Gods, Graves, Glyphs -- Weekly Digest #10
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PreColumbian, Clovis, PreClovis
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Camisea Pipeline Unearths Ancient Peru Relics
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 09/20/2004 11:03:24 PM PDT · 5 replies · 84+ views
Reuters | Wed Sep 15, 2004 04:50 PM ET | Marco Aquino
The construction of the 454-mile pipeline through the jungle and over the Andes to the coast has unearthed some 1,000 archeological sites from a range of civilizations across Peru that trace 9,000 years of history, archeologists say. The artifacts, which total 72 tons in weight, include mummies, textiles, jewelry, ceramics and weaponry that time and even the humidity of the jungle have been unable to destroy... One of the most exciting finds are the relics of the little-known Echarate culture, which lived some 3,300 years ago in today's Cuzco province
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Dating Early Man in the Americas
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 09/24/2004 7:40:14 PM PDT · 13 replies · 80+ views
ASA Online (via the Web Archive) | March 2000 (ASA Bulletin, v22, i2&3 and v23,i1) | Roy J. Shlemon
By 1997, some 80 earth-science specialists visited Monte Verde, many participated in the excavations, and still others collected samples and conducted laboratory analyses. The results are remarkable: now documented are 70 species of plants collected by Early Man, the remnants of mastodon meat, the remains of wooden canoes, mortars, and hundreds of stone artifacts including projectile points and cutting and scraping tools. Additionally, some 30 radiocarbon dates were obtained from abundant charcoal, wood and ivory found within the artifact-bearing strata. These dates indicate that Monte Verde was occupied about 12.5 ka ago, a full thousand years before Clovis (Meltzer, 1997).
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First Americans - Homo Erectus in America
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 09/24/2004 7:54:26 PM PDT · 9 replies · 83+ views
home.pacbell.net | January 01, 1999 | Tom Baldwin (apparently)
While the author of this webpage does not believe that Homo Erectus is responsible for the surface lithics found in the Calico Mountains of California, he does believe the presence of these lithics is quite important in establishing the fact that man was on this continent eons before those of the Clovis school are willing to admit. Once the door is thrown open to an earlier arrival date for man on this continent, then serious study will hopefully begin on the many early man sites to be found in both North and South America, but currently ignored because of their...
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First Mariners
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 09/25/2004 12:44:19 AM PDT · 2 replies · 33+ views
Archaeology | Volume 51 Number 3 May/June 1998 | Mark Rose
Mata Menge, however, produced a small number of stone tools, including some made of nonlocal chert, as well as remains of large stegodon, crocodile, giant rat, freshwater molluscs, and plants... Morwood dated the sites using a technique that analyzes individual zircon crystals from volcanic deposits. A sample from Tangi Talo, taken near a pygmy stegodon tusk and giant tortoise shell fragments, yielded a date of about 900,000 years ago. At Mata Menge, a sample from just beneath the artifact-bearing level dated to about 880,000 years ago, while another, taken above in situ artifacts, gave a date of about 800,000... Tools...
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Pre-Inca Ruins Emerrging From Peru's Cloud Forests (Chapapoyas)
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 09/23/2004 8:09:38 PM PDT · 26 replies · 569+ views
National Geographic | 9-16-2004 | John Roach
Pre-Inca Ruins Emerging From Peru's Cloud Forests John Roach for National Geographic News September 16, 2004 On the eastern slope of the Andes mountains in northern Peru, forests cloak the ruins of a pre-Inca civilization, the size and scope of which explorers and archaeologists are only now beginning to understand. Known as the Chachapoya, the civilization covered an estimated 25,000 square miles (65,000 square kilometers). The Chachapoya, distinguished by fair skin and great height, lived primarily on ridges and mountaintops in circular stone houses. Sean Savoy, leader of the Gran Saposoa-El Dorado IV Expedition (July-August 2004), points out a stone...
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Signs of an earlier American
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Posted by zide56
On News/Activism 09/24/2004 9:18:58 AM PDT · 30 replies · 539+ views
The Christian Science Monitor | September 23, 2004 | Peter N. Spotts
South Carolina dig could move habitation date back another 12,000 years.
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The Solutrean Solution--Did Some Ancient Americans Come from Europe?
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 09/24/2004 7:31:55 PM PDT · 1 reply · 43+ views
Clovis and Beyond | 1999 | Dennis Stanford and Bruce Bradley
Years of research in eastern Asia and Alaska have produced little evidence of any historical or technological connection between the Asian Paleolithic (Stone Age) and Clovis peoples. Also, the southeastern United States has produced more Clovis sites than the West, and a few radiocarbon dates suggest some of them may predate those in the western states. If correct, that hardly fits the notion that Clovis technology originated in northeast Asia or Alaska. Over the years, various scholars have noted similarities between Clovis projectile points and "Solutrean" points, the product of a Paleolithic culture on the north coast of Spain between...
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Canyon Holds Ancient Civilization Secrets
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Posted by ckilmer
On News/Activism 09/20/2004 11:16:15 AM PDT · 18 replies · 648+ views
yahoo/AP | Mon Sep 20, 7:41 AM ET | PAUL FOY,
Canyon Holds Ancient Civilization Secrets Mon Sep 20, 7:41 AM ET Add Science - AP to My Yahoo! By PAUL FOY, Associated Press Writer RANGE CREEK CANYON, Utah - The newly discovered ruins of an ancient civilization in this remote eastern Utah canyon could reveal secrets about the descendants of the continent's original Paleo-Indians who showed up before the time of Christ to settle much of present-day Utah. AP Photo Archaeologists estimate as many as 250 households occupied this canyon over a span of centuries ending about 750 years ago. They left half-buried stone-and-mortar houses and granary caches, and painted...
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Utah Canyon Holds Secrets of Ancient Civilization
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Posted by Gucho
On General/Chat 09/20/2004 1:44:35 AM PDT · 2 replies · 103+ views
TBO.com
Utah Canyon Holds Secrets of Ancient Civilization By Paul Foy Associated Press Writer Published: Sep 20, 2004 RANGE CREEK CANYON, Utah (AP) - The newly discovered ruins of an ancient civilization in this remote eastern Utah canyon could reveal secrets about the descendants of the continent's original Paleo-Indians who showed up before the time of Christ to settle much of present-day Utah. Archaeologists estimate as many as 250 households occupied this canyon over a span of centuries ending about 750 years ago. They left half-buried stone-and-mortar houses and granary caches, and painted colorful trapezoidal figures on canyon walls. "It's like...
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China and Japan
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2,000 Year Old Wine Found In Communist China
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Posted by bruinbirdman
On News/Activism 06/22/2003 2:02:25 AM PDT · 13 replies · 94+ views
BBC | June 22, 2003 | Jannat Jalil
There is a saying that fine wine improves with age. But does this apply to a wine that is 2,000 years old. Well, archaeologists in China may soon be able to tell us. State media said that when Chinese archaeologists unearthed a large bronze jar in the Western city of Xi'an they discovered about five litres of light green rice wine inside. The jar shaped like a phoenix head was found in a tomb. One archaeologist was quoted as saying that the high purity of the wine indicated the owner was a nobleman. It is thought to date back to...
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Clue Found To Uncover Mystery Of Gunpowder Invention
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/11/2003 1:18:43 PM PST · 18 replies · 196+ views
Peoples Daily | 12-11-2003
Clue found to uncover mystery of gunpowder invention Chinese archeologists have found a large ancient saltpeter manufacturing base which they believe was used to manufacture gunpowder over 1,000 years ago. A team of archaeologists discovered last month a network of caves at the Laojun Mountain in southwestern China's Sichuan Province. Xu Xiangdong, leader of the expedition and former president of the Beijing Ancient Building Museum, said the caves were used to manufacture saltpeter, one of the major ingredients of gunpowder. In two caves, the remains of workshops and storage pits were discovered, while in another cave the team found four...
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Japanese Shipwreck Adds To Evidence Of Great Cascadia Earthquake In 1700
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/03/2003 5:58:56 AM PST · 7 replies · 50+ views
Science Daily | 10-31-2003 | U/W
Source: University Of Washington Date: 2003-10-31 Japanese Shipwreck Adds To Evidence Of Great Cascadia Earthquake In 1700 Evidence has mounted for nearly 20 years that a great earthquake ripped the seafloor off the Washington coast in 1700, long before there were any written records in the region. Now, a newly authenticated record of a fatal shipwreck in Japan has added an intriguing clue. Written records collected from villages along a 500-mile stretch of the main Japanese island of Honshu show the coast was hit by a series of waves, collectively called a tsunami, on Jan. 28, 1700. Because no Japanese...
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Epigraphy and Language
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LATIN 1: THE EASY WAY
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 09/25/2004 12:02:15 AM PDT · 6 replies · 88+ views
Cherryh website | 1999 | C.J. Cherryh
I used to teach this subject. I use a method that's a little different than the standard, a method aimed at results, not tradition, and no need to learn grammar at the outset, when you've got enough new things to learn. If you learned by the traditional method you may find this radically different; but trust me.
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Ancient Egypt
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Mummy Hair Reveals Drinking Habits
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 09/23/2004 7:24:12 PM PDT · 39 replies · 858+ views
Discovery News | 9-23-2004 | Rossella Lorenzi
Mummy Hair Reveals Drinking Habits By Rossella Lorenzi, Discovery News Sept. 23, 2004 Mummy hair has revealed the first direct evidence of alcohol consumption in ancient populations, according to new forensic research.The study, still in its preliminary stage, examined hair samples from spontaneously mummified remains discovered in one of the most arid regions of the world, the Atacama Desert of northern Chile and southern Peru. The research was presented at the 5th World Congress on Mummy Studies in Turin, Italy, this month. ì In modern human hair the levels would generally be in the ranges of social drinking, but we...
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Ancient and Medieval Europe
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In The Neanderthal Mind
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 09/22/2004 5:32:57 PM PDT · 32 replies · 510+ views
Science News | 9-18-2004 | Bruce Bower
Week of Sept. 18, 2004; Vol. 166, No. 12 , p. 183 In the Neandertal Mind Our evolutionary comrades celebrated vaunted intellects before meeting a memorable demise Bruce Bower Call a person a Neandertal, and no one within earshot will mistake the statement for a compliment. It's a common, convenient way to cast someone as a stupid, brutish lout. From an evolutionary perspective, the invective has no basis in truth, say archaeologist Thomas Wynn and psychologist Frederick L. Coolidge. This interdisciplinary duo, based at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs, has drawn on a range of scientific research and prehistoric...
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Malta's Magnificent Hypogeum
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 09/21/2004 11:07:49 PM PDT · 2 replies · 78+ views
The Cultured Traveler | May 2001 | Patrick Totty
5,600 years ago, patient Stone Age laborers gouged emptiness from solid living rock, fashioning a complex three-level interior that contains astounding textural detail. Covering a total of about 5,400 square feet, with its levels extending down about 35 feet, the Hypogeum was discovered by accident in 1902 near the center of the town of Paola... For about a 1,000-year span, the Hypogeum served as a necropolis, a city of the dead that eventually housed the remains of about 7,000 people. It was one of many megalithic structures strewn across Malta, built by a complex Neolithic culture that mysteriously disappeared around...
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Viking burial ground dispels myth of longship marauders
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 09/20/2004 11:11:40 PM PDT · 11 replies · 156+ views
The Guardian | Tuesday September 7, 2004 | Lee Glendinning and Maev Kennedy
The Vikings were buried within 10 metres (30ft) of each other. In the 1940s at Ingleby in Derbyshire a burial ground was found, but it held cremated ashes buried in earthenware pots, with few artefacts. The only other group of bodies found was a battlefield cemetery at nearby Repton. The Cumbria burials were completely different. These were clearly not the longship pirates of legend, but a settled, wealthy, peaceful community. Sir Neil added that the find provided rare evidence of Vikings as settlers who integrated into English life.
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Columbus
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The Egg Island theory (Where Did Columbus Make Landfall?)
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 09/19/2004 12:21:10 PM PDT · 41 replies · 382+ views
Amerion Internet Services | last updated: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 | Keith A. Pickering
Egg island is a flyspeck of land (0.2 square miles) at the end of a string of small islands extenting west from the northern end of Eleuthera Island in the Bahamas. Along with its near neighbor Royal Island, Egg was proposed as the landfall in 1981 by Arne B. Molander, a retired civil engineer. Molander has been a tireless advocate for his theory since, although his efforts so far have failed to convince anyone that the idea has merit.
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State Plays Orwellian with Columbus
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Posted by wagglebee
On News/Activism 08/28/2004 3:13:16 PM PDT · 10 replies · 331+ views
FrontPage Magazine | 8/26/04 | Robert Spencer
George Orwell knew that if you can control a people's past, you can control its present; that's why in 1984 he has a whole government department ó the Ministry of Truth ó devoted to rewriting history. Now, twenty years beyond Orwell's nightmare year, we call the Ministry of Truth the State Department: in a press release issued Monday, ìIslamic Influence Runs Deep in American Culture,î Phyllis McIntosh of State's Washington File burbles that ìIslamic influences may date back to the very beginning of American history. It is likely that Christopher Columbus, who discovered America in 1492, charted his way across...
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Catastrophism
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A World Ruled By Fungi
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Posted by vannrox
On News/Activism 03/30/2004 6:51:35 PM PST · 19 replies · 52+ views
Science Daily | 2004-03-08 | Swedish Research Council
The catastrophe that extinguished the dinosaurs and other animal species, 65 million years ago also brought dramatic changes to the vegetation. In a study presented in latest issue of the journal Science, the paleontologists Vivi Vajda from the University of Lund, Sweden and Stephen McLoughlin from the Queensland University of Technology, Australia have described what happened to the vegetation month by month. They depict a world in darkness where the fungi had taken over. It¥s known that an asteroid hit the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico at the end of the Cretaceous Period. It left a 180 km wide crater and...
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Modern History
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Did injured brain betray Red Baron?
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Posted by bad company
On General/Chat 09/21/2004 6:24:41 AM PDT · 4 replies · 116+ views
K.C.Star | Tue, Sep. 21, 2004 | ALAN BAVLEY
Posted on Tue, Sep. 21, 2004 Did injured brain betray Red Baron? Trauma from earlier wound likely caused lack of judgment on fatal flight, psychologists say By ALAN BAVLEY The Kansas City Star The Associated Press An undated photo circa 1917 of the Red Baron, Manfred von Richthofen It's never been clear why the World War I German flying ace dubbed the Red Baron took the chances that got him killed one spring day in 1918. Now two retired U.S. Air Force psychologists think they have an answer: The Red Baron, Manfred von Richthofen, had suffered so traumatic a...
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Red Baron brought down by a shot fired the previous year
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Posted by Land_of_Lincoln_John
On General/Chat 09/21/2004 7:24:44 PM PDT · 5 replies · 115+ views
Telegraph | September 22, 2004 | Roger Highfield
A head wound suffered by the Red Baron the year before his death was the underlying reason he was eventually shot down, according to a study by neuroscientists. There has been endless speculation over who killed the 25-year-old First World War flying ace but the new study suggests that more credit is due to the British airman who grazed his skull in 1917 than to the Australian gunner who eventually brought him down in 1918. The killing machine feared by the Allies and revered by his countrymen suffered significant brain damage to his frontal lobes when a machinegun round fired...
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end of digest #10
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