Gods, Graves, Glyphs (alpha order)

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

[SunkenCiv]

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

[SunkenCiv]

Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #177 Saturday, December 8, 2007
Paleontology
'Monster' Arctic reptile remains found
	Posted by NormsRevenge On News/Activism 12/04/2007 3:49:03 PM EST · 59 replies AP on Yahoo | 12/4/07 | AP OSLO, Norway - Remains of a bus-sized prehistoric "monster" reptile found on a remote Arctic island may be a new species never before recorded by science, researchers said Tuesday. Initial excavation of a site on the Svalbard islands in August yielded the remains, teeth, skull fragments and vertebrae of a reptile estimated to measure nearly 40 feet long, said Joern Harald Hurum of the University of Oslo. "It seems the monster is a new species," he told The Associated Press. The reptile appears be the same species as another sea predator whose remains were found nearby on Svalbard last year....
Biology and Cryptobiology
Chimps Do Numbers Better Than Humans [this is not about medical marijuana]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 12/07/2007 1:28:56 PM EST · 18 replies LiveScience | December 3, 2007 | Charles Q. Choi Young chimps apparently have an extraordinary ability to remember numerals and recall them even better than human adults do. Although researchers have extensively studied chimpanzee memory in the past, the general assumption has been that it is inferior to that of humans, as with many other mental functions... The scientists tested three pairs of mother and infant chimpanzees against nine university students in a memory task involving numerals. All of the chimps had already learned the ascending order of Arabic numerals, from 1 to 9. The chimpanzees and humans were each briefly shown four to nine numerals at a time...
Epidemics, Pandemics, Plagues
Most Ancient Case Of Tuberculosis Found In 500,000-year-old Human; Points To Modern Health Issues
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/07/2007 8:10:26 PM EST · 18 replies Science Daily | 12-7-2007 | University of Texas at Austin. View of the inside of a plaster cast of the skull of the newly discovered young male Homo erectus from western Turkey. The stylus points to tiny lesions 1-2 mm in size found along the rim of bone just behind the right eye orbit. The lesions were formed by a type of tuberculosis that infects the brain and, at 500,000 years in age, represents the most ancient case of TB known in humans. (Credit: Marsha Miller, the University of Texas at Austin)" ScienceDaily (Dec. 7, 2007) -- ...
Anatolia
Human Ancestor Preserved in Stone
	Posted by neverdem On News/Activism 12/08/2007 2:02:48 AM EST · 12 replies ScienceNOW Daily News | 7 December 2007 | Ann Gibbons Stone man. This partial skull of a 500,000-year-old human was found in a slab of travertine from a quarry like this one in Turkey. Workers at a travertine factory near Denizli, Turkey, were startled recently when they sawed a block of the limestone for tiles and discovered part of a human skull. Now, it appears they unwittingly exposed fossilized remains of a long-sought species of human that lived 500,000 years ago, researchers say. Although only four skull fragments were found, the fossil also reveals the earliest case of tuberculosis. The Middle East has long been...
Navigation
Dwarf hippo fossils found on Cyprus
	Posted by NormsRevenge On General/Chat 12/05/2007 7:35:23 PM EST · 18 replies AP on Yahoo | 12/5/07 | Menelaos Hadjicostis - ap AYIA NAPA, Cyprus - An abattoir used by early Cypriots, a place where animals went to die, or a shelter that ultimately proved a death trap? Cypriot and Greek scientists are studying a collapsed cave filled with the fossilized remains of extinct dwarf hippopotamuses -- descendants of hippos believed to have reached the island a quarter-million years ago. Paleontologists have unearthed an estimated 80 dwarf hippos in recent digs at the site just outside the resort of Ayia Napa on the island's southeastern coast. Hundreds more may lie beneath an exposed layer of jumbled fossils. Scientists hope the fossil haul,...
Prehistory and Origins
Neanderthal Children Grew Up Fast
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/04/2007 4:52:30 PM EST · 29 replies Science Daily | 12-4-2007 | Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. An international European research collaboration led by scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology reports evidence for a rapid developmental pattern in a 100,000 year old Belgian Neanderthal (Homo neanderthalensis).Growth lines inside a Neanderthal tooth (left - diagonally running lines) and on the outside (right- horizontal curved lines). Counts and measurements of these lines helped to determine that the child was approximately 8 years old when it died. (Credit: Tanya Smith, MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology) A new report details how the team used growth lines both inside and...
Climate
Ancient Flood Brought Gulf Stream To A Halt
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/07/2007 6:55:53 PM EST · 45 replies New Scientist | 12-6-2007 | Fred Pearce It was the biggest climate event of the last 10,000 years and caused the most dramatic change in the weather since humans began farming. And it may yet hold important lessons about climate change in the 21st century. Just over 8000 years ago, a huge glacial lake in Canada burst, and an estimated 100,000 cubic kilometres of fresh water rushed into the North Atlantic. Researchers now say they know for sure that this catastrophic event shut down the Gulf Stream and cooled parts...
Sumeria
Lion Sculpture Gets Record price
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/06/2007 11:28:59 AM EST · 20 replies BBC | 12-6-2007 The Guennol Lioness was discovered at a site near Baghdad A tiny limestone figure of a lion from ancient Mesopotamia has sold at auction for $57m (£28m), almost double the previous record price for a sculpture. The 8.3cm (3.25in) tall Guennol Lioness is thought to have been carved 5,000 years ago in what is now Iraq and Iran. The lion, whose new owner has not been identified, had been on loan to the Brooklyn Museum of Art for 59 years. The previous record for a sculpture was set last month when Pablo Picasso's Tete de...
China
The height of China's history [ Liangzhu culture]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 12/04/2007 1:43:29 AM EST · 10 replies People's Daily Online | Monday, December 3, 2007 | unattributed The ancient city of Liangzhu is rectangular in shape with rounded corners, and faces north. The city extends 1,500-1,700 meters from east to west, and 1,800-1,900 meters north to south. The 6 kilometers of wall surround an area of 2.9 million square meters: the size of the Summer Palace. The adobe walls, built on stone foundations, are the widest existing walls found thus far... The Liangzhu culture is a prehistoric culture, dating back to BC 5,000- BC 4,000. The sphere of its influence reached as far as Shanxi to the north, and to Guangdong in the South. It is among...
Agriculture and Animal Husbandry
Ancient Wheat Suggests Early China, Middle east Trade
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/07/2007 4:50:54 PM EST · 13 replies Radio Australia | 12-7-2007 The Xinjian mummies, discovered in 1987, may be linked to new carbon dating evidence of early East-West trade. Wheat grains nearly 5,000 years old found at a Chinese archaeological site two years ago, have revealed that western man travelled to China much earlier than previously thought. The research, published by Professor John Dodson and Professor Xiaoqiang Li, shows there are no modern wild varieties of the wheat and barley, which were found in the region in a domesticated form, and carbon dated to 2,650BC. It is now thought they originated in the...
Central Asia
Mystery Mummy (National Geographic, 9:00PM EST tonight - Ancient Caucasian Mummies Found In China)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/02/2007 8:07:55 PM EST · 53 replies National Geographic Channel | 12-2-2007 | NG Mystery Mummy A National Geographic Special about the mysterious 4,000 year old Caucasian Mummies found in China will air on The National Geographic Channel at 9:00PM EST tonight. Click here to see a short video on the subject.The DirecTV satellite channel number is 276. I have a number of books on this subject and will monitor this thread through-out the movie and discuss it with anyone who desires.
Egypt
Excavations Reveal Ancient Egyptians Were Master Dam Builders
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/03/2007 5:02:40 PM EST · 27 replies The Cheers | 12-3-2007 Archaeologists have discovered the remains of an ancient dam, dating back to some 4,000 years, in Upper Egypt, proving theories that ancient Egyptians were master dam builders. Discovered by an Egyptian-French archaeological team, which has been working in Luxor since March, the ancient dam was found a few meters away from the Karnak Temple in the city, some 500 km south of Cairo. "The 230-meter long dam was built during the age of the Middle Kingdom (of ancient Egypt) to protect the temple from the...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Major 2nd Temple structure uncovered
	Posted by camerakid400 On News/Activism 12/05/2007 3:55:57 PM EST · 37 replies Jerusalem Post | Dec 5 2007 | Etgar Lefkovits Israeli archeologists have uncovered a monumental Second Temple structure in a parking lot just outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem opposite the Temple Mount which was likely the ancient palace of Queen Helena, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Wednesday. The site, which has been unearthed during a six-month 'salvage' excavation in the Givati parking lot just outside the Dung Gate ahead of the planned expansion of the Western Wall car park, also indicates that the ancient City of David was much larger than previously thought, said archeologist Doron Ben-Ami, who is directing the dig at the site....
Second Temple palace uncovered (likely to be Queen Helena's palace)
	Posted by Between the Lines On News/Activism 12/06/2007 11:25:11 AM EST · 11 replies The Jerusalem Post | Dec 6, 2007 | ETGAR LEFKOVITS Israeli archeologists have uncovered a monumental Second Temple structure opposite the Temple Mount that was likely Queen Helena's palace, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Wednesday. The building was unearthed during a six-month excavation in the Givati parking lot just outside the Old City's Dung Gate, ahead of the planned expansion of the Western Wall parking lot. The site also indicates that the ancient City of David was much larger than previously thought, said archeologist Doron Ben-Ami, who is directing the dig at the site. The palace, which was destroyed by the Romans when they demolished the Second Temple in 70...
High Middle, Round Both Ends
Finding 2,500-Year-Old Bones (Ohio)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/01/2007 9:09:49 PM EST · 23 replies The Columbus Dispatch | 12-012007 | Theodore Decker Justin Zink works at the site where a prehistoric skeleton was uncovered on the grounds of the Columbus Southerly Wastewater Treatment Plant. On the site beside the Scioto River, the archaeologists had found fire pits dating to about 550 B.C., shards of pottery, even traces of an ancient building. This week, Ryan Weller and his team found something more: a human skeleton, buried on the riverbank by his or her loved ones as long as 2,500 years ago....
Rome and Italy
'Caesar's superglue' find
	Posted by BGHater On News/Activism 12/04/2007 9:32:34 PM EST · 77 replies The Scotsman | 05 Dec 2007 | The Scotsman ARCHAEOLOGISTS in Germany have found a 2,000-year-old glue Roman warriors used to repair helmets, shields and the other accessories of battle. "Caesar's superglue" - as it has been dubbed by workers at the Rhine State Museum in Bonn - was found on a helmet at a site near Xanthen on the Rhine River where Romans settled before Christ. Frank Welker, a restorer at the museum, said: "We found the parade cavalry helmet had been repaired with an adhesive that was still doing its job. "This is rightly called some kind of superglue because air, water and time have not diminished...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Rare Ancient Wooden Throne Found in Herculaneum (Buried by Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius)
	Posted by Pyro7480 On News/Activism 12/04/2007 1:45:07 PM EST · 28 replies Yahoo! News (Reuters) | 12/4/2007 | n/a ROME (Reuters) - An ancient Roman wood and ivory throne has been unearthed at a dig in Herculaneum, Italian archaeologists said on Tuesday, hailing it as the most significant piece of wooden furniture ever discovered there. The throne was found during an excavation in the Villa of the Papyri, the private house formerly belonging to Julius Caesar's father-in-law, Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus, built on the slope of Mount Vesuvius. The name of the villa derives from the impressive library containing thousands of scrolls of papyrus discovered buried under meters (yards) of volcanic ash after the Vesuvius erupted on 24 August...
Helix, Make Mine a Double
Proof Of Liverpool's Viking Past
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/03/2007 8:04:31 AM EST · 35 replies The Guardian (UK) | 12-3-2007 | James Randerson The region around Liverpool was once a major Viking settlement, according to a genetic study of men living in the area. The research tapped into this Viking ancestry by focusing on people whose surnames were recorded in the area before its population underwent a huge expansion during the industrial revolution. Among men with these "original" surnames, 50% have Norse ancestry. The find backs up historical evidence from place names and archaeological finds of Viking treasure which suggests significant numbers of Norwegian Vikings settled in...
Vikings
Rewrites Viking history
	Posted by WesternCulture On News/Activism 12/06/2007 1:25:39 AM EST · 45 replies www.aftenposten.no | 12/05/2007 | Hans Marius Tonstad The discovery of two massive Viking halls in Borre in Vestfold County gives archeologists reason to reassess the distribution of power in Viking Norway. Vestfold County archeologists presented finds on Wednesday that show there are two great hall buildings underneath the ground about 100 meters from the major burial mounds at Borre.
Epigraphy and Language
Map that named America is a puzzle for researchers
	Posted by WOBBLY BOB On News/Activism 12/04/2007 11:47:54 AM EST · 42 replies reuters | 12-03-2007 | David Alexander WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The only surviving copy of the 500-year-old map that first used the name America goes on permanent display this month at the Library of Congress, but even as it prepares for its debut, the 1507 Waldseemuller map remains a puzzle for researchers. Why did the mapmaker name the territory America and then change his mind later? How was he able to draw South America so accurately? Why did he put a huge ocean west of America years before European explorers discovered the Pacific?
Map that named America is a puzzle for researchers
	Posted by picard On News/Activism 12/04/2007 11:59:54 AM EST · 15 replies Yahoo(Reuters) | Mon Dec 3, 12:19 PM ET | David Alexander WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The only surviving copy of the 500-year-old map that first used the name America goes on permanent display this month at the Library of Congress, but even as it prepares for its debut, the 1507 Waldseemuller map remains a puzzle for researchers. Why did the mapmaker name the territory America and then change his mind later? How was he able to draw South America so accurately? Why did he put a huge ocean west of America years before European explorers discovered the Pacific?... ... Although the map conceals many mysteries, one thing is clear: it represents a...
Kennewick Man
Scientists Protest Efforts To Give Indian Tribes Control Over Ancient Man's Remains
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/03/2007 5:21:26 PM EST · 34 replies International Herald Tribune | 11-30-2007 | IHT The Associated Press -- WASHINGTON: Scientists hoping to study the ancient skeleton known as Kennewick Man are protesting efforts on two fronts that they say could block them from examining one of the oldest and most complete set of bones ever found in North America. For a third time in four years, the scientists are opposing a bill in the U.S. Senate that would allow federally recognized American Indian tribes to claim ancient remains even if they cannot prove a link to a current tribe. They...
Nitwit Perspectives
Before Columbus
	Posted by Main Street On News/Activism 10/10/2007 12:02:00 AM EDT · 9 replies · 405+ views National Review Online | October 8, 2007 | By The Editors Last week, Hillary Clinton condemned the Bush administration's "open season on open inquiry" and promised to end its "war on science." She might have chosen a better target, closer to home: the Senate, where the Indian Affairs Committee has just approved a two-word change to federal law that could render the scientific study of pre-Columbian history in the United States virtually impossible. One of the first casualties of the revision would be Kennewick Man -- the popular name for a set of 9,300-year-old bones found along the Columbia River near Kennewick, Wash., in 1996. Human remains of that age are...
DUI
Did early Southwestern Indians ferment corn and make beer?
	Posted by Red Badger On News/Activism 12/04/2007 3:35:33 PM EST · 50 replies www.physorg.com | 12/04/07 | Sandia National Laboratory Sandia researcher Ted Borek used gas chromatography and mass spectrometry to analyze vapors produced by mild heating of pot samples. (Photo by Randy Montoya) The belief among some archeologists that Europeans introduced alcohol to the Indians of the American Southwest may be faulty. Ancient and modern pot sherds collected by New Mexico state archeologist Glenna Dean, in conjunction with analyses by Sandia National Laboratories researcher Ted Borek, open the possibility that food or beverages made from fermenting corn were consumed by native inhabitants centuries before the Spanish arrived. Dean, researching through her small business Archeobotanical Services, says, "There's been...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Ancient Mayan Marketplace Discovered
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 12/05/2007 12:21:26 PM EST · 6 replies LiveScience | December 3, 2007 | Andrea Thompson Chemical residues found in soil from Mexico's Yucatan peninsula indicate that ancient Mayans traded food in marketplaces, a practice long considered unlikely by archaeologists... [yet] archaeologists have long recognized that the cities were home to more people than the local agricultural capacities could have supported... So for years, archaeologists looked for evidence of advanced farming practices that could have ramped up agricultural capacities beyond what archaeologists can observe, thus sustaining the populations. The idea that Mayans might have imported food and other goods wasn't taken seriously because most archaeologists thought that the Maya elite had a system whereby underlings were...
Ancient Autopsies
Rare Maya "Death Vase" Discovered
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/04/2007 1:29:27 PM EST · 51 replies National Geographic News | 12-4-2007 | Blake de Pastino An extremely rare and intricately carved "death vase" has been discovered in the 1,400-year-old grave of an elite figure with ties to the Maya Empire, scientists say. The vase is the first of its kind to be found in modern times, and its contents are opening a window onto ancient rituals of ancestor worship that included food offerings, chocolate enemas, and hallucinations induced by vomiting, experts say. Archaeologists discovered the vase along with parts of a human skeleton while excavating a small "palace" in northwestern...
Faith and Philosophy
Gospel Truth (Judas)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/07/2007 4:13:57 PM EST · 40 replies NY Times | 12-1-2007 | April D Deconick AMID much publicity last year, the National Geographic Society announced that a lost 3rd-century religious text had been found, the Gospel of Judas Iscariot. The shocker: Judas didn't betray Jesus. Instead, Jesus asked Judas, his most trusted and beloved disciple, to hand him over to be killed. Judas's reward? Ascent to heaven and exaltation above the other disciples. It was a great story. Unfortunately, after re-translating the society's transcription of the Coptic text, I have found that the actual meaning is vastly different. While National Geographic's translation supported the...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Did Da Vinci Hide God's Face In Painting
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/06/2007 10:49:29 PM EST · 114 replies The Telegraph (UK) | 12-7-2007 | Aislinn Simpson A new storm is brewing in the world of Da Vinci theorists after a mysterious group claimed it has used mirrors to uncover hidden biblical images in some of the great master's most famous works. The Mirror of the Sacred Scriptures and Paintings In recent years, art history scholars have unveiled Templar knights, Mary Magdalene, a child and a musical script hidden in the Italian's paintings.
Da Vinci Fingerprint Reveals Arab Heritage
	Posted by Lorianne On News/Activism 11/03/2006 1:37:49 PM EST · 71 replies · 1,866+ views Discovery News | Oct. 28, 2006 | Rossella Lorenzi Leonardo da Vinci may have had an Arab heritage, according to Italian researchers who have isolated and reconstructed the Renaissance master's fingerprint. The fingerprint represents the only biological trace of the Florentine genius, said Luigi Capasso, an anthropologist at Chieti University. "It is actually the first evidence of Leonardo's corporeality," Capasso told Discovery News. Indeed, nothing is left of the painter, engineer, mathematician, philosopher and naturalist. The remains of Leonardo, who died in 1519 in Amboise, France, were dispersed in the 16th century during religious wars. The research began in 2002, following the discovery of hundreds of fingerprints in the...
British Isles
Mystery Over Ceramic Head Finds (UK)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/04/2007 12:55:28 PM EST · 21 replies BBC | 12-3-2007 The head found near Dumfries resembles The Scream painting -- Archaeologists are trying to solve the riddle of three mysterious ceramic heads that have been uncovered in Edinburgh and Dumfriesshire. A bodiless male head was found after St Margaret's Loch in Holyrood Park, Edinburgh, was partially drained. A smaller female head was later discovered on grassland in the nearby Spring gardens. A third disembodied head said to resemble The Scream painting by Edvard Munch was then found near Dumfries. The ceramic head with bulging eyes and a scar was found on the river bank close to...
Early America
Precursor of the Constitution Goes on Display in Queens
	Posted by Pharmboy On News/Activism 12/05/2007 7:38:26 AM EST · 35 replies NY Times | December 5, 2007 | GLENN COLLINS The Flushing Remonstrance made a rare visit yesterday to the old neighborhood... the Remonstrance... an important early recorded defense of the freedom to worship that has been called the religious Magna Carta of the New World. Relatively little known, this 1657 appeal by some 30 Flushing farmers for freedom to practice their Quaker religion goes on display... snip... According to historians, a group of about 30 freeholders in Flushing, which was then called Vlissingen...
World War II
Memories of Pearl Harbor still fresh, 66 years later
	Posted by MassRepublicanFlyersFan On News/Activism 12/07/2007 1:15:42 AM EST · 39 replies New Hampshire Union Leader | December 7, 2007 | John Clayton THE WORN AND TATTERED copy of the Honolulu Star Bulletin was there on the dining room table. The paper was from Dec. 7, 1941. In years past, on this date, copies of that same newspaper were set out in dens and kitchens and living rooms all over America, as those who survived the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor reflected back upon the horror of that day. It happens less often these days.
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Shadowy path may lead to treasure[Confederate Gold]
	Posted by BGHater On News/Activism 12/07/2007 7:24:48 PM EST · 26 replies Los Angeles Times | 05 Dec 2007 | Kim Christensen A man seeking Confederate gold and his own family's hidden history uncovers a cryptic trail that may stretch back to a secret society and Jesse James. HATFIELD, ARK. -- Deep in the woods near Brushy Creek stands an old beech tree, its smooth bark etched with dozens of carvings, including biblical references, a heart and a legless horse. Bob Brewer was 10 when his great-uncle, W.D. "Grandpa" Ashcraft, pointed it out on a logging trip 57 years ago. "He said, 'Boy, you see that tree? That's a treasure tree,' " Brewer recalled on a recent visit to the site. "...
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Gods Graves Glyphs Digest #177 20071208 · Saturday, December 8, 2007 · 33 topics · 1936544 to 1933434 · now 661 members ·
	Saturday Dec 8 2007 v 4 n 21 view this issue	Welcome to the 177th issue of the Gods, Graves, Glyphs ping list Digest. The high today here in Michigan was about 30°F. On Thursday the 6th it was 15 weeks until the first day of Spring. Christmas is two weeks from Tuesday, New Year's three weeks. The tree is up. I've got disk 2 of season 4 of That 70s Show on, the Red and Stacy episode. Earlier today I hacked up a Chipmunk BASIC program to search and replace some of the high-ASCII weirdo characters in the raw files I use for the Digest. It was a pretty good week for topics. Enjoy. Visit the Free Republic Memorial Wall -- a history-related feature of FR. Defeat Hillary -- first for the White House, then for reelection to the Senate.
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[Monkey Face]

Dang!

If you had posted this thing this morning, I would have eagerly read it, clicked on some sites, and probably changed the entire outlook of my day.

As it is, my little brain is tired, there is some really lousy weather on the way, and I’m trying to update/change my MySpace page. *sigh*

Have a good night, and come to visit us on the UT. We need more brains over there. Sort of like a Brain Trust...(ifyaknowhatimean)

[SunkenCiv]

:’)

[Monkey Face]

That enigmatic smile gets me every time!

G’Night, SC!

[ValerieTexas]

We broke the record for high temp here in Austin today - it was a muggy 82 ... yuk. A cooler wind is starting now, but it is still in the mid-70’s at 10:30 pm. Maybe we’ll have a t-storm tomorrow. Merry Christmas.

[SunkenCiv]

:’) Hard to sell hot cocoa and caroling in those conditions. ;’)

[SunkenCiv]

Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #178 Saturday, December 15, 2007
Egypt
Ancient Egyptian Glassmaking Recreated
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/14/2007 10:23:57 PM EST · 2 replies Eureka Alert | 12-14-2007 | Dr Paul Nicholson The reconstructed kiln built by Dr. Paul Nicholson of Cardiff University and Dr. Caroline Jackson of Sheffield University. A team led by a Cardiff University archaeologist has reconstructed a 3,000-year-old glass furnace, showing that Ancient Egyptian glassmaking methods were much more advanced than previously thought. Dr Paul Nicholson, of the University's School of History and Archaeology, is leader of an Egypt Exploration Society team working on the earliest fully excavated glassmaking site in the world. The site, at Amarna, on the banks of...
Egypt announces new archaeological find
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 12/10/2007 12:25:22 PM EST · 5 replies Egypt Online | Monday, November 19, 2007 | Egypt State Information Service The announcement was made by Chief of the Supreme Council for Antiquities, Zahi Hawass who added that the discovery was made by a team of German archaeologists. The sarcophagus that carries hieroglyphic inscriptions in colorful hues, has been repaired and will be put on display at a special show due to open at the Egyptian Museum Monday, he told a press conference held on the occasion of celebrations of the centenary of the establishment of the Deutsche Arehaologishes Institute in Cairo. Praising cooperation between Egypt and Germany in the archaeological domain, he said that the two countries are discussing prospects...
Climate
Egypt's desert art in danger
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 12/10/2007 12:55:02 AM EST · 11 replies Khaleej Times Online | November 22, 2007 | unattributed In Egypt's southwest corner, straddling the borders of Sudan and Libya, the elegant paintings of prehistoric man and beast in the mountains of Gilf Kabir and Jebel Ouenat are as stunning in their simplicity as anything by Picasso... the desert offers little sanctuary for these masterpieces and any effective protected designation first requires a deal between the three sometimes quarrelsome nations... "You can't estimate the amount of damage done," says Dr Rudolph Kuper, a German archaeologist involved in trying to protect the art, mostly dating from when the desert was a receding prairie 5,000-7,000 years ago. "People put water or...
Agriculture and Animal Husbandry
The origins of Trader Joe's and why Americans don't drink more wine
	Posted by Stone Mountain On News/Activism 03/04/2004 2:47:11 PM EST · 48 replies · 1,828+ views NapaNews | February 26, 2004 | PAUL FRANSON At the recent Unified Wine and Grape Symposium in Sacramento, some of us had the pleasure of meeting the real Trader Joe and hearing how he started the cultish chain. To celebrate its 30th Anniversary, the California Association of Winegrape Growers invited Joe Coloumbe to address at its annual meeting. Telling a tale worthy of PBS's "Nova," he enthralled the audience about why the Little Ice Age kept Americans from drinking wine, how the breakdown of an international monetary agreement affects the wine...
Megaliths and Archaeoastronomy
Ancient Stone Circle Found In Skane
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/13/2007 8:18:42 AM EST · 29 replies The Local | 12-12-2--7 | Peter Vinthagen Simpson Ancient remains including a 3,000 year-old stone circle and presumed place of sacrifice have been discovered near Vitemolla on Osterlen in the far south of Sweden. The site extends over two hectares and is older and bigger than the region's celebrated Ale's Stones. The site, presumed to date from the bronze age, is reported to be probably the largest stone circle in the whole of northern Europe. The find was made by Bob G Lind, a private researcher and archeoastronomer, reports Kvallsposten. Lind has named the stone circle...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Ancient Polar Bear Jawbone Found
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/10/2007 2:13:56 PM EST · 21 replies BBC | 12-11-2007 | Jonathon Amos The jawbone is about 23cm long What may be the oldest known remains of a polar bear have been uncovered on the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic. The jawbone was pulled from sediments that suggest the specimen is perhaps 110,000 or 130,000 years old. Professor Olafur Ingolfsson from the University of Iceland says tests show it was an adult, possibly a female. The find is a surprise because polar bears are a relatively new species, with one study claiming they evolved less than 100,000 years ago....
Prehistory and Origins
Neanderthal-Human Hybrid 'A Myth'
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/10/2007 2:35:58 PM EST · 60 replies ABC News - Discovery News | 12-10-2007 | Jennifer Viegas This 29,000 year old skull belonged to a hominid with slightly heavier eyebrows than an average person. But this is not enough to convince anthropologists it's evidence of a human-Neanderthal hybrid (Source: Dan Grigorescu) Did modern humans interbreed with Neanderthals and, if so, did the mating result in a half-human, half-Neanderthal hybrid? The answer is possibly 'yes' to the interbreeding but 'no' to the hybrid, according to the authors of a new study that is already making waves among anthropologists. At the centre of the study, published online...
Tool Time
Ancient Toolkit Gives Glimpse Of Prehistoric Life
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/14/2007 1:36:28 PM EST · 18 replies Discovery Channel | 12-13-2007 | Jennifer Viegas Before the end of the last ice age, a hunter-gatherer left a bag of tools near the wall of a roundhouse residence, where archaeologists have now found the collection 14,000 years later. The tool set -- one of the most complete and well preserved of its kind -- provides an intriguing glimpse of the daily life of a prehistoric hunter-gatherer. The contents, as described to Discovery News by Phillip Edwards, a senior lecturer in the Archaeology Program at Melbourne's La Trobe University, show...
Australia and the Pacific
New Report On First Death By Spearing In Australia (4,000 Years Ago)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/12/2007 2:16:19 PM EST · 28 replies Australian National University (ANU) | 12-11-2007 | Australian National University (ANU) A new report led by an ANU archaeologist on the first evidence of death by spearing in Australia has been published in the prestigious British journal Antiquity. The paper outlines the collaborative detective work that took place following the discovery of the skeletal remains of an Aboriginal male in the Sydney suburb of Narrabeen during excavations for gas works in 2005. A number of stone tools, interpreted as spear barbs, were also discovered at the site. Lead author Dr Jo McDonald from the Research School of Humanities at...
Ancient Autopsies
Ancient Bamboo Slips Reveal Tomb Owner's Identity
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/08/2007 10:28:19 PM EST · 16 replies China Org | 12-8-2007 | Wu Jin On December 6 over 200 bamboo slips inscribed with ancient Chinese characters were discovered packed in a silk bag tucked into the Xiejiaqiao No.1 tomb in Hubei Province. The tomb is over 2,200 years old. The ancient documents were found nine days after archaeologists uncovered a 2.46-meter-long coffin wrapped in four tiers of embroidered silks. Amazingly, the shroud has remained intact underground after thousands of years. "Tombs from the Han Dynasty have been found in many places across the country, but it is rare to find such a well-preserved one. This will provide...
India
Mapping Pune's Roman Connection
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/14/2007 1:49:17 PM EST · 7 replies Times Of India | 12-14-2007 | Vishwas Kothari Ever imagined the Romans taking a circuitous sea route around Africa to reach the Persian Gulf and further touch the western Indian shores of Bharuch in Gujarat for trade with Pune over 2,000 years back? Archaeologists from the Deccan College here have come across a plethora of evidence at the Junnar excavation site, 94 km from city, that establishes Pune's trade links across the oceans, with the ancient Roman Empire. The evidence suggests that Satavahanas, the earliest rulers of Maharashtra (230 Before Christ Era), who reigned from Junnar,...
Rome and Italy
Roman Barge Under Cologne To Reveal Shipping History
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/10/2007 6:05:11 PM EST · 18 replies Earth Times | 12-9-2007 | DPA Excited archaeologists are raising part of a Roman barge that sank near the wharf nearly 2,000 years ago in the German riverside city of Cologne. Cologne, which derives its modern name from the town's Latin name, Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium, is full of Roman remains including a largely intact aqueduct. But the oaken boat, found 12 metres below the surface during excavations a few days ago for an underground mass-transit line, is something special, offering scientists a new window into life...
Epidemics, Pandemics, Plagues
Roman Ruins Cast New Light On A Trip To Doctor
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/08/2007 10:55:09 PM EST · 17 replies The Telegraph (UK) | 12-9-2007 | Anthea Gerrie An ancient doctor's surgery unearthed by Italian archaeologists has cast new light on what a trip to the doctor would have been like in Roman times. Far from crude, the medical implements discovered show that doctors, their surgeries and the ailments they treated have changed surprisingly little in 1,800 years. A physician on a house call kneels to tend the hero Aeneas in this fresco from Pompeii Sore joints were common, patients were often told to change their diets, and...
Travel in the Ancient World
The early wheel: Solid, wooden and round versus spoked, wooden and round?
	Posted by Dean Baker On News/Activism 12/10/2007 3:32:15 PM EST · 124 replies 12-11-07 | Dean Baker Just a simple question to kick-around unless someone knows for sure? I'm watching the Nativity Scene the other day (Good movie, by the way) and I notice that the villagers around Mary, Joseph and family have pull carts with solid, wooden wheels. I guess I've always assumed this type of wheel came first as far as history goes... Then I started thinking about other movies like Gladiator, The 10 Commandments, various other "BC" movies and notice that they've got wooden, spoked wheels...Even though all of these movies took place much, much earlier in history than the Nativity Scene. The only...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Excavations In The East Jordan Land
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/14/2007 1:58:02 PM EST · 5 replies Alpha Galileo | 12-13-2007 This year Thomas Pola, professor for theology at TU Dortmund, and his team have continued the excavations in the East Jordan Land. With their findings on the mountain Tall adh-Dhahab (West) in the Jabbok Valley the archeologists could substantiate one assumption: everything points to the fact that the building remains from the Hellenistic and Roman era, found in 2006, were part of a yet unknown monumental building of Herod the Great (73-4 BC). This assumption is based on the floors of one of the discovered peristyle yards (yards enclosed by continuous...
Near East
2 ancient graveyards found near Damascus [Bronze Age]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 12/10/2007 12:33:09 PM EST · 3 replies Yahoo! | Tuesday December 4, 2007 | Associated Press Syrian archaeologists have unearthed two Bronze-era cemeteries dating from the 18th century B.C., the third set of ancient graveyards found in less than a month, the head of the Archaeological Department said Tuesday. Mahmoud Hamoud said the circular limestone cemeteries that were discovered Monday in the village of Heina, south of the capital Damascus, contained skeletons of both adults and children, more than 120 pieces of pottery, jars and precious stones... Last month, Syrian media reported the discovery of a Roman-era cross-shaped limestone cemetery in the Nasiriya area in the remote Hasaka province... dating from the third century... Also last...
Greece
Spartans Did Not Throw Deformed Babies Away: Researchers
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/12/2007 2:10:15 PM EST · 73 replies Yahoo News | 12-10-2007 The statue of King Leonidas of ancient Sparta stands over the battlefield of Thermopylae, some... ATHENS (AFP) - The Greek myth that ancient Spartans threw their stunted and sickly newborns off a cliff was not corroborated by archaeological digs in the area, researchers said Monday. After more than five years of analysis of human remains culled from the pit, also called an apothetes, researchers found only the remains of adolescents and adults between the ages of 18 and 35, Athens Faculty of Medicine Anthropologist Theodoros...
Africa
Ancient Blood Found On Sculptures From Kingdom Of Mali
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/08/2007 11:43:01 PM EST · 10 replies Science Daily | 12-9-2007 | American Chemical Society. A new, highly-sensitive analytical test was used to confirm the presence of blood in the coating of this animal-like artifact used in ancient Mali rituals. (Credit: Pascale Richardin, Center for Research and Restoration for the Museums of France)" ScienceDaily (Dec. 8, 2007) -- Scientists in France are reporting for the first time that sculptors from the fantastically wealthy ancient Empire of Mali -- once the source of almost half the world's gold -- used blood to form the beautiful patina, or coating, on their works of art. Pascale Richardin and colleagues describe...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Muons Meet Maya
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/08/2007 10:18:09 PM EST · 6 replies Science News | 12-8-2007 | Betsy Mason At its most glamorous, the life of an experimental high-energy physicist consists of smashing obscure subatomic particles with futuristic-sounding names into each other to uncover truths about the universe -- using science's biggest, most expensive toys in exciting locations such as Switzerland or Illinois. But it takes a decade or two to plan and build multibillion-dollar atom smashers. While waiting, what's a thrill-seeking physicist to do? SUBATOMIC ARCHAEOLOGY. Physicists plan to use muons generated by cosmic rays to probe the interior of the Pyramid of the Sun at...
Muons Meet the Maya
	Posted by neverdem On News/Activism 12/09/2007 10:31:44 PM EST · 38 replies Science News | Week of Dec. 8, 2007 | Betsy Mason At its most glamorous, the life of an experimental high-energy physicist consists of smashing obscure subatomic particles with futuristic-sounding names into each other to uncover truths about the universe -- using science's biggest, most expensive toys in exciting locations such as Switzerland or Illinois. But it takes a decade or two to plan and build multibillion-dollar atom smashers. While waiting, what's a thrill-seeking physicist to do? How about using some of the perfectly good, and completely free, subatomic particles that rain down on Earth from space every day to peek inside something really...
Navigation
Charting Spain's sunken treasures
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 12/10/2007 12:46:40 PM EST · 3 replies Expatica | December 2007 | unattributed? The Odyssey vessel Ocean Alert was seized in July by Spanish authorities and then released after a week. A second craft, Odyssey Explorer, belonging to the Florida company, was seized on 16 October. The company has so far sent 17 tonnes of coins recovered from the wreck back to the US for examination, and insists that the ship was not in Spanish territorial waters... US courts have usually ruled in favour of treasure hunters, given Spain's record when it comes to reclaiming ships... For its part, Odyssey Marine Exploration says that it has always been interested in working with governments...
Helix, Make Mine a Double
DNA pioneer James Watson is blacker than he thought
	Posted by Daffynition On General/Chat 12/10/2007 9:57:09 AM EST · 46 replies The Times Online | December 9, 2007 James Watson, the DNA pioneer who claimed Africans are less intelligent than whites, has been found to have 16 times more genes of black origin than the average white European. An analysis of his genome shows that 16% of his genes are likely to have come from a black ancestor of African descent. By contrast, most people of European descent would have no more than 1%. The study was made possible when he allowed his genome - the map of all his genes - to be published on the internet in the interests of science. "This level is what you...
Longer Perspectives
Looking For Lincoln: A conversation with Andrew Ferguson
	Posted by billorites On General/Chat 12/10/2007 8:49:57 AM EST · 2 replies National Endowment for the Humanities Magazine | November 2007 | Bruce Cole and Andrew Ferguson Journalist Andrew Ferguson is widely admired as a writer's writer. Over the years, in magazines from The Weekly Standard to Reader's Digest to Time and beyond, he has proven himself to be one of the few genuine stylists in American journalism and one of the wisest, funniest writers around. No less an authority on humor and good prose than Christopher Buckley said Ferguson "just may be the best writer of his generation." Ferguson's recent book, Land of Lincoln, "a hilarious, offbeat tour of Lincoln shrines, statues, cabins, and museums," according to the New York Times, explores America's love-hate relationship with...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Hunley Commander's Watch No Smoking Gun
	Posted by SmithL On General/Chat 12/14/2007 6:40:03 PM EST · 6 replies AP via SFGate | 12/14/7 | Bruce Smith, Associated Press Writer When scientists opened the watch belonging to the H.L. Hunley commander three years ago, they thought they had the key clue to why the Confederate submarine sank off Charleston. But the 18-karat gold watch now seems to raise even more questions even though scientists announced Friday it did not slowly wind down but stopped quickly -- perhaps the result of a concussion or rushing water. "All of us were thinking the watch pointed to the crucial moment," said state Sen. Glenn McConnell, R-Charleston, chairman of the state Hunley Commission. "But I would say instead of the...
end of digest #178 20071215

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Gods Graves Glyphs Digest #178 20071215 · Saturday, December 15, 2007 · 47 topics · 1939667 to 1936826 · now 664 members ·
	Saturday Dec 15 2007 v 4 n 22 view this issue	Welcome to the 178th issue of the Gods, Graves, Glyphs ping list Digest, which has a nice mix (and large number) of new topics and updates. Another, public welcome to our four new list members. Christmas is a week from Tuesday. Amazon review votes can make a nice cheap gift. Visit the Free Republic Memorial Wall -- a history-related feature of FR. Defeat Hillary -- first for the White House, then for reelection to the Senate.
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[ferri]

i am in AWE and haven’t made it all the way through these posts yet! thank you so much for all your time and work on this SunkenCiv! wonderful! :D

[SunkenCiv]

you’re most welcome.

[SunkenCiv]

Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #179 Saturday, December 22, 2007
Australia and the Pacific
2007 - Year Of The Lapita? (Polynesian Breakthroughs)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/13/2007 4:03:09 PM EST · 8 replies Archaeology Magazine | January/Febuary 2008 | Mark Rose There was no doubt about including in our 2007 Top Ten the discovery that chicken bones from ancient Polynesian sites in Tonga and Samoa and El Arenal, a Chilean site occupied between A.D. 700 and 1390, had identical DNA. The chicken was domesticated in Southeast Asia, but how it arrived in the New World before Europeans arrived was a mystery. Now it seems that Polynesian seafarers brought them, adding to the evidence...
Ancient Autopsies
Skeleton Find Points To Ancient Murder (4,000 YA)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/21/2007 1:12:17 PM EST · 34 replies The Australian | 12-21-2007 A burnt skeleton found beneath a bus shelter in northern Sydney is proof of murder - 4000 years ago. The victim, a tall, well-built man in his mid-30s, was set on by spear-wielding attackers, who then set his body alight and left it unburied on the crest of a sand dune. Peter Veth, an archeologist with the National Centre of Indigenous Studies at the Australian National University in Canberra, said: "This is the first example of death by spearing from Australia. The find is highly significant for Australian...
Prehistory and Origins
Human Ancestors Went Out Of Africa And Then Came Back... [1998]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 12/17/2007 8:37:11 PM EST · 28 replies ScienceDaily | Friday, August 7, 1998 | adapted from New York University materials SUNY-Albany biologist Caro-Beth Stewart and NYU anthropologist Todd R. Disotell have proposed... that the ancestor of humans and the living African apes evolved in Eurasia, not Africa. This controversial new model for the evolution of humans and apes is the cover story of the July 30th issue of Current Biology. Stewart and Disotell describe their theory in an article entitled "Primate evolution -- in and out of Africa." ...The fossil record indicates that apes were present in Europe and Western Asia during the Miocene Era, from about 8 to 17 million years ago. Ancestors of these ape species must have...
Climate
Remote Lake May Be Treasure Trove of Climate Data
	Posted by neverdem On News/Activism 12/15/2007 6:43:24 PM EST · 43 replies ScienceNOW Daily News | 13 December 2007 | Phil Berardelli The vault. The sediments at the bottom of the lake in Northen Quebec's Pingualuit Crater hold unmatched clues to North America's climate record. Credit: Robert Frechette / ARK University of Arkansas -- A million years ago, a large meteorite smashed into what is now northern Quebec and created a crater that may become an unprecedented repository of data with which to study long-term climate change, researchers reported here this week at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Canada and the northern United States are dotted with tens of thousands of lakes, most of them formed by...
Gettin' a Big Head
Ape To Human: Walking Upright May Have Protected Heavy Human Babies
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/17/2007 4:50:35 PM EST · 50 replies Science Daily | 12-17-2007 | Springer. For safety, all nonhuman primates carry their young clinging to their fur from birth, and species survival depends on it. (Credit: iStockphoto/Graeme Purdy) -- The transition from apes to humans may have been partially triggered by the need to stand on two legs, in order to safely carry heavier babies. This theory of species evolution presented by Lia Amaral from the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil has just been published online in Springer's journal, Naturwissenschaften. For safety, all nonhuman primates carry their young clinging to...
Epigraphy and Language
Research shows Neanderthals may have talked (yet more evidence Neanderthals fully human)
	Posted by GodGunsGuts On News/Activism 10/21/2007 4:29:57 AM EDT · 26 replies Reuters via Yahoo News | October 18, 2007 | Michael Kahn Neanderthals, often portrayed as grunting, club-carrying brutes, may have been capable of sophisticated speech, researchers said on Thursday. A DNA analysis shows Neanderthals share with humans two key changes in the FOXP2 gene known to be involved in speech, raising the possibility the species possessed some prerequisites for language, the researchers said. "From the point of this gene at least the Neanderthals could have had language like we do," said Johannes Krause, a biochemist at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, who led the study....
Helix, Make Mine a Double
Chimpanzees Are Actually Three Distinct Groups, Gene Study Shows
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 12/17/2007 11:30:55 PM EST · 14 replies ScienceDaily | Sunday, April 22, 2007 | Adapted from University of Chicago Medical Center materials [caption] PTERV1 Phylogenetic Tree Portions of the gag and env genes (about 823 bp) were resequenced from 101 PTERV1 elements from common chimpanzee (n = 42), gorilla (n = 25), rhesus macaque (n = 14), and olive baboon (n = 20). A neighbor-joining phylogenetic tree shows a monophyletic origin for the gorilla and chimpanzee endogenous retroviruses but a polyphyletic origin among the Old World monkey species. Bootstrap support (n = 10,000 replicates) for individual branches are underlined. Although the retroviral insertions have occurred after speciation, retroviral sequences show greater divergence than expected for a non-coding nuclear DNA element (see Table...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Accused Jihadist: We Were Hunting Loch Ness Monster (Religion of Peace)
	Posted by DogByte6RER On News/Activism 12/17/2007 9:26:50 PM EST · 23 replies Jihad Watch | December 16, 2007 | Jihad Watch Uh huh. And then when they went to find Bigfoot, they inadvertently left some explosives in the trunk of their car... "Terror Accused: We Were Hunting Loch Ness Monster," by Paul O'Hare for the Daily Record (thanks to Twostellas): AN ELECTRICIAN accused of being a Muslim holy warrior claimed he was hunting Nessie during an alleged jihad training course. Somali-born Kader Ahmed, 20, told a court he went on a trip arranged by preacher Mohammed Hamid, 50, to Scotland at Christmas 2004. He said they visited Inverness and Loch Ness and added:...
Epidemics, Pandemics, Plagues
Arabs Desecrate Grave of Biblical Prime Minister Joshua
	Posted by West Coast Conservative On News/Activism 12/19/2007 3:09:27 PM EST · 93 replies Arutz Sheva | December 19, 2007 | Ezra HaLevi Jewish worshippers Tuesday were stunned to find Arabs had desecrated the graves of the Biblical Joshua, Caleb and Nun (Joshua's father). Joshua served as the Jewish Nation's Prime Minister from the year 2488 until 2516 on the Hebrew calendar (1272 BCE - 1300 BCE). Members of the One Shechem organization that organizes visits to the graves arrived in the village of Timnat (Kifl) Haress, near Ariel in Samaria, to prepare for a special prayer gathering, discovered that Arab vandals had desecrated the village's Jewish tombs. The tombs of Yehoshua (Joshua) ben Nun, Nun, and Calev (Caleb) ben Yefuneh were covered...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Treasure-hunting sisters find human remains from Roman era
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 12/20/2007 11:04:47 AM EST · 16 replies Haaretz | Wednesday, December 19, 2007 | Fadi Eyadat Julia Shvicky of Kibbutz Barkai and Janet Daws, visiting from England, found some bones that had washed up on the shore during a stroll by the beach... At first, the sisters did not know they had found human bones. They took them to the kibbutz nurse who told them the bones were part of a human spinal cord and hip. They immediately handed their find over to the police who briefly quizzed them and sent the human remains to the National Institute of Forensic Medicine at Abu Kabir for examination. Though test results are not yet in, police and the...
Petra
Reconstructing Petra
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 12/20/2007 4:31:35 PM EST · 61 replies Smithsonian | 2007 | Andrew Lawler [A]rchaeologists are discovering that ancient Petra was a sprawling city of lush gardens and pleasant fountains, enormous temples and luxurious Roman-style villas. An ingenious water supply system allowed Petrans not just to drink and bathe, but to grow wheat, cultivate fruit, make wine and stroll in the shade of tall trees... And scholars now know that Petra thrived for nearly 1,000 years... Constructed during the first century B.C. and the first century A.D., it included a 600-seat theater, a triple colonnade, an enormous paved courtyard and vaulted rooms underneath. Artifacts found at the site -- from tiny Nabatean coins to...
The Phoenicians
Beirut Cashes In On Wealth Of Archaeological Sites
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/19/2007 1:10:26 PM EST · 9 replies Daily Star | 12-19-2007 | Hassan Abdo As New construction unearths ancient treasures, the law says excavations must precede buildings... Passing through the many narrow avenues that make up Achrafieh, few would realize that major archeological excavations are under way all around them. The Beirut neighborhood has been experiencing a development boom in the past few years, and construction projects are ongoing, yet in the midst of all this local archaeologists have been experiencing a boom of their own. Construction companies clearing away old buildings to make...
Africa
Evolution Tied To Earth Movement
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/20/2007 11:02:48 PM EST · 14 replies Eureka Alert | 12-19-2007 | M Royhan Gani Geologists say 'Wall of Africa' allowed humanity to emerge Nahid and Royhan Gani, geologists at the University of Utah's Energy and Geoscience Institute, stand on the Ethiopian Plateau near the Gorge of the Nile, which was carved by Africa's... Scientists long have focused on how climate and vegetation allowed human ancestors to evolve in Africa. Now, University of Utah geologists are calling renewed attention to the idea that ground movements formed mountains and valleys, creating environments that favored the emergence of humanity. "Tectonics [movement of Earth's crust]...
Navigation
North By Northwest
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/21/2007 6:13:32 PM EST · 26 replies Science News | 12-21-2007 | Sid Perkins The planet's wandering magnetic poles help reveal history of Earth and humans... Hikers in the wilderness often place their faith in a trusty compass. But any navigator worth his salt knows that compasses can't truly be trusted: Only along certain longitudes in the Northern Hemisphere does a compass needle point due north. MOVED BY MAGNETISM. Explorers first found the north magnetic pole at Canada's Cape Adelaide in 1831. Blue dots (direct surface observations) and red dots (models using satellite data) denote the pole's movement since then. Green dots indicate the pole's future location if its current...
China
China may sue over German Terracotta Warrior scam (waging war on (foreign) fakes)
	Posted by TigerLikesRooster On News/Activism 12/16/2007 9:34:49 PM EST · 41 replies AFP | 12/14/07 Chinese cultural authorities are threatening legal action over fake "Terracotta Warriors" that appeared at a German museum in a scam that fooled thousands of people, state press reported. "It is a serious act of fraud and has implications for intellectual property rights," said Chen Xianqi, a spokesman for the cultural heritage bureau in Shaanxi province, home of the original 2,200-year-old life-size clay soldiers. "The museum of the 'Terracotta Army' in Xian has not sent any authentic objects for display in Germany recently, and currently no such...
Underwater Archaeology
China Raises 800-Year-Old Sunken Ship
	Posted by JackRussell On News/Activism 12/21/2007 10:10:22 PM EST · 18 replies The Associated Press / Google News | December 21, 2007 | The Associated Press After 800 years at the bottom of the sea, a merchant ship loaded with porcelain and other rare antiques was raised to the surface Friday in a specially built basket, a state news agency reported. The Nanhai No. 1, which means "South China Sea No. 1," sank off the south China coast with some 60,000 to 80,000 items on board, Xinhua News Agency reported, citing Wu Jiancheng, head of the excavation project. Archaeologists built a steel basket around the 100-foot vessel, and it took about two hours for a crane to lift the ship and surrounding silt to...
Greece
Ship wreck provides historic data
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 12/20/2007 3:35:27 PM EST · 23 replies Famagusta Gazette | Thursday, December 20, 2007 A shipwreck off the south coast may provide valuable information about the nautical and economic history of the region, according to the Department of Antiquities. The shipwreck at Mazotos is the first underwater research project to be exclusively run by Cypriot institutions. The project was undertaken by the Research Unit of Archaeology of the University of Cyprus in agreement with the Department of Antiquities. According to a statement from the Department of Antiquities, the shipwreck seems to have been a commercial vessel of the Late Classical period. Part of the cargo of the ship lies on the sea bottom and...
Agriculture and Animal Husbandry
Dig discovery is oldest 'pet cat'
	Posted by vannrox On News/Activism 04/09/2004 8:34:44 AM EDT · 60 replies · 315+ views BBC | Thursday, 8 April, 2004, 18:00 GMT 19:00 UK | By Paul Rincon The oldest known evidence of people keeping cats as pets may have been discovered by archaeologists. The discovery of a cat buried with what could be its owner in a Neolithic grave on Cyprus suggests domestication of cats had begun 9,500 years ago. It was thought the Egyptians were first to domesticate cats, with the earliest evidence dating to 2,000-1,900 BC. French researchers writing in Science magazine show that the process actually began much earlier than that. The evidence comes from the Neolithic, or late stone age, village of Shillourokambos on Cyprus, which was inhabited from the 9th to the...
Rome and Italy
In pictures: Ancient Roman paintings
	Posted by WesternCulture On News/Activism 12/21/2007 2:46:49 PM EST · 31 replies news.bbc.co.uk | 12/21/2007 | news.bbc.co.uk A unique exhibition of 2,000-year-old paintings called Pompeian Red has opened at the National Museum of Rome.
Curses, Foiled Again
Rare find highlights antiquities fears [lead curse on Emperor Valens]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 12/19/2007 1:37:20 AM EST · 12 replies The Guardian | Monday December 17, 2007 | Maev Kennedy Some 1,650 years ago someone was so comprehensively fed up with the state of the Roman empire that they committed an act of treason, blasphemy and probably criminal defacing of the coinage. They cursed the emperor Valens by hammering a coin with his image into lead, then folding the lead over his face. The battered scraps of metal discovered by Tom Redmayne, an amateur metal detector, in a muddy field in Lincolnshire are a unique find... Thousands of Roman cursing charms survive, scrawled on pieces of lead with a hole punched to hang them up. Many were found thrown into...
British Isles
Stunning Survey Unveils New Secrets Of Caistor Roman Town
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/13/2007 3:45:32 PM EST · 18 replies University Of Nottingham | December 13 2007 On the morning of Friday July 20, 1928, the crew of an RAF aircraft took photographs over the site of the Roman town of Venta Icenorum at Caistor St Edmund in Norfolk, a site which now lies in open fields to the south of Norwich. The exceptionally dry summer meant that details of the Roman town were clearly revealed as parched lines in the barley. The pictures appeared on the front page of The Times on March 4, 1929 and caused a sensation. Now, new investigations...
Archaeologists unearth ancient pits
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 12/17/2007 11:13:59 PM EST · 7 replies Archant Regional | Wednesday, December 12, 2007 | Lisa Cleverdon Archaeologists preparing the ground for a new building at an Anglo-Saxon village have discovered the remains of three pits dating back 1,500 years... The unexpected find, at the site in West Stow, near Bury St Edmunds, was made during preparation work for a new timber construction that will be home to heritage displays and study facilities when it opens in the summer. It is now hoped that a mysterious black substance in the pits will help answer age-old questions about their purpose, and give a better understanding of Anglo-Saxon life... Although building work - which will proceed once the archaeologists...
Faith and Philosophy
Ancient secrets emerge from grave [medieval Scottish bishops identified]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 12/18/2007 10:54:18 PM EST · 6 replies BBC | Sunday, December 16, 2007 The bones of six bishops buried more than 600 years ago have been identified using new hi-tech methods. The medieval bishops, who died between 1200-1360, were discovered during an excavation at Whithorn Priory in Galloway between 1957 and 1967. It was known the remains were of powerful churchmen of the Middle Ages, but their identities were a mystery... Radiocarbon dating helped identify the graves of bishops Walter (died 1235), Henry (d. 1293), Michael (d. 1359) and Thomas (d. 1362). Also identified was Gilbert (d. 1253) and a central grave which it is thought was being used for a second time...
Megaliths and Archaeoastronomy
Marvel at winter solstice sunrise in Newgrange
	Posted by Renfield On General/Chat 12/18/2007 10:32:41 AM EST · 18 replies Daily Telegraph (U.K.) | 12-15-07 | Sophie Campbell A brief moment of wonder awaits a few lucky people who see the winter solstice sunrise in Newgrange, Co Meath, Ireland, reports Sophie Campbell. If you put your head on the floor of the burial chamber at Newgrange, Ireland's most famous passage tomb, rest your cheek on the soft grit and look back down the slightly wonky passage of upright stone slabs, you can see a wigwam of light at the end. This is the entrance, which faces south-east over the wide, shallow valley of the River Boyne and a ridge called Red Mountain. If you are lucky enough to...
Travel in the Ancient World
Archaeologists Find Mysterious Neolithic Structure In Orkney Dig
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 12/20/2007 5:26:13 PM EST · 23 replies 24 Hour Museum | Wednesday, December 19, 2007 | Caroline Lewis The dig at the ancient dune-protected houses has now turned up an unexpected and impressive discovery dating to Neolithic times, archaeologists have announced following the conclusion of their work. "A previously unknown Neolithic structure has been found that is very different from anything else known to exist at this remarkable site," explained Peter Yeoman, Historic Scotland senior archaeologist. "It was built using dressed stone and was clearly intended to look impressive from the outside. This marks it out from houses of the time, the exteriors of which tended to be created with function rather than looks in mind." ...The structure...
The Vikings
Viking Revisionism
	Posted by finnsheep On News/Activism 12/21/2007 10:39:54 AM EST · 27 replies interweave.com | winter 07 issue | Judith MacKenzie McCuin Gutefar - The Bronze Age Sheep of Gotland -- This article claims sheep of the British Isles descended from sheep from Gotland, an Island in the Baltic "...arriving in Britain between 2,000 and 3,000 years ago, doubtless traveling along with the same Viking raiders that brought sheep originally to Gotland." She also claims Vikings are the ANCESTORS of the Visigoths. Only problems is that the Visigoths preceded the Vikings by about 400 years. The Visigoths sacked Rome in 451 AD and the first recorded Viking raid on the British Isles happened around 800 AD with the raid on the monastery at...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
MfD: Experts uncover Prague's oldest ramparts
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 12/20/2007 10:44:01 AM EST · 1 reply Prague Monitor | Tuesday, December 11, 2007 | Czech News Agency Archaeologists have uncovered parts of Prague's oldest ramparts, dating back to the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries, thus verifying the then Jewish globetrotter Ibrahim ibn Jaqub's description of Prague as "a town made of stone and lime," the daily Mlada fronta Dnes (MfD) wrote Monday... The archaeologists uncovered the remnants of wall in the cellar of the Academy of Performing Arts building, 5 metres underground. A thousand years ago the walls were part of one of Prague's main entrance gates, though which the town was entered from the western and souther directions... Prague, including its ramparts, attracted Ibrahim...
Egypt
Surprise Finds At Egypt Temple "Change Everything"
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/19/2007 6:43:27 AM EST · 43 replies National Geographic News | 12-17-2007 | Steven Stanek A series of surprising discoveries has been made at the foot of Egypt's famous Temple of Amun at Karnak, archaeologists say. The new finds include ancient ceremonial baths, a pharaoh's private entry ramp, and the remains of a massive wall built some 3,000 years ago to reinforce what was then the bank of the Nile River. A host of other artifacts, including hundreds of bronze coins, has also been found. Together the discoveries are causing experts to reconsider the history of the...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Ohio man finds 15,000-year-old flint spear tip
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 12/17/2007 11:00:57 PM EST · 24 replies Akron Beacon Journal | Monday, December 17, 2007 | Associated Press Heath, Ohio: A spear point found in a central Ohio field by a farmer has been identified by archeologists as being used by hunters to kill mastodons about 15,000 years ago. Forty-four-year-old Don Johnson of Heath found the Clovis point about four years ago while on a walk. Brad Lepper, an archaeologist with the Ohio Historical Society, says the point is one of the only remaining types of evidence of the Clovis Paleo-Indians. The group, named for their weapons, used the points for about 500 years. Experts say the point is made of Coshocton flint, a grade of stone used...
Caral, at Christmas
The Mother Of All Civilizations (Caral, Peru)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/16/2007 11:19:48 AM EST · 69 replies Times OF India | 12-16-2007 | Shobhan Saxena The ruins were so magnificent and sprawling that some people believed that the aliens from a faraway galaxy had built the huge pyramids that stood in the desert across the Andes. Some historians believed that the complex society, which existed at that time, was born out of fear and war. They looked for the telltale signs of violence that they believed led to the creation of this civilisation. But, they could not find even a hint of any warfare. It was baffling. Even years after Ruth Shady Solis...
Oh So Mysteriouso
Hopewell Culture Shows Little Evidence of Warfare
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/19/2007 6:48:49 AM EST · 17 replies The Columbus Dispatch | 12-18-2007 | Bradley T Lepper War, in one form or another, has been a part of the human experience for centuries. Archaeologist Lawrence Keeley, in his book War Before Civilization, argues that it has been with us for millennia, but that historians and archaeologists have downplayed its importance because we like to think our ancestors were smarter than us and lived in more or less perfect harmony. The evidence against that, however, is growing stronger with each discovery. Otzi, the 5,000-year-old Italian "Ice Man," died with an arrow...
Longer Perspectives
Top 10 Discoveries of 2007 (Archaeology magazine)
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 12/20/2007 2:52:08 PM EST · 22 replies Archaeology | January/February 2008, v61 n1 | editors Hardly week goes by without a major archaeological discovery or the publication of a radical new theory about the human past. Reducing a year's worth of these stories to the 10 most important was a tall order, especially since our intent was to go beyond the headlines and select those we thought made a significant impact on the field--ones that will be talked about for decades. Solar Observatory at Chankillo, Peru Nebo-Sarsekim Cuneiform Tablet New Dates for Clovis Sites Early Squash Seeds, Peru Ancient Chimpanzee Tool Use Urbanization at Tell Brak, Syria Lismullin Henge, Tara, Ireland Polynesian Chickens in Chile...
Early America
Killed in a Duel, Then Lost in the Earth [Charles Henry Dickinson, Andrew Jackson]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 12/18/2007 1:33:52 AM EST · 5 replies New York Times | Monday, December 17, 2007 | Theo Emery Mr. Dickinson's death arose from a feud with Jackson, then a major general who gladly settled questions of honor with violence. In 1803, he even challenged Gov. John Sevier, a Revolutionary War hero, to a duel. The feud with Mr. Dickinson is generally traced to the aftermath of a forfeited horse race and rumors questioning Jackson's honor... Some historians have written that Mr. Dickinson also insulted Mrs. Jackson, although documents from the time do not reflect that... Tennessee had banned duels, so the men traveled north to Kentucky. When the order came to fire, Mr. Dickinson hit Jackson just beside...
Civil War
Civil War Watch Stopped Suddenly; Sub End Still Unknown (H.L. Hunley)
	Posted by DogByte6RER On News/Activism 12/17/2007 9:15:31 PM EST · 40 replies National Geographic | December 17, 2007 | Bruce Smith When scientists opened the watch belonging to the H.L. Hunley commander three years ago, they thought they had the key clue to why the Confederate submarine sank off Charleston, South Carolina. But the 18-karat gold watch now seems to raise even more questions, despite the finding announced last week that the watch did not slowly wind down but stopped quickly -- perhaps the result of a concussion or rushing water. "All of us were thinking the watch pointed to the crucial moment,"...
World War Eleven
Tools led to Earhart job
	Posted by BenLurkin On General/Chat 12/16/2007 12:35:56 PM EST · 1 reply Valley Press on | Sunday, December 16, 2007. | ALLISON GATLIN One of the enduring mysteries of aviation lore is the disappearance of famed aviator Amelia Earhart. Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared with their aircraft somewhere in the Pacific Ocean during their attempted around-the-world flight in July 1937. Earhart's ill-fated journey began in Southern California, where her specially modified Lockheed Model 10 Electra was built. Among those who helped create that aircraft was Don Fowble, a young engineer and mechanic on the Lockheed assembly line. Now 93 and a resident of Arcadia, Fowble's story is one of the first-person accounts of Earhart's attempt and the massive search effort featured...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Historic penguin sketches found (Slow news day story)
	Posted by yankeedame On General/Chat 12/21/2007 8:36:54 AM EST · 23 replies BBC.com | Friday, 21 December 2007 | staff writer The signed chalk drawings are to be cleaned and restored Penguin sketches made by Captain Scott and Ernest Shackleton have been found in a basement at Cambridge University. The legendary explorers drew the pictures on blackboards, probably for public lectures, in 1904 and 1909. Nobody knows how the fragile images, in need of cleaning and restoration, ended up at the University's Scott Polar Research Institute. Staff are appealing for donations to help preserve the signed chalk drawings and put them on public display. Chalk and charm "People often...
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Gods Graves Glyphs Digest #179 20071222 · Saturday, December 22, 2007 · 36 topics · 1943074 to 1940084 · now 664 members ·
	Saturday Dec 22 2007 v 4 n 23 view this issue	Welcome to the 179th issue of the Gods, Graves, Glyphs ping list Digest. I haven't checked yet, but I doubt that we'll match the number of topics (47) from #178. About half of the included topics had to be edited to remove duplicative information, mostly the reiterations of the topic name, the author, the date, and the source. But I don't mind, whine, whine. :') Christmas is Tuesday. Make it a good one. Amazon review votes can make a nice cheap gift. Visit the Free Republic Memorial Wall -- a history-related feature of FR. Defeat Hillary -- first for the White House, then for reelection to the Senate.
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #180 Saturday, December 29, 2007
Faith and Philosophy
Ancient church awaits restoration in Iraq desert
	Posted by NYer On News/Activism 12/27/2007 10:58:04 AM EST · 24 replies AFP | December 26, 2007 | Jacques Charmelot AIN TAMUR, Iraq (AFP) - No-one celebrated Christmas in Al-Aqiser church on Tuesday, for what many consider to be the oldest eastern Christian house of worship lies in ruins in a windswept Iraqi desert. Armed bandits and looters rule in the region and no one can visit the southern desert around Ain Tamur unescorted, local officials say. But 1,500 years ago, the first eastern Christians knelt and prayed in this barren land, their faces turned towards Jerusalem. The remains of Al-Aqiser church lie in the windswept sand dunes of Ain Tamur, around 70 kilometres (40 miles) southwest of the...
Epigraphy and Language
Ancient Petroglyphs Lie Amidst Suburban Sprawl
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/25/2007 6:12:31 PM EST · 10 replies Schripps Howard News Service | 12-24-2007 | Brandon Loomis An ancient 40-ton jungle gym of sorts, the massive burnt umber boulder anchors a neighborhood park and beckons suburban kids to clamber over its mysterious Anasazi etchings. And climb aboard they do, sometimes even attempting to scratch their own marks before the adults run them off, neighbors say. Archaeologists typically warn against even smudging natural skin oils on the chiseled drawings or the rock's natural mineral glaze so they won't slowly melt away. "I've climbed on it," acknowledged Melissa Cornwall, whose in-laws...
Megaliths and Archaeoastronomy
Mayan calender hints at apocalypse, set for 2012
	Posted by Perdogg On General/Chat 12/22/2007 8:07:19 PM EST · 74 replies Pacepress | Issue date: 12/5/07 Section: Features | Nicole LeFebvre Seven years ago, there was mass preparation for Y2K, alleged by some to be the end of the world. Believers scurried to save water and canned foods just in case the new millennium brought the immense devastation theories speculated. Again, we are faced with the timeless question of whether our world will endor not. The highly intelligent Ancient Mayan civilization developed an intricate calendar which anticipated the end of their Great Cycle of the Long Count-better known as the apocalypse-on Dec. 21, 2012.
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Ancient pyramid found in central Mexico City
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 12/27/2007 11:33:10 PM EST · 14 replies Yahoo! | Thursday, December 27, 2007 | Miguel Angel Gutierrez Archeologists have discovered the ruins of an 800-year-old Aztec pyramid in the heart of the Mexican capital that could show the ancient city is at least a century older than previously thought. Mexican archeologists found the ruins, which are about 36 feet high, in the central Tlatelolco area, once a major religious and political center for the Aztec elite. Since the discovery of another pyramid at the site 15 years ago, historians have thought Tlatelolco was founded by the Aztecs in 1325, the same year as the twin city of Tenochtitlan nearby, the capital of the Aztec empire, which the...
Egypt
Months after mummy claim, DNA science still lags [Hatshepsut]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 12/23/2007 8:41:53 AM EST · 15 replies ctv.ca | Thursday, December 20, 2007 | Associated Press So far, results indicate the linen-wrapped mummy is most likely, but not conclusively, the female pharaoh Queen Hatshepsut... Running its own ancient-DNA lab is a major step forward for Egypt, which for decades has seen foreigners take most of the credit for major discoveries in the country... But the Hatshepsut discovery also highlights the struggle to back up recent spectacular findings in Egypt, including the unearthing of ancient tombs and mummies, investigations into how King Tut died, and even the discovery in the Siwa oasis of possibly the world's oldest human footprint... In June Egypt announced that Hatshepsut's mummy had...
Ancient Autopsies
Is She Or Isn't She? Mummy Lab Working To ID Pharaoh Queen
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/25/2007 6:23:08 PM EST · 19 replies CNN | 12-24-2007 Months after Egypt boldly announced that archaeologists had identified a mummy as the most powerful queen of her time, scientists in a museum basement are still analyzing DNA from the bald, 3,500-year-old corpse to try to back up the claim aired on TV. DNA testing continues on these mummified remains thought to be Queen Hatshepsut. So far, results indicate the linen-wrapped mummy is most likely, but not conclusively, the female pharaoh Queen Hatshepsut, who ruled for 20 years in the 15th century B.C. Running...
Travel in the Ancient World
Dashing Finns were first to get their skates on 5,000 years ago
	Posted by bruinbirdman On News/Activism 12/24/2007 4:13:30 AM EST · 18 replies The Times | 12/24/07 | Mark Henderson The origins of ice-skating have been traced by scientists to the frozen lakes of Finland about 5,000 years ago, when people used skates made from animal bone. Researchers at Manchester Metropolitan University have calculated that skating on the primitive blades would have reduced the energy cost of travelling by 10 per cent, suggesting that it emerged as a practical method of transport and not as recreation. Southern Finland has been identified as the most likely home of skating through an analysis of the shape and distribution of lakes in central and northern Europe, which shows that the early Finns would...
Agriculture and Animal Husbandry
Reindeer: It's What Was For Dinner
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/22/2007 1:07:24 PM EST · 35 replies Discovery Channel | 12-20-2007 | Jennifer Viegas Reindeer meat went from being an occasional treat to everyday fare among prehistoric cavemen who lived in Southwest France and what is now the Czech Republic, two new studies suggest. In fact, so many nibbled-on reindeer bones were present in their caves that possible calendars circa 26,000 years ago might have been carved on the leftover bones. They may have also been used as counting devices or for ornamentation. The first study, authored by J. Tyler Faith, analyzed bones found in limestone cave and...
Prehistory and Origins
Archaeologist Explains Link Between Bones Found In Ethiopia, Texas
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/22/2007 1:24:43 PM EST · 30 replies Statesman | 12-22-2007 | Pamela LeBlanc One roamed the forests of East Africa 3.2 million years ago. The other lived in Central Texas more than 9,500 years ago. What's the connection between two skeletons found a world apart? That was the question on a recent visit to Houston, where the famous older skeleton is on display. Though not complete, Lucy does have enough pieces, especially skull bones, for scientists to predict her measurements. This model at the Houston Museum of Natural Science shows...
Longer Perspectives
Email in the 18th century
	Posted by sionnsar On News/Activism 12/23/2007 9:09:07 PM EST · 34 replies Low-Tech Magazine | 12/23/2007 | Kris De Decker (edited by Vincent Grosjean) More than 200 years ago it was already possible to send messages throughout Europe and America at the speed of an aeroplane -- wireless and without need for electricity. Email leaves all other communication systems far behind in terms of speed. But the principle of the technology -- forwarding coded messages over long distances -- is nothing new. It has its origins in the use of plumes of smoke, fire signals and drums, thousands of years before the start of our era. Coded long distance communication also formed the basis of a remarkable but largely forgotten communications network that...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Report: Hoover had plan for mass arrests (1950, up to 12,000 suspected of being disloyal)
	Posted by NormsRevenge On News/Activism 12/22/2007 3:35:03 PM EST · 46 replies AP on Yahoo | 12/22/07 | AP WASHINGTON - Former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had a plan to suspend the rules against illegal detention and arrest up to 12,000 Americans he suspected of being disloyal, according to a newly declassified document. Hoover sent his plan to the White House on July 7, 1950, less than two weeks after the Korean War began. But there is no evidence to suggest that President Truman or any subsequent president approved any part of Hoover's proposal to house suspect Americans in military and federal prisons. Hoover had wanted Truman to declare the mass arrests necessary to "protect the country against...
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Gods Graves Glyphs Digest #180 20071229 · Saturday, December 29, 2007 · 11 topics · 1945030 to 1943249 · now 666 members ·
	Saturday Dec 29 2007 v 4 n 24 view this issue	Welcome to the 180th issue of the Gods, Graves, Glyphs ping list Digest. Last week's was (I believe) the largest we'd ever had. This week's is a tiny little thing, a mere eleven topics, due to idleness and/or having too much to do/eat. I actually spent most of the past week reading a used book I just bought at the enormous chain bookstore. Christmas was Tuesday. Among the booty was the DVD box for HBO's "Rome", the second and final season. Lots more f-bomb, lots more intercourse, lots more killin', bloodlettin', intrigue, and darkened plotlines. Yes, I have watched the entire thing already, and plan to watch it again soon. The used book I mentioned is "Pompey the Great", which turns out to be mostly excellent (provisos will go in an online review I'm allegedly going to write) and definitely educational; it covers the years before season one starts, and a chunk into that season, but of course that's just a bonus from reading it. I picked up that DVD box on my own quite some time ago. It had never made any impression on me before, and this hasn't been mentioned as such anywhere in the book or the series, but the three decisive battles in the civil wars -- Pharsalus, Philippi, and Actium -- all took place in Greece or just offshore. And Marc Antony is the only one who comes to mind who was present at all three. Good idea for a book, actually, "Pharsalus, Philippi, Actium". Nice title idea too. ;') Despite the small number of topics, this Digest is actually not bad at all. And it's brief, which is a plus in this busy time of the year. A public welcome to a couple of new members from this week. Of course you realize you've brought the number of members to 666. Eeeek! The ping list has been growing a little lately. This issue marks the 3 1/2 year mark for the Digest version of Gods, Graves, Glyphs, bravo to all who post topics, participate in discussions, and even just lurk on the list. Have a great New Year's Eve and even better 2008. Particularly November 2008. :') Amazon review votes can make a nice cheap gift. Visit the Free Republic Memorial Wall -- a history-related feature of FR. Defeat Hillary -- first for the White House, then for reelection to the Senate.
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #181 Saturday, January 5, 2008
Helix, Make Mine a Double
New Route For Heredity Bypasses DNA
	Posted by Maelstorm On News/Activism 01/04/2008 11:35:22 PM EST · 15 replies ScienceDaily | (Jan. 4, 2008) | ScienceDaily(Princeton University) ScienceDaily (Jan. 4, 2008) -- A group of scientists in Princeton's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology has uncovered a new biological mechanism that could provide a clearer window into a cell's inner workings. What's more, this mechanism could represent an "epigenetic" pathway -- a route that bypasses an organism's normal DNA genetic program -- for so-called Lamarckian evolution, enabling an organism to pass on to its offspring characteristics acquired during its lifetime to improve their chances for survival. Lamarckian evolution is the notion, for example, that the giraffe's long neck evolved by its continually stretching higher and higher in...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Mammoth Could Shed Light on Warming
	Posted by Turret Gunner A20 On News/Activism 01/04/2008 11:32:34 AM EST · 50 replies PeoplePC Online | January 4, 2008 | Staff TOKYO - Frozen in much the state it died some 37,500 years ago, a Siberian mammoth undergoing tests in Japan could finally explain why the beasts were driven to extinction - and shed light on climate change, scientists said Friday. The calf, unearthed in May by a reindeer herder in northern Siberia's remote Yamal-Nenets autonomous region, is virtually intact and even has some fur, though the tail and ear of the animal dubbed "Lyuba" were apparently bitten off. "Lyuba's discovery is an historic event," said Bernard Buigues, vice president of the Geneva-based International Mammoth Committee. "It could tell us why...
Climate
Bodies point to Alaska's past
	Posted by Ernest_at_the_Beach On General/Chat 12/31/2007 12:55:27 PM EST · 18 replies BBC | Monday, 31 December 2007, 11:20 GMT | Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News website, Alaska The Nuvuk site is a snowmobile ride away from modern-day Barrow It is not the type of a call that an archaeologist receives every day.There are bodies, the voice on the end of the line told Anne Jensen; we don't know who they were, or why they are here. "People started noticing stuff eroding out of the bluff," she recalls, "and I got called out, along with the police, the real estate people and so on. "It was very clearly an archaeological burial. And the...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Antarctica May Contain "Oasis of Life"
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 12/30/2007 12:07:37 AM EST · 97 replies National Geographic News | Thursday, December 27, 2007 | Christine Dell'Amore Researchers have uncovered a complex subglacial system miles under the ice where rivers larger than the Amazon link a series of "lake districts," which may teem with mineral-hungry microbes. This watery environment may be more than one-and-a-half times the size of the United States, scientists say, which would make it the world's largest wetland... Studinger's research focuses on "recovery lakes," part of a a series of cascading lakes found earlier this year under the ice sheet. The lakes... ebb and flow as they empty into the polar sea. They stay fluid because the ice sheet above acts like a gigantic...
Greece
Questioning the Delphic Oracle
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 12/30/2007 8:01:30 PM EST · 10 replies Scientific American | August 2003 | John R. Hale, Jelle Zeilinga de Boer, Jeffrey P. Chanton and Henry A. Spiller Tradition attributed the prophetic inspiration of the powerful oracle to geologic phenomena: a chasm in the earth, a vapor that rose from it, and a spring... The ancient testimony, however, is widespread, and it comes from a variety of sources: historians such as Pliny and Diodorus, philosophers such as Plato, the poets Aeschylus and Cicero, the geographer Strabo, the travel writer Pausanias, and even a priest of Apollo who served at Delphi, the famous essayist and biographer Plutarch... in about 1900, a young English classicist named Adolphe Paul Oppe['s] opinions were so strongly expressed that his theory became the new...
Underwater Archaeology
Brock University professor anxious to dive on Iron Age shipwreck
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 12/29/2007 9:52:12 PM EST · 15 replies The Standard (St. Catharine's Ontario) | Saturday, December 29, 2007 | Samantha Craggs The last time anyone touched the artifacts Elizabeth Greene is after, Rome was a new empire and climate change had just pushed the Scandinavians into Europe... The unexplored wreck sank between 700 and 450 BC. For Greene, who has assisted in a handful of shipwreck dives, it will also be the first in which she takes the lead... A trade hub in ancient times for Greece and Turkey, the Mediterranean has thousands of ancient shipwrecks, "more than we'll ever be able to excavate," Greene said. They are so old that most of the actual ships are gone, eaten by underwater...
Travel in the Ancient World
Nautical Archaeology Takes A Leap Forward
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/31/2007 10:53:57 AM EST · 10 replies Times Online | 12-31-2007 | Institute Of Nautical Archaeology Nautical archaeology takes a leap forward For centuries the harbour of Ancient Constantinople, modern Istanbul, was the inlet of the Golden Horn, running north between the peninsula on which the city s core stands and the commercial and foreign quarter of Galata and Pera to the east. A boom across the inlet protected the city from attack, although the Ottoman troops of Mehmet II stormed across the Golden Horn in 1453 to end the Byzantine Empire. A second, mainly commercial, harbour, in use from the 5th-10th centuries AD, has been found on the south shore of the peninsula, on the Sea...
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Riddle Of The Jade Jewels Reveals Vast Trade Arena
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/03/2008 10:47:02 PM EST · 5 replies Science Daily | 1-2-2008 | Australian National University. Analysing the origins of jade used in ancient jewellery has revealed a trading arena that was active for more than 3,000 years and sprawled over 3,000km in Southeast Asia -- possibly the largest such network discovered in the region to date. An international research team led by archaeologists from The Australian National University used electron probe microanalysis to examine jade earrings excavated from sites all over Southeast Asia, and were able to pinpoint the origin of the precious stone to a source in Taiwan. "People have...
Faith and Philosophy
Stolen Bangladeshi Vishnu relics found in pieces in garbage [ R.O.P. alert? ]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 01/01/2008 6:57:58 PM EST · 4 replies Monsters and Critics | Friday, December 28, 2007 | Deutsche Presse-Agentur Security forces in Bangladesh have recovered the two missing Hindu Vishnu relics from a garbage dump on the outskirts of the capital Dhaka, Cultural Ministry officials said Friday. The ancient artifacts, broken into pieces, were retrieved from the dump after it was apparently stolen from the airport about a week ago, a senior security officer said. The authorities suspect the images were smashed into pieces to avoid countrywide police surveillance after a state of high alert was announced soon after the relics were found missing. 'The seventh century statues of Lord Vishnu were fragmented into 13 pieces before these were...
Exegesis
Islam Based on Epileptic Prophecies, says Book From Iran-Native Neuropsychologist
	Posted by dennisw On News/Activism 12/12/2006 11:01:11 PM EST · 58 replies · 1,336+ views ummahnewslinks | 12/11/2006 CANTON, Ohio, Dec. 11 - Religious prophet Muhammad suffered from epileptic seizures, according to a book recently released by a Tehran- native and Muslim-raised neuropsychologist. Abbas Sadeghian delivers these findings in the book Sword & Seizure, which is based on historical text, including the Koran. Sadeghian was inspired by a comparable paper he presented in 2001 at New York University's Fielding Institute. He says Muhammad had suffered from "complex partial seizures," which are displayed through "excessive sweating and light trembling, olfactory, auditory and visual hallucinations, epigastric sensations (bad taste), excessive perspiration and hyper-religiosity." He says evidence of these is recounted...
Anatolia
Yapi Kredi Museum exhibit explores Phrygian culture
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 01/01/2008 7:46:12 PM EST · 20 replies Today's Zaman | Wednesday, January 2, 2008 | unattributed Istanbul's Yapi Kredi Vedat Nedim Tor Museum is hosting an archaeology exhibition called "Phrygia," showcasing a selection of major Phrygian artifacts on loan from various museums in Turkey, including the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara and the Istanbul Archaeology Museum. The exhibit, held under scientific advice from archaeologist Taciser Sivas, will run until April 13.
Scythians (?)
Remains of ancient civilization discovered on the bottom of a lake
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 12/29/2007 11:32:21 PM EST · 20 replies RIA Novosti | Thursday, December 27, 2007 | Nikolai Lukashov An international archeological expedition to Lake Issyk Kul, high in the Kyrgyz mountains, proves the existence of an advanced civilization 25 centuries ago... The expedition resulted in sensational finds, including the discovery of major settlements, presently buried underwater... Last year, we worked near the north coast at depths of 5-10 metres to discover formidable walls, some stretching for 500 meters-traces of a large city with an area of several square kilometers... We also found Scythian burial mounds, eroded by waves over the centuries, and numerous well preserved artifacts-bronze battleaxes, arrowheads, self-sharpening daggers, objects discarded by smiths, casting molds, and a...
Colchis
In a rich corner of antiquity: gold, wine, plenty of luxury [Colchis, the Vani]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 12/29/2007 9:17:59 PM EST · 10 replies Register-Guard | December 27, 2007 | Blake Gopnik, Washington Post Since Colchis was famous in antiquity for gold and precious metal -- it's where the Greek hero Jason went to grab the legendary Golden Fleece -- you'd be wearing gold-spangled robes while pouring and drinking your famous Colchian wine from gold or silver vessels. You'd also be so rich you could afford to bury your wine service with you... A fascinating exhibition, "Wine, Worship & Sacrifice: The Golden Graves of Ancient Vani" at the Smithsonian's Sackler Gallery in Washington, D.C., through Feb. 24, gives a thrilling image of the plenty that nobility enjoyed in that far corner of the ancient...
Egypt
A good year for the record [tomb of Henu, Middle Kingdom Egypt]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 01/02/2008 8:43:13 AM EST · 5 replies Al-Ahram | 27 December 2007 - 2 January 2008 | Nevine El-Aref Also this year an intact tomb chamber complete with funerary goods was found on the southern slope of the archaeological hill of Deir Al-Barsha, near Minya, by archaeologists from the Katholicke Universiteit Leuven working on the Middle-Kingdom (2066-1650 BC) tomb of Uky, a top government official. While removing debris from a rock-cut shaft found inside the chamber of Uky's tomb, archaeologists came across a huge limestone block leading to a small, intact chamber stuffed with wooden objects and containing a sarcophagus bearing two lines of hieroglyphic texts representing formulae addressed to the gods Anubis and Osiris. A third line on...
Epigraphy and Language
Maltese claims extraordinary discovery in Sahara desert
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 12/29/2007 11:01:23 PM EST · 73 replies Independent Online | Saturday, December 29, 2007 | unattributed Mark Borda and Mahmoud Marai, from Malta and Egypt respectively, were surveying a field of boulders on the flanks of a hill deep in the Libyan desert some 700 kilometres west of the Nile Valley when engravings on a large rock consisting of hieroglyphic writing, Pharaonic cartouche, an image of the king and other Pharaonic iconography came into view. Mr Borda would not reveal the precise location in order to protect the site... "The consensus among Egyptologists is that the Egyptians did not penetrate this desert any further than the area around Djedefre's Water Mountain. This is a sandstone hill...
Mesopotamia
Deployed Airmen find ancient artifacts at Iraqi air base
	Posted by Jet Jaguar On General/Chat 12/30/2007 7:49:43 PM EST · 6 replies AFPN | 28 Dec 2007 | Staff Sgt. Trevor Tiernan KIRKUK AIR BASE, Iraq (AFPN) -- An Airman and his team discovered fragments of pottery, possibly dating back as far back as 2,000 years during a recent job at Kirkuk Air Base. Tech. Sgt. Kelly Wayment, a heavy equipment operator with the 506th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron here, was carrying out a routine operation near a helicopter landing pad when he noticed something peculiar. Sergeant Wayment was spotting for fellow 506th ECES member Staff Sgt. Michael Massey as he drove a grader over the area. "I noticed something on the ground that looked kind of like a rock," said the...
Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
Victor Davis Hanson: With Your Shield or On It
	Posted by neverdem On News/Activism 03/27/2007 4:35:05 PM EDT · 18 replies · 1,208+ views City Journal | 7 March 2007 | Victor Davis Hanson Zack Snyder's 300: a spirited take on a clash of civilizations -- On Monday night in Hollywood I attended an advance screening of the entertaining new Zack Snyder movie 300, starring Gerard Butler as Leonidas, king of Sparta. This past October, I had seen an earlier version when screenwriter Kurt Johnstad asked me to take a look at an advance copy of the film. He drove down to my farm, I liked what I saw, and I then wrote an introduction to the book accompanying the film. So I am not a disinterested observer. In truth, I think that many critics will...
British Isles
Celtic Land of Dead 'lies in North Wales'
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 12/29/2007 11:51:08 PM EST · 21 replies North Wales News | Monday, December 24, 2007 | Steve Bagnall, Daily Post According to Welsh mythology the Land of the Dead - or Annwn: Celtic Underworld - was ruled over by Gwynn ap Nudd. He escorted the souls of the dead there, and led a pack of supernatural hounds... experts say there is a grain of truth in the story from which it developed, with the evidence now pointing to Ruabon and Halkyn Mountains. Steve Blake, author of the Keys to Avalon, which argued the myths of King Arthur are firmly rooted in North Wales, said: "Llangollen and the Dee Valley are rich in this piece of Celtic folklore. Central to this...
Megaliths and Archaeoastronomy
Secrets of Miami Circle, known as America's Stonehenge, lie buried[Florida]
	Posted by BGHater On News/Activism 01/03/2008 4:08:31 PM EST · 30 replies Orlando Sentinel | 02 Jan 2008 | Manya Bell The 2,000-year-old site remains under temporary protection laid in 2003. Nine years ago, an array of American Indians, environmentalists, preservationists, New Age spiritualists, diviners, even Cub Scouts rose up to save the Miami Circle, a 2,000-year-old artifact that many embraced as America's own Stonehenge. But today, the Circle -- a series of loaf-shaped holes chiseled into the limestone bedrock at the mouth of the Miami River -- is interred beneath bags of sand and gravel, laid over the formation in 2003 to protect it from the elements. And though taxpayers shelled out $27.6 million to purchase the 38-foot Circle and...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Archaeologists surprised by ancient find at unlikely spot
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 12/29/2007 11:42:03 PM EST · 15 replies Helena Independent Record | December 22, 2007 | Lorna Thackeray, Billings Gazette The sample that dated to most recent times - charcoal picked from a hearth uncovered 6 to 10 inches below the grassy surface - was determined to be 1,050 years old. The oldest, a bison foot bone found near stone artifacts, was dated at 5,300 years old. About 18 inches below the 5,300-year level, archaeologists working for Aaberg's company, Aaberg Cultural Resource Consulting Service, found a single piece of charcoal. Aaberg isn't sure what to make of it but believes it could be 7,000 to 8,000 years old. Also found at that level was a fragment of a long, narrow...
Prehistory and Origins
Can Ice Age art survive Man's attempt to save it? (Lascaux Cave Paintings)
	Posted by SubGeniusX On General/Chat 01/02/2008 10:18:36 AM EST · 8 replies The Times (U.K.) | January 2, 2008 | Dalya Alberge The survival of the most important cave paintings in the world is in doubt because of a severe fungal infection that spread after an air-circulation system was installed to protect them, archaeologists say. The 17,000-year-old paintings known as "the Sistine Chapel of pre-history" - the Lascaux cave in the Dordogne region of southwest France - are being damaged by black spots that are spreading at an alarming rate. Fragments of the cave walls have broken off and some colour tones are fading. Now Unesco is sending a delegation of specialists to the cave to determine whether it should be placed...
Agriculture and Animal Husbandry
Noble or savage?
	Posted by dirtboy On News/Activism 12/31/2007 11:30:01 PM EST · 27 replies economist.com | 12/19/2007 | not stated The era of the hunter-gatherer was not the social and environmental Eden that some suggest -- Human beings have spent most of their time on the planet as hunter-gatherers. From at least 85,000 years ago to the birth of agriculture around 73,000 years later, they combined hunted meat with gathered veg. Some people, such as those on North Sentinel Island in the Andaman Sea, still do. The Sentinelese are the only hunter-gatherers who still resist contact with the outside world. Fine-looking specimens -- strong, slim, fit, black and stark naked except for a small plant-fibre belt round the waist -- they are the very model of...
Ancient Autopsies
Grisly discovery of headless bodies gives insight into justice Saxon style
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 01/01/2008 1:59:34 PM EST · 17 replies Yorkshire Post | Monday, December 31, 2007 | Alexandra Wood [W]ith pagan Britain's conversion to Christianity, the Bronze Age burial mounds came to be regarded with suspicion as places where devils and dragons lurked. It was at one such site in East Yorkshire that the Anglo-Saxons chose to bury the worst kind of criminals, away from hallowed ground, leaving their heads to rot on stakes... The dozen skeletons -- 10 without their heads -- were discovered by archaeologists in the late 1960s in a Bronze Age barrow at Walkington Wold... [A] new study by two Yorkshire archaeologists... Jo Buckberry, from Bradford University and Dawn Hadley, from Sheffield University have confirmed...
Oh So Mysteriouso
Holy Grail Riddle Solution 'To Be Revealed'
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 11/25/2004 2:03:39 AM EST · 203 replies · 5,164+ views Scotsman | Nov. 24, 2003 | Katherine Haddon A team of Second World War codebreakers was today poised to reveal the solution to a cryptic 18th century riddle which is rumoured to reveal the location of the Holy Grail. Oliver Lawn and his wife Sheila, the leaders of the team, are now in their 80s but were posted at the codebreaking centre at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, during the Second World War. The couple, who worked on cracking the Enigma code, have spent the last seven months deciphering the significance of a sequence of letters on the Shepherd s Monument in the Shugborough Estate in Staffordshire. The marble slab, located...
D.B. COOPER REDUX - Help Us Solve the Enduring Mystery (FBI)
	Posted by DogByte6RER On News/Activism 01/01/2008 5:59:53 PM EST · 94 replies FBI | 12/31/07 | FBI On a cold November night 36 years ago, in the driving wind and rain, somewhere between southern Washington state and just north of Portland, Oregon, a man calling himself Dan Cooper parachuted out of a plane he d just hijacked clutching a bag filled with $200,000 in stolen cash. Who was Cooper? Did he survive the jump? And what happened to the loot, only a small part of which has ever surfaced? It s a mystery, frankly. We ve run down thousands of leads and considered all sorts of scenarios. And amateur sleuths...
Longer Perspectives
Ideology Is Trumping Scholarship / Ideology over Integrity in Academe
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 01/01/2008 8:01:13 PM EST · 9 replies Dafka (originally The Fall 2007 Columbia University Current) | January 1, 2008 | James R. Russell A professor of anthropology calls for a million Mogadishus, a professor of Arabic and Islamic Science tells a girl she isn't a Semite because her eyes are green, and a professor of Persian hails the destruction of the World Trade Center as the castrating of a double phallus. The most recent tenured addition to this rogues' gallery is to be an anthropologist, the principal thrust of whose magnum opus is the suggestion that archaeology in Israel is a sort of con game meant to persuade the unwary that Jews lived there in antiquity... from Columbia... Edward Said's 1978 book Orientalism......
Early America
U.S. sends $150,000 to Crossroads of Revolution
	Posted by Pharmboy On News/Activism 01/03/2008 5:07:39 PM EST · 11 replies Newark Star-Ledger | Thursday, January 03, 2008 | TOM HESTER More than a year after gaining federal recognition, the Crossroads of the American Revolution National Heritage Area has been awarded $150,000 in aid from Washington. The heritage area ties together New Jersey's Revolutionary War sites and landscapes as well as the state and national parks that highlight the pivotal role New Jersey played in the Revolution. big snip... Reps. Rush Holt (D-12th Dist.) and Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-11th Dist.) have been instrumental is pushing for the funding. "Despite featuring over 290 military engagements and serving as a buffer between the rebel stronghold of Philadelphia and the British stronghold of New York,...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Have A Happy FReeping New Year
	Posted by writer33 On News/Activism 12/31/2007 8:54:12 PM EST · 106 replies Vanity | 12/31/07 | Chris Davis Happy New Year for all FReepers! This is still the greatest conservative site for free thought on the internet. May your 2008 be great and prosperous. Thank you for all of your activism and your tireless efforts against liberal tyranny. Thank you for battling those that would do their best in destroying capitalism. May you continue to stay in the fight when Congress goes back into session. You are the best and brightest that America has to offer. Your love of country has helped keep us one of the greatest countries in the world. For those that are away from...
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Gods Graves Glyphs Digest #181 20080105 · Saturday, January 5, 2008 · 28 topics · 1948602 to 1945777 · now 667 members ·
	Saturday Jan 05 2008 v 4 n 25 view this issue	Welcome to the 181st issue of the Gods, Graves, Glyphs ping list Digest. We're back to a normal number of topics and into a new year. As always there's a very wide variety of topics, parts of the world, etc. Happy New Year everyone, make it a great one. Visit the Free Republic Memorial Wall -- a history-related feature of FR. Defeat Hillary -- first for the White House, then for reelection to the Senate.
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Gods Graves Glyphs Digest #181 20080105 · Saturday, January 5, 2008 · 28 topics · 1948602 to 1945777 · now 667 members ·
	Saturday Jan 05 2008 v 4 n 25 view this issue	Welcome to the 181st issue of the Gods, Graves, Glyphs ping list Digest. We're back to a normal number of topics and into a new year. As always there's a very wide variety of topics, parts of the world, etc. Happy New Year everyone, make it a great one. Visit the Free Republic Memorial Wall -- a history-related feature of FR. Defeat Hillary -- first for the White House, then for reelection to the Senate.
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #182 Saturday, January 12, 2008
Satellite Archaeology
Google Archaeology; How Satellite Imagery is Helping us Locate the Past
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 01/11/2008 12:18:21 PM EST · 6 replies Canada Free Press | Thursday, January 10, 2008 | Joshua Hill Aerial photography has been a common placed tool since World War I where it was used to spot enemy patrols and encampments. Since then however, these photos are pointing out where hidden relics are lying, just waiting to be rediscovered... NASA's only archaeologist, Tom Sever once took a look at an infrared satellite image of a Mayan city in Guatemala. He was surprised to see that the vegetation showed up on the image much brighter than the vegetation did nearby, but away from the relics. Following gut instinct, he looked for other patches of similarly bright vegetation on other NASA...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Tracking the next big Mideast quake [VIDEO]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 01/11/2008 12:06:25 PM EST · 8 replies ISRAEL21c | Thursday, January 10, 2008 | Ilana Teitelbaum Geologist Dr. Shmuel Marco is combing through ancient manuscripts... for clues to the next big earthquake in the Middle East... Marco, who is on the faculty of Tel Aviv University's Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, ...has delved into hundreds of ancient manuscripts, many of which were written by monks and clergy - both Christian and Muslim - and with their help has determined that a series of major earthquakes hit the Jordan Valley in the past 2,000 years, specifically in the years 31 B.C.E., 363 C.E., 749 C.E., and 1033 C.E... In one manuscript, Theophanes noted, 'A great earthquake...
Underwater Archaeology
Plowing The Ancient Seas: Iceberg Scours Found Off South Carolina
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/10/2008 5:43:51 PM EST · 26 replies Science News | 1-10-2008 | Sid Perkins Recent sonar surveys off the southeastern coast of the United States have detected dozens of broad furrows on the seafloor -- trenches that were carved by icebergs during the last ice age, researchers suggest. FLOW REVERSAL. Currents driving the icebergs that scoured channels in the seafloor off South Carolina at the height of the last ice age ran almost exactly opposite to today's prevailing currents. Channel shown in inset is about 100 meters wide. Hill, et al. The channels, roughly parallel to the coast, are between 10 and 100 meters...
Climate
Neanderthals Stitched Too Little Too Late
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 01/05/2008 12:27:43 PM EST · 31 replies Discovery | Thursday, January 3, 2008 | Anna Salleh, ABC Science Online Neanderthals probably froze to death in the last ice age because rapid climate change caught them by surprise without the tools needed to make warm clothes, finds new research... By the time some Neanderthals developed sewing tools it was too little too late, said Gilligan... Most of the tools supposed to have given modern humans the edge over Neanderthals were actually more useful for making warm clothes. The important tools developed by modern humans included stone blades, bone points and eventually needles, which could cut and pierce hides to sew them together into multi-layered clothes including underwear, said Gilligan... Modern...
Prehistory and Origins
Are We Related to Neanderthals?
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 01/11/2008 3:45:15 AM EST · 11 replies Durham Region Media Group | Wednesday, January 9, 2008 | unattributed According to archaeologist Dr. Eugene Morin, of Trent University, the long-held view that 35,000 to 40,000 years ago Neanderthals died out and were replaced by migrant homo sapiens in western Europe is not as convincing as once thought... In his study, Prof. Morin suggests that instead of declining to extinction, Neanderthal anatomical characteristics were largely weakened during an episode of significant population decline caused by a cold snap... His theory is based on animal bones recovered at Saint-Cesaire, an archaeological site located in western France... large herbivores such as bison and horse decreased in numbers, whereas reindeer, a cold-adapted species...
Egypt
Czech Egyptologists uncover intact 4,500 year-old tomb
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 01/11/2008 11:48:54 AM EST · 16 replies Radio Czech (not an HTML joke) | Monday, January 7, 2008 | Jan Velinger ..."There are not so many finds of this type. Such finds, intact burial sites from the Old Kingdom from the 3rd millennium are very rare and they give very good insight into the behaviour and habits of Egyptians at that time. The burial chamber was found completely intact, that means the same state as when it was first sealed 4,500 years ago." In the four-by-two metre chamber experts found a sarcophagus with the skeletal remains of a priest who lived in the time of the Egyptian Old Kingdom. Named Neferinpu, he was a member of the Egyptian middle-upper class. Also...
Rome and Italy
An Outing For Hadrian At The British Museum
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/10/2008 10:13:28 PM EST · 14 replies The Telegraph (UK) | 1-11-2008 | Nigel Reynolds An exhibition on the Roman emperor Hadrian - the first staged anywhere in the world - is to be mounted at the British Museum this summer, replacing the First Emperor terracotta warriors show which closes in April. Negotiations over several years will see more than 200 loans from 31 countries - most of them once under the Roman yoke - being put on display in London. The British Museum s Ralph Jackson with the bronze bust of Hadrian fished out of the Thames Though Hadrian,...
British Isles
7 Rare Roman Coins Found
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 01/08/2008 2:14:35 PM EST · 12 replies Numismaster | Tuesday, January 8, 2008 | This is Bath.co.uk A rare hoard of Roman coins has been found in Bath at the site of a new city centre hotel. Around 150 coins have so far been unearthed in the run-up to work on the new Gainsborough Hotel and Thermal Spa. But the Lower Borough Walls site is expected to yield more than 1,000 coins once the whole haul has been examined. The find has been greeted with excitement by archaeologists because some of the coins are thought to date from the middle of the third century, one of the most poorly represented periods for coins in Britain. The coins...
Scotland Yet
Roman camp is found at Glencorse
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 01/05/2008 12:50:17 PM EST · 4 replies Midlothian Advertiser | Monday, December 31, 2007 | Dawn Morrison An unexpected historical discovery has been made at Scottish Water's site at Glencorse, near Penicuik -- a Roman marching camp nearly 2000 years old. The revelation has provided another clue as to how the Romans organised their occupation of the Lothians. It had not been confirmed whether the site was, in fact, a Roman marching camp, which had previously only been suggested by aerial photographs... It is believed the site, which is part of a network of other bases, watchtowers and camps across lowland Scotland, was situated to guard a gap in the Pentland Hills to the northwest of Flotterstone...
Greece
Sex, lies and DVDs shake culture ministry in Greece
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 01/10/2008 2:30:28 PM EST · 11 replies Times Online | January 9, 2008 | John Carr ...an archaeologist allegedly decided to get revenge on her married boss after he refused to give her a full-time job at the ministry. Evi Tzekou, 35, is in custody on charges of attempted blackmail after apparently smuggling a camera into the bedroom of Christos Zachopoulos, her lover, and filming more than 100 hours of extramarital sex. Mr Zachopoulos, the chief of staff at the Culture Ministry, jumped from a fourth-floor flat in central Athens hours after losing his job by prime ministerial order. He remains in a critical but stable condition, unable to talk to investigators... ministry sources said they...
Epigraphy and Language
Arabia's heirlooms face the bulldozers
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 01/05/2008 11:25:55 AM EST · 5 replies Business 24-7 | Saturday, January 5,2008 | James Reinl While the Fujairah authorities say they are doing their best to preserve the legacy of ancient Arabia, a lone archaeologist claims they are failing in their duty and has launched a crusade to save the artefacts. Since the early 1990s, Dr Michele Ziolkowski... has been off-roading through wadis to photograph, trace and document the location of hundreds of examples of what archaeologists refer to as 'petroglyphs'... The 37-year-old is not the first archaeologist to record Fujairah's rock art - Beatrice de Cardi noted sites in the 1960s and Bertram Thomas found others in the early 20th century - but nobody...
India
Was Tipu's sword made using nanotechnology?
	Posted by nickcarraway On General/Chat 01/08/2008 6:27:21 PM EST · 14 replies Hindustan Times | 1/1/08 Indians had the know-how for nanotechnology, one of the latest branches in science, from 18th century only, a Nobel Laureate in Chemistry said on Monday. Robert F Curl, the Nobel Laureate, said right from the 18th Century, Indians were using nanotechnology, and the sword of Tipu Sultan is one example. However, he refused to comment as to whether they were using it knowingly or unknowingly. Similarly, there are examples of the use of nanotechnology in preparing glass in Rome, he said speaking to media persons on the sidelines of a lecture. He also said that there are several examples of...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Ancient Cave Bears Were As Omnivorous As Modern Bears
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/09/2008 6:57:27 PM EST · 22 replies Science Daily | 1-8-2008 | Washington University in St. Louis. Female cave bear skull from the Pestera cu Oase. Studies of the bones and teeth of cave bears, and especially the nitrogen isotopes in their bone protein, have concluded that they were largely vegetarian. (Credit: Academia Romana / Erik Trinkaus) ScienceDaily (Jan. 9, 2008) -- Rather than being gentle giants, new research reveals that Pleistocene cave bears ate both plants and animals and competed for food with the other contemporary large carnivores of the time: hyaenas, lions, wolves, and our own human ancestors. Cave bears (Ursus spelaeus) have long fascinated paleontologists and...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Clues From The Mists Of Time (Chachapoyas)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/05/2008 10:42:15 PM EST · 23 replies LA Times | 1-5-2007 | Liliana Nieto del Rio - Patrick J McDonnell This is the where the "cloud warriors" of ancient Peru once lived. Known from colonial chronicles as tall and fierce warriors who long resisted the Inca, the Chachapoya were also far-ranging merchants and powerful shamans. Recent digs at this majestic site have turned up scores of skeletons and thousands of artifacts, shedding new light on these myth-shrouded early Americans. Peru's ancient 'cloud warriors' put their dead in towering walls. The Chachapoya gave way to the Inca and Spanish, but first they flourished. By Patrick J. McDonnell, Los...
Early America
Captain Kidd Ship Found
	Posted by SpringheelJack On News/Activism 12/13/2007 1:43:49 PM EST · 95 replies Yahoo | Dec. 13, 2007 | LiveScience Staff The wreckage of a pirate ship abandoned by Captain Kidd in the 17th century has been found by divers in shallow waters off the Dominican Republic, a research team claims. The underwater archaeology team, from Indiana University, says they have found the remains of Quedagh Merchant, actively sought by treasure hunters for years. Charles Beeker of IU said his team has been licensed to study the wreckage and convert the site into an underwater preserve for the public. It is remarkable that the wreck has remained undiscovered all these years given its location, just 70 feet off the coast of...
Uncovering a diver's dream [Capt Kidd, Quedagh Merchant]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 01/08/2008 2:45:44 PM EST · 14 replies Indiana Daily Student | Tuesday, January 8, 2008 | Allie Townsend On Dec. 13, the IU archaeologists announced the discovery of a ship they believed to have been abandoned by notorious pirate Captain William Kidd. According to legend, Kidd was accused of stealing the ship, which was rumored to have held riches from East India. After allegations naming the captain as a pirate reached authorities, Kidd fled the Merchant and raced to clear his name. The ship was left in the care of Kidd's crew. When Kidd left the deck of the Merchant, it was the last time he or anyone else would see the ship intact. The men left behind...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Earthy Hunger: Why Do People Eat Dirt?
	Posted by forkinsocket On General/Chat 01/08/2008 2:58:41 PM EST · 40 replies Spiegel Online | December 28, 2007 | Jˆrg Blech People in many parts of the world indulge in the curious practice of eating dirt, also known as geophagy. But why they do so has remained something of a mystery. Now a new study aims to show whether loam in the earth can be vital in protecting pregnant women from harm. The inhabitants of the east African island of Pemba rejoice when one of the young women there starts eating earth -- this unusual food supplement can only mean one thing: that she is expecting a baby. "The daily portion is about 25 grams of dirt," says Sera Young, who...
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Gods Graves Glyphs Digest #182 20080112 · Saturday, January 12, 2008 · 17 topics · 1952097 to 1948780 · now 668 members ·
	Saturday Jan 12 2008 v 4 n 26 view this issue	Welcome to the 182nd issue of the Gods, Graves, Glyphs ping list Digest, which marks 3 1/2 years of these. It was another slow week, so we've got a mere 17 topics. Visit the Free Republic Memorial Wall -- a history-related feature of FR. Defeat Hillary -- first for the White House, then for reelection to the Senate.
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