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Gods, Graves, Glyphs
Weekly Digest #170
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Prehistory and Origins
Fragments of another skull unearthed at the Atapuerca site
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 10/16/2007 10:49:05 AM EDT · 13 replies
Typically Spanish | July 24, 2007 | m.p
Juan Luis Arsuaga, co-director of the excavations, announced on Tuesday that the discovery was made in the 'Sima de los Huesos, - 'The Pit of the Bones' and that the skull is that of a hominid female, probably in her teens. It's the sixteenth such find at the site, and is believed to be more than 500,000 years old. Another of the three Atapuerca co-directors, Jose Maria Bermudez de Castro, has meanwhile said that a study of two fossilised human teeth also discovered at the dig will likely be published in an international scientific journal early next year. One of...
Neandertal / Neanderthal
Inconsistencies With Neanderthal Genomic DNA Sequences
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/15/2007 1:45:59 PM EDT · 37 replies
Science Daily | 10-14-2007 | Public Library of Science
Source: Public Library of Science Date: October 14, 2007 Inconsistencies With Neanderthal Genomic DNA Sequences Science Daily -- Were Neanderthals direct ancestors of contemporary humans or an evolutionary side branch that eventually died out? This is one of the enduring questions in human evolution as scientists explore the relationship of fossil groups, such as Neanderthals, with people alive today. Two recent papers describing the sequencing of Neanderthal nuclear DNA from fossil bone held promise for finally answering this question [1, 2]. However, the two studies came to very different conclusions regarding the ancestral role of Neanderthals. Jeffrey D. Wall and...
Africa
Early humans may have used makeup, seafood
Posted by Pharmboy
On News/Activism 10/17/2007 2:22:47 PM EDT · 36 replies
AP Science via Yahoo! | 10-17-07 | SETH BORENSTEIN
In one of the earliest hints of "modern" living, humans 164,000 years ago put on primitive makeup and hit the seashore for steaming mussels, new archaeological finds show. Call it a beach party for early man. But it's a beach party thrown by people who weren't supposed to be advanced enough for this type of behavior. What was found in a cave in South Africa may change how scientists believe Homo sapiens marched into modernity. Instead of undergoing a revolution into modern living about 40,000 to 70,000 years ago, as commonly thought, man may have become modern in stuttering fits...
ASU team detects earliest modern humans
Posted by Boxen
On News/Activism 10/18/2007 11:17:11 AM EDT · 6 replies
ASU News | October 17, 2007 | Jodi Guyot, Carol Hughes
Evidence of early humans living on the coast in South Africa 164,000 years ago, far earlier than previously documented, is being reported in the Oct. 18 issue of the journal Nature. The international team of researchers reporting the findings include Curtis Marean, a paleoanthropologist with the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University and three graduate students in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change. "Our findings show that at 164,000 years ago in coastal South Africa humans expanded their diet to include shellfish and other marine resources, perhaps as a response to harsh environmental conditions," notes Marean,...
Biology and Cryptobiology
First Chimpanzee Fossils Cause Problems for Evolution
Posted by truthfinder9
On News/Activism 02/15/2006 2:47:51 PM EST · 148 replies · 3,639+ views
reasons.org
First Chimpanzee Fossils Cause Problems for Evolution by Fazale (Fuz) R. Rana, Ph.D.Where were you on September 1, 2005? Perhaps you missed the announcement of a scientific breakthrough: the influential journal Nature published the completed sequence of the chimpanzee genome.1This remarkable achievement received abundant publicity because it paved the way for biologists to conduct detailed genetic comparisons between humans and chimpanzees.2Unfortunately, the fanfare surrounding the chimpanzee genome overshadowed a more significant discovery. In the same issue, Nature published a report describing the first-ever chimpanzee fossils. This long-awaited scientific advance barely received notice because of the fascination with the chimpanzee genome....
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Ancient Mexican City Raises Questions About Mesoamerica's Mother Culture
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/14/2007 12:20:42 PM EDT · 43 replies
My San Antonio | Tracy L. Barnett
Ancient Mexican city raises questions about Mesoamerica's Mother Culture Web Posted: 10/11/2007 05:17 PM CDT Tracy L. Barnett Express-News Travel Editor TAMUIN, Mexico -- Deep in the Huastec jungle the enormous carved stone monolith stands, suspended over the pool of water where a team of archaeologists discovered it. A powerful woman stands at the center of the carving, flanked by two smaller decapitated women. A stream of liquid flows from the headless women toward the woman in the center. Altug S. Icilensu/Special to the Express-NewsThe leader salutes the musicians before beginning the Malinche, a traditional Huastec dance. The women on...
NAGPRA
Native American Skull Found At Malibu Construction Site
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/17/2007 5:24:12 PM EDT · 40 replies
Malibu Surfside News | 10-17-2007 | Anne Soble
Native American Skull Found at Malibu Construction Site -- State Native American Heritage Commission Initiates Process for Handling Find -- BY ANNE SOBLE A human skull unearthed at a construction site in the Paradise Cove mobile home park has been officially declared a prehistoric Native American find, and the wheels have been put in motion for the remains to be handled in accord with state law. Workers preparing the foundation for a new mobile home in the beachside complex discovered the skull during routine digging Monday at about 4 p.m. and contacted the sheriff's department. Capt. Ed Winter of the Operations...
Ancient Europe
Czech Archaeologists Find 7,000 Year-Old Unique Statue
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/19/2007 12:15:37 AM EDT · 17 replies
Xinhuanet | 10-19-2007 | China View
Czech archaeologists find 7,000 year-old unique statue www.chinaview.cn 2007-10-19 01:26:14 PRAGUE, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- Czech Archaeologists have uncovered a part of a half-meter high statue of a woman nearly 7,000 years old in the country, which was called "a find of the century," the daily Mlada fronta Dnes (MfD) reported on Thursday. Experts from Brno's Masaryk University confirmed the unique character of the statue uncovered in Masovice, South Moravia area of the Czech republic, the paper said. The hollow legs and haunch of the female statue, made of ceramic, originate in 4,800 - 4,700 B.C., MfD wrote. Nothing similar...
Asia
Dynasty of Nomads: Rediscovering the forgotten Liao Empire
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 10/19/2007 9:27:43 AM EDT · 3 replies
Archaeology | November/December 2007 | Jake Hooker
The Liao Empire was once considered a minor state on the fringes of Chinese civilization. Chinese-language sources depicted the Khitan as barbarians; Western scholars, who hadn't seen much material evidence other than Liao pagodas, regarded the dynasty as esoteric. But discoveries in Inner Mongolia over the past three decades have prompted scholars to reconsider these views, and Liao society is now recognized as a sophisticated blend of Khitan and Chinese traditions... Scholars agree Liao rulers adapted Chinese customs and traditions over time. They governed the sedentary Chinese population with a civil bureaucracy modeled on the earlier Tang dynasty (A.D. 618-907):...
Greece
Greece hoists Parthenon sculptures to new home
Posted by wagglebee
On News/Activism 10/15/2007 7:34:55 PM EDT · 8 replies
Reuters | 10/14/07 | Renee Maltezou
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece on Sunday began moving the ancient sculptures from the temples of the Athens Acropolis to a new museum, designed specifically to prod the British Museum into returning its own prized collection of Parthenon marbles. Dozens of bystanders, some in tears, watched as three cranes relayed a massive stone slab from the 2,500-year-old Parthenon. It was carved with four youths leading bulls to sacrifice to the goddess Athena. "I am trembling, it touches my soul," said pensioner Pelagia Boulamatsi, 71, unable to hold back tears. "This is an ancient civilization that is the foundation of the world."...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Archaeology and the Propaganda War Against Israel
Posted by Renfield
On News/Activism 10/15/2007 7:39:40 AM EDT · 13 replies
History News Network | 10-15-07 | Richard L. Cravats
Archeology and the Propaganda War Against Israel By Richard L. Cravatts In one of those ironies of questionable scholarship, just as a battle over a Barnard scholar's book about Israeli archeology had inflamed her application for tenure, heavy equipment was tearing away at the ancient crown of Jerusalem's 36-acre Temple Mount, Judaism's holiest site. Nadia Abu El-Haj's book, Facts on the Ground: Archeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society, originally a doctoral thesis, questions the historical existence of a Jewish link to Israel, and her provocative claims have caused her to become the center of a fractious debate about...
Archaeoastronomy and Megaliths
Professor Says History's Best Known and Most Debated Star Proven
Posted by AngieGal
On News/Activism 10/16/2007 11:14:43 PM EDT · 25 replies
ASSIST News Service | Tuesday, October 16, 2007 | Jeremy Reynalds
For centuries, historians, scientists and scholars have debated the existence of the Star of Bethlehem in the Biblical telling of Christ's birth. Now Texas lawyer and professor Rick Larson says he has proven the existence of this celebrated, yet debated, star. He sets forth his case in a documentary, "The Star of Bethlehem." "Historically, people have taken two positions on the Star," said Larson in a news release. "Either they believe the Star is true or they think it was made up by the early Church. I took a different approach in my research and treated the Star as a...
Pandemics, Epidemics, Disease
Medieval DNA, Modern Medicine (Lessons From The Black Death)
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/16/2007 3:58:12 PM EDT · 33 replies
Archaeology Magazine | 11/12-2007 | Heather Pringle
Medieval DNA, Modern Medicine Volume 60 Number 6, November/December 2007 by Heather Pringle Will a cemetery excavation establish a link between the Black Death and resistance to AIDS? Beneath Eindhoven's modern skin of brick and asphalt lie the bones of its medieval townspeople. Studying their DNA may reveal the origin of the genetic resistance to AIDS. (Courtesy Laurens Mulkens) From the start, Nico Arts sensed that the frail remains of a child buried in front of a medieval church altar had an important story to tell. Arts is the municipal archaeologist in Eindhoven, a prosperous industrial city in the southern...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Robin Hood's Prison? Sheriff's Dungeon Found At Nottingham Gaol
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/17/2007 5:33:00 PM EDT · 31 replies
24 Hour Museum | 10-17-2007 | Caroline lewis
ROBIN HOOD'S PRISON? SHERIFF'S DUNGEON FOUND AT NOTTINGHAM GAOL By Caroline Lewis 17/10/2007 New evidence has been discovered that the medieval caves under Nottingham's Galleries of Justice museum were once used by the Sheriff of Nottingham as a prison. The dark dungeon cells would have been in use when the Sheriff resided at the Shire Hall and County Gaol. "It is an exciting discovery," said Tim Desmond, Chief Executive at the Galleries. "The cave has always been known as the 'Sheriff's Dungeon', but until...
British Isles
Just What Did The Mary Rose Tell Us?
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/14/2007 7:03:20 PM EDT · 20 replies
BBC | 10-14-2007 | Finlo Rohrer
Just what did the Mary Rose tell us? By Finlo Rohrer BBC News Magazine The Mary Rose in dry dock The raising of the Mary Rose in 1982 was greeted with feverish excitement, but what has this landmark find actually told us in the 25 years since? At the tail end of 1982 it seemed like you couldn't switch on Newsround without seeing something to do with Mary Rose. Our fascination with the ship that met a sticky end while firing at a French invasion fleet in 1545 has flared at times in the years since. It is almost a...
Ancient Autopsies
Time Changes Modern Human's Face
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 01/25/2006 11:52:48 AM EST · 130 replies · 7,422+ views
BBC | 1-25-2006 | Rebecca Morelle
Time changes modern human's face By Rebecca Morelle BBC News science reporter Our ancestors had more prominent features but lower foreheads Researchers have found that the shape of the human skull has changed significantly over the past 650 years. Modern people possess less prominent features but higher foreheads than our medieval ancestors. Writing in the British Dental Journal, the team took careful measurements of groups of skulls spanning across 30 generations. The scientists said the differences between past and present skull shapes were "striking". Plague victimsThe team used radiographic films of skulls to record extensive measurements taken by a computer....
Scotland Yet
Earliest Scots Braved Ice Age Conditions
Posted by Renfield
On General/Chat 10/18/2007 6:57:59 AM EDT · 28 replies
Discovery.com | 10-05-07 | Jennifer Viegas
Oct. 5, 2007 -- During the last ice age, Scotland was likely a desolate place covered by glaciers, but new evidence suggests intrepid settlers braved the elements by establishing a community there as early as 13,000 years ago. The determination, published in the latest British Archaeology, further suggests the earliest Scots shared a common ancestor with the first Norwegians, meaning that some people of Scottish descent could be distantly related to modern Norwegians. "So often we hear that conditions in Scotland during the late Paleolithic and early Mesolithic would have prohibited human settlements because the landscape was cold and icy,...
Agriculture
First Farmers Wanted Clothes, Not Food
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/18/2007 11:47:45 PM EDT · 38 replies
The Discovery Channel | 10-15-2007 | Anna Sellah
First Farmers Wanted Clothes, Not Food Anna Sellah, ABC Science Online Oct. 15, 2007 -- People turned to farming to grow fiber for clothing, and not to provide food, says one researcher who challenges conventional ideas about the origins of agriculture.The Original Crop Ian Gilligan, a postgraduate researcher from the Australian National University, says his theory also explains why Aboriginal Australians were not generally farmers. Gilligan says they did not need fiber for clothing, so had no reason to grow crops like cotton. He argues his case in the current issue of the Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association. "Conventional...
Nuts To You
Fossilized cashew nuts reveal Europe was important route between Africa and South America
Posted by decimon
On News/Activism 10/17/2007 2:53:45 PM EDT · 17 replies
Eureka Alert | October 17, 2007 | Unknown
Cashew nut fossils have been identified in 47-million year old lake sediment in Germany, revealing that the cashew genus Anacardium was once distributed in Europe, remote from its modern "native" distribution in Central and South America. It was previously proposed that Anacardium and its African sister genus, Fegimanra, diverged from their common ancestor when the landmasses of Africa and South America separated. However, groundbreaking new data in the October issue of the International Journal of Plant Sciences indicate that Europe may be an important biogeographic link between Africa and the New World. "The occurrence of cashews in both Europe and...
Helix, Make Mine a Double
Genetic ancestral testing cannot deliver on its promise, study warns
Posted by decimon
On News/Activism 10/18/2007 5:40:58 PM EDT · 37 replies
University of California - Berkely | October 18, 2007 | Unknown
Berkeley -- For many Americans, the potential to track one's DNA to a specific country, region or tribe with a take-home kit is highly alluring. But while the popularity of genetic ancestry testing is rising - particularly among African Americans - the technology is flawed and could spawn unwelcome societal consequences, according to researchers from several institutions nationwide, including the University of California, Berkeley. "Because race has such profound social, political and economic consequences, we should be wary of allowing the concept to be redefined in a way that obscures its historical roots and disconnects from its cultural and socioeconomic...
Slightly Silly
Scientists: Appendix protects good germs
Posted by neverdem
On News/Activism 10/06/2007 12:40:57 AM EDT · 48 replies · 1,070+ views
San Luis Obispo Tribune | Oct. 05, 2007 | SETH BORENSTEIN
AP Science Writer Some scientists think they have figured out the real job of the troublesome and seemingly useless appendix: It produces and protects good germs for your gut. That's the theory from surgeons and immunologists at Duke University Medical School, published online in a scientific journal this week. For generations the appendix has been dismissed as superfluous. Doctors figured it had no function, surgeons removed them routinely, and people live fine without them. And when infected the appendix can turn deadly. It gets inflamed quickly and some people die if it isn't removed in time. Two years ago, 321,000...
Extremely Silly
'Black people are less intelligent than whites', claims DNA pioneer (James Watson)
Posted by TigerLikesRooster
On News/Activism 10/17/2007 4:36:52 AM EDT · 452 replies
Daily Mail | 10/17/07
'Black people are less intelligent than whites', claims DNA pioneer One of the world's most eminent scientists is at the centre of a row after claiming black people are less intelligent than whites. James Watson, who won the Nobel Prize for his part in discovering the structure of DNA, has drawn condemnation for comments made ahead of his arrival in Britain tomorrow for a speaking tour. Dr Watson, who now runs one of America's leading scientific research institutions, made the controversial remarks in an interview in The Sunday Times. The 79-year-old geneticist said he was "inherently gloomy about the prospect...
Nobel Scientist Condemned For 'Racist' Claims
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/17/2007 1:20:53 PM EDT · 183 replies
The Telegraph (UK) | 10-17-2007 | Stephen Adams
Nobel scientist condemned for 'racist' claims By Stephen Adams Last Updated: 2:48pm BST 17/10/2007 Nobel Prize winning scientist Dr James Watson has been heavily criticised for making "racist" comments after he said Africans were not as intelligent as Europeans. Dr Watson is no stranger to controversy Dr Watson, who helped unravel the structure of DNA with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins, was roundly condemned for saying he was "inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa" because "all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours -- whereas all the testing says not...
Oh So Mysteriouso
Raiders Of The Faux Ark
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/16/2007 3:34:53 PM EDT · 30 replies
Archaeology Magazine | 10-10-2007 | Eric Cline
Raiders of the Faux Ark October 10, 2007 by Eric H. Cline Biblical archeology is too important to leave to crackpots and ideologues. It's time to fight back. This editorial was first published in the Boston Globe on September 30, 2007, and is republished here with their kind permission. Eric Cline at Megiddo (Courtesy Eric Cline) Noah's Ark. The Ark of the Covenant. The Garden of Eden. Sodom and Gomorrah. The Exodus. The Lost Tomb of Jesus. All have been "found" in the last 10 years, including one within the past six months. The discoverers: a former SWAT team member;...
Navigation
450- Year Old Shipwreck Found In Florida Artifacts Reveal More About Florida's Spanish Past
Posted by rdl6989
On News/Activism 10/12/2007 12:04:14 PM EDT · 8 replies · 917+ views
ABC News | 10-12-2007 | GARRY MITCHELL
In 1559, a hurricane plunged as many as seven Spanish sailing vessels to the bottom of Pensacola Bay, hampering explorer Don Tristan de Luna's attempt to colonize this section of the Florida Panhandle. Almost 500 years later and 15 years after the first ship was found, another has been discovered, helping archaeologists unlock secrets to Florida's Spanish past. The colony at the site of present-day Pensacola was abandoned in 1561, and no trace of it has been found on land. Teams of University of West Florida archaeology students last summer discovered what they thought was the shipwreck, picking up pieces...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Dive Team Discovers 1800s-Era Steamboat At Bottom Of Lake
Posted by stainlessbanner
On News/Activism 10/16/2007 10:45:52 PM EDT · 6 replies
local6 | 16-October-2007
LAKE COUNTY, Fla. -- A sheriff's dive team discovered what is believed to be a late-1800s era steamboat at the bottom of a Central Florida lake during a training exercise last month. The Lake County sheriff's dive team found the boat at the bottom of Lake Minneola in the lake's southwest corner in Clermont while training with side-scan sonar, which they recently acquired. The sonar is a piece of equipment that is dragged by a boat and projects images of the underwater environment. After seeing an image of the boat, which appeared to be about 18 feet long, dive team...
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs
Weekly Digest #171
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Prehistory and Origins
Ancient DNA reveals that some Neanderthals were redheads
Posted by Red Badger
On News/Activism 10/25/2007 2:44:28 PM EDT · 69 replies
www.physorg.com | 10/25/2007 | Harvard University
Ancient DNA retrieved from the bones of two Neanderthals suggests that at least some of them had red hair and pale skin, scientists report this week in the journal Science. The international team says that Neanderthals' pigmentation may even have been as varied as that of modern humans, and that at least 1 percent of Neanderthals were likely redheads. The scientists -- led by Holger Römpler of Harvard University and the University of Leipzig, Carles Lalueza-Fox of the University of Barcelona, and Michael Hofreiter of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig -- extracted, amplified, and sequenced a...
Epigraphy and Language
Caveman (Neanderthal) 'May Have Used Language'
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/20/2007 11:44:57 AM EDT · 60 replies
The Telegraph (UK) | 10-20-2007 | Richard Gray
Cavemen 'may have used language' By Richard Gray, Science Correspondent Last Updated: 12:42pm BST 20/10/2007 They are typically portrayed as primitive brutes capable only of grunting, but new research now suggests Neanderthals may have whiled away the hours in their caves in conversation. Neanderthals may have had their own culture Scientists who have been trawling through the DNA found in Neanderthal bones have discovered that the now extinct species had a "language gene" that is only found in modern humans. Their controversial findings create the tantalising possibility that Neanderthals were in fact capable of speech much like humans and communicated...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Researchers posit new ideas about human migration from Asia to Americas
Posted by decimon
On News/Activism 10/25/2007 5:48:27 PM EDT · 25 replies
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | October 25, 2007 | Andrea Lynn, Humanities Editor
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Questions about human migration from Asia to the Americas have perplexed anthropologists for decades, but as scenarios about the peopling of the New World come and go, the big questions have remained. Do the ancestors of Native Americans derive from only a small number of "founders" who trekked to the Americas via the Bering land bridge? How did their migration to the New World proceed? What, if anything, did the climate have to do with their migration? And what took them so long? A team of 21 researchers, led by Ripan Malhi, a geneticist in the...
NAGPRA
US Officials Return Ancient Remains To Indigenous Tlingit Tribes After Scientific Testing
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/21/2007 12:10:07 PM EDT · 10 replies
International Herald Tribune | 10-19-2007
US officials return ancient remains to indigenous Tlingit tribes after scientific testing The Associated PressPublished: October 19, 2007 ANCHORAGE, Alaska: Human remains estimated to be more than 10,000 years old will be returned to southeast Alaska Tlingit tribes 11 years after they were found in a cave in the Tongass National Forest. It is the first time a federal agency has conveyed custody of such ancient remains to indigenous groups under the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, U.S. Forest Service officials said Friday. "It's a pretty substantial find," said Tongass spokesman Phil Sammon. Vertebrae, ribs, teeth, a...
Navigation
Koryo Pottery Was Headed For Kaesong
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/22/2007 6:25:34 PM EDT · 19 replies
Chosun.com | 10-21-2007
Koryo Pottery Was Headed for Kaesong Underwater excavation in the waters near Dae Island off Taean, South Chungcheong Province has unearthed some 19,000 pieces of 12th-century Koryo celadon, including a lion-shaped incense burner, a toad-shaped inkstone a melon-shaped kettle, and countless bowls. The find was originally made in May, when a fisherman found a pottery shard stuck to the suckers of a webfoot octopus, and an excavation got underway soon afterwards. The National Maritime Museum on Thursday said wooden tags unearthed in the excavation show that the celadon was on its way to Kaesong after being made at a local...
China (literally)
Celadon Porcelains Unearthed In Jiangxi (China)
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/21/2007 12:04:39 PM EDT · 17 replies
China.org.cn | Chen Lin
Celadon porcelains unearthed in Jiangxi A group of ancient tombs was discovered in Shangzhuang County of Fengcheng City in Jiangxi Province, exciting archaeologists. Unfortunately they only found two broken pieces of porcelain after thoroughly searching the tombs because almost all of the sites had been robbed. Just as they were thinking about giving up the search, having discovered that the last tomb they checked was empty of relics, the scientists located a new, hidden tomb linked to the empty one via a side grave room. At first when they perceived the big hole, they thought that it was a tunnel...
Formosa
In Honor Of The Little Black People
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/25/2007 11:05:21 PM EDT · 28 replies
Taipei Times | 11-27-2004 | Jules Quartly
In honor of the Little Black People The Saisiyat tribe of Hsinchu and Miaoli will perform a solemn rite this weekend to commemorate a race of people that they exterminated By Jules Quartly STAFF REPORTER Saturday, Nov 27, 2004. Xiangtian Lake is one of two places to see the ritual. PHOTO: TAIPEI TIMES Drinking, singing and dancing are expected to take place deep in the mountains of Miaoli and Hsinchu when the "Ritual of the Little Black People" ... is performed by the Saisiyat tribe once again this weekend. For the past 100 years or so, the Saisiyat tribe...
Southeast Asia
Filling In The Blanks Of Southeast Asian Prehistory
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/24/2007 6:22:19 PM EDT · 5 replies
Science Daily | 10-24-2007 | University Of Pennsylvania Museum
Filling In The Blanks Of Southeast Asian Prehistory ScienceDaily (Oct. 24, 2007) -- As archaeologists in the last half century have set about reconstructing the prehistory of Southeast Asia, data from one country -- centrally located Laos -- was conspicuously missing. Little archaeology has occurred in Laos since before World War II, and beginning in the mid-1970s, Laos shut its doors completely to outside researchers. International scholars had to content themselves with information from excavation and survey work mostly from neighboring Thailand. That scenario is beginning to shift -- and new data, as well as new collaborative relationships -- may forever change our perspective on an area that...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
How a Volcano Eruption Wiped Away Summer (Tambora)
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/26/2007 2:07:21 PM EDT · 31 replies
NPR | 10-22-2007 | Michael Sullivan
How a Volcano Eruption Wiped Away Summer by Michael Sullivan Jessica Goldstein, NPRFor more than two decades, volcanologist Haraldur Sigurdsson has been researching the volcanic eruption of Tambora. By studying layers of soil, he can decipher the history of the explosion. The biggest volcanic eruption ever recorded in human history took place nearly 200 years ago on Sumbawa, an island in the middle of the Indonesian archipelago. The volcano is called Tambora, and according to University of Rhode Island volcanologist Haraldur Sigurdsson, the eruption is one of the most overlooked in recorded history. Tambora's explosion was 10 times bigger than...
Near East
Archaeologists Uncovers 11,000-Year-Old Artefacts In Syria
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/23/2007 4:17:42 PM EDT · 32 replies
Middle-East-Online | 10-23-2007 | Talal el-Atrache
Archaeologist uncovers 11,000-year-old artefacts in SyriaLatest discoveries in Syria date back to start of Neolithic era in Epipalaeolithic period. By Talal el-Atrache - DAMASCUSA small stone anthropomorphic Neolithic figurine Deep in the heart of northern Syria, close to the banks of the Euphrates River, archaeologists have uncovered a series of startling 11,000-year-old wall paintings and artefacts. "The wall paintings date back to the 9th millennium BC. They were discovered last month on the wall of a house standing two metres (6.6 feet) high at Dja'de," said Frenchman Eric Coqueugniot, who has been leading the excavations on the west bank of...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Finds on Temple Mount from First Temple
Posted by Alouette
On News/Activism 10/21/2007 3:18:49 PM EDT · 48 replies
Israel National News | Oct. 21, 2007 | Hillel Fendel
(IsraelNN.com) The unauthorized dig of a trench this past summer by the Moslem Waqf on the Temple Mount, in the course of which it was assumed that precious findings were destroyed, apparently had a thin silver lining. Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) personnel monitoring the trench-digging have, for the first time, found traces of the First Temple. The IAA studied an archaeological level dating to the First Temple Period, exposed in the area close to the south-eastern corner of the raised platform surrounding the Dome of the Rock. Archaeological examination of a small section of this level, led by Jerusalem District...
Egypt
Canal Linking Ancient Egypt Quarry To Nile Found
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/26/2007 2:30:23 PM EDT · 9 replies
National Geographic News | 10-24-2007 | Steven Stanek
Canal Linking Ancient Egypt Quarry to Nile Found Steven Stanek in Cairo, Egypt for National Geographic NewsOctober 24, 2007 Experts have discovered a canal at an Aswan rock quarry that they believe was used to help float some of ancient Egypt's largest stone monuments to the Nile River. It has long been suspected that ancient workers moved the massive artifacts directly to their final destinations over waterways. Ancient artwork shows Egyptians using boats or barges to move large monuments like obelisks and statues, and canals have also been discovered at the Giza pyramids and the Luxor Temple. (Related: "Ancient Flowers...
Ancient Autopsies
Tutankhamun's True Face To Be Revealed
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/21/2007 11:41:09 PM EDT · 61 replies
The Telegraph (UK) | 10-22-2007 | Nigel Reynolds
Tutankhamun's true face to be revealed By Nigel Reynolds, Arts Correspondent Last Updated: 2:55am BST 22/10/2007 The true face of Tutankhamun, the boy king who ruled Egypt 3,500 years ago, is to be revealed to the public for the first time. Only a handful of experts have ever seen Tutankhamun's true likeness To coincide with the opening of the exhibition of the treasures of Tutankhamun in London next month, Egyptian archaeologists are to put his mummified body on display in Luxor. Only a handful of experts have ever seen the 19-year-old pharaoh's true likeness. Though not the most important of...
Sticky, Sticky
How Amber Becomes Death Trap For Watery Creatures
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/21/2007 9:44:05 PM EDT · 32 replies
Science Daily | 10-20-2007 | University of Florida.
How Amber Becomes Death Trap For Watery Creatures ScienceDaily (Oct. 20, 2007) -- Shiny amber jewelry and a mucky Florida swamp have given scientists a window into an ancient ecosystem that could be anywhere from 15 million to 130 million years old. Scientists at the University of Florida and the Museum of Natural History in Berlin made the landmark discovery that prehistoric aquatic critters such as beetles and small crustaceans unwittingly swim into resin flowing down into the water from pine-like trees. Their findings are published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The resin with its entombed...
Got a Dino Made of Stone-Ah
Huge Dinosaur Skeleton Unearthed
Posted by SteveH
On News/Activism 10/21/2007 7:10:37 PM EDT · 56 replies
CBS News / Associated Press | October 15, 2007
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, October 15, 2007 (AP) The skeleton of what's believed to be a new dinosaur species - a 105-foot plant-eater that is among the largest dinosaurs ever found - has been uncovered in Argentina, scientists said Monday. Scientists from Argentina and Brazil said the Patagonian dinosaur appears to represent a previously unknown species of Titanosaur because of the unique structure of its neck. They named it Futalognkosaurus dukei after the Mapuche Indian words for "giant" and "chief," and for Duke Energy Argentina, which helped fund the skeleton's excavation.
Emory paleontologist reports discovery of carnivorous dinosaur tracks in Australia
Posted by decimon
On News/Activism 10/21/2007 10:02:54 AM EDT · 34 replies
Emory University | October 19, 2007 | Unknown
The first fossil tracks belonging to large, carnivorous dinosaurs have been discovered in Victoria, Australia, by paleontologists from Emory University, Monash University and the Museum of Victoria (both in Melbourne). The tracks are especially significant for showing that large dinosaurs were living in a polar environment during the Cretaceous Period, when Australia was still joined to Antarctica and close to the South Pole. The find is being reported today, Friday, Oct. 19, at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting in Austin, Texas, by Anthony Martin, senior lecturer in environmental studies at Emory. Martin researched the find with Patricia Vickers-Rich and...
Oh So Mysteriouso
Human race will 'split into two different species'
Posted by prisoner6
On News/Activism 10/26/2007 2:09:01 AM EDT · 143 replies
Daily Mail (UK) | 10/25/2007 | NIALL FIRTH
Human race will 'split into two different species' The human race will one day split into two separate species, an attractive, intelligent ruling elite and an underclass of dim-witted, ugly goblin-like creatures, according to a top scientist. 100,000 years into the future, sexual selection will mean that two distinct breeds of human will have developed. The alarming prediction comes from evolutionary theorist Oliver Curry from the London School of Economics, who says that the human race will have reached its physical peak by the year 3000. Go to the link in the header/excerpt for more, or the link in the...
Longer Perspectives
Top 5 9/11 Truther Myths You Should Be Ready to Debunk
Posted by Froufrou
On News/Activism 09/11/2007 2:25:42 PM EDT · 100 replies · 2,284+ views
townhall.com | 09/11/07 | Mary Katherine Ham
Six years later, and it's still hard to believe it was real. Giant airplanes slamming into the sides of high-rise office buildings at 500 mph, leaving vaguely wing-shaped gashes behind. -snip- On that day, 19 young men -- inhabitants of our country, recipients of our hospitality, beneficiaries of our prosperity, wearing modern clothes to cloak a primitive hatred -- turned planes into missiles, passengers into war casualties, and a beautiful Tuesday morning into a day that changed the world forever. They killed 3,000 people that day. But some people don't believe that. The theorizing started long before the dust had settled on a...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
A Brief History Of The Salem Witch Trials
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/26/2007 2:40:54 PM EDT · 47 replies
Smitsonian | 10-24-2007 | Jess Blumberg
One town's strange journey from paranoia to pardon -- The Salem witch trials occurred in colonial Massachusetts between 1692 and 1693. More than 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft -- the Devil's magic -- and 20 were executed. Eventually, the colony admitted the trials were a mistake and compensated the families of those convicted. Since then, the story of the trials has become synonymous with paranoia and injustice, and it continues to beguile the popular imagination more than 300 years later. Salem Struggling Several centuries ago, many practicing Christians, and...
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Weekly Digest #172
Saturday, November 3, 2007
Oh So Mysteriouso
(Washington Irving section)
French Museum Tries To Return Maori Head
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/27/2007 11:18:20 AM EDT · 30 replies
Yahoo News | 10-24-2007 | Angela Doland
French museum tries to return Maori head By ANGELA DOLAND, Associated Press Writer Wed Oct 24, 11:47 PM ETAP Photo: This photo provided Wednesday Oct. 24, 2007 by the Rouen townhall, Normandy, shows a drawing... PARIS - The Normandy museum only wanted to do what was right: It offered to return a preserved, tattooed Maori head to New Zealand, an attempt to restore dignity to human remains that were long put on display as an exotic curiosity. Instead, authorities in the Normandy city of Rouen got a scolding from the culture minister for not checking with national authorities first. A...
Hey, the Maoris started it...
Ancient Headless Skeletons Found In Island Grave
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/30/2007 11:14:22 PM EDT · 25 replies
Live Science | 10-29-2007 | Jeanna Bryner
Ancient Headless Skeletons Found in Island Grave By Jeanna Bryner, LiveScience Staff Writerposted: 29 October 2007 11:36 am ET More than fifty headless skeletons have been unearthed in one of the oldest Pacific Islander cemeteries in the world. The individuals were members of a socially complex society, traveling between islands hundreds of miles away, a new study suggests. The finding could solve a long-held debate over whether the Lapita people, thought to be ancestors of the Polynesians, were isolated on individual islands or interacted with other distant Lapita tribes to find marriage partners, exchange information and maintain social ties. Results,...
Australia and the Pacific
Dig Uncovers Ancient Desert Dwellers (Australia)
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/01/2007 4:35:49 PM EDT · 9 replies
Science Alert | 11-2-2007
Dig uncovers ancient desert dwellers Friday, 02 November 2007 University of New England New archaeological evidence, published in October in the journal Australian Aboriginal Studies, reveals that Aboriginal people visited the Watarrka Plateau, south-west of Alice Springs, 13,000 years ago. Archaeologists Dr June Ross from the University of New England and Dr Mike Smith from the National Museum of Australia were dropped by helicopter on the Watarrka Plateau as part of a survey of rock art in the Watarrka (Kings Canyon) National Park. "The new finds were unexpected," said Dr Ross (who is pictured here at the Watarrka site). "We...
Ancient Art
Ancient drawing of mammoth found in Cheddar caves
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/02/2007 11:50:40 AM EDT · 26 replies
PhysOrg | August 15, 2007 | University of Bristol
Jill Cook, Deputy Keeper in the Department said: "Had I been shown this outline of a mammoth during a visit to one of the well known cave art sites in France or Spain, I would have nodded and been able to accept it in the context of other more obvious pictures. At Gough's, or anywhere in England, it is not so easy. Cave art is so rare here that we must always question and test to make sure we are getting it right. Opinions on this may differ but we do seem to be looking at an area of ancient...
Prehistory and Origins
Ancient Skeleton Was 'Even Older' (Red Lady Of Paviland)
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/30/2007 10:59:59 PM EDT · 34 replies
BBC | 10-30-2007
Ancient skeleton was 'even older' The burial site was in Goat's Hole Cave at Paviland on Gower The Red Lady of Paviland has always been a little coy about her age - but it appears she may be 4,000 years older than previously thought. Scientists say more accurate tests date the earliest human burial found in the UK to just over 29,000 years ago. When discovered in a cave on Gower in the 1820s the bones were thought to be around 18,000 years old, but were later redated to between 25,000 and 26,000. Researchers said it casts a new light...
Megaliths and Archaeoastronomy
Message In The Stones
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/01/2007 4:50:09 PM EDT · 22 replies
Current Archaeology
Message in the Stones Why transport 82 two-tonne megaliths across more than 250 miles of mountain, river and sea to build a stone circle at Stonehenge? This is one of the greatest mysteries of Britain's best-known, but least understood, prehistoric monument. Now Tim Darvill thinks he has the answer: the famous bluestones had healing powers, and the builders of Stonehenge were creating a prehistoric Lourdes. The latest issue of CA tells all. Despite centuries of study, we seem no nearer to answering such basic questions as what is Stonehenge, who built it and why. The publication in 1965 of Stonehenge...
Scotland Yet
Iron-masters of the Caledonians
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/01/2007 12:45:26 PM EDT · 6 replies
Current Archaeology | Ross Murray (and editor)
The Roman writer Tacitus says that 30,000 Caledonians massed to stop the Roman invasion under Agricola in AD 84. The bloody battle of Mons Graupius may have been fought near Inverness. Now a major site of the period has been uncovered in the area -- complete with two huge residences, a cluster of smaller houses, and the biggest industrial complex ever found in Iron Age Scotland... In June 2005 we began excavating a palisaded enclosure at Culduthel Farm on the southern outskirts of Inverness in advance of a housing development... we uncovered part of an astonishingly wellpreserved Iron Age settlement...
British Isles
Roman Tombstone Found At Inveresk
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/29/2007 1:26:18 PM EDT · 9 replies
BBC | 10-29-2007
Roman tombstone found at Inveresk The tombstone was found near the line of a Roman road The first Roman tombstone found in Scotland for 170 years has been unearthed at Carberry, near Inveresk. The red sandstone artefact was for a man called Crescens, a bodyguard for the governor who ran the province of Britain for the Roman Emperor. The National Museum of Scotland said the stone provided the strongest evidence yet that Inveresk was a pivotal Roman site in northern Britain. It was found by amateur enthusiast Larney Cavanagh at the edge of a field. It had been ploughed up...
Rome and Italy
Roman villa discovered in western Austria
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 10/30/2007 9:40:47 PM EDT · 8 replies
Digital Journal | October 25, 2007 | dpa im ds
The archaeologists from Innsbruck University stumbled upon references to the 1,800-year-old, long since forgotten building situated near the town Lienz in a manuscript penned in Latin, dating back to the mid-18th century. Tyrolean proto-archeologist Anton Roschmann wrote that he found Roman remains in 1746, but his findings were lost, the Austrian Press Agency reported. During a dig in October the remains of five rooms of a building dating back to Roman times wear unearthed on a 300-square-metre plot. The remains of the walls show colourful wall paintings, the archaeologists said, but the most astounding find were large-scale floor mosaics in...
Anatolia
Cultic City And Fortress -- New Turkish-German Excavations At Sirkeli Huyuk
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/30/2007 11:26:36 PM EDT · 5 replies
Alpha Galileo | 10-30-2007
Cultic City and Fortress -- New Turkish-German Excavations at Sirkeli Huyuk New excavations conducted by the University of Tubingen (Germany) and the Onsekiz Mart University of Canakkale (Turkey) at the site of Sirkeli Huyuk near Adana (southern Turkey) have revealed the remains of a massive bastion fortification dating to the Hittite Imperial Period (ca. 1300 BC). Sirkeli Huyuk, one of the largest settlement mounds in Cilicia during the Bronze- and Iron Ages, was already known to archaeologists and historians because of two Hittite rock reliefs located at the site. The better preserved rock relief of the two shows the Hittite...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
How Old Tree Rings And Ancient Wood Are Helping Rewrite History
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/28/2007 2:05:05 PM EDT · 46 replies
Science Daily | 10-27-2007 | Cornell University
How Old Tree Rings And Ancient Wood Are Helping Rewrite History ScienceDaily (Oct. 27, 2007) -- Cornell archaeologists are rewriting history with the help of tree rings from 900-year-old trees, wood found on ancient buildings and through analysis of the isotopes (especially radiocarbon dating) and chemistry they can find in that wood.Sturt Manning talks to visitors during a demonstration of the tree-ring laboratory following his presentation during Trustee/Council Weekend. At the lecture, Manning explained how students and lab staff members precisely dated a wooden support beam from McGraw Hall to 1870. (Credit: Jason Koski/Cornell University Photography)" By collecting thousands of...
Egypt
Unearthing Egypt's Greatest Temple
Posted by BGHater
On News/Activism 11/01/2007 12:33:14 PM EDT · 39 replies
Smithsonian magazine | October 2007 | Andew Lawler
Discovering the grandeur of the monument built 3,400 years ago "Heya hup!" Deep in a muddy pit, a dozen workers wrestle with Egypt's fearsome lion goddess, struggling to raise her into the sunlight for the first time in more than 3,000 years. She is Sekhmet -- "the one who is powerful" -- the embodiment of the fiery eye of the sun god Ra, but now she is caked in dirt and bound by thick rope. As the workers heave her out of the pit and onto a wooden track, the sand shifts and the six-foot-tall granite statue threatens to topple. A half-dozen men in...
Let's Have Jerusalem
150 Israeli Citizens File Landmark Criminal Prosecution Of The Waqf Over Temple Mount Destruction
Posted by SJackson
On News/Activism 11/01/2007 9:00:32 AM EDT · 22 replies
IMRA | 11-1-07
November 1, 2007 WAQF Officials to Trial; If Convicted Facing Years in Prison -- A group of 150 Israeli citizens, which represent a broad cross section of the Israeli public, have initiated an unprecedented criminal prosecution of WAQF (Islamic trust) leaders in Jerusalem - alleging that they have engaged in the deliberate destruction of ancient Jewish relics on the Temple Mount. The indictment was filed in the Jerusalem District Court...
Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
Overnight Islamic Republic Has Wiped Out 3000-Years Of Iranian History
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/01/2007 1:41:22 PM EDT · 50 replies
Cais News | 10-30-2007
Overnight Islamic Republic have Wiped out 3000-Years of Iranian History 30 October 2007 Pol-Borideh after its destruction by the Islamic Republic Ministry of Road & Transportation" LONDON, (CAIS) -- The destruction of one of the biggest historical sites in the Chahar-Mahal Bakhtiari province by the Islamic Republic Ministry of Road and Transportation was reported by the Persian service of ISNA on Monday, October 22. "Overnight %60 of the architectural and archeological remains of Pol-Borideh in Chahar-Mahal Bakhtiari province is being destroyed to construct a road. The ancient site was registered on the National Heritage List", said Aliasghar Noruzi, an archeologist...
Ancient Autopsies
Salt Men (Mummies) To Undergo Surgery
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/27/2007 6:26:30 PM EDT · 18 replies
Mehr News | 10-27-2007
Salt men to undergo surgery TEHRAN, Oct. 27 (MNA) -- The Archaeology Research Center of Iran (ARCI) plans to conduct a series of surgical operations on the ancient salt men of Zanjan's Chehrabad Salt Mine, the Persian service of CHN reported on Saturday. The project is being undertaken to complete archaeological studies and carry out other scientific research on the unique mummies, ARCI director Mohammad-Hassan Fazeli Nashli said. The operations will be performed on the salt men's soft tissue and entrails, which have remained intact due to the high quality of the mummification, he added. The project will be carried...
China
5 Guesses On Emperor Qin Shihuang's Tomb
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/02/2007 12:25:47 PM EDT · 15 replies
China Org CN | 10-24-2007
5 guesses on Emperor Qin Shihuang's tomb Qin Shihuang holds a central place in Chinese history for being the first emperor who united the country. He is also well known for his part in the construction of the spectacular Great Wall and his splendid terracotta army. To ensure his rule in the afterlife, this emperor commanded more than 700,000 conscripts from all parts of the country to build him a grand mausoleum as luxurious as any of the palaces he had in mortal life. Legend says that numerous treasures were placed in the tomb. As time passed, no one knew...
Korea
Historical Discovery of Baekje Urns
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 10/29/2007 2:44:49 PM EDT · 9 replies
Korea Times | Monday, October 29, 2007 | Sa Eun-young
A set of gold, silver and bronze urns holding sari, or the remains of a great monk after cremation, from the Baekje Kingdom (18 -660 A.D.) has been discovered, 1,430 years after it was buried... The urns and other sacrificial items were discovered in a Moktap, or wooden Pagoda. It was found in the Wangheungsa Temple grounds established by Baekje King Wideok to honor the death of his son in 577... The bronze cylinder urn carries an inscription consisting of 29 letters, with six rows made. It was translated to read "Jeongyu Feb.15 (577), Baekje King Chang (King Wideok) builds...
Climate
Melting Glacier Reveals Ancient Tree Stumps
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/01/2007 1:28:47 PM EDT · 111 replies
Live Science | 10-30-2007
Melting Glacier Reveals Ancient Tree Stumps LiveScience.com Tue Oct 30, 2:15 PM ET Melting glaciers in Western Canada are revealing tree stumps up to 7,000 years old where the region's rivers of ice have retreated to a historic minimum, a geologist said today. Johannes Koch of The College of Wooster in Ohio found the fresh-looking, intact tree stumps beside retreating glaciers in Garibaldi Provincial Park, about 40 miles (60 kilometers) north of Vancouver, British Columbia. Radiocarbon dating of the wood from the stumps revealed the wood was far from fresh -- some of it dated back to within a few thousand years...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Major Archaeological Find In Puerto Rico
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/28/2007 5:01:40 PM EDT · 18 replies
At&T.Net | 10-28-20073 | Laura N Perez Sanchez
Major Archaeological Find in Puerto Rico Published: 10/28/07, 4:25 PM EDT By LAURA N. PEREZ SANCHEZSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - U.S. and Puerto Rican archaeologists say they have found the best-preserved pre-Columbian site in the Caribbean, which could shed light on virtually every aspect of Indian life in the region, from sacred rituals to eating habits. The archaeologists believe the site in southern Puerto Rico may have belonged to the Taino or pre-Taino people that inhabited the island before European colonization, although other tribes are a possibility. It contains stones etched with ancient petroglyphs that form a large plaza...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Awesome Beasts Roved Ancient Site
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/31/2007 5:31:10 PM EDT · 18 replies
BBC | 10-31-2007 | Paul Rincon
Awesome beasts roved ancient site By Paul Rincon Science reporter, BBC News, Murcia The brown hyena lived in Europe 1.8 million years ago Giant hyenas, sabretoothed cats, giraffes and zebras lived side by side in Europe 1.8 million years ago. The creatures' remains were among a vast fossil hoard unearthed at an ancient hyena den in the Granada region of south-east Spain. The area appears to have been a crossroads where European animals mixed with species from Africa and Asia. About 4,000 fossils have been found at the unique site. They also include gazelles, wolves, wild boar and lynx. The...
Helix, Make Mine a Double
Neanderthals didn't breed with men
Posted by Renfield
On General/Chat 10/29/2007 8:17:44 AM EDT · 30 replies
ANSA | 10-26-07
ANSA) - Florence, October 26 - A new study of Neanderthal bones in Italy and Spain claims to have proved they did not breed with humans - potentially settling one of the biggest riddles in anthropology. The DNA study, which involved Italian, Spanish and German scientists, examined fossilised bones found in the northern Italian mountains near Verona and a cave in Asturia, Spain. Analysing a gene involved in the production of the skin pigment melanin, the team concluded that Neanderthals were predominantly fair-skinned and red-headed - like many people in countries like Ireland, Scotland and Wales today. This was consistent...
Longer Perspectives
Redheads really are the world's shrinking violets
Posted by Dundee
On News/Activism 10/28/2007 12:19:08 AM EDT · 124 replies
The Australian | October 27, 2007 | Caroline Overington
DEPRESSING news in the September edition of National Geographic: redheads are becoming rarer and could become extinct - some experts say the last redhead could be born by 2060. Others say the redhead gene can disappear for a generation or two in a family and reappear... ...the proportion of the world's population with natural red hair is down to 2per cent... On every level, that's surely a tragedy. Before we let this rare and precious species go, has anyone considered what it might be like to live in a world without redheaded women? ...Groucho Marx once admitted... "I don't know...
...and Now the Good News
Men age faster 'because of Stone Age sex'
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 10/30/2007 9:30:36 PM EDT · 55 replies
Telegraph | Wednesday, October 17, 2007 | Roger Highfield
Roger HighfieldThe reason that women outlive men by an average of around five years is due to sex, harems and violence in the Stone Age, according to a study published today... our prehistoric male ancestors kept female harems and fought over them to procreate: because male life was nasty, brutish and short, evolutionary forces focused on making males big and strong, rather than long lived... What they find is that the difference in life span between males and females in creatures such as red deer, prairie dogs, lions, baboons, geese, mongooses, wild dogs, beavers and others grows in direct proportion...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Engineers to search for Leonardo fresco [Battle of Anghiari]
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 10/29/2007 2:45:44 AM EDT · 3 replies
Yahoo! | Monday October 22, 2007 | Frances D'Emilio
The hunt for the "Battle of Anghiari," ...which Leonardo began in 1505 to commemorate the 15th-century Florentine victory over Milan at Anghiari, a medieval Tuscan town... unfinished when Leonardo left Florence in 1506... was given new impetus about 30 years ago, when Seracini noticed a cryptic message on a fresco in the hall by Giorgio Vasari, a 16th-century artist famed for chronicling Renaissance artists' labors. "Cerca, trova" -- "seek and you shall find" -- said the words on a tiny green flag in the "Battle of Marciano in the Chiana Valley." ...A few years ago, using radar and X-ray scans,...
Epigraphy and Language
Treasure trove of rare coins found in dilapidated home[PA][Est. worth 100K]
Posted by BGHater
On News/Activism 10/27/2007 6:25:18 PM EDT · 58 replies
The Tribune Democrat | 26 Oct 2007 | RANDY GRIFFITH
Jeff Bidelman already was dragging a huge bag of old coins when he noticed a hole in the wall of a dilapidated Windber home. "The woman said when she was a kid, there were always rumors that that's where they threw money," Bidelman said at his business, Rare Collectibles, in The Galleria in Richland Township. Within minutes, Bidelman and the former residents' daughter discovered that the rumors were true. Bidelman found himself literally wading in old, valuable coins. "They think they are going to get (at least) $100,000," Bidelman said. "I think they will probably get $200,000." The home had...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Unmasking D.B. Cooper
Posted by dickmc
On General/Chat 10/22/2007 1:17:35 PM EDT · 14 replies
n y magazine | October 22, 2007 | geoffery gray
On a rainy night in 1971, the notorious skyjacker jumped out of a 727 and into American legend. But recently, a chance lead to a Manhattan P.I. may have finally cracked the case.
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Weekly Digest #173
Saturday, November 10, 2007
Biology and Cryptobiology
Science of smooching
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/06/2007 11:16:21 AM EST · 50 replies
Cosmos Magazine | June 2007, issue 15 | Erica Harrison
Mystery still surrounds the motive for that very first kiss. As anthropologist Helen Fisher, of Rutgers University in New Jersey, notes, many species engage in behaviour that looks suspiciously similar. Snails use their antennae to caress, birds nibble beak-to-beak, and many mammals lick or gently gnaw each other. So maybe kissing is just an animal impulse? ...while chimp kisses don't get more lascivious than a quick peck, bonobous revel in sloppy, tonguey tonsil-hockey. Some trace the evolutionary origins of the kiss to mouth-to-mouth feeding of offspring, a behaviour observed in many species of birds and mammals. This could have led...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Historian reveals medieval sausage recipe
Posted by james500
On General/Chat 11/04/2007 7:19:58 PM EST · 83 replies
Reuters via AuBC News | 11/4/2007
A hobby historian has discovered the oldest known recipe for German sausage, a list of ingredients for Thuringian bratwurst nearly 600 years old. According to the 1432 guidelines, Thuringian sausage-makers had to use only the purest, unspoiled meat and were threatened with a fine of 24 pfennigs - a day's wages - if they did not, a spokesman for the German Bratwurst Museum said. Medieval town markets in Germany had committees charged with monitoring the quality of produce. Thuringian bratwursts, which are made of beef and pork, are symbols of Germany's cultural heritage and ubiquitous snacks at football matches. Historian...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Mexican Archaeologists Begin Search For Aztec King's Tomb
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/09/2007 6:06:03 PM EST · 9 replies
Earth Times | 11-8-2007 | IANS
Mexican archaeologists begin search for Aztec king's tomb Posted : Thu, 08 Nov 2007 03:59:00 GMT Author : IANS Mexico City, Nov 8 - A team of archaeologists has begun exploring a site in the heart of the Mexican capital that might lead to the first discovery of a tomb of an Aztec king, according to Spanish news agency EFE. Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) said in a communique that a 12-tonne monolith dedicated to Tlaltecuhtli, the Aztec earth goddess, was removed from the site Tuesday. Scientists hope to uncover the tomb of King Ahuizotl, who reigned...
Ancient Autopsies
What do mummies eat?
Posted by Renfield
On General/Chat 11/07/2007 7:38:44 AM EST · 11 replies
NewsDurhamregion.com | 11-06-07
Trent University anthropologist reveals lifestyle clues of the ancient Inca of Peru Research undertaken by Trent University assistant anthropology professor Jocelyn Williams into the diets of recently unearthed mummies has revealed fascinating insights into the lives of the ancient Inca of Peru. An ancient cemetery containing the remains of 500-year old mummies was discovered underneath the coastal town of Tupac Amaru, located near Lima, Peru. Due to the extreme dryness of this coastal desert, the people buried there were exceptionally well preserved and many still retained their skin, hair, fingernails, eyelashes, and even tattoos. Prof. Williams sampled different tissues from...
Bump In The Road
[Pillsbury Temple Mound] Burial ground proponents will be heard
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/08/2007 2:09:50 AM EST · 6 replies
Bradenton | Thursday, November 1, 2007 | Sylvia Lim
the Florida Department of Environmental Protection... Acquisition and Restoration Council will be stopping by Manatee County for a public hearing on whether the state should help purchase three properties in Florida, including the mound... A group of residents living near the mound, a Native American activist and a local archaeologist have already said they will show up at the meeting Monday. The South Florida Museum decided to sell the 1-acre tract holding the mound because it didn't fit their educational mission. The land was donated to the museum. Since the sale became known, neighbors, preservationists, archaeologists and the Florida American...
Longer Perspectives
Next Kennewick Man Will Need Protection
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/08/2007 9:24:59 AM EST · 44 replies
Tri-city Herald | 11-7-2007
Next Kennewick Man will need protection Published Wednesday, November 7th, 2007 The court decision to allow scientists to study the ancient skeleton known as Kennewick Man has aided humankind's quest for knowledge. Unfortunately, it also spawned a congressional effort to change federal law to keep science from learning anything about the next Kennewick Man. U.S. Rep. Doc Hastings is trying to thwart the move with proposed legislation of his own. Good for him. With so many unanswered questions about man's future, we've never had a greater need to understand our past. The Kennewick Man ruling, upheld by the 9th Circuit...
Near East
Expert verifies man's ancient Sumerian tablet
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/07/2007 1:03:34 PM EST · 4 replies
Myrtle Beach Online | Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2007 | Michael Futch
Veenker, a retired Assyriologist whose specialty is old Babylonian cuneiform writing, learned about Buie's tablet in August. Buie says he got the tablet from one of his tenants... Buie and the tenant - whom he identified only as Eddie - hope to sell it and split the proceeds... Veenker said a wealthy donor bought the tablet from a dealer in New York City around 1901. In all, the donor bought a collection of 400 artifacts for Haverford College near Philadelphia. In 1962, the collection was transferred to the Oriental Institute in Chicago with an inventory list, Veenker said. "Best I...
Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
Archaeologists Have Discovered The World's Oldest Inscription In Jiroft
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/05/2007 4:31:53 PM EST · 82 replies
CAIS | 11-5-2007
Archaeologists have Discovered the World's Oldest Inscription in Jiroft 05 November 2007 LONDON, (CAIS) -- Archaeologists have discovered the world's most ancient inscription in the Iranian city of Jiroft, near the Halil Roud historical site. "The inscription, discovered in a palace, was carved on a baked mud-brick whose lower left corner has only remained,î explained Professor Yousof Majid-Zadeh, head of the Jiroft excavation team. ìThe only ancient inscriptions known to experts before the Jiroft discovery were cuneiform and hieroglyph,î said Majid Zadeh, adding that,îthe new-found inscription is formed by geometric shapes and no linguist around the world has been able...
Egypt
Face of King Tut unshrouded to public
Posted by Aristotelian
On News/Activism 11/04/2007 10:10:10 AM EST · 44 replies
AP | November 4, 2007 | ANNA JOHNSON
LUXOR, Egypt - The face of King Tut was unshrouded in public for the first time on Sunday -- 85 years after the 3,000-year-old boy pharaoh's golden enshrined tomb and mummy were discovered in Luxor's famed Valley of the Kings. Archeologists removed the mummy from his stone sarcophagus in his underground tomb, momentarily pulling aside a white linen covering to reveal a shriveled leathery black face and body. The mummy of the 19-year-old pharaoh, whose life and death has captivated people for nearly a century, was placed in a climate-controlled glass box in the tomb, with only the face and...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Layers of mystery: Archaeologists look to the earth for Minoan fate
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/04/2007 1:04:25 AM EST · 11 replies
Worcester Telegram & Gazette | Sunday, October 28, 2007 | Judy Powell
While archaeologists have theorized that a volcanic explosion on the island of Thera, 70 miles north of Crete, was responsible for the Minoan downfall, it wasn't until recently that evidence of a massive tsunami, brought on by the eruption, was linked to the mystery... During a recent dig, a team working under Montreal-born scientist Sandy MacGillivray found volcanic ash and strange gravel deposits that looked as if "they had been washed into the site by a violent flood," Mr. Hadingham said. While the ash's composition was identical to that found on the island of Thera, there was no river or...
British Isles
Stonehenge's huge support settlement
Posted by Renfield
On General/Chat 11/05/2007 12:19:47 PM EST · 17 replies
BBC News | 11-05-07 | Sian Price
Archaeologists working near Stonehenge have uncovered what they believe is the largest Neolithic settlement ever discovered in Northern Europe. Remains of an estimated 300 houses are thought to survive under earthworks 3km (2 miles) from the famous stone rings, and 10 have been excavated so far. But there could have been double that total according to the archaeologist leading the work. "What is really exciting is realising just how big the village for the Stonehenge builders was," says Professor Mike Parker Pearson of Sheffield University. Allowing four per house, he estimates there could have been room for more than 2,000...
Megaliths and Archaeoastronomy
In pictures: Inside Silbury Hill
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/03/2007 1:05:42 PM EDT · 27 replies
BBC | Wednesday, October 24, 2007 | unattributed
One theory is that the top of the hill was lopped off around the time of the Battle of Hastings or even earlier.
Scotland Yet
2,000 year old jewellery at Scatness
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/07/2007 1:36:21 PM EST · 7 replies
Shetland News | November 1, 2007 | unattributed
A large piece of bronze jewellery found in the wall of a collapsed Iron Age house provides further evidence of the importance of the ancient Scatness settlement in Shetland, it was claimed...(Wednesday). The 2,000 year old chain, consisting of 20 double links, was found by Rick Barton during consolidation work at the archaeological site, earlier this week. County archaeologist Val Turner said... the only similar find in Shetland was in 1950s when a five link chain turned up during excavations at Clickimin, in Lerwick. "This chain is much longer and we should be able to date it far more accurately."
China
Facelift For World's Tallest Ancient Buddha Statue In China
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/08/2007 9:31:26 AM EST · 11 replies
Yahoo News | 11-6-2007
Facelift for world's tallest ancient Buddha statue in China Tue Nov 6, 10:33 PM ETAFP/File Photo: Tourists visit the 71-metre (234-feet) tall Leshan Giant Buddha, built in 713 AD in the... BEIJING (AFP) - The world's tallest ancient Buddha statue, suffering from years of environmental damage, will get its latest facelift to fix damage from weathering and acid rain. ADVERTISEMENT The 71-metre (237-foot) Leshan Buddha, in the southwestern province of Sichuan, is looking "somewhat battered" with a blackened nose, and with moss and dark streaks coating its face and body, official Xinhua news agency said. The damage was due to...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Ancient Hebrew text to return to Israel
Posted by BlackVeil
On News/Activism 11/08/2007 8:58:25 PM EST · 13 replies
Yahoo News Page | Nov 8 2007 | By REGAN E. DOHERTY
JERUSALEM - For six decades, Sam Sabbagh carried a good luck charm -- a parchment he found on the floor of a burned synagogue. Turns out that parchment likely is more than 1,000 years old, a fragment of the most authoritative manuscript of the Hebrew Bible. His family plans to present it to a Jerusalem institute next week, officials said Thursday. The parchment, about "the size of a credit card," is believed to be part of the Aleppo Codex manuscript of the Hebrew Bible, said Michael Glatzer, academic secretary of the Yad Ben Zvi institute. It contains verses from the...
Faith and Philosophy
Rice University Professor Debunks National Geographic Translation Of Gospel Of Judas
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/04/2007 8:26:37 PM EST · 162 replies
Eureka Alert | 11-1-2007 | David Ruth - Rice University
Contact: David Ruth druth@rice.edu 713-348-6327 Rice University Rice University professor debunks National Geographic translation of Gospel of Judas A new book by Rice University professor April DeConick debunks a stunning claim by National Geographic's translation of the Gospel of Judas. According to that translation, Judas was a hero, not a villain, who acted on Jesus' request to betray him. DeConick disagrees. Before releasing her book "The Thirteenth Apostle: What the Gospel of Judas Really Says," DeConick was intrigued by the original release of the Coptic Gospel of Judas and as a scholar wanted to read it for herself. While researching...
Epigraphy and Language
Archaeology and John's Gospel: Is skepticism chic passe ? ( What are the historical evidences ?)
Posted by SirLinksalot
On News/Activism 10/07/2007 10:27:37 AM EDT · 10 replies · 732+ views
American Thinker | 10/07/2007 | James Arlandson
John is known as the spiritual Gospel because, among other reasons, it has extended metaphorical discourses, such as the bread of heaven (6:25-59), and a long, one-on-one dialogue with the religious leader Nicodemus about deep truths (3:1-15). Until recently, much scholarship did not take seriously the topographical or historical details in John's Gospel. Scholars ignored them or preferred to see them as symbolic because surely John was not concerned with mundane matters. The more skeptical said that it was wrong in many cases....
Oh So Mysteriouso
Zombie Attack at Hierakonpolis
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/09/2007 2:09:53 AM EST · 24 replies
Archaeology | November 6, 2007 | Renee Friedman
Hierakonpolis is a site famous for its many "firsts," so many, in fact, it is not easy to keep track of them all. So we are grateful(?) to Max Brooks for bringing to our attention that the site can also claim the title to the earliest recorded zombie attack in history. In his magisterial tome, The Zombie Survival Guide (2003), he informs us that in 1892, a British dig at Hierakonpolis unearthed a nondescript tomb containing a partially decomposed body, whose brain had been infected with the virus (Solanum) that turns people into zombies. In addition, thousands of scratch marks...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Single Word Change in Book of Mormon Speaks Volumes
Posted by Colofornian
On Religion 11/08/2007 8:23:05 PM EST · 167 replies
Salt Lake Tribune | November 8, 2007 | Peggy Fletcher Stack
The LDS Church has changed a single word in its introduction to the Book of Mormon, a change observers say has serious implications for commonly held LDS beliefs about the ancestry of American Indians. Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believe founder Joseph Smith unearthed a set of gold plates from a hill in upperstate New York in 1827 and translated the ancient text into English. The account, known as The Book of Mormon, tells the story of two Israelite civilizations living in the New World. One derived from a single family who fled from Jerusalem...
Prehistory and Origins
When Animals Evolve On Islands, Size Doesn't Matter
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/08/2007 5:05:43 PM EST · 37 replies
Science Daily | 11-8-2007 | Imperial College London.
When Animals Evolve On Islands, Size Doesn't Matter ScienceDaily (Nov. 8, 2007) -- A theory explaining the evolution of giant rodents, miniature elephants, and even miniature humans on islands has been called into questions by new research.The new study refutes the 'island rule' which says that in island environments small mammals such as rodents tend to evolve to be larger, and large mammals such as elephants tend to evolve to be smaller, with the original size of the species being the key determining factor in these changes. (Credit: iStockphoto/Andy Diamond) The new study refutes the 'island rule' which says that...
Paleontology
Dinosaurs breathed like penguins
Posted by Renfield
On General/Chat 11/08/2007 4:01:45 PM EST · 7 replies
BBC News | 11-07-07 | Helen Briggs
Dinosaurs like Velociraptors owe their fearsome reputation to the way they breathed, according to a UK study.They had one of the most efficient respiratory systems of all animals, similar to that of modern diving birds like penguins, fossil evidence shows. It fuelled their bodies with oxygen for the task of sprinting after prey, say researchers at Manchester University. The bipedal meat-eaters, the therapods, had air sacs ventilated by tiny bones that moved the ribcage up and down. "Finding these structures in modern birds and their extinct dinosaur ancestors suggests that these running dinosaurs had an efficient respiratory system and supports...
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs
Weekly Digest #174
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Peru
Temple built 4,000 years ago unearthed in Peru
Posted by BGHater
On News/Activism 11/11/2007 11:50:06 AM EST · 21 replies
Reuters | 10 Nov 2007 | Marco Aquino
LIMA (Reuters) - A 4,000-year-old temple filled with murals has been unearthed on the northern coast of Peru, making it one of the oldest finds in the Americas, a leading archaeologist said on Saturday. The temple, inside a larger ruin, includes a staircase that leads up to an altar used for fire worship at a site scientists have called Ventarron, said Peruvian archaeologist Walter Alva, who led the dig. It sits in the Lambayeque valley, near the ancient Sipan complex that Alva unearthed in the 1980s. Ventarron was built long before Sipan, about 2,000 years before Christ, he said. "It's...
Peru Temple, Mural Hints At Complexity (2,000BC)
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/13/2007 5:59:48 PM EST · 6 replies
AP | 12-13-2007 | Leslie Josephs
Peru Temple, Mural Hints at Complexity By LESLIE JOSEPHS LIMA, Peru (AP) -- The sophisticated design and colorful artwork found in a 4,000-year-old temple unearthed near Peru's northern desert coast suggests that early civilization here was more complex than originally thought, archaeologists said. Ventarron, a 7,000-square-foot site -- a bit larger than a basketball court -- with painted walls and a white-and-red mural of a deer hunt, points to an "advanced civilization," said the lead archaeologist who excavated the site last week. "We have the use of a construction material that is not primitive," Walter Alva, a prominent Peruvian archaeologist...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Walker Archaeological Dig Unearths More Finds (Minnesota)
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/11/2007 11:36:14 AM EST · 6 replies
Enterprise.com - Pilot Independent | 11-9-2007 | Gail De Boer
Walker archeological dig unearths more finds Gail De Boer, Pilot Independent Published Friday, November 09, 2007 Despite not having as much time as he'd hoped to work at the Walker Hill site this summer, Leech Lake Heritage Sites (LLHS) program director and tribal archaeologist Thor Olmanson says it was a productive and exciting season. "We have boxes of things to go through this winter," he declared Nov. 1, as he showed off recent "finds." In 2004, LLHS, a for-profit archaeological consulting firm owned by the Leech Lake Band, was brought in to study the site chosen for the new Walker...
Weaving a Tale
Prehistoric women had passion for fashion
Posted by kronos77
On General/Chat 11/12/2007 6:11:33 PM EST · 16 replies
in.reuters.com
PLOCNIK, Serbia (Reuters) - If the figurines found in an ancient European settlement are any guide, women have been dressing to impress for at least 7,500 years. Recent excavations at the site -- part of the Vinca culture which was Europe's biggest prehistoric civilisation -- point to a metropolis with a great degree of sophistication and a taste for art and fashion, archaeologists say. In the Neolithic settlement in a valley nestled between rivers, mountains and forests in what is now southern Serbia, men rushed around a smoking furnace melting metal for tools. An ox pulled a load of ore,...
Longer Perspectives
Stone Age feminism? [Neanderthal women to blame]
Posted by Fractal Trader
On News/Activism 11/10/2007 11:37:25 AM EST · 57 replies
Boston Globe | 10 November 2007 | Colin Nickerson
The Neanderthal extinction some 30,000 years ago remains one of the great riddles of evolution, with rival theories blaming everything from genocide committed by "real" humans to prehistoric climate change. But a recent study introduces another explanation: Stone Age feminism. Among Neanderthals, hunting big beasts was women's work as well as men's, so it's a safe bet that female hunters got stomped, gored, and worse with appalling frequency. And a high casualty rate among fertile women - the vital "reproductive core" of a tiny population - could well have meant demographic disaster for a species already struggling to survive among...
Southeast Asia
Women Warriors May Have Battled In Ancient Cambodia
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/15/2007 8:21:32 PM EST · 38 replies
Yahoo News
Women warriors may have battled in ancient Cambodia Thu Nov 15, 2:36 AM ETAFP/HO/File Photo: This handout picture, taken early this year, shows a female skelton buried with metal bracelets... TOKYO (AFP) - Archaeologists have found female skeletons buried with metal swords in Cambodian ruins, indicating there may have been a civilisation with female warriors, the mission head said Thursday. The team dug up 35 human skeletons at five locations in Phum Snay in northwestern Cambodia in research earlier this year, said Japanese researcher Yoshinori Yasuda, who led the team. "Five of them were perfect skeletons and we have confirmed...
China
Ten years or hundreds of years? Riddle over when 'fresh' mummy was buried
Posted by fanfan
On General/Chat 11/15/2007 7:59:46 PM EST · 4 replies
The Daily Mail (UK) | 15th November 2007 | DAVID DERBYSHIRE
Ten years or hundreds of years? Riddle over when 'fresh' mummy was buried With a blank stare and sunken cheeks, his expression is as enigmatic as his origins. Discovered by a shepherd in a remote corner of China, this perfectly preserved mummy offers a tantalising glimpse into the past. The corpse, believed to be a man of 40, was dressed in a blue and white robe and covered with a cotton quilt. His papery skin is virtually intact and his black hair is scraped back into a pony tail. There are even signs of stubble on his face.Some experts believe...
Prehistory and Origins
Chinese Scientists Conclude Wushan Man Is Oldest Human Fossil In China
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/16/2007 2:03:36 PM EST · 24 replies
All Headlines News | 11-16-2007 | Windsor Genova
Chinese Scientists Conclude Wushan Man Is Oldest Human Fossil In China November 13, 2007 9:57 p.m. EST Windsor Genova - AHN News Writer Beijing, China (AHN) - Chinese archeologists have concluded that the two million years old human fossils found in Wushan County, Chongqing municipality from 1985 to 1988 belong to the earliest human species in China. The lower jawbone fragment, an incisor and more than 230 pieces of stone tools of the so-called Wushan Man pre-dated the fossils of the Yuanmou Man by 300,000 years, the Chinese news agency Xinhua reported. The Yuanmou Man was discovered in southwestern Yunnan...
What About Dorothy?
Flying Lemurs Are Primates' Closest Kin
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/13/2007 2:42:41 AM EST · 13 replies
National Geographic News | November 1, 2007 | Scott Norris
A new genetic study claims to have settled a long-standing debate about which living group of mammals is most closely related to primates, which include monkeys, apes, and lemurs. Our nearest nonprimate relatives are not tree shrews as once thought, researchers say -- but another group of tree-dwelling mammals known as colugos, also known as flying lemurs... squirrel-size creatures that live in the rain forests of Southeast Asia. Only two species are known to exist... Previous DNA-based studies had suggested that primates, tree shrews, and colugos are closely related, forming a single evolutionary grouping that can be traced back to...
Diet of Pure Anachronisms
Human Ancestors: More Gatherers Than Hunters?
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/13/2007 6:11:20 PM EST · 14 replies
Eureka Alert | 11-12-2007 | Carl Marziali
Public release date: 12-Nov-2007 Contact: Carl Marziali marziali@usc.edu 213-219-6347 University of Southern California Human ancestors: more gatherers than hunters? Early humans may have dug potato-like foods with tools, say anthropologists from USC, UC San Diego and UW-Madison Chimpanzees crave roots and tubers even when food is plentiful above ground, according to a new study that raises questions about the relative importance of meat for brain evolution. Appearing online the week of Nov. 12 in the early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study documents a novel use of tools by chimps to dig for tubers...
Tusk, Tusk, thought I heard her callin' my name
Mammoth Hunters' Camp Site Found In Russia's Far East (15KYA)
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/13/2007 5:48:56 PM EST · 35 replies
Novosti | 11-12-2007
Mammoth hunters' camp site found in Russia's Far East 13:02 | 12/ 11/ 2007 KHABAROVSK, November 12 (RIA Novosti) - Archaeologists have found a 15,000 year-old hunters' camp site from the Paleolithic era near Lake Evoron in Russia's Far East, a source in the Khabarovsk archaeology museum said on Monday. "The site dates back to the end of the Ice Age, a period which is poorly studied" Andrei Malyavin, chief of the museum's archaeology department said. "That is why any new site from this period is a discovery in itself." The site, found during a 2007 archaeological expedition to Lake...
British Isles
Early Movie Review: 3-D Spectacle "Beowulf" is Fun "300" as Played by WWE Characters
Posted by DogByte6RER
On General/Chat 11/15/2007 9:22:06 PM EST · 22 replies
Debbie Schlussel | November 15, 2007 | Debbie Schlussel
Debbie Schlussel: Early Movie Review: 3-D Spectacle "Beowulf" is Fun "300" as Played by WWE Characters By Debbie Schlussel It's definitely not for kids. And I didn't care for the right-in-your-face naked CGI rear ends of Beowulf (Ray Winstone) and Grendel's Mother (a skank played by a skank--Angelina Jolie). But I thoroughly enjoyed "Beowulf"--the 3-D marvel, in theaters tomorrow (Friday). And, yes, guys, this movie is for you. Dragons, fire, monsters, kings, warriors, swords, damsels in distress--this has all those and more. It's the story of the swashbuckling, but exaggeratingly braggadocious, fair-haired warrior Beowulf who saves Danish King Hrothgar's (Anthony...
Navigation
Baltic yields 'perfect' shipwreck
Posted by BGHater
On News/Activism 11/15/2007 8:23:01 PM EST · 29 replies
BBC | 15 Nov 2007 | BBC
The shipwreck was filmed by a remote-controlled submarine A near-intact shipwreck apparently dating from the 17th century has been found in the Baltic Sea, Swedish television has said.The discovery was made during filming for an under-water documentary series. Public service SVT television said the wreck could be from the same era as the famous Vasa warship, which sank on its maiden voyage in August 1628. The broadcaster said the Baltic's low oxygen content and low temperature had helped preserve the wreck. SVT said the origins of the ship were unclear but its features resembled the work of Dutch ship-builders...
Jarring Discovery
Team IDs Ancient Cargo From DNA
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/01/2007 5:27:27 PM EDT · 9 replies
Exduco | 10-31-2007 | David Chandler - MIT
Team IDs ancient cargo from DNA For the first time, researchers have identified DNA from inside ceramic containers in an ancient shipwreck on the seafloor, making it possible to determine what the ship's cargo was even though there was no visible trace of it. The findings, by a team from MIT, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and Lund University in Sweden, are being reported in an upcoming issue of the Journal of Archeological Science. By scraping samples from inside two of the containers, called amphoras, the researchers were able to obtain DNA sequences that identified the contents of one...
Ingredients for Salad Dressing Found in 2,400-year-old Shipwreck
Posted by Daffynition
On General/Chat 11/10/2007 9:37:47 AM EST · 66 replies
LiveScience | 08 November 2007 | Charles Q. Choi
Genetic analysis has revealed the contents of an ancient shipwreck dating back to the era of the Roman Republic and Athenian Empire. The cargo was olive oil flavored with oregano. Beyond discovering ingredients for Italian salad dressing on the sea floor, such research could provide a wealth of insights concerning the everyday life of ancient seafaring civilizations that would otherwise be lost at sea. An international team of U.S. and Greek researchers investigated the remains of a 2,400-year-old shipwreck that lies 230 feet (70 meters) deep, roughly a half-mile (1 kilometer) off the coast of the Greek island of Chios...
Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
Median Era Ring Discovered In Iran
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/11/2007 5:24:09 PM EST · 22 replies
PressTV.IR | 11-10-2007
Median era ring discovered in Iran Sat, 10 Nov 2007 09:56:15 A Faravahar, a symbol of Zoroastrianism A unique ring belonging to the Median era adorned with a carved Farvahar, a symbol of Zoroastrianism, has been found in western Iran. Archeological excavations in Iran's western province of Lorestan resulted in the discovery of a ring which dates back to the Bronze Age and is decorated with a symbol of Zoroastrianism. The figure in the Farvahar is wearing Mede attire and a hat. The long-bearded man is facing the left as he emerges from the Sun. Wide open wings are seen...
Egypt
Letters to the Crocodile God
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/12/2007 1:47:56 AM EST · 7 replies
Archaeology | Volume 60 Number 6, November/December 2007 | Marco Merola
The desert swallowed Tebtunis in the twelfth century A.D., so the town does not appear on any maps. We know its name, and a great deal more, from the tens of thousands of papyrus fragments found throughout the twentieth century by a succession of archaeologists, including those working at the site today. These records, which range from pieces found in ancient garbage dumps, to sheets recycled as wrappings for mummies, to five-yard-long scrolls, include literary texts and records of private contracts and public acts. "The papyri give us particular and historic information that cannot be found elsewhere," says Claudio Gallazzi,...
Oh So Mysteriouso
Ancient Egypt's Fantastic And Weird History
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/16/2007 9:59:19 PM EST · 19 replies
The Telegraph (UK) | 11-17-2007 | Terry Deary
Ancient Egypt's fantastic and weird history By Terry Deary Last Updated: 2:21am GMT 17/11/2007 Pyramids and Tombs: Pyramids were a big signal to tell grave robbers where the pharaoh's treasure was hidden. That's why, by Tutankhamun's time, pharaohs were buried underground. Napoleon's engineers said the stones of the Great Pyramid would build a wall around France: Some people believe the young Tutankhamun was murdered by his uncle, Ay, who went on to take the throne. But in 2005 the mummy was given an X-ray, and they found he had a broken leg, which probably led to his death....
Ancient Autopsies
More Than Just a Pretty Face From History
Posted by neverdem
On News/Activism 11/11/2007 11:11:26 PM EST · 5 replies
NY Times | November 11, 2007 | JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
The first public showing of the face of the boy pharaoh Tutankhamun, last week, exposed more than cracked, leathery skin and his buckteeth. (Gene Tierney's overbite was much more fetching.) Archaeologists also detected a new feature, the hint of a Tut smile, transfiguring a regal mummy from antiquity into a human being with emotions perhaps like those of people today. The first reaction of Zahi Hawass, Egypt's head of antiquities, was unscientific. The face, he said, "has magic; it has mystery; it has beauty." The search for identifiable affinities, if only a smile, with people long ago may account for...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Nehemiah's Wall Found in Jerusalem
Posted by Between the Lines
On Religion 11/12/2007 8:52:20 AM EST · 14 replies
The Trumpet | November 9, 2007 | Stephen Flurry
At a conference in Tel Aviv, an archaeological discovery is unveiled that proves biblical history true. Archaeologists who reject the biblical narrative or who believe the historical account is, at best, grossly exaggerated sometimes point to the wall Nehemiah is said to have built around Jerusalem during the 5th century b.c. and ask why none of its remains have ever been discovered. Now those remains are beginning to turn up. Yesterday, at an archaeological conference at Bar Ilan University near Tel Aviv, Dr. Eilat Mazar told 500 attendees that she had discovered Nehemiah's wall. The discovery comes, as our regular...
Rome and Italy
Roman street uncovered in Western Wall tunnels
Posted by Esther Ruth
On News/Activism 11/16/2007 9:05:54 AM EST · 12 replies
JWR | Nov. 15, 2007 | Etgar Lefkovits
Roman street uncovered in Western Wall tunnels Etgar Lefkovits , THE JERUSALEM POST Nov. 15, 2007 The remains of an ancient terraced street that dates back to the Roman period have been uncovered in the Western Wall tunnels, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Wednesday. The street, which likely led to the nearby Temple Mount itself, dates back nearly 2,000 years when the city was called Aelia Capitolina during the second-fourth centuries. The site, which was uncovered in archeological excavations over the last year, is a side street which connects two major roads in the area, said Jon Seligman, the Antiquities...
Epigraphy and Language
Deconstructing the Walls of Jericho
Posted by Seti 1
On News/Activism 06/22/2002 8:13:53 AM EDT · 20 replies · 1,340+ views
Reprinted in Biblical Archeology Review from Ha'aretz Magazine | Original date: Oct. 1999 | Ze'ev Herzog
Following 70 years of intensive excavations in the Land of Israel, archaeologists have found out: The patriarchs' acts are legendary stories, we did not sojourn in Egypt or make an exodus, we did not conquer the land. Neither is there any mention of the empire of David and Solomon. Those who take an interest have known these facts for years, but Israel is a stubborn people and doesn't want to hear about it. This is what archaeologists have learned from their excavations in the Land of Israel: the Israelites were never in Egypt, did not wander in the desert, did...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
5 Lessons in Crusader cuisine
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/12/2007 1:40:52 AM EST · 3 replies
Haaretz | Monday, November 12, 2007 | Ronit Vered
The "window" of the Apollonia Fortress' dungeon affords a view of the kind of Mediterranean scene that is fast disappearing... Crusader nobles awakened to this vista every morning, peering out at the European ships that anchored across from the port and the boats that made their way back and forth to fill the city's storerooms with precious goods... Sugar cane, lemons, oranges, eggplant, bananas, rice and other agricultural products originally cultivated in the Far East were adopted by Western civilization via the Middle East... But the historic truth, as usual, is a bit more complex, since most of the knights...
Climate
Eco-Ruin 'Felled Early Society'
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/15/2007 8:05:57 PM EST · 16 replies
BBC | 11-15-2007
Eco-ruin 'felled early society' The Argaric culture was an early urban society One of Western Europe's earliest known urban societies may have sown the seeds of its own downfall, a study suggests. Mystery surrounded the fall of the Bronze Age Argaric people in south-east Spain - Europe's driest area. Data suggests the early civilisation exhausted precious natural resources, helping bring about its own ruin. The study provides early evidence for cultural collapse caused - at least in part - by humans meddling with the environment, say researchers. It could also provide lessons for modern populations living in water-stressed regions. The...
Been a long time since The Book of Love
How Science Is Rewriting the Book on Genes
Posted by neverdem
On News/Activism 11/12/2007 4:32:15 AM EST · 19 replies
The Washington Post | November 12, 2007 | David Brown
Everyone who goes to medical school hears this story at some point.Graduation day comes and the new doctors assemble to get their diplomas. The dean gazes out and announces sheepishly: "I'm sorry to tell you that half of what we taught you is wrong. The problem is, we don't know which half."Nowhere has this been more evident than in genetics.The rules of inheritance, and hints of the biological mechanisms behind them, were first elucidated by Gregor Mendel in the 1860s. Over the ensuing 130 years, scientists gained insight at a molecular level into how biological information is recorded, preserved, used...
Helix, Make Mine a Double
In DNA Era, Worries About Revival of Prejudice
Posted by neverdem
On News/Activism 11/10/2007 8:41:43 PM EST · 49 replies
NY Times | November 11, 2007 | AMY HARMON
When scientists first decoded the human genome in 2000, they were quick to portray it as proof of humankind's remarkable similarity. The DNA of any two people, they emphasized, is at least 99 percent identical. But new research is exploring the remaining fraction to explain differences between people of different continental origins. Scientists, for instance, have recently identified small changes in DNA that account for the pale skin of Europeans, the tendency of Asians to sweat less and West Africans' resistance to certain diseases. At the same time, genetic information is slipping out of the laboratory and into everyday life,...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Mystery monster returns home after 121 years [Montana][Cryptozoology][Shunka Warak'in]
Posted by BGHater
On News/Activism 11/15/2007 5:27:42 PM EST · 46 replies
Bozeman Daily Chronicle | 15 Nov 2007 | Walt Williams
ENNIS - More than a century ago, a wolf-like creature prowled the Madison Valley, killing livestock and letting out screams that one account said would leave a person's hair standing on end. A bullet from a Mormon settler's rifle ended the animal's life and triggered stories of the creature that were passed along through generations of family history and local folklore. The only evidence of the creature's existence was a missing taxidermy mount and a grainy black-and-white photograph of that mount - which fueled strange speculation about what kind of animal it really was. Now after 121 years, the taxidermy...
Paleontology
Dinosaur found with vacuum-cleaner mouth
Posted by EveningStar
On General/Chat 11/15/2007 11:52:23 AM EST · 45 replies
AP - Yahoo | November 15, 2007 | Randolph E. Schmid
Perhaps it was one of those eureka moments, when the scientists realized they had discovered a new dinosaur with mouth parts designed to vacuum up food...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Italian musician uncovers hidden music in Da Vinci's 'Last Supper'
Posted by RDTF
On General/Chat 11/09/2007 11:47:01 PM EST · 9 replies
cnn.com | Nov 9, 2007 | AP
ROME, Italy (AP) -- It's a new Da Vinci code, but this time it could be for real. An Italian musician and computer technician claims to have uncovered musical notes encoded in Leonardo Da Vinci's "Last Supper," raising the possibility that the Renaissance genius might have left behind a somber composition to accompany the scene depicted in the 15th-century wall painting. "It sounds like a requiem," Giovanni Maria Pala said. "It's like a soundtrack that emphasizes the passion of Jesus." Painted from 1494 to 1498 in Milan's Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, the "Last Supper" vividly depicts a key...
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Saturday, November 24, 2007
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Undersea slide set off giant flow
Posted by george76
On News/Activism 11/22/2007 6:56:49 PM EST · 43 replies
BBC News | 22 November 2007 | Paul Rincon
An enormous underwater landslide 60,000 years ago produced the longest flow of sand and mud yet found on Earth. The landslide off the coast of north-west Africa dumped 225 billion metric tonnes of sediment into the ocean in a matter of hours or days. The flow travelled 1,500km (932 miles) - the distance from London to Rome - before depositing its sediment. The work, by a British team of researchers has been published in the academic journal Nature. The massive surge put down the same amount of sediment that comes out of all the world's rivers combined over a period...
Climate
Historic Himalayan Ice Dams Created Huge Lakes, Mammoth Floods
Posted by george76
On News/Activism 11/23/2007 11:10:13 PM EST · 19 replies
Science Daily | Dec. 27, 2004
Ice dams across the deepest gorge on Earth created some of the highest-elevation lakes in history. New research shows the most recent of these lakes, in the Himalaya Mountains of Tibet, broke through its ice barrier somewhere between 600 and 900 AD, causing massive torrents of water to pour through the Himalayas into India. Geological evidence points to the existence of at least three lakes, and probably four, at various times in history when glacial ice from the Himalayas blocked the flow of the Tsangpo River in Tibet, said University of Washington geologist David Montgomery, a professor of Earth and...
Prehistory and Origins
Climate swings shaped human evolution, researchers claim
Posted by camerakid400
On News/Activism 11/18/2007 9:27:04 PM EST · 14 replies
Guardian | Nov 19 2007 | Ian Sample
The evolution of our earliest human ancestors was driven by wild swings in eastern Africa's ancient climate, scientists claim today. The rapidly changing climate reshaped the landscape, leaving once plentiful food and water resources in scarce supply and placing enormous pressure on early humans to adapt.
Climate Swings Shaped Human Evolution, Researchers Claim
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/19/2007 9:46:55 PM EST · 17 replies
The Guardian (UK) | 11-19-2007 | Ian Sample
Climate swings shaped human evolution, researchers claim Ian Sample, science correspondent The Guardian Monday November 19 2007 The evolution of our earliest human ancestors was driven by wild swings in eastern Africa's ancient climate, scientists claim today. The rapidly changing climate reshaped the landscape, leaving once plentiful food and water resources in scarce supply and placing enormous pressure on early humans to adapt. The sustained upheaval drove some species to the brink of extinction, while other better-suited relatives emerged and flourished, the scientists believe. Researchers identified several extreme shifts in climate dating back millions of years to when humans were...
Helix, Make Mine a Double
Ice Age Imprint Found On Cod DNA
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/14/2007 5:53:47 PM EST · 31 replies
Science Daily | 11-14-2007 | University of Sheffield.
Ice Age Imprint Found On Cod DNA ScienceDaily (Nov. 14, 2007) -- An international team of researchers, led by the University of Sheffield, has demonstrated how Atlantic cod responded to past natural climate extremes. The new research could help in determining cods vulnerability to future global warming. Atlantic cod. Professor Bigg of the University of Sheffield said: "This research shows that cod populations have been able to survive in periods of extreme climatic change, demonstrating a considerable resilience. However this does not necessarily mean that cod will show the same resilience to the effects of future climatic changes due to global...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Fossil find changes evolutionary beliefs (New human fossils found in Georgia, north of Africa)
Posted by Ernest_at_the_Beach
On News/Activism 11/18/2007 4:39:39 PM EST · 31 replies
Long Beach Press Telegram | 11/17/2007 06:29:00 PM PST | Alex Rodriguez
ARCHAEOLOGY: New human fossils found in Georgia, north of Africa, have some rethinking migration of early man. DMANISI, Georgia - The forested bluff that overlooks this sleepy Georgian hamlet seems an unlikely portal into the mysteries surrounding the dawn of man. Think human evolution, and one conjures up the wind-swept savannas and badlands of east Africa's Great Rift Valley. Georgians may claim their ancestors made Georgia the cradle of wine 8,000 years ago, but the cradle of mankind lies 3,300 miles away, at Tanzania's famed Olduvai Gorge. But it is here in the verdant uplands of southern Georgia that David...
Agriculture and Animal Husbandry
Noah's Ark Flood Spurred European Farming
Posted by anymouse
On News/Activism 11/18/2007 11:58:45 AM EST · 61 replies
Reuters) | Nov 17, 2007 | Maggie Fox and Catherine Evans
An ancient flood some say could be the origin of the story of Noah's Ark may have helped the spread of agriculture in Europe 8,300 years ago by scattering the continent's earliest farmers, researchers said on Sunday. Using radiocarbon dating and archaeological evidence, a British team showed the collapse of the North American ice sheet, which raised global sea levels by as much as 1.4 meters, displaced tens of thousands of people in southeastern Europe who carried farming skills to their new homes. The researchers said in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews their study provides direct evidence linking the flood...
Africa
American Rice: Out of Africa
Posted by neverdem
On News/Activism 11/17/2007 5:40:32 AM EST · 14 replies
ScienceNOW Daily News | 16 November 2007 | Erik Stokstad
African waves. A successful variety of rice called Carolina Gold may have come from Ghana. In colonial America, slaves from west Africa made many a plantation owner rich by growing a particular high-quality variety of rice. Now, genetic research suggests the slaves not only supplied the labor and the agricultural skills they'd gained in their home countries but also may have brought the valuable crop with them. When slaves were brought to the American colonies from west Africa, they often grew various kinds of rice in small gardens to feed themselves. Rice became a cash crop for plantation owners,...
Australia and the Pacific
Archaeology Unearths Gout In Early Pacific People
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/23/2007 10:43:15 AM EST · 8 replies
Maranias Variety | 11-22-2007
Thursday November 22, 2007 OTAGO (Pacnews) -- High rates of gout among Maori and Pacific Island men may have a genetic basis going back thousands of years to the time when Polynesia and Melanesia were being colonized from South East Asia. University of Otago Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology biological anthropologist Dr. Hallie Buckley has been working with colleagues from the Australian National University and CNRS in Paris to analyze skeletons from a 3,000-year-old cemetery in Vanuatu. Her paper on possible gouty arthritis amongst the Lapita people -- so-called because of their distinctive...
Navigation
Ancient Jade Study Sheds Light On Sea Trade
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/19/2007 9:36:25 PM EST · 4 replies
Reuter | 11-19-2007 | Tan Ee Lyn
Ancient jade study sheds light on sea trade Mon Nov 19, 2007 10:07pm GMTBy Tan Ee Lyn HONG KONG (Reuters) - Over 100 ancient jade artifacts in museums across southeast Asia have been traced back to Taiwan, shedding new light on sea trade patterns dating back 5,000 years, researchers said. Using X-ray spectrometers, the international team of scientists analyzed 144 jade ornaments dating from 3,000 BC to 500 AD and found that at least 116 originated from Fengtian in eastern Taiwan. "The chemical composition of jade reveals its origin and ... their analysis determined the relative amounts of iron, magnesium,...
China
Chinese archaeologists discover ancient red wine
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/21/2007 1:32:04 PM EST · 17 replies
Topnews | November 20th, 2007 | unattributed (ANI)
Chinese archaeologists have claimed to have unearthed a sealed bronze pot containing two kilograms of red liquid during an excavation of an ancient tomb built in the Warring States Period (475 BC - 221 BC). Wafts of the ancient vintage greeted the archaeologists after they opened the pot, The China Daily reports. The find has been sent to Beijing for tests and verification.
India
In The Holy Caves of India [ Ajanta Caves ]
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/20/2007 11:40:30 PM EST · 8 replies
New York Times | November 5, 2006 | Simon Winchester
The monument comprises a series of 29 caves that have been carved deep into this sheer face of a horseshoe-shaped cliff a few miles from the old walled town of Ajanta, hidden away in the deep gorge gouged in the high Deccan plains by the Waghora River about 300 miles inland from Mumbai. It is a Unesco World Heritage Site, designated as such back in 1983 as one of India's first, along with the Taj Mahal. And though Shah Jahan's famous memorial in Agra is far better known, the Ajanta Caves are hugely popular, particularly with Indians, who see them...
Central Asia
Archaeologists Discover Largest Kushan City Sites
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/17/2007 10:56:16 PM EST · 20 replies
The News | 11-16-2007
Archaeologists discover largest Kushan City Sites By By our correspondent 11/16/2007 PESHAWAR: A team of archaeologists led by Vice Chancellor of the Hazara University Prof Dr Ihsan Ali has discovered the remains of one of the largest Kushan city sites in Chittar Kot, Mansehra, the NWFP. The site Chittar Kot is located on a high spur overlooking the Biran River, offering one of the most spectacular views of the river and the surrounding area, a press release stated. The site is located at 34" 22.356' N and 73" 08.214' E at an elevation of 945 meters from mean sea level...
Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
Khark stone inscription may add five new words to ancient Persian
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/21/2007 4:17:07 PM EST · 9 replies
Tehran Times | Wednesday, November 21, 2007 | Culture Desk
The first, second, fifth and sixth words are quite easily legible, but the third and fourth words are difficult to make out due to erosion, explained expert on ancient languages Reza Moradi Ghiasabadi. Moradi has deciphered the inscription from photos sent to him by the people living near the site of the relic. According to Moradi, the first word reads "aahe" or "ahe", which means "was" or "were". This word has frequently been observed in ancient Persian inscriptions. However, the other five words are new discoveries. The second word reads "sakosha" or "sakusha". "This word obviously denotes a particular name,...
Epigraphy and Language
Museum's tablet lends new weight to Biblical truth
Posted by GodGunsGuts
On News/Activism 07/13/2007 1:19:37 PM EDT · 19 replies · 1,080+ views
Times Online | July 11, 2007 | Dalya Alberge
July 11, 2007 Museum's tablet lends new weight to Biblical truth Dalya Alberge, Arts Correspondent The British Museum yesterday hailed a discovery within a modest clay tablet in its collection as a breakthrough for biblical archaeology -- dramatic proof of the accuracy of the Old Testament. The cuneiform inscription in a tablet dating from 595BC has been deciphered for the first time -- revealing a reference to an official at the court of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, that proves the historical existence of a figure mentioned in the Book of Jeremiah. This is rare evidence in a nonbiblical source of...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Digging Biblical History, Or The End Of The World
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/21/2007 9:31:10 AM EST · 70 replies
Eureka Alert | 11-20-2007 | George Hunka
Public release date: 20-Nov-2007 Contact: George Hunka ghunka@aftau.org 212-742-9070 American Friends of Tel Aviv University Digging biblical history, or the end of the world Professor Israel Finkelstein Some come to dig the Tel Aviv University-directed archeological site at Tel Megiddo because they are enchanted by ancient stories of King Solomon. Others come because they believe in a New Testament prophecy that the mound of dirt will be the location of a future Judgment Day apocalyptic battle. Hence the second, rather more chilling name for the site: "Armageddon." Tel Megiddo has been the subject of a number of decisive battles in...
Faith and Philosophy
Ancient Synagogue Discovered in Galilee
Posted by Esther Ruth
On News/Activism 11/21/2007 8:42:17 PM EST · 18 replies
Arutz sheva | 02:30 AM 12 Kislev 5768, November 22, '07
02:30 AM 12 Kislev 5768, November 22, '07 Ancient Synagogue Discovered in Galilee (IsraelNN.com) Hebrew University archeologists have discovered the remnants of an ancient synagogue in the lower Galilee. The synagogue was found in the Arbel National Park, among other remnants of an ancient Jewish town from the Byzantine and Roman periods. Within the synagogue archeologists revealed a colorful tile floor depicting several craftsmen constructing a large edifice. Archeologists said the scene is not familiar from other ruins from the same time period. The scene appears to depict either the building of the Temple, of Noah's Ark, or of the...
Rome and Italy
Sanctuary of Rome's 'Founder' Revealed
Posted by Pyro7480
On News/Activism 11/20/2007 1:08:23 PM EST · 59 replies
Yahoo! News (AP) | 11/20/2007 | Ariel David
ROME - Archaeologists on Tuesday unveiled an underground grotto believed to have been revered by ancient Romans as the place where a wolf nursed the city's legendary founder Romulus and his twin brother Remus. Decorated with seashells and colored marble, the vaulted sanctuary is buried 52 feet inside the Palatine hill, the palatial center of power in imperial Rome, the archaeologists said at a news conference. In the past two years, experts have been probing the space with endoscopes and laser scanners, fearing that the fragile grotto, already partially caved-in, would not survive a full-scale dig, said Giorgio Croci, an...
Mythical Roman cave 'unearthed'[Cave of Romulus and Remus?]
Posted by BGHater
On News/Activism 11/20/2007 3:47:31 PM EST · 25 replies
BBC | 20 Nov 2007 | BBC
Probes revealed a ceiling with a white eagle at the centre. Italian archaeologists say they have found the long-lost underground grotto where ancient Romans believed a female wolf suckled the city's twin founders.The cave believed to be the Lupercal was found near the ruins of Emperor Augustus' palace on the Palatine hill. The 8m (26ft) high cave decorated with shells, mosaics and marble was found during restoration work on the palace. According to mythology Romulus and Remus were nursed by a she-wolf after being left on the River Tiber's banks. The twin sons of the god Mars...
Ancient Autopsies
Found In Farmer's Field: The 2,000-Year-Old Skeleton Of The Lost Lady Of Rome
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/23/2007 10:32:17 AM EST · 19 replies
Daily Mail | 11-23-2007 | Chris Brooke
Found in a farmer's field: The 2,000-year-old skeleton of the lost lady of Rome By CHRIS BROOKE Last updated at 09:14am on 23rd November 2007 In her lifetime she was a member of a wealthy family based in a bustling British outpost of the world's mightiest empire. The imperial glory has long faded. But, almost 2,000 years on, archaeologists have discovered a corner of an English field that is forever Rome. They have unearthed a coffin containing a remarkably well-preserved skeleton in the village of Aldborough, near Boroughbridge, North Yorkshire - once the site of a major Roman town, Isurium...
British Isles
Royal Burial Ground Unearthed
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/21/2007 8:36:15 AM EST · 36 replies
24 Dash | 11-20-2007 | Sonia Bennett
Royal burial ground Unearthed Publisher: Sonia Bennett Published: 20/11/2007 - 13:45:58 PM Royal burial ground unearthed A royal Anglo-Saxon burial ground and some of the finest gold jewellery ever unearthed in the country has been discovered by a freelance archaeologist. The 109-grave cemetery is arranged in a rectangular pattern and dates from the middle of the 7th Century. The cemetery, bed burial and high status objects are considered to all indicate the people buried must have connections with Anglo-Saxon royalty. Traditionally, Anglo Saxon royalty were always buried in the south of England and it is thought the royals buried at...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Pre-Mayan cave paintings found in Mexico
Posted by BGHater
On News/Activism 11/17/2007 8:04:54 PM EST · 38 replies
Nerve News | 15 Nov 2007 | Nerve News
Mexican anthropologists have discovered some 5,000-year-old cave paintings predating the Maya civilisation on Yucatan peninsula, Spanish news agency EFE reported. According to Carlos Augusto of the Faculty of Anthropological Sciences at the Autonomous University of the Yucatan, they found some 60 paintings of man-like figures at the Kab cavern situated near the famous Chichen Itza archaeological site. There are also drawings of animal figures, birds or canines, Augusto said. Anthropologists attribute them to the pre-Maya epoch, between 5,000 and 7,000 years ago. Augusto also noted that there are also Mayan 'Ajau' symbols and pottery in the cave from the classical...
Maya Rituals Caused Ancient Decline in Big Game
Posted by 3AngelaD
On News/Activism 11/20/2007 10:20:23 AM EST · 20 replies
National Geographic News | November 15, 2007 | Kelly Hearn
Maya rulers' growing demand for animals of symbolic value may have caused a decline in big game, like jaguars, in ancient Latin America, a new study suggests. Faced with environmental problems and doubts about their ability to provide for their followers, the Maya elite may have ordered more hunting of large mammals whose meat, skins, and teeth provided proof of power and status, the study says. Kitty Emery, an archaeologist at the Florida Museum of Natural History, has studied 80,000 animal bones found in 25 Maya trash mounds to map the effects of ancient hunting on animal populations over 4,000...
Early America
Beer, Plymouth Rock & The Pilgrims -- The Real Story
Posted by toddlintown
On General/Chat 11/16/2007 12:44:48 PM EST · 11 replies
Beer (& More) In Food | 11-14-2007 | Bob Skilnik
One of the interesting things I've learned while donning the cloak of an author is my love of research. Unfortunately, falling under the spell of a good story or three that has ever so slightly the remotest connection to your main topic can lead to a manuscript that most publishers will take a scalpel to. The economics of getting published in today's market often means writing a lean story, just enough to keep the reader interested, but not so many pages as to bring down an entire forest for an 800-page opus. While working on Beer & Food: An American...
What The Pilgrims Ate
Posted by DogByte6RER
On News/Activism 11/21/2007 11:09:11 AM EST · 65 replies
UnsolvedMysteries.com | Nocturnal By Nature
What The Pilgrims Ate FIRST THANKSGIVING In 1621 the Plymouth colonists and the Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest feast which is now known as the first Thanksgiving. While cooking methods and table etiquette have changed as the holiday has evolved, the meal is still consumed today with the same spirit of celebration and overindulgence. WHAT WAS ACTUALLY ON THE MENU? What foods topped the table at the first harvest feast? Historians aren't completely certain about the full bounty, but it's safe to say the pilgrims weren't gobbling up pumpkin pie or playing with their mashed potatoes. Following is a...
Civil War
Historic Gettysburg Photo May Contain Lincoln's Image
Posted by Cagey
On News/Activism 11/18/2007 5:14:16 PM EST · 125 replies
WGAL NEWS | 11-18-2007
GETTYSBURG, Pa. -- Abraham Lincoln photos are rare -- especially those from the day of the Gettysburg Address. For years, only one such photo was thought to exist, but now that may not be the case. "I think it's absolutely staggering to see something like this that was in a sense hidden in plain sight," said Lincoln author Harold Holzer. Holzer thinks the image of a person in one of only two known photographs taken at Gettysburg on the day of Lincoln's address looks like Lincoln possibly arriving to the stage on horseback. "To have the moment recorded minutes before...
Outhouse to Doghouse
Treasure hunt: Digging for trouble
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/21/2007 3:57:32 PM EST · 6 replies
Mail Tribune | November 18, 2007 | Sanne Specht
The Oregon State Preservation Office informed him that digging up items on private property that are 75 years or older -- even with the property owner's permission -- must be witnessed by an archaeologist and signed off by the state. Mlasko, 44, has been following his passion for hunting glass since he was a young boy. He searches for bottles from the 1800s and early 1900s on private property in Northern California and Southern Oregon. He asks the owners for permission to look for old outhouses with a metal probe, then offers to give them everything he finds. Sometimes they...
Location, Location, Location
For sale : World's smallest country (Principality of Sealand)
Posted by HAL9000
On News/Activism 01/08/2007 2:55:54 AM EST · 94 replies · 4,270+ views
Antara News (Indonesia) | January 8, 2007
London (ANTARA News) - A former World War II fort in the North Sea, which was settled 40 years ago and declared a state with its own self-proclaimed royal family, is up for sale, The Times said Monday. The tiny Principality of Sealand, which began life as Roughs Tower in 1941, is a 550 square metre (658 square yard) steel platform perched on two concrete towers 11 kilometres (seven miles) off the coast of Harwich, eastern England. It is accessible only by helicopter and boat but according to its owners, who want offers of eight digits or over, boasts...
Oh So Mysteriouso
Eighth wonder of the world? The stunning temples secretly carved out below ground ~snip~
Posted by fanfan
On News/Activism 11/22/2007 3:02:56 PM EST · 67 replies
The Daily Mail | 22nd November 2007 | HAZEL COURTENEY
Nestling in the foothills of the Alps in northern Italy, 30 miles from the ancient city of Turin, lies the valley of Valchiusella. Peppered with medieval villages, the hillside scenery is certainly picturesque. But it is deep underground, buried into the ancient rock, that the region's greatest wonders are concealed. Here, 100ft down and hidden from public view, lies an astonishing secret - one that has drawn comparisons with the fabled city of Atlantis and has been dubbed 'the Eighth Wonder of the World' by the Italian government. For weaving their way underneath the hillside are nine ornate temples, on...
Greece
How long do we have?
Posted by oldbrowser
On General/Chat 11/21/2007 8:52:53 PM EST · 12 replies
Email | n/a | Unknown
How Long Do We Have? About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier: 'A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government.' 'A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.' 'From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits...
MRS Uncovers CRS
Imaging Neural Progenitor Cells In The Living Human Brain
Posted by neverdem
On News/Activism 11/18/2007 4:52:06 AM EST · 4 replies
Science Daily | Nov. 17, 2007 | NA
For the first time, investigators have identified a way to detect neural progenitor cells (NPCs), which can develop into neurons and other nervous system cells, in the living human brain using a type of imaging called magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS). The finding may lead to improved diagnosis and treatment for depression, Parkinson's disease, brain tumors, and a host of other disorders. Research has shown that, in select brain regions, NPCs persist into adulthood and may give rise to new neurons. Studies have suggested that the development of new neurons from NPCs, called neurogenesis, is disrupted in disorders ranging from depression...
Longer Perspectives
The Theory of Moral Neuroscience
Posted by neverdem
On News/Activism 11/23/2007 2:04:02 AM EST · 35 replies
Reason | November 21, 2007 | Ronald Bailey
Modern brain science is confirming an 18th century philosopher's moral theories"As we have no immediate experience of what other men feel, we can form no idea of the manner in which they are affected, but by conceiving what we ourselves should feel in the like situation," observed British philosopher and economist Adam Smith in the first chapter of his magisterial The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759). "Whatever is the passion which arises from any object in the person principally concerned, an analogous emotion springs up, at the thought of his situation, in the breast of every attentive spectator." Smith's argument...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
BBC to film all 37 of Bard's plays (12-year Shakespeare project could top $200 Million)
Posted by Stoat
On General/Chat 11/18/2007 2:53:23 PM EST · 22 replies
The Telegraph (U.K.) | November 18, 2007 | Chris Hastings and Stephanie Plentl
BBC to film all 37 of Bard's plays By Chris Hastings and Stephanie Plentl Last Updated: 4:36pm GMT 18/11/2007 Boasting one of the greatest casts ever assembled and spanning more than seven years, the BBC's Shakespeare series 30 years ago was a defining moment in British television history. Helen Mirren in the 1980s version of Cymbeline Now the corporation aims to upstage its own classics by producing new versions of all 37 of the Bard's plays.It has enlisted Sam Mendes, Oscar-winning director of American Beauty and Road to Perdition, and his Neal Street company to produce...
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Make Denture You Know What You're Doing
Bulgarian Paleontologists Stumble Upon Prehistoric Tooth
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/29/2007 12:46:04 PM EST · 12 replies
Novinite.com | 11-28-2007
A team of scientists with Bulgaria's Natural History Museum have unearthed a tooth dated back to the Late Miocene, the head of the fossil and recent Mammalia museum department Dr. Nikolay Spasov announced on Wednesday. The tooth is some seven million years old and belonged to a hominid.A team of archaeologists, paleontologists, paleo-anthropologists and biologists from the museum spent the last ten years in researching the flora, the fauna and the overall nature setting in Bulgaria from the time of the late Neogene (10,7 - 5,3 million years BC). The...
Bulgarian Paleontologists Stumble upon Prehistoric Tooth
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/29/2007 1:28:14 PM EST · 1 reply
Sofia News Agency | Wednesday, November 28, 2007 | unattributed
A team of scientists with Bulgaria's Natural History Museum have unearthed a tooth dated back to the Late Miocene, the head of the fossil and recent Mammalia museum department Dr. Nikolay Spasov announced on Wednesday. The tooth is some seven million years old and belonged to a hominid. A team of archaeologists, paleontologists, paleo-anthropologists and biologists from the museum spent the last ten years in researching the flora, the fauna and the overall nature setting in Bulgaria from the time of the late Neogene (10,7 - 5,3 million years BC). The tooth was dated by Dr. Nikolai Spasov and Dr....
Prehistory and Origins
What is the secret of the Pit of Bones?
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/26/2007 2:01:42 PM EST · 23 replies
The First Post | November 21, 2007 | Sean Thomas
Atapuerca gives us incontrovertible evidence that there was human life, already in north Spain, in 1.2m years BC. Is it possible that the "out of Africa" theory is wrong - that mankind evolved separately in Europe? ...Atapuerca's rich limestone silt hides still another secret, even more astonishing. As archaeologist Susana Callizo explains... "The question you have to ask is, how did those skeletons get down there? The Pit of Bones is inaccessible. Even today it is difficult to approach - the archaeologists have to abseil down a narrow chasm, then crawl through passages, before they can start digging. Some people...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Does Skull Prove That The First Americans Came From Europe?
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/24/2007 2:28:47 PM EST · 88 replies
UTexas.edu | 12-03-2002 | Steve Conner
Scientists in Britain have identified the oldest skeleton ever found on the American continent in a discovery that raises fresh questions about the accepted theory of how the first people arrived in the New World. The skeleton's perfectly preserved skull belonged to a 26-year-old woman who died during the last ice age on the edge of a giant prehistoric lake which once formed around an area now occupied by the sprawling suburbs of Mexico City. Scientists from Liverpool's John Moores University and...
Helix, Make Mine a Double
Gene Study Supports Single Main Migration Across Bering Strait
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/26/2007 7:13:41 PM EST · 69 replies
Eureka Alert | 11-26-2007 | Anne Rueter
The U-M study, which analyzed genetic data from 29 Native American populations, suggests a Siberian origin is much more likely than a South Asian or Polynesian origin. Did a relatively small number of people from Siberia who trekked across a Bering Strait land bridge some 12,000 years ago give rise to the native peoples of North and South America? Or did the ancestors of today's native peoples come from other parts of Asia or...
First Americans All from Siberia, Study Confirms
Posted by fishtank
On News/Activism 11/27/2007 5:56:48 PM EST · 25 replies
livescience.com
Humans somehow made their way into the Americas from distant lands, but knowing precisely when and from where they made the journey are matters of heated scientific debate. New genetic evidence, however, backs up a chilly northwestern arrival to North America from Siberia about 12,000 years ago, via a temporary land bridge spanning the Bering Strait. The findings further challenge an alternative idea that humans sprinkled in to both North and South America on open sea voyages 30,000 years in the past. Excerpt only...... whole story at link
The Other Red Meat, It's What Was For Dinner
Bear Hunting Altered Genetics More Than Ice Age Isolation
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/24/2007 1:37:08 PM EST · 17 replies
Alpha Galileo | 11-23-3007
It was not the isolation of the Ice Age that determined the genetic distribution of bears, as has long been thought. This is shown by an international research team led from Uppsala University in Sweden in the latest issue of Molecular Ecology. One possible interpretation is that the hunting of bears by humans and human land use have been crucial factors. Twenty thousand years ago Europe was covered by ice down to Germany, and the climate in the rest of Europe was such that several species were...
Anatolia
Is this the world's oldest statue? [Anatolia, Gobekli Tepe]
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/26/2007 12:01:06 PM EST · 22 replies
The First Post | November 24, 2006 | Sean Thomas
The statue turned out to be part of a larger discovery: of a Neolithic temple. This and the statue have now been dated to 10,000BC, making the 'Snowman' possibly the oldest statue in the world. The veracity of this claim depends on semantics. What is a 'statue'? The Venus of Willendorf dates back to 20,000BC. But the Venus is just 11cm long: surely not a statue. So the Balikli Gol Snowman is the first sizeable sculpture of a man. Arguably, it is the oldest sculptural representation of humanity, the oldest self-portrait in stone. In the accepted sense of the word,...
Epidemics, Pandemics, Plagues
Sick Rams Used As Ancient Bioweapons
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/29/2007 5:53:57 PM EST · 46 replies
Discovery Channel | Rossella Lorenzi
Sick Rams Used as Ancient Bioweapons Rossella Lorenzi, Discovery News Once, a Weapon Nov. 28, 2007 -- Infected rams and donkeys were the earliest bioweapons, according to a new study which dates the use of biological warfare back more than 3,300 years. According to a review published in the Journal of Medical Hypotheses, two ancient populations, the Arzawans and the Hittites, engaged "in mutual use of contaminated animals" during the 1320-1318 B.C. Anatolian war. "The animals were carriers of Francisella tularensis, the causative agent of tularemia," author Siro Trevisanato, a molecular biologist based in Oakville, Ontario, Canada told Discovery News....
Let's Have Jerusalem
Biblical Wall May Have Been Located (Book of Nehemiah)
Posted by NYer
On News/Activism 11/30/2007 4:28:22 PM EST · 6 replies
AP | November 30, 2007 | Regan E. Doherty
Jerusalem (AP) -- A wall mentioned in the Bible's Book of Nehemiah and long sought by archaeologists apparently has been found, an Israeli archaeologist says.A team of archaeologists discovered the wall in Jerusalem's ancient City of David during a rescue attempt on a tower that was in danger of collapse, said Eilat Mazar, head of the Institute of Archaeology at the Shalem Center, a Jerusalem-based research and educational institute, and leader of the dig.Artifacts including pottery shards and arrowheads found under the tower suggested that both the tower and the nearby wall are from the 5th century B.C., the time...
Africa
Keepers of the Lost Ark?[Ethiopia][Ark of the Covenant]
Posted by BGHater
On News/Activism 11/27/2007 2:27:12 PM EST · 94 replies
Smithsonian Magazine | December 2007 | Paul Raffaele
Christians in Ethiopia have long claimed to have the ark of the covenant. Our reporter investigated "They shall make an ark of acacia wood," God commanded Moses in the Book of Exodus, after delivering the Israelites from slavery in Egypt. And so the Israelites built an ark, or chest, gilding it inside and out. And into this chest Moses placed stone tablets inscribed with the Ten Commandments, as given to him on Mount Sinai. Thus Jews came to revere the ark as an earthly manifestation of God. The Old Testament describes its enormous powers -- blazing with fire and light, halting rivers,...
Epigraphy and Language
Why A Nile Tadpole Means A Great Deal
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/26/2007 9:55:06 AM EST · 29 replies
The Times (UK) | 11-22-2007 | George Hart
Recording numbers and quantities was one of the first requirements of the bureaucracy as soon as hieroglyphs had been invented. Items to be accounted for varied from enemies slain in battle and prisoners to how many jars of beer or bunches of onions were needed to accompany the Pharaoh into the afterlife. Inventories of equipment used in temples were kept meticulously and any damage noted down. The system of writing numbers was logical but cumbersome and took up...
Egypt
Polish archaeologists have discovered a richly furnished Egyptian tomb dating back 5,000 years
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/27/2007 2:57:35 PM EST · 18 replies
Polish Press Agency | June 5, 2007 | Nauka w Polsce, Anna Alazak
Polish archaeologists have discovered a richly furnished tomb dating back 4,900 years and yet another brewery in the north-east delta of the Nile... Archaeologists from the Archaeological Museum in Poznaf, the Institute of Archaeology at Jagiellonian University, Krakow and the Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology at Warsaw University have been running joint excavations in Tell el-Farcha over the past ten years. Prof. Cialowicz, jointly with Dr Marek Chlodnicki from Poznaf are heading the research. The site, which is translated as Chicken Hill, is located on the remains of a settlement dating back to the fourth millennium B.C... 2006 witnessed the sensational...
Ancient Autopsies
Russian Archaeologists Find Unique Mummies In Egypt
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/29/2007 1:31:19 PM EST · 19 replies
Novosti | 11-27-2007
Russian archaeologists find unique mummies in Egypt 21:56 | 27/ 11/ 2007 AL-FAYUM, November 27 (RIA Novosti) - Russian archaeologists have found well-preserved mummies in Egypt dating to the country's Ptolemaic era, the head of the Russian Academy of Science's Egyptology department announced on Tuesday. "Well-preserved mummies of this period are extremely rare," Galina Belova said. The discoveries were made in the Egyptian oasis of Al-Fayum, where several mummies, combining traits of Hellenic and Egyptian traditions, have previously been found. Teams of Russian archaeologists are currently carrying out excavations in Memphis, the ancient capital of Egypt, in Alexandria on the...
Rome and Italy
Expert Sceptical Of Sacred Roman Cave (Romulus And Remus)
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/24/2007 1:43:35 PM EST · 15 replies
The Australian | 11-24-2007 | Silvia Aloisi
Expert sceptical of sacred Roman cave By Silvia Aloisi in Rome November 24, 2007 A LEADING Italian archaeologist said that the grotto whose discovery was announced this week in Rome is not the sacred cave linked to the myth of the city's foundation by Romulus and Remus. The Culture Ministry and experts who presented the find said they were 'reasonably certain' the cavern is the Lupercale - a sanctuary worshipped for centuries by Romans because, according to legend, a wolf nursed the twin brothers there. But Adriano La Regina, Rome's superintendent of archaeology from 1976 to 2004, said ancient descriptions...
Travel in the Ancient World
Ancient Roman road map unveiled
Posted by BGHater
On News/Activism 11/26/2007 9:58:07 PM EST · 57 replies
BBC | 26 Nov 2007 | Bethany Bell
The landmass and the seas have been stretched and flattened Enlarge Image The Tabula Peutingeriana is one of the Austrian National Library's greatest treasures. The parchment scroll, made in the Middle Ages, is the only surviving copy of a road map from the late Roman Empire. The document, which is almost seven metres long, shows the network of main Roman roads from Spain to India. It is normally never shown to the public. The parchment is extremely fragile, and reacts badly to daylight. But it has been on display for one day to celebrate its inclusion in Unesco's Memory...
Agriculture and Animal Husbandry
China To Start Excavation Of Horse-And-Chariot Burial
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/29/2007 1:11:49 PM EST · 4 replies
Xinhuanet - China View | 11-29-2007 | Du Guodong
JINGZHOU, Hubei Province, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) -- Chinese archaeologists will soon start excavations at the horse-and-chariot chamber of a tomb dating back 2,300 to 2,400 years, more than 100 years older than the tomb containing the terracotta army. "Excavation will start on the 131-meter-long horse-chariot sector of the Xiongjiazhong Tomb before February, 2008," said Yan Pin, director of the Archaeology Bureau of Jingzhou, central China's Hubei Province, where the tomb is. The tomb is the largest and best preserved yet found in China from the State of Chu in the...
China
Ancient Henan Tomb Excavated
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/26/2007 1:35:05 PM EST · 18 replies
CCTV.com | 11-25-2007 | Yang Jie
Ancient Henan tomb excavated Source: CCTV.com 11-25-2007 11:31Editor:Yang Jie Archeologists have finished excavating an ancient graveyard in Central China's Henan Province. Several important artifacts discovered there have lead cultural experts and the media to call the excavation, "the most important archeological project of the year." Preliminary research and studies have convinced archeologists the cemetery dates back to the Eastern Wei Dynasty about 1,500 years ago. The site is located in Anyang, a major town in the country's early history. The largest tomb complex is completely made of bricks. A ten-meter lane leads to the chamber, flanked by three archways and...
Central Asia
Desertification Threatens Ancient Chinese Town [Dunhuang]
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/30/2007 2:31:21 PM EST · 14 replies
Discover | November 20, 2007 | AFP
An ancient oasis in destitute Gansu province along the historic Silk Road, Dunhuang is in danger of being swallowed by the sands of the adjacent Kumtag desert, which are creeping closer at a rate of up to 13 feet a year... The problem stems from centuries of unsustainable grazing and farming practices and overuse of already slim and strained water resources. The government has attempted to blunt the spread through reforestation, incentives and other means... Once a welcome oasis for Silk Road travelers thanks to an ancient store of groundwater, Dunhuang is drying up. [page 2] The water table in...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Jurassic Bark: Tree Thought Extinct Returned to the World
Posted by PatrickHenry
On News/Activism 10/17/2005 4:53:08 PM EDT · 259 replies · 4,387+ views
Sci-Tech Today | 17 October 2005 | Staff
The Wollemi pine, a Jurassic-age plant believed extinct until a hiker stumbled across a grove near Sydney, Australia, 11 years ago, is being reintroduced to the rest of the world. To ensure its survival, Australian conservationists have propagated large numbers of the Wollemi and plan to auction the next generation at Sotheby's later this month, with species being touted as the latest must-have garden accessory. The Wollemi was known only from fossil records until David Noble, a park ranger, found the small stand in the Blue Mountains, 125 mi. (200 km) west of Sydney, in 1994. He did not recognize...
Paleontology
Dinosaur Graveyard May Unearth New Reasons For Their Extinction
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/29/2007 12:56:32 PM EST · 59 replies
The Times (UK) | 11-29-2007
Spanish scientists have unearthed what could be Europe's largest dinosaur boneyard, finding the remains of 65ft plant-eaters never before discovered on the continent. The palaeontologists believe they have found eight different species amid the 8,000 fossils discovered so far. The range of species they are finding at the 80 million-year-old site and their state of conservation is virtually unparalleled in Europe and challenges long-held beliefs about the way in which dinosaurs became extinct. "This is completely beyond what we expected to find," Francisco Ortega, co-director...
Faith and Philosophy
Trip To A Sacred Site
Posted by Renfield
On General/Chat 11/30/2007 7:51:18 AM EST · 12 replies
San Francisco Chronicle | 11-29-07 | Tim Stienstra
Remnants of Mayan human sacrifices can still be seen in cave in Belize ~~~snip~~~ This cave, Actun Tunichil Muknal, "Cave of the Stone Sepulchre," leads about a half-mile underground to one of the few Mayan sacrificial sites in the world that is virtually untouched, with skeletal remains from 14 individuals and 1,400 artifacts that date back as far as 2,000 years. Opened only nine years ago, its location is a local secret, hidden deep in a jungle preserve in the Cayo District of Belize. Visitors are granted access only with guides certified by the National Institute of Archaeology, and even...
Early America
Archaeologist Explore Ship Wreck Off (Pensacola) Florida
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/27/2007 5:45:45 PM EST · 10 replies
Yahoo News | 11-27-2007 | Melissa Nelson
Archaeologists explore wreck off Fla. By MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer Tue Nov 27, 4:19 AM ET PENSACOLA, Fla. - When Matthew Kuehne dives to the sandy bottom of Pensacola Bay, he reaches back 450 years to Spaniard Don Tristan de Luna's hurricane-doomed effort to form the first colony in the present-day United States. Archaeologists say the buried hull of a ship from de Luna's fleet of 11 ships holds crucial clues to the 1559 expedition, which sailed from Mexico to Florida's Panhandle. The ship's discovery was announced in October after lead sheeting and pottery from the wreck site were...
British Isles
Norwich: The Second Largest Medieval City (UK)
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/25/2007 12:13:36 PM EST · 16 replies
Current Archaeology (UK)
Norwich: the second largest medieval city Norwich was the second largest city in Medieval Britain: why? In recent years a number of major sites covering more than 20 acres in all have been excavated in medieval Norwich, which between them have revolutionised our knowledge of this crucial medieval city. Let us take a look at these excavations in order to throw new light on this question of why medieval Norwich was so big, and so successful. The origins of Norwich Norwich was not a Roman settlement, nor does it owe its origins to the early Anglo-Saxon invaders. Settlement along the...
Climate
Ancient Greenland Mystery Has A Simple Answer, It Seems
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/29/2007 1:26:32 PM EST · 77 replies
Christian Science Monitor | 11-29-2007 | Colin Woodward
Did the Norse colonists starve? Were they wiped out by the Inuit -- or did they intermarry? No. Things got colder and they left. By Colin Woodard | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor from the November 28, 2007 edition Reporter Colin Woodard describes an ecumenical service at a Greenland church built by legendary Norseman "Erik the Red."QASSIARSUK, Greenland - A shipload of visitors arrived in the fjord overnight, so Ingibjorg...
Oh So Mysteriouso
Amateurs Unravel Russia's Last Royal Mystery
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/24/2007 5:57:27 PM EST · 28 replies
NY Times | 11-25-2007 | Clifford J Levy
YEKATERINBURG, Russia -- On the outskirts of this burly industrial center, off a road like any other, on a nowhere scrap of land -- here unfolded the final act of one of the last century's most momentous events. Excavations were done near Yekaterinburg in September. An archaeologist oversaw the search. A short way through a clearing, toward a cluster of birch trees, the...
'Chutes and Ladders
On This Day In History: Nov. 24, 1971 - Hijacker "D.B. Cooper" Parachutes Into Thunderstorm
Posted by DogByte6RER
On General/Chat 11/24/2007 8:08:10 PM EST · 12 replies
History.com | November 24, 2007 | History.com
On This Day In History November 24, 1971 Hijacker parachutes into thunderstorm A hijacker calling himself D.B. Cooper parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines 727 into a raging thunderstorm over Washington State. He had $200,000 in ransom money in his possession. Cooper commandeered the aircraft shortly after takeoff, showing a flight attendant something that looked like a bomb and informing the crew that he wanted $200,000, four parachutes, and "no funny stuff." The plane landed at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, where authorities met Cooper's demands and evacuated most of the passengers. Cooper then demanded that the plane fly toward Mexico at...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Rare papers on Black Sox scandal of 1919 World Series head to auction
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 11/25/2007 10:42:38 PM EST · 29 replies
WTHI | November 25, 2007 | Associated Press
A box containing thousands of rare documents allegedly detailing the events surrounding the Black Sox scandal of the 1919 World Series will be up for auction starting tomorrow at a suburban Chicago auction house. It is unclear exactly how the documents ended up together and where they have been over the past eight decades. Mastro Auctions in Burr Ridge has declined to reveal the identity of the two sellers. Baseball experts say the papers could offer more insights about 1 of the darkest events in baseball history. The papers were examined by the Chicago Tribune. They appear to contain documents...
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