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Scientists find 2,000-year-old brain in Britain
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| 12/12/2008
| RAPHAEL G. SATTER
Posted on 12/12/2008 12:36:31 PM PST by Red Badger
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This image issued by the York Archaeological Trust on Friday Dec. 12, 2008 shows brain material as dark folded matter at the top of the head in this computer-generated view into the skull. British archaeologists working at a university campus have unearthed an ancient skull carrying a startling surprise _ an unusually well-preserved brain still inside. Scientists said Friday that the more than 2,000-year-old mass of gray matter was the oldest ever discovered in Britain. One expert unconnected with the find called it "a real freak of preservation." The skull -- which was severed from its corpse sometime before the Roman invasion of Britain _ was found in a muddy pit during a dig at the University of York in northern England in the fall of this year, according to Richard Hall, a director of York Archaeological Trust. (AP Photo/York Archaeological Trust)
To: Red Badger
I hope it’s not Abynormal’s.
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posted on
12/12/2008 12:39:01 PM PST
by
444Flyer
(Sir, may I see your ID (birth certificate) please.)
To: 444Flyer
![](http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c2/Davis1950/Dopey%20Democrats/Biden_brain.jpg)
Joe Biden's ancestor, perhaps............
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posted on
12/12/2008 12:40:19 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Never has a man risen so far, so fast and is expected to do so much, for so many, with so little...)
To: Red Badger
Scientists find 2,000-year-old brain in BritainStephan Hawking's ?
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posted on
12/12/2008 12:41:36 PM PST
by
llevrok
(Feral Conservative)
To: Red Badger
Here it is!
![](http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/66712018/12765359)
... belonged to an Abby something.
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posted on
12/12/2008 12:44:00 PM PST
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspell)
To: Red Badger
Check out these 8,000 year old brains found in Florida.
Bye, Bye Beringia
"*Skeletal remains of 169 people, split almost evenly between males and females, ranging from 6 to 70 years old. About 75 of the skeletons were relatively intact.
*90 intact human brains that include the oldest DNA samples in the World.
*Artifacts of wood, bone, and seed that were made into jewelry and tools, providing insight into the ancient peoples' lives.
*Tests showed the oldest skeletons were buried 8,100 years ago. The youngest was placed in the ground 6,900 years ago.
"To put this into context," Doran said, "these people had already been dead for 3,000 or 4,000 years before the first stones were laid for the Egyptian pyramids!"
[snip]
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posted on
12/12/2008 12:45:12 PM PST
by
blam
To: Red Badger
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posted on
12/12/2008 12:46:09 PM PST
by
rfp1234
(Phodopus campbelli: household ruler since July 2007.)
To: blam
Yeah, we gotta lotta old brains here in Florida...............Especially this time of year!....;^)
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posted on
12/12/2008 12:47:38 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Never has a man risen so far, so fast and is expected to do so much, for so many, with so little...)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
12/12/2008 12:49:24 PM PST
by
TonyStark
To: Red Badger
"The fact that there's any brain there at all is quite amazing."
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posted on
12/12/2008 12:50:29 PM PST
by
rfp1234
(Phodopus campbelli: household ruler since July 2007.)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
12/12/2008 12:54:22 PM PST
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
To: 444Flyer
Was it Donovan's?
![](http://www.audiofidelity.net/images/sacd-donovan-b.jpg)
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posted on
12/12/2008 12:55:24 PM PST
by
weegee
(Sec. of State Clinton. What kind of change is it to keep the Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton Oligarchy?)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
![](http://thenonconsumeradvocate.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/trek-tribbles-online-credit-paramount-domestic-television.jpg)
or a tribble.............
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posted on
12/12/2008 1:00:26 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Never has a man risen so far, so fast and is expected to do so much, for so many, with so little...)
To: weegee
No, he smoked his in 1969 with Atlantis..............
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posted on
12/12/2008 1:01:34 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Never has a man risen so far, so fast and is expected to do so much, for so many, with so little...)
To: Red Badger
Yeah, we gotta lotta old brains here in Florida...............Especially this time of year!....;^) Well, you should be handing them out to the folks on the freeway, for cryin' out loud.
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posted on
12/12/2008 1:03:39 PM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: TonyStark
I actually have that movie on DVD!
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posted on
12/12/2008 1:06:20 PM PST
by
Buck W.
(If you push something hard enough, it will fall over.)
To: Red Badger
"The fact that there's any brain there at all is quite amazing." Strange, they say the same thing about Prince Charles.
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posted on
12/12/2008 1:07:42 PM PST
by
xJones
To: Red Badger
The skull -- which was severed from its corpse sometime before the Roman invasion of Britain _ was found in a muddy pit during a dig at the University of York He must have really pissed someone off to have his head cut off and thrown into a bog.
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posted on
12/12/2008 1:08:46 PM PST
by
CougarGA7
(Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.)
To: CougarGA7
He must have really pissed someone off to have his head cut off and thrown into a bog. Proto-Chicago politician, perhaps?
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posted on
12/12/2008 1:16:37 PM PST
by
April Lexington
(Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
To: Red Badger
So that’s where Helen Thomas must have lost hers!
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