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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #171 Saturday, October 27, 2007
Prehistory and Origins
Ancient DNA reveals that some Neanderthals were redheads
	Posted by Red Badger On News/Activism 10/25/2007 2:44:28 PM EDT · 69 replies www.physorg.com | 10/25/2007 | Harvard University Ancient DNA retrieved from the bones of two Neanderthals suggests that at least some of them had red hair and pale skin, scientists report this week in the journal Science. The international team says that Neanderthals' pigmentation may even have been as varied as that of modern humans, and that at least 1 percent of Neanderthals were likely redheads. The scientists -- led by Holger Römpler of Harvard University and the University of Leipzig, Carles Lalueza-Fox of the University of Barcelona, and Michael Hofreiter of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig -- extracted, amplified, and sequenced a...
Epigraphy and Language
Caveman (Neanderthal) 'May Have Used Language'
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/20/2007 11:44:57 AM EDT · 60 replies The Telegraph (UK) | 10-20-2007 | Richard Gray Cavemen 'may have used language' By Richard Gray, Science Correspondent Last Updated: 12:42pm BST 20/10/2007 They are typically portrayed as primitive brutes capable only of grunting, but new research now suggests Neanderthals may have whiled away the hours in their caves in conversation. Neanderthals may have had their own culture Scientists who have been trawling through the DNA found in Neanderthal bones have discovered that the now extinct species had a "language gene" that is only found in modern humans. Their controversial findings create the tantalising possibility that Neanderthals were in fact capable of speech much like humans and communicated...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Researchers posit new ideas about human migration from Asia to Americas
	Posted by decimon On News/Activism 10/25/2007 5:48:27 PM EDT · 25 replies University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | October 25, 2007 | Andrea Lynn, Humanities Editor CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Questions about human migration from Asia to the Americas have perplexed anthropologists for decades, but as scenarios about the peopling of the New World come and go, the big questions have remained. Do the ancestors of Native Americans derive from only a small number of "founders" who trekked to the Americas via the Bering land bridge? How did their migration to the New World proceed? What, if anything, did the climate have to do with their migration? And what took them so long? A team of 21 researchers, led by Ripan Malhi, a geneticist in the...
NAGPRA
US Officials Return Ancient Remains To Indigenous Tlingit Tribes After Scientific Testing
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/21/2007 12:10:07 PM EDT · 10 replies International Herald Tribune | 10-19-2007 US officials return ancient remains to indigenous Tlingit tribes after scientific testing The Associated PressPublished: October 19, 2007 ANCHORAGE, Alaska: Human remains estimated to be more than 10,000 years old will be returned to southeast Alaska Tlingit tribes 11 years after they were found in a cave in the Tongass National Forest. It is the first time a federal agency has conveyed custody of such ancient remains to indigenous groups under the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, U.S. Forest Service officials said Friday. "It's a pretty substantial find," said Tongass spokesman Phil Sammon. Vertebrae, ribs, teeth, a...
Navigation
Koryo Pottery Was Headed For Kaesong
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/22/2007 6:25:34 PM EDT · 19 replies Chosun.com | 10-21-2007 Koryo Pottery Was Headed for Kaesong Underwater excavation in the waters near Dae Island off Taean, South Chungcheong Province has unearthed some 19,000 pieces of 12th-century Koryo celadon, including a lion-shaped incense burner, a toad-shaped inkstone a melon-shaped kettle, and countless bowls. The find was originally made in May, when a fisherman found a pottery shard stuck to the suckers of a webfoot octopus, and an excavation got underway soon afterwards. The National Maritime Museum on Thursday said wooden tags unearthed in the excavation show that the celadon was on its way to Kaesong after being made at a local...
China (literally)
Celadon Porcelains Unearthed In Jiangxi (China)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/21/2007 12:04:39 PM EDT · 17 replies China.org.cn | Chen Lin Celadon porcelains unearthed in Jiangxi A group of ancient tombs was discovered in Shangzhuang County of Fengcheng City in Jiangxi Province, exciting archaeologists. Unfortunately they only found two broken pieces of porcelain after thoroughly searching the tombs because almost all of the sites had been robbed. Just as they were thinking about giving up the search, having discovered that the last tomb they checked was empty of relics, the scientists located a new, hidden tomb linked to the empty one via a side grave room. At first when they perceived the big hole, they thought that it was a tunnel...
Formosa
In Honor Of The Little Black People
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/25/2007 11:05:21 PM EDT · 28 replies Taipei Times | 11-27-2004 | Jules Quartly In honor of the Little Black People The Saisiyat tribe of Hsinchu and Miaoli will perform a solemn rite this weekend to commemorate a race of people that they exterminated By Jules Quartly STAFF REPORTER Saturday, Nov 27, 2004. Xiangtian Lake is one of two places to see the ritual. PHOTO: TAIPEI TIMES Drinking, singing and dancing are expected to take place deep in the mountains of Miaoli and Hsinchu when the "Ritual of the Little Black People" ... is performed by the Saisiyat tribe once again this weekend. For the past 100 years or so, the Saisiyat tribe...
Southeast Asia
Filling In The Blanks Of Southeast Asian Prehistory
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/24/2007 6:22:19 PM EDT · 5 replies Science Daily | 10-24-2007 | University Of Pennsylvania Museum Filling In The Blanks Of Southeast Asian Prehistory ScienceDaily (Oct. 24, 2007) -- As archaeologists in the last half century have set about reconstructing the prehistory of Southeast Asia, data from one country -- centrally located Laos -- was conspicuously missing. Little archaeology has occurred in Laos since before World War II, and beginning in the mid-1970s, Laos shut its doors completely to outside researchers. International scholars had to content themselves with information from excavation and survey work mostly from neighboring Thailand. That scenario is beginning to shift -- and new data, as well as new collaborative relationships -- may forever change our perspective on an area that...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
How a Volcano Eruption Wiped Away Summer (Tambora)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/26/2007 2:07:21 PM EDT · 31 replies NPR | 10-22-2007 | Michael Sullivan How a Volcano Eruption Wiped Away Summer by Michael Sullivan Jessica Goldstein, NPRFor more than two decades, volcanologist Haraldur Sigurdsson has been researching the volcanic eruption of Tambora. By studying layers of soil, he can decipher the history of the explosion. The biggest volcanic eruption ever recorded in human history took place nearly 200 years ago on Sumbawa, an island in the middle of the Indonesian archipelago. The volcano is called Tambora, and according to University of Rhode Island volcanologist Haraldur Sigurdsson, the eruption is one of the most overlooked in recorded history. Tambora's explosion was 10 times bigger than...
Near East
Archaeologists Uncovers 11,000-Year-Old Artefacts In Syria
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/23/2007 4:17:42 PM EDT · 32 replies Middle-East-Online | 10-23-2007 | Talal el-Atrache Archaeologist uncovers 11,000-year-old artefacts in SyriaLatest discoveries in Syria date back to start of Neolithic era in Epipalaeolithic period. By Talal el-Atrache - DAMASCUSA small stone anthropomorphic Neolithic figurine Deep in the heart of northern Syria, close to the banks of the Euphrates River, archaeologists have uncovered a series of startling 11,000-year-old wall paintings and artefacts. "The wall paintings date back to the 9th millennium BC. They were discovered last month on the wall of a house standing two metres (6.6 feet) high at Dja'de," said Frenchman Eric Coqueugniot, who has been leading the excavations on the west bank of...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Finds on Temple Mount from First Temple
	Posted by Alouette On News/Activism 10/21/2007 3:18:49 PM EDT · 48 replies Israel National News | Oct. 21, 2007 | Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) The unauthorized dig of a trench this past summer by the Moslem Waqf on the Temple Mount, in the course of which it was assumed that precious findings were destroyed, apparently had a thin silver lining. Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) personnel monitoring the trench-digging have, for the first time, found traces of the First Temple. The IAA studied an archaeological level dating to the First Temple Period, exposed in the area close to the south-eastern corner of the raised platform surrounding the Dome of the Rock. Archaeological examination of a small section of this level, led by Jerusalem District...
Egypt
Canal Linking Ancient Egypt Quarry To Nile Found
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/26/2007 2:30:23 PM EDT · 9 replies National Geographic News | 10-24-2007 | Steven Stanek Canal Linking Ancient Egypt Quarry to Nile Found Steven Stanek in Cairo, Egypt for National Geographic NewsOctober 24, 2007 Experts have discovered a canal at an Aswan rock quarry that they believe was used to help float some of ancient Egypt's largest stone monuments to the Nile River. It has long been suspected that ancient workers moved the massive artifacts directly to their final destinations over waterways. Ancient artwork shows Egyptians using boats or barges to move large monuments like obelisks and statues, and canals have also been discovered at the Giza pyramids and the Luxor Temple. (Related: "Ancient Flowers...
Ancient Autopsies
Tutankhamun's True Face To Be Revealed
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/21/2007 11:41:09 PM EDT · 61 replies The Telegraph (UK) | 10-22-2007 | Nigel Reynolds Tutankhamun's true face to be revealed By Nigel Reynolds, Arts Correspondent Last Updated: 2:55am BST 22/10/2007 The true face of Tutankhamun, the boy king who ruled Egypt 3,500 years ago, is to be revealed to the public for the first time. Only a handful of experts have ever seen Tutankhamun's true likeness To coincide with the opening of the exhibition of the treasures of Tutankhamun in London next month, Egyptian archaeologists are to put his mummified body on display in Luxor. Only a handful of experts have ever seen the 19-year-old pharaoh's true likeness. Though not the most important of...
Sticky, Sticky
How Amber Becomes Death Trap For Watery Creatures
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/21/2007 9:44:05 PM EDT · 32 replies Science Daily | 10-20-2007 | University of Florida. How Amber Becomes Death Trap For Watery Creatures ScienceDaily (Oct. 20, 2007) -- Shiny amber jewelry and a mucky Florida swamp have given scientists a window into an ancient ecosystem that could be anywhere from 15 million to 130 million years old. Scientists at the University of Florida and the Museum of Natural History in Berlin made the landmark discovery that prehistoric aquatic critters such as beetles and small crustaceans unwittingly swim into resin flowing down into the water from pine-like trees. Their findings are published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The resin with its entombed...
Got a Dino Made of Stone-Ah
Huge Dinosaur Skeleton Unearthed
	Posted by SteveH On News/Activism 10/21/2007 7:10:37 PM EDT · 56 replies CBS News / Associated Press | October 15, 2007 Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, October 15, 2007 (AP) The skeleton of what's believed to be a new dinosaur species - a 105-foot plant-eater that is among the largest dinosaurs ever found - has been uncovered in Argentina, scientists said Monday. Scientists from Argentina and Brazil said the Patagonian dinosaur appears to represent a previously unknown species of Titanosaur because of the unique structure of its neck. They named it Futalognkosaurus dukei after the Mapuche Indian words for "giant" and "chief," and for Duke Energy Argentina, which helped fund the skeleton's excavation.
Emory paleontologist reports discovery of carnivorous dinosaur tracks in Australia
	Posted by decimon On News/Activism 10/21/2007 10:02:54 AM EDT · 34 replies Emory University | October 19, 2007 | Unknown The first fossil tracks belonging to large, carnivorous dinosaurs have been discovered in Victoria, Australia, by paleontologists from Emory University, Monash University and the Museum of Victoria (both in Melbourne). The tracks are especially significant for showing that large dinosaurs were living in a polar environment during the Cretaceous Period, when Australia was still joined to Antarctica and close to the South Pole. The find is being reported today, Friday, Oct. 19, at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting in Austin, Texas, by Anthony Martin, senior lecturer in environmental studies at Emory. Martin researched the find with Patricia Vickers-Rich and...
Oh So Mysteriouso
Human race will 'split into two different species'
	Posted by prisoner6 On News/Activism 10/26/2007 2:09:01 AM EDT · 143 replies Daily Mail (UK) | 10/25/2007 | NIALL FIRTH Human race will 'split into two different species' The human race will one day split into two separate species, an attractive, intelligent ruling elite and an underclass of dim-witted, ugly goblin-like creatures, according to a top scientist. 100,000 years into the future, sexual selection will mean that two distinct breeds of human will have developed. The alarming prediction comes from evolutionary theorist Oliver Curry from the London School of Economics, who says that the human race will have reached its physical peak by the year 3000. Go to the link in the header/excerpt for more, or the link in the...
Longer Perspectives
Top 5 9/11 Truther Myths You Should Be Ready to Debunk
	Posted by Froufrou On News/Activism 09/11/2007 2:25:42 PM EDT · 100 replies · 2,284+ views townhall.com | 09/11/07 | Mary Katherine Ham Six years later, and it's still hard to believe it was real. Giant airplanes slamming into the sides of high-rise office buildings at 500 mph, leaving vaguely wing-shaped gashes behind. -snip- On that day, 19 young men -- inhabitants of our country, recipients of our hospitality, beneficiaries of our prosperity, wearing modern clothes to cloak a primitive hatred -- turned planes into missiles, passengers into war casualties, and a beautiful Tuesday morning into a day that changed the world forever. They killed 3,000 people that day. But some people don't believe that. The theorizing started long before the dust had settled on a...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
A Brief History Of The Salem Witch Trials
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/26/2007 2:40:54 PM EDT · 47 replies Smitsonian | 10-24-2007 | Jess Blumberg One town's strange journey from paranoia to pardon -- The Salem witch trials occurred in colonial Massachusetts between 1692 and 1693. More than 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft -- the Devil's magic -- and 20 were executed. Eventually, the colony admitted the trials were a mistake and compensated the families of those convicted. Since then, the story of the trials has become synonymous with paranoia and injustice, and it continues to beguile the popular imagination more than 300 years later. Salem Struggling Several centuries ago, many practicing Christians, and...
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Gods Graves Glyphs Digest #171 20071027 · Saturday, October 27, 2007 · 19 topics · 1894783 to 1913924 · still 653 members ·
	Saturday Oct 27 2007 v 4 n 15 view this issue	Welcome to the 171st issue of the Gods, Graves, Glyphs ping list Digest. We're about one quarter through the fourth (!) year of the Digest. Thanks to all who contributed topics and discussion, and everyone really who has made this work. Congratulations to JimRob on the recently concluded and successful FReepathon. My apologies for screwing up the previous issue, which showed issue 169 instead of 170. Just now noticed that while grabbing it rather than walking out and getting the flashdrive. Visit the Free Republic Memorial Wall -- a history-related feature of FR.
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #172 Saturday, November 3, 2007
Oh So Mysteriouso (Washington Irving section)
French Museum Tries To Return Maori Head
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/27/2007 11:18:20 AM EDT · 30 replies Yahoo News | 10-24-2007 | Angela Doland French museum tries to return Maori head By ANGELA DOLAND, Associated Press Writer Wed Oct 24, 11:47 PM ETAP Photo: This photo provided Wednesday Oct. 24, 2007 by the Rouen townhall, Normandy, shows a drawing... PARIS - The Normandy museum only wanted to do what was right: It offered to return a preserved, tattooed Maori head to New Zealand, an attempt to restore dignity to human remains that were long put on display as an exotic curiosity. Instead, authorities in the Normandy city of Rouen got a scolding from the culture minister for not checking with national authorities first. A...
Hey, the Maoris started it...
Ancient Headless Skeletons Found In Island Grave
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/30/2007 11:14:22 PM EDT · 25 replies Live Science | 10-29-2007 | Jeanna Bryner Ancient Headless Skeletons Found in Island Grave By Jeanna Bryner, LiveScience Staff Writerposted: 29 October 2007 11:36 am ET More than fifty headless skeletons have been unearthed in one of the oldest Pacific Islander cemeteries in the world. The individuals were members of a socially complex society, traveling between islands hundreds of miles away, a new study suggests. The finding could solve a long-held debate over whether the Lapita people, thought to be ancestors of the Polynesians, were isolated on individual islands or interacted with other distant Lapita tribes to find marriage partners, exchange information and maintain social ties. Results,...
Australia and the Pacific
Dig Uncovers Ancient Desert Dwellers (Australia)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 11/01/2007 4:35:49 PM EDT · 9 replies Science Alert | 11-2-2007 Dig uncovers ancient desert dwellers Friday, 02 November 2007 University of New England New archaeological evidence, published in October in the journal Australian Aboriginal Studies, reveals that Aboriginal people visited the Watarrka Plateau, south-west of Alice Springs, 13,000 years ago. Archaeologists Dr June Ross from the University of New England and Dr Mike Smith from the National Museum of Australia were dropped by helicopter on the Watarrka Plateau as part of a survey of rock art in the Watarrka (Kings Canyon) National Park. "The new finds were unexpected," said Dr Ross (who is pictured here at the Watarrka site). "We...
Ancient Art
Ancient drawing of mammoth found in Cheddar caves
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 11/02/2007 11:50:40 AM EDT · 26 replies PhysOrg | August 15, 2007 | University of Bristol Jill Cook, Deputy Keeper in the Department said: "Had I been shown this outline of a mammoth during a visit to one of the well known cave art sites in France or Spain, I would have nodded and been able to accept it in the context of other more obvious pictures. At Gough's, or anywhere in England, it is not so easy. Cave art is so rare here that we must always question and test to make sure we are getting it right. Opinions on this may differ but we do seem to be looking at an area of ancient...
Prehistory and Origins
Ancient Skeleton Was 'Even Older' (Red Lady Of Paviland)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/30/2007 10:59:59 PM EDT · 34 replies BBC | 10-30-2007 Ancient skeleton was 'even older' The burial site was in Goat's Hole Cave at Paviland on Gower The Red Lady of Paviland has always been a little coy about her age - but it appears she may be 4,000 years older than previously thought. Scientists say more accurate tests date the earliest human burial found in the UK to just over 29,000 years ago. When discovered in a cave on Gower in the 1820s the bones were thought to be around 18,000 years old, but were later redated to between 25,000 and 26,000. Researchers said it casts a new light...
Megaliths and Archaeoastronomy
Message In The Stones
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 11/01/2007 4:50:09 PM EDT · 22 replies Current Archaeology Message in the Stones Why transport 82 two-tonne megaliths across more than 250 miles of mountain, river and sea to build a stone circle at Stonehenge? This is one of the greatest mysteries of Britain's best-known, but least understood, prehistoric monument. Now Tim Darvill thinks he has the answer: the famous bluestones had healing powers, and the builders of Stonehenge were creating a prehistoric Lourdes. The latest issue of CA tells all. Despite centuries of study, we seem no nearer to answering such basic questions as what is Stonehenge, who built it and why. The publication in 1965 of Stonehenge...
Scotland Yet
Iron-masters of the Caledonians
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 11/01/2007 12:45:26 PM EDT · 6 replies Current Archaeology | Ross Murray (and editor) The Roman writer Tacitus says that 30,000 Caledonians massed to stop the Roman invasion under Agricola in AD 84. The bloody battle of Mons Graupius may have been fought near Inverness. Now a major site of the period has been uncovered in the area -- complete with two huge residences, a cluster of smaller houses, and the biggest industrial complex ever found in Iron Age Scotland... In June 2005 we began excavating a palisaded enclosure at Culduthel Farm on the southern outskirts of Inverness in advance of a housing development... we uncovered part of an astonishingly wellpreserved Iron Age settlement...
British Isles
Roman Tombstone Found At Inveresk
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/29/2007 1:26:18 PM EDT · 9 replies BBC | 10-29-2007 Roman tombstone found at Inveresk The tombstone was found near the line of a Roman road The first Roman tombstone found in Scotland for 170 years has been unearthed at Carberry, near Inveresk. The red sandstone artefact was for a man called Crescens, a bodyguard for the governor who ran the province of Britain for the Roman Emperor. The National Museum of Scotland said the stone provided the strongest evidence yet that Inveresk was a pivotal Roman site in northern Britain. It was found by amateur enthusiast Larney Cavanagh at the edge of a field. It had been ploughed up...
Rome and Italy
Roman villa discovered in western Austria
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 10/30/2007 9:40:47 PM EDT · 8 replies Digital Journal | October 25, 2007 | dpa im ds The archaeologists from Innsbruck University stumbled upon references to the 1,800-year-old, long since forgotten building situated near the town Lienz in a manuscript penned in Latin, dating back to the mid-18th century. Tyrolean proto-archeologist Anton Roschmann wrote that he found Roman remains in 1746, but his findings were lost, the Austrian Press Agency reported. During a dig in October the remains of five rooms of a building dating back to Roman times wear unearthed on a 300-square-metre plot. The remains of the walls show colourful wall paintings, the archaeologists said, but the most astounding find were large-scale floor mosaics in...
Anatolia
Cultic City And Fortress -- New Turkish-German Excavations At Sirkeli Huyuk
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/30/2007 11:26:36 PM EDT · 5 replies Alpha Galileo | 10-30-2007 Cultic City and Fortress -- New Turkish-German Excavations at Sirkeli Huyuk New excavations conducted by the University of Tubingen (Germany) and the Onsekiz Mart University of Canakkale (Turkey) at the site of Sirkeli Huyuk near Adana (southern Turkey) have revealed the remains of a massive bastion fortification dating to the Hittite Imperial Period (ca. 1300 BC). Sirkeli Huyuk, one of the largest settlement mounds in Cilicia during the Bronze- and Iron Ages, was already known to archaeologists and historians because of two Hittite rock reliefs located at the site. The better preserved rock relief of the two shows the Hittite...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
How Old Tree Rings And Ancient Wood Are Helping Rewrite History
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/28/2007 2:05:05 PM EDT · 46 replies Science Daily | 10-27-2007 | Cornell University How Old Tree Rings And Ancient Wood Are Helping Rewrite History ScienceDaily (Oct. 27, 2007) -- Cornell archaeologists are rewriting history with the help of tree rings from 900-year-old trees, wood found on ancient buildings and through analysis of the isotopes (especially radiocarbon dating) and chemistry they can find in that wood.Sturt Manning talks to visitors during a demonstration of the tree-ring laboratory following his presentation during Trustee/Council Weekend. At the lecture, Manning explained how students and lab staff members precisely dated a wooden support beam from McGraw Hall to 1870. (Credit: Jason Koski/Cornell University Photography)" By collecting thousands of...
Egypt
Unearthing Egypt's Greatest Temple
	Posted by BGHater On News/Activism 11/01/2007 12:33:14 PM EDT · 39 replies Smithsonian magazine | October 2007 | Andew Lawler Discovering the grandeur of the monument built 3,400 years ago "Heya hup!" Deep in a muddy pit, a dozen workers wrestle with Egypt's fearsome lion goddess, struggling to raise her into the sunlight for the first time in more than 3,000 years. She is Sekhmet -- "the one who is powerful" -- the embodiment of the fiery eye of the sun god Ra, but now she is caked in dirt and bound by thick rope. As the workers heave her out of the pit and onto a wooden track, the sand shifts and the six-foot-tall granite statue threatens to topple. A half-dozen men in...
Let's Have Jerusalem
150 Israeli Citizens File Landmark Criminal Prosecution Of The Waqf Over Temple Mount Destruction
	Posted by SJackson On News/Activism 11/01/2007 9:00:32 AM EDT · 22 replies IMRA | 11-1-07 November 1, 2007 WAQF Officials to Trial; If Convicted Facing Years in Prison -- A group of 150 Israeli citizens, which represent a broad cross section of the Israeli public, have initiated an unprecedented criminal prosecution of WAQF (Islamic trust) leaders in Jerusalem - alleging that they have engaged in the deliberate destruction of ancient Jewish relics on the Temple Mount. The indictment was filed in the Jerusalem District Court...
Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
Overnight Islamic Republic Has Wiped Out 3000-Years Of Iranian History
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 11/01/2007 1:41:22 PM EDT · 50 replies Cais News | 10-30-2007 Overnight Islamic Republic have Wiped out 3000-Years of Iranian History 30 October 2007 Pol-Borideh after its destruction by the Islamic Republic Ministry of Road & Transportation" LONDON, (CAIS) -- The destruction of one of the biggest historical sites in the Chahar-Mahal Bakhtiari province by the Islamic Republic Ministry of Road and Transportation was reported by the Persian service of ISNA on Monday, October 22. "Overnight %60 of the architectural and archeological remains of Pol-Borideh in Chahar-Mahal Bakhtiari province is being destroyed to construct a road. The ancient site was registered on the National Heritage List", said Aliasghar Noruzi, an archeologist...
Ancient Autopsies
Salt Men (Mummies) To Undergo Surgery
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/27/2007 6:26:30 PM EDT · 18 replies Mehr News | 10-27-2007 Salt men to undergo surgery TEHRAN, Oct. 27 (MNA) -- The Archaeology Research Center of Iran (ARCI) plans to conduct a series of surgical operations on the ancient salt men of Zanjan's Chehrabad Salt Mine, the Persian service of CHN reported on Saturday. The project is being undertaken to complete archaeological studies and carry out other scientific research on the unique mummies, ARCI director Mohammad-Hassan Fazeli Nashli said. The operations will be performed on the salt men's soft tissue and entrails, which have remained intact due to the high quality of the mummification, he added. The project will be carried...
China
5 Guesses On Emperor Qin Shihuang's Tomb
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 11/02/2007 12:25:47 PM EDT · 15 replies China Org CN | 10-24-2007 5 guesses on Emperor Qin Shihuang's tomb Qin Shihuang holds a central place in Chinese history for being the first emperor who united the country. He is also well known for his part in the construction of the spectacular Great Wall and his splendid terracotta army. To ensure his rule in the afterlife, this emperor commanded more than 700,000 conscripts from all parts of the country to build him a grand mausoleum as luxurious as any of the palaces he had in mortal life. Legend says that numerous treasures were placed in the tomb. As time passed, no one knew...
Korea
Historical Discovery of Baekje Urns
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 10/29/2007 2:44:49 PM EDT · 9 replies Korea Times | Monday, October 29, 2007 | Sa Eun-young A set of gold, silver and bronze urns holding sari, or the remains of a great monk after cremation, from the Baekje Kingdom (18 -660 A.D.) has been discovered, 1,430 years after it was buried... The urns and other sacrificial items were discovered in a Moktap, or wooden Pagoda. It was found in the Wangheungsa Temple grounds established by Baekje King Wideok to honor the death of his son in 577... The bronze cylinder urn carries an inscription consisting of 29 letters, with six rows made. It was translated to read "Jeongyu Feb.15 (577), Baekje King Chang (King Wideok) builds...
Climate
Melting Glacier Reveals Ancient Tree Stumps
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 11/01/2007 1:28:47 PM EDT · 111 replies Live Science | 10-30-2007 Melting Glacier Reveals Ancient Tree Stumps LiveScience.com Tue Oct 30, 2:15 PM ET Melting glaciers in Western Canada are revealing tree stumps up to 7,000 years old where the region's rivers of ice have retreated to a historic minimum, a geologist said today. Johannes Koch of The College of Wooster in Ohio found the fresh-looking, intact tree stumps beside retreating glaciers in Garibaldi Provincial Park, about 40 miles (60 kilometers) north of Vancouver, British Columbia. Radiocarbon dating of the wood from the stumps revealed the wood was far from fresh -- some of it dated back to within a few thousand years...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Major Archaeological Find In Puerto Rico
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/28/2007 5:01:40 PM EDT · 18 replies At&T.Net | 10-28-20073 | Laura N Perez Sanchez Major Archaeological Find in Puerto Rico Published: 10/28/07, 4:25 PM EDT By LAURA N. PEREZ SANCHEZSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - U.S. and Puerto Rican archaeologists say they have found the best-preserved pre-Columbian site in the Caribbean, which could shed light on virtually every aspect of Indian life in the region, from sacred rituals to eating habits. The archaeologists believe the site in southern Puerto Rico may have belonged to the Taino or pre-Taino people that inhabited the island before European colonization, although other tribes are a possibility. It contains stones etched with ancient petroglyphs that form a large plaza...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Awesome Beasts Roved Ancient Site
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/31/2007 5:31:10 PM EDT · 18 replies BBC | 10-31-2007 | Paul Rincon Awesome beasts roved ancient site By Paul Rincon Science reporter, BBC News, Murcia The brown hyena lived in Europe 1.8 million years ago Giant hyenas, sabretoothed cats, giraffes and zebras lived side by side in Europe 1.8 million years ago. The creatures' remains were among a vast fossil hoard unearthed at an ancient hyena den in the Granada region of south-east Spain. The area appears to have been a crossroads where European animals mixed with species from Africa and Asia. About 4,000 fossils have been found at the unique site. They also include gazelles, wolves, wild boar and lynx. The...
Helix, Make Mine a Double
Neanderthals didn't breed with men
	Posted by Renfield On General/Chat 10/29/2007 8:17:44 AM EDT · 30 replies ANSA | 10-26-07 ANSA) - Florence, October 26 - A new study of Neanderthal bones in Italy and Spain claims to have proved they did not breed with humans - potentially settling one of the biggest riddles in anthropology. The DNA study, which involved Italian, Spanish and German scientists, examined fossilised bones found in the northern Italian mountains near Verona and a cave in Asturia, Spain. Analysing a gene involved in the production of the skin pigment melanin, the team concluded that Neanderthals were predominantly fair-skinned and red-headed - like many people in countries like Ireland, Scotland and Wales today. This was consistent...
Longer Perspectives
Redheads really are the world's shrinking violets
	Posted by Dundee On News/Activism 10/28/2007 12:19:08 AM EDT · 124 replies The Australian | October 27, 2007 | Caroline Overington DEPRESSING news in the September edition of National Geographic: redheads are becoming rarer and could become extinct - some experts say the last redhead could be born by 2060. Others say the redhead gene can disappear for a generation or two in a family and reappear... ...the proportion of the world's population with natural red hair is down to 2per cent... On every level, that's surely a tragedy. Before we let this rare and precious species go, has anyone considered what it might be like to live in a world without redheaded women? ...Groucho Marx once admitted... "I don't know...
...and Now the Good News
Men age faster 'because of Stone Age sex'
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 10/30/2007 9:30:36 PM EDT · 55 replies Telegraph | Wednesday, October 17, 2007 | Roger Highfield Roger HighfieldThe reason that women outlive men by an average of around five years is due to sex, harems and violence in the Stone Age, according to a study published today... our prehistoric male ancestors kept female harems and fought over them to procreate: because male life was nasty, brutish and short, evolutionary forces focused on making males big and strong, rather than long lived... What they find is that the difference in life span between males and females in creatures such as red deer, prairie dogs, lions, baboons, geese, mongooses, wild dogs, beavers and others grows in direct proportion...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Engineers to search for Leonardo fresco [Battle of Anghiari]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 10/29/2007 2:45:44 AM EDT · 3 replies Yahoo! | Monday October 22, 2007 | Frances D'Emilio The hunt for the "Battle of Anghiari," ...which Leonardo began in 1505 to commemorate the 15th-century Florentine victory over Milan at Anghiari, a medieval Tuscan town... unfinished when Leonardo left Florence in 1506... was given new impetus about 30 years ago, when Seracini noticed a cryptic message on a fresco in the hall by Giorgio Vasari, a 16th-century artist famed for chronicling Renaissance artists' labors. "Cerca, trova" -- "seek and you shall find" -- said the words on a tiny green flag in the "Battle of Marciano in the Chiana Valley." ...A few years ago, using radar and X-ray scans,...
Epigraphy and Language
Treasure trove of rare coins found in dilapidated home[PA][Est. worth 100K]
	Posted by BGHater On News/Activism 10/27/2007 6:25:18 PM EDT · 58 replies The Tribune Democrat | 26 Oct 2007 | RANDY GRIFFITH Jeff Bidelman already was dragging a huge bag of old coins when he noticed a hole in the wall of a dilapidated Windber home. "The woman said when she was a kid, there were always rumors that that's where they threw money," Bidelman said at his business, Rare Collectibles, in The Galleria in Richland Township. Within minutes, Bidelman and the former residents' daughter discovered that the rumors were true. Bidelman found himself literally wading in old, valuable coins. "They think they are going to get (at least) $100,000," Bidelman said. "I think they will probably get $200,000." The home had...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Unmasking D.B. Cooper
	Posted by dickmc On General/Chat 10/22/2007 1:17:35 PM EDT · 14 replies n y magazine | October 22, 2007 | geoffery gray On a rainy night in 1971, the notorious skyjacker jumped out of a 727 and into American legend. But recently, a chance lead to a Manhattan P.I. may have finally cracked the case.
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