Gods, Graves, Glyphs
Weekly Digest #109
Saturday, August 19, 2006
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PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
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Calgary professor says Native tribes roaming prairies 1,700 years earlier than accepted
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Posted by Marius3188
On News/Activism 08/15/2006 10:59:41 PM EDT · 8 replies · 225+ views
Calgary Herald | 15 Aug 2006 | Kerry Williamson
A desperate struggle for survival ó and not the white man and his horse ó likely forced First Nations people on the Canadian Plains to band together in complex communities at least 1,700 years before what is currently accepted. And the way they came together to ward off threats from southern bands from the Dakotas and Minnesota may have resembled a very early form of democracy. University of Calgary archaeologist Dr. Dale Walde has proposed the controversial theory in the prestigious World Archaeology journal, following more than five years of research in the field in Alberta and Saskatchewan. If accepted,...
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Forest fires damage Stone Age paintings, carvings
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Posted by Dysart
On General/Chat 08/12/2006 12:31:26 PM EDT · 14 replies · 140+ views
AP via Star-Telegram | 8-12-06 | HAROLD HECKLE
MADRID, Spain - Priceless art dating from the Stone Age has been damaged by forest fires in northwest Spain, officials said Friday. Some of the fires were set deliberately.Colored paintings and rock carvings of wildlife and geometric patterns dating back 4,000 years have been charred and blackened by fires in Campo Lameiro and Cotobade in northwestern Galicia, said a local government spokeswoman, Iria Mendez.It is too early to determine whether some of the art, which is considered a national treasure, has been irreparably damaged, Mendez said.Hundreds of fires have raged through the heavily wooded northwestern corner of Spain in the...
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Let's Have Jerusalem
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Archaeologists Challenge Link Between Dead Sea Scrolls and Ancient Sect
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Posted by Pharmboy
On News/Activism 08/15/2006 8:09:35 AM EDT · 70 replies · 1,611+ views
NY Times | August 15, 2006 | JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
J¸rgen Zangenberg Slide CollectionThe Dead Sea Scrolls were found in caves near the Qumran ruins. New archaeological evidence is raising more questions about the conventional interpretation linking the desolate ruins of an ancient settlement known as Qumran with the Dead Sea Scrolls, which were found in nearby caves in one of the sensational discoveries of the last century. After early excavations at the site, on a promontory above the western shore of the Dead Sea, scholars concluded that members of a strict Jewish sect, the Essenes, had lived there in a monastery and presumably wrote the scrolls in the...
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Epigraphy and Language
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New Evidence Suggests Longer Paper Making History In China
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 08/13/2006 6:58:00 PM EDT · 6 replies · 108+ views
China.org - Xinhua News Agency | 8-13-2006
New Evidence Suggests Longer Paper Making History in China A 2,000-year-old piece of paper inscribed with legible handwriting has been found in Gansu Province, suggesting that China's paper-making and handwriting history are older than previously thought. The 10 square centimeter piece of paper, made from linen fibers, was found during restoration of an ancient garrison near the Yumen Pass at Dunhuang in northwest China. The garrison was in use during the Western Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-25 A.D.), a report in the Beijing-based Guangming Daily said. "The paper was made in 8 B.C., more than 100 years before the birth of...
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China
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Neolithic Stone Carving Of Big Dipper Discovered In Northwest China
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 08/16/2006 7:05:21 PM EDT · 15 replies · 576+ views
People's Daily - Xinhua | 8-16-2006
Neolithic stone carving of Big Dipper discovered in northwest China A neolithic stone carving of the Big Dipper star formation has been found on Baimiaozi Mountain near Chifeng City in northwest China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, according to experts. The stone carving was discovered by Wu Jiacai, a 50-year-old researcher in literature and history with Wongniute Banner of Inner Mongolia. Wu found a large yam-shaped stone, 310 centimeters long, onto which 19 stars had been carved. The representation of the Big Dipper is on the north face of the stone. The stars are represented by indentations in the stone. The...
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Archaeologists Find Terracotta Figurines Older Than Those Buried With Chinese First Emperor
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 08/15/2006 2:02:46 PM EDT · 11 replies · 387+ views
Peoples Daily - Xinhua | 8-15-2006
Archaeologists find terracotta figurines older than those buried with Chinese first emperor Chinese archaeologists have discovered two terracotta figurines dating back to about 2,500 years ago, older than the famous terracotta warriors buried with first Chinese emperor Qinshihuang. The rough-hewn, 10-centimeter tall statues might be the oldest terracotta figurines produced by the Qin State at the beginning of the Warring States Period (475 BC-221 BC), said some experts. The two figurines were found at the ruins of Yongcheng, an ancient Qin State capital, in northwest Shaanxi Province, according to local media reports. Qin State unified China in 221 BC. Qinshihuang,...
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Chinese people's heads becoming smaller
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 08/17/2006 1:24:35 PM EDT · 32 replies · 373+ views
People's Daily Online | August 17, 2006 | unattributed
Dr. Wu Xue Jie from the IVPP said experts in the research team tested, analyzed and compared 718 skulls belonging to Chinese adult males who lived during the New Stone Age, the Bronze Age and modern times. They discovered that Chinese people's craniums and viscerocraniums are getting smaller; their noses and eye sockets are becoming narrower; and their skulls are becoming more rounded.
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On The Presence Of Non-Chinese At Anyang
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 08/16/2006 12:16:37 PM EDT · 29 replies · 624+ views
Sino-Platonic Papers | 4-2004 | Kim Haynes
On the Presence of Non-Chinese at Anyang by Kim Hayes It has now become clear that finds of chariot remains, metal knives and axes of northern provenance, and bronze mirrors of western provenance in the tombs of Anyang indicate that the Shang had at least indirect contact with people who were familiar with these things. Who were these people? Where did they live? When did they arrive? Following the discovery of the Tarim Mummies, we now know that the population of the earliest attested cultures of what is present-day Xinjiang were of northwestern or western derivation. According to the craniometric...
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Taiwan
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Taiwan could have had a copper casting factory 2,000 years ago: experts
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 08/14/2006 1:48:37 PM EDT · 12 replies · 110+ views
Government Information Office, Republic of China (Taiwan) | Tuesday, August 15, 2006 | Liberty Times
In September of 2003, the huge waves of a typhoon that hit the area crashed against the shoreline, exposing the Chiuhsianglan site. Archaeologists began to stage a dig at the area at the end of 2003... Lee said that the timeline of the Chiuhsianglan site is somewhat later than the Peinan site, which dates to the New Stone Age, and is in the time between the New Stone Age and the beginning of the Metal Age, which was about 2,000 years ago. He added that this was the first time that molds were found at an archaeological site in Taiwan....
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Science and archaeology team up to reveal secrets of lost worlds
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 08/14/2006 1:44:24 PM EDT · 19 replies · 176+ views
Government Information Office, Republic of China (Taiwan) | Tuesday, August 15, 2006 | unattributed
Turn the clock back three millennia to Pinglin in Hualian. Here, a group of artisans are laboriously using jade axes to cut and shape jade, creating jade beads, jade rings and other jade objects. The jade itself and the items made from it were not only sold all over the island, but also exported. The story that, at the time, "three thousand years ago, Taiwan was the Jade Empire of Southeast Asia" has recently been gradually fleshed out through the work of archaeologists cooperating with scientists... Iizuka has worked with Hong Shaochun, a doctoral candidate at the National University of...
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Asia
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"Ancient Russian Centaur" Found In Novgorod
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 08/17/2006 8:09:28 PM EDT · 16 replies · 735+ views
Russia-IC | 8-17-2006
ìAncient Russian Centaurî Found In Novgorod 17.08.2006 During archeological diggings in Velikiy Novgorod Russian scientists have found a figure they named "ancient Russian centaur". The figure was found in layers dated back to the end of XI century in the Troitsky dig near the Novgorod Kremlin. Unknown craftsman had cut a wooden bearded man with a hat on his head and a bow behind his back. The figure has hooves instead of feet and is covered with a golden coating. It is broken in that very part, where human body transforms to the body of a horse. The other part...
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In Mongolia Archaeologists Discover Permafrost Mummy With Fur Coat (Scythian Soldier - 2,500 YO)
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 08/17/2006 8:04:52 PM EDT · 44 replies · 1,346+ views
Mongolia Web | 8-17-2006 | Ulaanbaatar
In Mongolia archaeologists discover permafrost mummy with fur coat. Written by Ulaanbaatar correspondent Thursday, 17 August 2006 Research workers of the German archaeological institute have discovered a mummy in permafrost at excavation work in Mongolia of approximately 2,500 years old. At the "sensational find" of a sepulchre chamber of the Scythian rider people a crew of the German television sender ZDF were present. In front of the camera the archaeologists opened the sepulchre where the mummy of the Scythian soldier was stored. The mummy, conserved in permafrost, carried still a fur coat and had a decorated gilded head ornament. According...
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Ancient Greece
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Greek Police Seize Illegal antiquities [ Koufonissi restaurant ]
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 08/12/2006 11:36:20 AM EDT · 10 replies · 102+ views
Forbes | August 10, 2006, 03:04 PM | Associated Press
Police confiscated more than 100 ancient vases and marble fragments during a raid on an Aegean Sea island restaurant, authorities said Thursday. Officers from the special antiquities squad seized dozens of complete pots - including 10 large vases used to transport wine and food - as well as a rare bronze double ax and four marble column bases, police said... Several of the antiquities had been on public display, built into the bar's walls, police said. They did not provide dating for the artifacts, but said most appeared to have been fished out of the sea.
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Ancient Rome
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Catacombs at Hal Resqun re-discovered [ Malta ]
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 08/12/2006 1:52:50 AM EDT · 6 replies · 56+ views
di-ve news | Saturday, 12 August 2006 | unattributed
The Cultural Heritage announced that after almost fifty years of silence, one of Malta's most fascinating Roman catacombs has been re-discovered by officers of the Superintendence of Cultural Heritage within a traffic roundabout close to the Malta International Airport.
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Anatolia
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6,000 year old history comes to day light in Urla
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 08/15/2006 2:14:17 AM EDT · 1 reply
H¸rriyet | Tuesday, August 15, 2006 | A.A.
"As of the year 2000, we are conducting excavations both on land and in water," said Dr. Erkanal. According to Erkanal, his team began working with academicians from Haifa University in 2000. "Underwater excavation took place with the help of academicians from the Haifa University," remarked Dr. Erkanal. Underwater excavations, which have been going on in Urla for the past six years, will for the first time be watched by residents of Urla on a giant tv screen. "This way, we plan to attract more attention to our excavations," stressed Erkanal. Artifacts dating 6,000 years back have been found on...
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Ancient Egypt
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Spotlight interview with Dr. Zahi Hawass [ Tabusiris Magna / tomb of Cleopatra / Mark Anthony ?]
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 08/18/2006 1:56:22 AM EDT · 9 replies · 91+ views
Guardian's Egypt | December 12, 2005 | Dr. Andrew Bayuk
We have pieces of kings and queens, nobles and officials, and beautiful statues. It's opened on the 17 of December. And also we are sending an exhibit to Japan. It's called Cleopatra, actually Cleopatra is becoming something very important now and I never thought I would search for her. Now we are working in a temple near Alexandria called Tabusiris Magna and we think that maybe Cleopatra is buried in the most sacred place inside this temple. We are excavating now, we've stopped the excavation for 1 month, and we're going to open the excavation on January 15th to search...
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First Tut, now Cleo in Dr Zahi's sights
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Posted by Alex1977
On General/Chat 08/18/2006 1:51:31 PM EDT · 6 replies · 118+ views
iol | August 17 2006 | Shaun Smillie
In little over two months, famed Egyptologist Dr Zahi Hawass hopes to unearth the discovery of his lifetime: the tomb of one of history's greatest women, Cleopatra. The celebrity archaeologist, who is on a whistle stop lecture tour of South Africa, said that "the discovery would even be bigger than that of King Tut". Hawass told The Star on Wednesday that he suspects Cleopatra is buried with her Roman lover Mark Antony at a temple 30km from Alexandra called Tabusiris Magna. "I believe it is a very sacred place and this is where they would have hidden Cleopatra and Marc...
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Africa
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Genetic map reading
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 08/16/2006 2:16:45 PM EDT · 9 replies · 153+ views
Guardian | Wednesday August 16, 2006 | Johnjoe McFadden
The revival of diffusionism hasn't pleased everyone and most archaeologists still prefer a balance between local invention and diffusion of ideas with only limited population migration. And many question the validity of DNA typing of modern populations to infer ancient migrations. But a study published in Science by Wolfgang Haak and colleagues at the University of Gutenberg sought to overcome this objection by sequencing DNA from 7,500-year-old skeletons of the first European farmers. Surprisingly, the scientists found that a quarter of the skeletons yielded a very rare DNA type that is hardly found at all among modern Europeans. The authors...
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Agriculture and Domestication
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Bird flu's evolution, links to 1918 pandemic studied, debated
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Posted by Toidylop
On News/Activism 11/29/2005 11:05:54 AM EST · 20 replies · 553+ views
San Diego Union Tribune | November 23, 20005 | Gina Kolata
Science moves in mysterious ways, and sometimes what seems like the end of the story is really just the beginning. Or, at least, that is what some researchers are thinking as they scratch their heads over the weird genetic sequence of the 1918 flu virus. Dr. Jeffery Taubenberger, a molecular pathologist at the Armed Forces Institute of Technology who led the research team that reconstructed the long-extinct virus, said that a few things seemed clear. The 1918 virus appears to be a bird-flu virus. But if it is from a bird, it is not a bird anyone has studied before....
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Megaliths and Archaeoastronomy
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Neolithic stone circle revealed in Brittany(France)
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Posted by Marius3188
On News/Activism 08/18/2006 1:06:06 AM EDT · 17 replies · 460+ views
This French Life | 17 Aug 2006 | Staff
A SMALL building project in Brittany has hit the buffers with the discovery of a buried "menhir" or Neolithic standing stone. A little more digging by archaeologists uncovered around 50 other stones that date from between the 5th and 3rd Century BC. The site is near the village of Belz, in the south of Brittany, and the area is known for other standing stone formations, but this one is already being heralded as the most interesting ever discovered in France. A team from the Institut National de Recherches ArchÈologiques (Inrap) is slowly revealing a large quantity of remains such as...
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British Isles
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Ancient Welsh city found
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Posted by Marius3188
On News/Activism 08/15/2006 10:52:05 AM EDT · 45 replies · 1,108+ views
News Wales | 14 Aug 2006 | News Wales
Caer Caradoc at Mynydd y Gaer, Glamorgan, is one of the most important locations in all of ancient British history. It is the fabled fortress city of King Caradoc 1, son of Arch, who fought the Romans from 42-51AD. And now, a small team of dedicated researchers working with historians Alan Wilson and Baram Blackett, have been able to pinpoint the location of this site. "It is great news for the local, regional and national economy," said Alan Wilson today. "We have been making these discoveries for many years and with the Electrum Cross discovered at nearby St. Peter's in...
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Oh So Mysteriouso
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Science's Big Query: What Can We Know, and What Can't We?
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Posted by TroutStalker
On News/Activism 05/30/2003 9:13:25 AM EDT · 130 replies · 459+ views
The Wall Street Journal | Friday, May 30, 2003 | SHARON BEGLEY
What if stalactites could talk? If these icicle-shaped mineral deposits somehow preserved the sound waves that impinged on them as they grew, drop by drop, from the ceilings of caves, and if scientists figured out how to recover the precise characteristics of those waves, then maybe they would also be able to use stalactites like natural voice recorders and recover the conversations of ancient cave dwellers. Is it more far-fetched than recovering conversations from magnetized particles on an audio tape?
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Climate
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Libya's Vast Pipe Dream Taps Into Desert's Ice Age Water
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Posted by AM2000
On News/Activism 03/02/2004 8:40:51 PM EST · 23 replies · 337+ views
The New York Times | March 2, 2004 | PATRICK E. TYLER
SURT, Libya ó In one of the largest construction projects in the world, engineers are trying to "mine" ice age rainfall, now locked in the sandstone beneath the Sahara, and convey it to Libyan cities and farms along a vast waterworks. The project is almost invisible, except when something goes wrong. Bashir O. Saleh, a Libyan engineer trained at the University of Texas, has devoted his professional life to the project, the $27 billion Great Manmade River. In an interview, he described what had happened repeatedly on the first 500-mile segment of the pipeline system that taps a series of...
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Navigation
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Mummy set to return to Canaries after 200 years
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 08/18/2006 2:57:12 PM EDT · 3 replies · 40+ views
Reuters | Fri Aug 18, 2006 | Jason Webb
A Spanish Senate committee wants Madrid's Anthropology Museum to return remains of a member of the Canaries' aboriginal Guanche people which arrived in mainland Spain in the 1700s, said Rafael Gonzalez, of Tenerife's Museum of Nature and Man... Gonzalez, the Tenerife museum's head of archaeology, was not sure when the Madrid mummy would return. But he told Reuters he wants the Canary Islands to recover all remains of the Guanches -- a people related to North African Berbers who were conquered by Spaniards in the 15th century. "We want mummified remains of indigenous Canary people to come home. We don't...
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Prehistory and Origins
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Sleep With Neanderthals? Apparently We (homo Sapiens) Did
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 08/13/2006 7:11:37 PM EDT · 209 replies · 3,896+ views
Seattle Times | 8-13-2006 | Faye Flam
Sleep with Neanderthals? Apparently we (homo Sapiens) did By Faye Flam The Philadelphia Inquirer Though it's been 150 years since mysteriously humanlike bones first turned up in Germany's Neander Valley, the find continues to shake our collective sense of human identity. Neanderthals are humanity's closest relatives, with brains at least as big as ours, and yet we don't know whether we should include them as members of our own species. No longer does science consider them our direct ancestors but some suspect Neanderthals and modern homo Sapiens interbred during the 20,000 some-odd years we co-existed in Europe. The archaeological record...
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Biology and Cryptobiology
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Mammoths may roam again after 27,000 years
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Posted by peyton randolph
On News/Activism 08/15/2006 12:17:59 AM EDT · 129 replies · 2,054+ views
Times Online (U.K.) | 08/15/2006 | Mark Henderson
BODIES of extinct Ice Age mammals, such as woolly mammoths, that have been frozen in permafrost for thousands of years may contain viable sperm that could be used to bring them back from the dead, scientists said yesterday. Research has indicated that mammalian sperm can survive being frozen for much longer than was previously thought, suggesting that it could potentially be recovered from species that have died out...
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Mammoths may roam again after 27,000 years
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Posted by thiscouldbemoreconfusing
On News/Activism 08/15/2006 7:46:58 AM EDT · 177 replies · 2,396+ views
Times on line/ Drudgereport | Aug. 15, 2006 | Mark Henderson, Science Editor Times on line
BODIES of extinct Ice Age mammals, such as woolly mammoths, that have been frozen in permafrost for thousands of years may contain viable sperm that could be used to bring them back from the dead, scientists said yesterday. Research has indicated that mammalian sperm can survive being frozen for much longer than was previously thought, suggesting that it could potentially be recovered from species that have died out. Several well-preserved mammoth carcasses have been found in the permafrost of Siberia, and scientists estimate that there could be millions more. Last year a Canadian team demonstrated that it was possible to...
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Mammoths may roam again after 27,000 years
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Posted by freedom44
On News/Activism 08/15/2006 1:23:52 PM EDT · 33 replies · 810+ views
Times UK | 8/15/06 | Times UK
BODIES of extinct Ice Age mammals, such as woolly mammoths, that have been frozen in permafrost for thousands of years may contain viable sperm that could be used to bring them back from the dead, scientists said yesterday. Research has indicated that mammalian sperm can survive being frozen for much longer than was previously thought, suggesting that it could potentially be recovered from species that have died out. Several well-preserved mammoth carcasses have been found in the permafrost of Siberia, and scientists estimate that there could be millions more. Last year a Canadian team demonstrated that it was possible to...
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Ice Age DNA May Now Be Sequenced
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 08/15/2006 5:33:09 PM EDT · 10 replies · 319+ views
New Scientist | 8-15-2006
Ice Age DNA may now be sequenced 15 August 2006 JURASSIC PARK here we come? Not quite, but we might now be able to sequence the genomes of mammoths and even Neanderthals, thanks to a new way to correct the errors in sequencing ancient DNA that are made because it degrades over time. When Svante P‰‰bo's group at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, analysed DNA from 50 to 50,000-year-old bone samples from wolves, a single error stood out: one of DNA's "letters", cytosine, had degraded in such a way that sequencing machines misinterpreted it as...
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Mammoths may roam again after 27,000 years
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Posted by annie laurie
On News/Activism 08/16/2006 9:25:32 PM EDT · 50 replies · 745+ views
Times Online (UK) | August 15, 2006 | Mark Henderson
BODIES of extinct Ice Age mammals, such as woolly mammoths, that have been frozen in permafrost for thousands of years may contain viable sperm that could be used to bring them back from the dead, scientists said yesterday. Research has indicated that mammalian sperm can survive being frozen for much longer than was previously thought, suggesting that it could potentially be recovered from species that have died out. Several well-preserved mammoth carcasses have been found in the permafrost of Siberia, and scientists estimate that there could be millions more. Last year a Canadian team demonstrated that it was possible to...
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Mammoth plan for giant comeback
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Posted by Grendel9
On News/Activism 12/20/2005 8:56:21 AM EST · 30 replies · 822+ views
news.Telegraph.uk
(Filed: 20/12/2005) The first serious possibility that the woolly mammoth, or something like it, could walk on Earth again was raised yesterday by an international team of scientists. Woolly mammoths died out approximately 10,000 years ago A portion of the genetic code of the mammoth has been reconstructed and, to the surprise of scientists, the team that carried out the feat believes that it will be possible to decode the entire genetic make-up. The tusked beast stood 12-feet tall, weighed up to seven tons and had a shaggy dark brown coat that hung from its belly. DNA was extracted from...
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Pleistocene Park? On the reintroduction of species
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Posted by sociotard
On News/Activism 08/20/2005 5:15:44 PM EDT · 29 replies · 520+ views
NewScientist.com | 17 August 2005 | Kurt Kleiner
Sorry if this is a repost. Elephants and lions unleashed on North America? 18:00 17 August 2005 NewScientist.com news service Kurt Kleiner Elephants, lions, cheetahs and camels could one day roam the western US under a proposal to recreate North American landscapes as they existed more than 13,000 years ago, when humans first encountered them. The plan, proposed in a commentary in Nature and co-authored by 13 ecologists and conservation biologists, would help enrich a North American ecosystem that was left almost devoid of large mammals at the end of the Pleistocene period. It would also help preserve wildlife that...
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Call to restock North America's large mammals (Lions, Tigers,Bears Alert)
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Posted by 11th_VA
On News/Activism 08/17/2005 1:56:34 PM EDT · 107 replies · 1,717+ views
NewScientist.com | 18:00 17 August 2005 | Kurt Kleiner
Elephants, lions, cheetahs and camels could one day roam the western US under a proposal to recreate North American landscapes as they existed more than 13,000 years ago, when humans first encountered them. The plan, proposed in a commentary in Nature and co-authored by 13 ecologists and conservation biologists, would help enrich a North American ecosystem that was left almost devoid of large mammals at the end of the Pleistocene period. It would also help preserve wildlife that faces the threat of extinction in Africa and Asia. Between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago, 97 of 150 genera of large mammals...
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Extinct cave bear DNA sequenced
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Posted by planetesimal
On News/Activism 06/04/2005 6:56:12 AM EDT · 53 replies · 986+ views
BBC News | Friday, 3 June, 2005, 10:25 GMT | Helen Briggs BBC News science reporter
Scientists have extracted and decoded the DNA of a cave bear that died 40,000 years ago. They plan to unravel the DNA of other extinct species, including our closest ancient relatives, the Neanderthals. But they say the idea of obtaining DNA from dinosaurs, depicted in the film Jurassic Park, remains science fiction. It is highly unlikely that viable genetic material will ever be recovered from fossils that are hundreds of millions of years old. But the scientists hope to be able to sequence the DNA of ancient humans, which lived at the same time as cave bears, raising the prospect...
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Mammoths stranded on Bering Sea island delayed extinction
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Posted by ckilmer
On News/Activism 06/17/2004 11:07:34 PM EDT · 27 replies · 264+ views
University of Alaska Fairbanks | 16-Jun-2004 | Contact: Marie Gilbert
Public release date: 16-Jun-2004 Contact: Marie Gilbert marie.gilbert@uaf.edu 907-474-7412 University of Alaska Fairbanks Mammoths stranded on Bering Sea island delayed extinction Fossil is first record in the Americas of a mammoth population to have survived the Pleistocene Woolly mammoths stranded on Pribilofs delayed extinction Fossil is first record in the Americas of a mammoth population to have survived the Pleistocene St. Paul, one of the five islands in the Bering Sea Pribilofs, was home to mammoths that survived the extinctions that wiped out mainland and other Bering Sea island mammoth populations. In an article in the June 17, 2004 edition...
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Middle Ages and Renaissance
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Chinese treasure trove buried for over a thousand years
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Posted by Marius3188
On News/Activism 08/18/2006 12:54:58 AM EDT · 12 replies · 474+ views
Daily Mail | 17 Aug 2006 | Staff
They've laid buried for over a thousand years, their mystery concealed by the compact soil of China's ancient hinterland. This team of six horses once pulled the two-wheeled Emperor's cart through the streets of Luoyang in Central China's Henan Province, a city that dates back to the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, which ruled from between 256 BC and 1046. Archaeologists recently excavated the burial and uncovered a treasure trove from a period that saw the introduction of horse back riding, iron, ox-drawn plows and crossbows. Who rode the cart and who owned the charges remains a mystery. "We are not sure...
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Ancient 'Exceptional' Seal Found
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 08/18/2006 2:04:12 PM EDT · 8 replies · 733+ views
BBC | 8-17-2006
Ancient 'exceptional' seal found The original owner of the seal matrix is unknown A medieval artefact found by two metal detector users in Shropshire may be bought by the county's museum service. The silver seal matrix - or mould - was found near Bayston Hill. Experts have been unable to identify the original owners of the seal, although it is thought to have belonged to an important family in Shropshire. After a treasure inquest held at Shrewsbury Magistrates Court, the seal matrix will go to the Treasure Valuations Committee for valuation. The three-piece, oval seal matrix has a centrally set...
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Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
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Tests on mysterious stone could rewrite history(LaSalle and Marquette)
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Posted by Marius3188
On News/Activism 08/15/2006 1:17:53 AM EDT · 45 replies · 1,476+ views
Belleville News Democrat | 14 Aug 2006 | AP
May prove LaSalle explored Mississippi before Marquette QUINCY - What's certain is that something's written in the stone. What's less certain is whether the markings have any historical significance. Now, University of Illinois scientists have agreed to examine the limestone slab some believe proves French explorer Robert Cavelier de LaSalle was the first white man to see the upper Mississippi River in 1671 -- two years before Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet made their famous trek. The foot high, 8-inch wide stone, which was found by a farmer in the early 1900s in Ellington Township north of Quincy, has...
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History Channel Pulls Ottoman Documentary (About atrocities committed against Armenians)
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Posted by wagglebee
On News/Activism 07/20/2006 7:55:16 PM EDT · 108 replies · 1,708+ views
NewsMax | 7/20/06 | NewsMax
Media insiders are asking if the History Channel bowed to political pressure in pulling a documentary suspected of detailing Turkish atrocities against Armenians. "Ottoman Empire: The War Machineî mysteriously disappeared from the History Channel schedule on June 22, the day it was to premiere ñ even though the network had run promos just days before and pre-sold DVDs on its Web site. The documentary recounts the six-century reign of the Ottomans, and their empire, the precursor of modern-day Turkey. "Although none have seen the documentary, critics suspect that it likely covers the death of more than a million Armenians at...
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Posted by Lucky9teen
On General/Chat 08/17/2006 2:11:02 PM EDT · 2 replies · 32+ views
www.deprogramprogram.com | August 10, 2006 | Sha'i ben-Tekoa
Mel Gibson is not alone in thinking exactly like Hamas, which is just a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood based in Egypt, and the gentlemen in Hezbollah based in historic Syria a/k/a Lebanon, in believing that the Jews are behind all wars in history, which is crazy on its face. When Attila the Hun rampaged into Gaul and Italy in the 5th century, were the Jews behind that? click to read more...
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