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 Digest #199 20080510 · Saturday, May 10, 2008 · 23 topics · 2013793 to 2012243 · 686 members ·
	Saturday May 10 2008 v 4 n 43 view this issue	Welcome to the 199th issue. I'm sure we'd all love some kind of special observance for next week's gala 200th issue, but somehow I just don't see that happening. We got a slow start this week, with the first topic not appearing until the 6th. I had to dig a little to verify that. Topics came in bunches thereafter, and I added a few oldies which just came to my attention. As usual, hardworking FReeper Blam contributed most of the new stuff, while playing YouTubeD rock videos in another window. Guess I'd better start pulling my weight. The new header last week, "Pages", to spotlight books which look worth reading, doesn't appear this week. Need I say, "oops"? Check out FReeper Foxhole for military history topics. Also, < 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. Her victory in Indiana was too thin as she lost as expected in North Carolina, and each seemed to dissipate her recent momentum. As long as Hillary hangs in there, the convention will still be a mess -- I hope. I do think she will bail, perhaps as soon as the end of May, but otherwise shortly after the final primaries / caucuses in early June. Mitigating against that possible outcome is her having loaned her campaign over six million bucks of what was euphemistically referred to as her own money. Obama referred to the 57 states, which is a pretty small gaffe on the scale of all gaffe-ness, but does show what fatigue will do to you -- y'know, fatigue, that ages one prematurely after four or eight years serving as President of the United States, and getting six hours of sleep on average. I need a new job.
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[SunkenCiv]

90 posted on 04/02/2008 1:42:00 PM PDT by Lady Jag http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1995434/posts?page=90#90

this image:
http://www.websophist.com/Super_Freeper500-2.jpg

also, hey, I finally followed up with a Google search, found this:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1505996/posts?page=14#14

[SunkenCiv]

Okay, my playback has just stopped dead (twice). No other system problem.

Last try tonight — a very recent video, of a John Dowland performance on lute.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=GwuS9tBqGOw

[null and void]

As long as Hillary hangs in there, the convention will still be a mess -- I hope. I do think she will bail, perhaps as soon as the end of May, but otherwise shortly after the final primaries / caucuses in early June. Mitigating against that possible outcome is her plan to arrange a face-to-face meeting between Bobby Kennedy and Barrak Obama...

[SunkenCiv]

:’D Sirhanyway to avoid it? ;’)

[null and void]

Only if it isn’t in the nature of a clinton to murder.

[SunkenCiv]

Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #200 Saturday, May 17, 2008
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Al Goodyear And The Secrets Of Ancient Americans
	05/15/2008 3:25:21 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 27 replies · 646+ views Free Times | 5-14/20-2008 | Ron Aiken It was the summer of 1998, and University of South Carolina archaeologist Al Goodyear had a problem on his hands. Fourteen years of digging at an ancient chert quarry outside Allendale had begun to bear fruit: At a site called Big Pine Tree, Goodyear was well on his way to establishing that a substantial Clovis population lived here. If you'll recall your history lessons from high school, the Clovis people -- named such because the first evidence of them was found...
Columbia
1,000 Ancient Tombs, Unique Remains Found (Colombia)
	05/10/2008 10:55:01 AM PDT · Posted by blam · 8 replies · 162+ views National Geographic News | 5-9-2008 | Colombia | Jose Orozco Builders clearing land for a housing project in Colombia have uncovered an ancient burial site containing nearly a thousand tombs linked to two little-known civilizations. The site covers some 12 acres (5 hectares) in the impoverished Usme district in southeast Bogot· (see map) and includes one set of remains that some researchers believe could be a victim of human sacrifice. The possible victim is a young woman who seems to have been buried alive, said Ana Maria Groot, one of the lead anthropologists...
Epidemics, Pandemics, Plagues, the Sniffles
Giant bacterium carries thousands of genomes - Why does it bother?
	05/10/2008 7:50:45 AM PDT · Posted by neverdem · 54 replies · 277+ views Nature News | 8 May 2008 | Heidi Ledford It seems like a peculiar case of genomic overkill: a single-celled bacterium has been found that keeps tens of thousands of copies of its genome. The finding sets a record for most genomes per cell, but also poses an obvious question: what could be the advantage of stashing away as much as 200,000 copies of your genome? The number of genome copies in each cell varies by species. Many bacteria have only one copy; most cells in the human body contain two. Plants are notorious for being genomically promiscuous, picking up extra genomes then losing them again in a cycle...
Prehistory and Origins
Long Lost Sisters (humanity was genetically divided for as much as 100,000 years)
	05/15/2008 12:49:19 PM PDT · Posted by decimon · 19 replies · 789+ views American Friends of Tel Aviv University | May 15, 2008 | Unknown The human race was divided into two separate groups within Africa for as much as half of its existence, says a Tel Aviv University mathematician. Climate change, reduction in populations and harsh conditions may have caused and maintained the separation. Dr. Saharon Rosset, from the School of Mathematical Sciences at Tel Aviv University, worked with team leader Doron Behar from the Rambam Medical Center to analyze African DNA. Their goal was to study obscure population patterns from hundreds of thousands of years ago. Rosset, who crunched numbers and...
Neanderthal / Neandertal
Clash of the Cavemen
	05/16/2008 6:14:42 AM PDT · Posted by chessplayer · 35 replies · 796+ views http://www.history.com/shows.do?action=detail&episodeId=295752 25,000 B.C. In Europe, arctic glaciers reach as far south as London. Massive predators are on the prowl. Across the continent, two species of primitive man struggle to survive. The Neanderthals are natural hunters, built for brute strength and well-adapted to the cold. However, they lack the understanding of technology and ability to speak in abstract terms that our species has. The Cro-Magnon, Homo sapiens are smarter but more fragile. With exciting new research in anthropology, archaeology and genetics, follow these early humans through a season of survival.
Helix, Make Mine a Double
Ancient DNA Reveals Neandertals With Red Hair, Fair Complexions
	10/28/2007 4:03:27 PM PDT · Posted by Lessismore · 47 replies · 82+ views Science Magazine | 2007-10-26 | Elizabeth Culotta What would it have been like to meet a Neandertal? Researchers have hypothesized answers for decades, seeking to put flesh on ancient bones. But fossils are silent on many traits, from hair and skin color to speech and personality. Personality will have to wait, but in a paper published online in Science this week (www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1147417), an international team announces that it has extracted a pigmentation gene, mc1r, from the bones of two Neandertals. The researchers conclude that at least some Neandertals had pale skin and red hair, similar to some of the Homo sapiens who today inhabit their European homeland....
Megaliths and Archaeoastronomy
Silbury gives up its final secret
	05/16/2008 3:42:40 PM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 12 replies · 346+ views Guardian | Monday May 12, 2008 | Maev Kennedy Jim Leary, the archaeological director for English Heritage throughout the work, thinks he has solved a riddle which archaeologists have fretted over for centuries: why thousands of people piled up 35 million baskets of chalk into the largest artificial hill in Europe, now part of the Stonehenge World Heritage site. It wasn't the final structure, but the staggering contribution of work which was important, he now believes, marking a site of immense but only guessable significance to the hunters and farmers of Bronze Age Wiltshire... the archaeologists and engineers are convinced there is no secret chamber, prehistoric passage or treasure...
Climate
NC State researcher finds El Nino may have been factor in Magellan's Pacific voyage
	05/15/2008 3:34:21 PM PDT · Posted by decimon · 6 replies · 128+ views North Carolina State University | May 15, 2008 | Unknown A new paper by North Carolina State University archaeologist Dr. Scott Fitzpatrick shows that Ferdinand Magellan's historic circumnavigation of the globe was likely influenced in large part by unusual weather conditions -- including what we now know as El Nino -- which eased his passage across the Pacific Ocean, but ultimately led him over a thousand miles from his intended destination. Magellan set out from Spain in 1519 with hopes of claiming the wealth of the Spice Islands, or Moluccas, for the Spanish. Two years later the explorer claimed the first European contact with a Pacific island culture when he...
Longer Perspectives
Rapid Acceleration in Human Evolution Described
	12/11/2007 12:34:37 AM PST · Posted by anymouse · 63 replies · 178+ views Reuters | Dec 10, 2007 | Will Dunham Human evolution has been moving at breakneck speed in the past several thousand years, far from plodding along as some scientists had thought, researchers said on Monday. In fact, people today are genetically more different from people living 5,000 years ago than those humans were different from the Neanderthals who vanished 30,000 years ago, according to anthropologist John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin. The genetic changes have related to numerous different human characteristics, the researchers said. Many of the recent genetic changes reflect differences in the human diet brought on by agriculture, as well as resistance to epidemic diseases...
Humans Are Still Evolving - And It's Happening Faster Than Ever
	12/11/2007 4:00:09 AM PST · Posted by JACKRUSSELL · 16 replies · 39+ views The Guardian Unlimited / Reuters | December 11, 2007 | By Ian Sample Humans are evolving more quickly than at any time in history, researchers say. In the past 5,000 years, humans have evolved up to 100 times more quickly than any time since the split with the ancestors of modern chimpanzees 6m years ago, a team from the University of Wisconsin found. The study also suggests that human races in different parts of the world are becoming more genetically distinct, although this is likely to reverse in future as populations become more mixed. "The widespread assumption that human evolution has slowed down because it's easier to live and we've conquered nature is...
Human Evolution Seems to Be Accelerating (Jews evolved from "financing!")
	12/11/2007 8:28:45 AM PST · Posted by squireofgothos · 144 replies · 95+ views AP via Fox News | 12-11-07 above-average intelligence in Ashkenazi Jews -- those of northern European heritage -- resulted from natural selection in medieval Europe, where they were pressured into jobs as financiers, traders, managers and tax collectors. Those who were smarter succeeded, grew wealthy and had bigger families to pass on their genes, they suggested. That evolution also is linked to genetic diseases such as Tay-Sachs and Gaucher in Jews. The new study was funded by the Department of Energy, the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Aging, the Unz Foundation, the University of Utah and the University of Wisconsin.
Is human evolution speeding up?
	12/12/2007 7:22:02 AM PST · Posted by Renfield · 41 replies · 63+ views MSNBC | 12-10-07 | Randolph E. Schmid Residents of various continents becoming increasingly different ~~~snip~~~ If evolution had been proceeding steadily at the current rate since humans and chimps separated 6 million years ago, there should be 160 times more differences than the researchers found. That indicates that human evolution had been slower in the distant past, Harpending explained. "Rapid population growth has been coupled with vast changes in cultures and ecology, creating new opportunities for adaptation," the study says. "The past 10,000 years have seen rapid skeletal and dental evolution in human populations, as well as the appearance of many new genetic responses to diet and...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Death toll in China earthquake rises to 8,533 [Photos]
	05/12/2008 8:47:42 AM PDT · Posted by charles m · 82 replies · 3,234+ views Yahoo! AP | 5/12/2008 A rescuer searches for victims after an earthquake in Chongqing municipality May 12, 2008. Water and mud flow on a street after an earthquake broke an underground pipe in Chengdu, Sichuan province CHONGQING, China - Chinese state media says more than 8,500 have died in Sichuan province alone from a massive earthquake. The official Xinhua News Agency said that another 10,000 people were believed hurt in one of the province's counties after the 7.8-magnitude quake on Monday. Nearly 900 students were trapped after their school collapsed about 60 miles from the quake's epicenter. Xinhua reported students also were buried...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Gene trawl shows Druze are living "gene sanctuary"
	05/10/2008 2:13:58 AM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 29 replies · 222+ views Yahoo! | Wednesday, May 7, 2008 | Maggie Fox, ed by Julie Steenhuysen and Xavier Briand The Druze people of Israel are a genetic sanctuary of ancient lineages of DNA, researchers reported on Wednesday... The researchers looked at mitochondrial DNA, a type of genetic material that is passed down virtually unchanged from mother to daughter. It can provide a kind of snapshot of the ancestry of a person... The mitochondrial DNA backed up the legendary origin of this close-knit religious group, believed to number 1 million or fewer. For instance, Skorecki's team discovered an unusually high frequency of a haplogroup, or a distinct collection of genetic markers, called haplogroup X. Haplogroup X is rare but is...
Oh So Mysterioso
LU Lab Called On Again To Check Ancient DNA (Jesus's DNA?)
	05/12/2008 12:13:55 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 21 replies · 864+ views The Chronicle Journal | 5-6-2008 | LINDSAY LAFRAUGH Kathryn Reuseh uses a pipette during the first day of the Paleo DNA ancient DNA training program Monday at Lakehead University. A Thunder Bay DNA expert was in New York City on Monday to discuss findings that could help researchers prove that Jesus did marry Mary Magdalene and that they had children. Lakehead University's Paleo DNA Laboratory operations supervisor Renee Fratpietro joined English filmmaker Bruce Burgess in the Big Apple to discuss his film "Bloodline", which follows a three-year investigation led by Burgess and his American...
Pages
Norman Levitt on Nadia Abu el Haj and "Science Studies"
	05/13/2008 9:36:04 AM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 6 replies · 205+ views The Volokh Conspiracy | May 13, 2008 | David Bernstein (Professor Levitt) I think that it was shameful of Barnard to retain her as a tenured faculty member, but that her political views, as well as those of her opponents, are not especially relevant to the issue... Abu el Haj tries to engage with archaeology on the basis of the assumptions and theories that are regnant in "science studies"... the attitude that knowledge claims are, perforce, political claims, that "objective knowledge" is an oxymoron, and that modern science, in particular, is a repressive ideological edifice designed to bolster the hegemony of western capitalist patriarchal societies, not least by demeaning and...
Buried in Tomb's Grant
Radiocarbon Dating of Malibu Artifacts Confirms Importance of Farpoint Site
	05/15/2008 4:01:32 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 17 replies · 345+ views Malibu Surfside News | 5-14-2008 | ANNE SOBLE Archaeologist Gary Stickel announced at a recent lecture at the Malibu Public Library that a stone spearhead, or point, found at a local construction site by a Native American project monitor in 2005 has been established as an artifact from the oldest archaeological find in the City of Malibu. Radiocarbon dating of mussel shell fragments from the site that was provided gratis by the National Science...
Rome and Italy
Divers find Caesar bust that may date to 46 B.C.
	05/13/2008 6:41:24 PM PDT · Posted by NormsRevenge · 86 replies · 1,866+ views AP on Yahoo | 5/13/08 | AP Divers trained in archaeology discovered a marble bust of an aging Caesar in the Rhone River that France's Culture Ministry said Tuesday could be the oldest known. The life-sized bust showing the Roman ruler with wrinkles and hollows in his face is tentatively dated to 46 B.C. Divers uncovered the Caesar bust and a collection of other finds in the Rhone near the town of Arles -- founded by Caesar. Among other items in the treasure trove of ancient objects is a 5.9 foot marble statue of Neptune, dated to the first decade of the third century after...
Early America
Shipwreck's Coins Are Very Rare
	05/14/2008 10:43:27 PM PDT · Posted by fishhound · 32 replies · 1,260+ views AOL/AP | 2008-05-14 | ALAN SAYRE, A steamship that sank off the Louisiana coast during an 1846 storm has produced a trove of rare gold coins, including some produced at two largely forgotten U.S. Mints in the South, coin experts say. Last year, four Louisiana residents salvaged hundreds of gold coins and thousands of silver coins from the wreckage of the SS New York in about 60 feet of water in the Gulf of Mexico, said David Bowers, co-chairman of New York-based Stack's Rare Coins. "Some of these are in uncirculated or mint condition," Bowers said, predicting the best could bring...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Works added to National Recording Registry (spoken word as well as music)
	05/15/2008 11:21:50 AM PDT · Posted by weegee · 3 replies · 97+ views By The Associated Press (via yahoo) | Wed May 14, 10:31 AM ET | no byline The 25 recordings added Wednesday to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress: 1. The first trans-Atlantic broadcast (March 14, 1925) 2. "Allons a Lafayette," Joseph Falcon (1928) 3. "Casta Diva," from Bellini's "Norma"; Rosa Ponselle, accompanied by the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Giulio Setti. (recorded December 31, 1928, and January 30, 1929) 4. "If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again," Thomas A. Dorsey (1934) 5. "Sweet Lorraine," Art Tatum (February 22, 1940) 6. Fibber's Closet Opens for the First Time, "Fibber McGee and Molly" radio program (March 4, 1940) 7. Wings Over Jordan,...
end of digest #200 20080517

[SunkenCiv]

Gods Graves Glyphs Digest #200 20080517 · Saturday, May 17, 2008 · 20 topics · 2017093 to 1937908 · 686 members ·
	Saturday May 17 2008 v 4 n 44 view this issue	Welcome to the 200th issue. Obviously I'm completely crazy. The fourth anniversary of my doing the GGG digest isn't that far off now, and I find it difficult to believe. You probably find the Digest difficult to believe every week, though, so... Alas, there were only twenty topics this week, one or more of which was an oldie. It was a slow week. Actually, it probably was decent, but hey, the ones that were posted were high quality. Blam only posted three or four, which is surprising. And there were too many DNA articles for my taste. The new header from #198, "Pages", to spotlight books which look worth reading, didn't appear last week, so I made sure we had one this week. I've already pinged all GGGers, along with the members of three other lists, regarding Jim Robinson's surgery. Here's the update. Check out FReeper Foxhole for military history topics. Also, < 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. Obama exploded in semi-coherent rage over one eminently sensible statement President Bush made regarding Chamberlain-esque appeasement of terrorists. Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and other Demwits likewise condemned the President's statement. Pelosi said it was beneath the dignity of his office, and Biden called it "b*llsh*t". The irony of that will probably be lost on the permanently partisan press. I need a new job.
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[Captain Beyond]

bump for a lot of reading later LOL

[LibertyRocks]

A hearty Congratulations on your 200th issue SunkenCiv! Thank you so much for all the work you put into this. We are all, I’m sure, extremely grateful! :)

[SunkenCiv]

:’)

[SunkenCiv]

It takes all the fun out of being lazy. :’)

[Founding Father]

Let me add not only congratulations for your 200th issue, but also my hearty thanks for your work. I share this with one of my daughters and we discuss these articles all week. We had the great fortune of spending a week with Al Goodyear at the Topper site mentioned this week, it was the experience of a lifetime.

[SunkenCiv]

> We had the great fortune of spending a week with Al Goodyear at the Topper site mentioned this week, it was the experience of a lifetime.

Wow! Nice!

[blam]

"We had the great fortune of spending a week with Al Goodyear at the Topper site mentioned this week, it was the experience of a lifetime."

Congratulations and and BOY! am I envious.

[SunkenCiv]

Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #201 Saturday, May 24, 2008
Australia and the Pacific
New research forces U-turn in population migration theory
	05/23/2008 10:49:58 AM PDT · Posted by decimon · 19 replies · 359+ views University of Leeds | May 23, 2008 | Unknown Research led by the University of Leeds has discovered genetic evidence that overturns existing theories about human migration into Island Southeast Asia (covering the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysian Borneo) - taking the timeline back by nearly 10,000 years. Prevailing theory suggests that the present-day populations of Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) originate largely from a Neolithic expansion from Taiwan driven by rice agriculture about 4,000 years ago - the so-called "Out of Taiwan" model. However an international research team, led by the UK's first Professor of Archaeogenetics, Martin Richards, has shown that a substantial fraction of their mitochondrial DNA lineages (inherited...
Prehistory and Origins
Orkney Islanders Have Siberian Relatives
	05/23/2008 3:11:09 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 10 replies · 272+ views The Telegraph (UK) | 5-23-2008 | Roger Highfield A new study on ancient human migrations suggests that Orcadians and Siberians are closely related, writes Roger Highfield. Orkney Islanders are more closely related to people in Siberia and in Pakistan than those in Africa and the near East, according to a novel method to chart human migrations. The surprising findings come from a new way to infer ancient human movements from the variation of DNA in people today, conducted by a team from the University of Oxford and University College Cork, which has pioneered a technique that analyses the...
Neanderthal / Neandertal
DNA Reveals Neanderthal Redheads
	05/20/2008 6:22:40 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 60 replies · 1,067+ views Harvard Gazette | 2007 | Steve Bradt Neanderthals' pigmentation possibly as varied as humans', scientists say. Neanderthals' surviving bones providing few clues, scientists have long sought to flesh out the appearance of this hominid species. Illustration created by Knut Finstermeier, Neanderthal reconstruction by the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museum Mannheim Ancient DNA retrieved from the bones of two Neanderthals suggests that at least some of them had red hair and pale skin, scientists report this week in the journal Science. The international team says that Neanderthals' pigmentation may even have been as varied as that of modern humans, and that at least 1 percent of...
Paleontology
Dinosaur tracks found on Arabian Peninsula
	05/21/2008 5:19:38 PM PDT · Posted by decimon · 17 replies · 413+ views Associated Press | May 21, 2008 | Unknown Scientists say they have found dinosaur tracks on the Arabian Peninsula, a discovery they say may shed more light on where dinosaurs lived, their migration patterns and how they evolved they way they did. The discovery of tracks of a large ornithopod dinosaur and a herd of 11 sauropods walking along a coastal mudflat in Yemen was reported in Wednesday's issue of the journal PLoS ONE. "No dinosaur trackways had been found in this area previously. It's really a blank spot on the map," said Anne Schulp of the Maastricht Museum of Natural History in The Netherlands....
Stuns Easily, Yet Wouldn't 'Voom' If You Ran 4 Million Volts Through It
Old parrott wasn't pinin' for the fjords
	05/17/2008 10:37:50 PM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 12 replies · 390+ views Ipswich Evening Star | May 15, 2008 | unattributed Dr David Waterhouse, assistant curator of Natural History at Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service, could not resist the Monty Python associations after the discovery of a fossil which he says is the oldest parrot ever found. The dead parrot in the classic sketch was a Norwegian Blue, but the one which Dr Waterhouse has been studying was found on the isle of Morse in the northwest of Denmark... Officially named Mopsitta tanta, the bird has already been nicknamed the Danish Blue, and like John Cleese in the sketch, his first task was to establish it actually was a parrot. He...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Platypus Looks Strange on the Inside, Too
	05/18/2008 6:38:57 PM PDT · Posted by neverdem · 31 replies · 1,112+ views NY Times | May 8, 2008 | JOHN NOBLE WILFORD If it has a bill and webbed feet like a duck, lays eggs like a bird or a reptile but also produces milk and has a coat of fur like a mammal, what could the genetics of the duck-billed platypus possibly be like? Well, just as peculiar: an amalgam of genes reflecting significant branching and transitions in evolution. An international scientific team, which announced the first decoding of the platypus genome on Wednesday, said the findings provided "many clues to the function and evolution of all mammalian genomes," including that of humans, and should "inspire rapid advances in other investigations...
Unremitting Gaul
Metal detector finds silver ring for a bloodthirsty god[UK]
	05/23/2008 2:04:37 PM PDT · Posted by BGHater · 12 replies · 651+ views Leighton Buzzard Observer | 23 May 2008 | Mick King PART of a Romano/British ring found by a Leighton metal detectorist in fields near Hockliffe has been declared treaure. The ring, which has provided archaeologists with the missing link to a bloodthirsty ancient Celtic warrior god, was unearthed by Greg Dyer of Churchill Road in September 2005. At an inquest last Tuesday, Beds coroner David Morris told the court that the piece of ring, thought to be from the third century AD, contains 2.98 grammes of silver. The piece of jewellery, inscribed with the words 'Deo Tota Felix' is currently in the British Museum waiting to be valued. In a...
Let's Have Jerusalem
The Mystery of Lag B'omer
	05/23/2008 8:07:12 AM PDT · Posted by Zionist Conspirator · 7 replies · 146+ views Jewish World Review | 5/23/'08 | Rabbi Pinchas Stolper Thirty-three days following the first day of Passover, Jews celebrate a "minor" holiday called Lag B'Omer, the thirty-third day of the Omer. It is an oasis of joy in the midst of the sad Sefirah period that passes almost unnoticed by most contemporary Jews. Yet it contains historic lessons of such gravity that our generation must attempt to unravel its mystery. We may well discover that our own fate is wrapped in the crevices of its secrets. The seven weeks between Passover and Shavuos are the days of the "Counting of the Omer," the harvest festivities which were observed in...
Prehistoric Galilee
Prehistoric Cave Uncovered In Western Galilee
	05/22/2008 1:57:45 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 13 replies · 878+ views MFA | 5-22-2008 A stalactite cave containing prehistoric remains was exposed in the Western Galilee. Among the artifacts found are flint implements and the bones of animals that have long since become extinct from the country's landscape The stalactite cave uncovered in Western Galilee (Photo: Israel Antiquities Authority) (Communicated by the Israel Antiquities Authority Spokesman) While carrying out development work connected with the construction of a sewage line in a forest of the Jewish National Fund, a large stalactite cave was accidentally breached inside of which an abundance of prehistoric artifacts were discovered. Immediately...
Longer Perspectives
Dig Uncovers African Beads Buried In Ancient (Irish) Village
	05/22/2008 1:43:03 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 31 replies · 714+ views Irish Examiner | 5-22-2008 | Sean O'Riordan Beads that originated in Africa are some of the treasures archaelologists have found as they begin to explore an ancient settlement in north Cork. Test trenches also revealed pottery and weapons from a medieval period. In addition, there was evidence of prehistoric settlements in the area and an early ecclesiastic settlement, possibly from the 7th-8th century. Evidence of a large moat and cobbled walkways were also uncovered. Experts are due to conduct major excavations within weeks. One archaeologist said: "It's one of the most exciting discoveries in...
Helix, Make Mine a Double
The Androgynous Pharaoh? Akhenaten had feminine physique
	05/02/2008 10:57:44 AM PDT · Posted by ElkGroveDan · 50 replies · 1,660+ views AP via Yahoo | Fri May 2, 6:23 AM ET | ALEX DOMINGUEZ Akhenaten wasn't the most manly pharaoh, even though he fathered at least a half-dozen children. In fact, his form was quite feminine. And he was a bit of an egghead. So concludes a Yale University physician who analyzed images of Akhenaten for an annual conference Friday at the University of Maryland School of Medicine on the deaths of historic figures. The female form was due to a genetic mutation that caused the pharaoh's body to convert more male hormones to female hormones than needed, Dr. Irwin Braverman believes. And Akhenaten's head was misshapen because of a condition in...
Egypt
Spain, Egypt To Investigate 19th Century Shipwreck (Khafre's Mummy?)
	05/22/2008 1:48:47 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 12 replies · 274+ views Novosti | 5-22-2008 Spain and Egypt will start a project later this year to investigate the 19th century sinking of a ship that some believe contained the mummy of a Fourth Dynasty pharaoh, news agency MENA said. MENA cited Egyptian Ambassador to Spain Yasser Murad as saying the countries would first hold consultations and compare historical records, and attempt to establish the location of the shipwreck. Khafre, who ruled Egypt more than 2,500 years ago, is known for building the second largest of the three...
Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
Ramhormoz Graves May Be Elamite Royal Burials: Experts
	05/20/2008 8:12:13 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 10 replies · 323+ views Mehr News | 5-20-2008 A team of archaeologists studying two graves discovered in the city of Ramhormoz in southern Iran said that they bear their remains of a girl and a woman who were most likely members of an Elamite royal family. The team led by Arman Shishegar was assigned to carry out a series of rescue excavations in the Jubji region of the city in Khuzestan Province in May 2007 after the Khuzestan Water and Waste Water Company stumbled on two U-shaped coffins containing skeletons of a girl and a...
Agriculture and Animal Husbandry
Romans Were Upper Crust On Daily Bread
	05/21/2008 3:38:38 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 14 replies · 525+ views Journal Live | 5-21-1008 | Tony Henderson When it came to their daily bread, troops at a Northumberland Roman fort took no chances. Excavations at Vindolanda are revealing two massive granaries whose quality even outshone the nearby commanding officer's quarters. The dig is also uncovering a magnificent flagged roadway next to the granaries. "The masonry of these granaries is far superior to that of the nearby commanding officer's residence, and although some of the walls have suffered from stone robbing, others are standing to a height of around 5ft," said director of...
Rome and Italy
Martyrs Or Imperial Guard?
	05/18/2008 7:19:55 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 6 replies · 467+ views Archaeology Magazine | 5-15-2008 | Sarah Yeomans New discoveries in the catacombs of San Pietro and Marcellinus Details of faces -- 7th century fresco devotional fresco (The Pontifical Commission of Sacred Archaeology) When a sinkhole opened up after a pipe broke underneath the convent and school of the Instituto Sacra Famiglia on Rome's Via Casilina, the sisters there received a surprise--about 1,200 surprises, in fact. The partial collapse of the building's foundation revealed five large chambers in which the remains of more than a thousand individuals had been interred almost simultaneously sometime at the beginning of the third century...
Anatolia
"King's" villas cause outrage [Caria, in modern Turkey]
	05/17/2008 11:11:27 PM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 15 replies · 461+ views Voices Newspaper | Saturday, May 17, 2008 | editor
Africa
In Search Of The Lost Sahara
	05/18/2008 7:00:06 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 13 replies · 637+ views eitb24.com | 5-15-2008 A team of Basque and Sahrawi archaeologists is making the first catalogue of the prehistoric heritage of the Western Sahara. Archaeologists doing some research. Photo: EiTBThe region of Tiris, a vast desert area south of Western Sahara, is the work field of the Basque-Sahrawi expedirion researching the past of this inhospitable place of the planet. A team of Basque archaeologists led by Andoni Sienz de Buruaga, a professor at the Basque public university UPV, is visiting the Western Sahara for a fifth time. "We presented our research project to the Sahrawi Government in...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Renovating A Historic Home (16K YO Meadowcroft Rockshelter)
	05/18/2008 6:39:56 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 11 replies · 450+ views South Jersey Local News | 5-14-2008 | James Smart The Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Museum in western Pennsylvania is getting a lot of attention this week, as it reopens the archaeological site of a 16,000-year-old human habitation. It had been closed to the public for a year for renovations.The idea of renovating a dwelling after 16,000 years is intriguing. They could have called in a television team consisting of the guys from This Old House, that Extreme Makeover crew and those cavemen from the insurance commercials. Radioactive carbon testing in 1974 of remnants of burned firewood determined the age of the domicile, making...
Climate
Beringia: Humans Were Here
	05/19/2008 8:17:51 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 17 replies · 445+ views The Gazette | 5-17-2008 | fantastic creatures and intrepid people. It was an extraordinary ancient land filled with fantastic creatures and intrepid people. Beringia is thought by a handful of renegade scientists to be a prehistoric homeland for aboriginal people who later spread across the Americas and the key to one of archeology's greatest Holy Grails - figuring out how humans first got to this continent. This July, Jacques Cinq-Mars, a renowned archeologist living in Longueuil, is heading to Beringia - a vast territory that once spanned the Yukon, Alaska and Siberia - in hopes of resolving...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Divers find combined gold toothpick, earwax spoon
	05/20/2008 1:52:00 PM PDT · Posted by Red Badger · 28 replies · 1,322+ views www.physorg.com | 05-20-2008 | Staff In this photo released by the Florida Keys News Bureau, a tiny solid gold combination toothpick and earwax scoop is displayed inside a clam shell Monday, May 19, 2008, in Key West, Fla. A Blue Water Ventures salvage diver recovered the artifact Sunday, May 18, about 40 miles west of Key West during a search for remains of the Spanish galleon Santa Margarita that shipwrecked in a 1622 hurricane. According to archaeologists, the 3-inch-long grooming tool is more than 385 years old and was probably worn on a gold chain. Estimated value could exceed $100,000. (AP Photo/Florida Keys News...
Navigation
Did Humans Colonize The World By Boat
	05/20/2008 6:57:41 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 43 replies · 938+ views Discover Magazine | 5-20-2008 | Heather Pringle Research suggests our ancestors traveled the oceans 70,000 years ago. Jon Erlandson shakes out what appears to be a miniature evergreen from a clear ziplock bag and holds it out for me to examine. As one of the world's leading authorities on ancient seafaring, he has devoted much of his career to hunting down hard evidence of ancient human migrations, searching for something most archaeologists long thought a figment: Ice Age mariners. On this drizzly late-fall afternoon in a lab at the University of Oregon in Eugene, the 53-year-old Erlandson looks...
Ancient Autopsies
Ancient King's Face Revealed (Denmark)
	05/19/2008 3:56:34 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 18 replies · 909+ views The Copenhagen Post | 5-19-2008 By using the terracotta facial reconstruction technique a Danish scientist and sculptor have recreated the faces of both King Svend Estridsen and the oldest Dane ever found King Svend Estridsen has been dead for over 900 years but Danes can finally get a realistic view of what the former monarch looked like thanks to a coroner and a sculptor. A cast of the king's skull was taken at the beginning of the 1900s and has been used by the two men to create a vivid likeness of the ruler's face using the terracotta technique. The technique...
Scotland Yet
Eminent Historian Debunks Scottish History As Largely Fabrication
	05/19/2008 4:05:09 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 43 replies · 1,032+ views The Times Online | 5-18-2008 | Stuart MacDonald A book by the late Hugh Trevor-Roperand due to be published five years after his death argues that Scottish history is based on myths and falsehoods. Scottish history is weaved from a "fraudulent" fabric of "myths and falsehoods", according to an explosive new study by one of the world's most eminent historians. The Invention of Scotland: Myth and History, is the last book, and one of the most controversial, written by the late Hugh Trevor-Roper. Now, five years after his death, the book is to be published at one of the...
Franks and Beans
French told to shrug off Gallic myth
	03/31/2002 3:17:14 PM PST · Posted by Pokey78 · 42 replies · 445+ views The Times (U.K.) | 04/01/2002 | Adam Sage The French identity is based on an historical nonsense, according to an academic who says that the Gauls were a fiction invented by the Romans and exploited by French revolutionaries after 1789. Christian Goudineau, Professor of History at the respected College de France, says in a new book, Par Toutatis, that the Gallic people never existed and that contemporary symbols are figments of the popular imagination. Take, for example, the cock that always accompanies French rugby supporters to Twickenham. M Goudineau claims that the bird is not the Gallic emblem that France believes it to be. In fact, it was...
Faith and Philosophy
Solemn Copies Approved By The I Council Of Lyons, July 13th, 1245
	05/18/2008 7:07:37 PM PDT · Posted by cardinal4 · 3 replies · 114+ views artorius castus blog | ? | www.vatican.va During the days before the historical assembly of the I Council of Lyon, when the deposition of the Emperor Frederick I was announced (17th July 1245), Pope Innocent IV ordered 17 solemn copies (later called "transunti"), which contained a total of 91 sovereign documents, to prove and preserve for the future memory those rights the Empire had acknowledged until then to the Church, but also to condemn, together with the faithless emperor, his political conception
Early America
Cobblestone formation appears man-made, more than 300 years old
	05/17/2008 11:05:25 PM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 2 replies · 664+ views Schenectady Daily Gazette | Saturday, May 17, 2008 | Kathleen Moore More than 300 years ago, someone carried a load of white cobblestones from the river, carefully stacked them on Jan Roeloffsen's property and firmly cemented them into place with dirt... After speculating all winter as to whether the rocks they found were dragged here by a glacier or stacked by human hands, one day of old-school geology and fancy new radar technology appears to have solved the mystery. in fact, New York State Museum archaeologist Julieann Van Nest didn't even need her colleague's radar to determine that the rock formation was probably man-made. if it is, it may be the...
Diet and Cuisine
Mary Ball Washington's Pancake Syrup (what the young General ate)
	05/23/2008 8:35:37 AM PDT · Posted by Pharmboy · 14 replies · 371+ views Mitchell's Cookbooks | 1994 | Patricia Mitchell Ferry Farm Sauce 1 1/3 c. honey 1 c. maple syrup 2 tsp. cinnamon A few caraway seeds In a double boiler slowly heat together the honey and maple syrup. Stir in cinnamon and caraway seeds and serve warm over pancakes, waffles, etc.
Oh So Mysterioso
Archaeologists Explore Peruvian Mystery
	05/22/2008 1:36:34 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 14 replies · 682+ views Physorg | 5-22-2008 | University of Bristol A hummingbird geoglyph. Photo by Dr Nick Saunders Indiana Jones may be flying over the Nazca Lines in Peru in his latest Hollywood adventure, but two British archaeologists have been investigating the enigmatic desert drawings for several years. Dr Nick Saunders from Bristol University and Professor Clive Ruggles from the University of Leicester are locating and measuring the lines with high-precision GPS, photographing the distribution of 1,500-year old pottery, and painstakingly working out the chronological sequence of overlying lines and designs. Professor Ruggles and Dr Saunders agree with other experts that some lines were pathways across...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Coast-to-coast AM May 22nd, 2008 - Crystal skulls
	05/22/2008 4:25:30 PM PDT · Posted by Perdogg · 11 replies · 329+ views Coast-to-coast AM | 05.22.08 | Perdogg Egyptologist and pre-historian Stephen Mehler will share research into the crystal skulls and how they relate to UFOs, ETs, and portals into other dimensions. I guess this in celebration of the new Indiana Jones movie.
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Gods Graves Glyphs Digest #201 20080524 · Saturday, May 24, 2008 · 29 topics · 656944 to 2017576 · 687 members ·
	Saturday May 24 2008 v 4 n 44 view this issue	Welcome to the 201st issue. Twenty-nine topics, perhaps two or three are oldies, but an improvement over last week nonetheless. We've got more than a handful regarding some DNA studies, just like other recent issues. I could have sworn there was a "Pages" topic, but didn't see it. Of course, I'm half asleep. It's probably no substitute for Physicist's bibliophile ping list, but it's all we have here on GGG. G'night all, and have a blessed Memorial Day weekend. Check out FReeper Foxhole for military history topics. Also, < 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. She's now reminding everyone that Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in June 1968, implying that Obama could wind up dead, and then what would the Demwit convention do? I need a new job.
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #202 Saturday, May 31, 2008
Climate
Digging In The Desert (Turkmenistan)
	05/24/2008 1:47:19 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 6 replies · 436+ views Leader-Post /Canwest News | 5-24-2008 | Owen Murray Tish Prouse would be the first to admit that his interest in archaeology stems from a boyhood love of Indiana Jones. But the Edmonton native had no idea his interest would one day lead him to Turkmenistan, a Central Asian country of brutally hot summers, bitterly cold winters and a pockmarked landscape that invites comparisons with the moon. So why is he here? The answer is Merv, an ancient city along the Silk Road that was once a thriving metropolis, one of the...
Ancient Autopsies
Rubbish Threatens Tuvixeduu Necropolis (Ancient Ruins - Sardinia)
	05/24/2008 2:32:40 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 4 replies · 244+ views Times On Line | 5-24-2008 An ancient Mediterranean necropolis described as one of the world's greatest historical sites is being submerged beneath cement, high rise housing and rubbish dumps, according to Italian conservationists. Tuvixeddu - which means "hills with small cavities" in the Sardinian dialect - contains thousands of Phoenician and Punic burial chambers from the 6th century BC. It has long been robbed of funerary objects but some of its tombs have retained their original paintings, including "Ureo's Tomb", named after a sacred serpent, and "The Warrior's Tomb", in which a decoration depicts a warrior throwing...
Ancient Europe
Unique Dutch Settlement Discovered From Bronze Age
	05/24/2008 8:36:32 AM PDT · Posted by blam · 4 replies · 355+ views M&C | 5-23-2008 Archaeologists have found a settlement dating back to the Bronze Age just north of Eindhoven, a city in the southern Netherlands, Dutch archaeologist Nico Arts told Dutch media Friday. The discovery was made during preparations for the building of a highway junction at Ekkersrijt, north of Eindhoven. The settlement may be the largest ever discovered in the Netherlands, and is definitely the largest settlement ever found in the southern Netherlands. Bronze Age settlements (1500-850 BC) have also been discovered in the province of Drenthe in the...
Megaliths and Archaeoastronomy
Did Stonehenge start out as royal cemetery?
	05/29/2008 4:47:46 PM PDT · Posted by RDTF · 9 replies · 389+ views msnbc | May 29, 2008 | not specified England's enigmatic Stonehenge served as a burial ground from its earliest beginnings -- perhaps for ancient kings or chieftains, researchers reported Thursday. Radiocarbon dating of cremated remains shows that burials took place as early as 3000 B.C., when the first ditches around the monument were being built, said University of Sheffield archaeologist Mike Parker Pearson. Those burials continued for at least 500 years, when the giant stones that mark the mysterious circle were being erected, he said. Parker Pearson heads the Stonehenge Riverside Archaeological Project, which has been excavating sites around the world-famous monument for five years. He...
Stonehenge Mystery Solved. [Open]
	05/29/2008 5:46:06 PM PDT · Posted by SouthDixie · 22 replies · 914+ views AOL
Stonehenge Could Have Been Resting Place For Royalty
	05/29/2008 6:43:44 PM PDT · Posted by nickcarraway · 6 replies · 158+ views ScienceDaily | May 30, 2008 | ScienceDaily Archaeologists at the University of Sheffield have revealed new radiocarbon dates of human cremation burials at Stonehenge, which indicate that the monument was used as a cemetery from its inception just after 3000 B.C. until well after the large stones went up around 2500 B.C. The Sheffield archaeologists, Professor Mike Parker-Pearson and Professor Andrew Chamberlain, believe that the cremation burials could represent the natural deaths of a single elite family and its descendants, perhaps a ruling dynasty. One clue to this is the small number of burials in Stonehenge's earliest phase, a number that grows larger in subsequent centuries, as...
Gone To the Dogs
Star Watch - Archaeologists Discover A "Cosmic Clock"
	05/25/2008 8:29:53 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 22 replies · 1,289+ views Tenerife News | 5-24-2008 Overcrowded in their lower reaches they might be, but the Canary Islands still possess some solitary mountain wilder-nesses, places little visited thanks to their rugged inaccessibility, and which have hardly changed since they were frequented by the pre-colonial aboriginal islanders. And traces of their presence are still turning up, often in the form of petroglyphs, enigmatic scratched marks on rocks and boulders which held some special significance about which we can only guess today. The latest find is, say archaeologists, one of the most exciting. They are calling it a cosmic clock,...
Diet and Cuisine
Archaeologists find medieval feeding bottles in northwest Russia
	05/26/2008 5:20:08 PM PDT · Posted by rdl6989 · 12 replies · 418+ views Ria Novosti | May 26, 2008 Archaeologists have made a rare find of a number of medieval baby bottles at excavations in Veliky Novgorod, an ancient city in northwest Russia, a scientist said on Monday. "Similar bottles are rarely found in excavations, and here we have already discovered... three of them," Medieval Slavs made feeding bottles by attaching leather bags to the wider part of cow horns. A baby drank the milk from a hole made on the tip of a horn. Novgorod is one of the most ancient cities of the Eastern Slavs. It was first mentioned in...
Archeologists Discover Unique Things In Veliki Novgorod (Baby Bottles)
	05/27/2008 3:00:16 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 10 replies · 391+ views Russiaq IC | 5-27-2008 A group of archeologists carrying out diggings in Veliki Novgorod have found several ancient feeding bottles for babies. The finds were discovered at the digging site in Mikhailova Street. Here the archeologists found wooden feeding devices made of cow horns. The Slavs used to attach leather sacks with milk to the broad ends of hollow horns and their babies would suck the milk through holes in the narrow part of horns. It is interesting to note that not far from the archeological excavation site there is a working municipal kindergarten. Almost every...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Did Humans Colonize the World by Boat?
	05/28/2008 4:14:50 AM PDT · Posted by Renfield · 11 replies · 318+ views Discover Magazine | 5-20-08 | Heather Pringle Jon Erlandson shakes out what appears to be a miniature evergreen from a clear ziplock bag and holds it out for me to examine. As one of the world's leading authorities on ancient seafaring, he has devoted much of his career to hunting down hard evidence of ancient human migrations, searching for something most archaeologists long thought a figment: Ice Age mariners. On this drizzly late-fall afternoon in a lab at the University of Oregon in Eugene, the 53-year-old Erlandson looks as pleased as the father of a newborn -- and perhaps just as anxious -- as he shows me one of his...
The Vikings
Newfoundland Viking Site Remarkable
	05/24/2008 8:41:39 AM PDT · Posted by blam · 18 replies · 843+ views Canada.com | 5-23-3008 | Jeff Lukovich L'Anse aux Meadows likely marks the first European contact with New World -- 500 years before Columbus Jeff Lukovich , Special to The Sun More than 1,200 years ago, Vikings from Norway set out on a series of daring voyages that would eventually result in their being the first Europeans to explore the east coast of North America. In stages they established settlements in the Shetland Islands, Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, and finally Newfoundland and Labrador. Though we passed through an area around the capital of Nuuk, that would have been near the former Viking "Western Settlement,"...
Navigation
Sea Stallion Steps Back In History
	05/27/2008 3:06:51 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 13 replies · 386+ views Irish Examiner | 5-25-2008 | Richard Collins Richard Collins on a remarkable Danish replica ship. At three o'clock next Thursday afternoon Dubliners will be treated to an extraordinary spectacle. The Viking ship Sea Stallion, which has been on display at the National Museum in Collins Barracks, will be lifted 50 metres into the air by a giant crane. Then the huge vessel will be swung out over the three-storey museum building and deposited in the nearby Croppy's Acre. In the middle of the night it will be moved to the River Liffey, prior to its long sea journey back to Denmark. The...
Viking voyage: The crew's diary
	07/13/2007 7:40:37 AM PDT · Posted by WesternCulture · 49 replies · 923+ views news.bbc.co.uk | 07/12/2007 | Hans Jacob Andersen A replica Viking ship has set sail for Dublin from the Danish port of Roskilde. It is currently crossing the North Sea, in an attempt to recreate the voyages undertaken by early Norsemen. The volunteer crew on the 30m-long (100ft) Sea Stallion from Glendalough are recording their experiences on the journey. Bad weather is already proving a major challenge. Like the vikings the crew have no shelter from the weather, no cleaning facilities and no lavatories.
Helix, Make Mine a Double
Researchers retrieve authentic Viking DNA from 1,000-year-old skeletons
	05/28/2008 6:46:59 AM PDT · Posted by Red Badger · 32 replies · 981+ views www.physorg.com | 05/28/2008 | Staff Although "Viking" literally means "pirate," recent research has indicated that the Vikings were also traders to the fishmongers of Europe. Stereotypically, these Norsemen are usually pictured wearing a horned helmet but in a new study published in the journal PLoS ONE this week, J¯rgen Dissing and colleagues from the University of Copenhagen, investigated what went under the helmet; the scientists were able to extract authentic DNA from ancient Viking skeletons, avoiding many of the problems of contamination faced by past researchers. Analysis of DNA from the remains of ancient humans provides valuable insights into such important questions as the origin...
Africa
'Indiana Jones'-Like Archeologist Says He's Found Cleopatra's Tomb
	05/25/2008 1:02:47 PM PDT · Posted by AngieGal · 28 replies · 1,022+ views Fox News | May 25, 2008 | The Sunday Times A flamboyant archeologist known worldwide for his trademark Indiana Jones hat believes he has identified the site where Cleopatra is buried. Now, with a team of 12 archeologists and 70 excavators, Zahi Hawass, 60, the head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, has begun the search for her tomb. In addition, after a breakthrough two weeks ago, Hawass hopes to find Cleopatra's lover, the Roman general Mark Antony, sharing her last resting place at the site of a temple, the Taposiris Magna, 28 miles west of Alexandria.
Egypt
Headquarters of pharaohs' army found
	05/29/2008 8:48:44 AM PDT · Posted by CarrotAndStick · 15 replies · 633+ views REUTERS via. The Times of India | 29 May 2008, 0023 hrs IST | REUTERS Egyptian archaeologists have discovered what they say was the ancient headquarters of the pharaonic army guarding the northeastern borders of Egypt for more than 1,500 years, the government said on Wednesday. The fortress and adjoining town, which they identify with the ancient place name Tharu, lies in the Sinai peninsula about 3km northeast of the modern town of Qantara, Egyptian archaeologist Mohamed Abdel Maksoud said. The town sat at the start of a military road joining the Nile Valley to the Levant, parts of which were under Egyptian control for much of the period, the government's Supreme Council for...
Rome and Italy
Vatican Unveils Newly Restored Pagan Tomb
	05/27/2008 11:58:00 AM PDT · Posted by NYer · 27 replies · 1,115+ views CBS News | May 27, 2008 The Vatican unveiled the largest and most luxurious of the pagan tombs in the necropolis under St. Peter's Basilica on Tuesday after nearly a year of restoration work. A family of former slaves built the Valeri Mausoleum during the second half of the second century, when Emperor Marcus Aurelius ruled. It is one of 22 pagan tombs in the grottoes under the basilica. The newly restored tomb was shown to media Tuesday. Visitors can have a guided tour of the grottoes by appointment. Emperor Constantine, a convert to Christianity, had the pagan burial grounds covered up...
Anatolia
2,000-Year-Old Treasures Tell Wild Story (Tillya Tepe)
	05/25/2008 8:09:52 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 12 replies · 867+ views The News Tribune | 5-25-2008 | Neely Tucker This sculpture likely depicts a supervisor of Greek athletics. It was unearthed in Afghanistan.Pendants showing the Dragon Master, a mythical nomadic man holding dragons by the leg, date back to the days of Christ.PHOTOS BY THIERRY OLLIVIER/MUSEE GUIMETA detailed ivory statuette of a woman probably adorned a piece of furniture in the 1st or 2nd century.An exhibit in Washington, D.C., reveals gold, intrigue and jewelry once buried in Afghanistan. The finds have survived looters and wars.
Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
Rag And Bone Cup Dates To 300BC
	05/27/2008 3:21:27 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 23 replies · 611+ views The Telegraph (UK) | 5-27-2008 The grandson of a rag and bone man who acquired a small metal cup is in line for a windfall after discovering it is a pure gold vessel dating back to the third or fourth century BC. A rag and bone man gave his grandson the pure gold vessel, which is from the third or fourth century BC The piece could be worth hundreds of thousands of pounds. The 5 inch cup, believed to be from the Achaemenid empire, has two female faces looking in opposite directions, their...
Gold cup from 2,500 years ago found under bed
	05/28/2008 3:13:20 AM PDT · Posted by Daffynition · 50 replies · 809+ views The Times Online | May 28, 2008 | Simon de Bruxelles A 2,500-year-old gold cup that has spent the past 60 years in a box under its owner's bed is expected to fetch up to £100,000 after being rediscovered during a house move. The cup was given to John Webber by his grandfather, a rag-and-bone man, who acquired it in the 1930s. Because his grandfather, William Sparks, dealt in brass and copper scrap, Mr Webber assumed that it was made from those metals until he had the unusual piece valued this year. The cup, which is 5.5in (14 cm) high, is embossed with two female faces, each wearing a crown formed...
Longer Perspectives
Women's rights in ancient Persia
	05/26/2008 9:19:16 PM PDT · Posted by freedom44 · 16 replies · 446+ views Press TV | 5/25/08 | Press TV Zoroastrian texts such as the Avesta clearly define the status of Persian women and reveal that at a time when many women in the world were deprived of their basic rights, Persian women enjoyed social and legal freedom and were treated with great respect. Avestan texts mention both genders asking them to share responsibility and make decisions together. They are equally praised for their good deeds rather than their gender, wealth or power. "Whoever, man or woman, does what Thou, O Ahura Mazda, knowest to be the best in Life. Whoever does right for the sake of Right; Whoever in...
Agriculture and Animal Husbandry
Ancient Chinese Irrigation System Stands Test Of Time -- And Quake
	05/24/2008 1:55:14 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 9 replies · 546+ views Yahoo News | 5-22-2008 | Ian Timberlake High above the world's oldest operating irrigation system, Zhang Shuanggun, a local villager, stands on an observation platform cracked by China's massive earthquake last week. She has a simple answer for why the ancient, bamboo-based Dujiangyan irrigation system sustained only minor damage, while nearby modern dams and their vast amounts of concrete are now under 24-hour watch for signs of collapse. "This ancient project is perfection," Zhang said. From the hillside platform, the workings of the...
Haiku You Have Missed This?
Ancient Poem Found On Wood Strip (Japan)
	05/24/2008 8:46:56 AM PDT · Posted by blam · 12 replies · 373+ views Yomiuri | 5-24-2008 A wooden strip unearthed in fiscal 1997 from remains of the eighth-century Shigarakinomiya palace in Koka, Shiga Prefecture, was found to be inscribed with a pair of waka poems, one of which is included in "Manyoshu" (The Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves), Japan's oldest existing collection of poems, a board of education announced Thursday. It is the first time that a wooden strip inscribed with a poem from the collection has been found. On one side of the strip is a poem about Mt. Asaka, in present-day Fukushima Prefecture, while the...
Australia and the Pacific
Hobbit's relatives may have existed in northern Australia
	05/28/2008 9:43:22 AM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 9 replies · 267+ views Top News India | Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 | Sahil Nagpal An archaeologist, who discovered the "Hobbit", an ancient human like species, on an Indonesian island in 2003, has determined that a relative of the species may have existed in northern Australia. The Hobbits, or Homo floresiensis, who were only about one metre tall and weighed just 30kg, existed on the remote Indonesian island of Flores until about 12,000 years ago. The specie was dubbed as "hobbits" because of its small size and big feet. Now, according to Professor Mike Morwood, who had made the finding in 2003, these ancient species could have had relatives living in northern Australia. "We are...
Paleontology
Oldest Embryo Fossil Found
	05/28/2008 12:11:24 PM PDT · Posted by NormsRevenge · 10 replies · 299+ views LiveScience.com on Yahoo | 5/28/08 | Jeanna Bryner An armored fish was about to become a mom some 380 million years ago. Though the primitive fish perished, its fossilized remains remarkably reveal an embryo and umbilical cord inside the soon-to-be mother's body. The discovery marks the oldest evidence of an animal giving live birth, pushing the known record of such reproduction back by some 200 million years. It also supports the idea that internal fertilization in vertebrates (animals with backbones) originated in a group of primitive fish. "When I first saw the embryo inside the mother fish, my jaw dropped," said researcher John Long, a paleontologist at Museum...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Huge Flying Reptiles Ate Dinosaurs
	05/27/2008 9:38:03 PM PDT · Posted by pissant · 53 replies · 1,206+ views Live Science | 5/27/08 | jeanna Bryner With a name like T. rex, you'd expect to be safe from even the fiercest paleo-bullies. Turns out, ancient, flying reptiles could have snacked on Tyrannosaurus Rex To uncover these feeding habits, Witton and Portsmouth colleague Darren Naish analyzed fossils of a group of toothless pterosaurs called azhdarchids, which are muchbabies and other landlubbing runts of the dinosaur world. A new study reveals a group of flying reptiles that lived during the Age of Dinosaurs some 230 million to 65 million years ago did not catch prey in flight, but rather stalked them on land. Until now, paleontologists pictured the...
Health Care
Leeds medics solve an ancient riddle -- and offer new tool for diagnosis (finger clubbing)
	05/30/2008 3:18:02 PM PDT · Posted by decimon · 11 replies · 530+ views University of Leeds | May 28, 2008 | Unknown A puzzling medical condition, identified more than 2,000 years ago by Hippocrates, has finally been explained by researchers at the University of Leeds. The phenomenon of "finger clubbing", a deformity of the fingers and fingernails, has been known for thousands of years, and has long been recognized to be a sign of a wide range of serious diseases -- especially lung cancer. "It's one of the first things they teach you at medical school," explained Professor David Bonthron of the Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine. "You shake the patient by the hand, and take a good look at their fingers...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Pisa's leaning tower said to be safe for 300 years
	05/28/2008 2:10:35 PM PDT · Posted by Daffynition · 15 replies · 299+ views YahooNews | May 28, 2008 | Philip Pullella The leaning tower of Pisa has been successfully stabilised and is out of danger for at least 300 years, said an engineer who has been monitoring the iconic Italian tourist attraction. "All of our expectations have been confirmed," Professor Michele Jamiolkowski, an engineer and geologist, was quoted as telling Italy's leading newspaper, Corriere della Sera. The tower's tilt of about four metres off the vertical has remained stable in recent years, after a big engineering project that ended in 2001 corrected its lean by about 40 centimetres from where it was in 1990 when the project began. "Now we can...
Epigraphy and Language
National Spelling Bee Brings Out Protesters Who R Thru With Through
	05/30/2008 7:32:21 AM PDT · Posted by MissouriConservative · 85 replies · 1,316+ views The Wall Street Journal | May 30, 2008 | Rebecca Dana A fyoo duhzen ambishuhss intelectchooals, a handful ov British skool teechers and wuhn rokit siuhntist ar triing to chang the way we spel. They are the leaders of the spelling-reform movement, a passionate but sporadic 800-year-old campaign to simplify English orthography. In its long and failure-ridden history, the movement has tried to convince an indifferent public of the need for a spelling system based on pronunciation. Reformers, including Mark Twain, Charles Darwin and Theodore Roosevelt, argued that phonetic spellings would make it easier for children, foreigners and adults with learning disabilities to read and write. For centuries, few listened, and...
Oh So Mysterioso
Shakespeare was a woman: Expert
	05/28/2008 4:21:43 AM PDT · Posted by CarrotAndStick · 88 replies · 1,635+ views PTI via, The Times of India | 28 May, 2008 | PTI Shakespeare was actually a Jewish woman who had disguised to get her work published in Elizabethan London where original literature from women was not acceptable, an expert has contended. The woman, Amelia Bassano Lanier Bassano, was of Italian descent and lived in England as a Marrano. She has been known only as the first woman to publish a book of poetry ( Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum in 1611) and as a candidate for "the dark lady" referred to in the sonnets, daily Ha'aretz reported. The theory rests largely on the circumstances of Bassano's life, which John Hudson, an expert...
Faith and Philosophy
When the Founding Fathers Faced Islamists ( History ... The Barbary Pirates )
	05/28/2008 10:00:46 AM PDT · Posted by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 53 replies · 1,187+ views Pajamas Media | May 27, 2008 | Michael Weiss Back in 1784, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson had to decide whether to appease or stand up to armed Middle Eastern pirates. Sound familiar? John McCain and Barack Obama are now engaged in a long-distance dispute over whether talking to America's enemies is integral to America's security (with neither one wishing to talk to poor Hillary Clinton any longer). McCain has not so subtly assailed Obama as an "appeaser" for his stated willingness to sit down with the Iranian leadership about its nuclear weapons program and sponsorship of jihadism in Iraq -- and never mind for now if that leadership...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Absolutely chuffed! What happened when 30 grown men gave up 18 years to build a steam train
	05/30/2008 5:23:00 PM PDT · Posted by uglybiker · 12 replies · 377+ views Daily Mail | 30th May 2008 | Michael Hanlon Ask any child to draw a picture of a train and you will invariably get the same result: a cylindrical boiler shape, with some big wheels underneath, a cab and a chimney belching steam and smoke at the front. In other words, the classic railway locomotive. Nobody draws a picture of a diesel or an electric train. To a child there is only one noise a train can make: 'choo choo'. Plenty of enthusiasts...
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Gods Graves Glyphs Digest #202 20080531 · Saturday, May 31, 2008 · 32 topics · 2023735 to 2021660 · 688 members ·
	Saturday May 31 2008 v 4 n 44 view this issue	Welcome to the 202nd issue. This week kinda kicked keister, although I haven't yet taken a count of topics, and there were at least a couple of groups of duplicates. We've had a few join each of the last few weeks, which could presage another period of sudden slight growth. I was going to be sure to post a "Pages" topic, instead I've been engaged in self-recrimination about my failure to do so. Now leaf me alone. The new software kicks out the keyword topic listings as unordered lists instead of tables, but it's actually EASIER to process the text now. I was as surprised as anyone, and had just forgotten to mention it. As you may have noticed, we're still using tables, in order to keep using the category headers. I also just noticed a typo in the next paragraph, and when I checked last week's issue for the correction, found it was already wrong then. I'm not going to track it down just now, but have eliminated it. Check out FReeper Foxhole for military history 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. The Demwit Debacle in Denver is looking like a lock, and that will make for short-lived fun. Enjoy it, because if McCain loses in November to either of those Dhimmicrats, you can kiss it goodbye. I'll predict that The Phenomobama will win the nomination, but will lose the election. I need a new job.
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #203 Saturday, June 7, 2008
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Tsunami Or Melting Glaciers: What Caused Ancient Atlit To Sink?
	06/04/2008 12:58:10 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 35 replies · 172+ views Haaretz | 6-3-2008 | By Ofri Ilani At the bottom of the sea, some 300 meters west of the Atlit fortress, lies one of the greatest archaeological mysteries of the Mediterranean basin. About 20 years ago, archaeologists discovered a complex of ancient buildings and ancient graves with dozens of skeletons at the underwater site of Atlit-Yam. The team of marine archaeologists that excavated the site, headed by Dr. Ehud Galili of the Israel Antiquities Authority, came to the consclusion that an ancient settlement once existed there, but sank beneath the surface of the sea...
Volcanism
Big Bangs: 'Stirring' Secrets Of Deadly Supervolcanoes Uncovered
	05/31/2008 2:28:14 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 42 replies · 1,135+ views Science Daily | 5-30-2008 | McGill University Supervolcanoes are orders of magnitude greater than any volcanic eruption in historic times. They are capable of causing long-lasting change to weather, threatening the extinction of species, and covering huge areas with lava and ash. (Credit: iStockphoto/Koch Valerie) ScienceDaily (May 30, 2008) -- Researchers from McGill University and the University of British Columbia (UBC) have simulated in the lab the process that can turn ordinary volcanic eruptions into so-called "supervolcanoes," with potentially devastating worldwide impact. The study was conducted by Dr. Ben Kennedy and and Dr. Mark Jellinek of UBC's Department of Earth...
Agriculture and Animal Husbandry
First Shoes Worn 40,000 Years Ago
	06/05/2008 8:01:34 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 74 replies · 1,160+ views Yahoo News | 6-5-2008 | Maggie Koerth-Baker Humans started wearing shoes about 40,000 years ago, much earlier than previously thought, new anthropological research suggests. As any good clothes horse knows, the right outfit speaks volumes about the person wearing it. Now, anthropologists are tapping into that knowledge base, looking for the physical changes caused by wearing shoes to figure out when footwear first became fashionable. Turns out, clothes really do make the man (and the woman), at least when it comes to feet. That's because wearing shoes changes the...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Footprints In The Ash (Human-Mexico-40,000-YA)
	05/31/2008 12:25:17 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 76 replies · 1,217+ views Science News | 5-29-2008 | Sid Perkins Footprints (one left) left in volcanic ash that fell in central Mexico's Valsequillo Basin about 40,000 years could be evidence that humans have inhabited the Americas far longer than previously confirmed. Laser scans of the prints (right) confirm their human origins, the researchers report today at the American Geophysical Union meeting. Footprints left in volcanic ash that fell in central Mexico's Valsequillo Basin about 40,000 years ago are evidence that humans have inhabited the Americas far longer...
Peru
Ancient "Human Sacrifices" Found in Peru, Expert Says
	06/05/2008 8:11:43 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 8 replies · 289+ views National Geographic News | 6-4-2008 | Kelly Hearn Three possible human sacrifice victims have been found at a 4,000-year-old archaeological site in Peru, an archaeologist says. The apparently mutilated, partial skeletons (see photos) could overturn the peaceful reputation of the Pre-Ceramic period (3000 B.C. to 1800 B.C.) in the Andes mountains -- a time generally seen as free of ritualized killing and warfare. Alejandro Chu Barrera, who led the dig, said: "We found two pairs of legs -- probably young females around their 20s -- and the decapitated body of a young male in his 20s." "They appear to...
Helix, Make Mine a Double
Unexpected origin of an early Eskimo
	05/31/2008 11:22:09 AM PDT · Posted by BGHater · 13 replies · 633+ views Nature | 29 May 2008 | Daniel Cressey But [the] hair sample could have been from a wandering mercenary. An early wave of migration into the New World and the Arctic has been identified by sequencing a genome from a frozen hair excavated in Greenland. Archaeological evidence shows that there were two waves of migration to Greenland starting 4,500 years ago, first with the Saqqaq and then the Dorset groups, collectively known as the Paleo-Eskimos. Later, around 1,000 years ago, came the Thule culture which led to the current native population. The relationship between these three groups has been uncertain. Some theories hold that Paleo-Eskimos derived from the populations...
Rewriting Greenland's Immigration History
	05/31/2008 12:38:01 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 10 replies · 574+ views Eureka Alert | 5-30-2008 | Eske Willerslev-University of Copenhagen Thirty-six-year-old Professor Eske Willerslev, University of Copenhagen, and his team of fossil DNA researchers have done it a couple of times before: rewritten world history. Most recently two months ago when he and his team discovered that the ancestors of the North American Indians were the first people to populate America, and that they came to the country more than 1,000 years earlier than originally assumed. And the evidence is, so to speak, quite tangible: DNA samples of fossilised human faeces found in deep caves in southern Oregon....
Australia and the Pacific
Humans May Have Come To New Zealand Later Than Thought
	06/03/2008 3:50:05 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 27 replies · 50+ views CBS News | 6-3-2008 Radiocarbon dating of rat bones and rat-gnawed seeds reinforces a theory that human settlers did not arrive in New Zealand until 1300 A.D. -- about 1,000 years later than some scientists believe, according to a study released Tuesday. The first settlement date "has been highly debated for decades," said Dr. Janet Wilmshurst, a New Zealander who led the international team of researchers in the four-year study. The team carbon dated rat...
Ancient Europe
Neolithic Men Were Prepared To Fight For Their Women
	06/02/2008 8:41:45 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 18 replies · 704+ views The Telegraph (UK) | 6-3-2008 | Roger Highfield Neolithic age men fought over women too, according to a study that provides the most ancient evidence of the lengths men will go to in the hunt for partners. Many archaeologists have argued that women have long motivated cycles of violence and blood feuds throughout history but there has really been no solid archaeological evidence to support this view. Now a relatively new method has been used to work out the origins of the victims tossed into a mass grave of...
Diet and Cuisine
How Sugar Changed The World
	06/03/2008 4:03:17 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 17 replies · 37+ views Live Science | 6-2-2008 | Heather Whipps What's not to like about candy, ice cream and all those other sweet treats made with everybody's favorite indulgence, sugar? Plenty, as it turns out, beyond the way it expands waistlines and causes cavities. It's unlikely that many candy-lovers in the United States think about history while quaffing an estimated 100 pounds of sugar per year, but sweet stuff once played a major role in one of the sourest eras in modern times. White Gold, as British colonists called it, was the engine...
Health Care
Medicinal Mercury In Medieval Bones
	06/02/2008 8:34:47 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 9 replies · 405+ views spectroscopynow.com | 6-1-2008 | Journal of Archaeological Science 2008 The Middle Ages, often referred to as Medieval times, spanned a long period in history from the 5th to the 16th Centuries. During this time, European society and culture enjoyed many advances and it could be argued that the quality of life improved beyond recognition. One area which progressed steadily was medicine and the treatment of disease, although these days we would not touch some of the medicinal compounds with a bargepole, let alone administer them to patients. One substance in popular use was mercury, used variously in gilding of jewellery and...
Physical Fitness
Ancient Nemea to host 2008 Olympic-like summer games
	06/05/2008 11:18:50 PM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 2 replies · 99+ views UC Berkeley press release | Wednesday, June 4, 2008 | Kathleen Maclay Just as the official Summer Olympics get underway in Beijing on June 21, an ancient athletic stadium at a UC Berkeley archaeological site in Greece that was home to the original Panhellenic Games will once again come alive with competition. The Nemean Games revived footraces held in the village of Ancient Nemea every four years since 1996, are not for trained athletes, but for anyone worldwide who wants to run. There will be a 100-meter sprint on the fourth-century clay track on June 21 and a 7.5- kilometer race the following day from the ancient temple of Herakles near the...
Central Asia
Pagan sect at Pakistan border lives amid conservative Muslims
	06/03/2008 11:51:20 AM PDT · Posted by swarthyguy · 15 replies · 41+ views McClatchy | 3.6.08 | Saeed Shah Bordering Afghanistan's Nuristan province, inaccessible Chitral district has long been thought to be a refuge for Osama bin Laden. With the high peaks of the Hindu Kush range and narrow valleys, ... easy to dodge through secret mountain routes between Pakistan and Afghanistan. home of the Kalasha, a unique pagan civilization that's lived in the area for 2,000 years or more, boxed in by an increasingly militant Islam. According to locals, bin Laden lived with a Kalasha family in Chitral for some time during his first Afghan jihad, . With his now much more severe ideology, the al...
Greece
Living In The 'Bowels Of The Earth'
	06/04/2008 2:18:43 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 7 replies · 197+ views Athens News | 6-3-2008- | HEINRICH HALL The mythical birthplace of Zeus: the Idaean Cave, central Crete AT SOME point between AD575 and 600, at least 33 men, women and children entered a cave near modern Andritsa, southwest of Argolid, in the eastern Peloponnese. They carried a Christian cross, some money and food supplies, perhaps intending to hide from some temporary threat. They were never to see the light of day again. One by one, they died from starvation, unable or unwilling to escape the...
Ancient Autopsies
DNA Reveals Sister Power In Ancient Greece
	06/02/2008 7:58:25 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 21 replies · 268+ views The University Of Manchester | 6-2-2008 | The University Of Manchester University of Manchester researchers have revealed how women, as well as men, held positions of power in ancient Greece by right of birth. Women were thought to have had little power in ancient Greece, unless they married a powerful man and were able to influence him. But a team of researchers testing ancient DNA from a high status, male-dominated cemetery at Mycenae in Greece believe they have identified a brother and sister buried together in a richly endowed grave, suggesting that she had as much power as him. The team,...
Faith and Philosophy
Thracian God Dionysus's Temple Discovered in Bulgaria?
	06/02/2008 8:28:30 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 6 replies · 321+ views International News.bg | 5-27-20087 | Blaga Bangieva Over the tomb of Sevt III (on the coin) in the mound Goliama Kosmatka near Shipka town (Central Bulgaria) is most probably located the temple of Dionysius - the God of Fruitfulness. The news was reported in Kazanluk city by the director of local History Museum Kosio Zarev. According to Zarev's words the conclusion was made after the detailed geo-radar examinations of the mound executed by a private team. The researches showed that immediately over the Sevt III's tomb, revealed three years ago, is located a...
Egypt
Egypt uncovers 'missing' pyramid of a pharaoh (Menkauhor, obscure ruler over 4000 years ago)
	06/05/2008 9:09:00 AM PDT · Posted by NormsRevenge · 21 replies · 911+ views AP on Yahoo | 6/5/08 | Katarina Kratovac - ap Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered the "missing pyramid" of a pharaoh and a ceremonial procession road where high priests carried mummified remains of sacred bulls, Egypt's antiquities chief said Thursday. Zahi Hawass said the pyramid -- of which only the base remains -- is believed to be that of King Menkauhor, an obscure pharaoh who ruled for only eight years more than 4,000 years ago. In 1842, German archaeologist Karl Richard Lepsius mentioned Menkauhor's pyramid among his finds at Saqqara, calling it the "Headless Pyramid" because its top was missing, Hawass said. But the desert sands covered Lepsius'...
Pyramidiocy
Pi, Phi and the Great Pyramid
	06/03/2008 7:59:35 AM PDT · Posted by BGHater · 31 replies · 283+ views Al-Ahram Weekly | 27 Mar 2008 | Assem Deif We can forget all the ideas crediting Atlanteans or space aliens with building the Great Pyramid of Giza, and instead imagine ourselves travelling back in time in H G Wells's time machine to try and work out not how the ancient Egyptians built this enormous edifice, because this lies beyond our present understanding, but rather what we can best judge to be its most appropriate proportions. Then, however, there were no electronic calculators, only ropes and rods. Constructing right angles at the four corners of a pyramid is easy. To do it, history tells us that the Egyptians were aware...
Sinai
Ancient Egyptian City Unearthed in Sinai
	06/04/2008 8:32:08 PM PDT · Posted by Lorianne · 10 replies · 533+ views Live Science | 28 May 2008 | Maamoun Youssef Archaeologists exploring an old military road in the Sinai have unearthed 3,000-year-old remains from an ancient fortified city, the largest yet found in Egypt, antiquities authorities announced Wednesday. Among the discoveries at the site was a relief of King Thutmose II (1516-1504 B.C.), thought to be the first such royal monument discovered in Sinai, said Zahi Hawass, chief of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities. It indicates that Thutmose II may have built a fort near the ancient city, located about two miles northeast of present day Qantara and known historically as Tharu. A 550-by-275-yard mud brick...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Temple Mount '100% Islamic'
	06/01/2008 3:22:52 PM PDT · Posted by kellynla · 99 replies · 1,624+ views worldnetdaily.com | June 01, 2008 | Aaron Klein Jerusalem and the Temple Mount belong to the Muslims and any Israeli action that "offends" the Mount will be answered by 1.5 billion Muslims, declared the chief of staff for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. "Jerusalem is Muslim. The blessed Al Aqsa mosque and Harem Al Sharif (Temple Mount) is 100 percent Muslim. The Israelis are playing with fire when they threaten Al Aqsa with digging that is taking place," said Abbas' chief of staff Rafiq Al Husseini. The Temple Mount is Judaism's holiest site. Husseini was referring to Israeli plans to construct a new bridge from the...
Oh So Mysterioso
Will Judean Desert Find Shed Light On Shroud Of Turin?
	06/01/2008 8:55:11 AM PDT · Posted by blam · 27 replies · 924+ views Jerusalem Post | 5-29-2008 | ETGAR LEFKOVITS Can a 6,000-year-old shroud uncovered in the Judean Desert in 1993 help illuminate the centuries-old debate over the Shroud of Turin? The Shroud of Turin Slideshow: Pictures of the week That is the question posed by Olga Negnevitsky, a conservator at the Israel Museum who was involved in the conservation of the lesser-known shroud for the Antiquities Authority after it was discovered inside a small cave near Jericho. The idea to use the older shroud to learn more about the famous one...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Unique Book Dedicated To Trial Against Templars On Display In Sofia
	05/31/2008 4:33:37 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 7 replies · 561+ views Novinite.com | 5-30-3008 A copy of the unique book dedicated to the trial against templars, issued by Secret Vatican City archive, was presented Friday in Sofia's National Archeological Museum. Photo by Yuliana Nikolova (Sofia Photo Agency) The unique book dedicated to the trial against templars issued by Secret Vatican City archive was presented Friday in Sofia's National Archeological Museum. The publication, called "Processus Conta Templarios", is an expensive limited edition of the proceedings of the 1307-1312 papal trial of the mysterious medieval crusading order of warrior-monks who were...
Epigraphy and Language
Pictish stone found by gravedigger most significant in decade -- expert [Shetland]
	06/06/2008 7:58:43 AM PDT · Posted by BGHater · 26 replies · 822+ views Shetland Today | 06 June 2008 | Heather Baillache A PICTISH stone found in Cunningsburgh has been described as the most important archaeological discovery in Shetland for 10 years. It was found in Mail cemetery by gravedigger Malcolm Smith, his second such find in 16 years The sculptured stone is inscribed with mysterious symbols and dates back to the dark ages. It is the ninth stone of its kind to be discovered in the same area in the last 130 years. Its significance has been high≠lighted by Dr Ian Tait, collections curator at the Shetland Museum and Archives. "It is extremely exciting because it is a single find which...
British Isles
Ancient Skeletons Unearthed At Reepham (UK)
	06/03/2008 4:11:38 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 3 replies · 25+ views North Norfolk News | 6-2-2008 A glimpse of mediaeval life - and death - in the heart of Norfolk has been revealed after more than 60 skeletons were found under a town centre street. Contractors charged with laying pipelines in part of Reepham, in north Norfolk, made the grim discovery as they opened a trench in the town's Church Street. But the road's name gave some clue to the fate of the bodies. Archaeology work carried out since the discovery last year has found that underneath Church Street there was part of an old graveyard. Just 70cm...
Paleontology
Clue to Earth's Beginning Seen In Ordinary Lead as "Timepiece' (Real Time + 70 Years)
	06/05/2008 5:52:39 AM PDT · Posted by Homer_J_Simpson · 3 replies · 224+ views Microfiche-New York Times archives | 6/5/38 | No byline Harvard physicists plan to determine age of planet and "explore' eras farther back than ever before with the aid of lead, Harvard physicists hope to trace the earth's history back further than ever before into the ages following this planet's birth from the sun. For a timepiece scientists have used uranium-lead, a "dead" end-product of uranium's disintegration. Because they know how long it takes uranium to "die," they can tell how old a deposit is from the proportion of live uranium and inactive uranium-lead found side by side. Mineral deposits...
Blankity Blank Blank Blankers
BLANK History month
	05/30/2008 10:35:25 PM PDT · Posted by An American in Turkiye · 9 replies · 248+ views An American In Turkiye Fill in the blank history month. It seems like every month is a _______ history month. I've heard many arguments why there is a black, hispanic, asian, etc. month, but no white history month. It's a good argument. If every other ethnic group has one, why can we? People walk on egg shells when this question is posed, because "white guilt" has permeated this country. If you even argue for it, you're called a racist. Mind you, ________ history month celebrates the achievements of whichever ethnic group has dibs on the month. I've done the math, and adding up all...
Longer Perspectives
The New Copperheads
	05/31/2008 10:34:42 PM PDT · Posted by neverdem · 24 replies · 1,252+ views American Thinker | June 01, 2008 | Bruce Walker During the Civil War, when the issues of right and wrong were clear, one of President Lincoln's appointees, General George McClelland, betrayed him. The anti-war Democrats to whom McClelland pandered were called "Copperheads." They rallied around McClelland to defeat the president politically, when they could not defeat the armies of America militarily. McClelland had a pretty high opinion of himself. He knew what Lincoln did not: That the war come not be won, that giving up and bringing the troops home was the only sensible answer, and that the president was not much of a leader. Democrats overwhelmingly supported this...
World War Eleven
In Memoriam - June 6, 1944
	06/01/2008 5:54:34 PM PDT · Posted by PowderMonkey · 33 replies · 441+ views Dedicated in memory of all those who landed in Normandy June 6, 1944. In loving memory and with eternal gratitude. Thanks, Dad. Thanks, Uncle Ralph. At ease, fellas. Bravo Zulu.
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Historical Societies
	06/01/2008 9:46:13 PM PDT · Posted by Lusis · 11 replies · 311+ views 2 June 2008 | Lusis I've been doing some genealogical research and have traced a couple branches of my family through the Civil War, the Texas War of Independence, and the Revolutionary War. I've also been given the opportunity via some co-workers to join the Sons of the Republic of Texas. I've checked into it, but have also found other historical societies such as the Sons of the Confederacy, and the Sons of the American Revolution. Does anyone out there have any info on these groups as to what it's like to be involved in these groups, and which ones are worth joining?
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