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Weekly Digest #14

Ancient Europe
Full Excavation Of Irish Viking Village?
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/20/2004 2:02:41 PM PDT · 27 replies · 562+ views


Discovery News | 10-19-2004 | Rossella Lorenzi
Full Excavation for Irish Viking Village? By Rossella Lorenzi, Discovery News Oct. 19, 2004 ó Preliminary work to build a bypass road in an Irish village has yielded what could be the most significant piece of Viking history in Europe: a virtually intact town that some have already called Ireland's equivalent of Pompeii. Evidence for the ancient settlement was discovered last year by archaeologists testing areas ahead of road builders. Located near the banks of the river Suir at Woodstown, five miles from the city of Waterford, the potential Viking town lies below pasture fields commonly used for horse grazing....
 

Kiln's 'Ancestor' Found In Greece
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/20/2004 2:11:40 PM PDT · 20 replies · 349+ views


BBC | 10-20-2004
Kiln's 'ancestor' found in Greece The structures bridge the gap between kilns and stone hearths Archaeologists have discovered the oldest clay "fireplaces" made by humans at a dig in southern Greece. The hearths are between 34,000 and 23,000 years old and were almost certainly used for cooking by prehistoric inhabitants of the area. Researchers found remnants of wood ash and phytoliths - a type of plant cell - in these hearths and lab tests show the clay was burnt. The study appears in the latest edition of the scholarly journal Antiquity. The discovery helps to bridge the gap between the...
 

Neolithic ruins (6000 yrs old) found in Romania while building highway
  Posted by FairOpinion
On News/Activism 10/19/2004 11:21:59 PM PDT · 13 replies · 384+ views


Yahoo News | Oct. 14, 2004 | AFP
BUCHAREST (AFP) - Construction workers for the US firm Bechtel found neolithic ruins which are more than 6,000 years old while building a highway in Romania, archeologists said. "It is a surprising discovery of great importance for the region," Ion Stanciu, who heads a team of archeologists, told AFP. He said the ruins consisted of a funeral stone, the remains of several houses from the bronze age, and pieces of pottery. "We are going to suggest to officials from Bechtel to consider building a museum to house these exceptional discoveries," Stanciu said. "We expect to find more ruins, perhaps the...
 

Roman roads in Britain
  Posted by SunkenCiv
On Bloggers & Personal 10/16/2004 5:46:24 PM PDT · 5 replies · 104+ views


Channel 4 | before 2004 | staff
Ermine Street, the search for a stretch of which featured in the Cheshunt programme in the 2002 series, is far from being one of the longest Roman roads; those are to be found in mainland Europe. But it is one of the best known ñ and for the Romans, most important ñ in Britain. It linked London with Lincoln (passing through Ancaster, which also features in the 2002 series) before continuing on to the Humber, inland from the modern road bridge, at Winteringham. Long, straight stretches of it can still be plotted on a map; much the same route...
 

Epigraphy and Language
'Status' drives extinction of languages
  Posted by SunkenCiv
On Bloggers & Personal 10/17/2004 12:45:37 PM PDT · 28 replies · 196+ views


Australian Broadcasting Corp Online | Thursday, 21 August 2003 | Bob Beale
The social status of a language is the most accurate way of predicting whether it will survive, argue researchers in a paper appearing today in the journal, Nature... "Thousands of the world's languages are vanishing at an alarming rate, with 90% of them being expected to disappear with the current generation," warned Dr Daniel Abrams and Professor Steven Strogatz, both of Cornell University in New York... The model is based on data they collected on the number of speakers of endangered languages - in 42 regions of Peru, Scotland, Wales, Bolivia, Ireland and AlsaÁe-Lorraine - over time. All have been...
 

PreColumbian, Clovis, PreClovis
Archaeologist Continues To Dig Up History (Meadowcroft, 16K Year Old)
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/17/2004 6:25:09 PM PDT · 10 replies · 471+ views


Pittsburglive | 10-17-2004 | Majorie Wertz
Archaeologist continues to dig up history By Marjorie Wertz For The Tribune-Review Sunday, October 17, 2004 In the past 30 years archaeologists worldwide have visited the Meadowcroft Rockshelter in Washington County. The general public can now see what's involved in the archaeological dig that has proved the existence of early humans dating back 16,000 years. "The site was opened last year for the first time to the public," said David Scofield, director of Meadowcroft Museum of Rural Life. "We are now in the process of getting an architect to create a design for a permanent roof over the excavation. This...
 

Finnish Find Sheds New Light On Prehistoric Andean Culture (Tiwanaku)
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/23/2004 4:03:27 PM PDT · 21 replies · 352+ views


Tehran Times/AFP | 10-23-2004
Finnish find sheds new light on prehistoric Andean culture HELSINKI (AFP) - Ceramic artifacts found by Finnish archeologists during a dig in Bolivia have shed new light on the prehistoric Tiwanaku people, of whom little is known, Helsinki University officials said. "The discovery demonstrates that the Tiwanakus made the highest quality ceramics in the Andean region, with very naturalistic portraits, and thanks to this we now know what they looked like," Martti Paerssinen, a professor from Helsinki University who led the excavations, told AFP. The Tiwanaku people settled on the Bolivian side of Lake Titicaca in the Andean mountains around...
 

Kennewick man renains not protected
  Posted by djf
On General/Chat 02/04/2004 12:12:38 PM PST · 49 replies · 41+ views


KING5
The courts have rules that the remains of Kennewick man, a 9,000 year old apparent caucasian skeleton found on the north shores of the Columbia river in Washington state, are not protected by the Native Americans act and must be turned over for scientific examination.
 

Mysterious Pottery Shows True Face Of First Pacific Settlers
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/23/2004 2:48:19 PM PDT · 9 replies · 684+ views


ABC Net | 10-23-2004
Mysterious pottery shows true face of first Pacific settlers Staring out from an ancient piece of pottery, the mysterious face of a bearded man has given scientists a unique glimpse of what the first settlers of Fiji may have looked like. Researchers say the "extraordinary discovery" is a vital clue in mapping out how the South Pacific came to be inhabited some 3,000 years ago, suggesting the first direct link to islands some thousands of kilometres away. Thought to be the work of the Lapita people - a long-lost race which originated near modern-day Taiwan then migrated to Polynesia -...
 

Romans in Brazil During the Second or Third Century?
  Posted by SunkenCiv
On Bloggers & Personal 10/17/2004 7:47:13 PM PDT · 7 replies · 137+ views


Mysterious Earth | June 20, 2003 | "Michael"
This is a discovery that has received little to no examination, much less validation, from the realm of mainstream archaeology, no doubt in part because Marx is not a Ph.D. archaeologist. Scouring the web for more information about this finding, I did find a reference to the discovery in an article from Dr. Elizabeth Lyding Will, an expert on Roman amphoras (clay vessels used to store and ship goods during the Roman era). Dr. Will apparently has a piece of an amphora recovered from Marx's Brazil discovery. Of it, she says: The highly publicized amphoras Robert Marx found in the...
 

Ancient Greece
Deepest Wreck
  Posted by SunkenCiv
On Bloggers & Personal 10/17/2004 8:40:36 PM PDT · 5 replies · 59+ views


Archaeological Institute of America | March/April 2001 | Brett A. Phaneuf, Thomas K. Dettweiler, and Thomas Bethge
The discovery of a 2,300-year-old shipwreck between the classical trading centers of Rhodes and Alexandria adds to the corpus of evidence that is challenging the long-held assumption that ancient sailors lacked the navigational skills to sail large distances across open water, and were instead restricted to following the coastline during their voyages. Four other possibly ancient wrecks lie nearby... Despite its depth, the site is typical for an ancient shipwreck. The vessel came to rest on the bottom and eventually listed over onto its side. In this case, the ship heeled over to port. As its wooden hull lost...
 

The Porticello Wreck: A 5th Century B.C. Merchantman in Italy
  Posted by SunkenCiv
On Bloggers & Personal 10/17/2004 8:31:49 PM PDT · 1 reply · 32+ views


Institute of Nautical Archaeology | on web, January 2003 | Cynthia Jones Eiseman
Unquestionably the most exciting object from the wreck is the bronze bearded head (Fig. 1). From black glaze bowls and lamps recovered from the stern of the ship, we can fix the time of the ship's sinking to the last quarter of the 5th century. The bronze head must, then, have been made no later than some time late in the 5th century, although some scholars, seeing the sculpture out of its archaeological context, would have placed it in the 4th century... Sculpture formed only a small part of the cargo, which included in addition amphoras containing wine and possibly...
 

Ancient Middle East
Archaeology Team Helps Find Oldest Deep-Sea Shipwrecks
  Posted by SunkenCiv
On Bloggers & Personal 10/17/2004 9:02:20 PM PDT · 3 replies · 78+ views


Harvard Gazette | September 16, 1999 | Alvin Powell
They were found 1,000 feet down in June by a team made up of Harvard archaeologists led by Lawrence Stager, Dorot Professor of the Archaeology of Israel, and a crew from the Connecticut-based Institute for Exploration, headed by oceanographer Robert Ballard. The ships are the oldest ever found in the deep sea and may change the understanding of ancient Mediterranean commerce. Because many shallow-water wrecks have been found, historians and archaeologists believed that ancient sailors preferred routes that hugged the coastline. Modern technology, however, is opening a new field of deep-water archaeology, which is showing that ancient sailors did indeed...
 

Calvin to show Petra exhibit
  Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 10/16/2004 6:27:42 PM PDT · 7 replies · 97+ views


Grand Rapids Press | Friday, October 15, 2004 | Matt Vandebunte (cont. by Jennifer Ackerman-Haywood)
"Petra: Lost City of Stone" will be displayed from April 4 to Aug. 15. It will be the third American stop following its opening in New York and current stop in Cincinnati. To prepare for the exhibit, Calvin administrators plan to renovate the 2-year-old Prince Conference Center to include a museum-quality heating and cooling system, improved security and viewing spaces with special lighting... Bierling, an archaeologist, teacher and photographer, approached Calvin about sponsoring the multimillion-dollar exhibit that was turned down by other West Michigan venues, including the Van Andel Museum Center.
 

Quest for the Phoenicians (National Geographic special)
  Posted by SunkenCiv
On Bloggers & Personal 10/17/2004 7:53:23 AM PDT · 10 replies · 87+ views


PBS | Oct 20 2004 | National Geographic
In "Quest for the Phoenicians," three renowned scientists, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence and oceanographer Robert Ballard, geneticist Spencer Wells and archaeologist Paco Giles, search for clues about the Phoenicians in the sea, in the earth and in the blood of their modern-day descendents... Ballard looks at ancient shipwrecks along Skerki Bank off the island of Sicily... Paco Giles excavates a cave at the bottom of the rock of Gibraltar... Spencer Wells collects DNA from a 2,500-year-old Phoenician mummy's tooth, to extract its unique genetic code and compare it with DNA samples collected from men and women from Lebanon to Tunisia.
 

More Ancient Wrecks
Mindell has role in ancient shipwreck discovery
  Posted by SunkenCiv
On Bloggers & Personal 10/17/2004 9:07:03 PM PDT · 1 reply · 43+ views


Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Sept 10 1997 | Denise Brehm
"These wrecks are absolutely pristine. Of course there is biological decay of the ship itself, but things are arranged exactly as they were the day it sank, with the same physical relationship between objects in the cargo holds," Professor Mindell said. The wrecks included five ships from ancient Roman times; one Islamic ship, probably medieval; and two sailing ships from the 18th or 19th century. The oldest wreck, about 120 feet long, had two cargo holds containing bronze vessels, at least eight types of amphorae for carrying foodstuffs, an array of kitchen and other household wares and two large lead...
 

The Shipwreck at Assarca Island, Eritrea
  Posted by SunkenCiv
On Bloggers & Personal 10/17/2004 9:22:14 PM PDT · 5 replies · 50+ views


Institute of Nautical Archaeology | Revised January 1996 | Ralph K. Pedersen, M.A.
It is not known whether the wood fragments were wreck material, or if they were associated with the remains of a Stalin's Organ lying nearby. No other artifacts, including anchors, were found despite the digging of several small test pits approximately 15 cm. deep to determine the extent of the wreck. It is probable more artifacts lie under the sand, as well as concreted into the coral. My original opinion of the date of the pottery was 7th century...I believed, however, a date a few centuries earlier or later was also possible. Research has revealed that my initial dating...
 

Let's Have Jerusalem!
Three centuries before Christ's birth, people celebrated 25 December, archaeologists claim
  Posted by freedom44
On News/Activism 12/28/2003 10:32:36 PM PST · 8 replies · 72+ views


Indepedent UK | 12/25/03 | David Keys
Archeologists say they have traced the origins of the first Christmas to be celebrated on 25 December, 300 years before the birth of Christ. The original event marked the consecration of the ancient world's largest sun god statue, the 34m tall, 200 ton Colossus of Rhodes. It has long been known that 25 December was not the real date of Christ's birth and that the decision to turn it into Jesus's birthday was made by Constantine, the Roman Emperor, in the early 4th century AD. But experts believe the origins of that decision go back to 283 BC, when, in...
 

Asia
Ancient Pillboxes In Dainba (Tibet)
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/19/2004 7:46:57 PM PDT · 9 replies · 303+ views


Tibet News | 10-19-2004
Ancient pillboxes in Dainba In Dainba County of Garze Prefecture, there are many °?skyscraping°± pillboxes. Dainba County is situated to the east of Khamba. It lies between Gonggar Mountain and Four-Girl Mountain, and is adjacent to Aba Prefecture°Øs Xiaojin County and Jinchuan County. On both sides of the Dadu River, there are lots of towering ancient pillboxes facing the boundless mountains and the tremendous strong winds by standing on those steep mountain slopes near to beautiful Tibetan villages. There are now nearly a thousand pillboxes still existing in Dainba County and more than 280 of them are the most intact...
 

Archaeologists Unearth 3,000-Year-Old Tombs In Northwest China
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/20/2004 1:55:02 PM PDT · 17 replies · 307+ views


AFP/Yahoo | 10-19-2004
Archaeologists unearth 3,000-year-old tombs in northwest China Tue Oct 19, 1:19 PM ET Science - AFP BEIJING (AFP) - Chinese archaeologists are unearthing a group of tombs believed to be the family cemetery of the Duke of Zhou, a de facto imperial ruler who lived about 3,000 years ago, state media said. Big Screen Action The season's hottest new games, cool arcade classics, and handhelds you've got to have. Archaeologists discovered the group of 22 tombs in February at Qi Mountain in the northwestern province of Shaanxi. They cover an area of about 80,000 square meters (860,800 square feet), the...
 

China's Golden Age, Over Five Crucial Centuries
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/23/2004 3:19:37 PM PDT · 5 replies · 121+ views


International Heral Tribune | 10-23-2004 | Souren Melikian
China’s ‘Golden Age,’ over five crucial centuries Souren Melikian International Herald Tribune Saturday, October 23, 2004 NEW YORK As they walk through the Metropolitan Museum’s ‘‘China: Dawn of a Golden Age, 200-750 A.D.,’’ many people will marvel at the new portrait of Chinese art and culture over five crucial centuries that comes across almost instantly. The myth of a monolithic, self-absorbed China is swept aside once and for all. In a gripping introduction (sometimes difficult to follow because it is so packed with information), James Watt, the Met curator who masterminded this unforgettable exhibition, describes the intermingling of the...
 

Origins and Prehistory
Ancient dung reveals a picture of the past
  Posted by SteveH
On News/Activism 04/23/2003 9:41:25 AM PDT · 35 replies · 102+ views


ABC Science Online (Australia) | 4/18/03 | Abbie Thomas
News in Science 18/4/2003 Ancient dung reveals a picture of the past [This is the print version of story http://www.abc.net.au An arctic mound of soil covering a core of solid ice in northeastern Siberia (Pic: Science) The successful dating of the most ancient genetic material yet may allow scientists to use preserved DNA from sources such as mammoth dung to help paint a picture of past environments. An international research effort led by Eske Willerslev of the University of Copenhagen in Denmark reports in today?s issue of the journal Science it has extracted well preserved animal and plant DNA from...
 

Donkey DNA Shows African Asses Were First Tamed
  Posted by Junior
On General/Chat 06/17/2004 1:06:21 PM PDT · 19 replies · 50+ views


Science - Reuters | 2004-06-17
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - African wild asses were probably tamed not once but twice in locations far apart to become the willing donkeys that carry loads the world over, an international team of researchers reported Thursday. Their study of donkey DNA suggests that two separate female wild asses are the ancestors of today's domesticated donkeys. "Sparse archeological evidence from Egypt suggests that donkeys, like horses, were domesticated about 5,000 years ago," Albano Beja-Pereira of the French research institute CNRS in Grenoble and colleagues wrote in their report, published in the journal Science. "Exactly where this occurred is still unclear." They used...
 

Extinct humans left louse legacy (Homo Erectus and Homo Sapiens)
  Posted by TigerLikesRooster
On News/Activism 10/16/2004 3:53:39 AM PDT · 26 replies · 529+ views


BBC News | 10/06/04 | Paul Rincon
Extinct humans left louse legacy By Paul Rincon BBC News Online science staff The evolutionary history of head lice is tied very closely to that of their hosts Some head lice infesting people today were probably spread to us thousands of years ago by an extinct species of early human, a genetics study reveals. It shows that when our ancestors left Africa after 100,000 years ago, they made direct contact with tribes of "archaic" peoples, probably in Asia. Lice could have jumped from them on to our ancestors during fights, sex, clothes-sharing or even cannibalism. Details of the research appear...
 

Astronomy and Catastrophism
The Dark Ages: Were They Darker Than We Imagined?
  Posted by blam
On General/Chat 09/24/2002 11:18:33 AM PDT · 28 replies · 132+ views


Universe | Sept 99 | Greg Bryant
The Dark Ages : Were They Darker Than We Imagined? By Greg Bryant Published in the September 1999 issue of Universe As we approach the end of the Second Millennium, a review of ancient history is not what you would normally expect to read in the pages of Universe. Indeed, except for reflecting on the AD 837 apparition of Halley's Comet (when it should have been as bright as Venus and would have moved through 60 degrees of sky in one day as it passed just 0.03 AU from Earth - three times closer than Hyakutake in 1996), you may...
 

Roman Comet 5,000 Times More Powerful Than A-Bomb
  Posted by freedom44
On News/Activism 10/17/2004 3:36:42 PM PDT · 50 replies · 1,608+ views


Scotsman | 10/17/04 | John von Radowitz
People living in southern Germany during Roman times may have witnessed a comet impact 5,000 times more destructive than the Hiroshima atom bomb, researchers say. Scientists believe a field of craters around Lake Chiemsee, in south-east Bavaria, was caused by fragments of a huge comet that broke up in the Earthís atmosphere. Celtic artefacts found at the site, including a number of coins, appear to have been strongly heated on one side. This discovery, together with evidence from ancient tree rings and Roman reports of "stones falling from the sky", has led researchers to conclude that the impact happened in...
 
The Eltanin Impact Crater
  Posted by SunkenCiv
On Bloggers & Personal 10/17/2004 9:46:13 PM PDT · 17 replies · 169+ views


Geological Society of America | October 27-30, 2002 | Christy A. Glatz, Dallas H. Abbott, and Alice A. Nunes
An impact event occurred at 2.15±0.5 Ma in the Bellingshausen Sea. It littered the oceanic floor with asteroidal debris. This debris is found within the Eltanin Impact Layer. Although the impact layer was known, the crater had yet to be discovered. We have found a possible source crater at 53.7S,90.1W under 5000 meters of water. The crater is 132±5km in diameter, much larger than the previously proposed size of 24 to 80 km.
 

Ice Age coming into Focus!
  Posted by cureforcancer
On General/Chat 06/05/2004 2:32:35 PM PDT · 19 replies · 186+ views


The Neutrino Report | 1995, 2004 | Robert Texas Bailey(Tex)
"In 1990 they found that the Earth goes through abrupt temperature changes from deep ice samples in Greenland of about 10,000 years ago the Earthís temperature dropped 19 degrees" (research found by weather channel) taking 5-10 years (weather channel) but from analytical data, I intend to show this could take for the most part one year (Robert T Bailey) and more shocking a large part of the temperature change will happen this year! The End of the World as we known it is coming; an ice Age will change the face of the Earth. We have a crisis here. In...
 

Giant asteroid rocked Antarctica
  Posted by SunkenCiv
On Bloggers & Personal 10/17/2004 9:26:51 PM PDT · 12 replies · 185+ views


Near Earth Object Information Centre | 8/20/2004 | staff
The collision happened around 870 000 years ago, a time when Homo erectus, manís early ancestor, was still roaming the planet. Molten asteroid slabs melted through more than 1.5 kilometres of ice and snow to reach the underlying bedrock... Billions of tons of ice, snow and rock would have been vaporised and thrown into the atmosphere. Rock particles that fell to the ground have been located more that 5 000 kilometres away in Australia. The impact was so immense that it is being considered as the cause of a reversal of the Earthís magnetic polarity around this time. One...
 

Small Comets and Our Origins
  Posted by SunkenCiv
On Bloggers & Personal 10/19/2004 11:13:25 PM PDT · 37 replies · 178+ views


University of Iowa | circa 1999 | Louis A. Frank
Given the reality of the dark spots, which soon became known as "atmospheric holes" because of their appearance in the images, there is only one explanation which has endured over all these years to present. That is, the holes are due to the shadowing of the atmospheric light by an object above the atmosphere. This object simply cannot be a stony or iron meteor because the holes are very large, tens of miles in diameter. A rock of this size would provide a disastrous impact on the Earth's surface. As it turns out, water vapor is very good at absorbing...
 

Miscellany
Luther's lavatory thrills experts
  Posted by wagglebee
On General/Chat 10/23/2004 12:38:21 PM PDT · 6 replies · 76+ views


BBC News | 10/22/04 | BBC News
Archaeologists in Germany say they may have found a lavatory where Martin Luther launched the Reformation of the Christian church in the 16th Century.The stone room is in a newly-unearthed annex to Luther's house in Wittenberg. Luther is quoted as saying he was "in cloaca", or in the sewer, when he was inspired to argue that salvation is granted because of faith, not deeds. The scholar suffered from constipation and spent many hours in contemplation on the toilet seat. 'Earthy Christianity'The lavatory was built in the period 1516-17, according to Dr Martin Treu, a theologian and Luther expert based in...
 

Medieval Houses Of God, Or Ancient Fortresses?
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/19/2004 5:52:31 PM PDT · 18 replies · 496+ views


Archaeology | November/December 2004 | David Keys
Medieval Houses of God, or Ancient Fortresses? Volume 57 Number 6, November/December 2004 by David Keys Cambridge archaeologist has redated the church of the archangel Gabriel, previously believed to have been carved from the rock at Lalibela, Ethiopia, around A.D. 1200, to between A.D. 600 and 800. The church may originally have been built as a fortress. (Courtesy Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology, Cambridge) Investigations in Lalibela, Ethiopia, are revealing that Africa's most important historical Christian site is much older than previously thought. Up until now, scholars have regarded the spectacular complex of 11 rock-cut churches as dating from around...
 

Victorian trousers left in personal 'time capsule'
  Posted by martin_fierro
On General/Chat 10/22/2004 7:10:59 PM PDT · 15 replies · 236+ views


AFP/Yahoo | Fri Oct 22, 1:34 PM ET
Victorian trousers left in personal 'time capsule' Fri Oct 22, 1:34 PM ET LONDON (AFP) - Workers renovating a British theatre have uncovered a personal time capsule left the last time the building was spruced up, containing a letter and, more curiously, a pair of Victorian trousers. The note, written on March 6, 1901 by a man identifying himself as Frank Morrill, requests that the well-used workman's trousers be handed to a museum. The time capsule, also containing some tools, was found behind a ceiling panel this week at the 17th Century Sheldonian Theatre, part of Oxford University, a university...
 

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138 posted on 10/23/2004 8:01:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("All I have seen teaches me trust the Creator for all I have not seen." -- Emerson)
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs
Weekly Digest #15

Ancient Europe
Golden treasures from Cornwall's past
  Posted by SunkenCiv
On Bloggers & Personal10/24/2004 9:25:23 PM PDT · 5 replies · 86+ views


Meyn Mamvro | prior to 2004 | Cheryl Straffon
Perhaps the most famous gold object discovered in Cornwall is the magnificent cup made from corrugated sheet gold found in a cist in Rillaton barrow on the edge of Bodmin Moor (SX2603 7191), about a quarter of a mile NNE of the Hurlers stone circles. It was discovered in 1837 together with the skeleton of a man, a bronze dagger, pieces of ivory and glass beads (all now lost)... Patricia M. Christie in an essay entitled ìCornwall in the Bronze Ageî (Cornish Archaeology, 25. p.96) makes the intriguing suggestion that the cup may be connected to the Aegean, specifically the...
 

Epigraphy and Language
Coin From an 'Alien Civilization'
  Posted by billorites
On News/Activism10/29/2004 4:09:29 AM PDT · 54 replies · 2,079+ views


Arab News | October 29, 2004 | Staff
† Al-JOUF, 29 October 2004 ó A Saudi newspaper yesterday reported the discovery of what it called a rare coin with unique features that belonged to an ancient civilization. The paper said the coin had an inscription in an unknown language that was not English. It described the coin as having a palm tree with eight branches, a woman sunbathing, a ship and a castle with a dome.According to the newspaper, the coin belonged to an ancient civilization that flourished in Al-Jouf. The strange thing is that the ìstrangeî coin, which the paper claimed had an inscription in an...
 

PreColumbian, Clovis, PreClovis
Vikings/Norse in Minnesota
  Posted by DoloresCobbPhifer
On General/Chat10/26/2004 10:23:31 AM PDT · 7 replies · 92+ views


freerepublic.com | 10/26-2004 | DoloresCobbPhifer
Did the Vikings Stay... Vatican Files May Offer Clues. / How did the Swedes end up in Minnesota?
 

Vikings/Norse in Minnesota
  Posted by DoloresCobbPhifer
On General/Chat10/26/2004 10:34:20 AM PDT · 2 replies · 64+ views


freerepublic.com | 10/26/2004 | DoloresCobbPhifer
Did the Vikings Stay... Vatican Files May Offer Clues. / How did the Swedes end up in Minnesota?
 

Let's Have Jerusalem!
The Cave Of Lot's Seduction And The Monestary It Inspired
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism10/25/2004 7:59:47 AM PDT · 2 replies · 367+ views


Daily Star | 10-25-2004 | Konstantine D. Politis
The Cave Of Lot's Seduction And The Monestary It InspiredBy konstantine D. Politis Special to The Daily Star Monday, October 25, 2004The cave of Lot's seduction and the monastery it inspired Jordanian site of Deir Ain Abata testifies to a thriving Byzantine and Umayyad-era Christian community Amman: The ruins were first discovered during an archaeological survey at the south-east end of the Dead Sea in 1986, near a spring named Ain Abata. After further investigations it was evident that the site - near today's Ghor al-Safi, the biblical city of Zoara - was none other that the Sanctuary of Agios...
 

Offshore Find Dates To Kind David's Time Archaeologist Hopes 3,000 Year Old Wood Is From Ship
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism10/28/2004 12:41:09 PM PDT · 13 replies · 587+ views


Sf Chronicle | 10-28-2004 | Matthew Kalman
Offshore find dates to King David's time Archaeologist hopes 3,000-year-old wood is from ancient ship Matthew Kalman, Chronicle Foreign Service Thursday, October 28, 2004 Hof Dor, Israel -- An archaeologist's dog may have discovered the first ship ever found from the period of King David and his son, Solomon, who ruled the holy land 3, 000 ago. The remains, which have been carbon-dated to the ninth century B.C., include a huge stone anchor believed to be the largest ever unearthed. The wreckage is lying under a few inches of sand off the Mediterranean coast in shallow waters, and has yet...
 

A Proverbial Heritage
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism10/25/2004 7:45:22 AM PDT · 3 replies · 84+ views


Al-Ahram | 10-24-2004
A proverbial heritage For 50 years, scholarship has tended to play down the interrelations between Ancient Egyptian culture and the religion of the biblical Hebrews. Jill Kamil argues it is time to re-open investigations Egyptian guards bring in pairs of Semitic prisoners (with long beards and heavy robes), their hands in long wooden manacles; the Pharaoh Akhenaten worshipping the solar orb as the creator and preserver of mankind; an Egyptian official receiving Semitic immigrants (tomb of Haremhab) Egypt is indisputably a part of the Biblical tradition. This much is clear, not only from the role the country plays in providing...
 

Asia
2,000-year-old 6ft 6ins warrior giant discovered
  Posted by vannrox
On News/Activism07/31/2002 8:30:13 AM PDT · 46 replies · 136+ views


ANANOVA post of BBC Report | Story filed: 10:01 Wednesday 31st July 2002 | BBC
2,000-year-old 6ft 6ins warrior giant discovered The remains of an enormous warrior who fought more than 2,000 years ago have been found in Kazakhstan. The soldier was heavily armed and stood around 6ft 6ins tall. Archaeologists believe he was well-built and revered by people who buried him with his weapons. The BBC says the warrior lived around the first century BC. Historians say this may lead them to re-examine the origins of the region's people.
 

7,000 Year Old Civilisation Site Needs Attention (Pakistan)
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism10/26/2004 5:50:36 PM PDT · 11 replies · 275+ views


Jang Group/The News | 10-26-2004 | Muhammad Ejaz Khan
7,000-year-old civilisation site needs attention By Muhammad Ejaz Khan QUETTA: Mehrgarh necropolis is one of the archaeological sites discovered in Balochistan during the last five decades, where a city had been buried for centuries under tons of earth. It tells us about the oldest human settlements in the South Asian region.The site, 140 kms southeast of the provincial capital, is located on the bank of the Bolan river near a settlement of Raisani tribe in the Bolan district. Archaeologists say it is one of the three oldest villages in the world, the other two being in Palestine and Iraq. French...
 

China Unearths Ancient Caucasian Tombs
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism10/24/2004 12:43:53 PM PDT · 123 replies · 2,074+ views


The Australian/AFP | 10-25-2004
China unearths ancient Caucasian tombs AFP October 25, 2004 BEIJING: Chinese archaeologists have started unearthing hundreds of tombs in an arid north-western region once home to a mysterious civilization that most likely was Caucasian, state media said Sunday. The researchers have begun work at Xiaohe, near the Lop Nur desert in Xinjiang region, where an estimated 1000 tombs await excavation, according to Xinhua news agency. Their findings could help shed light on one of the greatest current archaeological riddles and answer the question of how this isolated culture ended up thousands of kilometres from the nearest Caucasian community. The tombs,...
 


Origins and Prehistory
Dispute Over Classification Of New Species Of Prehistoric 'Human'
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism10/30/2004 7:53:02 AM PDT · 25 replies · 412+ views


ABC Net | 10-28-2004 | Alison Caldwell
Dispute over classification of new species of prehistoric 'human' The World Today - Thursday, 28 October, 2004 12:22:00 Reporter: Alison Caldwell ELEANOR HALL: The discovery of the dwarf humans or hobbits, as we just heard one the scientists calling them, has generated enormous interest and excitement among anthropologists around the world. But not all of them agree with the Australian scientists that this is a new species of human. Jeffrey Schwartz, who is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh in the Untied States, says while the discovery is extraordinary, the creature is more like an ape than...
 

Hobbit remains found in Australia
  Posted by presidio9
On General/Chat10/27/2004 10:51:55 AM PDT · 154 replies · 2,980+ views


Reuters | Wed, Oct 27, 2004 | Patricia Reaney
Scientists in Australia have found a new species of hobbit-sized humans who lived about 18,000 years ago on an Indonesian island in a discovery that adds another piece to the complex puzzle of human evolution. The partial skeleton of Homo floresiensis, found in a cave on the island of Flores, is of an adult female that was a metre (3 feet) tall, had a chimpanzee-sized brain and was substantially different from modern humans. It shared the isolated island to the east of Java with miniature elephants and Komodo dragons. The creature walked upright, probably evolved into its dwarf size because...
 

Indonesia's Lost World: Shaking Up The Family Tree (More - New Human Species)
  Posted by blam
On News/Activism10/29/2004 2:11:55 PM PDT · 32 replies · 455+ views


Archaeology | 10-28-2004 | Davisd Keys
Indonesia's Lost World: Shaking Up the Family Tree October 28, 2004 by David Keys Homo floresiensis skull (© Peter Brown) New archaeological discoveries by Australian and Indonesian scientists on the Indonesian island of Flores are revealing that until at least 13,000 to 12,000 years ago, modern humans--our species, Homo sapiens--shared this planet with a totally different species of human being--a three-foot-high dwarf hominid with physical features usually seen as dating from 1.5 to 4 million years ago. The scientists, mainly from Australia's University of New England and University of Wollongong, have found the skeletal remains of up to seven individuals...
 

Island of the Little People
  Posted by farmfriend
On General/Chat10/29/2004 4:48:24 PM PDT · 4 replies · 50+ views


Tech Central Station | 10/29/2004 | Jackson Kuhl
Island of the Little People By Jackson Kuhl The impact on physical anthropology of the diminutive hominid Homo floresiensis cannot be overstated. The discovery in a rock shelter on the Indonesian island of Flores, announced in the October 28 issue of Nature, included a near-complete skeleton of an adult female found in close context with stone tools. Bones and teeth of seven other individuals were also uncovered. Standing three feet tall, floresiensis appears to be the result of "island dwarfing," wherein species isolated in resource-poor areas shrink over time so that their consumption needs are fewer. Archaeologists believe floresiensis, whose...
 

Scientists Find Prehistoric Dwarf Skeleton
  Posted by Borges
On News/Activism10/27/2004 11:33:07 AM PDT · 47 replies · 1,006+ views


Yahoo
Science - AP By JOSEPH B. VERRENGIA, AP Science Writer In a breathtaking discovery, scientists working on a remote Indonesian island say they have uncovered the bones of a human dwarf species marooned for eons while modern man rapidly colonized the rest of the planet. AP Photo Missed Tech Tuesday? Is your PC possessed? Learn eight ways to repel the monsters: hackers intent on causing trouble One tiny specimen, an adult female measuring about 3 feet tall, is described as "the most extreme" figure to be included in the extended human family. Certainly, she is the shortest. This hobbit-sized creature...
 

Tiny new species of human unearthed - most important palaeoanthropological find for 50 years
  Posted by Truth666
On General/Chat10/27/2004 11:28:18 AM PDT · 41 replies · 701+ views


newscientist. | 27 October 04
The remains of a tiny and hitherto unknown species of human that lived as recently as 13,000 years ago have been discovered on an Indonesian island. The discovery has been heralded as the most important palaeoanthropological find for 50 years, and has radically altered the accepted picture of human evolution. The female skeleton, known as LB1 - or by the nickname "Ebu" - has been assigned to a new species within the genus Homo - Homo floresiensis. Examination of the remains shows members of the species stood just 1 metre tall and had a brain no bigger than a grapefruit....
 

Miscellany
Lady Eleanor Talbot
  Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat10/24/2004 8:31:05 PM PDT · 7 replies · 63+ views


Fact-Index.com | prior to today | Wikipedia
No records survive of the meeting of the Parliamentary lords on June 9, 1483, where Stillington is said to have presented the evidence of the pre-contract, including documents and other witnesses. The Duke of Buckingham is supposed to have told Morton afterwards that he had believed that evidence when he saw it but had later changed his mind. When Henry VII of England came to the throne, he ordered all documents relating to the case to be destroyed, as well as the act of parliament by which Richard was enabled to claim the throne; so efficiently were his orders carried...
 

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