buddha eludes archaeologistsBut researchers are finding and preserving other ancient riches. By Mark Sappenfield | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor from the August 7, 2007 edition BAMIYAN, AFGHANISTAN - After the Taliban fell, France sent Zemaryalai Tarzi to this Afghan valley on a quest bordering on the mythological. His goal: to find Sleeping Buddha, the reclining sculpture that, at 900 feet long, would be nearly 10 times the size of the Buddhas destroyed by the Taliban in 2001. He brought the ultimate treasure map -- the journal of a 7th- century Chinese pilgrim who...
Climate
Ancient Glacier Creatures Brought Back To Life (8-Million-Years-Old)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/06/2007 7:14:01 PM EDT · 39 replies · 1,000+ views The Telegraph (UK) | 8-6-2007 | Roger Highfield Ancient glacier creatures brought back to life By Roger Highfield, Science Editor Last Updated: 8:35pm BST 06/08/2007 Creatures that once lived eight million years ago have been successfully thawed from the ice of an Antarctic glacier, in an experiment that sounds like a scene from a science fiction film. The feat of revival was managed with as yet unidentified single-celled microbes and should pose no health issues, say the scientists. However, it does show that evolution of simpler organisms is complicated by thawing glaciers which allow ancient bugs to contribute their old genes to modern populations. The finding is significant,...
Sunken Civilizations
Underwater Stone Formation at Bimini: Ancient Harbor Evidence (Uncovering the Bimini Hoax)
	Posted by Renfield On General/Chat 08/06/2007 8:27:45 PM EDT · 25 replies · 431+ views Mysterious America | 11/2005 | Greg Little In 1968 a 1600-foot long J-shaped formation of stone blocks was reportedly discovered about one mile off the west coast of North Bimini, Bahamas by a Miami-based biologist, Dr. J. Manson Valentine. The formation was initially thought to resemble a collapsed wall or a road and the unfortunate name "Bimini Road" was attached to it. Media coverage speculated that the site was associated with Atlantis and sensationalized reports about the formation were widely disseminated. Shortly thereafter, four geologists asserted that the formation was nothing but natural limestone. Most archaeologists and geologists have accepted the four geologists' claims without question. However,...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Mammoth Discovery
	Posted by dynachrome On News/Activism 07/11/2007 7:17:12 PM EDT · 55 replies · 1,408+ views cnn.com | 7-11-07 | Cnn A mammoth that died 10,000 years ago was unearthed in Siberia.
Paleontology
Archaeologists discover 8-million-year-old forest in Hungary
	Posted by DaveLoneRanger On News/Activism 08/08/2007 6:09:13 PM EDT · 91 replies · 1,442+ views BreitBart | August 6, 2007 | Staff Archaeologists have found an eight-million-year old forest of cypresses, well preserved and not fossilised, in Bukkabrany in north eastern Hungary. "The discovery is exceptional as the trees kept their wooden structure, they neither turned into coal nor were petrified," Tamas Pusztai, the deputy director and head of the archaeological department at the local Otto Herman museum who oversaw the excavation, told AFP. Archaelogists announced the find last week after uncovering the mysterious forest of taxodiums, a kind of swamp cypress, after a few days of digging. Miners working in a brown coal mine had first uncovered several tree trunks that...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Ancient Ruler's Tomb, Gold Trove Found in Bolivia Pyramid
	Posted by BGHater On News/Activism 08/07/2007 12:22:59 PM EDT · 9 replies · 613+ views National Geographic News | 06 Aug 2007 | Kelly Hearn A 1,300-year-old skeleton buried with a cache of gold artifacts has been found in a Bolivian pyramid, archaeologists say. The remains are believed to belong to an elite member of the ancient Tiwanaku culture, which thrived on the shores of Lake Titicaca from about A.D. 400 to 1200 (see Bolivia map). Scientists found the bones and offerings this spring in the upper reaches of the Akapana pyramid, a heavily looted temple experts say is one of the largest pre-Hispanic structures in South America. The condition of the artifacts and the skeleton's location inside the pyramid lead researchers to believe the...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Archaeologists discover sixth-century mosaic floor near Palmahim
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 08/08/2007 11:44:09 AM EDT · 10 replies · 127+ views Haaretz | Wednesday, August 8, 2007 | Ofri Ilani A floor mosaic dating back to the sixth century, depicting trees and fruit baskets, was uncovered this week at the Yavneh-Yam archaeological site near Kibbutz Palmahim. The floor, discovered during excavations by Tel Aviv University's Institute of Archaeology, decorated the dining room of a Byzantine villa, containing unbroken pottery... The numerous artifacts uncovered at the site point to extensive cultural and trade ties with Egypt, Lebanon, Cyprus and the Greek Isles. At the end of the fifth century, it was home to a monk known as Peter the Iberian - a charismatic bishop of Georgian origin who gathered around him...
Helix, Make Mine a Double
Researchers re-identify Titanic child
	Posted by DancesWithCats On General/Chat 08/05/2007 10:38:26 PM EDT · 21 replies · 392+ views Yahoo News | august 6 2007 | DancesWithCats Wed Aug 1, 7:54 PM OTTAWA (AFP) - Canadian researchers on Wednesday said they positively identified the remains of a young child who died when the RMS Titanic sank in 1912. (Advertisement) The remains belong to a 19-month-old English boy named Sidney Leslie Goodwin who died with his family as they were setting out for a new life in Niagara Falls, New York, researchers said. Goodwin's body was found floating in the waters of the North Atlantic six days after the luxury liner sank on April 15,9 1912, killing 1,503 passengers and crew. Many of the Titanic victims are buried...
Longer Perspectives
The 2007 FreeRepublic Lexicon (Lingo, Dictionary, Lore Handbook)
	Posted by batter On News/Activism 08/06/2007 5:06:00 PM EDT · 107 replies · 1,747+ views FReepers | 6 August 2007 | FReepers (batter) The 2007 FreeRepublic LexiconAKA "The Freepism, Freepology, Lingo, Dictionary, Terminology, Lore Handbook" A revised and condensed version of The Lexicon of FreeRepublic, culled from Lexicon of FreeRepublic - 4th Edition and Freeper Lingo Thread (the history and meening of 'Freepisms' including pictures). Thanks to the many Freepers who contributed! (see also The 2006 FreeRepublic LexiconI have attempted to include all definitions and histories provided to me and give credit to those who provided me the information. I apologize, in advance to those I failed to credit, but please understand that it was very difficult to keep up with all the...
Early America
Mesa State accepts donated journals of trailblazers of West, Lewis and Clark
	Posted by george76 On News/Activism 08/08/2007 11:29:18 AM EDT · 16 replies · 177+ views The Daily Sentinel | August 08, 2007 | KYLENE KIANG The foundation marked Gormley's achievement with a donation of books -- seven volumes of the journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition -- to the Tomlinson Library at Mesa State College. The journals of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark... were edited by Gary Moulton and published by the University of Nebraska Press. They are known among today's historians as the best and most current version of the duo's journey through the American West. Mesa State College Library Director Elizabeth Brodak said the fact that the books are forms of primary source material... "Anyone who wishes to get that flavor for...
Sifting Through History (Acadia)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/06/2007 1:55:47 PM EDT · 12 replies · 273+ views The Chronicle Herald | 8-5-2007 | Tom McCoag Sifting through historyLong-lost Acadian settlement reveals itself layer by layer in new excavation By TOM MCCOAG Amherst Bureau | 6:08 AM Gilbert Losier, of Dieppe, N.B., holds up a metal object he unearthed while participating in the dig at Beaubassin. A shard of glass and a piece of a pipe, two of the artifacts dug from the earth at the site of what was once an Acadian village.Amateur archeologists work pits and trenches that dot the field where the Acadian village of Beaubassin once stood. They were participating in a public dig sponsored by Parks Canada."Archeologist Clarice Valotaire leans into...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Edmund Fitzgerald life ring found
	Posted by SunkenCiv On News/Activism 08/08/2007 1:24:07 AM EDT · 58 replies · 2,502+ views WOOD TV 8 (Grand Rapids) | Tuesday, August 7, 2007 | Rachael Ruiz Joe Rasch and his two daughters, Emily and Elizabeth, were looking for agates on the Lake Superior coastline last Friday. Instead, they found a piece of history - a life ring from the Edmund Fitzgerald. Rasch admits he didn't realize what he found when he first saw the orange ring lying under a with pine tree that had fallen. Only when his daughter Emily read the words on the ring, it hit him. "It was pretty hard to read," Emily said. "I saw the Ed pretty good, then Fitz, so." They made the discovery near the Keweenau Peninsula, about 200 miles...
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Gods Graves Glyphs Digest #160 20070811 · Saturday, August 11, 2007 · 33 topics · 1879592 to 1864472 · still 650 members ·
	Saturday August 4 2007 v 4 n 03 view this issue	Welcome to the issue 160 of the Gods, Graves, Glyphs ping list Digest. There were a few topics which were duplicative to at least some degree (the high was five), but the selection once again was good. Thanks to all who contributed. The power outage a couple of weekends ago caused the corruption of the hard drive's b-tree (not my own machine, that of my late father) and I'll be shelling out $100 or so for Disk Rescue II tomorrow. I really don't want to spend that kind of cash, but it's a necessity. Sometime after the rescue is complete I plan to reformat the drive. Not that you need to know all that. Visit the Free Republic Memorial Wall -- a history-related feature of FR.
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #161 Saturday, August 18, 2007
Let's Have Jerusalem
Archeologists discover footprint made by sandal of Roman soldier
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 08/15/2007 2:46:56 PM EDT · 24 replies · 426+ views Haaretz | Wednesday, August 15, 2007 | Ofri Ilani Archeologists have discovered a footprint made by the sandal of a Roman soldier - one of the few such finds in the world - in a wall surrounding the Hellenistic-Roman city of Sussita, east of Lake Kinneret. The discovery of the print made by a hobnailed sandal, the kind used by the Roman legions during the time when Rome ruled the region, led to the presumption that legionnaires or former legionnaires participated in the construction of walls such as the one in which the footprint was found... Last year, the archeologists found an inscription written by two Sussita residents when...
Angkors Aweigh
REVEALED: Australia's raiders of the lost wat
	Posted by BlackVeil On News/Activism 08/13/2007 7:55:10 PM EDT · 8 replies · 306+ views Canberra Times | 14 August 2007 | Rosslyn Beeby Australian archaeologists using complex radar and satellite technology to map the medieval city of Angkor have discovered more than 70 new temples scattered across a vast area of farmland and forests in north-west Cambodia. University of Sydney archaeologist Damian Evans said, "It's huge. We've mapped a massive settlement stretching well beyond the main temples of the World Heritage tourist area in Siem Reap. "We've found the city was roughly five times bigger than previously thought." The newly discovered ruins of the ancient Khmer empire metropolis sprawl across 1000sqkm "about 20km in every direction" outside the United Nations listed World Heritage...
Sprawling Angkor Brought Down By Overpopulation, Study Suggests
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/13/2007 11:23:51 PM EDT · 19 replies · 351+ views National Geographic | 8-13-2007 | Susan Brown Sprawling Angkor Brought Down By Overpopulation, Study Suggests Susan Brown for National Geographic News August 13, 2007 Cambodia's long-lost temple complex of Angkor is the world's largest known preindustrial settlement, reveals a new radar study that found 74 new temples and more than a thousand manmade ponds at the site. But urban sprawl and its associated environmental devastation may have led to the collapse of the kingdom, which includes the renowned temple of Angkor Wat, the study suggests. Ever since the late 16th century, when Portuguese traders spied the towers of the monument poking through a dense canopy of trees,...
Map reveals ancient urban sprawl (bad enviro-policy blamed).
	Posted by Jedi Master Pikachu On News/Activism 08/14/2007 7:44:29 AM EDT · 16 replies · 484+ views BBC | August 14, 2007 The researchers disovered at least 74 new temples The great medieval temple of Angkor Wat in Cambodia was once at the centre of a sprawling urban settlement, according to a new, detailed map of the area.Using Nasa satellites, an international team have discovered at least 74 new temples and complex irrigation systems. The map, published in the journal PNAS, extends the known settlement by 1000 sq km, about the size of Los Angeles. Analysis also lends weight to the theory that Angkor's residents were architects of the city's demise. "The large-scale city engineered its own downfall by disrupting its...
Radar reveals vast medieval Cambodian city: study
	Posted by Renfield On General/Chat 08/16/2007 1:04:41 PM EDT · 9 replies · 83+ views Yahoo news | 8-13-07 CHICAGO (AFP) - Archaeologists using radar imagery have shown that an ancient Cambodian settlement centered on the celebrated temple of Angkor Wat was far more extensive than previously thought, a study released Monday said. The medieval settlement surrounding Angkor, the one-time capital of the illustrious Khmer empire which flourished between the ninth and 14th centuries, covered a 3,000 square kilometer area (1,158 square miles). The urban complex was at least three times larger than archaeologists had previously suspected and easily the largest pre-industrial urban area of its kind, eclipsing comparable developments such as Tikal a Classic Maya "city" in Guatemala....
Catastrophism and Astronomy
NSF Press Release: Comet May Have Exploded Over North America 13,000 Years Ago
	Posted by baynut On News/Activism 08/15/2007 8:32:04 PM EDT · 40 replies · 837+ views National Science Foundation Press Release | August 14, 2007 | Cheryl Dybas, NSF A "black mat" of algal growth in Arizona marks the extinction of mammoths 12,900 years ago New scientific findings suggest that a large comet may have exploded over North America 12,900 years ago, explaining riddles that scientists have wrestled with for decades, including an abrupt cooling of much of the planet and the extinction of large mammals. The discovery was made by scientists from the University of California at Santa Barbara and their colleagues. James Kennett, a paleoceanographer at the university, said that the discovery may explain some of the highly debated geologic controversies of recent decades. The period in...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Ballard Chases History Again In The Black Sea
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/14/2007 4:32:33 PM EDT · 16 replies · 664+ views The Day | 8-14-2007 | Katie Warchut Ballard Chases History Again In The Black Sea Excavation of shipwreck part of 3-leg research trip By Katie Warchut Published on 8/14/2007 It's a painfully slow process, watching a robotic arm brush, inch-by-inch, the sediment off a 900-year-old shipwreck 400 feet underwater in the Black Sea. But when the dust settles, Robert Ballard, president of the Institute for Exploration at Mystic Aquarium, and his team hope to have a better look into a time capsule of early human history. About 6 miles off the coast of Ukraine, Ballard watched from a NATO research vessel Monday on a high-definition plasma television screen....
Anatolia
Puzzle of Midas, tombs if Catalhoyuk and mosaics of Sanliurfa
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 08/15/2007 2:37:55 PM EDT · 2 replies · 4+ views New Anatolian | Wednesday, August 15, 2007 | unattributed Prof. Elizabeth Simpson from Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has combined the woodworks found in the tomb of the renowned Phrygian King Midas like a "puzzle" and after a careful study of 27 years, she brought to light 3 sacred tables belonging to the king. Simpson, who first found out that the drawings about the artifacts found in the tomb were incorrect, discovered afterwards that the two wooden pieces which were thought to be "thrones" were actually a "sacred ceremony table" and a "portable sanctuary". Carrying out her studies at the Anatolian Civilizations Museum of capital Ankara currently, Simpson...
Erythraean Sea
Ancient UAE Was Active Trading Hub
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/17/2007 7:55:21 PM EDT · 11 replies · 191+ views Xpress | 8-16-2007 | Derek Baldwin Ancient UAE Was Active Trading Hub · XPRESS/DANESH MOHIUDDIN · Archaeologists now claim that the Arabian Peninsula was home to developed settlements during the same period. Published: August 16, 2007, 12:13 By Derek Baldwin, Staff Reporter You might want to set aside those early school lessons that taught you the dawn of Western civilisation was confined to Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq). An expert panel of archaeologists from around the world now claim the Arabian Peninsula -- long thought to be a barren wasteland from around 5,000BC -- was home to developed settlements during the same period. In the August 3 edition of Science...
Faith and Philosophy
Claims Galore As Buddhist History Claims New Territory
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/14/2007 4:43:02 PM EDT · 8 replies · 205+ views The Hindu | 8-14-2007 | Parul Sharma Claims galore as Buddhist history claims new territory Parul Sharma "High time Orissa got its due as a prominent centre" Making a point: Professor James Freeman in New Delhi. Photo: V.V. Krishnan NEW DELHI: Even as there are claims and counter-claims about Lord Buddha being born in Kapileswar village near Bhubaneswar and not Lumbini in present-day Nepal as believed all along so far, an American anthropologist says it is time Orissa got its due as one of the most prominent centres of Buddhism in the world. "The numerous Buddhist sites in Orissa, the antiquities and sculptures found there reflect many...
Epigraphy and Language
Ancient Persian (Zoroastrian) influence on Hinduism
	Posted by freedom44 On News/Activism 08/17/2007 9:04:01 PM EDT · 12 replies · 314+ views Cybernooon | 10/17/07 | Cybernoon Hinduism pertains to Hindus but the word Hindu itself is actually a Persian word coined by Cyrus the great in the 6th century B.C. to describe people who lived beyond the river Indus which was the eastern boundary of the ancient Persian empire. The Persians had a phonetic problem with the letter 'S' hence, Sindhu became Hindu just as Rigveda's Soma came from Zend Avesta's Hoama. Such fascinating phonetic affinities! Even the word Shudra in Hinduism's caste-system came from the Persian word Hatoksha. Originally, there were only three castes but the camp followers collected by Persians on their travels were...
Greece
ARCHAEOLOGIST MAY HAVE FOUND MYSTERIOUS LOST CITY OF APOLLO
	Posted by Renfield On General/Chat 08/16/2007 7:15:14 AM EDT · 13 replies · 245+ views Thisisexeter.co.uk | 8-09-07 A devon archaeologist believes he has found the Lost City of Apollo.Dennis Price, who shot to prominence after finding a missing altar stone from Stonehenge, is the man behind what could be an amazing discovery. Mr Price, a father-of-two who lives in Broadclyst, has undertaken years of research on the stone circle. With the help of language experts from Exeter University, Mr Price has translated the early works of the Greek mariner Pytheas of Massilia, who was one of the earliest visitors to Britain, in around 325BC, and who wrote of the City of Apollo. Now, after dedicated work, Mr...
Navigation
Neolithic Village Found In Orkney Sheds New Light On Stone Age Life
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/13/2007 7:32:54 PM EDT · 9 replies · 399+ views The Times | David Lister Neolithic village found in Orkney sheds new light on Stone Age life August 14, 2007 David Lister The remains of a Neolithic settlement discovered in Orkney were hailed yesterday as potentially as important as the Skara Brae village on the islands. The 2.5 hectare site is believed to date back nearly 5,000 years and to include a complex system of temples and dwellings spread over two fields. The find, at Ness of Brodgar, between the Ring of Brodgar and the Stones of Stenness, will add to the area's reputation as home to some of the most remarkable archaeological monuments in...
British Isles
How Bronze Age man Enjoyed His Pint
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/12/2007 7:39:08 PM EDT · 64 replies · 1,175+ views BBC | 8-12-2007 How Bronze Age man enjoyed his pint Declan Moore and Billy Quinn have an ancient beer theory Bronze Age Irishmen were as fond of their beer as their 21st century counterparts, it has been claimed. Two archaeologists have put forward a theory that one of the most common ancient monuments seen around Ireland may have been used for brewing ale. Fulacht fiadh - horseshoe shaped grass covered mounds - are conventionally thought of as ancient cooking spots. But the archaeologists from Galway believe they could have been the country's earliest breweries. To prove their theory that an extensive brewing tradition...
Sunken Civilizations
Fight on to save Stone Age Atlantis
	Posted by Renfield On General/Chat 08/11/2007 9:35:28 AM EDT · 7 replies · 118+ views BBC News | 8-8-07 | Eleanor Williams A race against time is under way to try to save a Stone Age settlement found buried at the bottom of the sea in the Solent. The village under the sea off the Isle of Wight was found by chance Eight thousand years ago the area would have been dry land, a valley and woodland criss-crossed by rivers. A swamped prehistoric forest was identified off the northern Isle of Wight coast in the 1980s, but Bouldnor Cliff's buried Stone Age village was only found - by chance - a few years ago. Divers taking part in a routine survey spotted...
Rome and Italy
Intact 2,000-Year Old Etruscan Tomb Discovered
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/13/2007 7:43:25 PM EDT · 30 replies · 804+ views Reuters | 8-13-2007 | Deepa Babington Intact 2,000-year old Etruscan tomb discovered Mon Aug 13, 2007 7:58PM BST By Deepa Babington ROME (Reuters) - Archaeologists have discovered a more than 2,000-year-old Etruscan tomb perfectly preserved in the hills of Tuscany with a treasure trove of artefacts inside, including urns that hold the remains of about 30 people. The tomb, in the Tuscan town of Civitella Paganico, probably dates from between the 1st and 3rd centuries B.C., when Etruscan power was in decline, Andrea Marcocci, who led digging at the site, told Reuters. "It's quite rare to find a tomb intact like this," said Marcocci, who had...
Egypt
The Tale Of A City (Tharo - Egypt)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/12/2007 7:31:49 PM EDT · 5 replies · 203+ views Al-Ahram | 8-12-2007 | Nevine El-Aref The tale of a city The discovery of the eastern fortress of the New Kingdom military town of Tharo in North Sinai charts the military quarters used by the ancient Egyptian to protect Egypt's northeast border, says Nevine El-Aref From top: a worker brushing the sand off the newly discovered water channel; a bird view of the Tharo foundation; the inscription of king Seti I engraved on a wall of Karnak Temples photos courtesy of SCA The fortified city of Qantara East (Sharq) in North Sinai is often hailed by historians as Egypt's eastern gateway to the Nile Delta. Its...
Megaliths and Archaeoastronomy
World's oldest telescope? [ Assyrian telescope? ]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 08/11/2007 11:19:25 AM EDT · 30 replies · 337+ views BBC | Thursday, July 1, 1999 | Dr David Whitehouse According to Professor Giovanni Pettinato of the University of Rome, a rock crystal lens, currently on show in the British museum, could rewrite the history of science. He believes that it could explain why the ancient Assyrians knew so much about astronomy. It is a theory many scientists might be prepared to accept, but the idea that the rock crystal was part of a telescope is something else. To get from a lens to a telescope, they say, is an enormous leap. Professor Pettinato counters by asking for an explanation of how the ancient Assyrians regarded the planet Saturn as...
Agriculture
Trying To Fathom Farming's Origins
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/15/2007 1:42:04 PM EDT · 56 replies · 674+ views The Columbus Dispatch | 8-14-2007 | Bradley T Lepper Trying to fathom farming's origins Tuesday, August 14, 2007 3:22 AM By Bradley T. Lepper Tom Dillehay, an archaeologist with Vanderbilt University, and several colleagues announced last month in the journal Science that they had recovered remarkably early evidence for agriculture in South America. Working at several sites in the Nanchoc Valley of northern Peru, they found squash seeds that were more than 9,000 years old. This is nearly twice as old as previously reported farming evidence in the region. Dillehay and his co-authors point out that one of the most important aspects of this discovery is that "horticulture and...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Double-nosed dog not to be sniffed at
	Posted by Renfield On General/Chat 08/12/2007 5:00:11 PM EDT · 32 replies · 523+ views BBC News | 8-10-07 Explorer Colonel John Blashford-Snell has had close encounters with vampire bats and angry bees, but his latest brush has been with a rather odd dog. He spotted a rare breed of Double-Nosed Andean tiger hound, which has two noses, on a recent trip to Bolivia. Xingu is said to be intelligent and fond of salty biscuits The chairman of the Scientific Exploration Society said the dog, named Xingu, was "not terribly handsome". He said: "This breed could be used for sniffing out mines or narcotics because they have an enhanced sense of smell." Colonel Blashford-Snell first encountered a Double-Nosed Andean...
Helix, Make Mine a Double
Scientists Re-trace Evolution Via Ancient Protein
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/17/2007 7:44:48 PM EDT · 43 replies · 484+ views Newswise | 8-16-2007 | University Of Oregon Source: University of Oregon Released: Mon 13-Aug-2007, 15:00 ET Scientists Re-trace Evolution Via Ancient Protein Newswise -- Scientists have determined for the first time the atomic structure of an ancient protein, revealing in unprecedented detail how genes evolved their functions. "Never before have we seen so clearly, so far back in time," said project leader Joe Thornton, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Oregon. "We were able to see the precise mechanisms by which evolution molded a tiny molecular machine at the atomic level, and to reconstruct the order of events by which history unfolded." The work involving the...
Longer Perspectives
Not Breeding Obvious In Splits Of Human Evolution
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/15/2007 5:51:14 PM EDT · 39 replies · 833+ views The Canberra Times | 8-15-2007 | Simon Grose Not breeding obvious in splits of human evolution Simon Grose 15 August 2007 ABOUT 353,000 babies will be born into the world today, about 700 of them in Australia. Same as yesterday and same as tomorrow. Many of their parents will worry about being able to properly feed them, or whether they may have contracted HIV in the womb. Whatever circumstances today's new children and their families face, every birth evokes a degree of hope. Firstly, that the baby is fit and well. Beyond that, a myriad of hopes can be evoked to lead their nation, to be rich, beautiful,...
South Beach Diet
Cannibal Tribe Apologises For Eating Methodists
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/16/2007 5:12:55 PM EDT · 118 replies · 2,243+ views The Telegraph (UK) | 8-16-2007 | Nick Squires Cannibal tribe apologises for eating Methodists By Nick Squires in Sydney Last Updated: 3:29pm BST 16/08/2007 A tribe in Papua New Guinea has apologised for killing and eating four 19th century missionaries under the command of a doughty British clergyman. Sorcery and witchcraft are still common in some Papuan tribes The four Fijian missionaries were on a proselytising mission on the island of New Britain when they were massacred by Tolai tribesmen in 1878. They were murdered on the orders of a local warrior chief, Taleli, and were then cooked and eaten. The Fijians - a minister and three teachers...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Medieval crucifix found in Austrian rubbish skip
	Posted by txroadkill On News/Activism 08/16/2007 6:07:08 PM EDT · 23 replies · 904+ views Reuters via Yahoooooo | 08/16/07 | Staff An 800-year-old, gold-plated crucifix that went missing after being seized by the Nazis has been found in a rubbish skip in Austria, police said. The crucifix, made of copper and enamel, was crafted in Limoges, France, and was part of a Polish art collection brought to Austria during Nazi rule, Josef Holzberger, police spokesman in Salzburg, said on Thursday. It was found in 2004 in the lakeside winter resort of Zell am See by a woman combing through a skip filled with the discarded possessions of a neighbor who had just died. "The lady had a soft spot for old...
Locals share tales about the homefront during World War II
	Posted by SandRat On General/Chat 08/16/2007 10:01:51 PM EDT · 3 replies · 44+ views Sierra Vista Herald/Review | Laura Ory SIERRA VISTA -- When soldiers threw nickels, dimes and canteens over the fence Joe Garcia and his brother knew what to do. After filling the empty canteens as quickly as they could from their family's drum of water, they threw them back before the soldiers were caught resting on their march. "Then they'd march off with full water canteens," he said. It's one of the memories Garcia has as a child in Sierra Vista during World War II and one of the stories from residents being collected for the Henry T. Hauser Museum's World War II Homefront exhibit. Local residents...
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Gods Graves Glyphs Digest #161 20070818 · Saturday, August 18, 2007 · 29 topics · 1882867 to 1879711 · now 651 members ·
	Saturday August 18 2007 v 4 n 04 view this issue	Welcome to the 161st issue of the Gods, Graves, Glyphs ping list Digest. This has been another very good week, although we have some (mostly) non-pinged topics which were duplicative of past issues. Check them out, particularly if you're new. Last week's issue said August 4th, rather than 11th, in one spot, my apologies. There's a new header this week, "Erythraean Sea", and the topics are arranged in what I hope is the best order, although I usually stick with geographical order (west to east, east to west, whatever) to some extent. Your mind's eye will be busier than usual I think. Data Rescue II appeared to have worked when I ran it for hours last weekend. I believe I'll be reformatting the internal drive a week from now. Also, broadband may be coming to the lone prairie homestead by September, which will be nice, not least because I won't be paying for it. Make it a great week. Visit the Free Republic Memorial Wall -- a history-related feature of FR.
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #162 Saturday, August 25, 2007
Neandertal / Neanderthal
Handsome By Chance: Why Humans Look Different From Neanderthals
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/19/2007 8:45:36 PM EDT · 52 replies · 1,353+ views Science Daily | 8-16-2007 | U/C Davis Source: University of California, Davis Date: August 16, 2007 Handsome By Chance: Why Humans Look Different From Neanderthals Science Daily -- Chance, not natural selection, best explains why the modern human skull looks so different from that of its Neanderthal relative, according to a new study led by Tim Weaver, assistant professor of anthropology at UC Davis. Model of the Neanderthal man. Exhibited in the Dinosaur Park Munchehagen, Germany. (Credit: iStockphoto/Klaus Nilkens) "For 150 years, scientists have tried to decipher why Neanderthal skulls are different from those of modern humans," Weaver said. "Most accounts have emphasized natural selection and the...
South Beach Diet
Study: Men With 'Cavemen' Faces Most Attractive to Women
	Posted by jmcenanly On News/Activism 08/23/2007 5:32:03 PM EDT · 128 replies · 3,379+ views Fox News | Thursday, August 23, 2007 | Jeanna Bryner Guys with bulldog-like faces have been chick magnets throughout human evolutionary history. A recent study of the skulls of human ancestors and modern humans finds that women, and thereby evolution, selected for males with relatively short upper faces. The region between the brow and the upper-lip is scrunched proportionately to the overall size of their heads. Among the men who fit the bill: Will Smith and Brad Pitt. In a past study, researchers found a similar facial pattern in chimpanzees, with males having relatively shorter and broader faces compared with females, controlling for body size. Men with "mini mugs" might...
She's a Rainbow
Women really do prefer pink, researchers say
	Posted by Brujo On News/Activism 08/21/2007 2:32:12 PM EDT · 158 replies · 2,249+ views Reuters via Yahoo | 2007 Aug 20 | Reuters Boys like blue, girls like pink and there isn't much anybody can do about it, researchers said on Monday in one of the first studies to show scientifically that there are gender-based color preferences. Researchers said these differences may have a basis in evolution in which females developed a preference for reddish colors associated with riper fruit and healthier faces. ... "We speculate that this sex difference arose from sex-specific functional specialization in the evolutionary division of labor," she wrote in Current Biology. "There are biological reasons for liking reddish things." ... "Women have a very clear pattern. It's low...
Prehistory and Origins
Great ape find forces rethink on man's evolution
	Posted by DaveLoneRanger On News/Activism 08/23/2007 10:38:19 AM EDT · 267 replies · 3,720+ views The Guardian | August 23, 2007 | Ian Sample The discovery of a new species of great ape that roamed Africa 10m years ago has forced scientists to rethink the earliest steps of human evolution. Fossil hunters working along the Afar rift in central Ethiopia unearthed remnants of teeth they claim belonged to the primitive ape, a previously unknown species of gorilla they named Chororapithecus abyssinicus. The finding, if confirmed, will redraw the evolutionary tree of primates, suggesting that humans and chimpanzees must have split from their gorilla-like ancestors 3m years earlier than thought. Geneticists have previously put the date at which the human and chimpanzee lineage split from...
Multiregionalism
Did prehistoric man enter Europe through the Balkans?
	Posted by Renfield On General/Chat 08/23/2007 7:41:47 AM EDT · 13 replies · 127+ views SAWF.org | 8-22-07 Could the Balkans, rather than previously accepted areas such as the Strait of Gibralter, have been the entry point for the first men in Europe? ORESHETZ, Bulgaria (AFP) - A team of 20 Bulgarian and French archeologists are trying to prove this theory after 11 years of excavation and research in the Kozarnika cave in northwestern Bulgaria. The digging up at this mountainous site of traces of human activity dating back 1.4 to 1.6 million years throws into question theories about when and where man first set foot in Europe. According to current theories, the Europeans' prehistoric ancestors came into...
Africa
Egypt discovers what may be oldest human footprint
	Posted by fanfan On News/Activism 08/20/2007 7:06:14 PM EDT · 29 replies · 467+ views Yahoo | Mon Aug 20 | Yahoo news CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian archaeologists have found what they said could be the oldest human footprint in history in the country's western desert, the Arab country's antiquities' chief said on Monday. "This could go back about two million years," said Zahi Hawass, the secretary general of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities. "It could be the most important discovery in Egypt," he told Reuters. Archaeologists found the footprint, imprinted on mud and then hardened into rock, while exploring a prehistoric site in Siwa, a desert oasis. Scientists are using carbon tests on plants found in the rock to determine its...
Ancient Europe
Lepenski Vir: a Mesolithic Paradise: The birth of town planning, the birth of sculpture
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 08/23/2007 1:46:59 PM EDT · 18 replies · 125+ views Smithsonian (via author's website) | 1975 | Robert Wernick Once the inhabitants had settled in, time seems to have stood still in Lepenski Vir. Study of the bones found there shows that there was no admixture of foreign population; the same people remained on the spot, intermarrying generation after generation, perhaps 120 generations in all - well over 2,500 years. During all that time they remained healthy. (Did they, like the ancient Greeks, toss aside the infants that did not live up to their sturdy standards?) There are no deformed or diseased bones here, and the women were so robust that it is hard to tell their skeletons from...
Agriculture
Today's White Rice Is Mutation Spread By Early Farmers
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/21/2007 7:28:54 PM EDT · 41 replies · 656+ views Science Daily | 8-21-2007 | CornellUniversity Source: Cornell University Date: August 21, 2007 Today's White Rice Is Mutation Spread By Early Farmers Science Daily ó Some 10,000 years ago white rice evolved from wild red rice and began spreading around the globe. But how did this happen? White and red grains of rice. (Credit: Courtesy of Susan McCouch) Researchers at Cornell and elsewhere have determined that 97.9 percent of all white rice is derived from a mutation (a deletion of DNA) in a single gene originating in the Japonica subspecies of rice. Their report, published online in the journal PloS (Public Library of Science) Genetics, suggests...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
CU-Boulder Team Discovers First Ancient Manioc Fields In Americas
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/21/2007 5:18:10 PM EDT · 25 replies · 471+ views Eureka Alert | 8-20-2007 | Payson Sheets-Colorado University Contact: Payson Sheets Payson.Sheets@colorado.edu 303-492-7302 University of Colorado at Boulder CU-Boulder team discovers first ancient manioc fields in Americas Prehistoric manioc plantation buried by volcanic ash about 600 A.D. may help explain how Maya supported dense populations CU-Boulder anthropology Professor Payson Sheets maps ancient household at site of Ceren in El Salvador. A University of Colorado at Boulder team excavating an ancient Maya village in El Salvador buried by a volcanic eruption 1,400 years ago has discovered an ancient field of manioc, the first evidence for cultivation of the calorie-rich tuber in the New World. The manioc field was discovered...
Ancient Autopsies
Life Existed 9,000 Years Ago (Florida, 12,000 YO Artifacts)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/19/2007 8:35:45 PM EDT · 42 replies · 1,206+ views Sun Herald | 8-15-2007 Life existed more than 9,000 years ago Discovery made at Little Salt Spring Little Salt Spring ranks as one of the major archaeological sites in the western hemisphere. Even though only 5 percent of the spring has been explored, divers have found artifacts dating back 12,000 years ago. NORTH PORT -- After thousands of years underwater, a handful of North Port's history resurfaced in a Ziploc bag. "They don't call it hardwood for nothin'!" said Steve Koski to John Gifford after the two emerged from the Little Salt Spring with a radiocarbon sample last week. Koski, an archaeologist at Little...
Navigation
Were Seafarers Living Here 16,000 Years Ago? (Canada)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/21/2007 5:07:03 PM EDT · 30 replies · 749+ views Times Colonist | 8-21-2007 | Randy Boswell Were seafarers living here 16,000 years ago?Site off Queen Charlottes could revolutionize our understanding of New World colonization Randy Boswell, CanWest News Service Published: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 In a Canadian archeological project that could revolutionize understanding of when and how humans first reached the New World, federal researchers in B.C. have begun probing an underwater site off the Queen Charlotte Islands for traces of a possible prehistoric camp on the shores of an ancient lake long since submerged by the Pacific Ocean. The landmark investigation, led by Parks Canada scientist Daryl Fedje, is seeking evidence to support a contentious...
Vikings
Danes say sorry for Viking raids on Ireland
	Posted by Rb ver. 2.0 On News/Activism 08/16/2007 11:00:04 PM EDT · 172 replies · 2,254+ views http://www.guardian.co.uk | 8/17/07 | Owen Bowcott More than 1,200 years ago hordes of bloodthirsty Viking raiders descended on Ireland, pillaging monasteries and massacring the inhabitants. Yesterday, one of their more mild-mannered descendants stepped ashore to apologise. The Danish culture minister, Brian Mikkelson, who was in Dublin to participate in celebrations marking the arrival of a replica Norse longboat, apologised for the invasion and destruction inflicted. "In Denmark we are certainly proud of this ship, but we are not proud of the damages to the people of Ireland that followed in the footsteps of the Vikings," Mr Mikkelson declared in his welcoming speech delivered on the dockside...
Stop The Apologizing Already - Danes Sorry For Looting And Pillaging (by the Vikings)
	Posted by DogByte6RER On General/Chat 08/19/2007 5:07:57 PM EDT · 7 replies · 79+ views RightWingNews.com | August 17, 2007 | RightWingNews.com Stop The Apologizing Already Apologies must be in this year, Danes sorry for looting and pillaging MORE than 1200 years ago hordes of bloodthirsty Viking raiders descended on Ireland, pillaging monasteries and massacring the inhabitants. On Wednesday, one of their more mild-mannered descendants stepped ashore to apologise. The Danish Minister for Culture, Brian Mikkelson, who was in Dublin to celebrate the arrival of a replica Norse longboat, apologised for the invasion and destruction inflicted. "In Denmark we are certainly proud of this ship but we are not proud of the damage to the people of Ireland that followed in the...
British Isles
Archaeologists Uncover County's 'First Capital (Cork, Ireland - 1200BC)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/21/2007 5:39:48 PM EDT · 10 replies · 380+ views Irish Examiner | 8-21-2007 | Sean O'Riordan Archaeologists uncover county's 'first capital' By Sean O'Riordan21 August 2007 ARCHAEOLOGISTS believe they have discovered what may have been Cork's ancient capital, built 3,200 years ago at a time when Rameses III was pharaoh of Egypt. A team of archaeologists from UCC, led by Professor William O'Brien, have carried out extensive research that sheds new light on what is the largest prehistoric monument in Co Cork and the oldest dated ringfort in the country. Their three-year project, funded by the Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences and the Royal Irish Academy, shows that huge wooden defence walls once...
Megaliths and Archaeoastronomy
Seahenge Saga Comes Full Circle
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/23/2007 3:02:08 PM EDT · 19 replies · 749+ views EDP24 | 8-23-2007 Seahenge saga comes full circle 23 August 2007 The story of Seahenge has turned full circle, as the ancient timbers are returned to Norfolk. But as experts prepare them to go on display at King's Lynn Museum, CHRIS BISHOP finds an enigma that remains unsolved. Nearly 10 years after its controversial excavation, the mystery remains. While the upturned oak tree and its ring of timbers have taught us a few things we didn't know about our ancestors, we still don't know why they built it. Late in 1998, a long-forgotten landscape began re-emerging from beneath the sands of Holme Beach,...
Faith and Philosophy
Cameras Might Shed Light On City Crypt Mysteries (St Stevens Church)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/22/2007 6:20:05 PM EDT · 9 replies · 413+ views This Is Exeter | 8-22-2007 CAMERAS MIGHT SHED LIGHT ON CITY CRYPT MYSTERIES 11:40 - 22 August 2007 Thanks to modern technology some of the mysteries surrounding a crypt under the floor of St Stephen's Church in Exeter could soon by solved. Although the crypt has been there since the church was built in the 11th century it has no door, so architects and archaeologists are planning to use fibre optic cameras to see what is there. The church in Exeter High Street is undergoing a £1m restoration. The roof and tower are being repaired and the medieval sanctuary, which was above St Stephen's Bow,...
Egypt
Kingston Lacy Relics Offer Insight Into Ancient Egypt
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/22/2007 5:57:29 PM EDT · 3 replies · 125+ views 24 Hour Museum | 8-22-2007 KINGSTON LACY RELICS OFFER INSIGHT INTO ANCIENT EGYPT By 24 Hour Museum Staff 22/08/2007 In total, 212 ostraka have been discovered at Kingston Lacey, of which 175 bear identifiable texts. © NTPL A crate of ancient Egyptian relics discovered at a National Trust property has turned out to be a large collection of inscribed pottery sherds known as 'ostraka', used by scribes to write a variety of notes and messages. Among the pieces, found during work in the cellars of Kingston Lacy in Dorset are over one hundred tax receipts given by officials for poll tax, mortgages and income tax,...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Temple's location found, says Israeli archaeologist
	Posted by Traianus On News/Activism 08/19/2007 9:17:58 AM EDT · 67 replies · 2,242+ views WND | 08-18-07 | WND Using maps created in 1866 by a British explorer and passages from the Jewish Mishnah, an Israeli archaeologist and professor at Hebrew University says he has pinpointed the location of the sacred Jewish Temple, twice built and twice destroyed in ancient times.
Rome and Italy
Sardinia's Phoenician Settlement
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/19/2007 9:00:16 PM EDT · 9 replies · 256+ views Ansa | 8-17-2007 2007-08-17 19:38Sardinia's Phoenician settlement New digs on western coast may unearth ancient Othoca (ANSA) - Oristano, August 17 - An ancient Phoenician colony on the western coast of Sardinia may soon yield some of its long-buried secrets during new excavations. Othoca, founded by the Phoenicians some 2,600 years ago, partly evolved into the modern-day town of Santa Giusta but most remnants of the original settlement lie buried under a thick layer of mud at the bottom of a large lake. Experts believe the lake, separated from the sea by a narrow bridge of land, was once the port of Othoca,...
Asia
Inside The Emperor's Underground Palace (China)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/22/2007 5:46:36 PM EDT · 3 replies · 302+ views The Times (UK) | 8-22-2007 From The Times (UK) August 22, 2007 Inside the Emperor's underground palace Dalya Alberge, Arts Correspondent It covers an area the size of Cambridge but so far only a tiny proportion of the site of the First Emperor of China's underground palace for the afterlife has been excavated. Now Chinese archaeologists have used computerised imagery to complete a 3-D reconstruction of the giant tomb that lies 30 metres beneath a mound, with the Qinling mountains in the background. The dramatic imagery has been made available to The Times by the historian John Man, before he publishes pictures and a detailed description...
Sunken Civilizations
Experts Survey Seabed Off Gujarat For Dwarka Evidence (India)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 08/19/2007 5:12:19 PM EDT · 16 replies · 340+ views New Kerala.com | 8-17-2007 Experts survey seabed off Gujarat for Dwarka evidence New Delhi, Aug 17 : A group of archaeological experts and Indian Navy divers have conducted the first scientific survey off the Gujarat coast to establish whether or not the ruins on the seabed are of the mythological city of Dwarka, the capital of Hindu god Krishna. "The area off the Samudranaraya temple at (present day) Dwarka is known to contain structures which have been widely reported and interpreted by renowned scholars. However, no scientific study of the area had been conducted so far," Alok Tripathi of the Archaeological Survey of India...
Diet, Food, Recipes
World's oldest chewing gum found
	Posted by Daffynition On General/Chat 08/19/2007 10:02:15 PM EDT · 22 replies · 232+ views Metro UK | Sunday, August 19, 2007 | staff reporter Spitting out chewing gum on the street is a widely despised habit that can land you with a fine. But our tendency to discard the half-masticated blob appears to date back at least 5,000 years, it was revealed. The ancient equivalent of a Wrigley's Spearmint has been prised from the ground by a British archaeology student digging in Finland. The lump of birch bark tar dates back to Neolithic times and comes complete with Stone Age tooth prints. Sarah Pickin, 23, was among five British students volunteering at the Kierikki Stone Age Centre in Finland when she found the tiny,...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
PRC to Build Replica of Forbidden City in Anna Texas
	Posted by Vortex On News/Activism 08/20/2007 4:39:10 PM EDT · 54 replies · 1,137+ views ctig.cn Plans to build new "China Town" with replica of Forbidden City in Anna, Texas. Anna is approx 40 miles north of Dallas and the development is planned just West of the intersection of US 75 and FM 455. (Interestingly near where the Trans-corridor is currently proposed to be) Machine Translation ...The world's largest real estate project 250,000 acres China City The new special economic zones -- the United States after the completion of the largest city in Texas, is a reconstruction of Shenzhen, China. Two real estate developers to invest in new bright spot. Chinese immigrants in the United...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Rare Persian Leopard Triplets Born in Zoo
	Posted by freedom44 On News/Activism 08/20/2007 7:20:52 PM EDT · 25 replies · 567+ views Livescience | 8/20/07 | Livescience BUDAPEST, Hungary - A set of rare Persian leopard triplets was presented Tuesday at the Budapest Zoo. The cubs -- a male and two females -- were born at the zoo on June 19 and were doing well, said zoo spokesman Zoltan Hanga. The Persian leopard -- Panthera pardus saxicolor -- is the largest of the leopard subspecies and is native to Western Asian countries like Iraq, Afghanistan and Armenia. It is endangered; fewer than 2,000 are thought to survive in the wild. A further 74 live in zoos. The cubs born in Hungary -- sisters Bella and Bara and...
Oh So Mysterioso
Ringwood Manor just a bit spooky
	Posted by Coleus On General/Chat 08/20/2007 7:39:41 PM EDT · 6 replies · 106+ views northjersey.com | August 20, 2007 | CATHERINE MARTINEZ For Kathleen Tanis of West Milford, the mines and ghosts of the historic Ringwood Manor will always have special significance. Tanis grew up listening to stories of her great-grandfather's death by beheading after a mining accident at Peter's Mine located near the grounds of the 200-year-old estate. Her grandmother firmly believed that his ghost haunted the Manor. "My grandmother said that after that, he could never rest in peace," she said. "She said he haunted the upstairs bedroom, and she was glad he did!" Ringwood Manor is one of two historic estates in Ringwood State Park. (The other estate is...
Longer Perspectives
Was Thomas Jefferson an alarmist?
	Posted by Starman417 On News/Activism 08/21/2007 12:27:51 AM EDT · 14 replies · 434+ views The Reference Frame | 08-20-07 | Lumo James Hansen has released a new scientific paper The Real Deal: Usufruct & the Gorillareflecting the most rigorous kind of scientific "thinking" that this director of a NASA institute is capable or willing to perform. He explains that all global warming skeptics are controlled by big fish and that no errors in his work can ever matter. I suppose that everyone has already seen these "theories" and everyone could be bored if we responded again. But there is a brand new "argument" in Hansen's new "paper", after all: it turns out that Thomas Jefferson was an AGW alarmist! Who could...
Early America
100 Days That Shook the World
	Posted by Pharmboy On General/Chat 08/20/2007 9:11:20 AM EDT · 27 replies · 282+ views The Smithsonian | July, 2007 | John Ferling On March 15, 1781, American forces inflicted heavy losses on the British Army at Guilford Courthouse, North Carolina. The redcoats had seemed invincible only a few months before. Winter clouds scudded over New Windsor, New York, some 50 miles up the Hudson River from Manhattan, where Gen. George Washington was headquartered. With trees barren and snow on the ground that January 1781, it was a "dreary station," as Washington put it. The commander in chief's mood was as bleak as the landscape. Six long years into the War of Independence, his army, he admitted to Lt. Col. John Laurens,...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Irish Railroad Grave Mystery Solved
	Posted by scouse On News/Activism 08/22/2007 8:12:53 AM EDT · 40 replies · 1,241+ views BBC Online | 8-22-07 | Unknown Irish railroad grave mystery solved Scientists in Pennsylvania believe they have found a mass grave containing the bodies of 57 Irish immigrants who died 175 years ago. The men from Donegal, Tyrone and Londonderry had made the journey across the Atlantic in the summer of 1832 to work on the railroads, but their time in the US was tragically short. Mystery still surrounds the question of how they met their deaths just six weeks after getting off the boat - a cholera epidemic was blamed, but foul play has never been ruled out. At the time, a cholera epidemic was...
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Gods Graves Glyphs Digest #162 20070825 · Saturday, August 25, 2007 · 28 topics · 1885597 to 1883353 · still 651 members ·
	Saturday August 25 2007 v 4 n 05 view this issue	Welcome to the 162nd issue of the Gods, Graves, Glyphs ping list Digest. I just realized that the Edmund Fitzgerald lifering topic (the artifact turned out to be fake, alas) was one of 29 last week. That was fitting, yet entirely accidental. This week we bid a fond adieu to Fairopinion; she has been, shall we say, not a part of the FR community for some months, perhaps for having loved too well. Regardless, I think it's time to remove her name. That one change balances the new members who joined (I believe we had someone quit this week, perhaps that was last week), making the count match last week's. Ever wish you were blessed with wealth instead of rugged good looks or vast intellect? Tough, ain't it? People either hate you because you're beautiful, or stab you in the back because they're jealous of your brains. Make it a great week. Visit the Free Republic Memorial Wall -- a history-related feature of FR.
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Roman Soldier's Sandal Print Uncovered Near Sea Of Galilee http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070824184336.htm# Roman sandal print at Hippos (Sussita) left a pattern of small perforations in cement. Average adult feet on either side of the footprint show scale. (Credit: University of Haifa) Archaeologists have discovered a footprint made by the sandal of a Roman soldier in a wall surrounding the Hellenistic-Roman city of Hippos (Sussita), east of the Sea of Galilee. The footprint was discovered during this eighth season of excavation, led by Prof. Arthur Segal from the Zinman Institute of Archaeology at the University of Haifa in conjunction with archaeologists from the Polish Academy of Sciences and Concordia University in St. Paul, Minnesota. This rare footprint, which is complete and well preserved, hints at who built the walls, how and when," said Michael Eisenberg of the Zinman Institute at the University of Haifa. The print, made by a hobnailed sandal called caliga, the sandal worn by Roman soldiers, is one of the only finds of this type. The discovery of the print in the cement led archaeologists to presume that legionnaires participated in construction of the walls. The excavations of this section of the southern city walls also revealed towers and well-protected structures for positioning weapons such as catapults and ballistae built into the wall. The ancient city of Hippos (Sussita), at 350 meters above sea level, overlooks the Sea of Galilee. The city was established during the period of Seleucid rule. It flourished during the Roman and Byzantine periods until it was destroyed by an earthquake in the year 749. Hippos (Sussita), together with Beit Shean and other cities east of the Jordan River, formed the "Decapolis", the area in which Jesus performed most of the miracles described in the New Testament. "The remains of Sussita, its view of the Golan Heights and the Galilee and its historic significance in Christianity, have made it one of the most attractive sites in northern Israel," said Prof. Segal. This season's excavations have uncovered additional, important finds: the city's colonnaded street, some 240 meters long; a magnificent, marble-paneled bathhouse; and a glass bottle with an embossed face. On the final day of the dig another unusual find was uncovered: part of a white marble statue, a hand holding a staff, apparently part of a Greek god. The archaeologists are hopeful that during the next digging season they will find other pieces of the statue which is estimated to be 2 meters high.

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