Welcome to Digest number 64. I hope this will be the last of the plain text digests. It's a real pain in my keister to do it this way, and it isn't as pretty.
Some of these GGG topics are merely refreshed, others appear for the first time.
Gods, Graves, Glyphs
Weekly Digest number 64
Saturday, October 8, 2005
Ancient Egypt:
No topics. Mummy told me there'd be weeks like these.
Elam, Persia, Parthia:
Ancient Persia comes alive in British exhibition
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1495375/posts
Ancient Warriors Surrender In Kharand Cemetery
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1497198/posts
Good Video on Ancient Persia Exhibition in London
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1495381/posts
Persian festival celebrates autumn (Orange County, Calif)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1495556/posts
Iran: Female Gambler Skeleton Comes Out Of Grave
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1498011/posts
Human Sacrifice Was Common In Burnt City (Iran)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1309803/posts
Ancient Earrings Discovered At Burnt City Disprove Ornament Theory
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1359628/posts
5,000 Years Ago, Women Held Power In Burnt City, Iran
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308060/posts
Female population predominant in 5000-year-old Burnt City (Iran)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1380120/posts
Ancient Europe:
Jewel Of The Magdalenian Period (15,500 YO Necklace/Pendants, Basque Country)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1496503/posts
Walker Discovers 5,000-Year-Old Log Path On Moor
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1498652/posts
Ancient Greece:
Helike, ancient Greek city swallowed by the sea
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1435590/posts
Kourion: The Monuments Of The City
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1308481/posts
Ancient Rome:
Archaeologists Stumble On Brickworks Of Ancient Rome
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1495037/posts
Secrets of the Dead; Case File: The Great Fire of Rome
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1494993/posts
Statues of Ancient Goddesses Found.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1494450/posts
Asia:
Archaeological Argument Breaks Out Over Indonesian Sunken Treasure
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1284767/posts
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis:
Discovery Could Change Dates For Human Arrival On The Great Plains
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1343817/posts
12,000-Year-Old Bones Found in Kansas
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1344006/posts
Ancient Peruvians Loved Their Spuds
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1496583/posts
Prehistory and Origins:
'Man the Hunter' theory is debunked in new book
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1335365/posts
Neanderthal Man 'Never Walked In Northern Europe'
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1196571/posts
Neolithic Agricultural Community's Daily Life Shown In Amazing Detail (Greece, 7,500 YA)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1498029/posts
Australia:
Australians Win Nobel For Linking Bug To Ulcers
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1495920/posts
Biology and Cryptobiology:
'Sighting' Of Tasmanian Tiger Sparks L1.2m Bounty Hunt
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1376341/posts
Spider 'is 20 million years old'
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1494285/posts
Epidemics, Pandemics, Plagues:
Scientists: 1918 Killer Spanish Flu Was a Bird Flu
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1497138/posts
Re-Creation of 1918-19 Virus Suggests Bigger Bird-Flu Threat
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1497139/posts
Deadly 1918 Epidemic Linked to Bird Flu, Scientists Say
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1497276/posts
Experts Unlock Clues to Spread of 1918 Flu Virus
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1497444/posts
U.S. Scientists Say 1918 Killer Pandemic Caused By Bird Flu
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1497783/posts
Catastrophism and Astronomy:
What just happened in sky over Los Angeles?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1426394/posts
Astronomers re-assess comet threat
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1481001/posts
Astronomy Picture of the Day 03-14-04
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1097357/posts
Astronomers Find a New Planet in Solar System
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1453462/posts
10 Years of Planet Hunting: Amazing Variety Out There
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1399867/posts
Climate:
A space station view on giant lightning (May play role in global warming!)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1496313/posts
Robert Felix (Ice Age Now) on Coast-to-Coast Live tonight (1am EDT)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1491813/posts
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany:
Getty Had Signs It Was Acquiring Possibly Looted Art, Documents Show
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1494900/posts
Islam's Teachings Prohibit Terrorism, Says Imam (Media Campaign Begins in Rome)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1489630/posts
Did Nazis get tip-off about Dresden blitz?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1353043/posts
Putin criticizes Allies for Dresden bombing
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1397643/posts
Gods Graves Glyphs Digest #64 20051008To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. Thanks.
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Weekly Digest #65
Saturday, October 15, 2005
Pacific, Australia, etc
Let's Have Jerusalem
Biblical palace found (?) near Old City (King David's Palace)
Posted by wagglebee
On News/Activism 10/15/2005 4:51:06 PM PDT · 37 replies · 1,460+ views
Ynetnews | 10/14/05 | David Hazony
The field of biblical archeology has been rocked, so to speak, by dramatic new finds in the heart of ancient Jerusalem. For the last few years, a number of respected archaeologists have posited that the biblical accounts of Jerusalem as the seat of a powerful, unified monarchy under the rule of David and Solomon are essentially false. The most prominent of these is Israel Finkelstein, chairman of Tel Aviv Universityís archeology department, whose 2001 book, "The Bible Unearthed," written together with Neal Asher Silberman, became an international best seller. The lynchpin of his argument was the absence of clear evidence...
Radiocarbon Dates Reveal That New Guinea Art Is Older Than Thought
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/13/2005 1:44:56 PM PDT · 22 replies · 372+ views
Eureka Alert/ UA | 10-13-2005 | Lori Stiles
Contact: Lori Stiles lstiles@u.arizona.edu 520-626-4402 University of Arizona Radiocarbon dates reveal that New Guinea art is older than thought When the de Young Museum reopens in a new, earthquake-resistant building in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park next Saturday, Oct. 15, it will debut what curators consider the largest and most important private collection of New Guinea art in the world. Gregory W. L. Hodgins and A. J. Timothy Jull of The University of Arizona will attend the gala event. The scientists have radiocarbon dated some of the collection that New York-based entrepreneur John Friede and his wife, Marcia, are giving...
Phoenicians
History Lies In The Silt Of Tyre
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/10/2005 3:23:10 PM PDT · 7 replies · 458+ views
The Times (UK) | 10-10-2005
History lies in the silt of Tyre By Norman Hammond, Archaeology Correspondent Lo, all our pomp of yesterday Is one with Nineveh and Tyre THUS Kipling saw the end of Empire. Nineveh is now a collection of dusty mounds on the Tigris near Mosul, endangered by looting in the lawlessness of modern Iraq, but Tyre survives as a modest port on the coast of Lebanon. It is also an archaeological site of immense potential importance, a study concludes. The silting up of its ancient northern harbour ìmeans that the heart of the Bronze Age, Phoenician, Greek, Roman and Byzantine ports...
Ancient Egypt
Egyptomania (originally 'Egyptomania')
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 10/08/2005 7:25:02 AM PDT · 3 replies · 121+ views
Metro West Daily News | Sunday, October 2, 2005 | Chris Bergeron
Yet for years Hollywood and pop culture too often reduced one of the world's great civilizations to stereotypes of Boris Karloff's mummy, King Tut's curse and The Rock's "Scorpion King." ...Like the earliest travelers to the kingdom on the Nile, visitors will see the Great Sphinx sprawling across the sands, Queen Nefertiti in her palace and Bedouin crossing the desert.
Ancient Rome
Roman Finds Re-Write History
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/14/2005 4:44:24 PM PDT · 53 replies · 1,579+ views
Isle Of Wight County Press | 10-14-2005 | Suzanne Pert
ROMAN FINDS RE-WRITE HISTORYBy Suzanne Pert AMAZING finds by archaeologists during recent excavations at Brading Roman Villa mean history will have to be re-written, not just there but at other important mosaic sites around the country.Archaeologist Kevin Trott with some of the pieces of pottery found at the Brading Roman Villa site. Picture by PETER BOAM Although his findings are still to be published, archaeologist Kevin Trott has compiled a 400-page report, which has dispelled some long-held myths and is set to take the archaeological world by storm. This week he gave the County Press an insight into the archaeologically-explosive...
Ancient Europe
A 6,000-Year-Old Dales Story Of Ritual And Cannibalism...
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/08/2005 4:40:03 PM PDT · 42 replies · 892+ views
Yorkshire Post | 10-8-2005 | Sally Cope
A 6,000-year Dales story of ritual and cannibalism... Bone finds in Yorkshire caves finally throw light on stone age life after breakthrough in radio-carbon dating. Sally CopeFarmer Tom Lord pictured at the entrance to the caves in Giggleswick THEY roamed the earth almost 6,000 years ago, performing rituals on animal remains and devouring human body parts. But these are not the strange creatures of film or fiction ñ they were farmers in the Yorkshire Dales. New research on bones discovered in six Dales caves has revealed that farming in the area dates back thousands of years ñ and with it...
Footsteps From The Past: The Ancient Village Of Skra Brae
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/12/2005 5:23:11 PM PDT · 24 replies · 575+ views
Scotsman | 10-12-2005 | Caroline Wickham-Jones
Footsteps from the past: the ancient village of Skara Brae CAROLINE WICKHAM-JONES SCOTLAND'S towns and settlements are proud of their roots, but few can boast the antiquity of Skara Brae on the Orkney Islands. Originally built around 3100BC to house a small group of Neolithic farming families, the abandoned houses with their stone dressers, beds and hearths provide a remarkable glimpse of a lifestyle that has long disappeared. Of course the village developed slowly, as any village today, but Skara Brae is notable for the quality of its remains. The historic site still provides a powerful message, even for the...
Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
Bones Of Dismembered Warriors Unearthed At Ancient Tul Talesh (Iran)
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/12/2005 6:04:13 PM PDT · 9 replies · 267+ views
Mehr News | 10-12-2005
Bones of dismembered warriors unearthed at ancient Tul Talesh TEHRAN, Oct. 12 (MNA) -- Archaeologists recently unearthed a great number of skeletons at the ancient site of Tul Talesh which are believed to be the remains of warriors who were dismembered and killed in battle, the Persian service of the Cultural Heritage News (CHN) agency reported on Tuesday. The skeletons were found without heads, feet, and hands in the cemetery of Tul Talesh, which covers an area of 350 hectares. Located 140 kilometers northwest of Rasht in Gilan Province, the cemetery is one of Iranís unique ancient burial grounds. Tul...
Five ancient inscriptions unearthed at Haft-Tappeh
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 10/10/2005 2:24:50 PM PDT · 8 replies · 151+ views
Tehran Times | October 10 2005 | staff writer
...several seal impressions and clay inscriptions found at Haft-Tappeh contain the name Kabnak, and it is possible that this was the original name of the city. The team has also been tasked with discovering the exact location of Kabnak, where the Elamite king Tepti-ahar built a temple complex in the fifteenth century BC and was buried at the site. Tepti-ahar, the last ruler of the Kidinuid period (1460-1400 BC), known from inscribed bricks and a sale contract from Susa and a text said to be from Malamir (in Lorestan Province), is mentioned on approximately 55 tablets of Haft-Tappeh, bearing the...
Winged Goddesses Flew Over Iran
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/12/2005 5:04:06 PM PDT · 24 replies · 776+ views
CHN | 10-12-2005
10/12/2005 2:49:00 PM Winged Goddesses Flew over IranThe first ever icons of winged goddesses have been discovered northwest of Iran. Tehran, 12 October 2005 (CHN) ñ The recent excavations in Rabat Teppe archaeological site in Sardasht, Northwestern Iran, led to discovery of four icons of winged goddesses on bricks which belong to 3000 years ago. These are the first ever winged goddesses found in Iran. In initial measures, the area of the archaeological site was believed to be 14 hectares but recent studies extend its measures to 25 hectares. ìThis season of the excavations has led to discovery of four...
Ancient Greece
Andritsa Cave's Chamber Of Secrets
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/09/2005 2:24:01 PM PDT · 11 replies · 595+ views
Athens News | 10-9-2005 | Christy Papadopoulou
Andritsa Cave's chamber of secretsLate 6th-century finds retrieved from the Argolid cave and exhibited at theByzantine and Christian Museum begin to unfold the story of a group of peoplewho sought refuge there and slowly starved to death CHRISTY PAPADOPOULOU A large number of transporting and storage vessels from clay were found in the cave (above). Bronze processional cross with the Sunday prayer engraved on both its sides A NATURAL shelter in case of inclement weather and dangerous situations, and occasionally the place to practise cult rituals, caves often keep their secrets hermetically sealed. The Andritsa Cave in the Municipality of...
Greek Cave Puzzles Archaeologists
Posted by NYer
On News/Activism 10/14/2005 6:31:41 AM PDT · 53 replies · 1,715+ views
Moscow Times | October 14, 2005 | Nicholas Paphitis
ATHENS -- Deep under a quiet valley in southern Greece, archaeologists are struggling to unravel a 1,400-year-old tragedy that wiped out a rural Byzantine community. Sometime in the late 6th century, a group of at least 33 young men, women, and children sought sanctuary from an unknown terror in a sprawling subterranean network of caves in the eastern Peloponnese. Carrying supplies of food and water, oil-lamps, a large Christian cross and their small savings, the refugees apparently hunkered down to wait out the threat. But experts believe the sanctuary became a tomb once supplies ran out. "In the end, they...
Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 10/09/2005 8:29:26 PM PDT · 29 replies · 496+ views
PRNewswire | Sep. 14, 2005 | Melanie Pope of Renault Communications
While Hughes explores the Late Bronze Age reality behind the story of Helen, she takes in some of the most beautiful scenery of the ancient world, from the magnificent citadel at Mycenae to the spectacular site of the shrine to Helen, high in the hills above Sparta. She also tastes the food of the ancient world -- based on the latest archaeological research -- and discovers how the conflict in Helen's name would really have been fought. Working with weapons experts and accurate replicas of chariots pulled by local gypsy horses, Hughes experiences firsthand how chariots and archers battled beneath...
A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War
Posted by Valin
On General/Chat 10/15/2005 4:22:57 PM PDT · 19 replies · 390+ views
New York Times | October 13, 2005 | William Grimes
What the First World War was for Europe, the Peloponnesian War was for the ancient Greeks. It was also their Napoleonic Wars and their American Civil War. The protracted, ruinous conflict between Athens and Sparta, which dragged on for nearly 30 years (431 B.C. to 404 B.C.), prefigured, in one way or another, nearly every major conflict to come, right up the present war on terror. The "war like no other," as Thucydides called it, continues to fascinate because it always seems pertinent, and never more so than in Victor Davis Hanson's highly original, strikingly contemporary retelling of the superpower...
Dionysus
Cyprus 'first to make wine'
Posted by nickcarraway
On News/Activism 05/17/2005 1:17:27 AM PDT · 28 replies · 454+ views
Dcanter | May 16, 2005
Cyprus was the first Mediterranean country to make wine, an Italian archaeologist has claimed. Maria-Rosaria Belgiorno said she uncovered evidence, during an archaeological dig near the southern coastal town of Limassol, that Cypriots produced wine up to 6,000 years ago, AFP reports. 'At Pyrgos we found two jugs used for wine and the seeds of the grapes. And at Erimi, of the 18 pots we looked at, 12 were used for wine between 3,500BC and 3,000BC,' Belgiorno was quoted as saying in the Cyprus Weekly newspaper. It was previously believed that the Mediterranean wine-making tradition originated in what is now...
Asia
Aerial photography sheds light on Kublai Khan's capital (Marco Polo was right)
Posted by wagglebee
On News/Activism 10/09/2005 9:56:09 AM PDT · 22 replies · 1,364+ views
Xinhuanet | 10/8/05 | Xinhuanet
BEIJING, Oct. 8 (Xinhuanet) -- Aerial photography has helped shed new light on the capital of Kublai Khan's empire, also known as Xuanadu in Marco Polo's Travel Notes. The description of the metropolis Shangdu (Xuanadu) by Marco Polo some 700 years ago has somewhat been confirmed by aerial photography, Yang Lin, director of the center of remote sensing and aerial photography of China's National Museum, told Xinhua on Saturday. "We can see the spectacular city with its scale and the density of buildings," Yang said. The ruins have been overgrown with grass for more than 600 years. Archaeologists have taken...
Inner Mongolia - Aerial photography sheds light on Kubla Khan's capital (Xanadu)
Posted by HAL9000
On General/Chat 10/08/2005 10:34:49 PM PDT · 10 replies · 263+ views
Xinhua News Agency (China)
Aerial photography sheds light on Kublai Khan's capital BEIJING, Oct. 8 (Xinhuanet) -- Aerial photography has helped shed new light on the capital of Kublai Khan's empire, also known as Xuanadu in Marco Polo's Travel Notes. The description of the metropolis Shangdu (Xuanadu) by Marco Polo some 700 years ago has somewhat been confirmed by aerial photography, Yang Lin, director of the center of remote sensing and aerial photography of China's National Museum, told Xinhua on Saturday. "We can see the spectacular city with its scale and the density of buildings," Yang said. The ruins have been overgrown with...
Chinese Archaeologists Find New Cultural Relics Of Ancient Loulan City
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/08/2005 4:00:40 PM PDT · 8 replies · 263+ views
Xinhuanet/China View | 10-8-2005
Chinese archeologists find new cultural relics of ancient Loulan city www.chinaview.cn 2005-10-08 22:36:44 URUMQI, Oct. 8 (Xinhuanet) -- A team of Chinese archeologists have discovered new cultural relics in the ruins of the ancient Loulan city, which is supposed to be the capital of the Loulan Kingdom and is part of Chinese ancient civilization that vanished 1,500 years ago. The findings, located underground northwest of an ancient government office site, include camel feces, fodder, charcoal and bestial bones under a 70-centimeter-thick layer dating back to the Eastern Han Dynasty (25 AD to 220 AD). "The discovery provides another important evidence...
New cultural relics of ancient Loulan city found (China- 1,500 Years Old)
Posted by nickcarraway
On News/Activism 10/09/2005 12:14:20 AM PDT · 2 replies · 157+ views
Xinhua | 2005-10-08
URUMQI, Oct. 8 (Xinhuanet) -- A team of Chinese archeologists have discovered new cultural relics in the ruins of the ancient Loulan city, which is supposed to be the capital of the Loulan Kingdom and is part of Chinese ancient civilization that vanished 1,500 years ago. The findings, located underground northwest of an ancient government office site, include camel feces, fodder, charcoal and bestial bones under a 70-centimeter-thick layer dating back to the Eastern Han Dynasty (25 AD to 220 AD). "The discovery provides another important evidence for the controversy whether Loulan city was the capital of the Loulan Kingdom,"...
Oldest noodles unearthed in China
Posted by bigmac0707
On News/Activism 10/12/2005 1:36:46 PM PDT · 76 replies · 960+ views
BBC News | 9/12/05 | BBC News
Oldest noodles unearthed in China Late Neolithic noodles: They may settle the origin debate The 50cm-long, yellow strands were found in a pot that had probably been buried during a catastrophic flood. Radiocarbon dating of the material taken from the Lajia archaeological site on the Yellow River indicates the food was about 4,000 years old. Scientists tell the journal Nature that the noodles were made using grains from millet grass - unlike modern noodles, which are made with wheat flour. The discovery goes a long way to settling the old argument over who first created the string-like food. Professor Houyuan...
Chinese Scientists Unearth 4,000-Year-Old Noodle Dish (Suggests Pasta Invented In China)
Posted by nickcarraway
On News/Activism 10/15/2005 3:55:18 PM PDT · 44 replies · 421+ views
KTVU | October 13, 2005
Ancient Finding Suggests Pasta Invented In ChinaBEIJING -- Who invented noodles first? A discovery in western China could bolster the argument that the Chinese came up with pasta before the the Italians. Researchers have found a 4,000-year-old clump of yellow noodles inside an overturned bowl in China. The noodles had been made from a dough of two local varieties of millet. The bowl had become sealed with clay, so the noodles were preserved. The findings are published in this week's issue of the journal Nature. A Chinese researcher said they're definitely the earliest noodles ever found. The researcher said the...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Camden tool could be 5,000 years old
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 10/12/2005 9:18:35 AM PDT · 9 replies · 144+ views
VillageSoup.com (Greater Portland Region, Maine) | Oct 12, 2005 | Lynda Clancy
Bruce Borque, an archeologist at the Maine State Museum who is well acquainted with the Red Paint People... visited Rainville and Mannion last week and wondered if the tool had been left behind at the site by early Red Paint boatbuilders, who had hiked up from the shore to find suitable trees from which to make canoes. He estimated the tool, used for gouging, to be 5,000 years old.
Q Marks the Spot: Recent find fingers long-sought Maya city
Posted by nickcarraway
On News/Activism 10/09/2005 12:27:28 AM PDT · 2 replies · 318+ views
Science News | Oct. 8, 2005 | Bruce Bower
Scientists working at a Guatemalan archaeological site that's more than 1,400 years old have reported finding a hieroglyphic-covered stone panel that, they say, conclusively identifies the ancient settlement as the enigmatic Site Q, a Maya city about which researchers have long speculated. Yale University archaeologist Marcello Canuto found the well-preserved panel last April at a site called La Corona. "[The] writing on the panel opens up a new chapter in Maya history," says anthropologist David Freidel of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, codirector of the expedition. "This new panel provides the critical test for establishing that La Corona is Site...
Prehistory and Origins
More bones of hobbit-sized humans discovered
Posted by aculeus
On General/Chat 10/11/2005 8:34:12 AM PDT · 84 replies · 1,058+ views
Reuters | October 11, 2005 | By Patricia Reaney
LONDON (Reuters) - Australian scientists said on Tuesday they have discovered more remains of hobbit-sized humans which belong to a previously unknown species that lived at the end of the last Ice Age. Professor Mike Morwood, of the University of New England, in Armidale, Australia, stunned the science world last year when he and his team announced the discovery of 18,000-year-old remains of a new human species called Homo floresiensis. The partial skeleton discovered in a limestone cave on the remote Indonesian island of Flores in 2003 was of a tiny adult hominid, or early human, only one meter (3...
Anthropologists Uncover Ancient Jawbone
Posted by NormsRevenge
On News/Activism 10/11/2005 9:47:00 AM PDT · 19 replies · 510+ views
ap on Yahoo | 10/11/05 | Joseph B. Verrengia - AP
Scientists digging in a remote Indonesian cave have uncovered a jaw bone that they say adds more evidence that a tiny prehistoric Hobbit-like species once existed. The jaw is from the ninth individual believed to have lived as recently as 12,000 years ago. The bones are in a wet cave on the island of Flores in the eastern limb of the Indonesian archipelago, near Australia. The research team which reported the original sensational finding nearly a year ago strongly believes that the skeletons belong to a separate species of early human that shared Earth with modern humans far more recently...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Ideas About Fossil Horses Undergo Evolution In Thinking
Posted by Aquinasfan
On News/Activism 05/05/2005 5:17:03 AM PDT · 37 replies · 622+ views
Science Daily | 2005-03-21 | University of Florida Press Release
GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- The old gray mare, she ainít what she used to be, says a University of Florida researcher whose findings show that the evolution of horses had more twists and turns than previously thought. University of Florida paleontologist Bruce MacFadden momentarily turns his attention away from a prehistoric horse skeleton on Tuesday, March 15, that is on display at the Florida Museum of Natural History on the UF campus. Conventional notions about how horses evolved are now outmoded, said MacFadden, who describes these changes in an article in the March 18 Science magazine. Horses did not uniformly get...
Loss of Musk Ox Genetic Diversity at the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 10/10/2005 5:13:17 PM PDT · 4 replies · 59+ views
BioMed Central via Eureka Alert | 5-Oct-2005 | Juliette Savin
The authors identified two groups of haplotypes (haploid genotypes, or gene sets associated on single chromosomes) within the analysed sequences. 'Extinct haplotypes' (EHs), or haplotypes which no longer occur in modern muskoxen, were recovered only in northern Asia where the muskox is now extinct. Such haplotypes were found in a number of specimens dated from ~44,000 to ~18,000 years ago.
Climate
Invisible Rivers
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/16/2005 4:47:06 PM PDT · 20 replies · 668+ views
Science News Online | 10-15-2005 | Sid Perkins
Invisible RiversFresh water also flows to sea through the ground Sid Perkins About 2,000 years ago, the Roman geographer Strabo wrote about the residents of Latakia, Syria, who rowed their boats 4 kilometers out into the salty Mediterranean, dove a few meters to the ocean floor, and collected fresh drinking water in goatskin containers for their city. No miracle, thisómarine boaters could do the same today at a spot about 10 km east of Jacksonville, Fla. In fact, similar freshwater springs erupt on the seafloor near many shores. These flows of water originate on land and end up in the...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Mass Extinctions: The New Catastrophism in the History of Life
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 10/10/2005 4:50:02 PM PDT · 4 replies · 80+ views
LORE magazine, Milwaukee Public Museum | 1996 | Peter M. Sheehan, Curator of Geology
Perhaps the most telling evidence that gradualism alone can not explain sudden mass extinction events, is that the sudden events effected organisms both in the oceans and on land. Only global events that effect both terrestrial and oceanic ecosystems are capable of causing these extinctions. Whatever killed the dinosaurs also devastated marine habitats, because the extinction event was just as severe in the oceans as on land... Lamarck and Darwin were not wrong; life evolved continuously on Earth. But Cuvier also was partially correct--there were catastrophic events that redirected the history of life. Cuvier was mistaken only in his belief...
Moses' Comet
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/09/2005 4:25:36 PM PDT · 33 replies · 1,010+ views
Troubled Times/Discovering Archaeology | 8-1999 | Mike Baillie
Moses' Comet Mosesí Comet, by Mike Baillie Discovering Archeology, July/August 1999 Moses called down a host of calamities upon Egypt until the pharaoh finally freed the Israelites. Perhaps he had the help of a comet impact coupled with a volcano. A volcano destroyed the island of Santorini in the Aegean Sea (between today's Greece and Turkey) around the middle of the second millennium B.C. Researchers Val LaMarche and Kathy Hirschboeck suggest the volcano might be associated with tree-ring evidence for several years of intense cold beginning in 1627 B.C. Could that form the basis for strange meteorological phenomena recorded in...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Machu Picchu Rescue Underway (1400 Trapped by Mudslide)
Posted by Our_Man_In_Gough_Island
On News/Activism 10/14/2005 6:17:10 AM PDT · 20 replies · 353+ views
BBC | 14 Oct 2005 | Staff
The Peruvian authorities have begun to evacuate at least 1,400 people - many of them tourists - stranded at the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu by a mudslide. On Wednesday, the railway line leading up the Andes mountains to Machu Picchu was covered by a mudslide more than three metres (9.8ft) deep. Peruvian officials said the slippage of mud and rocks was caused by snow melting on a nearby mountain peak. A spokeswoman for Peru Rail said no-one was hurt in the incident. The trapped people were being brought to safety by bus. Many of those trapped at the site...
Technology Helps Unravel Archaeological Mysteries
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On News/Activism 10/15/2005 1:08:08 AM PDT · 5 replies · 388+ views
Sci-Tech Today | October 13, 2005
In going high-tech, "archaeologists have to stop thinking like jacks-of-all-trades," University of Pennsylvania researcher Larry Coben says. Instead, assembling specialists expert with each technology becomes a priority. Hidden atop the Andes, the mysteries of the lost Inca Empire are yielding to today's technology. "We're adding a symphony of instruments to our efforts, which lets us just see more than we ever imagined," says archaeologist Fred Limp of the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. Archaeological advances and ongoing work in the Andes demonstrate the growing role of high-tech tools, he says. Along the way, archaeologists are gaining a new appreciation for...
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