Gods, Graves, Glyphs
Weekly Digest #25
January 1st, 2005
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Oh So Mysterioso
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Hertford, Home Of The Holy Grail (UK)
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 01/09/2005 11:24:21 AM PST · 8 replies · 482+ views
The Guardian (UK) | 1-4-2005
Hertford, home of the Holy Grail An ancient secret society; a demand for a papal apology; and a network of hidden tunnels. Strange things have been stirring in Hertfordshire recently. Oliver Burkeman goes in search of the Knights Templar and, perhaps, the cup of Christ Tuesday January 4, 2005 The Guardian (UK) One of the problems with secret societies - especially the kind whose members exert a shadowy influence on the course of world events - is that they can be a bit difficult to track down. Never was this more true than of the Knights Templar, the ancient Catholic...
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Spanish investigators have discovered Atlantis's archaeological evidences...
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Posted by Maria Fdez-Valmayor
On News/Activism 11/25/2004 6:49:34 PM PST · 37 replies · 2,025+ views
Atlantis News's Agency (C.O.S.S.) | 11-25-2004 | Antonio Beltr·n Martinez
Spanish investigators have discovered Atlantis's archaeological evidences... Atlantis = Iberia. Atlantis in Gibraltar and Ibero-Morrocian. The Georgeo's theories (I Part) Extracts the Georgeo's theories an hipotesis. (Forum Atlantis-Rising 2001-2004)Official website of the Georgeos's tehories (in spanish)http://Atlantis.sitio.nethttp:// Spanish investigators have discovered archaeological evidences underneath the sea, near the coasts of Gibraltar, that could belong to the Atlantic civilization described by Plato with the name of Atlantis and that the Greek philosopher located exactly in front of the Columns of Hercules (Straits of Gibraltar), next to the region of Gadeira (Cadiz, Andalusia) and of the Atlas (Morocco). The first findings were...
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Those Enigmatic Erratics: Out-of-Place Artifacts or Out-of-Whack Chronology
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 01/12/2005 11:11:11 AM PST · 3 replies · 125+ views
Strange | issue #22 | Philip Rife
This author personally subscribes to the catastrophic theory of history. Namely, that one or more times prior to our present recorded history, mankind achieved a high level of civilization--only to have nearly all traces of it obliterated by widespread destruction, either natural or manmade.
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Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
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Attila Descendents Want Recognition
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 01/11/2005 7:08:28 PM PST · 46 replies · 661+ views
The Telegraph (UK) | 1-12-2005 | Kate Connolly
Attila descendants want recognition By Kate Connolly in Berlin (Filed: 12/01/2005) More than 2,000 Hungarian descendants of Attila the Hun, once described as the "Scourge of God", are demanding official recognition as an ethnic minority. "As a member of the European Union, Hungary should not be suppressing a minority," said Joshua Imre Novak, the group's self-appointed leader. Mr Novak has collected more than 1,000 signatures to pursue the group's claim through Hungary's parliament. Many experts dismiss the group's initiative as bogus, arguing that Hungary has no existing descendants of the barbarians who gave the country its name. Under Hungarian law,...
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A Da Vinci Complex? Call It a Hypothesis
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Posted by wagglebee
On News/Activism 01/14/2005 8:26:14 PM PST · 6 replies · 399+ views
New York Times | 1/15/05 | JASON HOROWITZ
FLORENCE, Italy, Jan. 14 - Researchers at a military geography institute here say they have discovered - hiding practically in plain sight in their building - what might have been a workshop for Leonardo da Vinci. They have also homed in on fading frescoes that they think might have been painted by Leonardo or by a workshop student 500 years ago, although that hypothesis has not been put to the test by art historians or by scientific analysis. Italian museum officials are hoping that the discovery of the frescoes and five small rooms where Leonardo might have lived and worked,...
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Egypt receives 8.103m tourists (over 8 million)
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 01/13/2005 6:51:36 PM PST · 3 replies · 40+ views
Trade Arabia | Thursday, January 13, 2005 | Reuters
Egypt received 8.103 million tourists last year, a 34 per cent increase on 2003, the Al Ahram newspaper reported. The Tourism Ministry previously reported 6.04 million tourists visited Egypt in 2003, when the Iraq war hurt tourist numbers early in that year. A central bank report showed that tourism revenues were $6.12 billion last year, the newspaper reported... Tourism minister Ahmed el-Maghrabi said last month that Egypt wanted to double the number of tourists that visit the country to 16 million during the next 10 years.
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Sakakawea: Myths Abound About Origin, Death Of Woman Who Aided Lewis And Clark
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 01/11/2005 5:51:00 PM PST · 64 replies · 1,100+ views
The Forum | 1-09-2005
Sakakawea: Myths abound about origin, death of woman who aided Lewis & Clark By Patrick Springer, The Forum Published Sunday, January 09, 2005 Sakakawea ambled into recorded history one "clear and pleasant" morning in a way that endeared her to an explorer still getting acclimated to the harsh plains weather. Sgt. John Ordway noted in his journal that two American Indian women visiting the Lewis and Clark Expedition's winter camp, still under construction, came with welcome gifts - four buffalo robes. "I Got one fine one myself," Ordway wrote on Nov. 11, 1804, at Fort Mandan in what is now...
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Ancient Egypt
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Curse of Tutankhamen finally laid to rest
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Posted by Dallas
On News/Activism 12/19/2002 8:28:04 PM PST · 7 replies · 133+ views
ABC.net.au
After 80 years, the curse of Tutankhamen's tomb - credited with a host of untimely deaths since its discovery - has finally been disproven by an Australian epidemiologist. By comparing the survival of those exposed to the 'Mummy's Curse' to family members who were not, Dr Mark Nelson of Monash University shows there is no epidemiological basis for claims that desecrating the ancient tomb brought about untimely deaths. His analsys is published today in latest issue of the British Medical Journal. "It was just a bit of a fun thing to do," said Nelson, who has recently completed a doctorate...
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Theban Mapping Project (Valley of the Kings etc)
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 01/13/2005 8:03:55 PM PST · 11 replies · 104+ views
Theban Mapping Project | 1980s to present | Kent Weeks et al
The original page used client side image maps, and that was pretty, but a little search and replace turned it into a usable (I hope) table of links. Enjoy. FR LexiconPosting GuidelinesExcerpt, or Link only?Ultimate Sidebar ManagementHeadlinesDonate Here By Secure ServerEating our own -- Time to make a new start in Free RepublicPDF to HTML translationTranslation pageWayback MachineMy LinksFreeMail MeGods, Graves, Glyphs topicand groupBooks, Magazines, Movies, Music
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India, SE Asia
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Ancient forest tribe 'all safe' from tide
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Posted by MassRepublicanFlyersFan
On News/Activism 01/09/2005 6:36:38 PM PST · 13 replies · 550+ views
AP | January 7, 2005 | Neelesh Misra and Rupak Sanyal
In a rare meeting with outsiders, the men said all 250 members of the tribe escaped inland and were surviving on coconuts. Even though the Jarawas sometimes meet with local officials to receive government-funded supplies, the tribe is wary of visitors.
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Indian Town Sees Evidence Of Ancient Tsunami (1500 ya)
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 01/15/2005 4:03:42 PM PST · 14 replies · 436+ views
MSNBC/AP | 1-15-2005
Indian town sees evidence of ancient tsunamiOnce-powerful city on same spot 'swallowed by the sea' Gautam Singh / APThis ancient Thirupallavaneeswaram Temple is one of the few remnants of ancient Poompuhar, which was a thriving capital city until it was "swallowed by the sea" more than 1,500 years ago.The Associated Press Updated: 2:33 p.m. ET Jan. 14, 2005POOMPUHAR, India - For generations, the people of Poompuhar have spoken of the days when their sleepy fishing town was the capital of a powerful kingdom, and traders came from Rome, Greece and Egypt to deal in pearls and silk. .
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King Of Stone Age Tribe To Return To Jungle To Rebuild Lives
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 01/12/2005 5:00:25 PM PST · 7 replies · 279+ views
AFP/Yahoo | 1-12-2005
King of Stone Age tribe to return to jungle to rebuild lives Wed Jan 12, 3:02 PM ET South Asia - AFP PORT BLAIR, India (AFP) - The king and the queen of an endangered aboriginal tribe vowed to rebuild their jungle kingdom on an isolated Indian island which was smashed by tsunamis. King Jirake wields absolute power over his 48 Great Andamanese subjects on Strait Island, 250 kilometres (150 miles) from Port Blair, capital of the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago. The 62-year-old king and his queen Surmai shepherded their subjects to the safety of a hilltop as the giant...
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Persia, Elam, etc
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2500 Year Old Winged Man Of Pasargadae Threatened By Cold And Lichen
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 01/11/2005 5:32:52 PM PST · 19 replies · 421+ views
Tehran Times | 1-11-2005
2500-year-old Winged Man of Pasargadae threatened by cold and lichen Tehran Times Culture Desk TEHRAN (MNA) -- The director of the Pasargadae Historical Cultural Complex said here on Sunday that the stone relief of the Winged Man at the ancient site has been seriously damaged by the cold and lichen and other environmental factors. "Experts began to study the detrimental effects two years ago after some cracks were observed on the relief," added Babak Kial. The Winged Man, considered to be Cyrus the Great by some archaeologists and historians, is a relief of a standing man with four wings who...
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Three Ancient Romanian Maps Bolster Accuracy Of "Persian Gulf" Name (Arabian Gulf?)
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 01/15/2005 4:35:16 PM PST · 24 replies · 421+ views
Tehran Times | 1-15-2005
Three ancient Romanian maps bolster accuracy of "Persian Gulf" name VIENNA (IRNA) -- Three ancient maps kept in a Romanian academy confirm the accuracy of the name Persian Gulf to denote waters off the southern coast of Iran, said an Iranian embassy official in Bucharest Friday. Speaking to IRNA, the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that researches made by the Romanian academy uncovered a map called "Asiac Nova Descripto" dating back to 1584 in which the Persian Gulf is historically referred to as "Mar Mesendin Ol Sinus Persicus." The Romanian academy is one of the most important...
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Parthian Circular City Found In Khorasan (Iran)
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 01/10/2005 3:16:42 PM PST · 8 replies · 273+ views
CHN (Iranian Cultural Heritage News Agency) | 1-10-2004
1/10/2005 8:14:00 AM Parthian Circular City Found in Khorasan Tehran, Jan. 10 (CHN)ó Iranian archeologists have found the architectural plan of a Parthian circular city in Nehbandan castle in southern Khorasan. Nehbandan castle is one of the most important ancient cities in Iran that has signs of different historical periods. Though it hasnít been much excavated, archeologists have found remains from Parthian (250 BC ñ 226 AD) to Safavid (1501 ñ 1722) eras. "As this site hasnít been studied much, we began studying the structures in this historical complex 2 years ago and found out that it has a circular...
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British Isles
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New Prehistoric Rock Carvings Discovered In Northern England
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 01/14/2005 2:21:48 PM PST · 59 replies · 763+ views
University Of Newcastle On Tyne/Eureka | 1-14-2005 | Aron Mazel
Contact: Aron Mazel a.d.mazel@ncl.ac.uk 44-191-222-7845 University of Newcastle upon Tyne New prehistoric rock carvings discovered in Northern England Example of rock art at Weetwood Moor, Northumberland (credit, Aron Mazel) More than 250 new examples of England's finest array of prehistoric rock art carvings, sited close to the Scottish border, have been discovered by archaeologists compiling a unique database. Now over one thousand of the 'cup and ring' carvings can be admired on a new website, which carries 6,000 images and is said to be the most comprehensive of its kind in the world. The site, which goes live today, includes...
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Let's Have Jerusalem
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Biblical Plagues and Parting of Red Sea caused by Volcano
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Posted by Betty Jane
On News/Activism 11/11/2002 12:44:06 PM PST · 52 replies · 635+ views
News.telegraph.co.uk | 11/11/02 | John Petre
Biblical plagues and parting of Red Sea 'caused by volcano' By Jonathan Petre, Religion Correspondent (Filed: 11/11/2002) Fresh evidence that the Biblical plagues and the parting of the Red Sea were natural events rather than myths or miracles is to be presented in a new BBC documentary. Moses, which will be broadcast next month, will suggest that much of the Bible story can be explained by a single natural disaster, a huge volcanic eruption on the Greek island of Santorini in the 16th century BC. Using computer-generated imagery pioneered in Walking With Dinosaurs, the programme tells the story of how...
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PreColumbian, Clovis, PreClovis
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Diving to Prove Indians Lived on the Continental Shelf
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Posted by sarcasm
On News/Activism 07/30/2003 4:51:48 PM PDT · 60 replies · 347+ views
The New York Times | July 29, 2003 | ROBERT HANLEY
ORT HANCOCK, N.J., July 23 ó For most underwater archaeologists, the big dream these days is finding a shipwreck full of gold and antique treasures. But for Daria E. Merwin, the goal has a bit less glitter: discovering a 10,000-year-old heap of shells and some ancient arrowheads, spear points and cutting tools in the waters off New Jersey.Ms. Merwin, a 33-year-old doctoral student in anthropology, says such artifacts would help prove her thesis that prehistoric Indians lived 6,000 to 10,000 years ago on the exposed continental shelf before it was inundated by water from melting glaciers.For the next three weeks,...
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Catastrophism and Astronomy
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Earth's Volcanism Linked To Meteorite Impacts
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/13/2002 8:36:39 AM PST · 31 replies · 142+ views
New Scientist | 12-13-2002 | Kate Ravilious
Earth's volcanism linked to meteorite impacts 14:31 13 December 02 Exclusive from New Scientist Print EditionSpace rocks are blamed for violent eruptions (Image: GETTY) Large meteorite impacts may not just throw up huge dust clouds but also punch right through the Earth's crust, triggering gigantic volcanic eruptions. The idea is controversial, but evidence is mounting that the Earth's geology has largely been driven by such events. This would also explain why our planet has so few impact crater remnants. Counting the number of asteroids we see in the sky suggests that over the past 250 million years, Earth should have...
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LSU Researcher Solves Ancient Astronomy Mystery (Farnese Atlas)
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 01/14/2005 2:36:12 PM PST · 27 replies · 907+ views
Innovations Report/LSU | 1-14-2005 | Bradley E. Schaefer/LSU
Physik Astronomie Louisiana State University 14.01.2005 LSU researcher solves ancient astronomy mystery An ancient mystery may have been solved by LSU Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy Bradley E. Schaefer. Schaefer has discovered that the long-lost star catalog of Hipparchus, which dates back to 129 B.C., appears on a Roman statue called the Farnese Atlas. Hipparchus was one of the greatest astronomers of antiquity and his star catalog was the first in the world, as well as the most influential. The catalog was lost early in the Christian era, perhaps in the fire at the great library in Alexandria. The...
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Origins and Prehistory
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Aussies Find Bronze Age Canoe
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 01/15/2005 4:44:46 PM PST · 17 replies · 383+ views
The Australian | 1-14-2005
Aussies find bronze age canoe January 14, 2005 AUSTRALIAN archaeologists have unearthed one of the oldest log canoes ever found in South-East Asia. A team from the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra and conservators from the National Museum of Australia excavated a 2.5m section of the boat last month at Dong Xa, about 50 kilometres southeast of the capital Hanoi. The boat was used for burial and contained the body of an adult. It would have been about 10m long and was believed to have been used in the Red River delta area around 100BC by a people known...
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Biology and Cryptobiology
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Lost Apes Of The Congo (TIME Magazine)
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Posted by K4Harty
On News/Activism 01/11/2005 7:48:52 PM PST · 36 replies · 1,044+ views
Time Magazine | 01/17/05 | Stefan Feris
TIME reporter travels deep into the African jungle in search of a mysterious chimp called the lion killer By STEPHAN FARIS Monday, Jan. 17, 2005 Ron Pintier was flying light and low above the northern wilds of the Democratic Republic of Congo when he saw a dark shape racing between two patches of tropical forest. "It was huge," says Pontier, a missionary pilot. "It was black. The skin was kind of bouncing up and down on it." From its bulk and color, Pontier thought it was a buffalo until he circled down for another look. "I saw it again just...
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Prehistoric badger had dinosaurs for breakfast
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Posted by TigerLikesRooster
On News/Activism 01/13/2005 5:32:06 PM PST · 33 replies · 658+ views
nature.com | 01/12/05 | Michael Hopkin
Prehistoric badger had dinosaurs for breakfast Michael Hopkin Fossil of a surprisingly large, carnivorous mammal is discovered in China. This artist's impression shows how the metre-long mammals might have looked. © Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Archaeologists have dug up a new species of mammal that roamed China during the reign of the dinosaurs. The creature was large enough to feast on young dinosaurs, exploding the myth that all of the mammals living back then were relatively tiny. Repenomamus giganticus, as the creature has been christened, was more than a metre long, about the size...
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Scientists To Start DNA Analysis Of Ancient Horse Skeletons
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 01/10/2005 3:07:32 PM PST · 19 replies · 362+ views
China View/Xinhuanet | 1-10-2005
Scientists to start DNA analysis of ancient horse skeletons www.chinaview.cn 2005-01-10 15:19:28 XI'AN, Jan. 10 (Xinhuanet) -- Chinese and British scientists are planning for the DNA analysis of 12 horse skeletons unearthed from the burial ground of a prominent duke who lived more than 2,500 years ago in northwestern Shaanxi Province. Archeologists with Beijing University and Cambridge University have used a professional database to process data collected from the skeletons, including the size and weight of the skulls, spinalcolumns and limbs. A Cambridge laboratory will be entrusted to carry out the DNA analysis, after the State Administration of Cultural Heritage...
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Neandertal et al and Multiregionalism
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Anthropologist Claims Humans, Neanderthals, Australopithecines All Variations on One Species
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Posted by bondserv
On News/Activism 01/02/2005 9:41:39 PM PST · 81 replies · 1,037+ views
Creation-Evolution Headlines | 01/01/2005 | Creation-Evolution Headlines
Anthropologist Claims Humans, Neanderthals, Australopithecines All Variations on One Species† †01/01/2005 According to a news story in the UK News Telegraph, all fossil hominims, including modern humans, Australopithecines, Neandertals and the recent Indonesian "hobbit man," belong to the same species: Homo sapiens.† Reporter Robert Matthews wrote about Maciej Henneberg (U of Adelaide) and his argument, based on skull sizes and body weights for 200 fossil specimens, that all known hominim bones fit within the range of variation expected for a single species.† Henneberg made the startling claim in the Journal of Comparative Human Biology, where he said, "All hominims appear...
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Anthropologist Sets The Record Straight Regarding Neanderthal Facial Length
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 06/17/2003 6:58:40 PM PDT · 19 replies · 43+ views
New Scientist | 6-17-2003 | Washington University
Source: Washington University In St. Louis Date: 2003-06-17 About Face: Washington University Anthropologist Sets The Record Straight Regarding Neandertal Facial Length New scientific evidence challenges a common perception that Neandertals -- a close evolutionary relative to modern humans that lived 230,000 to 30,000 years ago -- possessed exceptionally long faces. Instead, a report authored by Erik Trinkaus, Ph.D., the Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor of Anthropology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, shows that modern humans are really the "odd man out" when it comes to facial lengths, which drop off dramatically compared with their ancestral predecessors....
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Blow to Neanderthal breeding theory
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Posted by presidio9
On News/Activism 05/13/2003 9:22:35 AM PDT · 82 replies · 79+ views
BBC | Tuesday, 13 May, 2003
Scientists know that Neanderthals and early human ancestors were distinct species, even though they lived during the same period. However, there is controversy over theories that Neanderthals made a contribution to the modern human gene pool. A skeleton uncovered in Portugal appeared to show both Neanderthal and human features. DNA taken The latest research, from the University of Ferrara in Italy, compared genetic material from Neaderthals, Cro-Magnon humans and modern Europeans. The DNA from the Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons was taken from their bones. The DNA came from cell structures called mitochondriae rather than the nucleus. They found that while, unsurprisingly,...
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Bones of contention(Discovery of a new species of human astounds the world,but is it what it seems?)
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Posted by nickcarraway
On News/Activism 01/13/2005 1:08:28 AM PST · 21 replies · 913+ views
Guardian (U.K.) | Thursday January 13, 2005 | John Vidal
The discovery of a new species of human astounded the world. But is it what it seems? John Vidal went to remotest Flores to find out If you want to understand human evolution, it may be worth starting with Johannes Daak from the remote village of Akel in the heavily forested centre of the Indonesian island of Flores. Johannes, from the Manggarai ethnic group, reckons he is 100 years old and says he owes his longevity and enduring strength to having only ever known one woman. He says he owes his stature to his ancestors. Johannes is no more than...
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Excalibur, The Rock That May Mark A New Dawn For Man
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 01/09/2003 9:10:31 PM PST · 28 replies · 116+ views
The Guardian (UK) | 1-9-2003 | Giles Tremlett
Excalibur, the rock that may mark a new dawn for man Paleontologists claim 350,000-year-old find in Spanish cave pushes back boundary of early human evolution Giles Tremlett in Madrid Thursday January 9, 2003 The Guardian They have called it Excalibur, though it was plucked from a pit of bones rather than the stone of Arthurian legend. To the ordinary eye it is a hand-sized, triangular chunk of ochre and purple rock, its surface slightly scratched. But to the palaeontologists who found this axe-head buried in a deep cavern on a Spanish hilltop, it is proof of a terrible and defining...
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Fossils Bridge Gap in African Mammal Evolution
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Posted by Pharmboy
On News/Activism 12/03/2003 4:53:26 PM PST · 1,103 replies · 483+ views
Reuters to My Yahoo! | Wed Dec 3, 2003 | Patricia Reaney
LONDON (Reuters) - Fossils discovered in Ethiopia's highlands are a missing piece in the puzzle of how African mammals evolved, a team of international scientists said on Wednesday. Little is known about what happened to mammals between 24 million to 32 million years ago, when Africa and Arabia were still joined together in a single continent. But the remains of ancestors of modern-day elephants and other animals, unearthed by the team of U.S. and Ethiopian scientists 27 million years on, provide some answers. "We show that some of these very primitive forms continue to live through the missing years, and...
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Fresh debate over human origins
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Posted by PatrickHenry
On News/Activism 12/26/2002 8:02:36 AM PST · 116 replies · 67+ views
BBC News | 24 December 2002 | staff
The theory that we are all descended from early humans who left Africa about 100,000 years ago has again been called into question. US researchers sifting through data from the human genome project say they have uncovered evidence in support of a rival theory. Most scientists agree with the idea that our ancestors first spread out of Africa about 1.8 million years ago, conquering other lands. What happened next is more controversial. The prevailing theory is that a second exodus from Africa replaced all of the local populations, such as Europe's Neanderthals. Some anthropologists, however, advocate the so-called multiregional theory,...
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Gene for Red Hair May Help Suppress Pain in Women
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Posted by Pharmboy
On News/Activism 03/25/2003 5:57:32 AM PST · 28 replies · 162+ views
Reuters via Yahoo | March 24, 2003 | Linda Carroll
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A gene found in redheads and fair-skinned people may also play a role in the body's natural pain suppression system. But the gene, Mc1r, appears to impact pain suppression only in women, according to the study, published Monday in the advance online publication of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (news - web sites). The researchers found that redheaded women were able to tolerate more pain than other people when given an analgesic drug called pentazocine. All redheaded men, as well as men and women who did not have red hair, had similar-and...
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Genes May Be Reason For Jews' Low Alcoholism Rate
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 09/17/2002 8:21:39 AM PDT · 75 replies · 183+ views
Ananova | 9-17-2002
Genes may be reason for Jews' low alcoholism rate Genes, and not religious conviction, explain why Jewish people typically have fewer drink problems than non-Jews. Researchers in the US say a genetic mutation carried by at least a fifth of Jews appears to protect against alcoholism. The same inherited trait is fairly common in Asian people, but is much rarer in white Europeans. The Daily Telegraph says the findings could help explain why Israel has one of the lowest levels of alcoholism in the developed world. The mutation, called ADH2*2, is involved in the way the body breaks down alcohol...
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How likely is human extinction?
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Posted by Momaw Nadon
On News/Activism 04/14/2004 6:15:04 AM PDT · 518 replies · 315+ views
Mail & Guardian Online | Tuesday, April 13, 2004 | Kate Ravilious
Every species seems to come and go. Some last longer than others, but nothing lasts forever. Humans are a relatively recent phenomenon, jumping out of trees and striding across the land around 200 000 years ago. Will we persist for many millions of years to come, or are we headed for an evolutionary makeover, or even extinction? According to Reinhard Stindl, of the Institute of Medical Biology in Vienna, the answer to this question could lie at the tips of our chromosomes. In a controversial new theory he suggests that all eukaryotic species (everything except bacteria and algae) have an...
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The naked ape / As it turns out, clothes do make the man
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Posted by Willie Green
On News/Activism 09/02/2003 2:24:40 PM PDT · 9 replies · 16+ views
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Tuesday, September 02, 2003 | Editorial
<p>The expression "clothes make the man" may be more prescient than imagined. New theories about our evolutionary development are making the rounds in scientific journals that attempt to explain why modern humans shed the fur that characterized earlier hominids.</p> <p>Evidence is mounting that when our ancestors wandered out of the forests and onto the African savannas 1.7 million years ago, they weren't simply leaving leafy trees behind. Many millennia before the heartbreak of psoriasis, early humans had an affliction that surely would've led to an unbearably itchy existence, if not extinction, had we not shed our matted body hair over hundreds of generations.</p>
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Neanderthals 'Had Hands Like Ours'
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 03/27/2003 3:07:42 PM PST · 23 replies · 56+ views
BBC | 3-27-2003 | Helen Briggs
Neanderthals 'had hands like ours' By Helen Briggs BBC News Online science reporter The popular image of Neanderthals as clumsy, backward creatures has been dealt another blow. Neanderthals used tools and had a capacity for speech It was always thought they were a somewhat ham-fisted lot. However, computer reconstructions of fossilised bones show their hands had almost the same manual dexterity as ours. Far from being "butter fingered", they would have been adept at using implements such as axes and knives. The finding is important because it casts doubt on the idea that Neanderthals died out because of a physical...
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Neanderthal Hunters Rivalled Human Skill
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 09/24/2003 8:19:27 AM PDT · 22 replies · 113+ views
BBC | 9-23-2003 | Will Knight
Neanderthal hunters rivalled human skills 17:34 23 September 03 NewScientist.com news service Neanderthals were not driven from northern Europe by vastly superior human hunters, suggests an analysis of hunting remains. The study by Donald Grayson of the University of Washington and Francoise Delpech of the University of Bordeaux challenges a popular theory that the primitive peoples died out because they were far less skillful hunters. The pair examined the fossilised remains of butchered animals from a cave in southwest France. Neanderthals inhabited southern France from 65,000 years before the present until roughly 40,000 to 35,000 years ago. Neanderthals disappeared from...
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New species may have relatives in next villlage
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Posted by aculeus
On News/Activism 01/12/2005 5:52:22 PM PST · 22 replies · 587+ views
The Guardian (UK) | January 13, 2005 | John Vidal
A growing number of scientists are challenging the sensational discovery last year of a new species of one-metre-tall intelligent humans whose 13,000-year-old bones were said to have been found in an Indonesian cave. According to some leading anthropologists in Australia, Indonesia and elsewhere, Homo floresiensis is not "one of the most important discoveries of the last 150 years" as was widely reported last October, but a pygmy version of modern Homo sapiens with a not uncommon brain disease. Now a leading critic of the Homo floresiensis theory is to send researchers to a village near the cave where the bones...
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Neandertals Not Our Ancestors, DNA Study Suggests (Whewww!!!)
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Posted by NormsRevenge
On News/Activism 05/14/2003 10:49:29 PM PDT · 48 replies · 128+ views
National Geographic News | 5/14/03 | Hillary Mayell
One more piece of evidence has been added to the debate on whether there was any interbreeding between Neandertals and early modern humans. Around 50,000 years ago, small groups of anatomically modern humans migrated out of Africa and began to colonize the rest of the world. Known as Cro-Magnons for the site in France where the earliest remains were found, these early humans co-existed with the Neandertals then living in Europe until the Neandertals became extinct roughly 30,000 years ago. What happened and whyódid the two groups war, did they mate, did they even meet?óhas been an enduring puzzle...
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Neanderthals Matured Faster Than Modern Man -Study
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Posted by Junior
On News/Activism 04/28/2004 12:57:48 PM PDT · 86 replies · 106+ views
Science - Reuters | 2004-04-28 | Patricia Reaney
LONDON (Reuters) - Neanderthals may conjure up images of an uncivilized, brutish species but they were surprisingly early developers, researchers said Wednesday. Although Neanderthals disappeared from Europe about 30,000 years ago, scientists at the French research institute CRNS in Paris have uncovered new details about them by studying teeth fossils. The findings, reported in the science journal Nature, suggest Neanderthals reached adulthood by the age of 15 -- about three years before early modern humans -- probably ate a high calorie diet and were a distinct species from modern humans. "Neanderthals, despite having a large brain, were characterized by a...
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Oldest member of human family found
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Posted by jennyp
On News/Activism 07/11/2002 4:13:07 PM PDT · 62 replies · 161+ views
Nature | 07/11/2002 | John Whitfield
After a decade of digging through the sand dunes of northern Chad, Michel Brunet found a skull 6-7 million years old. He named it ToumaÔ.ToumaÔ is thought to be the oldest fossil from a member of the human family. It's a dispatch from the time when humans and chimpanzee were going their separate evolutionary ways. A thrilling, but confusing dispatch1,2. Sahelanthropus tchadensis - ToumaÔ's scientific name - was probably one of many similar species living in Africa at that time. "There must have been a group of apes knocking around between 5 and 8 million years ago for which there's...
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One million year "Homo-erectus" Found In Iran
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 01/11/2005 11:08:39 AM PST · 12 replies · 245+ views
CHN | Jan 5, 2005 | staff
In their paleontological studies in Maragheh region, experts have so far found pieces of fossilized horse, giraffe, rhino, and elephant dating back to at least a million years ago. The discovery of these fossils close to the teeth has helped the scientists reach a more precise date for the teeth... Paleontological studies in Maragheh region is done under the supervision of the Natural History Museum with the cooperation of Tabriz University in eastern Azerbaijan that currently holds the 1-million-year teeth for more research.
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A Rebuilt Neanderthal
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Posted by Pharmboy
On News/Activism 12/31/2002 4:38:20 PM PST · 95 replies · 1,319+ views
The New York Times | 12-31-02 | JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
In a laboratory in the upper recesses of the American Museum of Natural History, away from the public galleries, Dr. Ian Tattersall, a tall Homo sapiens, stooped and came face to face with a Neanderthal man, short and robust but bearing a family resemblance ó until one looked especially closely. A paleoanthropologist who has studied and written about Neanderthals, Dr. Tattersall was getting his first look at a virtually complete skeleton from this famously extinct branch of the hominid family. Nothing quite like it has ever been assembled before, the foot bones connected to the ankle bones and everything else...
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Seeking answers to a new Mystery Ape
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Posted by Ahban
On News/Activism 08/13/2003 8:47:06 PM PDT · 15 replies · 103+ views
CNN | august 9th 2003 | Marsha Walton
<p>A skull belonging to a 'mystery ape,' on the left, is placed next to a chimpazee skull for comparison. Researchers say the mystery ape is much more 'flat-faced' and substantially bigger.</p> <p>We cannot rule out the possibility that it is a new species of ape, or a new subspecies or some form of hybrid.</p>
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When Humans Faced Extinction
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 06/10/2003 8:05:32 AM PDT · 124 replies · 159+ views
BBC | 6-10-2003 | Dr David Whitehouse
When humans faced extinction By Dr David Whitehouse BBC News Online science editor Humans may have come close to extinction about 70,000 years ago, according to the latest genetic research. From just a few, six billion sprang The study suggests that at one point there may have been only 2,000 individuals alive as our species teetered on the brink. This means that, for a while, humanity was in a perilous state, vulnerable to disease, environmental disasters and conflict. If any of these factors had turned against us, we would not be here. The research also suggests that humans (Homo sapiens...
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London - Red hair may be the genetic legacy of Neanderthals...
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Posted by IGBT
On News/Activism 01/16/2005 12:47:07 PM PST · 164 replies · 2,396+ views
Planet Save.com | 1/14/05 | Planet Save.com
London - Red hair may be the genetic legacy of Neanderthals, according to a new study by British scientists. Researchers at the John Radcliffe Institute of Molecular Medicine in Oxford were quoted by The Times as saying the so-called "ginger gene" which gives people red hair, fair skin and freckles could be up to 100 000 years old. They claim that their discovery points to the gene having originated in Neanderthal man who lived in Europe for 200 000 years before Homo sapien settlers, the ancestors of modern man, arrived from Africa about 40 000 years ago. Rosalind Harding, the...
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end of digest #25 20050115
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