Gods, Graves, Glyphs (alpha order)

Gods, Graves, Glyphs ^ | 7/17/2004 | various

[SunkenCiv]

• 14 Warring States (464-222BC) Tombs Discovered In Sichuan  ^ 6 posted on 07/15/2004 7:20:44 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#6]
• Achaemenid, Worldís First Empire to Respect Cultural Diversity  ^ 3 posted on 07/05/2004 6:45:53 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#3]
• Ancient European Remains Discovered In Qinghai (China)  ^ 27 posted on 07/06/2004 7:23:57 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#27]
• Archaeologists Dig Up World War II Plane  ^ 21 posted on 05/31/2004 9:46:55 AM PDT by farmfriend [#21]
• Archaeologists Reveal Utah Canyon Filled With Ancient Settlements  ^ 22 posted on 07/01/2004 9:37:46 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#22]
• Archaeologists Startled To Discover Neolithic Ritual Site (Scotland)  ^ 3 posted on 05/29/2004 5:41:16 PM PDT by farmfriend [#3]
• Archaeologists tackle China mystery  ^ 3 posted on 07/05/2004 6:43:37 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#3]
• Archeologists discover ancient graffiti on China's Great Wall  ^ 16 posted on 07/11/2004 7:44:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv [#16]
• Archeologists discover ancient graffiti on China's Great Wall  ^ 2 posted on 07/11/2004 4:19:46 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#2]
• Battlements Found At Egypt's Ancient East Gateway  ^ 5 posted on 07/01/2004 9:07:00 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#5]
• Bird's-Eye View Of The Amazon (Airborne Archaeologist Challenges The Myth Of A Pristine Wilderness)  ^ 32 posted on 05/31/2004 9:45:45 AM PDT by farmfriend [#32]
• Books, Magazines, Movies, Music  ^ 17 posted on 07/14/2004 12:02:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv [#17]
• Books, Magazines, Movies, Music  ^ 11 posted on 07/11/2004 9:53:58 PM PDT by SunkenCiv [#11]
• Buddha's New Birthplace Discovered  ^ 24 posted on 05/26/2004 9:32:54 AM PDT by farmfriend [#24]
• Catapult-Makers Were Once Ye Olde Celebrities  ^ 4 posted on 07/05/2004 3:22:48 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#4]
• Caves Hold Clue To The Riddle Of The Three Hares  ^ 25 posted on 07/03/2004 4:45:03 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#25]
• China Publishes Research Results On Korguryo Kingdom Ruins  ^ 8 posted on 07/02/2004 6:40:49 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#8]
• China: Cemetery dig yields clues 3000 years ago(more on Western Zhou Dynasty)  ^ 9 posted on 05/28/2004 9:10:43 AM PDT by farmfriend [#9]
• Cooks' Crew Hid First Antarctica Painting  ^ 5 posted on 07/09/2004 7:14:36 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#5]
• Dig Under Manezh Yields Suprises  ^ 6 posted on 06/02/2004 2:46:35 PM PDT by farmfriend [#6]
• Drilling Finds Crater Beneath Va. Bay  ^ 16 posted on 06/01/2004 5:11:52 PM PDT by farmfriend [#16]
• Forgotten culture  ^ 21 posted on 07/04/2004 12:32:15 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#21]
• Fossil Findings Blur Picture Of Art's Birth (Neanderthals?)  ^ 18 posted on 07/09/2004 7:18:51 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#18]
• Georgian Archaeologists Discover Basilica Of Middle Ages  ^ 8 posted on 07/07/2004 9:03:00 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#8]
• Halls of Ancient Alexandria's Ivy Found  ^ 22 posted on 05/31/2004 9:47:50 AM PDT by farmfriend [#22]
• Humanity's Strange Face  ^ 19 posted on 05/25/2004 8:32:58 AM PDT by farmfriend ( In Essentials, Unity...In Non-Essentials, Liberty...In All Things, Charity.) [#19]
• Keeping Up With The Empire (Romans In Netherlands)  ^ 4 posted on 05/26/2004 9:28:27 AM PDT by farmfriend [#4]
• Macbeth's Castle Unearthed In Inverness Garden?  ^ 6 posted on 05/28/2004 1:08:34 PM PDT by farmfriend [#6]
• Major Excavation To Open Viking Graves  ^ 16 posted on 06/01/2004 5:17:35 PM PDT by farmfriend [#16]
• Medici's Secret Crypt Unearthed  ^ 4 posted on 07/11/2004 12:29:59 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#4]
• New Plan to Renovate Iran's Historical Cyrus Mausoleum  ^ 4 posted on 07/11/2004 4:11:14 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#4]
• New Twist On Out-Of-Africa Theory  ^ 64 posted on 07/14/2004 10:51:36 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#64]
• The Oldest Americans May Prove Even Older  ^ 3 posted on 06/29/2004 4:24:38 PM PDT by NukeMan [#3]
• Persepolis 3d [Virtual 3d tour Capital of Persian Empire]  ^ 5 posted on 07/11/2004 10:11:25 AM PDT by FairOpinion [#5]
• Pompeii Find Shows Secrets Of The Samnites  ^ 3 posted on 07/04/2004 5:49:47 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#3]
• The Poop On Ancient Man  ^ 4 posted on 07/02/2004 7:51:18 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#4]
• Quarries Providing Stone for Persepolis Discovered  ^ 3 posted on 07/11/2004 10:13:03 AM PDT by FairOpinion [#3]
• Rare Artifacts Shed New Light On Spanish Outpost On (Florida) Panhandle  ^ 4 posted on 07/11/2004 12:54:46 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#4]
• Rat DNA Clues To Sea Migration  ^ 5 posted on 06/08/2004 2:09:28 PM PDT by farmfriend [#5]
• Remains Of Colonial Teen Pose A 'History Mystery'  ^ 35 posted on 07/14/2004 10:53:24 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#35]
• Replica Of Roman Murder Victim (1,700 Years Old)  ^ 9 posted on 05/26/2004 10:37:34 PM PDT by farmfriend [#9]
• Scientist: DNA Disputes Russian Tsar Remains  ^ 4 posted on 07/14/2004 10:49:15 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#4]
• Signs of 8,000-year-old culture found near Bedford  ^ 34 posted on 06/08/2004 12:36:40 PM PDT by farmfriend [#34]
• Silk painting, brassiere unearthed from ancient tombs in N. China(1,000 year-old golden brassiere)  ^ 27 posted on 06/08/2004 12:18:58 PM PDT by farmfriend [#27]
• Sistine Chapel of the ice age revealed  ^ 15 posted on 07/14/2004 11:09:19 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#15]
• Star Chart In Ancient Nara Tomb To Under Go Restoration (Japan)  ^ 5 posted on 07/14/2004 10:45:25 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#5]
• Study: Dinosaurs Died Within Hours After Asteroid Hit  ^ 154 posted on 07/09/2004 7:21:14 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#154]
• Study: Dinosaurs Died Within Hours After Asteroid Hit  ^ 163 posted on 07/09/2004 11:08:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv [#163]
• Syria - Archaeological Finding (80K Year Old Human Sites)  ^ 3 posted on 05/29/2004 5:47:24 PM PDT by farmfriend [#3]
• Teeth Show How Society Was Shaped By Old Age  ^ 4 posted on 07/05/2004 6:40:46 PM PDT by FairOpinion [#4]

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks! Guess somebody “up there” must read GGG as well... ;’)

[SunkenCiv]

You’re most welcome! It’s difficult to believe that the end of the fifth year of the Digest is coming up. The reason for that was to maximize the number of list members by offering them that option, and it seems to have worked — the Digest has barely changed its membership over the past nearly five years. Most of the people who have joined have been people who wanted to shift out of the regular list due to the volume (which occasionally hits as much five or six a day, but more typically is about four). Most of those who have dropped the Digest have either wanted off everything as they scaled back their online / FR time (i.e., they have social lives) or died, or they came up no longer on FR for reasons unknown. I check everyone about once a year. :’)

[Founding Father]

Let me add my congratulations too. I've been around for most of the time (can't remember now when I joined the list, but at least 3/4 yrs ago) and have always appreciated your efforts. Thanks for a lot of interesting articles that I share with one of my daughters.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Founding Father!

[Founding Father]

Well I see where I posted something here the week before Digest #7 came out, so maybe I’m old enough to appear in some of the articles! Thanks again for almost 5 years of enjoyment I’ve received as a result of your work.

[SunkenCiv]

Excellent! You can take over for me starting in year six! ;’)

[SunkenCiv]

Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #251 Saturday, May 9, 2009
Egypt
Famed Nefertiti bust a fake: expert
	05/06/2009 6:38:44 PM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 19 replies · 584+ views The Australian | May 05, 2009 | Agence France-Presse Swiss art historian Henri Stierlin, author of a dozen works on Egypt, the Middle East and ancient Islam, says in a just-released book that the bust currently in Berlin's Altes Museum was made on the orders of Germany archaeologist Ludwig Borchardt on site at the digs by an artist named Gerardt Marks... He said he believed it was made to test pigments used by the ancient Egyptians. The historian said the archaeologist had hoped to produce a new portrait of the queen wearing a necklace he knew she had owned and also carry out a colour test with ancient pigments...
Prehistory and Origins
Revealed: Face of first European as fragments of 35,000-year-old skull are made flesh
	05/04/2009 9:13:34 AM PDT · Posted by yankeedame · 70 replies · 1,743+ views DailyMail.uk | 04th May 2009 | Daily Mail Reporter This is the face of the first early European human which has been painstakingly constructed by scientists from bone fragments. The man or woman - it is still not possible to determine the sex - lived 35,000 years ago in the Carpathian Mountains that today are part of Romania. Their face was rebuilt in clay based on an incomplete skull and jawbone discovered in a cave where bears hibernated. Forensic artist Richard Neave made the model based on his measurements of the pieces of bone and his...
Mem- er, Embers of Prehistory
Stone age porn
	04/04/2005 5:23:48 AM PDT · Posted by pissant · 18 replies · 7,167+ views ananova | 4/3/05 | staff Archaeologists in Germany have found what could be the oldest pornographic scene in the world. They have unearthed what they believe to be the 7,200-year-old figurines of a couple having sex, reports the Guardian. The find, at an archaeological dig in Leipzig, shatters the belief that sex was a taboo subject in the stone age era. First, Harald Stäuble of the Archaeological Institute of Saxony, discovered the 8cm lower half of a man, which he named Adonis von Zschernitz. One month later, Dr Stäuble found what could be the matching female figurine. Dr Stäuble said: "Adonis is bent forward and...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Oldest patch of ground on earth discovered in Israel's Negev desert; unchanged for 1.8 million years
	05/05/2009 4:58:31 PM PDT · Posted by forkinsocket · 24 replies · 950+ views Daily News | May 5th 2009 | Olivia Smith If only they could pave highways with this stuff. Scientists have discovered a patch of the earth's surface that remains virtually the same as it was 1.8 million years ago - and it looks pretty good for its age. Researchers are calling an expanse of "desert pavement" in Israel's Negev Desert the oldest continuous surface on earth, the current issue of the journal GSA Bulletin reports.
Oldest surface on Earth discovered
	05/05/2009 12:25:06 PM PDT · Posted by decimon · 30 replies · 825+ views Live Science | May 5, 2009 | Robert Roy Britt Earth's surface is mostly fresh in geologic terms. Weathering -- wind and water, freezing and thawing -- takes its toll, and longer-term changes caused by volcanic activity and sliding crustal plates, known as tectonic activity, fold today's ground into tomorrow's interior. The constant makeover of the planet is typically fastest in the mountains, slower in the tectonically inactive deserts. A new study of ancient "desert pavement" in Israel's Negev Desert finds a vast region that's been sitting there exposed, pretty much as-is, for about 1.8 million years, according to Ari Matmon and colleagues at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Epigraphy and Language
Palestinians busted trying to sell 2,000 year-old Hebrew scroll
	05/06/2009 5:34:35 PM PDT · Posted by forkinsocket · 15 replies · 387+ views Ha'aretz | 06/05/2009 | Jonathan Lis Two Palestinians were arrested Tuesday for allegedly stealing a rare antique Hebrew scroll and attempting to sell it for millions of dollars. Police apprehended the two suspects in Jerusalem after an intelligence tip allowed police forces to trace their tracks and intercept the document's sale. The rare historical document, handwritten in Hebrew on papyrus paper and estimated to be more than 2,000 years old, is a bill surrendering property rights. The document was written by a widow named Miryam Ben Yaakov, and hails from a period in which the people of Israel were exiled from the area and very few...
The Vikings
Viking Legacy On English: What Language Tells Us About Immigration And Integration
	05/06/2009 6:04:34 PM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 34 replies · 468+ views ScienceDaily | April 22, 2009 | University of Nottingham Terms such as 'law', 'ugly', 'want' and 'take' are all loanwords from Old Norse, brought to these shores by the Vikings, whose attacks on England started in AD 793. In the centuries following it wasn't just warfare and trade that the invaders gave England. Their settlement and subsequent assimilation into the country's culture brought along the introduction of something much more permanent than the silk, spices and furs that weighed down their longboats -- words... The loanwords which appear in English -- such as 'husband' -- suggest that the invaders quickly integrated with their new culture. The English language soon...
Church lot rock actually ancient runestone
	05/06/2009 6:16:08 PM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 7 replies · 367+ views Moldova.org | April 24, 2009 | unattributed An archaeologist says a rock used to mark a parking lot at a church in Sweden is actually a 1,000-year-old runestone. Stockholm County Museum runic expert Lars Andersson said a rock used to help mark the lot's boundaries is thought to date back to the Viking Age in Sweden, The Local said Friday. Andersson said in a museum statement the discovery of runic inscriptions on the rock thanks to rainy weather was akin to a "religious experience." "To read something that nobody else has read for 1,000 years is almost a religious experience," he said. The rock was found last...
Navigation
A historic deja vu: Phokaians taking civilization to Marseille
	05/06/2009 6:07:43 PM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 8 replies · 127+ views Hurriyet Gazete Haberleri | May 2009 | unattributed Foca will be linked to Marselle in a special project to revisit the history: A Turkish crew will travel the route from the Izmir district to the French city in the next two months, just as their ancestors did centuries ago. Building a replica of an ancient vessel, the group is set to sail to Marseille in as conditions as true to those in 600 B.C. as possible. The replica of an ancient vessel is retracing the historic route from Foca off the coast of Turkey to Marseille off France some 2,600 years later. The project "A Journey into History:...
Helix, Make Mine a Double
Gene Arrangement Makes Some Europeans More Fertile
	01/16/2005 10:00:45 PM PST · Posted by anymouse · 10 replies · 386+ views Reuters | Jan 16, 2005 Researchers working in Iceland said on Sunday they identified a genetic pattern that makes some Europeans more fertile. The genetic pattern, known as an inversion, is a stretch of the DNA code that runs backwards in people who carry it. Usually, such rearrangements of a chromosome are harmful to carriers. But this one causes carriers to have more children each generation -- giving them what is known as a selective advantage, the researchers reported. The finding, published in Monday's issue of the journal Nature Genetics, opens some interesting questions about human evolution, the team at Iceland's DeCODE Genetics said. "We...
Hobbits
Ancient 'hobbit' humans new species after all: study
	05/06/2009 11:40:30 AM PDT · Posted by WL-law · 29 replies · 835+ views Breitbart | 5-6-09 | not given Diminutive humans whose remains were found on the remote Indonesian island of Flores in 2003 truly are a new species, and not pygmies whose brains had shrivelled with disease, researchers reported Wednesday. ... Many scientists have said H. floresiensis were prehistoric humans descended from homo erectus, stunted by natural selection over millennia through a process called insular dwarfing. Others countered that even this evolutionary shrinking, well known in island-bound animals, could not account for the hobbit's chimp-sized grey matter of barely more than 400 cubic centimetres, a third the size of a modern human brain. ... A team led by...
Oh So Mysteriouso
Namibia Bushmen were first people in "Garden of Eden'
	05/01/2009 10:19:20 PM PDT · Posted by bruinbirdman · 29 replies · 995+ views The Times | 5/2/2009 | James Bone in New York The Garden of Eden may not have looked much like its traditional image of a lush, fertile corner of the Earth. Instead, a genetic study of Africa suggests that the origin of humanity lies in a sandy, inhospitable region near the coastal border of Namibia and Angola. The area is populated by the Bushmen, or San people, who may be the closest thing to a biblical Adam and Eve. The study even gives the co-ordinates as 12.5∞ E and 17.5∞ S. Scientists suggest that the clicking sounds characteristic of the San's language may be a remnant of original human speech....
Garden of Eden was in Today's Kalahari desert
	05/02/2009 9:38:13 AM PDT · Posted by nickcarraway · 18 replies · 580+ views The Times of India | 2 May 2009 Locations for the Garden of Eden have been offered many times before, but seldom in the somewhat inhospitable borderland where Angola and Namibia meet. A new genetic survey of people in Africa, the largest of its kind, suggests, however, that the region in southwest Africa seems, on the present evidence, to be the origin of modern humans. The authors have also identified some 14 ancestral populations. The new data goes far toward equalizing the genetic picture of the world, given that most genetic information has come from European and Asian populations. But because it comes from Africa, the continent on...
Gene scientists pinpoint 'Eden' near Kalahari
	05/03/2009 11:46:07 AM PDT · Posted by Free ThinkerNY · 11 replies · 487+ views Scotsman.com | May 3, 2009 | Nicholas Wade Locations for the Garden of Eden have been offered many times before, but seldom in the inhospitable borderland of Angola and Namibia. A new genetic survey of people in Africa, the largest of its kind, suggests that the region in the south-west of the continent seems to be the origin of modern humans. The authors have also identified some 14 ancestral populations. The new data goes a long way to towards equalising the genetic picture of the world, given that most genetic information has come from European and Asian populations. But because it comes from Africa, the continent on which...
Climate
Sun Oddly Quiet -- Hints at Next "Little Ice Age"?
	05/04/2009 8:20:01 PM PDT · Posted by neverdem · 66 replies · 2,129+ views National Geographic News | May 4, 2009 | Anne Minard A prolonged lull in solar activity has astrophysicists glued to their telescopes waiting to see what the sun will do next‚ and how Earth's climate might respond. The sun is the least active it's been in decades and the dimmest in a hundred years. The lull is causing some scientists to recall the Little Ice Age, an unusual cold spell in Europe and North America, which lasted from about 1300 to 1850. The coldest period of the Little Ice Age, between 1645 and 1715, has been linked to a deep dip in solar storms known as the Maunder Minimum. During that...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Poison bacteria set up worst extinction
	05/04/2009 5:20:25 PM PDT · Posted by decimon · 20 replies · 429+ views Discovery | May 4, 2009 | Michael Reilly In the ancient oceans, stagnant depths harbored poison-belching bacteria that crippled life on Earth, leaving it vulnerable to a knockout punch from volcanic eruptions, according to a new study. Three to four million years before the Permian-Triassic extinction, also known as the Great Dying, the seas were already becoming oxygen-starved and sour, said the study in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
The Rise of Oxygen Caused Earth's Earliest Ice Age
	05/07/2009 6:11:46 AM PDT · Posted by decimon · 20 replies · 396+ views University of Maryland | May 5, 2009 | Unknown Geologists may have uncovered the answer to an age-old question - an ice-age-old question, that is. It appears that Earth's earliest ice ages may have been due to the rise of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere, which consumed atmospheric greenhouse gases and chilled the earth. Alan J. Kaufman, professor of geology at the University of Maryland, Maryland geology colleague James Farquhar, and a team of scientists from Germany, South Africa, Canada, and the U.S.A., uncovered evidence that the oxygenation of Earth's atmosphere - generally known as the Great Oxygenation Event - coincided with the first widespread ice...
Precolumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Ancient tsunami 'hit New York'
	05/03/2009 8:09:16 PM PDT · Posted by JoeProBono · 24 replies · 719+ views bbc | Sunday, 3 May 2009 A huge wave crashed into the New York City region 2,300 years ago, dumping sediment and shells across Long Island and New Jersey and casting wood debris far up the Hudson River. The scenario, proposed by scientists, is undergoing further examination to verify radiocarbon dates and to rule out other causes of the upheaval. Sedimentary deposits from more than 20 cores in New York and New Jersey indicate that some sort of violent force swept the Northeast coastal region in 300BC. It may have been a large storm, but evidence is increasingly pointing to a rare Atlantic Ocean tsunami. Steven...
Giant Tsunami Once Washed Over New York Area
	05/04/2009 4:01:15 PM PDT · Posted by Joiseydude · 16 replies · 504+ views FoxNews | Monday, May 04, 2009 Remember that huge tidal wave cresting over lower Manhattan in the 1998 asteroid-disaster movie "Deep Impact"? Well, it really may have happened, but long before any skyscrapers were built -- around 300 B.C., in fact. Researchers from Columbia, Harvard and Vanderbilt universities first presented the hypothesis at a geologists' conference in December, and spoke more recently to the BBC. Vanderbilt's Stephen Goodbred explained that an unusual eight-inch-thick layer of sea sand and gravel 2,300 years old lies along the shorelines and riverbanks of the entire New York metropolitan area. Such a formation, containing chunks of rock as big as a...
Mammoth Told Me...
A Mammoth Discovery (evidence of the flood?)
	05/05/2009 9:18:40 AM PDT · Posted by GodGunsGuts · 24 replies · 1,243+ views AiG | May 4, 2009 | A.P. Galling The frozen remains of a baby mammoth discovered in 2007 are stirring up talk -- especially because the mammoth is "remarkably preserved," National Geographic News reports. Found in the icy north of Siberia, the mammoth -- named Lyuba -- looks nearly lifelike. The photograph best shows how amazingly intact Lyuba is, with even eyelashes and clumps of brown wool remaining. Hers is the most complete woolly mammoth body to have ever been found. --snip-- According to the model of a post-Flood Ice Age (which Oard explains), the frozen mammoths we find today would have been preserved...
Paleontology
Rare prehistoric pregnant turtle found in Utah
	05/08/2009 5:57:53 PM PDT · Posted by george76 · 19 replies · 499+ views AP | May 08, 2009 | MIKE STARK Paleontologists say a 75-million-year-old turtle fossil uncovered in southern Utah has a clutch of eggs inside, making it the first prehistoric pregnant turtle found in the United States. At least three eggs are visible from the outside of the fossil, and ...studying images taken from a CT scan in search of others inside. the turtle was probably about a week from laying her eggs ...
Dinosaur, It's What's for Dinner
Oldest Dinosaur Protein Found -- Blood Vessels, More
	05/01/2009 11:43:11 PM PDT · Posted by nickcarraway · 30 replies · 625+ views National Geographic | May 1, 2009 | John Roach The fossilized leg of an 80-million-year-old duck-billed dinosaur has yielded the oldest known proteins preserved in soft tissue -- including blood vessels and other connective tissue as well as perhaps blood cell proteins -- a new study says. The research was led by the team behind the controversial 2007 discovery of protein from similar soft tissues in 68-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex bones. "It was not a one-hit wonder," said John Asara of Harvard Medical School, who led the protein-sequence analysis. (See a prehistoric time line) Well-Preserved Dinosaur The proteins were recovered from a hadrosaur femur that had been encased in sandstone, which appears to prevent...
The Underworld
Deep Core Tests for the Age of the Earth
	05/01/2009 10:11:09 AM PDT · Posted by mnehring · 60 replies · 1,220+ views Reasons to Believe | Dr. Hugh Ross, Ph.D. The clash between young-earth and old-earth creationists can seem bewilderingly technical at times. Is there any easy-to-understand scientific data for determining whether Earth is young or old? In recent months, new evidence has emerged that may be simple enough for everyone to understand, regardless of science background-as simple as counting tree rings. Scientists are learning much about Earth's past by drilling deep into its surface-both ice and rock-with specialized instruments to remove long cylinders, or "core" samples. Six deep ice cores and one sediment core now provide a clear and continuous record of Earth's history. The ice cores reveal hundreds of thousands...
Japan
Old Japanese maps on Google Earth unveil secrets
	05/02/2009 5:09:07 PM PDT · Posted by george76 · 37 replies · 1,636+ views Associated Press | May 02, 2009 | JAY ALABASTER When Google Earth added historical maps of Japan ...Google failed to judge how its offering would be received, as it has often done in Japan. The company is now facing inquiries from the Justice Ministry and angry accusations of prejudice because its maps detailed the locations of former low-caste communities. The maps date back to the country's feudal era, when shoguns ruled and a strict caste system was in place. At the bottom of the hierarchy were a class called the "burakumin," ethnically identical to other Japanese but forced to live in isolation because they did jobs associated with death,...
China
Virtual Forbidden City (From History Channel show)
	05/03/2009 5:26:26 AM PDT · Posted by Caipirabob · 17 replies · 469+ views Beyond Space And Time | Unknown I've finally found that link to the "Virtual Forbidden City" tour that was on that History Channel Special some years ago. It's downloadable software. I can't account for how secure it really is, so you'll need to assess that on your own. Cheers and enjoy! Forbidden City Virtual Walkthrough
X-Ray Spex
The Next Age of Discovery (fascinating stuff!!)
	05/08/2009 1:18:44 PM PDT · Posted by SonOfDarkSkies · 14 replies · 481+ views Wall St Journal | 5/8/2009 | ALEXANDRA ALTER In a 21st-century version of the age of discovery, teams of computer scientists, conservationists and scholars are fanning out across the globe in a race to digitize crumbling literary treasures. In the process, they're uncovering unexpected troves of new finds, including never-before-seen versions of the Christian Gospels, fragments of Greek poetry and commentaries on Aristotle. Improved technology is allowing researchers to scan ancient texts that were once unreadable -- blackened in fires or by chemical erosion, painted over or simply too fragile to unroll. Now, scholars are studying these works with X-ray fluorescence, multispectral imaging used by NASA to photograph...
Greece
Shocking Discovery: a PC in B.C.? (Antikythera Mechanism)
	05/02/2009 6:23:53 PM PDT · Posted by Maelstorm · 50 replies · 2,251+ views http://www.kitsapsun.com | April, 30,2009 | By Roger Koskela A little more than a century ago, in the year 1900, some Aegean sponge divers stopped on the barren Greek islet of Antikythera, between Crete and Greece, to seek shelter from a fierce storm. After things had calmed, they continued diving in the relatively shallow waters nearby and happened upon an ancient Roman shipwreck that contained confiscated Greek treasures of bronze and marble statues, jewelry, glassware and even a bronze throne. Also among the artifacts was what appeared to be a corroded lump of rock that, for some unknown reason, was dumped into a crate during the 10-month salvage recovery...
Rome and Italy
Shedding light on the Catacombs of Rome
	05/06/2009 12:00:41 PM PDT · Posted by GonzoII · 11 replies · 494+ views bbc.co.uk | Sunday, 3 May 2009 | Duncan Kennedy Rome's underground Christian, Jewish and pagan burial sites, the Catacombs, date back to the 2nd Century AD. There are more than 40 of them stretching over 170km (105 miles). But, until now, they have never been fully documented, their vast scale only recorded with handmade maps. That is now changing, following a three-year project to create the first fully comprehensive three-dimensional image using laser scanners.
Britain
Kemble mosaic site to be given national archaeological status
	05/04/2009 7:26:46 PM PDT · Posted by rdl6989 · 3 replies · 197+ views Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard | 4th May 2009 A Cotswold field where a massive Roman mosaic was uncovered earlier this year is set to be declared a site on national archaeological significance. The mosaic was discovered by metal detector enthusiasts Paul Ballinger, 41 and John Carter, 53, in a field in Kemble back in January. It is believed to date back to the 4th Century and could be up to 40-foot in diameter. A square foot of the mosaic was uncovered by Paul and John, revealing the intricate floor tiles which showed the leg of an animal. Now English Heritage want to designate the site as an official...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Forgotten music composed by Handel to be heard for first time in 250 years
	05/07/2009 4:50:48 PM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 24 replies · 313+ views Telegraph | Thursday, May 7, 2009 | unattributed The University of Portsmouth choir will play the funeral anthem which was originally commissioned by King George II to be played at the burial of his wife, Queen Caroline in 1737. After the performance Handel wanted to translate the 40-minute piece into Italian but the King refused and ordered the music be thrown away and never heard again. University music lecturer George Burrows will resurrect the long-lost version at Portsmouth's New Theatre Royal on Saturday after his father, Professor Donald Burrows, a leading expert on Handel, found the unfinished translation in a set of archives. Mr Burrows, who also leads...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Is The Channel Creature The Loch Ness Monster? Video
	05/02/2009 1:11:33 PM PDT · Posted by JoeProBono · 33 replies · 1,050+ views allnewsweb | 2 May 2009 | Michael Cohen Fifty years ago sightings of the Loch Ness Monster or "Nessie' were common and few Scottish locals doubted the presence of an exotic water creature in their locale which might have been the last living member an isolated relic Plesiosaur population. Sightings of Nessie have decreased over the last few years and extensive and thorough scanning of the Loch Ness by scientists and researchers have failed to produce any evidence of Nessie. This has led many to believe, sadly, that this gentle, secretive creature had passed on. Now, astonishingly, frequent sightings are being reported of a creature living in the...
Classic Blunders Revisited
Napoleon's lousy defeat revealed
	01/03/2006 4:48:06 PM PST · Posted by Aussie Dasher · 20 replies · 375+ views Herald Sun | 4 January 2005 The history books say that after reaching Moscow in 1812, Napoleon's army was laid low by the Russian winter and then finished off by hunger, battle wounds and low morale as it straggled back to France. The truth, say scientists, is more intriguing but rather less poetic: the biggest destroyer of the Grande Armee was Pediculus humanus -- the human louse. A team led by Didier Raoult of France's National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) examined the remains of Napoleon's soldiers who had been buried in a mass grave in Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital, 800km west of Moscow. Samples of...
Napoleon's Lost Army: The Soldiers Who Fell
	01/04/2006 5:51:52 AM PST · Posted by libstripper · 13 replies · 1,427+ views BBC | Jan. 4, 2006 | Paul Britten-Austin Vilnius, venerable capital of Lithuania, is sometimes called 'the city built on human bones'. It stands in the main Berlin to Moscow corridor, which for over 200 years has been the battlefields of the armies of Napoleon, the Tsars of Russia, Hitler and Stalin, as well as Poles and Prussians - hence its sinister description. 'Thousands of skeletons were discovered there, laid out neatly in layers.' Early in 2002, while bulldozing some ugly Soviet barracks on the outskirts of Vilnius, municipal workers uncovered a mass grave. Thousands of skeletons were discovered there, laid out neatly in layers. Where did these...
Early America
How Private Property Saved the Pilgrims
	05/06/2009 12:11:40 PM PDT · Posted by Conservative Coulter Fan · 7 replies · 623+ views Hoover Institution | 1999 | Tom Bethell When the Pilgrims landed in 1620, they established a system of communal property. Within three years they had scrapped it, instituting private property instead. Hoover media fellow Tom Bethell tells the story. There are three configurations of property rights: state, communal, and private property. Within a family, many goods are in effect communally owned. But when the number of communal members exceeds normal family size, as happens in tribes and communes, serious and intractable problems arise. It becomes costly to police the activities of the members, all of whom are entitled to their share of the total product of the...
The Framers
the 12th Amendment
	05/07/2009 7:06:01 PM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 3 replies · 187+ views Constitution of the United States, via FindLaw et al | proposed December 9, 1803, ratified June 15, 1804 | The Framers et al FindLaw's commentary:This Amendment, which supersedes clause 3 of Sec. 1 of Article II, was adopted so as to make impossible the situation occurring after the election of 1800 in which Jefferson and Burr received tie votes in the electoral college, thus throwing the selection of a President into the House of Representatives, despite the fact that the electors had intended Jefferson to be President and Burr to be Vice- President. The difference between the procedure which it defines and that which was laid down originally is in the provision it makes for a separate designation by the electors of their...
Stonewall's Masterpiece
This Day in Civil War History May 3, 1863 Confederates take Hazel Grove at Chancellorsville
	05/03/2009 5:01:49 AM PDT · Posted by mainepatsfan · 30 replies · 367+ views History.com On this day, General Joseph Hooker and the Army of the Potomac abandon a key hill on the Chancellorsville battlefield. The Union army was reeling after Stonewall Jackson's troops swung around the Union right flank and stormed out of the woods on the evening of May 2, causing the Federals to retreat some two miles before stopping the Confederate advance. Nonetheless, Hooker's forces were still in a position to deal a serious defeat to Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia because they had a numerical advantage and a strategic position...
The Medal of Honor
Dr. Mary Edwards Walker...profile of courage (vanity)
	05/01/2009 10:03:44 PM PDT · Posted by ak267 · 3 replies · 128+ views American Civil War.com | 05/01/2009 | ak267 Mary Edwards Walker, one of the nation's 1.8 million women veterans, was the only one to earn the Congressional Medal of Honor, for her service during the Civil War. She, along with thousands of other women, were honored in the newly-dedicated Women in Military Service for America Memorial in October 1997
The Civil War
Actor (Robert) Duvall enters battle to save Va. battlefield
	05/04/2009 11:12:18 AM PDT · Posted by Publius804 · 86 replies · 1,353+ views Breitbart | May 4, 2009 | STEVE SZKOTAK Academy Award-winning actor Robert Duvall has fired a verbal salvo against plans to build a Wal-Mart Supercenter near a Virginia Civil War battlefield where Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee first fought the Union's Ulysses S. Grant. Duvall, who is a descendant of Lee, said he will help preservationists in "chasing out" the retailer from a site near the Wilderness Battlefield. At a news conference on Monday, Duvall said he has no grudge against Wal-Mart but believes in capitalism coupled with sensitivity. Duvall was joined...
Pandemics, Epidemics, Plagues, the Sniffles
Lincoln's Blood May Reveal Mysterious Maladies
	05/05/2009 1:25:59 PM PDT · Posted by nickcarraway · 25 replies · 543+ views ABC News | 5/5/09 A museum in Philadelphia plans to submit a sample of Abraham Lincoln's blood to scientific analysis in hopes of shedding light on the mysterious ailments that afflicted the 16th US president. The Grand Army of the Republic Museum's board unanimously approved "further investigation into the sciences, legacy and history of the artefact," its vice-president Andy Waskie said. The artefact is a piece of bloodstained pillow taken from the Peterson house where Mr Lincoln died in 1985 after being shot by an assassin in Fords Theatre in Washington, said Mr Waskie, a historian and professor at Temple University. Acting on the...
Faith and Philosophy
Liberty v. Equality
	05/01/2009 7:21:14 AM PDT · Posted by TaxMe · 3 replies · 106+ views American Bar Association Journal | Originally published as 46 ABA J. 873 (Aug 1960). | By R. Carter Pittman Inequality will exist as long as liberty exists. It unavoidably results from that very liberty itself. --Alexander Hamilton ... Equality Ends at Birth So the "basis and foundation" of the first free government in America was equality of freedom and independence, while the Jefferson perversion was equality at creation. The Declaration of Independence does not say that all men are equal. It says that they were created equal. There equality ends. All America thought alike on the subject in 1776. Benjamin Franklin, a few days after the Declaration was...
Open Letter to Freepers: The U.S. As You've Known It Is Already Dead
	05/02/2009 10:22:18 AM PDT · Posted by quesney · 102 replies · 2,981+ views Reuters via The Star Online While reading the following news story... I was reminded two very important quotes from John Adams about the American Revolution: * As to the history of the revolution, my ideas may be peculiar, perhaps singular. What do we mean by the Revolution? The war? That was no part of the revolution; it was only an effect and consequence of it. The revolution was in the minds of the people, and this was effected from 1760 - 1775, in the course of fifteen years, before a drop of blood was shed at Lexington. o Letter to Thomas Jefferson (1815-08-24),...
Longer Perspectives
Interesting Facts & Information About Swords
	05/04/2009 12:20:16 PM PDT · Posted by Notoriously Conservative · 49 replies · 796+ views notoriouslyconservative.com | 05 04 09 | Notoriously Conservative What does this have to do with conservatism? I don't know, I guess there have been conservatives that have used swords. Look, don't question it, swords are awesome, that's why. The Sword Defined:Sword weapon of offense and defense in personal combat, consisting of a blade with a sharp point and one or two cutting edges, set in a hilt with a handle protected by a metal case or cross guard. The sword may have developed from the dagger at the beginning of the Bronze Age. It was not, however, until the more durable iron sword was introduced in the early...
Skull of Caesar as a Boy
eBay has unexpected, chilling effect on looting of antiquities, archaelogist finds
	05/04/2009 2:58:48 PM PDT · Posted by decimon · 9 replies · 520+ views University of California - Los Angeles | May 4, 2009 | Unknown Having worked for 25 years at fragile archaeological sites in Peru, UCLA archaeologist Charles "Chip" Stanish held his breath when the online auction house eBay launched more than a decade ago. "My greatest fear was that the Internet would democratize antiquities trafficking, which previously had been a wealthy person's vice, and lead to widespread looting," said the UCLA professor of anthropology, who directs the UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. Indeed, eBay has drastically altered the transporting and selling of illegal artifacts, Stanish writes in an article in the May/June issue of Archaeology, but not in the way he and other...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Iraq to Reopen Ancient City of Babylon
	05/03/2009 6:55:24 PM PDT · Posted by nickcarraway · 12 replies · 376+ views PressTV | Sun, 03 May 2009 Iraq's local government is to reopen the Babylon archeological site, which had been closed since the 2003 US-led invasion of the country. The city, located 85 kilometers south of Baghdad, was transformed into a military camp by American and Polish troops and a heliport was built on its ruins. The reopening will take place despite archaeologists expressing their concerns about further damages to what remains of one of the world's first great cities which is pending registration on UNESCO's list of protected World Heritage sites. Iraq's State Board of Antiquities and Heritage now says Babil's provincial government has illegal control...
Iraq archeology: Field Museum, University of Chicago training Iraqi archeologists
	05/07/2009 12:15:09 PM PDT · Posted by mentor2k · 13 replies · 201+ views Chicago Tribune | May 6, 2009 | Jon Davis Iraq was home to some of civilization's first outposts and hosted conquerors from Alexander the Great to Americans. Much of that priceless archeological heritage was lost and looted in the chaotic months after the U.S. invasion in 2003. Now, the Field Museum and the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute are part of an effort to turn things around: They're training Iraqi archeologists and cultural preservationists, who will return home to train their colleagues, in techniques that would wow Indiana Jones.
Wackadoo
Is Nature One Mean Mother? (the Medea Hypothesis)
	05/07/2009 11:36:22 AM PDT · Posted by presidio9 · 29 replies · 529+ views MSNBC | May 06, 2009 | Alan Boyle Swine flu? Global warming? Toxic oceans? Why does Mother Nature sometimes seem to be on the attack? According to the decades-old "Gaia hypothesis," it's because Earth is a self-regulating system that is responding to our own excesses. In a new book titled "The Vanishing Face of Gaia," British biologist James Lovelock says humanity is "Earth's infection." "Individuals occasionally suffer a disease called polycythaemia, an overpopulation of red blood cells. By analogy, Gaia's illness could be called polyanthroponemia, where humans overpopulate until they do more harm than good," Lovelock writes. He says the cure won't come until the human tribe is...
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	Saturday May 2 2009 v 5 n 42 view this issue	Welcome to the 251st issue. 46 topics. Huge. I tried to get this prepared and posted last night, on dial up, from out here in the hinterlands. While waiting for pages to load, I kept nodding off at the keyboard. Think I screwed up my neck. And the truth is, the "Welcome to the Hinterlands" sign is a mile or so further down the road. GodGunsGuts (who needs no introduction) has adopted the use of the monotheistic version of the keyword. That confused me for a few minutes, so I thought I'd better post a heads-up. Be sure to check Woo hoo!! Our 2nd QTR '09 FReepathon is nearing completion!! [Thread XV]. We're almost a third of the way through May, but 75 per cent complete. BGHater's thread is dead now (Thanks rabscuttle385 for that info). AuntB posts M3Report topics pertaining to our national problems stemming from the tide of illegal aliens crossing the border. * Sandrat posts a lot (possibly most) of the topics pertaining to the War on Terror. Be sure to check Celebrimbor's and StarCMC's YouTube Smackdown topics, which are "Countering the cyber-jihad one video at a time". Be sure to visit the invisib1e hand's Founder's Quote Daily topics. Be sure to check Homer_J_Simpson's topics, many of which are based on archival newspaper articles, usually 70 years ago that day. Visit the Free Republic Memorial Wall -- a history-related feature of FR. Donate to FreeRepublic.
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #252 Saturday, May 16, 2009
Precolumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Ancient Elite Island With Pyramid Found in Mexico
	05/16/2009 1:03:58 PM PDT · Posted by decimon · 16 replies · 475+ views National Geographic News | May 13, 2009 | Alexis Okeowo An island for ancient elites has been found in central Mexico, archaeologists say. Among the ruins are a treasury and a small pyramid that may have been used for rituals. The island, called Apupato, belonged to the powerful Tarascan Empire, which dominated much of western Mexico from A.D. 1400 to 1520, before the European conquest of the region. "Because Apupato was an island and relatively unsettled, it is a neat window into how the [Lake P·tzcuaro] basin looked like years ago," said Christopher Fisher, lead investigator and archaeologist at Colorado State University.
Sunken Civilizations
Exploration of the Bimini Underwater Rectangles Yields Stunning Finds (Art Bell history)
	05/16/2009 3:44:17 PM PDT · Posted by decimon · 13 replies · 764+ views Alternate Perceptions Magazine | May 2009 | Dr. Lora Little with Dr. Greg Little Greg and I have just returned from our most recent expedition to Bimini in the Bahamas where we were filmed by the History Channel for a show about the search for Atlantis (tentatively scheduled to air in August 2009). They had filmed some footage for the Atlantis show during a trip with us back in January of 2009 while also filming with us for an upcoming Bermuda Triangle show.
Egypt
Prehistoric fishing tackle found in Egypt
	05/15/2009 5:44:37 PM PDT · Posted by decimon · 36 replies · 538+ views AFP | May 12, 2009 | Unknown An Egyptian archaeological team has found prehistoric fishing gear, sewing equipment and jewellery all made from animal bones, as well as pottery and coins, near an oasis south of Cairo, officials said on Tuesday. > "During excavation, the mission found antiquities from the Pharaonic, Greek, Roman and Islamic periods," Hawass said. The team also found a rare block which dates back to 3150 BC depicting the mythical leader known as the Scorpion King, as well as colourful mosaic plates with engravings of the Fatimid caliph Al-Zafir.
Australia and the Pacific
Ancient Trading Raft Sails Anew [ Thor Heyerdahl did it first ]
	05/15/2009 7:08:30 AM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 55 replies · 488+ views ScienceDaily | May 13, 2009 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology For the first time in nearly 500 years, a full-size balsa-wood raft just like those used in pre-Columbian Pacific trade took to the water on Sunday, May 10. Only this time, instead of the Pacific coast between Mexico and Chile where such rafts carried goods between the great civilizations of the Andes and Mesoamerica as long as a millennium ago, the replica raft was floated in the Charles River basin. The faithful reproduction of the ancient sailing craft, built from eight balsa logs brought from Ecuador for the project, was created in less than six weeks by 30 students in...
Hetero Erectus
Homo Erectus Crosses The Open Ocean
	05/15/2009 7:53:17 AM PDT · Posted by BGHater · 22 replies · 459+ views Environmental Graffiti | 06 May 2009 | Environmental Graffiti Imagine a group of Homo erectus, the earliest members of our family genus, living near a coastline on an Indonesia island and well aware of a lush island that is visible only a few miles offshore. One day while on the coast, a herd of elephants emerges from the nearby forest and crosses the beach. They enter the ocean and swim successfully to the offshore island. Could this be the experience that triggers a creative process in our ancestors who are watching nearby? Does their imagination and thinking include not only a desire to reach that island, but ideas about...
Neandertal / Neanderthal
Neandertals Sophisticated And Fearless Hunters, New Analysis Shows
	05/15/2009 7:34:53 AM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 11 replies · 319+ views ScienceDaily | Thursday, May 14, 2009 | Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, via AlphaGalileo Dutch researcher Gerrit Dusseldorp analysed their daily forays for food to gain insights into the complex behaviour of the Neandertal. His analysis revealed that the hunting was very knowledge intensive. Although it is now clear that Neandertals were hunters and not scavengers, their exact hunting methods are still something of a mystery... His analysis of two archaeological sites revealed that Neandertals in warm forested areas preferred to hunt solitary game but that in colder, less forested areas they preferred to hunt the more difficult to capture herding animals... Rhinoceroses, bisons and even predators such as the brown bear were all...
Duct Tape
Stone Age Superglue Found -- Hints at Unknown Smarts?
	05/12/2009 5:05:01 AM PDT · Posted by decimon · 39 replies · 759+ views National Geographic News | May 11, 2009 | Ker Than Stone Age humans were adept chemists who whipped up a sophisticated kind of natural glue, a new study says. They knowingly tweaked the chemical and physical properties of an iron-containing pigment known as red ochre with the gum of acacia trees to create adhesives for their shafted tools.
Stone Age Humans Made "Superglue' 70,000yrs Ago
	05/14/2009 10:00:04 AM PDT · Posted by nickcarraway · 20 replies · 399+ views Sindh Today | May 12th, 2009 Stone Age humans who lived about 70,000 years ago were such good chemists that they made a sophisticated kind of natural glue by tweaking the chemical and physical properties of an iron-containing pigment, known as red ochre, with the gum of acacia trees for their shafted tools, according to a study. While it has long been believed that the blood-red pigment served a decorative or symbolic purpose, scientists also suspected that the pigment might have been purposely added to improve glue that held the peoples' tools together. With a view to testing this idea, researchers at the University of the...
Brown and Sounds Like a Bell
200,000 year old human hair found in dung
	05/09/2009 6:13:11 PM PDT · Posted by decimon · 69 replies · 1,265+ views Telegraph | May 9, 2009 | Richard Gray Palaeontologists found 40 strands of fossilised hair inside samples of coprolite, or fossilised dung, from a cave in South Africa that was used by brown hyaenas. Until now the oldest samples of human hair were from a 9,000 year old mummy found in northern Chile. It is extremely rare for soft tissue such as hair, skin and muscle to survive more than a few hundred years and only hard tissue like bone is fossilised normally. But scientists believe the new samples of hair are the remains of an early species of human that was scavenged by hyaenas after death, allowing...
Helix, Make Mine a Double
African tribe populated rest of the world
	05/09/2009 4:28:16 PM PDT · Posted by decimon · 25 replies · 736+ views Telegraph | May 9, 2009 | Richard Gray Research by geneticists and archaeologists has allowed them to trace the origins of modern homo sapiens back to a single group of people who managed to cross from the Horn of Africa and into Arabia. From there they went on to colonise the rest of the world. Genetic analysis of modern day human populations in Europe, Asia, Australia, North America and South America have revealed that they are all descended from these common ancestors.
African tribe colonized world 70,000 years ago
	05/10/2009 12:29:19 PM PDT · Posted by MyTwoCopperCoins · 136 replies · 2,952+ views PTI via The Times of India | 11 May 2009 | PTI A single tribe of around 200 people which crossed the Red Sea 70,000 years ago is responsible for the existence of the entire human race outside Africa, a new study has found. Research by geneticists and archaeologists has allowed them to trace the origins of modern homo sapiens back to a single group of people who managed to cross from the Horn of Africa and into Arabia. From there they went on to colonise the rest of the world. While there are 14 ancestral populations in Africa itself, just one seems to have survived outside of the continent, the Daily...
Prehistory and Origins
Missing link in evolution found
	05/13/2009 2:29:18 PM PDT · Posted by mnehring · 46 replies · 851+ views Hindustan Times Famous broadcaster and naturalist, Sir David Attenborough, is all set to present a documentary claiming to have discovered a missing link in human evolution - a monkey-like creature called an adapid. According to a report in the Telegraph, the programme, which would be aired on the BBC later this month, could help to resolve the debate about which kind of primates humans are descended from. Sir David will reveal the well-preserved frame of the small monkey-like creature on the programme. The fossilised animal, thought to be at least 37 million years old, is a member of the extinct adapid family,...
Fossil Find May Tweak Evolution Debate
	05/15/2009 3:31:32 PM PDT · Posted by JoeProBono · 13 replies · 367+ views cbsnews | May 15, 2009 47 Million-Year-Old Primate Skeleton Suggests Different Precursor To Monkeys, Apes, Humans: A primate skeleton claimed to be 47 million years old could further amplify the often contentious debate between evolutionists and creationists. A prominent paleontologist says the discovery of the ancient primate fossil suggests the creature is the common ancestor of monkeys, apes and humans, reports The Wall Street Journal. The find bolsters the less-popular stance that humans' ape-like ancestor was a precursor to the lemur - the tarsier, a tiny, bug-eyed primate in Asia, is more commonly thought of as the precursor, the Journal reports. Dr. Philip Gingerich, the...
Greece
Ancient Greece's 'global warming'
	05/08/2009 6:39:00 PM PDT · Posted by neverdem · 22 replies · 865+ views American Thinker | May 08, 2009 | Ben-Peter Terpstra In Heaven + Earth (Global Warming: The Missing Science), Ian Plimer, Professor of Mining Geology at The University of Adelaide, Australia, asks us to embrace big-picture science views; for to recognize our limits is a sign of maturity. "Climate science lacks scientific discipline," says the pro-amalgamation Professor, and in order to see more clearly we need to adopt an interdisciplinary approach. This requires humbleness. In Chapter 2: History, Plimer travels back in time, thousands of years, in fact, to debunk Gore's catastrophic global warming myths. I particularly like his research on the ancient Greeks. For Plato (427-347 BC) advanced the...
Thallosocracy
Making merry at Knossos
	05/15/2009 7:44:43 AM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 10 replies · 235+ views The Economist | May 14th 2009 | unattributed Archaeology is an inexact science, as Sir Arthur Evans, a flamboyant early practitioner, knew... an excavator can always promote an extravagant theory under the guise of interpreting the finds. As he started to unearth a prehistoric mound at Knossos in Crete at the turn of the 20th century, Evans put his imagination into high gear. He rebuilt parts of a 3,500-year-old palace in modernist style using cement and reconstructed fragmentary frescoes to suit his views on Bronze Age religion and politics. Evans boldly argued that the Minoans, as he called the early islanders, shunned warfare, conveniently forgetting about the ruined...
Underwater Archaeology
Race to preserve the world's oldest submerged town [ Pavlopetri in Greece ]
	05/15/2009 6:00:07 AM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 17 replies · 250+ views PhysOrg.com | May 11th, 2009 | University of Nottingham The ancient town of Pavlopetri lies in three to four metres of water just off the coast of southern Laconia in Greece. The ruins date from at least 2800 BC through to intact buildings, courtyards, streets, chamber tombs and some thirty-seven cist graves which are thought to belong to the Mycenaean period (c.1680-1180 BC). This Bronze Age phase of Greece provides the historical setting for much Ancient Greek literature and myth, including Homer's Age of Heroes... Although Mycenaean power was largely based on their control of the sea, little is known about the workings of the harbour towns of the...
Ancient Europe
Pile village fortification found on Lake Biel [3,200 BC]
	05/15/2009 7:03:22 AM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 7 replies · 206+ views swissinfo.ch | Friday, May 15, 2009 | agencies Archaeologists in canton Bern have discovered a village built on piles at Lake Biel with an impressive defensive fortification dating back to around 3,200 BC. Such villages from this period are new to researchers; in the lake archaeology of central Europe they have only been found dating from 1,500 years later. A statement from the authorities in canton Bern on Friday said that the find shed new light on the social behaviour of the local people at that time. It meant that they were not always peaceful. The researchers note that no fewer than seven pile villages have been found...
Shocking Blue
German 'Venus' may be oldest yet
	05/14/2009 7:30:19 PM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 26 replies · 461+ views BBC | Thursday, May 14, 2009 | Jonathan Amos The distorted object, which portrays a woman with huge breasts, big buttocks and exaggerated genitals, is thought to be at least 35,000 years old. The 6cm-tall figurine, reported in the journal Nature, is the latest find to come from Hohle Fels Cave in Germany. Previous discoveries have included exquisite carvings of animals, and an object that could be a stone "sex toy". Professor Nicholas Conard, from the department of Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, at Tübingen University, said is was understandable that many would also view the new discovery in a pornographic light, but he cautioned against jumping to quickly...
Archaeoastronomy and Megaliths
The role of astronomy in antiquity examined in new book [ archaeoastronomy ]
	05/15/2009 6:55:39 AM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 10 replies · 172+ views Science Centric | Friday, May 15, 2009 | Springer In the new authoritative study of the growing discipline of archaeoastronomy, Mysteries and Discoveries of Archaeoastronomy: From Giza to Easter Island, Professor Guilio Magli asks, 'Was it an attempt to reproduce the sky on Earth? To bring down the power of the stars to where they could see it, worship it, and use it?' Magli examines the role of astronomy in antiquity and provides a clear, up-to-date survey of current thinking on the motives of the ancients for building fabulous and mysterious monuments all over our planet. He uses astronomy as a key to understanding our ancestors' way of thinking....
Stonehenge
The king of Stonehenge: Were artefacts at ancient chief's burial site Britain's first Crown Jewels?
	05/12/2009 8:57:45 PM PDT · Posted by JoeProBono · 66 replies · 886+ views dailymail | 12th May 2009 | Paul Harris He was a giant of a man, a chieftain who ruled with a royal sceptre and a warrior's axe. When they laid him to rest they dressed him in his finest regalia and placed his weapons at his side. Then they turned his face towards the setting sun and sealed him in a burial mound that would keep him safe for the next 4,000 years. In his grave were some of the most exquisitely fashioned artefacts of the Bronze Age, intricately crafted to honour the status of a figure who bore them in life in death. For this may have...
Rome and Italy
Volcanic ash may have preserved Roman ruins (Good cement)
	05/14/2009 3:15:11 AM PDT · Posted by decimon · 23 replies · 393+ views Discovery | May 13, 2009 | Rossella Lorenzi Sandy ash produced by a volcano that erupted 456,000 years ago might have helped a huge ancient Roman complex survive intact for nearly 2,000 years despite three earthquakes, according to research presented last week in Rome. X-ray analysis of a wall sample from the Trajan's Market ruins in Rome showed that the mortars used by ancient Romans contained stratlingite, a mineral known to strengthen modern cements. "It is the first time that stratlingite is recognized in ancient mortars," Lucrezia Ungaro, the Trajan Forum archaeological chief, told Discovery News. "This is amazing, and shows the technical expertise of Roman builders."
The Vikings
Viking ship found on Swedish lake bottom
	05/09/2009 9:30:44 PM PDT · Posted by Free ThinkerNY · 16 replies · 679+ views upi.com | May 9, 2009 VANERSBORG, Sweden, May 9 (UPI) -- Divers stumbled on the wreck of a Viking ship this week on the bottom of the largest lake in Sweden. Archaeologists say the ship is the first from the Viking era found underwater in Sweden, The Local reported. Previous Viking ship discoveries have been used for land burials. The boat was in the midst of an island group in the center of Lake Vanern. Most of the wreck was covered with 3 feet of mud with a single rib sticking out of the ooze, the divers said.
Dinosaurs
New dinosaur species possible in Northwestern Alberta (Better avoid Alberta)
	05/12/2009 12:02:20 PM PDT · Posted by decimon · 21 replies · 391+ views University of Alberta | May 12, 2009 | Unknown Edmonton -- The discovery of a gruesome feeding frenzy that played out 73 million years ago in northwestern Alberta may also lead to the discovery of new dinosaur species in northwestern Alberta. University of Alberta student Tetsuto Miyashita and Frederico Fanti, a paleontology graduate student from Italy, made the discovery near Grande Prairie, 450 kilometres northwest of Edmonton. Miyashita and Fanti came across a nesting site and found the remains of baby, plant-eating dinosaurs and the teeth of a predator. The researchers matched the teeth to a Troodon, a raptor-like dinosaur about two metres in length. This finding has opened new doors...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Maybe an Asteroid Didn't Kill the Dinosaurs
	05/09/2009 2:45:01 PM PDT · Posted by antiunion person · 29 replies · 1,156+ views Time CNN | Monday, Apr. 27, 2009 | Jeffrey Kluger When a scientific principle is common knowledge even in grammar school, you know it has long since crossed the line from theory to established fact. That's the case with dinosaur extinction. Some 65 million years ago -- as we've all come to know -- an asteroid struck the earth, sending up a cloud that blocked the sun and cooled the planet. That, in turn, wiped out the dinosaurs and made way for the rise of mammals. The suddenness with which so many species vanished after that time always suggested a single cataclysmic event, and the 1978 discovery of a 112-mile,...
Hetero Sapiens
'Gay gene' theory dealt a knockout punch
	05/14/2009 11:26:07 AM PDT · Posted by mikelets456 · 72 replies · 1,265+ views One news now | 5/14/2009 | Charlie Butts The attempt to prove that homosexuality is determined biologically has been dealt a knockout punch. An American Psychological Association publication includes an admission that there's no homosexual "gene" -- meaning it's not likely that homosexuals are born that way. For decades, the APA has not considered homosexuality a psychological disorder, while other professionals in the field consider it to be a "gender-identity" problem. But the new statement, which appears in a brochure called "Answers to Your Questions for a Better Understanding of Sexual Orientation & Homosexuality," states the following: "There is no consensus among scientists about the exact reasons that...
Early America
Revolutionary War fort in Greenbrier continues to yield clues[WV]
	05/12/2009 9:14:38 PM PDT · Posted by BGHater · 11 replies · 329+ views The Charleston Gazette | 09 Mary 2009 | Rick Steelhammer ALDERSON, W.Va. - Although it was occupied off and on for only about 10 years by Revolutionary War-era soldiers and settlers who left few traces of their presence behind, Arbuckle's Fort continues to shed light on the lives of those it protected. During an excavation last weekend involving Concord University and Marshall University Graduate College students, new evidence surfaced about a likely black presence at the fort during the struggle for independence from Britain. The frontier fortress was built on a bluff overlooking the confluence of Muddy and Mill creeks during the peak of tensions between Virginia settlers who developed...
The Framers
the 13th Amendment
	05/14/2009 4:41:44 PM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 7 replies · 316+ views Constitution of the United States, via FindLaw et al | adopted December 6, 1865 | The Framers et al Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
The "greatest" -- and "worst" -- presidents Rethinking the presidential rating game
	05/11/2009 8:01:56 PM PDT · Posted by ReformationFan · 18 replies · 438+ views RenewAmerica.Us | May 11, 2009 | Wes Vernon The trouble with many of the past ratings of America's presidents is that the "consensus" has been arrived at by academics who act alike, do alike, and think alike. In the view of many, they are suspect of viewing history exclusively through the prism of Ivy League faculty lounge discourse. Alvin Stephen Felzenberg (Ph.D.) -- who has taken a fresh and comprehensive look at the nation's chief executives in his book The Leaders We Deserved (and a Few We Didn't): Rethinking the Presidential Rating Game -- does not challenge the credentials of the conventional historians. Rather, as he explains in...
Climate
The Coming Ice Age
	05/12/2009 11:03:30 PM PDT · Posted by neverdem · 43 replies · 1,482+ views American Thinker | May 13, 2009 | David Deming Those who ignore the geologic perspective do so at great risk. In fall of 1985, geologists warned that a Columbian volcano, Nevado del Ruiz, was getting ready to erupt. But the volcano had been dormant for 150 years. So government officials and inhabitants of nearby towns did not take the warnings seriously. On the evening of November 13, Nevado del Ruiz erupted, triggering catastrophic mudslides. In the town of Armero, 23,000 people were buried alive in a matter of seconds. For ninety percent of the last million years, the normal state of the Earth's climate has been an ice age....
Longer Perspectives
Cold water ocean circulation doesn't work as expected (N. Atlantic conveyor belt)
	05/13/2009 12:30:05 PM PDT · Posted by decimon · 37 replies · 561+ views Duke University | May 13, 2009 | Unknown DURHAM, N.C. -- The familiar model of Atlantic ocean currents that shows a discrete "conveyor belt" of deep, cold water flowing southward from the Labrador Sea is probably all wet. New research led by Duke University and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution relied on an armada of sophisticated floats to show that much of this water, originating in the sea between Newfoundland and Greenland, is diverted generally eastward by the time it flows as far south as Massachusetts. From there it disburses to the depths in complex ways that are difficult to follow. A 50-year-old model of ocean currents had...
Oh So Mysteriouso
It's a Skull, But What Kind?[Texas]
	05/12/2009 7:07:18 AM PDT · Posted by BGHater · 45 replies · 1,345+ views DFW News | 09 May 2009 | Scott Gordon Workers unearth unusual skull in North Dallas A plumber working on a construction project outside a North Dallas school unearthed a mysterious skull. "We all know it's a primate," said David Evans, 25, of Alvarado. "We just don't know which kind." The skull was buried about five feet underground, he said. It's six inches from front to back and two inches wide. Most of the teeth, including one-inch canines, are intact. Evans said the skull was discovered last week at the St. Alcuin Montessori School near Churchill Way and Preston Road. A noted anthropologist for the Tarrant County Medical Examiner's...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Right-wing Israelis seek to sue pope over plunder (Want gold Menorah from the Biblical Temple back!)
	05/10/2009 11:21:21 AM PDT · Posted by springtime4hillary · 84 replies · 1,234+ views Middle East Online | 5-8-09 The two accuse the pontiff and other top Roman Catholic officials of receiving and possessing stolen goods. The complaint lists treasure allegededly plundered from the Jewish people and held in the Vatican, incuding a golden Menorah looted from the Jerusalem Temple by Roman troops under general Titus, who played a major role in the destruction of the temple in 70 AD. It also mentions that Jewish religious documents, as well as thousands of works of philosophy and science allegedly stolen on various occasions hundreds of years later, are held in the Vatican library. The two chief rabbis of Israel
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Gods Graves Glyphs Digest #252 20090516 · Saturday, May 16, 2009 · 32 topics · 2252343 to 2247808 · 717 members ·
	Saturday May 16 2009 v 5 n 44 view this issue	Welcome to the 252nd issue. A ping-message welcome to this week's new GGG'ers. 32 excellent and engaging topics. LOTS of topics pertaining to underwater archaeology. I want to go to bed soon, so I'm going to rush through this and probably generate an epic fail. For example, I've now posted it, and noticed that I corrected one typo to Lake Pátzcuaro, but didn't paste in the change before posting. At least keep the laughter amongst yourselves, preferably in private FReepmail. ;') Be sure to check Woo hoo!! Less than $13.4k to go!! [FReepathon thread XVIII]. Past mid-may. AuntB posts M3Report topics pertaining to our national problems stemming from the tide of illegal aliens crossing the border. * Sandrat posts a lot (possibly most) of the topics pertaining to the War on Terror. Be sure to check Celebrimbor's and StarCMC's YouTube Smackdown topics, which are "Countering the cyber-jihad one video at a time". Be sure to visit the invisib1e hand's Founder's Quote Daily topics. Be sure to check Homer_J_Simpson's topics, many of which are based on archival newspaper articles, usually 70 years ago that day. Visit the Free Republic Memorial Wall -- a history-related feature of FR. Donate to FreeRepublic.
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The keywords "origin" and "origins", sorted chrono, duplicates removed, formatted, no deletions:

• Ancient Vessel Traces Voyages Of The Past
• Researchers to Seek Origin of Ancient Chinese Civilization
• Skulls Found in Africa and in Europe Challenge Theories of Human Origins
• Scientists Determined To Unearth The Origins Of The Iturralde Crater (Bolivia)
• Unsolved Mystery: Origin Of 800-Year-Old Artifacts Eludes Experts (Portland, Oregon)
• Science in Action
• Fresh debate over human origins
• Unearthed: The Humble Origins Of World Diplomacy (Hittites)
• An origin of new world agriculture in coastal Ecuador (12,000 BP)
• Extra Dimensions Showing Hints Of Scientific Revolution
• Ur: From Dawn of Civilization to 21st Century War
• Aust virologist leads WHO's fight against SARS (AUSTRALIAN LATELINE INTERVIEW)
• New Step Underground in Universe Origins Quest (LHC)
• Italian Archaeologist: Anatolia - Home To First Civilization On Earth
• A Genealogy of Anti-Americanism
• Undersea vents possible origin of life
• The Unwise Hate Crimes Bill
• New Theory: Catastrophe Created Mars' Moons
• A Bioethicist's Take on Genesis
• When does a fetus become a person?
• Dictators hijack Baathism's ideology
• A Matter of Authority (HS Student Hands Out "Creationism" Fliers)
• Laboratory 'Theme Park' Re-creates RNA World For Study [Origin of Life]
• KU KLUX KLAN Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black conjured up "Separation of Church & State" in 1947
• Gene Study Narrows Source Of SARS
• NYT's Thomas L. Friedman Reports: Crossfire Is On Al-Jazeera
• Scientists Say Warfare Began After People Formed Villages
• If Adam had a blog
• Campaign 2004: Clark's Charge (He would have been a Republican if Rove had returned his calls!)
• How Old Is the Earth?
• The Origin of "Separation of Church and State" (good article)
• Sorely Needed Wisdom: Wrestling With Genesis
• The Oiling of America (Origin of the Big Fat Lie)
• The Surprises of Suicide Terrorism (anthropologist on the sanity and origins of suicide bombers)
• Why Young-earth Creationism is Patently Absurd
• Startling Study Says People May Be Born Gay
• Startling Study Says People May Be Born Gay
• Startling Study Says People May Be Born Gay-sexual orientation may be evident in blink of an eye
• Life's lucky 'kick start'
• Brilliant, MUST READ! The Poisoned Well of Arab Oil
• Study suggests life sprang from clay
• Celts gave Halloween its spooky start more than 2,000 years ago
• Fossil Hints At Primate Origins (Out-Of-Asia?)
• Creation vs. Evolution
• Row erupts over 'life-starter' vents
• The Great Flood and Halloween - - A Christian response to Halloween
• Stranger In A New Land (Archaeology)
• Life starts after 14 days, say Anglicans
• New Study On Peopling Of Americas Confirms Some Theories, Unsettles Others
• And that's how we got to where we are today!
• Mark Steyn: The Snakes of Araby
• U.S. Media's Impulsiveness Launched Lynch
• Origins of the Fourth World War
• It's All About Oil
• Where Did We Get "Turkey"?
• Coral reveals ancient origins of human genes
• Saddam scrubbed from list of descendants of the Prophet Mohammed
• Origin of 'Jingle Bells' Song Is Debated
• Three Centuries Before Christ's Birth, People Celeberated 25 December, Archaeologists Claim
• Tests Confirm Mad Cow Came From Canada
• Study Suggests Life On Earth Sprang From Borax Minerals
• How Planned Parenthood Duped America
• THE ROOTS OF ISLAMIC TERRORISM (from Eurasian Politician 2002, old but classic/informative)
• The Origins and Dangers of Anti-Americanism (What despicable, low-life reprobates we are!)
• Opponents of origin theories plan presentation [Montana schools & Evolution]
• Archaeologist sheds light on pyramid origin
• Life In The Universe Takes Orders From Space
• The origins of language: Signs of success
• The Origins of the Slave Trade
• Young-earthism continues to be a stumbling block on the debates over origins
• So, where did the water on Mars come from?
• ORIGINS OF AIDS....Interview with Dr. Boyd Graves
• New Book "Origins of Life"
• When Human Life Begins
• Curse of the Assassins. The Roots of Islamic Terror. (must read)
• Origin of Liberals and Conservatives
• Rock Art Hints At Whaling Origins (6,000 BC)
• Theorist: Darwin Had it Wrong
• Study Finds Signs of Life in Ancient Lava
• Grand Old Problem: Where Was GOP Born?
• The Intellectual Origins Of America-Bashing (Fascinating!)
• Now Pittsfield Stakes Claim to Baseball's Origins
• Scientists: Virus May Give Link to Life
• UK: Presenting The Founder of the "Nation of Islam" (NOI)--WALLACE D. FARD
• Terrorism's murky origins
• Farming Origins Gain 10,000 Years
• Seeds of Jihad
• Dingo's Origins Tracked By DNA
• The NAZI Roots of Today in Jihad
• The Source of Islamic Intolerance ("The answer ... Dar Al-Islam and infidels.")
• The roots of French policy
• The True Origins of Terrorism
• Web Turns 35, but Still Work in Progress
• Early volcano victims discovered
• The Origin of the Income Tax
• Tribe challenges American origins (South Pacific Rim peoples were 1st Americans)
• Saga of Dr. Zawahri Sheds Light On the Roots of al Qaeda Terror
• On This Day In History. 1867 Oliver Loving cattle pioneer dies of gangrene
• CHRISTIANITY'S JEWISH ROOTS Pitching Tents in the Holy City
• THE ROOT OF ISLAMIC TERRORISM (Good introduction to the complexities of the War on Terror)
• The Human Family Tree: 10 Adams and 18 Eves
• Mexico Discovery Fuels Debate About Man's Origins
• UNDERSTANDING THE MUSLIM MIND
• Giant asteroid rocked Antarctica
• Universe's 6,000th birthday ...
• Origin of "CHEESE EATING SURRENDER MONKEYS"
• It All Started in Tehran
• Origins of Halloween
• Where Did Halloween Come From?
• Origin-of-Life Expert Jokes about Becoming a Creationist
• The Childhood Origins of Terrorism
• When Did Political Correctness Started?
• "History and origin"
• The Puzzling Origins of AIDS
• Gunpowder Plot and the historical origin of Thanksgiving
• Origin of homosexuality unresolved despite study
• Happy Kwanzaa - (Exposé of sordid, concocted origins)
• Origins of Political Correctness
• SANTA'S SURPRISING ORIGINS
• ACLU plans lawsuit over origins of life
• Palestinian Genes Show Arab, Jewish, European and Black-African Ancestry
• The roots of Mideast terror
• Christianity and the Birth of Science
• The Origins of our Christmas Traditions
• Origin of Silent Night
• Tackling a root cause of terrorism
• MANGER WARS --ACLU lawsuits helped create the Christian Right
• The Origins of Political Correctness ( t Is Cultural Marxism)
• CA: Editorial: Origins of pension bloat - 1990 legislation wreaks financial havoc
• The Al Qaeda terrorist connection with the Assassins cult of 11th-century
• "The Birth of a 'Latino Race'"
• National Origins: Our New Immigration Formula (1924)
• Chance and necessity do not explain the origin of life
• How Socialists became Islamic terrorists
• Scientists Find Clue to AIDS Origins, New Therapy (Trim-5)
• Sakakawea: Myths Abound About Origin, Death Of Woman Who Aided Lewis And Clark
• Is homosexualism/lesbianism a sin according to the Bible?
• Interpretations of creation story vary
• Design Opponent tries to Stereotype ID as "Creationism"
• Intelligent Origin
• A Theory of Biblical Creation
• The Roots of Al-Qaeda in Bosnia
• Eason Jordan: Castro is the Father of CNN International
• Spanish bishop explains "gay phenomenon" and origin of gender ideology
• Adam: Mircale, Myth or Monkey?
• Oldest Remains of Modern Humans Are Identified by Scientists
• In Six Days (A Biology PHD looks at Evolution)
• Israeli expedition to unlock mystery of human origins
• Origins of the Post-Democratic Democrats
• Terrorism: The Root Cause And What They Are Not
• Country of Origin Responsibility Ammendment
• In Hindsight, The War On Terror Began With Salman Rushdie
• HUMAN ORIGINS: Battle Erupts Over the 'Hobbit' Bones
• Journey to the Center of Google - [how Google came to be]
• The Genesis of the New World of Terrorism
• Origin of (LEFTIST) attack ad remains unknown 4 months after election (Illegal failure to file)
• Suit may revise chapter on tech history: Origins of MS-DOS
• The Origins of Christianity (Most Ridiculous Thing I have EVER Read!!!)
• Archaeologist Reveals Passion for America's Origin (Uncovered the Lost Remains Jamestown)
• Origins of the Koran
• Trying to Understand Origins of Catholicism
• The Origins of al Qaeda's Ideology: Implications for US Strategy [Long]
• The Origin of the Word 'Filibuster' - (entertaining & informative!)
• New Evidence Challenges "Out-of-Africa" Hypothesis of Modern Human origins
• Origin of life: the chirality problem (Creation vs. evolution)
• New Evidence Challenges Hypothesis Of Modern Human Origins
• Who Started the Second World War?
• Roots of Islamic Terrorism: How Communists Helped Fundamentalists
• Origin Of New British Museum Exhibit Looks A Bit Wobbly
• Paul Baran and the Origins of the Internet
• Iraq: Former PM Reveals Secret Service Data on Birth of Al-Qaeda in Iraq
• Tehran's Terror Master
• Cosmic Fingerprints Conference
• Regarding the Origin of the Universe - (excellent; reasoned; balanced; thoughtful; humbling)
• Molecular Evidence of Human Origins
• Root Causes of Terrorism
• The making of a terrorist
• Alleged genetic link to homosexual behavior documented in the animal world
• June 26, 1945: U.N. CHARTER SIGNED
• The Roots of Islamic Terrorism (could this be why KGB-President PUTIN support Iran?)
• Could Asia Have Been The Cradle Of Humanity?
• Tony Blair Says Leaders Must Faces Terrorism's Root Causes
• Bosnia: The Birthplace of Al-Qaeda
• A Quranic concept of terrorism - (outstanding "road map"; Pakistani origins of "militant jihad!")
• It Didn't Start With bin Laden
• All of Al-Qaida's Terrorism Started from the Ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood
• China will be an origin of terrorism
• God vs. Darwin: no contest
• Intelligent Design Now Comes to Australia ( Issue is Going International)
• Project on the origins of life launched; Harvard joining debate on evolution
• Harvard to Prove Life Began Without 'Major Grant'
• Harvard creates new group to investigate 'origin of life' (Limbaugh heckled scientists today...)
• Hello, I'm starting "slow": Intelligent Design and its implications
• Neanderthal Teeth Grew No Faster Than Comparable Modern Humans'
• The Roots Of Civilization Trace Back To ... Roots
• Evolutionary Tools Help Unlock Origins Of Ancient Languages
• The Problem With Evolution
• Roots of 'redskin'
• More bones of hobbit-sized humans discovered
• Anthropologists Uncover Ancient Jawbone
• The Origins of al Qaeda's Ideology: Implications for U.S. Strategy (Lengthy but wort it)
• 'Hobbit' tools found near remains
• Intelligent Design is not Science (Kenneth Miller Speaks at Lehigh)
• Clovis Speakers Discuss Man's Origins In The United States
• Shaped from clay [origin of life]
• Did Life Come from Another World?(Long Read)
• Free Republic's Roots
• Wal-Mart worker 'history' after 'origin' of Christmas
• Potential Origins of Europeans Found
• It's "Their Land" RE: Palestinian Claims to Israel
• The Origin of Speciousness (Darwinism is an intrinsically atheistic theory. If...)
• On the Origin of Evolution
• Film director sparks debate over origins of 'Harry Potter' (Norway)
• Not by chance
• THE ROOTS OF THE REFORMATION (Part 1)
• THE ROOTS OF THE REFORMATION (Part 2/5)
• Why December 25? The origin of Christmas had nothing to do with paganism
• Mysterious deep-space object raises questions on Solar System's origins
• The Origin of Silent Night - A Christmas Carol is Born
• How St. Nicholas Became Santa Claus: One Theory
• Groundbreaking Book: Science Shows Man Not an Ape
• Down but Hardly Out: Intelligent Design and the Courts
• It's God or Darwin
• It's God or Darwin
• Creation Scientists Applaud PA Judge's Ruling Against 'Intelligent Design'
• Origins of 'Cloned' Dog Now in Question
• Did Early Humans First Arise in Asia, Not Africa?
• Researchers Shed New Lights On Origin Of Ancient Chinese Civilization
• Scientists journey towards centre of the Earth to seek out origins of life
• The Intelligent Design Revolution
• The Origins of Terror
• Pitt Professor's Theory of Evolution Gets Boost From Cell Research [Sudden Origins]
• Origins Of The Ainu
• On the Origins of Life (Latest Commentary essay by David Berlinksi)
• Genes Of Deadly Bird Flu Reveal Chinese Origins
• On the Origins of Life
• First Chimpanzee Fossils Cause Problems for Evolution
• In the beginning... (How life on Earth got going is still mysterious, but not for want of ideas)
• Over 500 Scientists Sign Statement Skeptical of Evolution
• Are Humans Still Evolving? -- Leading Biochemist Says No
• Old News That's Not Fit to Print
• Did the New York Times suppress the results...?
• Proof of Big Bang Seen by Space Probe, Scientists Say
• John D. Barrow and the Anthropic Principle
• Pottery Offers Clues To Origin Of Chinese Characters
• Skull discovery could fill origins gap
• Team says it finds new source of Nile
• Chinese Archaeologists Probe Origin Of Domestic Horses Through DNA
• More Hints at Early Origin of Stars, Galaxies (Not an April Fool's)
• Some scientists think humans descended from Martian microbes
• Missing link a Joke: Not a Transition to Anything
• Population origins in Mongolia: Genetic structure analysis of ancient and modern DNA
• What Are the Real Origins of Easter?
• WMAP: NASA's 'Ringside Seat' on Cosmic Event: The Bible Taught It First
• New Edition: Darwin's Black Box
• Debris Disks Show Solar System Design
• The Pagan Origin of Easter
• Origins of the Iraqi Insurgency
• The Root of pro-Americanism in Iran
• The Root Cause of the Immigration Crisis
• HIV Origin 'Found In Wild Chimps'
• Russian Archaeologist Says Merv Was Origin Of Zoroastrianism
• Hawking says humans close to finding answers to origin of universe
• Famous British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking says pope told him not to study beginning of universe
• Earliest hominid: Not a hominid at all?
• Christianity and the Origins of Science
• The (Russian) Roots of Islamic Terrorism (a must read!)
• The Origin of the Word Iran
• Questioning the Big Bang
• Probing Question: What happened before the Big Bang?
• The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwin and Intelligent Design
• Origin Of The Celts - Caucasian, Not European
• New Book To Redefine Design/Evolution Debate
• Moon Chemistry Confirms Violent Origin
• End the war between creationists and evolutionists?
• Darwinian Fairytales
• Pool Knowledge To Find The Origins Of Language
• Beyond the Cosmos: Origin of the Universe: Beyond the Cosmos Broadcast
• Project on the origins of life launched : Harvard joining debate on evolution
• Book Review: Creation As Science
• The Sea Peoples
• Searching For 'Our Alien Origins'
• Creation As Science on Michael Medved
• Meteorite may hold secret to life outside earth
• Europe Seeks Its Origins In Catalhoyuk
• Prehistoric Origins Of Stomach Ulcers Uncovered
• On The Origin Of The Etruscan Civilisation
• Native American Populations Share Gene Signature
• Skeleton Holds Key To Origin Of Man
• Chimps knocked off top of the IQ tree
• Human Brain Has Origin in Lowly Worm (.. and bugs, researchers say
• Biotechnology Solves Debate Over Origin Of European Potato
• Smithsonian Scientists Connect Climate Change, Origins Of Agriculture In Mexico
• What came before the things that came before life as we know it?
• Mystery 'Pilot' Cannot Tell Police His Origin
• Bill Calls for Meat to be Labeled by Origin
• Al-Qaeda shaped in Bosnia
• Finds test human origins theory
• Rutgers scientists debunk a life-origin theory
• Trying To Fathom Farming's Origins
• Did Life Begin On Comets?
• Diamonds Tell Story Of Earth's Beginning
• It turns out we may not be 'big-brained apes' after all (Darwin shown to be wrong)
• Man, The Dwelling Place of God (Tozer): Ch. 5 "On the Origin and Nature of Things"
• Scientists Feel Miscast in Film on Life's Origin (Creationist Dishonesty)
• Debating man's origins
• Origin of Vision Discovered
• Everything that is was created 6,010 years ago TODAY!
• '55 'Origin of Life' Paper Is Retracted (because it was cited by proponents of Intelligent Design)
• AIDS virus invaded U.S. from Haiti: study
• The Roots of All Souls Day
• Ancient Beer Pots Point To Origins Of Chocolate
• The Origin of Nativity Scenes
• The Communist Roots of Palestinian Terror
• The Original Bible Revealed!
• How a Catholic priest gave us the Big Bang Theory
• How subprime lending all started in O.C. (Ameriquest - Roland Arnall)
• The CIA and Greater Albania: The Origins of the US Role in the Balkans
• Key To Life Before Its Origin On Earth May Have Been Discovered (Handedness)
• Drugs OTC and Prescription and Country of Manufacture
• 150 Years Later, Fossils Still Don't Help Darwin
• Darwin's quisling (Charles Kingsley)
• A Darwinist Religious Experience Described

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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #253 Saturday, May 23, 2009
Diet and Cuisine
Biblical diet 'not very healthy'
	05/22/2009 7:44:53 AM PDT · Posted by mnehring · 36 replies · 720+ views BBC Ancient Israel was far from "the land of milk and honey," and instead people suffered from the lack of a balanced diet, according to a theologian. Dr Nathan MacDonald, an Old Testament lecturer at St Andrews University, used biblical texts and archaeological evidence to study the ancient diet. He has concluded that there were frequent famines and people's meals often lacked vitamins and minerals. --snip-- ...In North America, books based on the diet of the Bible such as What Would Jesus Eat? and The Maker's Diet are bestsellers. Dr MacDonald explained: "Though many people have thought otherwise, the evidence is...
Neandertal / Neanderthal
How Neanderthals met a grisly fate: devoured by humans
	05/17/2009 3:55:56 AM PDT · Posted by LibWhacker · 65 replies · 1,294+ views Guardian | 5/17/09 | Robin McKie A fossil discovery bears marks of butchering similar to those made when cutting up a deerOne of science's most puzzling mysteries - the disappearance of the Neanderthals - may have been solved. Modern humans ate them, says a leading fossil expert. The controversial suggestion follows publication of a study in the Journal of Anthropological Sciences about a Neanderthal jawbone apparently butchered by modern humans. Now the leader of the research team says he believes the flesh had been eaten by humans, while its teeth may have been used to make a necklace.
Early human ate young Neanderthal
	05/21/2009 12:37:17 PM PDT · Posted by decimon · 46 replies · 757+ views Discovery | May 21, 2009 | Jennifer Viegas Sometime between 28,000 and 30,000 years ago, an anatomically modern human in what is now France may have eaten a Neanderthal child and made a necklace out of its teeth, according to a new study that suggests Europe's first humans had a violent relationship with their muscular, big-headed hominid ancestors. The evidence, which includes teeth and a carefully butchered jawbone from a site called Les Rois in southwestern France, could represent the world's first known biological proof for direct contact between the two human groups.
Prehistory and Origins
VIDEO: Scientists hail stunning fossil
	05/19/2009 2:29:11 PM PDT · Posted by JoeProBono · 30 replies · 801+ views .bbc | Tuesday, 19 May 2009 | Christine McGourty The beautifully preserved remains of a 47-million-year-old, lemur-like creature have been unveiled in the US. The preservation is so good, it is possible to see the outline of its fur and even traces of its last meal. The fossil, nicknamed Ida, is claimed to be a "missing link" between today's higher primates - monkeys, apes and humans - and more distant relatives. But some independent experts, awaiting an opportunity to see the new fossil, are sceptical of the claim. And they have been critical of the hype surrounding the presentation of Ida. The fossil was launched amid great fanfare at...
"Missing Link" Primate Likely To Stir Debate
	05/20/2009 6:42:42 AM PDT · Posted by steve-b · 25 replies · 586+ views MSNBC | 5/19/09 A discovery of a 47 million-year-old fossil primate that is said to be a human ancestor was announced and unveiled Tuesday at a press conference in New York City. Known as "Ida," the nearly complete transitional fossil is 20 times older than most fossils that provide evidence for human evolution....
Some scientists say Ida is the missing link
	05/20/2009 8:07:15 AM PDT · Posted by lakeprincess · 133 replies · 1,485+ views The Washington Times | 3/20/09 | Jennifer Harper "This is an incredible piece of hype to popularize a movie and a book. It's hard to believe that this story took off, but the media picked up on very emotional claims about the 'missing link.' It's created good publicity," said Ken Ham, president of Answers in Genesis and founder of the Creation Museum.
Ho-Hum, Another Human Missing Link (Temple of Darwin in full religious revival mode)
	05/20/2009 8:44:42 AM PDT · Posted by GodGunsGuts · 24 replies · 501+ views CEH | May 19, 2009 May 19, 2009 -- Shoppers typically are wary of over-hyped ads, knowing that any claim sounding too good to be true probably is. What would they think about media reports claiming a new fossil monkey is the "8th wonder of the world"? The scientific paper in PLoS ONE1 had hardly been published before the press went ape, as if on cue, at the buzzphrase missing link. A couple of press releases about the new lemur fossil of a female nicknamed Ida are calm and rational, like the one by Gautum Naik at the Wall Street Journal. If what...
Ida: the Missing Link at Last? (the Creationist Interpretation)
	05/20/2009 8:56:16 AM PDT · Posted by GodGunsGuts · 60 replies · 979+ views AiG | May 19, 2009 For all the headlines and proclamations, this "missing link" story includes an amazing amount of hot air...
'Missing Link' Ida Is Just Media Hype
	05/20/2009 7:58:38 PM PDT · Posted by GodGunsGuts · 25 replies · 512+ views ICR | May 20, 2009 | Christine Dao 'Missing Link' Ida Is Just Media Hype by Christine Dao* Scientists and media outlets around the world are praising "Ida," the primate fossil hailed as the long-sought-after "missing link" in the human evolutionary theory.In a major public relations campaign, Ida was unveiled in New York City yesterday, May 19, 2009, and will make a stop in London May 26 before returning to its owners at the University of Oslo's Natural History Museum. BBC1 will air a documentary based on the fossil the same day as its UK unveiling, and Little, Brown -- publisher of the popular Twilight fiction series -- put out a book...
History Channel Announces "Global Event" For May 25th...
	05/18/2009 12:19:54 PM PDT · Posted by TaraP · 378 replies · 4,813+ views Look Up Fellowship | May 14th, 2009 The History Channel has been running an unusual 14-second ad that simply says: "May 25, 2009. A Global Event. This Changes Everything." Maybe this? ISBN:9780316070089 Library Bound #: 619216 Format: Hardcover Price: $28.99 Pub Date: May 2009 Lying inside a high security vault, deep within the heart of one of the world's leading museums, is a discovery that will change textbooks, change science, and change how we understand the human race. The author of Untitled has been given exclusive access to all of the research and the team of top scientists who have been validating the discovery, the announcement...
Ida: Humankind's Earliest Ancestor! (Not Really) -- Time Magazine exposes primate fossil hype
	05/22/2009 8:16:16 AM PDT · Posted by SeekAndFind · 19 replies · 453+ views Time Magazine | 5/22/2009 | Michael D. Lemonick From the beginning, Ida's unveiling has been a master class in ballyhoo. A week ago, the first breathless press releases began to arrive, portending the presentation of the now famous 47-million-year-old primate fossil from Germany: "MEDIA ALERT," the notice shouted in all caps. "WORLD-RENOWNED SCIENTISTS REVEAL A REVOLUTIONARY SCIENTIFIC FIND THAT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING." The press releases were followed by an international press conference at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, the publication of a book, The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor (Little, Brown), an ABC News exclusive and on May 25 a prime-time television special...
Dinosaurs
Long-Necked Dinos Didn't Graze Treetops
	05/17/2009 8:09:00 PM PDT · Posted by nickcarraway · 14 replies · 451+ views Hindustan Times | May 15, 2009 A new research has suggested that long-necked dinosaurs didn't graze treetops, and were better off holding their necks horizontal, not upright. According to a report in National Geographic News, lifting long necks at steep angles would have put intense pressure on sauropod hearts, requiring dramatic expenditures of energy to keep blood pumping to the brain. Sauropods were giant, long-necked, long-tailed, four-legged plant-eaters that lived about 200 to 66 million years ago (prehistoric time line). Since long-necked modern animals, such as giraffes, tend to browse on leaves in tall trees, paleontologists have assumed that sauropods-whose necks could be as long as...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Were dinosaurs done in by gas?
	05/20/2009 3:52:48 AM PDT · Posted by decimon · 41 replies · 518+ views Discovery | May 19, 2009 | Michael Reilly When a giant asteroid slammed into the Yucatan Peninsula 65 million years ago, the results were devastating: rock and ocean water vaporized, searing debris flung into outer space, and a smoldering hole in the Earth almost 75 miles wide. Scientists debate whether the cataclysm was enough to wipe out the dinosaurs. But a new set of experiments shows the impact produced a huge amount of carbon monoxide, a compound commonly found in car exhaust. The sudden pulse of gas may have been enough to cause a large spike in global temperatures, and trigger a mass extinction.
Pole Shift
Giant Trees Once Grew in Iceland's West Fjords
	05/18/2009 8:06:19 PM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 26 replies · 474+ views IcelandReview | May 13, 2009 | unattributed The largest piece of wood coal that has ever been discovered in Iceland was recently brought down from a height of 300 meters from Mt. Ernir that towers over Bolungarvik. It indicates that giant trees once grew in the West Fjords. Its existence had been known for some time but the right opportunity to take it down from the mountain didn't present itself until recently, ruv.is reports. The wool coal is probably around 12 million years old and Thorleifur Eiriksson at the Nature Historic Institute of the West Fjords said that research of this time period and the biosphere of...
Sunken Civilizations
Wild, wild floods! (does growing evidence of massive regional floods point to single global flood?)
	05/17/2009 6:24:41 PM PDT · Posted by GodGunsGuts · 99 replies · 1,567+ views Journal of Creation | Emil Silvestru Recently the Brits have found out what really separated them from mainland Europe: catastrophic flooding!...
Climate
SUN heats EARTH, EARTH heats ATMOSPHERE - NOT The Other Way Around
	05/17/2009 6:11:58 AM PDT · Posted by steelyourfaith · 33 replies · 671+ views Right Side News | May 14, 2009 | Hans Schreuder The so-called greenhouse effect of the atmosphere is commonly explained as followed: "The heating effect exerted by the atmosphere upon the Earth because certain trace gases in the atmosphere (water vapor, carbon dioxide, etc.) absorb and reemit infrared radiation. [...] The component that is radiated downward warms the Earth's surface more than would occur if only the direct sunlight were absorbed. The magnitude of this enhanced warming is the greenhouse effect. Earth's annual mean surface temperature of 15°C is 33°C higher as a result of the greenhouse effect ..." The above definition is the accepted one by climate alarmists and...
Rome and Italy
Roman France
	05/16/2009 11:08:02 PM PDT · Posted by Cincinna · 23 replies · 628+ views The New York Times | May 17, 2009 | ELAINE SCIOLINO THE summer evening was autumnally cold and damp, the backless stone seats in the outdoor theater unforgiving. Many of the 8,000 spectators were irritable; most of us had shown for a rained-out performance the night before. And frankly, I've seen better productions of "Carmen." But as the performers began to move, their shadows rose 100 feet and danced across the imposing backdrop of a yellow limestone wall. A marble statue of Caesar Augustus stood ghostly white upon his perch in the wall, his right arm raised as if he had just commanded the singers to begin their performance. When Carmen...
Rome to open gladiators training ground to public
	05/21/2009 3:53:13 PM PDT · Posted by bruinbirdman · 26 replies · 429+ views The Telegraph | 5/21/2009 | Nick Squires In Rome Rome is to put over 30 historical sites including a gladiators training ground and the aqueduct that feeds the Trevi Fountain on display for the first time. The sites, part of a vast network of tunnels, caves and catacombs which lie beneath the city, will be open from the end of this month. Highlights are the 2,000-year-old aqueduct which is still used to bring water to parts of the city, including the Trevi Fountain, and Ludus Magnus, where gladiators -- many of them slaves and prisoners of war -- were taught how to fight.. There is also the headquarters of...
Archaeoastronomy and Megaliths
2,000 year-old megalith uncovered in Tam Dao
	05/22/2009 8:35:54 AM PDT · Posted by BGHater · 4 replies · 249+ views VietNamNet | 21 May 2009 | VietNamNet Researchers from the Vietnam Archaeology Institute and the Hanoi University of Culture have discovered a megalith of nearly 2,000 years old in Tao Dao district, Vinh Phuc province. The megalith of over three metres long, over one metre wide, and nearly 0.5 metres thick looks like a boat. It is propped up on four big rocks which are buried deep in the earth, which are also megaliths. Dr. Trinh Nang Chung, the leader of the archaeological team, said that this is a Dolmel relic, a kind of megalith culture. Such relics have been unveiled in some northern provinces of Ha...
Let's Have Jerusalem
First Temple period seal with the name Shaul found in City of David excavations
	05/20/2009 6:19:00 PM PDT · Posted by SJackson · 20 replies · 746+ views IMRa | 5-20-09 First Temple period seal with the name Shaul found in City of David excavations A photo of the seal in high resolution can be downloaded from this link - www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14 Press Release Tuesday May 19, 2009 A Bone Seal Engraved with the Name Shaul, from the Time of the First Temple, was Found in the IAA Excavations in the Walls Around Jerusalem National Park, in the City of David The seal was displayed during a visit there by the Knesset presidium prior to Jerusalem Day Today (Tuesday) the Knesset presidium, headed by Speaker Reuben Rivlin, visited the City of David...
Tell me - who's buried down there, anyway? [Suleiman al-Hijazi's grandfather]
	05/20/2009 8:16:11 PM PDT · Posted by SJackson · 2 replies · 361+ views Jerusalem Post | 5-20-09 | ABE SELIG Shimon Hatzadik was one of the last surviving members of the Great Assembly, the high priest who replaced Ezra - who had led the Jews back to Israel from the Babylonian exile - and the man whom Alexander the Great is said to have prostrated himself in front of, explaining that that it was his image that he always saw leading him to victory in battle. "But that's not who's buried down there," said a woman residing in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah on Wednesday, pointing toward a slope where a group of religious Jews were walking. "That's...
Faith and Philosophy
India and Israel: Diverse in a homogeneous world
	05/19/2009 5:58:45 AM PDT · Posted by SJackson · 20 replies · 305+ views Jerusalem Post | 5-19-09 | SETH J. FRANTZMAN In a recent book entitled The Hindus: Alternative History, Wendy Doniger claims that Hinduism was invented by the British. Doniger is a scholar of Indian religions at the University of Chicago. She argues that Hinduism's unity and its holy Vedas are primarily a myth created by Protestants who sought a "unified Hinduism." She further argues that upper-caste Brahmins and other elites in India collaborated with the British and invented a "British-Brahmin version of Hinduism - one of the many invented traditions born around the world in the 18th and 19th centuries." These "bad Hindus" are accused of having an inferiority...
Oh So Mysteriouso
Thinking Outside the Box (Noah's Ark hull design rivals modern ocean tankers!)
	05/17/2009 3:02:08 PM PDT · Posted by GodGunsGuts · 52 replies · 1,728+ views AiG | Tim Lovett --snip-- Noah's Ark was the focus of a major 1993 scientific study headed by Dr. Seon Hong at the world-class ship research center KRISO, based in Daejeon, South Korea. Dr. Hong's team compared twelve hulls of different proportions to discover which design was most practical. No hull shape was found to significantly outperform the 4,300-year-old biblical design. In fact, the Ark's careful balance is easily lost if the proportions are modified, rendering the vessel either unstable, prone to fracture, or dangerously uncomfortable...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Human-Ape Hybridization: A Failed Attempt to Prove Darwinism
	05/16/2009 9:43:28 PM PDT · Posted by GodGunsGuts · 49 replies · 1,405+ views ICR | May 2009 | Jerry Bergman, Ph.D. Human-Ape Hybridization: A Failed Attempt to Prove Darwinism by Jerry Bergman, Ph.D.* Ilya Ivanov (1870-1932) was an eminent biologist who achieved considerable success in the field of artificial insemination of horses and other animals. Called "one of the greatest authorities on artificial fecundation,"[1] he graduated from Kharkov University in 1896 and became a professor of zoology in 1907. His artificial insemination techniques were so successful that he was able to fertilize as many as 500 mares with the semen of a single stallion. Ivanov also pioneered the use of artificial insemination to produce various hybrids, including that of a zebra...
Agriculture and Animal Husbandry
China's millet spread to Europe 7,000 years ago
	05/18/2009 7:53:02 PM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 8 replies · 281+ views People's Daily Online | May 14, 2009 | unattributed Millet was brought into Europe from China more than 7,000 years ago, archaeologists from the University of Cambridge in the UK stated in a thesis published by US journal "Science" on May 8. The report, entitled "Origins of Agriculture in East Asia," was coauthored by Martin Jones, a professor of archaeology at the University of Cambridge and his Chinese student Liu Xinyi. The study said that charred millet seeds found in the Neolithic farming remains in Northeast China indicated that locals had planted millet as early as 8,000 years ago. Millet was gradually introduced to Europe during the next millennium....
Precolumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Unearthing the Mayan Creation Myth
	05/17/2009 12:19:23 PM PDT · Posted by decimon · 16 replies · 599+ views Discover | May 16, 2009 | Sam Kissinger Archaeologists who have uncovered two massive carved stucco panels in the Mirador Basin of Gua≠temala's northern rain forest say they are the earliest known representation of the Mayan creation myth, predating other such artifacts by a millennium. According to the researchers, the panels -- 26 feet long and 20 feet high, with images of monsters, gods, and swimming heroes -- date to 300 B.C. They formed the sides of a channel that carried rainwater into a complex system of stepped pools, where it was stored for drinking and agriculture.
Hand of Bridge
Ancient Gem-Studded Teeth Show Skill of Early Dentists
	05/20/2009 6:15:25 PM PDT · Posted by JoeProBono · 15 replies · 563+ views nationalgeographic | May 18, 2009 The glittering "grills" of some hip-hop stars aren't exactly unprecedented. Sophisticated dentistry allowed Native Americans to add bling to their teeth as far back as 2,500 years ago, a new study says. Ancient peoples of southern North America went to "dentists" -- among the earliest known -- to beautify their chompers with notches, grooves, and semiprecious gems, according to a recent analysis of thousands of teeth examined from collections in Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (such as the skull above, found in Chiapas, Mexico). Scientists don't know the origin of most of the teeth in the collections, which belonged to people living...
Hand of Bridge, 1492
Who Went With Columbus? Dental Studies Give Clues.
	05/18/2009 11:49:05 AM PDT · Posted by decimon · 20 replies · 641+ views Washington Post | May 18, 2009 | Kari Lydersen The first planned colonial town in the New World was founded in 1494, when about 1,200 of Christopher Columbus's crew members from the 17 ships that made up his second journey to the Americas settled on the north coast of what is now the Dominican Republic . Beset by mutiny, mismanagement, hurricanes and disease, the settlement of La Isabela lasted only a few years. The ruins remained largely intact until the 1950s, when a local official reportedly misunderstood the order from dictator Rafael Trujillo to clean up the site in preparation for visiting dignitaries, and had them mostly bulldozed into...
Malta
Scholar on ancient textile colours gives lecture in Malta
	05/21/2009 11:23:17 AM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 10 replies · 206+ views Malta Star | Thursday, May 21, 2009 | unattributed Professor Zvi C. Koren has recently given a lecture entitled 'The Fashionable Colours of Antiquity Uncovered by Scientific Analyses' at Heritage Malta's Institute of Conservation and Management of Cultural Heritage (ICMCH) in Bighi, Kalkara. Professor Koren's lecture was based upon the study of ancient colorants, which opens a historical window in the field of ancient technologies... The presentation discussed the various botanical and animal sources and the dyeing technologies associated with ancient colorants. The vegetal sources of dyestuffs that produce yellow, red and blue colours include amongst others, plant roots, leaves, flowers, tree bark and branches. These colours were also...
Radiometric Dating
Ancient clay has internal clock
	05/21/2009 3:57:56 PM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 5 replies · 256+ views BBC | Wednesday, May 20, 2009 | unattributed Fired clay ceramics start to react chemically with atmospheric moisture as soon as it is removed from the kiln. Researchers believe they can pinpoint the precise age of materials like brick, tile and pottery by calculating how much its weight has changed. The team from Edinburgh and Manchester universities hope the method will prove as significant as radiocarbon dating... Radiocarbon dating, used for bone or wood, cannot be used for ceramic material because it does not contain carbon... He and his team, from the universities of Edinburgh and Manchester and the Museum of London, were able to date brick samples...
Helix, Make Mine a Double
Pirate bones could be in that box, author says[NC]
	05/15/2009 8:50:49 AM PDT · Posted by BGHater · 11 replies · 392+ views The News & Observer | 15 May 2009 | JERRY ALLEGOOD State rejects request for DNA test on 18th-century remains from Bath A Raleigh author is attempting to reopen the 274-year-old estate of a Beaufort County man he thinks was once a member of Blackbeard's pirate crew -- and whose bones may be stored in a box in Raleigh. Kevin P. Duffus, a writer and filmmaker, says he needs access to the estate of Edward Salter, a landowner and merchant who died in 1735, to help confirm that the state has Salter's remains. With the backing of some of Salter's descendants, Duffus is seeking to have DNA testing done on bones...
Early America
Braddock's Road to War
	08/22/2004 9:53:14 AM PDT · Posted by Willie Green · 12 replies · 367+ views The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | Sunday, August 22, 2004 | Richard Robbins In the summer of 1755, soldiers faced heat, disease and enemies as they marched across a quarter of the American continent to do battle. That summer, some 2,400 French and Indian War troops under the command of British Gen. Edward Braddock walked from Virginia to stage what turned out to be a botched assault on the Point in Pittsburgh, the key to westward expansion and in the firm grip of the French and their Indian allies in the 1750s. "These were tough people," mused tourist Douglas Roach, as he rested on a bench next to Braddock's Grave along Route 40...
The American Colonist's Library-A Treasury of Primary Documents (Repost)
	12/05/2004 12:30:14 PM PST · Posted by Gritty · 20 replies · 15,711+ views Rick Gardiner Website | various | various Primary Source Documents Pertaining to Early American History -- An invaluable collection of historical works which contributed to the formation of American politics, culture, and ideals The following is a massive collection of the literature and documents which were most relevant to the colonists' lives in America. If it isn't here, it probably is not available online anywhere. Arranged In Chronological Sequence (500 B.C.-1800 A.D.) Given the Supreme Court's impending decision, the ultimate historic origins of the national motto, "In God We Trust" and...
You say you want a revolution? [TV Series on French&Indian War Alert]
	01/12/2006 5:24:59 AM PST · Posted by Pharmboy · 29 replies · 447+ views The Arlington Advocate | January 12, 2006 | Jennifer Mann When reflecting upon the momentous battles that shaped America as a country, most go no further back than the Revolutionary War. The French and Indian War, or what British and Canadians refer to as the Seven Years' War, is often relegated to a smaller place in U.S. history. But an upcoming four-part dramatic documentary, Episodes 1 and 3 of which were written, produced and directed by Arlington resident and filmmaker Eric Stange, intends to change perceptions of the 1754 to 1763 struggle. Titled "The War That Made America," the documentary premiering on PBS Jan. 18 and 25 explores how the...
The Framers
the 14th Amendment
	05/21/2009 11:14:03 AM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 7 replies · 273+ views Constitution of the United States, via FindLaw et al | adopted on July 9, 1868 | The Framers et al FindLaw's commentary: In the aftermath of the Civil War, Congress, in addition to proposing to the States the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, enacted seven statutes designed in a variety of ways to implement the provisions of these Amendments. Several of these laws were general civil rights statutes which broadly attacked racial and other discrimination on the part of private individuals and groups as well as by the States, but the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional or rendered ineffective practically all of these laws over the course of several years. In the end, Reconstruction was abandoned and with rare exceptions no...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Genes of 'Bearded Lady' Revealed
	05/21/2009 2:59:34 PM PDT · Posted by JoeProBono · 19 replies · 892+ views news.yahoo | Thu May 21 Julia Pastrana became famous as the "bearded lady" in the mid-1800s. Now, more than 150 years later, scientists have discovered the genetic mutations responsible for her rare condition. The disorder, known as congenital generalized hypertrichosis terminalis (CGHT) with gingival hypertrophy, is characterized by excessive growth of dark hairs all over the body, distorted facial features, and enlarged gums. In some cases, people can have CGHT with normal gums. All of these diseases fall into a group of conditions called congenital generalized hypertrichosis (CGH). The disease is difficult to study because it is so rare. After analyzing the genomes of members...
The Great War
Cross Village native among 'The Polar Bears' who fought for eight months in Russia inWWI
	05/21/2009 1:29:10 PM PDT · Posted by Tailgunner Joe · 9 replies · 381+ views harborlightnews.com | May 20, 2009 | Daniele Kapral In September 1918, though told they were headed to France, the soldiers in company M 339th Infantry were shipped from Camp Custer in Battle Creek, Michigan, to the bitter cold Archangel, Russia. The R.E.F (Russian Expeditionary Force), later referred to as "The Polar Bears," went to battle in a desolate, frozen land. They were left to fight eight months after World War I had ended, and became one of the most highly decorated regiments in all the war. These men will be remembered in a documentary film, "Voices of a Never Ending Dawn," which premieres this Memorial weekend in southern...
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Gods Graves Glyphs Digest #253 20090523 · Saturday, May 23, 2009 · 37 topics · 2256281 to 2252524 · 716 members ·
	Saturday May 23 2009 v 5 n 45 view this issue	Welcome to the 253rd issue. The end of year five of the Digest draws nearer. My good news today (oops, now yesterday) was that my ARM adjustment was downward, so my house payment will drop about fifty bucks. Since the FReepathon is quarterly, and the current one began April Fool's Day, we will begin the next one in about thirty-eight days. It is indeed time to git 'er done (in the words of JimRob). When it comes time to support FR, I don't concern myself with the opinions of other FReepers -- and some of those opinions I hold to be self-evidently stupid -- instead, I say, let all of us right wing loonies talk. And it's not as if FR is going to get a gov't bailout, or ACORN graft money, or support from the kindly OPEC sheiks or al-Qaeda or Iran. And it's not as if this place is HuffPo, or Kos, or DU -- any or all of those could have a motto such as, "if butt-holes could fly, this place would be an airport." I very much doubt that there's anything that compares with FR, and yes, smart-a.. I mean that in a good way. Just when I thought I had things pretty much figured out around here, I spot the italicized "most active" keyword, gooniegoogoo and, well, just damn. I love the puntland keyword because it points to another oh-so-obviously made-up nationality. But at least they're fighting Somali piracy, unlike some countries (Somalia, for instance). I won't mention this keyword out loud, just rest assured I had nothing to do with it. AuntB posts M3Report topics pertaining to our national problems stemming from the tide of illegal aliens crossing the border. * Sandrat posts a lot (possibly most) of the topics pertaining to the War on Terror. Be sure to check Celebrimbor's and StarCMC's YouTube Smackdown topics, which are "Countering the cyber-jihad one video at a time". Be sure to visit the invisib1e hand's Founder's Quote Daily topics. Be sure to check Homer_J_Simpson's topics, many of which are based on archival newspaper articles, usually 70 years ago that day. Visit the Free Republic Memorial Wall -- a history-related feature of FR. Donate to FreeRepublic.
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anthropology and Homo Erectus keywords, combined, chrono sort, duplicates removed, also deleted some I consider to be bogus additions.

• Study: Neanderthals, Modern Humans Same Species
• 'Lost River' Could Rewrite History Books
• Asia the home of primate ancestors
• Explorer Thor Heyerdahl, 87, Dies
• Human settlements far older than suspected discovered in South America.
• 'Astonishing' skull unearthed in Africa
• 2,000-year-old corpse found intact in mystery fluid
• Researchers to Seek Origin of Ancient Chinese Civilization
• Holocaust of Giants: The Great Smithsonian Cover-up
• Ishi - The Last Yahi Indian
• A New Look at Old Data May Discredit a Theory on Race
• Scientist: Oldest American skull found
• A Mormon confronts his myths: faces expulsion for refuting link between Indians and Israelites
• New four-winged feathered dinosaur?
• A great selection of archaeological Links.
• Court Blocks Study Of Ancient Bones Pending Appeal (Kennewick Man)
• Prehistoric Images Threatened by Fungi (French Scientists Surrender To Mold)
• Debate Over a Skull [NYT Letter to Ed.]
• Italian Archaeologist: Anatolia - Home To First Civilization On Earth
• Celtic Found to Have Ancient Roots
• Peopling Of The Americas: Late Date for Siberian Site Challenges Bering Pathway
• Why Humans and Their Fur Parted Ways
• Narrow Skulls Clue To First Americans
• Skeleton Case Challeges 'Native American'
• Scientists Say Warfare Began After People Formed Villages
• Stranger In A New Land (Archaeology)
• Scientists trace evolution of Indo-European languages to Hittites
• Did hardy Ice Age hunters find the West?
• Human tools found in Antarctica
• Big Chill Killed Off The Neanderthals
• Secrets of old mask still hidden, duo say
• Scientist Says Monkey Thought Extinct May Be Swinging Through Trees in Africa
• Expedition Hunts Giant Meteor (1500AD - NZ)
• Kennewick Man Speaks
• Tests Reveal Amesbury Archer "King Of Stonehenge' Was A Settler From The Alps
• Archaeologists Uncover Ancient Maritime Spice Route Between India, Egypt
• Ancient Clay Stamp Seals And Sealings Of Sri Lanka
• (Good News For Democrats) Scientists: Hard heads a key to survival
• Kennewick Man Ruling - Politics Or Science
• Another Branch of Human Ancestors Reported
• Study: Humans, Neanderthals Did Not Mate
• Ethiopia to Exhibit 'Lucy' Fossil in United States
• Morford: Maybe You Need A Road Trip
• Petite skull reopens human ancestry debate
• The Poop On Ancient Man
• Teeth Show How Society Was Shaped By Old Age
• Myth of the Hunter-Gatherer
• Photo Series: Persepolis, Iran - Capital of Persian Empire [History]
• First Americans - Homo Erectus in America
• Extinct humans left louse legacy(Homo Erectus and Homo Sapiens)
• New Species Revealed: Tiny Cousins of Humans
• Island of the Little People
• Humans Were Born to Run, Scientists Say
• Even Couch Potatoes May Have Been Born to Run
• Fossil Ape May Be Ancestor of All Apes - Report
• The Politics of Dead 'Native Americans'
• The Ends of the World as We Know Them
• Anthropologist Claims Humans, Neanderthals, Australopithecines All Variations on One Species
• Gene Arrangement Makes Some Europeans More Fertile
• 'Man the Hunter' theory is debunked in new book
• Anthropologist resigns in 'dating disaster'
• Disgraced Anthropologist Drinks 40,000-Year-Old Milk (Humerus break)
• Anthropologist resigns in 'dating disaster'
• History of modern man unravels as German scholar is exposed as fraud
• PALEOANTHROPOLOGY: Small but Smart? Flores Hominid Shows Signs of Advanced Brain
• Did Use of Free Trade Cause Neanderthal Extinction?
• Cross-cultural estimation of the human generation interval...
• Evidence for the Orangutan Relationship
• Stone age porn
• Archaeologist Finds 'Oldest Porn Statue' (7,200 Years Old)
• Ancient Maya Entrepreneurs Made Salt, Study Finds
• Engineers Help to Save and Reconstruct the Past
• Female population predominant in 5000-year-old Burnt City (Iran)
• Jawbone Hints at Earliest Britons
• The Terra-cotta soldiers of Qin Shihuang
• DNA Study Yields Clues on Early Humans' First Migration
• DNA Study Yields Clues on First Migration of Early Humans
• Borneo's ancient jungles offer new insight into modern life
• Faithful Ancestors
• The New Science of Race
• Blood Type History, Human Migrations (Blam Thread)
• Footsteps in time that add 30,000 years to history of America
• Gene study suggests Polynesians came from Taiwan
• Gene study links Polynesians to Taiwan (DNA points to Pacific population's origins in East Asia)
• Bighorn Canyon sites at mercy of unlawful artifact hunters
• Coffin from Civil War uncovers mystery
• In the Wake of the Phoenicians: DNA study reveals a Phoenician-Maltese link
• Georgians Claim to Unearth Ancient Skull
• Under the Old Neighborhood: In Iraq, an Archaeologist's Paradise
• Under the Spell of Malthus
• On Human Diversity: Why has the genetics community discarded so many phenotypes?
• Scientists Show We've Been Losing Face For 10,000 Years
• Homo Erectus Ate Crunchy Food
• Skull Study Suggests at Least Two Groups Colonized America
• New Mexico's Mystery Stone
• Study: Viking Teeth Were Groovy
• Report: Kennewick Man Deliberately Buried
• Anthropologists: Early Humans Probably Pretty Peaceful
• Scientists Find Skull of Human Ancestor
• Terms Of Enstrangement (Anthropology)
• Old bones are telling new tales (Son Of Kennewick Man)
• Homo Floresiensis: tiny toolmaker or microcephalic? (The debate continues)
• Earliest hominid: Not a hominid at all?
• Early Fig Farming
• Terrestrial Evidence of a Nuclear Catastrophe in Paleoindian Times
• Creating a cupboard for our skeletons
• 'Lucy's baby' found in Ethiopia
• Ancient Fossil Child Discovered in Ethiopia [NPR]
• Ancient Necropolis Found Beneath Vatican
• Fossil Remains Show The Merging Of Neandertals, Modern Humans
• Did we plough up the Garden of Eden?
• Lucy's ancient bones to tour US
• Maoris 'facing extinction' from diabetes
• Ancient Ape Ruled Out Of Man's Ancestral Line
• 'Post-Neanderthal Equality' (Where is the next feminist revolution?)
• God and gorillas (or evo uncovered as quasi anti science)
• Unbrushed Teeth Reveal Ancient Diets
• 'Stone Age' called insult (PC Alert)
• Skeleton challenge to Africa theory
• FSU Anthropologist Finds Earliest Evidence Of Maize Farming In Mexico (7,300 YA)
• The Emerging Fate Of The Neanderthals
• Rise Of Man Theory 'Out By 400,000 Years'
• Ancient Human Behavior Uncovered
• Anthropology Professor says Tribal Killing of Disabled Babies Should be Respected
• Handsome By Chance: Why Humans Look Different From Neanderthals
• CU-Boulder Team Discovers First Ancient Manioc Fields In Americas
• More Than Just a Pretty Face From History
• Human Ancestor Preserved in Stone
• Knowing Ourselves
• Noble Savages? The era of the hunter-gatherer was not the social and environmental Eden some suggest
• The Tassili n'Ajjer [Algeria] : birthplace of ancient Egypt ?
• Grunt work: Scientists make Neanderthals speak again
• Humans re-united to fight extinction
• Oldest Skeleton in Americas Found in Underwater Cave?
• Discovery of Fire Pushed Back 500,000 Years
• No burial for 10,000-year-old bones: U of California denies request for repatriation of remains
• Best Female Figure Not an Hourglass
• CU professor finds evidence of extinct camels in Boulder
• Prints Are Evidence of Modern Foot in Prehumans
• 13,000-year-old tools unearthed at Colorado home
• Armed' chimps go wild for honey
• Ancient Gem-Studded Teeth Show Skill of Early Dentists

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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #254 Saturday, May 30, 2009
Agriculture and Animal Husbandry
The Evolution of House Cats [genetic research about cat breeding]
	· 05/27/2009 2:49:52 PM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 31 replies · 706+ views · Scientific American | June 2009 | Carlos A. Driscoll, Juliet Clutton-Brock, Andrew C. Kitchener and Stephen J. O'Brien ...In the genetic analysis, published in 2007, Driscoll, another of us (O'Brien) and their colleagues focused on two kinds of DNA that molecular biologists traditionally examine to differentiate subgroups of mammal species: DNA from mitochondria, which is inherited exclusively from the mother, and short, repetitive sequences of nuclear DNA known as microsatellites. Using established computer routines, they assessed the ancestry of each of the 979 individuals sampled based on their genetic signatures. Specifically, they measured how similar each cat's DNA was to that of all the other cats and grouped the animals having similar DNA together. They then asked whether...
Epigraphy and Language
A Human Language Gene Changes the Sound of Mouse Squeaks
	· 05/29/2009 12:24:46 AM PDT · Posted by LibWhacker · 16 replies · 458+ views · NY Times | 5/28/09 | Nicholas Wade People have a deep desire to communicate with animals, as is evident from the way they converse with their dogs, enjoy myths about talking animals or devote lifetimes to teaching chimpanzees how to speak. A delicate, if tiny, step has now been taken toward the real thing: the creation of a mouse with a human gene for language.
Biology and Cryptobiology
Fossil Of 'Giant' Shrew Nearly One Million Years Old Found In Spain
	· 05/28/2009 1:09:46 PM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 60 replies · 731+ views · ScienceDaily | May 18, 2009 | Adapted from materials provided by Plataforma SINC Researchers from the University of Zaragoza (UNIZAR) have discovered fossils in the TD4, TD5 and TD6 levels of the Gran Dolina deposit in Burgos that date to between 780,000 and 900,000 years ago, and have shown that these belong to a new genus and species of shrew (Dolinasorex glyphodon), from the Soricidae family (small insect-eating mammals)... The morphometric and phylogenetic studies of the new species reveal a close link with the species of eastern Asia... In addition, analyses of jawbones and individual teeth of Dolinasorex glyphodon, collected between 1991 and 2007 in Atapuerca, have enabled the scientists to develop paleoecological...
Species Discovered This Millennium
	· 01/29/2008 11:51:20 PM PST · Posted by Exton1 · 29 replies · 44+ views · world press | 2007 | Unk Liberals say we are destroying the planet and destroying species. Yet, just about everyday something new is discovered. Maybe this earth is bigger than we think. Discovery New Tribe Spotted in Peruvian Amazon! Found: Giant Lobster Species! New Genus! Australian Truffles! New Species of Orchid Flirts With Wasps Squid Body + Octopus Legs = New Species? What'll They Do Next- Revive the Dodo? uh..no- really? 9 July, 2007 From an article by Kate RaviliousNational Geographic News July 3, 2007 Adventurers exploring a cave on an island in the Indian Ocean have discovered the most complete and well-preserved dodo skeleton ever found, scientists reported yesterday. Researchers...
Paleontology
Toothy sharks once ruled Tuscany
	· 05/28/2009 5:22:08 PM PDT · Posted by decimon · 17 replies · 282+ views · Discovery | May 28, 2009 | Rossella Lorenzi Some three million years ago, eel-like sharks snaked through the region that now supports Tuscany's finest vineyards, suggest fossils recently found in the clay soil of the Chianti region. Hundreds of fossilized teeth belonging to primitive shark-like creatures have been uncovered by amateur paleontologists near the village of Castelnuovo Berardenga, not far from Siena.
Sumatran Rhinos Are Living Fossils
	· 09/13/2006 10:29:03 PM PDT · Posted by restornu · 11 replies · 727+ views · Cryptomundo | Sept 12, 2006 | Darren Naish Zoologist Darren Naish has written a thoughtful essay on "Are Sumatran Rhinos Really Living Fossil?" His blog is in response to my comments on the "living fossil" issue, discussed here. I disagree with Naish's restrictive parameters, of course, as I see this more an issue of educational semantics influenced by zoology, not ruled by it. Darren Naish's approach is worthy of your attention and he has every right to his very informed point of view. Needless to say, in this case, I was employing the "living fossil" definition that this rhino species is "a living species/clade with many "primitive' characteristics...
Small Prehistoric Whale Was Vicious Hunter
	· 08/31/2006 4:57:28 AM PDT · Posted by Alex1977 · 5 replies · 640+ views · Live Science | 30 August 2006 | Abigail W. Leonard Paleontologists have uncovered a 25-million-year-old whale fossil with a monstrous set of teeth and enormous eyes on the coast of Australia.The discovery has researchers rethinking whales' evolutionary history.Scientists were surprised to find that the vicious-looking specimen is an ancestor of modern baleen whales, gentle giants of today's seas. The fossil suggests a creature that grew to a little more than 11 feet with teeth about an inch-and-a-half long. Baleen whales, which include the blue and humpback, feed by filtering plankton and small fish from seawater through hair-like fibers in their jaws. Their ferocious forebears, on the other hand, appear to...
Dinosaurs
Huge dinosaur discovery in China: state media (including the remains of an enormous "platypus")
	· 12/30/2008 10:26:06 AM PST · Posted by NormsRevenge · 31 replies · 1,096+ views · AFP on Yahoo | 12/30/08 | AFP BEIJING (AFP) -- Paleontologists in east China have dug up what they believe is one of the world's largest group of dinosaur fossils including the remains of an enormous "platypus", state press said Tuesday. Paleontologists have discovered 15 areas near Zhucheng city in Shandong province that contain thousands of dinosaur bones, the Beijing News reported. "This group of fossilised dinosaurs is currently the largest ever discovered in the world... in terms of area," the paper cited paleontologist Zhao Xijin of the China Academy of Sciences as saying. In one area measuring 300 metres (990 feet) by 10 metres, more than...
Newfound Reptile Swam in Dinosaur Era (Umoonasaurus - 'Killer whales of the Jurassic')
	· 07/07/2006 12:57:16 PM PDT · Posted by NormsRevenge · 27 replies · 617+ views · LiveScience.com on yahoo | 7/7/06 | Ker Than Scientists have identified a new species of ancient aquatic reptile that swam the seas when dinosaurs still ruled the Earth. Dubbed Umoonasaurus, the creature lived in waters off the coast of what is now Australia 115 million years ago, when the continent was located much closer to Antarctica than it is now. Plesiosaurs were large marine reptiles that had stocky, barrel-shaped bodies, short tails and paddle-like limbs. Some had long, slender necks, while others had short, squat ones. What made Umoonasaurus stand out from other plesiosaurs were a series of high, thin crests on its head and numerous fused vertebrae...
Australia and the Pacific
Cave Painting Depicts Extinct Marsupial Lion
	· 05/25/2009 3:32:12 PM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 18 replies · 854+ views · Natural History Magazine, via LiveScience | May 9th, 2009 | Stephan Reebs Modern Australia lacks big land predators, but until about 30,000 years ago, the continent was ruled by Thylacoleo carnifex, the marsupial "lion." Several well-preserved skeletons of the leopard-size beast have been found. Now, a newly discovered cave painting offers a glimpse of the animal's external appearance. In June 2008, Tim Willing, a naturalist and tour guide, photographed an ancient painting on a rockshelter wall near the shore of northwestern Australia. Kim Akerman, an independent anthropologist based in Tasmania, says the painting unmistakably depicts a marsupial lion. It shows the requisite catlike muzzle, large forelimbs, and heavily clawed front paws. And...
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Coin Discovery Thrills Archaeologists (Norway)
	· 07/13/2007 8:54:21 AM PDT · Posted by blam · 25 replies · 1,102+ views · AftenPosten | 7-12-2007 Coin discovery thrills archaeologists Archaeologists monitoring some digging by the City of Oslo's waterworks department made a sensational discovery this week.Gunhild Høvik Hansen spotted the special coin while digging herself. PHOTO: ANNE-STINE JOHNSBRÅTEN The discovery was made while archaeologists were monitoring replacement of new waterlines in the oldest part of Oslo. PHOTO: ANNE-STINE JOHNSBRÅTEN The archaeologists have been following excavations done by city workers who are replacing underground water pipes in the oldest part of Oslo, called Gamlebyen. That's the neighbourhood east of today's downtown area where Oslo's first known settlements were established more than a thousand years ago....
Climate
Ocean's History Being Unlocked By Researchers
	· 05/26/2009 4:01:13 PM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 18 replies · 299+ views · Red Orbit | Monday, May 25, 2009 | redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports According to a recent study, medieval fishermen first took to the sea around AD 1,000 in search of food after a sharp decline in freshwater fish. The decline was likely caused by rising population and pollution levels... Piecing the information together required looking at fish bones to determine their species, and what time period they came from. One hypothesis says that freshwater fish were no longer able to satisfy demand. "At the end of the first millennium AD there is this wholesale shift in emphasis from reliance on freshwater fish towards marine species," said Barrett. "It is not rocket science,...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
China volcano may have caused mass extinction
	· 05/28/2009 12:16:30 PM PDT · Posted by decimon · 23 replies · 343+ views · Associated Press | May 28, 2009 | Randolph E. Schmid A mass extinction some 260 million years ago may have been caused by volcanic eruptions in what is now China, new research suggests.
Honeydrippers Rock Out
Giant blob found deep beneath Nevada
	· 05/26/2009 8:01:59 PM PDT · Posted by Kimmers · 56 replies · 1,806+ views · MSNBC | May 26,2009 | Jeanna Bryner The blob, which drips like honey, is between 15 and 20 million years old By Jeanna Bryner LiveScience updated 5:34 p.m. CT, Tues., May 26, 2009 Hidden beneath the U.S. West's Great Basin, scientists have spied a giant blob of rocky material dripping like honey. The Great Basin consists of small mountain ranges separated by valleys and includes most of Nevada, the western half of Utah and portions of other nearby states. While studying the area, John West of Arizona State University and his colleagues found evidence of a large cylindrical blob of cold material far below the surface of...
Diet and Cuisine
Do hunter-gatherers have it right?
	· 05/24/2009 2:54:08 PM PDT · Posted by decimon · 42 replies · 838+ views · BBC | May 19, 2009 | Tom Feilden Listening to Tom Standage talking about his new book, An Edible History of Humanity this morning I was reminded of a paper written by the anthropologist and author Jared Diamond in the late 1980's. Diamond described agriculture as, "the worst mistake in the history of the human race". Farming was, he argued, a catastrophe from which we have never quite recovered. With agriculture came "the social and sexual inequality, disease and despotism, that curse our existence".
Helix, Make Mine a Double
Ancient teeth hint that right-handedness is nothing new
	· 05/24/2009 5:51:13 AM PDT · Posted by decimon · 31 replies · 423+ views · New Scientist | May 23, 2009 | Ewen Callaway Ancient bones suggest "lefties" have been coping with a right-handed world for more than half a million years. A study of Homo heidelbergensis, an ancestor of Neanderthals, seems to show that the ancient humans were predominately right-handed. "Finding that a hominin species as old as Homo heidelbergensis is already right-handed helps to trace back the chain of modernity concerning hand laterality," says Marina Mosquera, a paleoanthropologist at Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Spain, who was involved in the study. Humans are the only animal believed to show a strong preference for performing tasks with one hand or the other....
Prehistory and Origins
Bronze Age man inhabited water-logged north
	· 05/25/2009 2:10:19 PM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 3 replies · 224+ views · Radio Netherlands [RNW Translation (mw)] | May 13, 2009 | by Robert Chesal New Bronze Age finds -- Skeletal remains of a young man, dogs' skulls and pottery. Archaeologists have found 3,000-year-old remains near Enkhuizen, a long-established city to the north of Amsterdam, in a dig that has been going on since January. Until now, experts thought no one could have lived in the area during the Bronze Age because it was too water-logged. They have now been proved wrong.Water managementAround 1,000 BC, water-logged land was a major problem for human settlements in this region in the north of the Netherlands. However, even at this early date, people were taking measures to deal with the...
British Isles
Archaeology: Bronze Age road found in UK
	· 05/25/2009 12:24:34 PM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 8 replies · 289+ views · Newspost Online | Tuesday, May 26, 2009 | ANI, Posted by newspostraj Archaeologists have discovered a road below Swansea's shifting foreshore that is said to be from the early Bronze Age. Brian Price, a member of the Swansea Metal Detecting Club, reported the discovery opposite the Brynmill area to the Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust. The track was woven from narrow branches of oak and alder. It was covered in a thin layer of brushwood to provide a level walking-surface. It was found in March when it was uncovered by storms but has since disappeared back under the marine clay. Scientists sent a sample to the Beta Analytic Radiocarbon Laboratory in Florida, which dated...
Asia
Mystery footprints restore warring scene
	· 05/25/2009 1:47:14 PM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 1 replies · 228+ views · China.org | Friday, May 22, 2009 | Xinhua News Agency Newly discovered footprints of different sizes, apparently left by men, women and children, on an ancient military route, have helped recreate a war scene that occurred at least 2,000 years ago, an archaeologist said Friday. The footprints, the smallest of which were believed to belong to children around six years old, were found last week along vehicle tracks on China's first interprovincial road, a 700-km dirt road built under the reign of the "First Emperor", said Zhang Zaiming, a researcher with Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archeology, based in the ancient capital Xi'an. "We also found an arrowhead close to the...
Near East
Babylonian heritage--Iraq's last Jews
	· 05/28/2009 7:46:06 AM PDT · Posted by SJackson · 8 replies · 287+ views · Jerusalem Post | 5-28-09 | ZVI GABAY Iraq's Last Jews - Stories of Daily Life, Upheaval and Escape from Modern Babylon Edited by Tamar Morad, Dennis Shasha and Robert Shasha Introduction by Prof. Shmuel Moreh Palgrave-Macmillan 211 pp., $75.99 (hardcover) How does one explain the reason why a prosperous community of 140,000 people, with a history and heritage of 2,600 years, uproots itself en masse, and leaves Iraq, the country which it helped modernize in all areas - government and politics, economy, medicine, education, literature, poetry and music? An explanation for this extraordinary historical phenomenon is found in Iraq's Last Jews. This book includes testimonies of 19...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Jewish Yad Avshalom Revealed As A Christian Shrine From Byzantine Era
	· 07/22/2003 6:27:03 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 10 replies · 398+ views · Haaretz.com | 7-22-2003 | Amiram Barkat Jewish Yad Avshalom revealed as a Christian shrine from Byzantine era By Amiram Barkat The historic Yad Avshalom monument in Jerusalem's Kidron Valley, revered for centuries as a Jewish shrine, was also a Christian holy place in the fourth century, new evidence has revealed. A fourth-century inscription on one of the walls near the monument, recently uncovered by chance, marks the site as the burial place of the Temple priest Zachariah, the father of John the Baptist who baptized Jesus. Scholars believe the monument was built in the first century, making it possible that figures holy to Christians could be...
Egypt
U.S. and Polish archaeologists successful at Berenike
	· 05/25/2009 1:54:55 PM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 5 replies · 166+ views · Polish Press Agency | May 20, 2009 | AT / Polish Academy of Sciences Fragments of pottery with inscriptions in one of pre-Islamic languages have been found by a U.S-Polish team of archaeologists near Berenike, a Greco-Roman harbour on the Egyptian Red Sea coast. The finds confirm that Berenike was the most active Red Sea port during Hellenistic and Roman times. Inscriptions and other written materials found in Berenike have been written in 12 different languages. This attests to the cosmopolitan mix of people who lived in or passed through the town. Berenike was founded by Ptolemy II Philadelphus in 285-246 B.C. The international team of archaeologists led by professor Steven Sidebotham of the...
Diet and Cuisine
Sardinian scientists believe they've traced the roots of the 'death-defying' sardonic grin...
	· 05/25/2009 2:18:14 PM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 23 replies · 565+ views · ANSA | May 15, 2009 | unattributed Sardinian scientists believe they've traced the roots of the 'death-defying' sardonic grin to a water plant commonly found on the Italian island. Greek poet Homer first used the word, an adaptation of the ancient word for Sardininan, to describe a defiant smile or laugh in the face of death. He was believed to have coined it because of the belief that the Punic people who settled Sardinia gave condemned men a potion that made them smile before dying. The association with Sardinia has often been disputed, but Cagliari University botanists think they've settled the case - and the plant in...
Vesuvius
UK to 'unroll' papyrus scrolls buried by Vesuvius [Kentucky prof has non-invasive scanning technique
	· 05/24/2009 5:28:13 AM PDT · Posted by Mike Fieschko · 28 replies · 688+ views · Lexington Herald-Leader | Tuesday, May. 19, 2009 | Jim Warren On Aug. 24, 79 A.D., Italy's Mount Vesuvius exploded, burying the Roman towns of Herculaneum and Pompeii under tons of super-heated ash, rock and debris in one of the most famous volcanic eruptions in history. Thousands died. But somehow, hundreds of papyrus scrolls survived -- sort of -- in a villa at Herculaneum thought to have been owned at one time by Julius Caesar's father-in-law. The scrolls contained ancient philosophical and learned writings. But they were so badly damaged -- literally turned to carbon by the volcanic heat -- that they crumbled when scholars first tried to open them centuries...
Rome and Italy
Emperor Trajan's Palace discovered in southwestern Romania
	· 05/25/2009 3:47:01 PM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 17 replies · 485+ views · Chinaview | May 15, 2009 | Xinhua (editor Mu Xuequan) Romanian archaeologists has discovered, in southeastern county of Caras-Severin, a complex structure estimated to be 2,000 years old belonging to the Roman culture, local media reported on Thursday. The archaeological discovery has a special importance because it was built very early, probably in the autumn of 101 during the first Dacian-Roman War of 101-102, before the actual Roman conquest of Dacia, the Carpathian-Danube region, modern day Romania. The discovery will bring the village of Zavoi in Caras-Severin County to the attention of history researchers and archaeologists from around the world following the digging up of the ruins of a Roman...
Macedonia
Archaeology Exhibition of Prehistoric Women from Macedonia Displayed in Montenegro
	· 05/27/2009 6:37:49 PM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 27 replies · 527+ views · BalkanTravellers.com | Wednesday, May 27, 2009 | unattributed Almost 100 figurines, constituting the "Prehistoric Women from Macedonia" exhibition, will be displayed in Montenegro's capital starting today. The 94 figurines are dated between the sixth and the middle of the third millennium BC -- from the Neolithic, the Eneolithic and the Bronze periods. The exhibition will be presented to admirers of miniature sculpture and archaeology by Irena Kolishtrkoska-Nasteva, the exhibition's curator, the Vecer newspaper wrote today. According to the exhibition's description published by the Museum of Macedonia in Skopje, where it was on display in 2007, the original and hand-made figurines were discovered during archaeological excavations, always inside the...
Precolumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Southwest's earliest known irrigation system unearthed in Arizona (Except for other earliest)
	· 05/23/2009 6:31:21 PM PDT · Posted by decimon · 10 replies · 328+ views · Los Angeles Times | May 23, 2009 | Thomas H. Maugh II "These are not the earliest canals known in southern Arizona, but they are the most extensive and sophisticated engineering [from the period] that we have identified to date," said archaeologist James M. Vint of Desert Archaeology Inc. in Tucson. The site, called Las Capas, or "The Layers," sits at the confluence of Cañada del Oro, Rillito Creek and the Santa Cruz River. The name derives from the repeated layers of silt that buried the site until nothing was visible from the surface. The evidence indicates that the region suffered a huge flood about 800 BC, which buried the...
Archaeological Discovery In Ohio River
	· 09/29/2007 5:03:24 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 34 replies · 399+ views · WSAZ News | 9-27-2007 Archeological Discovery in Ohio River September 27, 2007 It's like a discovery channel special, a living history lesson and a heated border war all rolled into one. A recent river recovery of an eight ton treasure was followed by angry claims of archeological thievery. This sandstone scratching is far from another face in the crowd. After years of planning and weeks of effort, a Portsmouth, Ohio Volunteer Recovery Team pulled the prehistoric, legendary Indian's Head Rock off the mighty Ohio River's bottom. "It was tough to get straps around it," recovery team diver Dave Vetter said. In the 18 and...
Navigation
Nicola, jazz fest partner to sponsor replica ships in Lewes May 29-June 1 [Nina, Pinta]
	· 05/27/2009 6:27:02 PM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 4 replies · 115+ views · Delaware's Cape Gazette | Tuesday, May 26, 2009 | unattributed The Pinta and the Nina, replicas of Columbus's ships, will visit Lewes Friday, May 29. The ships will be docked at the City Dock on Front Street until their early morning departure Monday, June 1... The Nina was built by hand and without the use of power tools. She was called "the most historically correct Columbus replica ever built," by Archaeology magazine. Craftmanship of construction and the details in the rigging make it a fascinating visit back to the Age of Discovery. The Nina was used in the production of the film, "1492," starring Gerard Depardieu. "It's an educational vessel...
Early America
After Jefferson, a Question About Washington and a Young Slave
	· 05/28/2009 5:25:39 PM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 22 replies · 447+ views · New York Times | July 7, 1999 | Nicholas Wade Three descendants of Venus' son, who was called West Ford, say that according to a family tradition two centuries old, George Washington was West Ford's father. They hope to develop DNA evidence from Washington family descendants and his hair samples to bolster their case... There is, however, reason to believe that if the child's father was not Washington, it might have been someone closely related to him. The cousins' claim has several elements of truth, enough to set up a historical mystery as to the identity of West Ford's father and to add a new strand to the emerging links...
The Framers
the 15th Amendment
	· 05/28/2009 12:30:02 PM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 2 replies · 218+ views · Constitution of the United States, via FindLaw et al | ratified on February 3, 1870 | The Framers et al Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
The Civil War
Obama Remembers U.S. War Dead, Including Civil War Rebels
	· 05/25/2009 2:47:18 PM PDT · Posted by kristinn · 99 replies · 1,704+ views · Reuters | Monday, May 25, 2009 | Doug Palmer President Barack Obama sent a wreath Monday to a memorial for soldiers who fought on the side of slavery during the Civil War, continuing a 90-year-old Memorial Day tradition despite being urged by historians to "break this chain of racism." The first black U.S. president also started a new tradition by sending a wreath to the African American Civil War Memorial in Washington honoring the 200,000 black soldiers who fought for Union forces in America's bloodiest conflict. "We ask you to break this chain of racism stretching back to Woodrow Wilson and not send a wreath or other token of...
The Jewish Soldier at Andersonville
	· 05/25/2009 6:48:18 AM PDT · Posted by Alouette · 11 replies · 337+ views · Jewish-American History on the Web | December, 1888 | Alice Hyneman Rhine Unlike the mass of war literature of the period, the following sketch in place of treating of the generals in command is simply a chronicle of passages in the war record of the "rank and file." A humble sergeant, who among the many generous high-spirited young men volunteered in "61" to fight for the perpetuation of the Union, and who through a self-negation equal to Sidney's heroic act, suffered captivity and death in the prison pen at Andersonville. Elias Leon Hyneman, one of the martyrs of our Civil war, was the son of Rebekah Hyneman, a poetess whose position in...
World War Eleven
Remains are lost in race for relics(WWII MIA's and their planes)
	· 05/25/2009 4:54:20 AM PDT · Posted by GQuagmire · 27 replies · 709+ views · Boston Globe | May 25, 2009 | Kevin Baron and Bryan Bender ALBION PARK, Australia - To the US military, Carter Lutes, a pilot who vanished in Papua New Guinea in April 1944, is one of the lost heroes of World War II. The Pentagon still hopes to recover him. Until then, it considers his jungle crash site a sacred place - and the last known clue to finding him........Now, as the US military invests hundreds of millions of dollars to recover the remains of World War II pilots, it is in a race against relic hunters. In recent years the Pentagon has found nearly 500 missing soldiers from World War II,...
Vintage Mystery
A Mystery in an Old Wine Bottle (Is it Hitler's Wine)
	· 05/27/2009 11:23:05 AM PDT · Posted by nickcarraway · 4 replies · 420+ views · New York Times | MAY 27, 2009 | CHRISTINE HAUGHNEY Alexander Autographs A bottle of wine from Adolf Hitler's personal wine cellar at his mountain retreat, the Berghof. It was supposed to be a straightforward news story: an auction house was finding that items believed to have belonged to Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun were in high demand, even in a recession. But a coincidence along the way led to a mystery. It all began when the auctioneer, Alexander Autographs, in Stamford, Conn., announced the sale of possessions from the respected collector John K. Lattimer. Building on connections made during his time working at the Nuremburg war tribunals, Dr. Lattimer...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Machu Picchu 'ransacked 40 years before its discovery'
	· 06/03/2008 12:01:08 PM PDT · Posted by BGHater · 17 replies · 90+ views · Telegraph | 02 June 2008 | Kate Devlin Machu Picchu, the crown of the Inca trail, was ransacked 40 years before its discovery by an American explorer in the early 20th Century, new research claims. One of the most popular tourist destinations in the world, the citadel, hidden by clouds 8,000 feet above sea level, has become a pilgrimage for hundreds of thousands of travellers every year. Historians have always thought that it lay undiscovered for centuries after the fall of the Incan Empire in the 1530s, until being brought to the attention of the modern world by an American explorer, Hiram Bingham, in 1911. But a research...
Faith and Philosophy
The Biocentric Universe Theory: Life Creates Time, Space, and the Cosmos Itself
	· 05/25/2009 1:29:44 PM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 20 replies · 425+ views · Discover magazine | May 1, 2009 | Robert Lanza and Bob Berman Three hundred years ago, the Irish empiricist George Berkeley contributed a particularly prescient observation: The only thing we can perceive are our perceptions. In other words, consciousness is the matrix upon which the cosmos is apprehended. Color, sound, temperature, and the like exist only as perceptions in our head, not as absolute essences. In the broadest sense, we cannot be sure of an outside universe at all. For centuries, scientists regarded Berkeley's argument as a philosophical sideshow and continued to build physical models based on the assumption of a separate universe "out there" into which we have each individually arrived....
Origins of Time, The Ancients, and Future Civilizations.
	· 05/25/2009 11:32:54 AM PDT · Posted by jxb7076 · 14 replies · 292+ views · hubpages | 5/25/09 | JXB7076 Time is a component of a measuring system used to sequence events, to compare the durations of events and the intervals between them, and to quantify the motions of objects. Time has been a major subject of religion, philosophy, and science, but defining time in a non-controversial manner applicable to all fields of study has consistently eluded the greatest scholars. (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time) At the point in history when Homo sapiens became socially aware, time was considered to be cyclical, or a matter of day and night. The seasons were a matter of birth and death, and calendars were based on...
The Evolution of Religion
	· 05/25/2009 6:03:43 PM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 21 replies · 460+ views · LiveScience | May 12, 2009 | Robert Roy Britt One idea is that religion is related to evolution, in that belief confers some survival advantage. Another idea is that as with other supernatural beliefs, religion is appealing because it offers answers to things that otherwise seem inexplicable (and before modern science, a lot of things were inexplicable, from the stars in the sky to stormy weather to human illness and death). But throughout history, just feeling better by having an explanation for things would not necessarily confer much of a survival advantage. As James Dow at Oakland University in Michigan sees things: "Religious people talk about things that cannot...
Facilitated variation: a new paradigm emerges in biology (say buh-bye to neo-Darwinism)
	· 05/25/2009 5:48:24 PM PDT · Posted by GodGunsGuts · 99 replies · 1,075+ views · Journal of Creation | Alex Williams Facilitated variation: a new paradigm emerges in biology Alex Williams Facilitated variation is the first comprehensive theory of how life works at the molecular level, published in 2005 by systems biologists Marc Kirschner and John Gerhart in their book The Plausibility of Life: Resolving Darwin's Dilemma. It is a very powerful theory, is supported by a great deal of evidence, and the authors have made it easy to understand. It identifies two basic components of heredity: (a) conserved core processes of cellular structure, function and body plan organization; and (b) modular regulatory mechanisms that are built in special ways that...
Oh So Mysteriouso
The Lost Tomb of Jesus: The Review (w/Ted Koppel)
	· 03/04/2007 8:37:23 PM PST · Posted by Reaganesque · 43 replies · 1,781+ views · vanity | 3/4/07 | Reaganesque The Lost Tomb of Jesus on the Discovery Channel was followed up by a panel discussion moderated by Ted Koppel. Koppel and two professors who are not affiliated with the documentary totally eviscerated the director of the film and one of his consultants. Koppel seemed particularly offended by the film maker's claims of being a journalist. If you get the chance to see this review of the documentary, watch it. It is very funny.
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Gods Graves Glyphs Digest #254 20090530 · Saturday, May 30, 2009 · 41 topics · 2260367 to 2257478 · 716 members ·
	Saturday May 30 2009 v 5 n 46 view this issue	Welcome to the 254th issue. Huge issue. The end of year five of the Digest draws ever nearer. I'd like to publicly thank everyone who has been sending such kind remarks in FReepmail, and all the extra pings I've been getting. Both of those acts make this little hobby quite a bit easier. On a personal note, I think my recent airhead stupidity regarding some minor financial stuff (really easy, fundamental, everyone-should-know kinds of things) is all done now, and I've just got the semiannual car insurance bill and the quarterly water bill next month (they're unusual) and haven't done anything too nimrodlike in the shopping area (those 25, 50, and 75 per cent sales don't count), such as getting a new computer (don't need it; if I do later this year or early next, it'll probably be a PS3 altered with Linux, which will also give me a compliant BluRay player) or a flat-screen TV (fall at the earliest; prices are falling on plasma right now, and those will probably vanish in favor of the better LCDs, and have you seen the LED sets?). I'm not too sure my lifestyle goal of surfing from a mostly prone position, with a picture-in-picture giving me a movie simultaneously, and maybe the microwave and small fridge on a cart ready to hand, is necessarily a wise thing to do in my reclining years (I haven't hit the declining years). Since the FReepathon is quarterly, the fact that we're done with the last one as of yesterday, and the next one starts July 1, means we're getting to be a bit like PBS here in Michigan. Prospects would be different if the left-wing Obamabots and all-around partisan shills running the most popular search engine listed FR as a news site, and/or gave high priority to listing hits in FR topics. Occasionally, I do a search for something and find that the only matching hit is some fool comment I made here on FR -- and that's all there is on the entire web. Culturally, we may be in bigger trouble than I thought. Politically, I'm not sure that's possible. Long Bets is a site I'd forgotten about. Minimum time span is two years, costs $50 to participate (ouch), and is less flexible (I believe) than the prediction exchange that Kevmo frequents. Popular Science magazine has something similar called PPX. All these are probably good ways to put one's money where one's mouth is, i.e., similarly to the way Julian L. Simon beat Paul Ehrlich years ago. AuntB posts M3Report topics pertaining to our national problems stemming from the tide of illegal aliens crossing the border. * Sandrat posts a lot (possibly most) of the topics pertaining to the War on Terror. Be sure to check Celebrimbor's and StarCMC's YouTube Smackdown topics, which are "Countering the cyber-jihad one video at a time". Be sure to visit the invisib1e hand's Founder's Quote Daily topics. Be sure to check Homer_J_Simpson's topics, many of which are based on archival newspaper articles, usually 70 years ago that day. Visit the Free Republic Memorial Wall -- a history-related feature of FR. Donate to FreeRepublic.
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #255 Saturday, Jun 6, 2009
D-Day
National D-Day Memorial on brink of financial ruin
	· 06/02/2009 4:13:36 PM PDT · Posted by Restore America · 16 replies · 379+ views · AP | 06/02/2009 | SUE LINDSEY By SUE LINDSEY, Associated Press Writer Sue Lindsey, Associated Press Writer -- 39 mins ago BEDFORD, Va. -- On the eve of the 65th anniversary of D-Day, the foundation that runs the National D-Day Memorial is on the brink of financial ruin. Donations are down in the poor economy. The primary base of support -- World War II veterans -- is dying off. And the privately funded memorial is struggling to draw visitors because it's hundreds of miles from a major city. Facing the prospect of cutting staff and hours, the memorial's president believes its only hope for long-term survival...
Patton's 6-5-44 Famous Speech
"The Speech" - General George S. Patton, Jr. (WARNING: Profanity!!)
	· 09/15/2001 12:43:15 PM PDT · Posted by StoneColdGOP · 181 replies · 5,520+ views · The Patton Society | Posted September 15th, 2001 - Originally delivered June 5th, 1944 | George S. Patton, Jr. - General, United States Army "THE SPEECH" Somewhere in England, June 5th, 1944... "Be seated." "Men, this stuff that some sources sling around about America wanting out of this war, not wanting to fight, is a crock of bullshit. Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle. You are here today for three reasons. First, because you are here to defend your homes and your loved ones. Second, you are here for your own self respect, because you would not want to be anywhere else. Third, you are here because you are real men and all real men ...
General Patton's Address to the Troops
	· 10/27/2001 4:52:30 PM PDT · Posted by Bubba_Leroy · 26 replies · 2,922+ views · United States Naval Academy Class of 1963 | May 31, 1944 | Gen. George S. Patton Patton's Speech to the Troops in England May 31, 1944 Men, this stuff that some sources sling around about America wanting out of this war, not wanting to fight, is a crock of bullsh_t. Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle. You are here today for three reasons. First, because you are here to defend your homes and your loved ones. Second, you are here for your own self respect, because you would not want to be anywhere else. Third, you are here because you are real men and all real men ...
Patton's Speech to the Third Army
	· 11/09/2001 12:08:22 PM PST · Posted by Earl B. · 5 replies · 1,353+ views · National Review Online (Weekend Edition) | June 5, 1944 | General George S. Patton Patton's Speech to the Third Army "Americans play to win all of the time." By General George S. Patton, June 5, 1944 November 10-11, 2001 EDITOR'S NOTE: The Allies had been gathering in lower England for many months, setting for the greatest amphibious invasion in the history of the world and warfare. It was June 5, 1944. The invasion of the French coast at Normandy had already been delayed once when General Eisenhower gave the green light for the commencement of "Operation Overlord." On the evening of the 5th, the Allied gliders and parachutists would enter the interior of ...
General Patton s Speech Somewhere in England June 5th, 1944
	· 06/30/2002 8:57:02 AM PDT · Posted by Lockbox · 19 replies · 816+ views · War Room | 6/5/1944 | General Patton Herein follows a copy of General Patton's (unabridged) speech to 3rd Army on the eve of D-Day. Although not Politically Correct by contemporary standards, in the context of the pending invasion of Europe and the human losses anticipated, it communicated an important message to his target audience. General Patton's Speech Somewhere in England June 5th, 1944 "Be seated." Men, this stuff that some sources sling around about America wanting out of this war, not wanting to fight, is a crock of bullshit. Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle. You are here...
General Patton's "Blood and Guts" Speech the Troops (Warning Language)
	· 03/17/2003 5:26:05 AM PST · Posted by The Magical Mischief Tour · 21 replies · 3,099+ views General Patton The Speech Given somewhere in England on June 5th, 1944 "Be seated." Men, this stuff that some sources sling around about America wanting out of this war, not wanting to fight, is a crock of bullshit. Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle. You are here today for three reasons. First, because you are here to defend your homes and your loved ones. Second, you are here for your own self-respect, because you would not want to be anywhere else. Third, you are here because you are real men and all real...
Patton's Third Army Activated August 1, 1944
	· 08/01/2003 12:12:25 PM PDT · Posted by WhiskeyPapa · 36 replies · 350+ views · 79th Division Website | John J. Pellino PATTON'S THIRD ARMY Pre-Operational Phase In Normandy When the Third Army Headquarters landed on French soil, the first thing done was to insure absolute security. In accordance with the plan Overlord, the presence of the Third Army was to be kept secret as long as possible. The idea was to keep the German High Command guessing as to the where- about's of General Patton.During the first days in the Allied invasion, the XIX Tactical Air Command, whose primary job was aerial support for the Third Army, established its own headquarters adjacent to the army headquarters. Their detailed planning then started...
General George S. Patton - Speech to 3rd Army June 5, 1944
	· 06/29/2004 5:41:16 PM PDT · Posted by GLH3IL · 14 replies · 1,591+ views · www.military-quotes.com | Mr. Scott Hann A General Patton's Address to the Troops, Part I, The Background Research Anyone who has ever viewed the motion picture PATTON will never forget the opening. George Campbell Scott, portraying Patton, standing in front of an immensely huge American flag, delivers his version of Patton's "Speech to the Third Army" on June 5th, 1944, the eve of the Allied invasion of France, code named "Overlord." Scott's rendition of the speech was highly sanitized so as not to offend too many fainthearted Americans. Luckily, the soldiers of the American Army who fought World War II were not so fainthearted. After one...
The Famous Patton Speech
	· 12/22/2004 3:57:19 AM PST · Posted by Flavius · 27 replies · 1,539+ views · Patton | June 5th, 1944 | PATTON The Famous Patton Speech Background - General Patton's Address to the Troops - Part I Anyone who has ever viewed the motion picture PATTON will never forget the opening. George Campbell Scott, portraying Patton, standing in front of an immensely huge American flag, delivers his version of Patton's "Speech to the Third Army" on June 5th, 1944, the eve of the Allied invasion of France, code named "Overlord". Scott's rendition of the speech was highly sanitized so as not to offend too many fainthearted Americans. Luckily, the soldiers of the American Army who fought World War II were not so...
Gen. Patton's Speech (PROFANITY-Complete and uncensored)
	· 05/30/2006 8:20:05 AM PDT · Posted by 300magnum · 42 replies · 3,516+ views · G.S. Patton | June 5, 1944 "Men, this stuff that some sources sling around about America wanting out of this war, not wanting to fight, is a crock of bullshit. Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle. You are here today for three reasons. First, because you are here to defend your homes and your loved ones. Second, you are here for your own self respect, because you would not want to be anywhere else. Third, you are here because you are real men and all real men like to fight. When you, here, everyone of you, were...
Patton to Troops 1944 (must read) warning: graphic language
	· 01/01/2005 9:01:45 AM PST · Posted by beebuster2000 · 46 replies · 2,160+ views · Great speeches Timeline | May 17, 1944 | Genl George Patton NOTE : This speech contains language that may be considered offensive. User discretion is advised. General George S. Patton, Jr., in characteristic unexpurgated detail, gives his troops a final pep-talk prior to the invasion of Normandy, Enniskillen Manor Grounds, England, May 17, 1944. Men, this stuff some sources sling around about America wanting to stay out of the war and not wanting to fight is a lot of baloney! Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle. America loves a winner. America will not tolerate a loser. Americans despise a coward; Americans play...
General Patton's Address to the Troops(& Date Now, Gen. Patton & Modern World)
	· 07/25/2007 6:51:22 PM PDT · Posted by fight_truth_decay · 36 replies · 1,370+ views · m1-garand.com | June 5, 1944 | General George S. Patton, Jr Before the commencement of Operation Overlord. Somewhere in England "Men, this stuff that some sources sling around about America wanting out of this war, not wanting to fight, is a crock of bullshit. Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle. You are here today for three reasons. First, because you are here to defend your homes and your loved ones. Second, you are here for your own self respect, because you would not want to be anywhere else. Third, you are here because you are real men and all real men like...
George S. Patton - To the 3rd Army, June 5, 1944
	· 06/04/2008 5:28:57 PM PDT · Posted by pissant · 68 replies · 409+ views · Falcon Party | June 5, 1944 | George S. Patton Be Seated. Men, this stuff we hear about America wanting to stay out of the war, not wanting to fight, is a lot of bullsh*t. Americans love to fight - traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle. When you were kids, you all admired the champion marble player; the fastest runner; the big league ball players; the toughest boxers. Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans despise cowards. Americans play to win - all the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why...
The Famous Patton Speech
	· 06/03/2009 12:42:40 PM PDT · Posted by DFG · 34 replies · 862+ views · Pattonhq.com | Charles M. Province "Men, this stuff that some sources sling around about America wanting out of this war, not wanting to fight, is a crock of bullshit. Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle. You are here today for three reasons. First, because you are here to defend your homes and your loved ones. Second, you are here for your own self respect, because you would not want to be anywhere else. Third, you are here because you are real men and all real men like to fight. When you, here, everyone of you, were...
Midway
American Heroes: Torpedo Squadron 8 (Battle of Midway,67 Years Ago Today)
	· 06/03/2009 8:55:27 PM PDT · Posted by TonyInOhio · 50 replies · 923+ views · Fox News | 05/29/09 | Steven Tierney A successful American intelligence operation uncovered their plans and the U.S. Pacific Fleet surprised the Japanese forces in early June of 1942, sinking four Japanese carriers while losing only one of their own. Japan's defeat at Midway turned turn the tide of the war in the Pacific and put America squarely on the offensive. But the victory came at a high price, particularly for the men of Torpedo Squadron 8.
This Day in World War II History June 4, 1942 Battle of Midway Begins
	· 06/04/2009 6:04:53 AM PDT · Posted by mainepatsfan · 26 replies · 432+ views · http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=6474 June 4, 1942 The Battle of Midway begins On this day in 1942, Japanese Admiral Chuichi Nagumo, commander of the fleet that attacked Pearl Harbor, launches a raid on Midway Island with almost the entirety of the Japanese navy. As part of a strategy to widen its sphere of influence and conquest, the Japanese set their sights on an island group in the central Pacific, Midway, as well as the Aleutians, off the coast of Alaska. They were also hoping to draw the badly wounded U.S. navy into a battle, determined to finish it off. The American naval forces were...
Battle of Britain
The secret fuel that made the Spitfire supreme
	· 05/29/2009 5:03:39 PM PDT · Posted by neverdem · 46 replies · 1,465+ views · Royal Society of Chemistry | 13 May 2009 | Brian Emsley In the year that sees the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War, a previously untold story has emerged of how, through a "miracle" chemical breakthrough, Spitfire and Hurricane fighters gained the edge over German fighters to win the Battle of Britain. An American scientist and author has claimed that the famed pair of war-winning aeroplanes gained superior altitude, manoeuvrability and rate of climb by a revolutionary high-octane fuel supplied to Britain by the USA just in time for the battle. Books, documentaries, and movies have chronicled the brilliant contribution of UK designers and engineers behind the...
World War Eleven
Fully armed Nazi bomber planes 'buried below East Berlin airport'
	· 07/21/2003 8:17:05 PM PDT · Posted by Recourse · 179 replies · 4,305+ views · The Scotsman | July 22, 2003 | Allan Hall Tue 22 Jul 2003 Fully armed Nazi bomber planes 'buried below East Berlin airport' ALLAN HALL IN BERLIN AN AIRPORT used by hundreds of thousands of tourists and business travellers each year could be sitting on top of thousands of live bombs. Papers among thousands of files captured from the Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, claim tons of live Second World War munitions were buried in concrete bunkers beneath the runways of Schoenefeld airport in East Berlin. It is now the main destination for discount airlines, such as Ryanair, and numerous charter companies. Not only did...
Underwater Archaeology
Secrets of the Deep
	· 06/02/2009 10:30:28 AM PDT · Posted by Fawn · 23 replies · 982+ views · New York Magazine | Published May 10, 2009 | Christopher Bonanos What lies beneath the surface of New York Harbor? For starters, a 350-foot steamship, 1,600 bars of silver, a freight train, and four-foot-long cement-eating worms. The steady transformation of New York's waterfront from wasteland to playground means more of us are spending time along the city's edge. That can lead a person to wonder: What, exactly, is down there? Until recently, we had patchy knowledge of what lies beneath the surface of one of the world's busiest harbors. What we did know came largely from random anecdotes, and depth soundings done the way Henry Hudson did them -- by rope and lead...
Korea
Hunt for the lost ships of Chilcheon
	· 06/04/2009 2:04:57 AM PDT · Posted by rdl6989 · 10 replies · 624+ views · Joon Ang Daily | June 04, 2009 A salvage team has just weeks left to find wrecked turtle ships deep in the mud It was probably Korea's greatest ever naval disaster. Ten thousand Korean sailors were killed on July 16, 1597 in the seas around Chilcheon Island off the coast of South Gyeongsang when 500 Japanese warships launched a surprise attack. Korea also lost five to seven geobukseon, or turtle ships, ironclad vessels shaped like a turtle, and 160 panokseon, another type of battleship. It was Korea's only recorded naval defeat during its seven-year-long war with the Japanese between 1592 and 1598. No authentic examples of geobukseon...
Agriculture and Animal Husbandry
Cultivation changed monsoon in Asia
	· 06/02/2009 10:57:21 PM PDT · Posted by neverdem · 9 replies · 219+ views · Science News | June 1st, 2009 | Sid Perkins Loss of forests in India, China during the 1700s led to a decline in monsoon precipitation The dramatic expansion of agriculture in India and southeastern China during the 18th century -- a sprawl that took place at the expense of forests -- triggered a substantial drop in precipitation in those regions, a new study suggests. Winds that blow northeast from the Indian Ocean into southern Asia each summer bring abundant rain to an area that's home to more than half the world's population. But those seasonal winds, known as monsoons, brought about 20 percent less rainfall each year to India...
Why Did You Say Burma?
Ancient Myanmar temple building collapses, six killed
	· 05/30/2009 11:22:36 PM PDT · Posted by rdl6989 · 23 replies · 959+ views · Malaysia Star | May 31, 2009 YANGON, Myanmar: (AP) A 2,300-year-old Myanmar temple building totally collapsed while workers were attempting to repair it, killing six people and injuring 30, witnesses said Sunday. Some people were still trapped beneath bricks, bamboo scaffolding and other debris a day after the collapse Saturday, said Tin Shwe, who runs a small shop near the temple. The tall, bell-shaped structure, called a stupa, collapsed because of age and deterioration, said a temple official, Tin Tin Win. Damage to the Danok temple was detected in 2006. Tin Shwe said most of the victims were navy personnel doing reconstruction work on the temple,...
Ancient Autopsies
Did boy Jesus look like this? Forensic experts use computer images from Shroud
	· 12/24/2004 12:18:11 AM PST · Posted by JohnHuang2 · 164 replies · 10,001+ views · WorldNetDaily.com | Friday, December 24, 2004 Computer-generated sketch of boy Jesus based on Shroud of Turin (courtesy Retequattro-Mediaset What did Jesus Christ of Nazareth look like as a boy? While no one knows for certain, forensic experts are now using computer images from the Shroud of Turin along with historical data and other ancient images to make an educated guess. In a documentary called "Jesus' Childhood" airing Sunday night on the Italian TV station Retequattro of the Mediaset Group, police artists use the same "aging" technology employed when searching for missing persons and criminals. "In this case the experts went backwards. Now we have a...
Forensic Scientists reveal what Jesus may have looked like as a 12-year old
	· 02/12/2005 11:59:27 AM PST · Posted by NYer · 878 replies · 16,541+ views · Catholic News Agency | February 12, 2005 Rome, Feb. 11, 2005 (CNA) - Forensic scientists in Italy are working on a different kind of investigation -- one that dates back 2000 years. In an astounding announcement, the scientists think they may have re-created an image of Jesus Christ when He was a 12-year old boy.Using the Shroud of Turin, a centuries-old linen cloth, which many believe bears the face of the crucified Christ, the investigators first created a computer-modeled, composite picture of the Christ's face.Dr. Carlo Bui, one of the scientists said that, "the face of the man on the shroud is the face of a suffering man. He...
Faith and Philosophy
Ethiopia: lifting the mystery on rock churches 'built by angels'
	· 06/01/2009 5:24:09 AM PDT · Posted by decimon · 22 replies · 667+ views · AFP | May 31, 2009 | Emmanuel Goujon The ancient mystery shrouding Lalibela, Ethiopia's revered medieval rock-hewn churches, could be lifted by a group of French researchers given the go-ahead for the first comprehensive study of this world heritage site legend says was "built by angels". The team will have full access to the network of 10 Orthodox chapels chiseled out of volcanic rock -- some standing 15 metres (42 feet) high -- in the mountainous heart of Ethiopia. Local lore holds they were built in less than 25 years by their namesake, the 13th-century King Lalibela, with the help of angels after God ordered him to erect...
Egypt
Scientists Say Pyramids Could Be Concrete
	· 04/23/2008 1:23:56 PM PDT · Posted by blam · 50 replies · 326+ views · Physorg | 4-23-2008 | UPI Scientists say pyramids could be concrete April 23, 2008 Scientists are taking a new look at Egypt's pyramids to see if some of the blocks could have been made from concrete. Linn W. Hobbs, a materials science professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told The Boston Globe there is a chance ancient Egyptians could have cast the blocks from synthetic material instead of carving them from quarries. Scientists have long believed Romans were the first to use structural concrete. Undergraduates in MIT's Materials in Human Experience class are building a scale-model pyramid made of quarried limestone and blocks cast from...
Rome and Italy
Remains of temple of Isis found [ Florence Italy ]
	· 06/01/2009 3:46:50 PM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 10 replies · 356+ views · ANSA News in English | May 28, 2009 | unattributed Workmen inside Florence's courthouse have stumbled across a spiral column and hundreds of multicoloured fragments that experts believe may have belonged to a Roman temple dedicated to the Egyptian goddess Isis. Dating to the second century AD, the remains were discovered as the men dug a five by three metre hole, barely four metres deep, for a new water cistern for the courthouse's anti-incendiary system... Palchetti said the remains were ''comparable'' to others found over the last three centuries in the immediate area that have also been attributed to the temple of Isis, the Egyptian goddess of motherhood and...
Pole Shift
CU-Boulder study shows 53 million-year-old high Arctic mammals wintered in darkness
	· 06/01/2009 12:37:02 PM PDT · Posted by decimon · 43 replies · 677+ views · University of Colorado at Boulder | Jun. 1, 2009 | Unknown Ancestors of tapirs and ancient cousins of rhinos living above the Arctic Circle 53 million years ago endured six months of darkness each year in a far milder climate than today that featured lush, swampy forests, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder. CU-Boulder Assistant Professor Jaelyn Eberle said the study shows several varieties of prehistoric mammals as heavy as 1,000 pounds each lived on what is today Ellesmere Island near Greenland on a summer diet of flowering plants, deciduous leaves and aquatic vegetation. But in winter's twilight they apparently switched over to foods...
Climate
North America's Wind Patterns Have Shifted Significantly In The Past 30,000 Years
	· 01/24/2007 7:45:02 AM PST · Posted by blam · 19 replies · 540+ views · Science Daily | 1-24-2007 | Dartmouth College Winds Of Change: North America's Wind Patterns Have Shifted Significantly In The Past 30,000 Years Science Daily -- Dartmouth researchers have learned that the prevailing winds in the mid latitudes of North America, which now blow from the west, once blew from the east. They reached this conclusion by analyzing 14,000- to 30,000-year-old wood samples from areas in the mid-latitudes of North America (40-50°N), which represents the region north of Denver and Philadelphia and south of Winnipeg and Vancouver. Researchers (left to right) Yong Shu, Eric Posmentier, Xiahong Feng, and Anthony Faiia. (Photo by Joseph Mehling) The researchers report their...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Cantabrian cornice has experienced seven cooling and warming phases over past 41,000 years
	· 06/03/2009 7:05:25 AM PDT · Posted by decimon · 10 replies · 304+ views · FECYT - Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology | Jun 3, 2009 | Unknown In 1996, an international team of scientists led by the University of Zaragoza (UNIZAR) started to carry out a paleontological survey in the cave of El Mirón. Since then they have focused on analysing the fossil remains of the bones and teeth of small vertebrates that lived in the Cantabrian region over the past 41,000 years, at the end of the Quaternary. The richness, great diversity and good conservation status of the fossils have enabled the researchers to carry out a paleoclimatic study, which has been published recently in the Journal of Archaeological Science. "We carried out every kind of...
The Mayans
Temple timbers trace collapse of Mayan culture
	· 06/04/2009 6:26:50 AM PDT · Posted by decimon · 18 replies · 412+ views · New Scientist | Jun 2, 2009 | Unknown THE builders of the ancient Mayan temples at Tikal in Guatemala switched to inferior wood a few decades before they suddenly abandoned the city in the 9th century AD. The shift is the strongest evidence yet that Mayan civilisation collapsed because they ran out of resources, rather than, say, disease or warfare.
Sacred plants of the Maya forest
	· 06/05/2009 5:06:24 AM PDT · Posted by BGHater · 13 replies · 254+ views · BBC | 05 June 2009 | Matt Walker Some of the Central American rainforest's hidden treasures are being revealed by the Maya, more than a millennium after their passing. A study of the giant trees and beautiful flowers depicted in Maya art has identified which they held sacred. Created during the Maya Classic Period, the depictions are so accurate they could help researchers spot plants with hitherto unknown medicinal uses. The research is published in the journal Economic Botany. Plants played a significant role in the ecology, culture and rituals of the Maya people, whose artwork reflected the rich diversity of plant life around them. But while numerous...
Precolumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
University of Florida: Epic carving on fossil bone found in Vero Beach
	· 06/04/2009 8:15:37 AM PDT · Posted by BGHater · 35 replies · 935+ views · Vero Beach 32963 | 04 June 2009 | SANDRA RAWLS In what a top Florida anthropologist is calling "the oldest, most spectacular and rare work of art in the Americas," an amateur Vero Beach fossil hunter has found an ancient bone etched with a clear image of a walking mammoth or mastodon. According to leading experts from the University of Florida, the remarkable find demonstrates with new and startling certainty that humans coexisted with prehistoric animals more than 12,000 years ago in this fossil- rich region of the state. No similar carved figure has ever been authenticated in the United States, or anywhere in this hemisphere. The brown, mineral-hardened bone...
Navigation
Anthropologist advances 'kelp highway' theory for Coast settlement
	· 05/31/2009 12:09:51 AM PDT · Posted by BGHater · 17 replies · 345+ views · Vancouver Sun | 28 May 2009 | Larry Pynn Migrating peoples were sophisticated in sea harvesting, Jon Erlandson says The Pacific Coast of the Americas was settled starting about 15,000 years ago during the last glacial retreat by seafaring peoples following a "kelp highway" rich in marine resources, a noted professor of anthropology theorized Wednesday. Jon Erlandson, director of the Museum of Natural and Cultural History at the University of Oregon, suggested that especially productive "sweet spots," such as the estuaries of B.C.'s Fraser and Stikine rivers, served as corridors by which people settled the Interior of the province. Erlandson said in an interview these migrating peoples were already...
Doctor Bill Haley
Expert says turtle boulder is just a rock[Ohio]
	· 06/01/2009 3:11:56 PM PDT · Posted by BGHater · 14 replies · 555+ views · Middletown Journal | 22 April 2009 | Marie Rossiter A local archeology curator said a turtle-head shaped boulder found near Oregonia is not a sculpture, as claimed by its finder. Dirk Morgan, owner of Morgan's Canoe and Outdoor Center, said he believes his find is an effigy of a turtle that could date back to the Hopewell Indians who lived in the area more than 1,000 years ago. Bob Genheimer of the Cincinnati Museum Center viewed the 200-pound boulder at Morgan's home on April 21 and said he found no evidence of shaping or manufacturing. "My strong opinion is that it is an artifact of nature, or an 'ecofact,'"...
Mammoth Told Me...
Mammoths roasted in prehistoric barbecue pit
	· 06/03/2009 10:54:21 AM PDT · Posted by decimon · 34 replies · 710+ views · Discovery | Jun 3, 2009 | Jennifer Viegas Central Europe's prehistoric people would likely have been amused by today's hand-sized hamburgers and hot dogs, since archaeologists have just uncovered a 29,000 B.C. well-equipped kitchen where roasted gigantic mammoth was one of the last meals served. The site, called Pavlov VI in the Czech Republic near the Austrian and Slovak Republic borders, provides a homespun look at the rich culture of some of Europe's first anatomically modern humans.
Paleontology
The Quaternary Period Wins Out
	· 06/04/2009 9:55:18 PM PDT · Posted by neverdem · 10 replies · 238+ views · ScienceNOW Daily News | 3 June 2009 | Richard A. Kerr Enlarge ImageWe're all here. The newly official Quaternary period includes the span of our genus Homo as well as the comings and goings of the ice ages. Credit: Peter Hoey Geoscientists have cut the Gordian knot of geologic timekeeping. Ever since 19th century geologists divided the history of Earth into four periods -- the Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, and Quaternary, oldest to most recent -- their intellectual descendants have been dismantling that time scale. But the geologists, anthropologists, glaciologists, and paleoecologists studying the last couple of million years became quite attached to the Quaternary. They gave its name to their journals and even themselves -- to...
Prehistory and Origins
Were our earliest hominid ancestors European?
	· 06/01/2009 4:07:32 PM PDT · Posted by decimon · 8 replies · 217+ views · New Scientist | Jun. 1, 2009 | Bob Holmes Millions of years before early humans evolved in Africa, their ancestors may have lived in Europe, a 12-million-year-old fossil hominid from Spain suggests. The fossil, named Anoiapithecus brevirostris by Salvador Moyà-Solà of the Catalan Institute of Palaeontology in Barcelona, Spain, and his colleagues, dates from a period of human evolution for which the record is very thin. While only the animal's face, jaw and teeth survive, their shape places it within the African hominid lineage that gave rise to gorillas, chimps and humans. However, it also has features of a related group called kenyapithecins.
Were our earliest hominid ancestors European?
	· 06/01/2009 4:15:34 PM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 29 replies · 451+ views · New Scientist | Monday, June 1, 2009 | Bob Holmes Millions of years before early humans evolved in Africa, their ancestors may have lived in Europe, a 12-million-year-old fossil hominid from Spain suggests. The fossil, named Anoiapithecus brevirostris by Salvador Moyà-Solà of the Catalan Institute of Palaeontology in Barcelona, Spain, and his colleagues, dates from a period of human evolution for which the record is very thin. While only the animal's face, jaw and teeth survive, their shape places it within the African hominid lineage that gave rise to gorillas, chimps and humans. However, it also has features of a related group called kenyapithecins. Moyà-Solà says that A. brevirostris and...
Helix, Make Mine a Double
Eye Color Explained: Everything you know is wrong
	· 05/31/2009 1:23:07 PM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 111 replies · 1,722+ views · Discover Magazine | March 13, 2007 | Boonsri Dickinson What most people know about the inheritance of eye color is that brown comes from a dominant gene (needing one copy only) and blue from a recessive gene (needing two copies). University of Queensland geneticist Rick Sturm suggests that the genetics are not so clear. "There is no single gene for eye color," he says, "but the biggest effect is the OCA2 gene." This gene, which controls the amount of melanin pigment produced, accounts for about 74 percent of the total variation in people's eye color. Sturm has recently shown that the OCA2 gene itself is influenced by other genetic...
Dinosaurs
Similar Dino Tracks Discovered In Wyoming, Scotland
	· 06/01/2009 9:27:06 PM PDT · Posted by smokingfrog · 29 replies · 693+ views · redOrbit.com | June 1, 2009 | redOrbit staff and wire reports Experts are baffled over the discovery of fossilized, three-toed dinosaur tracks that have been found in both north-central Wyoming and on Scotland's coast, The Associated Press reported. Neil Clark, a paleontologist at the University of Glasgow, has not been able to identify any differences between the two sets of 170 million-year-old tracks even after a series of painstaking measurements and statistical analysis. He told AP that since the footprints in Wyoming and Scotland are so similar, they may have been produced by a very similar kind of dinosaur, if not the same species. Paleontologists have never been able to say...
Did an American dinosaur swim over the sea to Skye 170 million years ago?[Scotland]
	· 06/02/2009 7:59:10 AM PDT · Posted by BGHater · 49 replies · 791+ views · The Scotsman | 02 June 2009 | CLAIRE SMITH A THREE-TOED dinosaur which once roamed the Isle of Skye may have been the same species as one whose prints have been found in the Red Gulch mountains in Wyoming, paleontologists said yesterday. The 170 million-year-old tracks are so similar that Glasgow paleontologist Neil Clark believes the Wyoming dinosaurs may have swum or waded over to Skye -- which at that time was part of an island off the east coast of America. US scientists now plan to put his theories to the test, using 3D mapping technology to compare both sets of footprints. Dr Clark, Curator of Paleontology at...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Bigfoot hunters claim they have footprint
	· 06/04/2009 6:52:46 AM PDT · Posted by laotzu · 55 replies · 928+ views · WOAI radio | 5/28/09 | (none given) They say they have a cast of a footprint 5 inches wide and 15 inches long. A group of Bigfoot hunters claim to have found footprints and heard calls of the legendary creature in Oklahoma. About 30 people spent Memorial Day weekend on a Bigfoot hunt in the Kiamichi Mountains in the southeastern part of the state, the Tulsa World reports. They say they have a cast of a footprint 5 inches wide and 15 inches long. "The toes were clearly visible on the cast after it was lifted up," said D.W. Lee, director of the Mid-America Bigfoot Research Center....
Oh So Mysteriouso
Urine, Fingernail-Filled 'Witch Bottle' Found
	· 06/04/2009 7:37:24 AM PDT · Posted by Cailleach · 20 replies · 490+ views · Discovery News | June 4, 2009 | Jennifer Viegas During the 17th century in England, someone urinated in a jar, added nail clippings, hair and pins, and buried it upside-down in Greenwich, where it was recently unearthed and identified by scientists as being the world's most complete known "witch bottle." This spell device, often meant to attract and trap negative energy, was particularly common from the 16th to the 17th centuries, so the discovery provides a unique insight into witchcraft beliefs of that period, according to a report published in the latest British Archaeology.
Middle Ages and Renaissance
'Lost' music instrument recreated [the Lituus]
	· 05/31/2009 7:13:58 PM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 25 replies · 803+ views · BBC | Saturday, May 30, 2009 | Pallab Ghosh New software has enabled researchers to recreate a long forgotten musical instrument called the Lituus. The 2.4m (8ft) long trumpet-like instrument was played in Ancient Rome but fell out of use some 300 years ago. Bach's motet (a choral musical composition) "O Jesu Christ, meins lebens licht" was one of the last pieces of music written for the Lituus. Now, for the first time, this 18th Century composition has been played as it should have been heard... the Lituus produced a piercing trumpet-like sound interleaving with the vocals. Until now, no one had a clear idea of what this...
Epigraphy and Language
Decoding antiquity: Eight scripts that still can't be read
	· 05/29/2009 9:14:19 PM PDT · Posted by BGHater · 36 replies · 948+ views · New Scientist | 27 May 2009 | Andrew Robinson WRITING is one of the greatest inventions in human history. Perhaps the greatest, since it made history possible. Without writing, there could be no accumulation of knowledge, no historical record, no science - and of course no books, newspapers or internet.The first true writing we know of is Sumerian cuneiform - consisting mainly of wedge-shaped impressions on clay tablets - which was used more than 5000 years ago in Mesopotamia. Soon afterwards writing appeared in Egypt, and much later in Europe, China and Central America. Civilisations have invented hundreds of different writing systems. Some, such as the one you are...
Ireland
Farmer's son unearths medieval ring
	· 06/03/2009 10:17:01 AM PDT · Posted by BGHater · 41 replies · 1,009+ views · Belfast Telegraph | 03 June 2009 | Belfast Telegraph A medieval silver ring dating back more than 800 years has been unearthed on a farm in Northern Ireland. The 12th century artefact was found by 17-year-old Conor Sandford as he was putting up a fence post at the edge of one of his father's fields near the village of Kilmore, Co Armagh. The teenager told a treasure trove hearing in Belfast today he initially thought the engraved finger ring was a ring pull from an old fizzy drink can. "Only when I was putting the soil back into the hole did I notice this wee thing sticking out," he...
Early America
Ancient coin has ironic currency[Massachusetts]
	· 06/03/2009 10:37:55 AM PDT · Posted by BGHater · 13 replies · 643+ views · Cape Cod Online | 02 June 2009 | Mary Ann Bragg As Truro celebrates its 300th birthday, one of its residents has unearthed a silver coin that's even older. Peter Burgess, who owns a house next to Old North Cemetery and the site of an early church and meeting house, found a thin coin in his yard a year ago. He was moving dirt in his garden. He picked up the brown disc, which is about the size of a dime and bears markings near the edges. The story of Burgess' find comes at a fortuitous moment, as this seaside village commemorates its incorporation on July 16, 1709....
The Civil War
Civil War-era cash helps SC make some money
	· 06/04/2009 8:12:18 PM PDT · Posted by BGHater · 3 replies · 240+ views · AP | 04 June 2009 | Jeffrey Collins South Carolina is selling money to make money. State officials have quietly picked through boxes of Civil War state currency and auctioned it on eBay, providing the state archives with an influx of cash amid tight budgets. "These are very bad times. This helps us a great deal. We can pay for things we could never afford otherwise," said Charles Lesser, a senior archivist at the South Carolina Department of Archives and History. About 40 boxes of the currency were supposed to be destroyed more than a century ago, but some of the bills were tucked away in the Statehouse...
This Day In Civil War History May 31, 1862 Battle of Seven Pines/Fair Oaks
	· 05/31/2009 5:48:01 AM PDT · Posted by mainepatsfan · 14 replies · 322+ views · http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=2051 May 31, 1862 Battle of Seven Pines (Fair Oaks), Virginia Confederate forces strike Union troops in the Pen insular campaign. During May 1862, the Army of the Potomac, under the command of George B. McClellan, slowly advanced up the James Peninsula after sailing down the Chesapeake Bay by boat. Confederate commander Joseph Johnston had been cautiously backing his troops up the peninsula in the face of the larger Union force, giving ground until he was in the Richmond perimeter. When the Rebels had backed up to the capital, Johnston sought an opportunity to attack McClellan and halt his advance. That...
Religion of Pieces
Young America's Fight with Islamism (debunks Obama's Cairo reference to 'Treaty of Tripoli')
	· 06/04/2009 11:46:20 AM PDT · Posted by JohnKSmith · 8 replies · 414+ views · Hawaii Free Press | June 4, 2009 | Andrew Walden In light of the reference to the 1796 "Treaty of Tripoli" in Obama's Cairo speech, we are re-publishing this January, 2007 article. It details the levels of tribute excated by the Moslems after the signing of the treaty and the two wars which resulted. Obama in Cairo: "In signing the Treaty of Tripoli in 1796, our second President John Adams wrote, 'The United States has in itself no character of enemity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Muslims.'" How did these fine words work out 215 years ago? How will similar fine words work out today? See the story...
The Framers
the 16th Amendment
	· 06/05/2009 10:59:47 AM PDT · Posted by SunkenCiv · 12 replies · 352+ views · Constitution of the United States, via FindLaw et al | ratified on February 3, 1913 | The Framers et al The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
Epidemics, Pandemics, Plagues, the Sniffles
The Illustrious Dead: The Terrifying Story of How Typhus Killed Napoleon's Greatest Army
	· 05/31/2009 1:03:31 PM PDT · Posted by decimon · 68 replies · 976+ views · Amazon.com | Unknown | Unknown Even as the Russians retreated before him in disarray, Napoleon found his army disappearing, his frantic doctors powerless to explain what had struck down a hundred thousand soldiers. The emperor's vaunted military brilliance suddenly seemed useless, and when the Russians put their own occupied capital to the torch, the campaign became a desperate race through the frozen landscape as troops continued to die by the thousands. Through it all, with tragic heroism, Napoleon's disease-ravaged, freezing, starving men somehow rallied, again and again, to cries of "Vive l'Empereur!"
Antiques and Collectibles
Hitler Youth Knife? In MY House?
	· 06/05/2009 3:08:53 AM PDT · Posted by conservativeimage.com · 40 replies · 921+ views E-Mail | 6/5/9 | RedFox E-mail to my brother: "Mom brought home a knife with a swastika on it today that one of her hospice clients was sending to good will. It turns out to be an authentic Hitler Youth Knife with the original sheath: "I don't want it in the house. I could clean it up and sell it on ebay... I could keep it until one of Obama's youth corps shows up at the door and hand it over to them with a good explanation. Don't know if you would want it. Its interesting for something like this to turn up at a...
Roads to Freedom
Identity of Tank Man of Tiananmen Square remains a mystery
	· 05/30/2009 7:00:46 AM PDT · Posted by BGHater · 9 replies · 643+ views · The Times Online | 30 May 2009 | Jane Macartney Outside China he is known simply as Tank Man. Inside the country he is not known at all. No trace is to be found of the young man armed only with shopping bags who 20 years ago blocked a column of tanks rolling through Beijing. His defiance became the defining image of the student demonstrations crushed by the People's Liberation Army. It was on the morning of June 5 that he appeared from nowhere. A line of 18 tanks began to pull out of Tiananmen Square and drove east along the Avenue of Eternal Peace. A day earlier, the square...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Odd Wisconsin: Madison was once home to a castle
	· 06/04/2009 5:09:29 PM PDT · Posted by JoeProBono · 17 replies · 353+ views · madison | JUN 3, 2009 In 1861, a melancholy Englishman named Benjamin Walker settled in Madison and built a medieval castle for his home. Two round turrets framed a square tower. In each turret was an octagonal sitting room, one decorated in red and the other in green. Carved marble mantels topped the fireplaces and gilt-framed oil paintings decorated the walls. A massive oak table and chairs, elaborate candelabras, and fine china furnished the dining room. Walker built a stone barn behind the castle and an underground tunnel to connect the two buildings. Walker was recalled as "a dark, glowering, silent man" who spent most...
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[SunkenCiv]

Gods Graves Glyphs Digest #255 20090606 · Saturday, Jun 6, 2009 · 56 topics · 2265664 to 2260924 · 717 members ·
	Saturday Jun 6 2009 v 5 n 47 view this issue	Welcome to the 255th issue. Today is the 65th anniversary of D-Day, the Normandy invasion. A civilian salute to all our D-Day veterans, living and fallen; to all our veterans of WWII; to all our veterans. On a lesser note, a week or so ago I saw "The Big Red One" for the first time, the restored version, two disk set, cost next to nothing. I loved it. "Saving Private Ryan" my ass. This is a huge issue, largely due to a great many archival topics that were for the most part added to the catalog, but not pinged. Having 56 topics to include makes this around half-again as large as what I consider a large issue, and perhaps double what's normal. As a never-ending troublemaker here on FR, I just got a nice polite FReepmail from a moderator asking me to please not spam the topics and keywords, but based on the subject line "re:" I'm pretty sure it was about something else -- I added all the states to the topics and keywords in a thread about something that will probably be of interest to residents of all the states (and then some), had to do with (try to contain your surprise) this administration. The only other times I did that was with the FReepathon threads, so I take their point. In the march of technology, I'm mostly bringing up the rear, but try to keep my eye on where the column is headed -- analogous to my role in US politics I suppose. Last night I straightened up a few things on the hard drive, burned five data CDs for backup. It was mostly porn, but was so old, when I called the 800 number, I got a nursing home. /rimshot But seriously, some of the backup was done of files I'd previously moved to a 2GB flash drive, just to make some space on the tiny original hard drive (1995, still tends to work fine) and/or the 18 gb outrigger SCSI drive (10000 rpm IBM, seemed huge when I bought it for $50 or whatever). I then deleted the contents, noticed an odd bug in the OS (Mac OS 9.2.2, running on a PowerMac 7600, which will only accept up to 9.2.1 without help) which wasn't a biggie, then backed up the entire original hard drive (1.2 gb internal SCSI) onto this freakin' little doodad. It's formatted for DOS, and apparently Classic Mac OS won't format flash drives (also not a biggie) without help. Once I got the files transferred, I moved the icons of the files which normally have their icons on the desktop from the top level to the desktop, and they moved, and vanished when I dragged the flash drive icon to eject. Flash drives are dirt cheap, and though not (yet) as cheap as hard drives, portability, durability, and power requirements are much better. I'm sure that digression was a thrill. Overnight, or at least sometime since I signed off far too late in the day Friday, some new topics got posted. I may ping them immediately after I post this digest, but may wait until tomorrow, when a whole new day will be there for the wasting. Have a great week all, hope we all enjoy June. AuntB posts M3Report topics pertaining to our national problems stemming from the tide of illegal aliens crossing the border. * Sandrat posts a lot (possibly most) of the topics pertaining to the War on Terror. Be sure to check Celebrimbor's and StarCMC's YouTube Smackdown topics, which are "Countering the cyber-jihad one video at a time". Be sure to visit the invisib1e hand's Founder's Quote Daily topics. Be sure to check Homer_J_Simpson's topics, many of which are based on archival newspaper articles, usually 70 years ago that day. Visit the Free Republic Memorial Wall -- a history-related feature of FR. Donate to FreeRepublic.
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"Welcome to the 255th issue. Today is the 65th anniversary of D-Day, the Normandy invasion...This is a huge issue, largely due to a great many archival topics that were for the most part added to the catalog, but not pinged. Having 56 topics to include makes this around half-again as large..."

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