Gods, Graves, Glyphs (alpha order)

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• 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]

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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #74 Saturday, December 17, 2005
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PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Ancient Humans Brought Bottle Gourds To The Americas From Asia
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/13/2005 11:12:17 AM PST · 36 replies · 646+ views Harvard University/Eureka Alert | 12-13-2005 | Steve Brandt Contact: Steve Bradt steve_bradt@harvard.edu 617-496-8070 Harvard University Ancient humans brought bottle gourds to the Americas from AsiaPlants widely used as containers arrived, already domesticated, some 10,000 years ago CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 13, 2005 -- Thick-skinned bottle gourds widely used as containers by prehistoric peoples were likely brought to the Americas some 10,000 years ago by individuals who arrived from Asia, according to a new genetic comparison of modern bottle gourds with gourds found at archaeological sites in the Western Hemisphere. The finding solves a longstanding archaeological enigma by explaining how a domesticated variant of a species native to Africa ended...
Study Sheds Light On Early Migration (Americas)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/13/2005 10:47:40 AM PST · 42 replies · 727+ views The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | 12-13-2005 | Mike Toner Study sheds light on early migrationSkulls raise questions on first Americans By MIKE TONER The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 12/13/05 A 10-year study of ancient human skulls from Brazil provides new evidence that two distinct populations of prehistoric people settled the Americas more than 12,000 years ago ó a finding that raises new questions about the identity and origins of the first Americans. Brazilian researchers say physical features of the skulls excavated from several limestone caves near Lagoa Santa in central Brazil differ sharply from the ancestors of today's Native Americans, who are thought to have migrated from Siberia to...
Stone Age Columbus
	Posted by ASA Vet On News/Activism 12/15/2005 7:19:43 AM PST · 22 replies · 749+ views BBC | Dec 15, 2005 | BBC programme summary Who were the first people in North America? From where did they come? How did they arrive? The prehistory of the Americas has been widely studied. Over 70 years a consensus became so established that dissenters felt uneasy challenging it. Yet in 2001, genetics, anthropology and a few shards of flint combined to overturn the accepted facts and to push back one of the greatest technological changes that the Americas have ever seen by over five millennia. The accepted version of the first Americans starts with a flint spearhead unearthed at Clovis, New Mexico, in 1933. Dated by the mammoth...
Skull Study Suggests at Least Two Groups Colonized America
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 12/15/2005 3:48:14 PM PST · 18 replies · 533+ views Sci-Tech Today | December 15, 2005 The 7,500- to 11,000-year-old remains suggest the oldest settlers of the Americas came from different genetic stock than more recent Native Americans. Modern Native Americans share traits with Mongoloid peoples of Mongolia, China, and Siberia, the researchers said. But they found dozens of skulls from Brazil appear much more similar to modern Australians, Melanesians, and Sub-Saharan Africans. A Brazilian study involving a large collection of South American skulls suggests at least two distinct groups of early humans colonized the Americas. Anthropologists Walter Neves and Mark Hubbe of the University of Sao Paulo studied 81 skulls of early humans and found...
Prehistory and Origins
Not Out Of Africa But Regional Continuity
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/16/2005 11:03:02 AM PST · 17 replies · 392+ views The Bradshaw Foundation | Alan Thorne Not Out of Africa but regional continuityA challenging idea about Human Evolution by Alan Thorne Mungo Lady Mungo Lady was delivered to Alan Thorne in a small cheap suitcase in 1968 when he was 28 years old. Her burned and shattered bones were embedded in six blocks of calcified sand. The field researchers who dug her up in a parched no-man's-land in southeastern Australia suspected that shewas tens of thousands of years old. 600 Bone Chips Almost every day for the next six months, he painstakingly freed her remains from the sand with a dental drill, prizing out more than...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Scientists Find A DNA Change That Accounts For White Skin
	Posted by RWR8189 On News/Activism 12/15/2005 10:05:07 PM PST · 187 replies · 2,647+ views Washington Post | December 16, 2005 | Rick Weiss Scientists said yesterday that they have discovered a tiny genetic mutation that largely explains the first appearance of white skin in humans tens of thousands of years ago, a finding that helps solve one of biology's most enduring mysteries and illuminates one of humanity's greatest sources of strife. The work suggests that the skin-whitening mutation occurred by chance in a single individual after the first human exodus from Africa, when all people were brown-skinned. That person's offspring apparently thrived as humans moved northward into what is now Europe, helping to give rise to the lightest of the world's races. Leaders...
Gene That Determines Skin Color Is Discovered, Scientists Report
	Posted by Pharmboy On News/Activism 12/16/2005 2:34:23 AM PST · 67 replies · 1,003+ views NY Times | December 16, 2005 | NICHOLAS WADE A gene that is responsible for the pale skin of Europeans and the dark skin of Africans has been discovered by scientists at Pennsylvania State University. The gene comes in two versions, one of which is found in 99 percent of Europeans and the other in 93 to 100 percent of Africans, the researchers report in today's issue of Science. The gene is unusual because with most human genes, different versions are generally shared, though one version may be more common in one race than another. One exception is the Duffy null allele, a version of a gene that prevents...
PRESERVED T. Rex Soft Tissue RECOVERED (Pic)
	Posted by wallcrawlr On News/Activism 03/24/2005 12:04:54 PM PST · 480 replies · 8,797+ views Star Tribune | 03.24.05 | Randolph Schmid WASHINGTON ó For more than a century, the study of dinosaurs has been limited to fossilized bones. Now, researchers have recovered 70-million-year-old soft tissue, including what may be blood vessels and cells, from a Tyrannosaurus rex. If scientists can isolate proteins from the material, they may be able to learn new details of how dinosaurs lived, said lead researcher Mary Higby Schweitzer of North Carolina State University. "We're doing a lot of stuff in the lab right now that looks promising,'' she said in a telephone interview. But, she said, she does not know yet if scientists will be able...
Boy finds 5,000-year-old bison skull--Now called 'Bradford Bison'
	Posted by SJackson On News/Activism 12/11/2005 5:55:09 AM PST · 38 replies · 727+ views Capital Times | 12-11-05 | Mike Miller A Prairie du Sac youngster, exploring the Wisconsin River bottom because he couldn't play high-tech games, made the archeological find of the year in Wisconsin when he unearthed an ancient bison head and horns. "It is one of the best finds of the year, if not the best," state archeologist John Broihahn said of the find, which he determined was the head and horns of a Bison Occidentalis, at least 5,000 years old. And it is now officially known as the "Bradford Bison," in honor of Joshua Bradford, 7, who made the initial discovery. Josh was on an outing with...
British Isles
Tools Unlock Secrets Of Early Man
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/14/2005 2:26:31 PM PST · 23 replies · 484+ views BBC | 12-14-2005 | Mark Kinver Tools unlock secrets of early man By Mark Kinver Science reporter, BBC News website Researchers are confident the tools are 700,000 years old New research shows that early humans were living in Britain around 700,000 years ago, much earlier than scientists had previously thought. Using new dating techniques, scientists found that flint tools unearthed in Pakefield, Suffolk, were 200,000 years older than the previous oldest find. Humans were known to have lived in southern Europe 780,000 years ago but it was unclear when they moved north. The findings have been published in the scientific journal Nature. A team of scientists...
Humans in England May Go Back 700,000 Years
	Posted by aculeus On News/Activism 12/14/2005 5:03:07 PM PST · 29 replies · 469+ views Associated Press | December 14, 2005 | By THOMAS WAGNER Associated Press Writer LONDON (AP) -- Ancient tools found in Britain show that humans lived in northern Europe 200,000 years earlier than previously thought, at a time when the climate was warm enough for lions, elephants and saber tooth tigers to also roam what is now England. Scientists said Wednesday that 32 black flint artifacts, found in river sediments in Pakefield in eastern England, date back 700,000 years and represent the earliest unequivocal evidence of human presence north of the Alps. Scientists had long held that humans had not migrated north from the relatively warm climates of the Mediterranean region until half a...
Humans in England May Go Back 700,000 Years
	Posted by Vaquero On News/Activism 12/15/2005 3:27:46 AM PST · 51 replies · 744+ views AP/YAHOO | 12/14/05 | THOMAS WAGNER Humans in England May Go Back 700,000 Years By THOMAS WAGNER, Associated Press Writer Wed Dec 14, 2:04 PM ET LONDON - Ancient tools found in Britain show that humans lived in northern Europe 200,000 years earlier than previously thought, at a time when the climate was warm enough for lions, elephants and saber tooth tigers to also roam what is now England. ADVERTISEMENT Scientists said Wednesday that 32 black flint artifacts, found in river sediments in Pakefield in eastern England, date back 700,000 years and represent the earliest unequivocal evidence of human presence north of the Alps. Scientists had...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
Late Pleostocene Human Population Bottlenecks. . . (Toba)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/16/2005 11:33:44 AM PST · 31 replies · 803+ views The Bradshaw Foundation | 1998 | Stanley H. Ambrose Professor Stanley H. Ambrose Department of Anthropology, University Of Illinois, Urbana, USA Extract from "Journey of Human Evolution" [1998] 34, 623-651 The last glacial period was preceded by 1000 years of the coldest temperatures of the Late Pleistocene, apparently caused by the eruption of the Mount Toba volcano. The six year long volcanic winter and 1000-year-long instant Ice Age that followed Mount Toba's eruption may have decimated Modern Man's entire population. Genetic evidence suggests that Human population size fell to about 10,000 adults between 50 and 100 thousand years ago. The survivors from this global catastrophy would have found refuge...
Mysterious deep-space object raises questions on Solar System's origins
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 12/14/2005 10:12:29 AM PST · 36 replies · 355+ views PhysOrg | December 13, 2005 | AFP Astronomers working in Canada, France and the United States said they had found a small deep-space object, nicknamed Buffy, that challenges mainstream theories about the evolution of the Solar System. The rock lies in the Kuiper Belt, the name for the flock of objects beyond Neptune's orbit that are believed to be leftover rubble from the Solar System's building phase and are the source for many comets... Measuring between 500 and 1,000 kilometers (300 to 600 miles) across and taking about 440 years to make just one circuit of the Sun, Buffy is remarkable not for its size -- around...
Ancient Greece
Hill Near Evros Holds Story Of Plotinopolis
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/10/2005 12:03:58 PM PST · 6 replies · 149+ views Kathimeri | 12-10-2005 Hill near Evros holds story of PlotinopolisDig suggests ancient settlement Part of a building excavated at Plotinopolis, the city founded by Trajan to honor his wife Plotina. Mathaios Koutsoumanis of the 19th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities will discuss the excavation on Monday. Ever since the 1960s, the site where the hill of Aghia Petra rises between the Evros and Erythrpotamos rivers has been identified with the city of Plotinopolis. The Roman Emperor Trajan (AD 98-117) founded the city 2 kilometers from the Evros in honor of his wife Plotina. In 1965, soldiers digging a trench in the area...
Asia
Ancient Chinese may have worn necklaces 20,000 years ago
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 12/14/2005 9:48:13 AM PST · 8 replies · 110+ views www.chinaview.cn | 12-14-2005 | Xinhua News Agency Pei told Xinhua in an exclusive interview recently when attending a national conference on archaeology here that the ostrich eggshell pieces, found in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region innorthwest China, were the most exquisite adornments of the paleolithic age in China and showed that the ancient Chinese had appreciation of beauty as early as 20,000 years ago... The ostrich eggshells have been spotted at the Shuidonggou relics site about 20 km east of Yinchuan, capital of Ningxia. And most of them were excavated in the same stratum. Archaeologists said the site might be a necklace processing place... The climate in northern...
Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
Oldest Temple and Brazier of the Iron Age Discovered in Qom
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 12/14/2005 9:53:15 AM PST · 9 replies · 135+ views Cultural Heritage News Agency | 12-14-2005 | staff Qoli Darvish historical tepe (hill) is one of the most important historical sites in the Central Plateau belonging to the Iron Age, located on the way of Qom-Jamkaran highway. The construction of this highway resulted in the destruction of more than 40 hectare of the 50 hectare area of Qoli Darvish Tepe; and the height of the hill was reduced to 6 meters while once it was more than 30 meters high. Archaeological excavations in Qoli Darvish historical site indicate that residency in Qom dates back to fourth millennium BC. "After studying the upper layers of Qoli Darvish Tepe, some...
Mesopotamia
Archaeologists Unearth a War Zone 5,500 Years Old
	Posted by Pharmboy On News/Activism 12/16/2005 2:51:40 AM PST · 99 replies · 1,901+ views NY Times | December 16, 2005 | JOHN NOBLE WILFORD University of Chicago Architectural remains in Syria from the fourth millennium B.C. Those at lower left were excavated in 2001, and those at top center this year. The location is said to be the oldest known excavated site of a large battle. In the ruins of an ancient city in northeastern Syria, archaeologists have uncovered what they say is substantial evidence of a fierce battle fought there in about 3500 B.C. The archaeologists, who announced the find yesterday, described it as the oldest known excavated site of large-scale organized warfare. It was a clash of northern and southern cultures...
Ancient Citadel Shows Scars Of Mass Warfare (Mesopotamia - 3500BC)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/16/2005 8:34:38 AM PST · 11 replies · 520+ views New Scientist | 12-16-2005 | Will Knight Ancient citadel shows scars of mass warfare 11:42 16 December 2005 NewScientist.com news service Will Knight The shattered remains of a 5500-year-old citadel that stood on the modern-day border between Syria and Iraq provide some of the oldest evidence for organised and bloody warfare. The Mesopotamian settlement lies in Hamoukar, on the northernmost tip of Syria, 8 kilometres from the Iraqi border. In 3500 BC the 13-hectare development was subjected to a devastating attack, its edifices crumbling beneath a crushing hail of bullet-shaped projectiles. The evidence of the destruction was uncovered in October and November 2005 by an expedition coordinated...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Last allied witness of WWI Christmas truce dies
	Posted by SmoothTalker On News/Activism 11/21/2005 8:49:17 AM PST · 47 replies · 1,607+ views Yahoo News | 11/21/05 | By Peter Graff LONDON (Reuters) - The last known surviving allied veteran of the Christmas Truce that saw German and British soldiers shake hands between the trenches in World War One died Monday at 109, his parish priest said. Alfred Anderson was the oldest man in Scotland and the last known surviving Scottish veteran of the war. "I remember the silence, the eerie sound of silence," he was quoted as saying in the Observer newspaper last year, describing the day-long Christmas Truce of 1914, which began spontaneously when German soldiers sang carols in the trenches, and British soldiers responded in English. "All I'd...
Last survivor of 'Christmas truce' tells of his sorrow (1914 - 1942 - 2004)
	Posted by Truth666 On News/Activism 12/24/2004 3:03:46 AM PST · 19 replies · 1,776+ views observer | Sunday December 19, 2004 | Lorna Martin, Scotland editor The First World War's horrors still move us but one man recalls his moment of peace amid the bloodshed The words drifted across the frozen battlefield: 'Stille Nacht. Heilige Nacht. Alles Schlaft, einsam wacht'. To the ears of the British troops peering over their trench, the lyrics may have been unfamiliar but the haunting tune was unmistakable. After the last note a lone German infantryman appeared holding a small tree glowing with light. 'Merry Christmas. We not shoot, you not shoot.' It was just after dawn on a bitingly cold Christmas Day in 1914, 90 years ago on Saturday, and...
New Study Identifies Louse-Borne Diseases That Ravaged Napoleon's Army
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/15/2005 5:32:37 PM PST · 20 replies · 401+ views Science Daily | 12-15-2005 : Infectious Diseases Society of America Date: 2005-12-15 New Study Identifies Louse-borne Diseases That Ravaged Napoleon's Army Using dental pulp extracted from the teeth of soldiers who died during Napoleonís disastrous retreat through Russia in 1812, a new study finds DNA evidence that epidemic typhus and trench fever ran rampant among the French Grand Army. The study, published in the Jan. 1 issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases, now available online, identifies the specific species of louse-borne pathogens that were a major cause of death among the remains of the retreating army. Napoleon marched into Russia in the summer...
Army archaeologists discovering history at Fort Drum
	Posted by xcamel On News/Activism 12/10/2005 5:29:36 PM PST · 21 replies · 535+ views AP | December 10, 2005 | WILLIAM KATES FORT DRUM, N.Y. -- Building for the future at the U.S. Army's Fort Drum is helping unveil the past. The newest discovery at the northern New York Army post is a prehistoric boat-building site near what would have been the shoreline of Glacial Lake Iroquois. A team of Fort Drum archaeologists surveying a wooded hillside near where the Army is putting a new National Guard training site unearthed an unusual looking stone tool. With the help of a U.S. Marine archaeologist, the team was able to identify it as a triangular-pointed reamer, a typical prehistoric boat-building tool. They also found...
Holland Gets It's Sunken Treasure Back
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/12/2005 4:10:57 PM PST · 14 replies · 410+ views The Age | 12-13-2005 | David Keys Holland gets its sunken treasure back By David Keys, Age Correspondent, London December 13, 2005 Ingots lost at sea 266 years ago have been recovered from a wreck in the English Channel. The DUTCH Government has started taking possession of tens of thousands of dollars worth of silver bullion that it last saw 266 years ago. The silver had been on a Dutch East India Co. ship that vanished in a storm in the English Channel in 1739. Although wreckage was found at the time on Britain's south coast, nobody knew precisely where it had sunk. The disaster meant that...
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #75 Saturday, December 24, 2005
Australia and the Pacific
Revealed: The Runners Of 20,000BC
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/21/2005 10:49:12 AM PST · 23 replies · 658+ views SMH | 12-22-2005 | Deborah Smith Revealed: the runners of 20,000BC Email Print Normal font Large font By Deborah Smith Science Editor December 22, 2005 Steps back in time Ö the prints in Mungo National Park. Photo: Michael Amendolia, with traditional landowners' permission HUNDREDS of human footprints dating back to about 20,000BC - the oldest in Australia and the largest collection of its kind in the world - have been discovered in Mungo National Park in western NSW. They were left by children, adolescents and adults at the height of the last ice age as they ran and walked across a moist clay area near the...
Ice Age Footprints Said Found in Outback
	Posted by wallcrawlr On General/Chat 12/21/2005 6:48:42 PM PST · 7 replies · 96+ views AP | 10.21.05 CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - Hundreds of human footprints dating back to the last Ice Age have been found in the remote Australian Outback, an official and media reported Thursday. The 457 footprints found in Mungo National Park in western New South Wales state is the largest collection of its kind in the world and the oldest in Australia, The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper reported. The prints were made in moist clay near the Willandra Lakes 19,000 to 23,000 years ago, the newspaper reported ahead of archeologists' report on the find to be published in the Journal of Human Evolution. State...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Americas Settled by Two Groups of Early Humans, Study Says (Ward Churchill Deeply Saddened)
	Posted by add925 On News/Activism 12/19/2005 8:36:37 AM PST · 10 replies · 742+ views National Geographic | 12/12/05 | Brian Handwerk At least two distinct groups of early humans colonized the Americas, a new study says, reviving the debate about who the first Americans were and when they arrived. Anthropologists Walter Neves and Mark Hubbe studied 81 skulls of early humans from South America and found them to be different from both modern and ancient Native Americans. The 7,500- to 11,000-year-old remains suggest that the oldest settlers of the Americas came from different genetic stock than more recent Native Americans. Modern Native Americans share traits with Mongoloid peoples of Mongolia, China, and Siberia, the researchers say. But Neves and Hubbe found...
An Asian origin for a 10,000-year-old domesticated plant in the Americas
	Posted by Lessismore On News/Activism 12/17/2005 7:56:15 AM PST · 13 replies · 275+ views PNAS | 2005-12-13 | David L. Erickson , Bruce D. Smith , Andrew C. Clarke, Daniel H. Sandweiss, and Noreen Tuross New genetic and archaeological approaches have substantially improved our understanding of the transition to agriculture, a major turning point in human history that began 10,000-5,000 years ago with the independent domestication of plants and animals in eight world regions. In the Americas, however, understanding the initial domestication of New World species has long been complicated by the early presence of an African enigma, the bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria). Indigenous to Africa, it reached East Asia by 9,000-8,000 before present (B.P.) and had a broad New World distribution by 8,000 B.P. Here we integrate genetic and archaeological approaches to address a...
Mexican Indians Preserve Epic Endurance Race
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/17/2005 12:12:25 PM PST · 14 replies · 262+ views Boston Globe | 12-15-2005 | Tim Gaynor Mexican Indians preserve epic endurance race By Tim Gaynor | December 15, 2005 CEROCAHUI, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexico's Tarahumara Indians are struggling to preserve one of the world's toughest endurance contests: a race of up to 100 miles over flinty mountain tracks while kicking a ball. The tribe calls itself the "Raramuri," which in its language means "foot runner," and its men take to the trails of northwest Mexico's Sierra Madre mountains every few weeks in flimsy sandals for a 24-hour-long foot race that would make marathon runners shiver. Their bizarre long-distance game, dubbed the "carrera de bola" or "ball...
Prehistory and Origins
Civilisation Has Left Its Mark On Our Genes
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/19/2005 2:52:15 PM PST · 50 replies · 672+ views New Scientist | 12-19-2005 | Bob Holmes Civilisation has left its mark on our genes 22:00 19 December 2005 From New Scientist Print Edition Bob Holmes Darwin's fingerprints can be found all over the human genome. A detailed look at human DNA has shown that a significant percentage of our genes have been shaped by natural selection in the past 50,000 years, probably in response to aspects of modern human culture such as the emergence of agriculture and the shift towards living in densely populated settlements. One way to look for genes that have recently been changed by natural selection is to study mutations called single-nucleotide polymorphisms...
Study Traces Egyptians' Stone-Age Roots
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/20/2005 10:27:54 AM PST · 30 replies · 515+ views World Science | 12-17-2005 Study traces Egyptians' stone-age roots Dec. 17, 2005 Special to World Science Some 64 centuries ago, a prehistoric people of obscure origins farmed an area along Egypt's Nile River. Barely out of the Stone Age, they produced simple but well-made pottery, jewelry and stone tools, and carefully buried their dead with ritual objects in apparent preparation for an afterlife. These items often included doll-like female figurines with exaggerated sexual features, thought to possibly symbolize rebirth. Details from a tomb painting from Hierakonpolis, from prehistoric Egypt's Naqada culture. A new study suggests the Naqada people, the earlier Badarians and the later...
Ancient Egypt
A Mystery, Locked in Timeless Embrace
	Posted by Pharmboy On News/Activism 12/20/2005 3:29:30 AM PST · 56 replies · 1,510+ views NY Times | December 20, 2005 | JOHN NOBLE WILFORD When Egyptologists entered the tomb for the first time more than four decades ago, they expected to be surprised. Explorers of newly exposed tombs always expect that, and this time they were not disappointed - they were confounded. snip.... There, carved in stone, were the images of two men embracing. Their names were inscribed above: Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep. Though not of the nobility, they were highly esteemed in the palace as the chief manicurists of the king, sometime from 2380 to 2320 B.C., in the time known as the fifth dynasty of the Old Kingdom. Grooming the king was an...
Ancient Europe
New Studies Show Fourth Salt Man Is 2000 Years Old
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/23/2005 10:31:43 AM PST · 10 replies · 606+ views Mehr News | 12-23-2005 New studies show Fourth Salt Man is 2000 years old TEHRAN, Dec. 23 (MNA) -- The most recent studies on the Fourth Salt Man indicate that the body is 2000 years old, the director of the Chehrabad Studies Center announced on Friday. Recent radiography and CAT scans of the body indicate that the Fourth Salt Man was 15 or 16 years old at the time of death, Abolfazl Ali added. Discovered in the Hamzehlu Salt Mine in early March 2005, the Fourth Salt Man is the most intact of the ìsalt menî discovered in the mine, which is located near...
Megaliths and Archaeoastronomy
Germany To Reopen 6,800-Year-Old Mystery Circle
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/21/2005 11:02:02 AM PST · 33 replies · 878+ views Expatica | 12-20-2005 Germany to reopen 6,800-year-old mystery circle 20 December 2005 BERLIN - At the winter solstice this week, Germany is to open a replica of a mysterious wooden circle that is believed to be a temple of the sun built by a lost culture 6,800 years ago. The circle of posts, in a flat river plain at Goseck south of Berlin, has mystified scientists since its discovery in 1991 by an archaeologist studying the landscape from the air. An excavation found post holes and what may be the remains of ritual fires. Goseck has been dubbed the German Stonehenge, though it...
Maeshowe Winter Solstice As Viewed By Neolithic Man (Scotland)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/17/2005 11:52:34 AM PST · 18 replies · 425+ views The Scotsman | 12-15-2005 | Caroline Wickham-Jones Maeshowe winter solstice as viewed by Neolithic man CAROLINE WICKHAM-JONESMaeshowe winter solstice as viewed by Neolithic manMaeshowe is managed by Historic Scotland. Picture: Charles Tait Photographic THE GREAT mound of Maeshowe has dominated the skyline of Orkney for almost 5,000 years. It is a spectacular sight and a visit to the chambered tomb provides one of the highlights for visitors to the Orkney islands. Today, as we stoop to enter and walk down the low 11 metre passage to the chamber with its massive stonework, we are reminded of the ingenuity of those original builders. Its apparent uniformity masks a...
Ancient Rome and Italy
Romans May Have Learned From Chinese Great Wall: Archaeologists
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/20/2005 9:59:10 AM PST · 33 replies · 819+ views People's Daily Online/Xinhua | 12-20-2005 Romans may have learned from Chinese Great Wall: archaeologists The construction of the Roman Limes was quite possibly influenced by the concept of the Great Wall in China, though the two great buildings of the world are far away from each other, said archaeologists and historians. Although there is no evidence that the two constructions had any direct connections, indirect influence from the Great Wall on the Roman Limes is certain, said Visy Zsolt, a professor with the Department of Ancient History and Archaeology of the University of Pecs in Hungary. Visy made the remarks in an interview with Xinhua...
Asia
Stones indicate earlier Christian link? (Possible Christians in China in 1st Century AD)
	Posted by wagglebee On News/Activism 12/22/2005 6:01:19 PM PST · 52 replies · 1,025+ views China Daily | 12/22/05 | Wang Shanshan One day in a spring, an elderly man walked alone on a stone road lined by young willows in Xuzhou in East China's Jiangsu Province. At the end of the road was a museum that few people have heard of. A Chinese theology professor says the first Christmas is depicted in the stone relief from the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 25-220). In the picture above a woman and a man are sitting around what looks like a manger, with allegedly "the three wise men" approaching from the left side, holding gifts, "the shepherd" following them, and "the assassins" queued...
2,800 Year Old Treasures Brought To Light (Zhou Dynasty)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/19/2005 11:37:37 AM PST · 3 replies · 58+ views Peoples Daily Online | 12-18-2005 2,800-year-old treasures brought to light Great archaeological progress has been made in the excavation of the large-scale ruins and the tombs of noble lords of the Zhou Dynasty (771-221 BC) in Liangdai Village of Hancheng, Shaanxi Province as learned from the Shaanxi Research Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology on Sunday in Xi'an, capital of Shaanxi Province, reports the overseas edition of People's Daily on December 19. Great quantities of various treasures with a history of more than 2,800 years have been discovered through the initial excavation of the three large graves and one chariot and horse pit. They include...
Biology and Cryptobiology
New study expands understanding of the role of RNA editing in gene control
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 12/23/2005 10:10:38 AM PST · 2 replies · 7+ views Wistar Institute via EurekAlert | 23-Dec-2005 | Marion Wyce For many years, scientists thought gene activity was relatively straightforward: Genes were transcribed into messenger RNA, which was processed and translated into the proteins of the body... [A] more nuanced understanding of the total genetic system has steadily accumulated... Most recently, scientists have discovered an extensive family of small molecules called microRNAs, or miRNAs, that appear to target and inactivate particular messenger RNAs. This targeted gene silencing is now seen as one of the body's primary strategies for regulating its genome.
Extinct mammoth DNA decoded
	Posted by planetesimal On News/Activism 12/18/2005 9:21:33 PM PST · 48 replies · 811+ views BBC News | Sunday, 18 December 2005 | Helen Briggs Scientists have pieced together part of the genetic recipe of the extinct woolly mammoth. The 5,000 DNA letters spell out the genetic code of its mitochondria, the structures in the cell that generate energy. The research, published in the online edition of Nature, gives an insight into the elephant family tree. It shows that the mammoth was most closely related to the Asian rather than the African elephant. The three groups split from a common ancestor about six million years ago, with Asian elephants and mammoths diverging about half a million years later. "We have finally resolved the phylogeny of...
Decoding of Mammoth Genome Might Lead to Resurrection
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 12/19/2005 12:02:45 PM PST · 19 replies · 172+ views LiveScience | 19 December 2005 | Robert Roy Britt A team led by Hendrik Poinar at McMaster University unlocked secrets of the creature's nuclear DNA by working with a well-preserved 27,000-year-old specimen from Siberia. Colleagues at Penn State sequenced 1 percent of the genome in a few hours and say they expect to finish the whole genome in about a year if funding is provided... "While we can now retrieve the entire genome of the woolly mammoth, that does not mean we can put together the genome into organized chromosomes in a nuclear membrane with all the functional apparatus needed for life," said Ross MacPhee, a researcher at the...
Scientists Find Cache of Dodo Bird Bones
	Posted by NormsRevenge On General/Chat 12/23/2005 5:46:51 PM PST · 6 replies · 66+ views AP on Yahoo | 12/23/05 | Toby Sterling - ap AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Scientists said Friday they found a major cache of bones and likely complete skeletons of the long-extinct Dodo bird, which could help them learn more about the lost creature's physique and habits. The find is significant because no complete skeleton of a single Dodo bird has ever been retrieved from a controlled archaeological site in Mauritius. The last known stuffed bird was destroyed in a 1755 fire at a museum in Oxford, England, leaving only partial skeletons and drawings of the bird to go on. The bird was native to Mauritius when no humans lived there but...
British Isles
Devon Treasure Hunters Strike Rich Seam (Viking Gold)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/19/2005 11:27:36 AM PST · 24 replies · 1,083+ views The Telegraph (UK) | 12-17-2005 | Western Daily Press Devon treasure hunters strike a rich seam 12/17/2005 12:33:49 AM EST WESTERN DAILY PRESS This is the hoard of treasure dug up around Devon - and it's set to earn a windfall for the metal detector enthusiasts who found it. The Viking gold ingot, silver gilt dress hook, silver huntsman's whistle and medieval gold and sapphire ring have all been officially declared treasure and have become the property of the Crown. The finders will now be rewarded for handing over the items at 'market value', which has yet to be decided. The Viking cast gold ingot, found in Wembury, was...
Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
Discovery Of Ancient Stucco Decorations In Khuzestan
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/18/2005 11:24:15 AM PST · 11 replies · 170+ views CHN | 12-18-2005 Discovery of Ancient Stucco Decorations in Khuzestan The latest archaeological excavations in the historical city of Shooshtar led to the discovery of the first stucco decoration in the ancient times. Tehran, 18 December 2005 (CHN) -- Archaeological excavations resulted in the discovery of 2000-year-old stucco decoration on a wall belonging to the end of the Parthian and beginning of the Sassanid era in the historical city of Shooshtar in Khuzestan province. Archaeologists believe that the moldings should have belonged to the aristocrats of Dastva city. A part of a stucco decorated window belonging to 2000 years ago had also been...
Mesopotamia
Artifacts found at ancient city ("This was 'Shock and Awe' in the Fourth Millennium BC.")
	Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism 12/21/2005 9:41:34 PM PST · 10 replies · 424+ views Middle East Times | December 17, 2005 CHICAGO, IL, USA -- US and Syrian researchers say that a battle destroyed one of the world's earliest cities in Mesopotamia, at around 3500 BC but artifacts are left behind. The University of Chicago and Syria's Department of Antiquities say that the discovery provides the earliest evidence for large-scale organized warfare in the Mesopotamian world. "The whole area of our most recent excavation was a war zone," said Clemens Reichel, of the University of Chicago. Reichel was the co-director of the Syrian-American Archaeological Expedition to Hamoukar, an ancient site in northeastern Syria near the Iraqi border, in October and November....
Let's Have Jerusalem
Ancient Marib Discoveries Marvel Of World (Yemen)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/18/2005 10:56:55 AM PST · 26 replies · 525+ views Yemen Observer | 12-17-2005 | Zaid Al-Alaya's Ancient Marib Discoveries Marvel of the World By Zaid Al-Alaya'a Dec 17, 2005 - Vol. VIII Issue 49 SANA'A- An ancient inscription shedding light on battles over 2300 years ago has been unearthed by a German archeological expedition at the temple of Al-Maqa in Surwah, Marib Governorate. The important archeological discovery reveals new information on the era of the King of Sheba, Yas'a Imar Watar bin Yakreb, and the military expedition he undertook. The inscription shows that King Yas'a, who ruled Yemen in the 4th century BC, made several military expeditions, just as his predecessor King Kurb Ail Watur bin...
Iraq: Irbil's Kurds live on a hill of undiscovered treasures
	Posted by robowombat On News/Activism 12/16/2005 10:21:54 AM PST · 5 replies · 373+ views Radio Free Europe | 12-13-05 Iraq: Irbil's Kurds live on a hill of undiscovered treasures Source: Radio Free Europe (12-13-05) The kidnapping of a German archeologist in late November highlighted both the historical wealth of Iraq and the perils of exploring that history. In much of the country, archeologists have all but abandoned their work because of security concerns. But officials in Kurdish-administered northern Iraq say the region is secure enough for excavations. The region is rich in potential sites, and only a fraction of them have been researched. One of the most dramatic is in the heart of Irbil, the capital of the Kurdish...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Secret 16th century synagogue found
	Posted by wagglebee On News/Activism 12/22/2005 6:08:34 PM PST · 27 replies · 1,073+ views Jerusalem Post | 12/21/05 | AP Few people ever knew, but the murky medieval alleyways of this Atlantic port city once provided cover for a persecuted minority that risked being burnt at the stake. In the 16th century, an unremarkable thick-walled granite house that still stands in a row of narrow, small-roomed buildings along a cobbled street held a dangerous secret. At the back of the house, steep steps lead down to a warren of alleys ideal for conspiratorial comings and goings that helped keep an outlawed religious ceremony hidden. Four centuries later, the secret of the clandestine synagogue is out. The mystery began unraveling...
Scientist's quest to solve Ripper case (Jack the Ripper)
	Posted by wagglebee On News/Activism 12/17/2005 12:33:45 PM PST · 58 replies · 1,043+ views icLanarkshire | 12/15/05 | Emily Henderson A SCIENTIST from Blantyre is playing a key part in solving one of the world's most famous mysteries ... the identity of serial killer Jack the Ripper. Last week, Professor Ian Findlay (39), who grew up in Station Road, and now works in Australia, was in London to test traces of saliva on stamps attached to letters sent to police at the time they were trying to catch the notorious murderer. Ian has developed DNA identification technology called Cell-Track ID at Brisbane forensic laboratory, Gribbles Molecular Science, which can extract and compile a DNA fingerprint from a single cell or...
Archaeology Odyssey To Become Part of Biblical Archaeology Review -- Suspends Separate Publication
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 12/20/2005 10:16:14 PM PST · 1 reply Biblical Archaeology Society | Susan Laden, President, and Hershel Shanks, Editor ...since the launching of Archaeology Odyssey, the magazine industry has changed. It will no longer support separate magazines for such closely related subjects. The Biblical Archaeology Society is a charitable organization forever trying to make ends meet. People are now getting more and more information on the internet, rather than from pieces of paper like magazines and newspapers. Advertisers know this, so advertising in print media is way down. And postage is way upówith a very substantial increase promised for next year. Every other expense you can think of has also increased, sometimes dramatically.... All Archaeology Odyssey subscribers will now...
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #76 Saturday, December 31, 2005
Asia
Genes of history's greatest lover found?
	Posted by aculeus On News/Activism 02/07/2003 9:01:43 AM PST · 39 replies · 254+ views United Press International | 2/6/2003 | By Steve Sailer, UPI National Correspondent LOS ANGELES, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- A new population genetics study may have identified history's greatest lover, at least as measured in millions of descendants in his direct male line. This mighty progenitor was not a celebrated expert in the amorous arts like Casanova. Instead -- and this might say something about human nature that we'd rather not know -- he owed his lineage's staggering reproductive success to his being perhaps history's greatest fighter. The 23 co-authors of a paper published electronically by the American Journal of Human Genetics examined the Y-chromosomes of 2,123 men from across Asia. The Y...
Australia and the Pacific
Footprints Reveal Ancient Outback Life (More)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/26/2005 9:35:08 AM PST · 9 replies · 206+ views CBS News | 12-22-2005 Footprints Reveal Ancient Outback Life CANBERRA, Australia, Dec. 22, 2005 (AP) Children meandered around their parents' ankles. A man, likely a hunter, dashed through the mud. Somebody dragged a dead animal along the shores of a lake. Now the footprints they left some 20,000 years ago are giving a fresh perspective on the lives of Australian Aborigines. Since an Aboriginal park ranger stumbled upon the first print in 2003 in Mungo National Park, 500 miles west of Sydney, archaeologists helped by local Aborigines have excavated 457 other prints from the region's shifting sands. "This is the nearest we've got to...
Prehistory and Origins
Did Early Humans First Arise in Asia, Not Africa?
	Posted by SuzyQue On News/Activism 12/28/2005 4:01:34 PM PST · 37 replies · 784+ views National Geographic News | December 27, 2005 | Nicholas Bakalar Did Early Humans First Arise in Asia, Not Africa? Nicholas Bakalar for National Geographic News † December 27, 2005 -----snip------They believe that early-human fossil discoveries over the past ten years suggest very different conclusions about where humans, or humanlike beings, first walked the Earth. New Asian finds are significant, they say, especially the 1.75 million-year-old small-brained early-human fossils found in Dmanisi, Georgia, and the 18,000-year-old "hobbit" fossils (Homo floresiensis) discovered on the island of Flores in Indonesia. -----snip------"What seems reasonably clear now," Dennell said, "is that the earliest hominins in Asia did not need large brains or bodies." These attributes...
New finds of human ancestor jumble evolutionary puzzle
	Posted by Crackingham On News/Activism 10/13/2005 8:12:50 AM PDT · 167 replies · 2,391+ views Christian Science Monitor | 10/13/5 | Peter N. Spotts In their study of the evolutionary ladder, scientists have found that modern humans rubbed elbows with some colorful cousins. But few have been as puzzling as a purported cousin unearthed on the Indonesian island of Flores. The partial skeleton, first reported last October, was stunning. Estimated to stand just over three feet tall, it offered the tantalizing possibility that a new species of mini-human lived 18,000 years ago. But some researchers dismissed the find as a pygmy or the result of a physical defect. Now the research team that gave the world the hobbit-like Homo floresiensis has found what it...
Ancient Egypt
Dwarfs commanded respect in ancient Egypt
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 12/28/2005 10:57:28 PM PST · 27 replies · 223+ views EurekAlert | 27-Dec-2005 | Amy Molnar Written by Chahira Kozma, M.D., of the department of pediatrics at Georgetown University Hospital, the paper examines biological remains and artistic evidence of dwarfism in ancient Egypt, including both elite dwarfs who achieved important status, and ordinary dwarfs. The earliest biological evidence of dwarfs in ancient Egypt dates to a Predynastic Period called the "Badarian Period" (4500 BCE) in addition to several skeletons from the Old Kingdom (2700 ñ 2190 BCE). Pictorial sources of dwarfism in tomb and vase paintings, statues and other art forms are numerous and indicate that dwarfs were employed as personal attendants, overseers of linen, animal...
Quest for the tomb of Amenhotep I
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 12/24/2005 4:45:21 PM PST · 25 replies · 197+ views Al-Ahram Weekly | 22 - 28 December 2005 | Zahi Hawass In the area Niwinski found about 250 graffiti, some representing fish, dogs and human figures that could be dated to the pre-dynastic period. Five graffiti were found from the 21st Dynasty belonging to a scribe named, Botig Amun. Earthquakes in the area had shifted the rocks and revealed eight passages behind the temple. These passages had been made by thieves searching for tombs and treasure, and we know from the Abbott papyri that thieves entered the area and reached the bedrock. They also investigated the area horizontally. Inside one of the tunnels more graffiti was discovered. Niwinski found that some...
Africa
Myth of the Lost Ark fuels pride of a nation on brink of war (Lost Ark in Axum?)
	Posted by emiller On News/Activism 12/29/2005 6:54:10 AM PST · 117 replies · 2,539+ views News Telegraph, UK | 12-29-05 | David Blair If Indiana Jones had done his homework, he would have found the Ark of the Covenant by raiding a church in the barren mountains of northern Ethiopia. Many Ethiopians believe that the Ark, containing the stone tablets inscribed with God's Ten Commandments, rests in the church of St Mary of Zion, at the town of Axum, and some western scholars have
Let's Have Jerusalem
A MOSAIC OF PEOPLE: THE JEWISH STORY AND A REASSESSMENT OF THE DNA EVIDENCE
	Posted by NixonsAngryGhost On News/Activism 12/16/2005 3:29:53 PM PST · 35 replies · 911+ views Journal of Genetic Genealogy | Summer 2005 | Ellen Levy-Coffman A MOSAIC OF PEOPLE: THE JEWISH STORY AND A REASSESSMENT OF THE DNA EVIDENCE Ellen Levy-Coffman http://www.jogg.info There is a significant genetic contribution of European and Central Asian peoples in the makeup of the contemporary Ashkenazi population. One important contribution to Ashkenazi DNA appears to have originated with the Khazars, an ancient people of probable Central Asian stock that lived in southern Russia during the 8th-12th centuries CE. The DNA evidence also supports a significant inflow of genes from European host populations over the centuries. The present study analyzes not only the Middle Eastern component of Ashkenazi ancestry, but also...
The Hasmoneans Were Here - Maybe
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/28/2005 7:55:37 AM PST · 10 replies · 282+ views Haaretz | 12-28-2005 | Ran Shapira The ruins of the synagogue at Umm al-Umdan. (Alex Levac) The Hasmoneans were here - maybe By Ran Shapira In late 1995, not far from the city of Modi'in, whose construction had begun a short time earlier, several excavated burial caves were found. The find aroused tremendous excitement initially, mainly because on one of the ossuaries an engraved inscription was interpreted to read "Hasmonean." Had they found a burial plot belonging to the family of the Hasmoneans? When the discovery was announced, the archaeologist digging there, Shimon Riklin, explained that this was not the grave built by Simon the son...
Raiders of the Lost Pool [of Siloam] New finds bolster the historicity of John's Gospel
	Posted by ZGuy On Religion 10/27/2005 7:10:00 AM PDT · 4 replies · 194+ views Christianity Today | 10/26/05 | Gordon Govier The Pool of Siloam, considered a metaphor in John's Gospel by some New Testament scholars, was in fact a huge basin at the lowest point in the city of Jerusalem. Recent excavations have uncovered two corners and one side of the pool that stretched for half the length of a football field. "It's very exciting," James Charlesworth, a professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary, told CT. "It's very important for the study of the New Testament." Some Johannine experts have suggested the story in John 9 of the blind man whom Jesus healed and told to wash in...
True size of Pool of Siloam discovered due to sewer blockage
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 12/24/2005 5:21:37 PM PST · 4 replies · 38+ views Haaretz | Fri., December 23, 2005 Kislev 22, 5766 | Nadav Shragai Reich says the area of the City of David has become the most excavated area in the country. "We are the 12th expedition to work here, and in no small way it is thanks to the contributions that flow in to the project from the Elad association. They may be disagreed with politically, but without them we would not have been able to make the dramatic discoveries of recent years here, in the place where Jerusalem began, where the story began of the Jewish people in this land."
British Isles
Ancient drowned forest discovered in Scotland
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 12/28/2005 11:45:44 PM PST · 5 replies · 121+ views The Courier | 16 September 2005 | 12 September 2005 issue Preliminary surveys in the 14 mile long lochócarried out by the Scottish Trust for Underwater Archaeology (STUA) have identified well preserved fallen oak and elm trees as well as a series of oak upright trunks embedded in layers of gravel and silt. Many of the fallen trees have survived in odd shapes, creating a spooky landscape protruding from the loch bed. Timber samples taken by the STUA dive team yesterday produced radiocarbon dates of 3200 BCE and 2500 BCE.
Descendant Of Stone Age Skeleton Found (Cheddar Man - 9,000 Years Old)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/30/2005 5:03:20 PM PST · 46 replies · 913+ views Trussel.com/Japan Times | 3-9-1997 The Japan Times, March 9, 1997 Descendant of Stone Age skeleton found LONDON (Reuter) British scientists Saturday celebrated their feat of tracing a living descendant of a 9,000-year-old skeleton and establishing the world's oldest known family tree. In an astonishing piece of detective work, they matched mitochondrial DNA material extracted from the tooth cavity of Britain's oldest complete skeleton with that of a 42-year-old history teacher, Adrian Targett. The genetic material showed without doubt that Targett is a direct descendant through his mother's line of the skeleton known as Cheddar Man, which was found in 1903 in caves in Cheddar Gorge...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Ears of plenty (the story of wheat / The story of man's staple food)
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 12/26/2005 8:42:55 PM PST · 48 replies · 308+ views The Economist | Dec 20th 2005 [W]heat is losing its crown. The tonnage (though not the acreage) of maize harvested in the world began consistently to exceed that of wheat for the first time in 1998; rice followed suit in 1999. Genetic modification, which has transformed maize, rice and soyabeans, has largely passed wheat byóto such an extent that it is in danger of becoming an "orphan crop"... And with population growth rates falling sharply while yields continue to rise, even the acreage devoted to wheat may now begin to decline for the first time since the stone age... [W]heat is a genetic monster. A typical...
Find Your Paternal-Line Relatives With Y-Chromosome Matches On Line
	Posted by Pharmboy On General/Chat 12/30/2005 4:07:34 AM PST · 38 replies · 237+ views Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation | Dec 30, 2005 | Me If you know your Y-chromosome markers, enter them in the spaces provided in the drop-down menus and it will trace paternal line names and likely countries of origin. Three names popped up in my likely ancestry: Nickle (USA and Scotland), Rogers (USA) and Mahoney (USA). Here is my Place/Time Analysis: Important notes: A match close to 100% for a given time period does not necessarily mean that your paternal-line ancestor lived in that country at that time, only that the closest match in the SMGF database had a paternal-line ancestor living in that place and time. In general, the above...
Anatolia
Traces Of Tsunami In Ancient City Of Patara (Turkey)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/29/2005 11:58:05 AM PST · 13 replies · 380+ views Turkish Daily News | 12-27-2005 Traces of tsunami in ancient city of Patara Tuesday, December 27, 2005 ANKARA - Turkish Daily News Archaeologists claim that an ancient lighthouse located in the ancient city of Patara on Antalya's Mediterranean coast might have been destroyed by a tsunami that hit the region in ancient times. The ruins of the lighthouse were discovered two years ago during excavations that are still under way in Patara. Professor Havva ›?kan I?´´k, head of Akdeniz University's archaeology department, which is conducting studies in the ancient city, said they believed the lighthouse was destroyed by a tsunami since a human skeleton was...
Ancient Greece
On a mission to explore deepest Lycia Where Greek language has left its mark
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 12/30/2005 11:40:22 AM PST · 9 replies · 77+ views Ekathimerini (english edition) | Dec 30 2005 | Christina Kokkinia Oenoanda, as well as Cibyra and Bubona, belong to the northern section of the area, which in antiquity was known by the name of Lycia. No populations from mainland Greece ever settled there, but the Greek language flourished in these lands as much as in Ionia and Aeolis. The local population had already ceased using Lycian from the fourth century BC but never stopped emphasizing their origins and traditions. The Lycian people, as they called themselves, considered themselves part of Hellenism, but unique thanks to their Lycian characteristics. The Mediterranean once favored composite, cosmopolitan identities.
Megaliths and Archaeoastronomy
Gozo's unique archaeological treasures to return home
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 12/27/2005 9:17:48 PM PST · 6 replies · 29+ views Malta Independent Online | Tuesday, December 27, 2005 It is expected that the unique archaeological artefacts, that were discovered during excavations at the Gozo Stone Circle in Xaghra, will be returned to Gozo next year, following the installation by the Gozo Ministry of state-of-the-art showcases at the Gozo Museum of Archaeology, one of the four museums in the Citadel that are managed by Heritage Malta.
Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
Discovery of the First Prostrate Figure Burial in Burnt City
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 12/26/2005 8:26:12 PM PST · 3 replies · 53+ views Persian Journal | Dec 25th, 2005 | CHN The prostrate figure burial of a young man were unearthed for the first time during the archeological excavations in the historical site of Burnt City which has surprised archaeologists who were faced with such a strange burial method. It seems that the young man died when he was lying prostrate on the floor some 5000 years ago in the Burnt City and was buried in the same position.
Persepolis Architects Were Geologists Too
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/24/2005 8:03:44 PM PST · 17 replies · 438+ views Tehran Times | 12-24-2005 Persepolis architects were geologists, too Tehran Times Culture Desk TEHRAN ñ Recent geological studies at the Persepolis historical site indicate that Achaemenid era architects used their unique knowledge of geology and mines in the construction of Persepolis, the Persian service of CHN reported on Thursday. The experts were well aware of the science of geology and were keen to discover underground sources of water, geologist Azam Zare said. The studies show that the Achaemenid experts had acquired specialized knowledge and technology, but it is unclear how they mastered these skills, she added. ìThe studies of the geological team at Persepolis...
Astronomy and Catastrophism
Cracking the Mystery (Cretaceous, Great Dying, Chicxulub)
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 12/29/2005 8:32:11 AM PST · 5 replies · 76+ views Time Magazine | May 5 1997 | Anthony Spaeth with Maseeh Rahman/Dahod The Shiva Crater is discussed in a recent article in Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, an Australian scientific journal, by the two scientists. In the early 1990s, based on new geological evidence, Chatterjee surmised that a crater extending from the seabed off the city of Bombay into the state of Gujarat was created by a meteor fall. He named it after Shiva. He also argued that the Shiva Crater was actually one-half of a larger crater; the other part lay undersea near the Seychelle Islands, 2,800 km southeast of India. When pieced together, the original crater (split by continental shifting)...
Radar Reveals Five Double Asteroid Systems Orbiting Each Other Near Earth
	Posted by blam On General/Chat 04/12/2002 6:24:24 AM PDT · 11 replies · 55+ views Science Daily | 4-12-2002 | Cornell Date: Posted 4/12/2002 Radar Reveals Five Double Asteroid Systems Orbiting Each Other Near Earth, Likely Formed In Close Encounters With Planet ITHACA, N.Y. -- Binary asteroids -- two rocky objects orbiting about one another -- appear to be common in Earth-crossing orbits, astronomers using the world's two most powerful astronomical radar telescopes report. And it is probable, they say, that these double asteroid systems have been formed as a result of gravitational effects during close encounters with at least two of the inner planets, including Earth. Writing in a report published by the journalScience on its Science Express web site...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Ancient "Weapons Factory" Found on Connecticut Ridge
	Posted by Red Badger On News/Activism 12/29/2005 12:59:11 PM PST · 93 replies · 1,569+ views National Geographic | December 29, 2005 | Abram Katz About 3,000 years ago, a group of hunters perched on a ridge near what is now New Haven Harbor in Connecticut and fashioned quartz into projectile points. The points were likely intended to form the lethal end of an atlatl, or spear-thrower, dart. A skillful stalker could wield the weapon, which predated the bow and arrow, with enough force and accuracy to send a dart into a deer, turkey, or other small prey. Those ancient hunter-gatherers have since vanished, but the quartz artifacts survive on the ridge, known as West Rock. Michael J. Rogers, associate professor of anthropology at Southern...
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #77 Saturday, January 7, 2006
Prehistory and Origins
Redating The Latest Neanderthals In Europe
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/05/2006 3:34:12 PM PST · 8 replies · 385+ views Washington University-St Louis | 1-5-2006 | Neil Schoenherr Redating of the latest Neandertals in Europe By Neil Schoenherr Jan. 5, 2006 -- Two Neantertal fossils excavated from Vindija Cave in Croatia in 1998, believed to be the last surviving Neandertals, may be 3,000-4,000 years older than originally thought. Erik Trinkaus An international team of researchers involving Erik Trinkaus, Ph.D., the Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor of Anthropology in Arts & Sciences; Tom Higham and Christopher Bronk Ramsey of the Oxford University radiocarbon laboratory; Ivor Karavanic of the University of Zagreb; and Fred Smith of Loyola University, has redated the two Neandertals from Vindija Cave, the results of which have...
Thoughtful Hunters (Neanderthals)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/02/2006 11:59:40 AM PST · 26 replies · 729+ views Leiden University | 1-2-2006 Thoughtful Hunters An interdisciplinary research programme, 2004-2007, at the Faculty of Archaeology of Leiden University sponsored by the Netherlands Foundation for Scientific Research (NWO). THe Research ProgrammeFrom about 500,000 BP onwards, Europe saw a continuous occupation by occasionally very small and rather isolated groups of hominins. The typical cold-adapted Neanderthals of the last glacial were the product of a long process of Neanderthalisation that developed during the last half million years under severe climatic stress. Over the last five years archaeological studies have shown that these Middle and Late Pleistocene hominins, in contrast to previous opinions, were capable hunters of...
Biology and Cryptobiology
Mammoth Findings: Asian Elephant Is Closest Living Kin
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/02/2006 3:57:57 PM PST · 8 replies · 367+ views Science News | 12-24-2005 | Sid Perkins Mammoth Findings: Asian elephant is closest living kin Sid Perkins A study of a woolly mammoth that died in Siberia several millennia ago has yielded the complete DNA sequence of the creature's mitochondria, the energy factories of the animal's cells. Comparison with the mitochondrial genomes of living elephants indicates that the mammoth is slightly more closely related to the Asian elephant than to the African elephant. COUSIN HAIRY. A new genetic analysis suggests that the woolly mammoth is more closely related to the Asian elephant than to the African elephant. J. Tucciarone Fossil evidence had suggested that woolly mammoths and...
British Isles
Graveyard Yields Secrets Of Ancient World (Ireland)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/05/2006 4:28:43 PM PST · 11 replies · 596+ views BBC | 1-5-2006 | Shane Harrison Graveyard yields secrets of ancient world By Shane Harrison BBC NI Dublin Correspondent Residents of the village of Nobber, north Meath, in the Republic of Ireland, stumbled upon archaeological treasure when they decided to clean up an old graveyard. Now they are hoping that tombs in the shape of Celtic crosses, dating back 1100 years, will put them on the map, alongside such famous archaeological sites as Newgrange. The old graveyard at Nobber, North Meath Until recently, the graveyard in the village of Nobber, about two hours' drive from Dublin, was overgrown with weeds and briars. It is surrounded by...
Brits Got Early Start
	Posted by neverdem On News/Activism 01/04/2006 1:51:36 AM PST · 10 replies · 334+ views ScienceNOW Daily News | 15 December 2005 | Ann Gibbons A set of 32 flint tools uncovered on the east coast of the United Kingdom indicates that humans inhabited northern Europe almost 700,000 years ago--200,000 years earlier than previously thought. The discovery suggests these early people had the social or technological ability to adapt to varied terrain and, perhaps, climates. Although human ancestors ventured out of their African homeland at least 1.8 million years ago, their bones and tools did not show up in northern Europe until half a million years ago. The earliest evidence of human occupation came from Boxgrove, England, where researchers found a 500,000-year-old shinbone and teeth...
Megaliths and Archaeoastronomy
The Majestic Standing Stones Of Callanish
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/03/2006 11:03:14 AM PST · 10 replies · 475+ views The Scotsman | 1-3-2006 | Caroline Wickham-Jones The majestic standing stones of Callanish CAROLINE WICKHAM-JONES STONE circles are evocative places and the stones at Callanish on the Isle of Lewis must be one of the most haunting. Not only is there the imposing physical presence of the stones and their spectacular landscape setting, there is also the atmosphere of mystery. Callanish (or Calanais) is one of the larger stone settings of Britain. The stones tower to a height of nearly four metres and the main monument covers an area of some 5,000 square metres. The circle itself is relatively modest and comprises 13 upright stones with a...
Oh So Mysteriouso
Fuente Magna (The Rosetta Stone Of The Americas)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/03/2006 6:26:08 PM PST · 22 replies · 605+ views Geocities | 11-5-2002 | J M Allen Fuente Magna Rosetta stone of the Americas "Atlantis: the Andes Solution" by J.M.Allen (pub Windrush Press 1998) and basis of the Discovery film "Atlantis in the Andes" by Lisa Hutchison proposes the question "did anyone ever consider that the first reed boats may have crossed from west to east perhaps following the route from the River Plate eastwards across the Atlantic, past the Cape of Good Hope and via the Indian Ocean to enter the Persian Gulf and Red Sea to found the early civilisations of Mesopotamia and Egypt?" It is obvious that at that time, the author suspected a...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Earliest known Mayan writing found in Guatemala
	Posted by Mikey_1962 On News/Activism 01/06/2006 9:02:08 AM PST · 41 replies · 545+ views Yahoo | 1/6/06 | Mikey_1962 ANTIGUA, Guatemala (Reuters) - Archeologists excavating a pyramid complex in the Guatemalan jungle have uncovered the earliest example of Mayan writing ever found, 10 bold hieroglyphs painted on plaster and stone. The 2,300-year-old glyphs were excavated last April in San Bartolo and suggest the ancient Mayas developed an advanced writing system centuries earlier than previously believed, according to an article published on Thursday in the journal Science. The glyphs date from between 200 BC and 300 BC and come from the same site in the Peten jungle of northern Guatemala where archeologist William Saturno found the oldest murals in the...
Evidence Found for Canals That Watered Ancient Peru
	Posted by Pharmboy On News/Activism 01/03/2006 3:43:00 AM PST · 23 replies · 552+ views NY Times | January 3, 2006 | JOHN NOBLE WILFORD Photograph courtesy of Tom D. DillehayRUNNING WATER The sites of ancient irrigation canals. People in Peru's ZaÒa Valley dug the canals as early as 6,700 years ago to divert river water to their crops. In the Andean foothills of Peru, not far from the Pacific coast, archaeologists have found what they say is evidence for the earliest known irrigated agriculture in the Americas. An analysis of four derelict canals, filled with silt and buried deep under sediments, showed that they were used to water cultivated fields 5,400 years ago, in one case possibly as early as 6,700 years ago,...
Modern Potato Had Roots in Peru
	Posted by Our_Man_In_Gough_Island On News/Activism 10/04/2005 2:00:39 PM PDT · 33 replies · 477+ views BBC | 4 Oct 2005 | Staff US scientists have found that all modern varieties of potatoes can be traced back to a single source - a spud grown in Peru over 7,000 years ago. It had been believed potatoes had a much wider region of origin, stretching from Peru to northern Argentina. The team, led by Dr David Spooner of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, analysed the DNA of about 360 potatoes, both wild and cultivated. Some 300 million tonnes of potatoes are produced around the world every year. The study was sponsored by the US Department of Agriculture. Dr Spooner, a professor of horticulture, said archaeological...
Peru Finds 200 Fishermen Sacrificed to Sea God
	Posted by Tancred On General/Chat 09/30/2002 12:30:04 PM PDT · 6 replies · 124+ views Reuters | September 30, 2002 | Missy Ryan HUARMEY, Peru (Reuters) - The Pacific Ocean had always been the fishermen's lifeblood -- until the day they knelt blindfolded before its blue waters and the knife pierced their hearts, making them offerings to Ni, the god of the sea. In the biggest find of human sacrifices in South America to date, archeologists have uncovered the remains of 200 fishermen savagely stabbed on a beach in central Peru 650 years ago. "This is the first time that human sacrifices on this scale have been documented," said Hector Walde, chief archeologist for the Punta Lobos project, holding a discolored skull recovered...
Pre-Incan Brewery Unearthed in Peru's Andes (Chicha)
	Posted by NormsRevenge On News/Activism 07/30/2004 2:59:04 PM PDT · 39 replies · 434+ views Reuters on Yahoo | 7/30/04 | Reuters - Miami MIAMI (Reuters) - U.S. researchers have unearthed what they say may be the oldest known brewery in the Andes, a pre-Incan plant at least 1,000 years old that could produce drinks for hundreds of people at one sitting. The University of Florida said on Thursday that its archeologists and researchers from the Field Museum in Chicago found the brewery at Cerro Baul, a mountaintop religious center of the Wari empire that ruled what is now Peru hundreds of years before the Incas. At least 20 ceramic, 10- to 15-gallon (38- to 57-litre) vats were found at the site some 8,000...
Ancient Egypt
Ancients Rang In New Year With Dance, Beer
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 12/31/2005 11:28:56 AM PST · 91 replies · 882+ views Discovery | 12-30-2005 | Jennifer Viegas Ancients Rang In New Year with Dance, Beer By Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News Dec. 30, 2005 -- Many ancient Egyptians marked the first month of the New Year by singing, dancing and drinking red beer until they passed out, according to archaeologists who have unearthed new evidence of a ritual known as the Festival of Drunkenness. During ongoing excavations at a temple precinct in Luxor that is dedicated to the goddess Mut, the archaeologists recently found a sandstone column drum dating to 1470-1460 B.C. with writing that mentions the festival. The discovery suggests how some Egyptians over 3,000 years ago...
Asia
What Secrets Did Japan's Ancient Emperors Take To The Grave? And Will We Ever Know
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/05/2006 4:14:56 PM PST · 27 replies · 721+ views Asahi.com | 1-5-2006 | Hiroshi Matsubara What secrets did Japan's ancient emperors take to the grave? And will we ever know? 01/05/2006 By HIROSHI MATSUBARA, Staff Writer This is the fourth in a series on issues and topics facing Japan's imperial family. A new challenge is being mounted that may eventually put the Imperial Household Agency in something of a tight corner. Academics have long called on the agency to open imperial tombs to full inspection to resolve riddles of Japan's ancient past and put to rest lingering doubts about the authenticity of some of the final resting places of emperors. All this time, the agency,...
Researchers Shed New Lights On Origin Of Ancient Chinese Civilization
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/02/2006 11:47:34 AM PST · 13 replies · 423+ views China.org | 1-2-2006 Researchers Shed New Lights on Origin of Ancient Chinese Civilization Chinese ancients living 3,500 to 4,500 years ago already had many choices for meal, including millet, wheat and rice, which are still the staple food of the Chinese. They also compiled calendars according to their astronomical observation, which is regarded as one of the symbols of the origin of civilization. They made exquisite bronze vessels to hold wine and food, and some of the bronze vessels were later developed into symbol of the supreme imperial power. But how the Chinese civilization started and evolved remains a magnetic topic that has...
Museum helps GIs in Korea exhibit cultural knowledge
	Posted by Jet Jaguar On General/Chat 01/02/2006 7:29:43 PM PST · 1 reply · 68+ views Stars& Stripes | January 3, 2006 | Teri Weaver and Hwang Hae-rym SEOUL -- Being a soldier means more than learning to maneuver the battlefield. It means learning how to adjust to a new culture, and even a new subway system, according to Staff Sgt. Jesse Crawford. Thatís why Crawford brought a group of U.S. soldiers from Tango Security Force at K-16 to Seoul last week to explore the city and the newly opened National Museum of Korea. ìThereís two reasons,î he said of the trip. ìOne, itís cultural training. And itís training on use of public transportation.î Crawfordís group of American and Korean soldiers werenít the only troops touring the museum...
The Phoenicians
Geoscience Rediscovers Phoenicia's Buried Harbors
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/06/2006 2:55:18 PM PST · 5 replies · 236+ views Physorg | 1-6-2006 Geoscience rediscovers Phoenicia's buried harbors Space and Earth science : January 05, 2006 The exact locations of Tyre and Sidon's ancient harbors, Phoenicia's two most important city-states, have attracted scholarly interest and debate for many centuries. New research reveals that the ancient basins lie buried beneath the medieval and modern city centers. A network of sediment cores have been sunk into the cities' coastal deposits and studied using high-resolution geoscience techniques to elucidate how, where, and when Tyre and Sidon's harbors evolved since their Bronze Age foundations. In effect, ancient port basins are rich geological archives replete with information on...
Ancient Greece
Byzantine Underground City And Cistern Unearthed In Talas (Turkey)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/03/2006 11:17:59 AM PST · 16 replies · 576+ views Turkish Daily News | 1-3-2006 Byzantine underground city and cistern unearthed in Talas Tuesday, January 3, 2006 ANKARA - Turkish Daily News An underground city and cistern dating to the Byzantine era have been discovered at the foot of Mt. Ali in the Talas district of Kayseri. Talas Mayor R´´fat Y´´ldr´´m said archaeologists have so far unearthed 300 meters of the underground city and that the cistern is estimated to be 60 meters in length and 5 meters wide. Noting that they had initiated excavations following reports of the existence of a city and cistern, Y´´ld´´r´´m said: ìWe have unearthed parts of the underground city...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Dig reveals first sign of Jewish life after Second Temple
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 01/01/2006 7:39:12 PM PST · 8 replies · 158+ views Haaretz | January 2 2006 | Amiram Barkat Situated on what was the main road to Nablus 2,000 years ago, and located three Roman miles (or four kilometers) from the city walls of those days - according to Roman records - the site featured spacious dwellings with facades of dressed stone and well-planned lanes between the houses. Signs of the wealth of the inhabitants are evident in the amphoras that were found, which contained wine imported from Italy and Greece. Cosmetic items were also discovered, along with glass rings. Two bathhouses were also unearthed, as well as a large public building whose purpose is still unknown. Scholars usually...
Post-Roman Ancient Jewish Village Discovered
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/04/2006 11:24:58 AM PST · 25 replies · 548+ views Jerusalem Post | 1-4-2005 Jan. 4, 2006 13:27 | Updated Jan. 4, 2006 13:44Post-Roman ancient Jewish village discovered Discovery of an ancient village just outside Jerusalem has brought into question one of the strongest images of biblical times - the wholesale flight of Jews running for their lives after the Roman destruction of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem in 70 CE. Just beneath the main road leading north from Jerusalem, archaeologists have found the walls of houses in a well-planned community that existed after the temple's destruction. It might lead to rewriting the history books if it was really Jewish. But at least...
Artifacts with links to Bible unearthed
	Posted by wagglebee On News/Activism 01/02/2006 11:14:24 AM PST · 31 replies · 1,244+ views Washington Times | 1/2/06 | Jay Bushinsky JERUSALEM -- Israeli archaeologists, screening tons of rubble scooped out of this ancient city's sacred Temple Mount, have discovered hundreds of artifacts and coins, as well as jewelry, some with biblical links dating back more than three millennia. Most of the stones and earth originally were taken to an organic garbage dump in nearby Bethany, the New Testament town known in Arabic as Al-Azariya, and could not be retrieved. But a substantial portion was diverted to the Valley of Kidron, mentioned in the Old Testament and located just outside the Old City's massive walls. This ambitious archaeological project, known as...
Temple Mount desecration continues
	Posted by Esther Ruth On News/Activism 11/11/2005 5:25:09 AM PST · 13 replies · 512+ views www.jnewswire.com | November 10th, 2005 | Ryan Jones Friday, November 11, 2005 16:19 IST JNW HEADLINE NEWS Temple Mount desecration continues By Ryan Jones November 10th, 2005 Nearly 14 centuries after first occupying Jerusalem's Temple Mount, the Muslims are trying to complete their conquest of Israelís holiest site by erasing the last traces of Jewish connection to the two temples built for the name of the Almighty, archeologists warned this week. In a letter to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, the Committee Against the Destruction of Antiquities on the Temple Mount said new plans by Islamic authorities to ìrenovateî an ancient tower adjacent to the compound are part of...
Palestinians Attempt To Eradicate Israelís Temple History (Temple? What Temple?)
	Posted by emiller On News/Activism 12/14/2005 1:58:00 PM PST · 12 replies · 442+ views Oracle | 12-13-05 | Hal Lindsey The Western Wall is the last remnant of both Solomonís Temple, which was destroyed by the Babylonians in the 6th Century BC, and the Second Temple, which was destroyed by the Roman Tenth Legion under Titus in AD70. In the lowest part of what was actually a retaining wall for the Temple platform, huge stones with neat borders remain from Solomonís days. Then on the top of these are smaller, less ornate stones that were installed at the time of the building of the Second Temple. The Western Wall is the only part of the Temple area that was left...
Israel denies Temple Mount excavation
	Posted by anotherview On News/Activism 01/03/2006 6:18:45 AM PST · 41 replies · 697+ views The Jerusalem Post | 3 January 2006 | JPOST.COM STAFF Jan. 3, 2006 14:28 | Updated Jan. 3, 2006 14:42 Israel denies Temple Mount excavation By JPOST.COM STAFFAerial view of Temple Mount Photo: Areil Jerozolimski [file] The Israel Antiquities Authority denied on Tuesday accusations that archeological excavations were currently underway below the Temple Mount and that a synagogue had opened at the site. Israel Antiquities Authority Jerusalem District Archaeologist Yuval Baruch said that all of the gates to the Temple Mount compound had been blocked by massive construction in historical times. "The only gates open today are the official ones - they are open to Muslim worshippers and visitors -...
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #78 Saturday, January 14, 2006
Biology and Cryptobiology
'Four Mothers' For Europe's Jews
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/14/2006 7:10:07 AM PST · 13 replies · 377+ views BBC | 1-14-2006 'Four mothers' for Europe's Jews There are now some 8m people of Ashkenazi origin around the world Almost half of Europe's Jews are descended from just four women who lived 1,000 years ago, a study says. Scientists studied the mitochondrial DNA - passed from mother to daughter - of 11,000 women of Ashkenazi Jewish origin living in 67 countries. The Ashkenazis moved from the Mid-East to Italy and then to Eastern Europe, where their population exploded in the 13th Century, the scientists say. One of the authors said the study shows the importance of Jewish mothers. "This I could tell...
Study finds why Jewish mothers are so important
	Posted by Brilliant On News/Activism 01/14/2006 6:42:33 PM PST · 27 replies · 637+ views Reuters via Yahoo! | 1/14/2006 | Maggie Fox WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Four Jewish mothers who lived 1,000 years ago in Europe are the ancestors of 40 percent of all Ashkenazi Jews alive today, an international team of researchers reported on Friday. The genetic study of DNA paints a vivid picture of human evolution and survival, and correlates with the well-established written and oral histories of Jewish migrations, said Dr. Doron Behar of the Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, who worked on the study. The study, published in the American Journal of Human Genetics, suggests that some 3.5 million Jews alive today all descended from four women. For their...
Historical Review: Megadrought And Megadeath In 16th Century Mexico (Hemorrhagic Fever)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/11/2006 1:33:43 PM PST · 49 replies · 937+ views CDC | March 28, 2002 | R. Acuna-Soto, D. Stahle, M. Cleaveland and M. Therrell Megadrought and Megadeath in 16th Century Mexico Rodolfo Acuna-Soto,* David W. Stahle, Malcolm K. Cleaveland, and Matthew D. Therrell *Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico and University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA The native population collapse in 16th century Mexico was a demographic catastrophe with one of the highest death rates in history. Recently developed tree-ring evidence has allowed the levels of precipitation to be reconstructed for north central Mexico, adding to the growing body of epidemiologic evidence and indicating that the 1545 and 1576 epidemics of cocoliztli (Nahuatl for "pest') were indigenous hemorrhagic fevers transmitted by...
The Vikings
What A Viking's Smile Revealed
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/08/2006 2:12:41 PM PST · 57 replies · 1,276+ views New Scientist | 1-7-2006 What a Viking's smile revealed 07 January 2006 VIKING warriors may have filed deep grooves into their teeth to indicate class or military rank. Caroline Arcini of Sweden's National Heritage Board analysed 557 skeletons from four major Viking-age Swedish cemeteries and discovered that around 10 per cent of men, but none of the women, bore horizontal grooves across the upper front teeth. The marks, which were cut deep into the enamel, are often found in pairs or triplets and appear precisely made. They might have marked certain men as members of a group of tradesmen or warriors, or signified their...
Tooth marks link Vikings, Indians
	Posted by Tyche On News/Activism 01/14/2006 8:32:48 PM PST · 9 replies · 262+ views CanWest News Service | Jan 13, 2006 | Randy Boswell A scientist who found deep grooves chiselled into the teeth of dozens of 1,000-year-old Viking skeletons unearthed in Sweden believes the strange custom might have been learned from aboriginal tribes during ancient Norse voyages to North America -- a finding that would represent an unprecedented case of transatlantic, cross-cultural exchange during the age of Leif Ericsson. The marks are believed to be decorations meant to enhance a man's appearance, or badges of honour for a group of great warriors or successful tradesmen. They are the first historical examples of ceremonial dental modification ever found in Europe, and although similar customs...
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
90 years later, Peru battles Yale over Incan artifacts
	Posted by Republicanprofessor On News/Activism 01/10/2006 4:59:41 AM PST · 54 replies · 480+ views The Christian Science Monitor | 1/10/06 | Danna Harman MACHU PICCHU, PERU -- The Incas built this mysterious city here, it is told, to be closer to the gods. It was placed so high in the clouds, at 7,700 feet, that the empire- raiding Spaniards never found, or destroyed, it. Today, visitors to Machu Picchu see well-preserved ruins hidden among the majestic Andes: complete with palaces, baths, temples, tombs, sundials, and agricultural terraces, and also llamas roaming among hundreds of gray granite houses. But they won't find too many bowls, tools, ritual objects, or other artifacts used by the Incas of the late 1400s. To see those, they have...
China map lays claim to Americas ( China Won't Stop at Taiwan?)
	Posted by Candor7 On News/Activism 01/14/2006 7:34:00 AM PST · 77 replies · 1,121+ views BBC NEWS | Friday, 13 January 2006, 13:23 GMT | BBC NEWS (general staff) China map lays claim to Americas The map clearly shows the Americas and Africa A map due to be unveiled in Beijing and London next week may lend weight to a theory a Chinese admiral discovered America before Christopher Columbus. The map, which shows North and South America, apparently states that it is a 1763 copy of another map made in 1418. If true, it could imply Chinese mariners discovered and mapped America decades before Columbus' 1492 arrival. The map, which is being dated to check it was made in 1763, faces a lot of scepticism from experts. Chinese characters...
Australia and the Pacific
Stone Age Footwork: Ancient Human Prints Turn Up Down Under
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/07/2006 2:22:53 PM PST · 25 replies · 446+ views Science News | 1-7-2006 | Bruce Bower Stone Age Footwork: Ancient human prints turn up down under Bruce Bower Researchers working near the shore of a dried-up lake basin in southeastern Australia have taken a giant leap backward in time. They've uncovered the largest known collection of Stone Age human footprints. SOLE SURVIVAL. Footprints attributed to a Stone Age person disappear under an Australian dune (top). In an impression of an adult's right foot (inset), the toes stand out. Cupper The 124-or-more human-foot impressions, as well as a few prints left by kangaroos and other animals, originated between 23,000 and 19,000 years ago in a then-muddy layer...
Asia
New Archaeological Discovery Rewrites Hong Kong's History Of Human Activity
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/12/2006 11:26:08 AM PST · 3 replies · 204+ views Peoples Daily - Xinhua | 1-12-2006 | Xinhua New archaeological discovery rewrites Hong Kong's history of human activity Archaeologists have discovered a new site of human activity in remote antiquity in Sai Kung, Hong Kong. Zhang Shenshui, researcher of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, told Xinhua here Wednesday that the important archaeological discovery not only rewrites the history when Hong Kong began having human activity, but also puts forward new topics of research for archaeologists. More than 6,000 artifacts have been unearthed at the site, which is located at the Wong Tei Tung of Sai Kung, covering 8,000 square meters. The site was a field for stone artifacts...
Over 4,200 Cliff Tombs Found In W. China City
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/09/2006 10:37:28 AM PST · 5 replies · 290+ views CRI - China Broadcast/Xinhua | 1-10-2006 Over 4,200 Cliff Tombs Found in W. China City 2006-1-10 1:06:53 CRIENGLISH.com More than 4,220 cliff tombs have been spotted at 680 sites in Shangluo, a city in western China's Shaanxi Province, local archaeologists said Monday. The cliff tombs have large spaces and various conformations and are scattered at a 160-km-long belt joining DanJiang Valley in the east and the Qianyou River in the west, said scientists with the provincial archeological research institute. According to Yang Yachang, a researcher with the institute, most of the single-room tombs are erect stone caves in rectangle shapes and are three meters deep, while...
Central Asia
Tashkent's Hidden Islamic Relic (Oldest Koran)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/08/2006 2:32:15 PM PST · 17 replies · 429+ views BBC | 1-8-2006 | Ian McWilliam Tashkent's hidden Islamic relic By Ian MacWilliam BBC News, in Tashkent The Othman Koran is the oldest in the world In an obscure corner of the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, lies one of Islam's most sacred relics - the world's oldest Koran. It is a reminder of the role which Central Asia once played in Muslim history - a fact often overlooked after seven decades of Soviet-imposed atheism. The library where the Koran is kept is in an area of old Tashkent known as Hast-Imam, well off the beaten track for most visitors to this city. It lies down a series...
Epigraphy and Language
India Acquired Language, Not Genes, From West, Study Says
	Posted by dennisw On News/Activism 01/12/2006 7:06:13 PM PST · 33 replies · 679+ views national geographic | January 10, 2006 | Brian Handwerk Most modern Indians descended from South Asians, not invading Central Asian steppe dwellers, a new genetic study reports. The Indian subcontinent may have acquired agricultural techniques and languagesóbut it absorbed few genesófrom the west, said Vijendra Kashyap, director of India's National Institute of Biologicals in Noida. The finding disputes a long-held theory that a large invasion of central Asians, traveling through a northwest Indian corridor, shaped the language, culture, and gene pool of many modern Indians within the past 10,000 years. That theory is bolstered by the presence of Indo-European languages in India, the archaeological record, and historic sources such...
"Jiroft Inscription", Oldest Evidence of Written Language
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 01/13/2006 10:24:48 AM PST · 19 replies · 192+ views Persian Journal | Jan 12, 2006 "Five Elamit professional linguists from different countries have studied the brick inscription discovered in Jiroft. According to the studies, they have concluded that this discovered inscription is 300 years older than that found in Susa; and most probably the written language went to Susa from this region. However, more studies are still needed to give a final approval to this thesis," said Yousof Majid Zadeh, head of archeological excavation team in Jiroft... Elamit language is only partly understood by scholars. It had no relationship to Sumerian, Semitic or Indo-European languages, and there are no modern descendants of it. After 3000...
Elam, Persia, Parthia, Iran
Lurestan's Sangtarashan New Discoveries
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/09/2006 11:10:16 AM PST · 5 replies · 179+ views Persian Journal | 1-8-2006 Lurestan's Sangtarashan New Discoveries Jan 8, 2006 Some delicate and beautiful bronze articles and two iron swords have been discovered during the archeological excavations in historical site of Sangtarashan in Lurestan province, without any evidence of a grave or an architectural structure nearby. The issue has puzzled archeologists about the usage of Sangtarashan area during the first millennium BC. Sangtarashan historical site in Lurestan province had been known to be a cemetery belonging to the third Iron Age (800 to 550 BC). However, no remains of human skeletons have been discovered so far during the archeological excavations. Furthermore, there are...
The Phoenicians
Long-lost Phoenician ports found: Old Mediterranean harbours discovered buried under modern cities
	Posted by wagglebee On News/Activism 01/07/2006 4:28:42 PM PST · 7 replies · 506+ views Nature.com | 1/6/06 | Philip Ball Thanks to political tensions easing in Lebanon, archaeologists have finally managed to locate the sites of ancient Phoenician harbours in the seaports that dominated Mediterranean trade thousands of years ago. By drilling out cores of sediment from the modern urban centres of these cities, geologists have mapped out the former coastlines that the sediments have long since buried. From this they have pinpointed the likely sites of the old harbours, and have marked out locations that, they say, are in dire need of exploration and conservation. The modern cities of Tyre and Sidon on the Lebanese coast were once the...
Ancient Rome
Ancient Harbors Rise Again
	Posted by flevit On News/Activism 01/12/2006 4:56:19 AM PST · 11 replies · 420+ views ScienceNOW Daily News | 9 January 2006 | By Michael Balter From about 3000 B.C.E., boats anchored in natural coves and bays. At Sidon, for example, the team found crustaceans typical of brackish lagoons in the cores, indicating that the bays were fairly sheltered. By about 1200 B.C.E., the Phoenicians began building artificial harbors, a period which corresponds to other archaeological evidence that ship traffic was increasing at that time. After the invention of concrete by the Romans around 300 B.C.E., sophisticated harbor engineering became possible, and the ports were at their height during the subsequent Greco-Roman and Byzantine periods, from 332 B.C.E. to about 1000 C.E. After that time, Tyre...
Underwater Archaeology
Fears For Ancient Remains Below Waves
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/12/2006 11:42:35 AM PST · 23 replies · 873+ views Isle Of Wight County Press | 1-12-2006 | Martin Neville FEARS FOR ANCIENT REMAINS BELOW WAVESBy Martin Neville DIVERS face a desperate race against time to recover 8,000-year-old artefacts from the bottom of The Solent before they are lost forever. The underwater site, off Bouldnor, is the only one yet discovered in Britain and dates from when the sea level was 12 metres lower than today, when the IW would have been much larger and The Solent was a dry coastal valley. It remains because it was covered in silt and protected from erosion as the sea rose above it. Most Stone Age sites on land have lost all associated...
Ancient Navigation
A Talk With Colin Renfrew [The Third Culture, The Three Dimensions of Human History]
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 01/11/2006 10:28:06 PM PST · 6 replies · 44+ views The Edge | August 25 1997 | John Brockman It shows, for instance, that at the beginning of the Neolithic period, the beginning of farming in the Near East, just about everywhere was in contact with everywhere else. There is no early farming village in the Near East that doesn't get obsidian, even though the obsidian sources are hundreds of kilometers to the north. Obsidian from Melos, which is an island in the Aegean, is found way back before farming, 10, 12, 13 thousand years ago, so this meant that the Paleolithic hunter-gatherers must have been traveling in boats. Similar evidence for early seafaring has now been found in...
Prehistory and Origins
New reconstruction of Krapina 5, a male Neandertal cranial vault from Krapina, Croatia
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 01/09/2006 9:20:13 AM PST · 22 replies · 166+ views Wiley InterScience / American Journal of Physical Anthropology | Jan 4 2006 | Rachel Caspari, Jakov Radovi The Neandertals from Krapina, Croatia represent some of the geologically oldest Neandertals known, and they comprise the largest Neandertal collection from a single site in the world. However, comparisons of the Krapina material with other, later Neandertals have been limited both because of their fragmentary condition and because the sample has a disproportionate number of females and/or young individuals. This paper presents a preliminary description of our new reconstruction of Krapina 5, an adult male, and provides comparisons with females from Krapina and with later Neandertal males from Western Europe. Like other hominid sites with large samples, there is considerable...
European Face-Off For Early Farmers
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/09/2006 4:10:54 PM PST · 7 replies · 190+ views Science News | 1-7-2006 | Bruce Bower European face-off for early farmers Bruce Bower A new analysis of modern and ancient human skulls supports the idea that early farmers in the Middle East spread into Europe between 11,000 and 6,500 years ago, intermarried with people there, and passed on their agricultural way of life to the native Europeans. C. Loring Brace of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and his colleagues compared 24 measurements for each of 1,282 skulls from current and prehistoric populations in Europe, the Middle East, and sub-Saharan Africa. The sample included 201 skulls from early farmers and 219 skulls from Bronze Age...
Scientists show we've been losing face for 10,000 years (Your face is shrinking)
	Posted by Lorianne On News/Activism 01/10/2006 6:50:04 PM PST · 41 replies · 556+ views The Sunday Times (UK) | November 20, 2005 | Jonathan Leake THE human face is shrinking. Research into people's appearance over the past 10,000 years has found that our ancestors' heads and faces were up to 30% larger than now. Changes in diet are thought to be the main cause. The switch to softer, farmed foods means that jawbones, teeth, skulls and muscles do not need to be as strong as in the past. The shrinkage has been blamed for a surge in dental problems caused by crooked or overlapping teeth. 'Over the past 10,000 years there has been a trend toward rounder skulls with smaller faces and jaws,' said Clark...
Anatolia
Trojan Treasure - 500th Anniversary Looms Over Laocoon
	Posted by NYer On Religion 01/12/2006 5:34:43 PM PST · 6 replies · 132+ views Zenit News Agency | January 12, 2006 | Elizabeth Lev ROME, JAN. 12, 2006 (Zenit.org).- The year 2006 represents a great Jubilee of sorts for art historians. This Saturday marks the 500th anniversary of the rediscovery of the Laocoon group, one of the most renowned sculptures of the ancient world. Virgil immortalized Laocoon in the "Aeneid." The Trojan priest of Neptune, Laocoon, when faced with the great wooden horse left by the Greeks outside the walls of Troy, issued one of the most famous warnings in the history of literature. "Men of Troy, trust not the horse! Whatever it be, I fear the Greeks, even when bringing gifts," later shortened...
Ancient Greece
Researchers Discover Greek Temple In Albania Dating Back To 6th Century BC
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/07/2006 3:36:42 PM PST · 8 replies · 355+ views University Of Cincinnati | 1-6-2006 Source: University of Cincinnati Date: 2006-01-06 Researchers Discover Greek Temple In Albania Dating Back To 6th Century B.C. Researchers from the University of Cincinnati's Classics faculty are preparing to make their first public presentation of details surrounding their find of one of the earliest Greek temples in the Adriatic region north of Greece. A fragment of a tablet recovered from the Albanian site. (Image courtesy of University of Cincinnati) The UC researchers, along with colleagues from the International Centre for Albanian Archaeology and the Institute of Archaeology, Tirana, will be presenting on their new work on Friday, Jan. 6, 2006,...
Ancient Europe
Sardinia's prehistoric towers
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 01/09/2006 10:13:36 PM PST · 23 replies · 195+ views Science Frontiers | No. 55: Jan-Feb 1988 | William R. Corliss Sardina is home to an immense population of mysterious prehistoric stone towers called "nuraghi." (Singular form is "nuraghe.") Over 7,000 of these remarkable dry-stone edifices exist -- a concentration of monumental stone architecture unparalleled in Europe... Over 3,000 years old, the nuraghi have withstood the depredations of weather and later humans by virtue of their excellent design and construction.
Iron Age 'Bog Bodies' Unveiled
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/07/2006 3:02:22 PM PST · 24 replies · 1,534+ views BBC | 1-7-2006 Iron Age 'bog bodies' unveiled Bog bodies have been found throughout north-west Europe Archaeologists have unveiled two Iron Age "bog bodies" which were found in the Republic of Ireland. The bodies, which are both male and have been dated to more than 2,000 years ago, probably belong to the victims of a ritual sacrifice. In common with other bog bodies, they show signs of having been tortured before their deaths. Details of the finds are outlined in a BBC Timewatch documentary to be screened on 20 January. "My belief is that these burials are offerings to the gods of fertility...
Climate
Broken Ice Dam Blamed For 300-Year Chill
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/10/2006 2:47:01 PM PST · 93 replies · 2,035+ views New Scientist | 1-10-2006 | Kurt Kleiner Broken ice dam blamed for 300-year chill 14:21 10 January 2006 NewScientist.com news service Kurt Kleiner A three-century-long cold spell that chilled Europe 8200 years ago was probably caused by the bursting of a Canadian ice dam, which released a colossal flood of glacial meltwater into the Atlantic Ocean. Two new papers, using different computer models, show that the massive freshwater flood accounts for evidence of the sudden climate change, which cooled Greenland by an average of 7.4?C, and Europe by about 1?C. It was the most abrupt and widespread cool spell in the last 10,000 years. Evidence for the...
Cyclical Ice age gets hold of the earth -- how severe will it be by 2012?
	Posted by Lorianne On News/Activism 01/10/2006 10:42:52 AM PST · 169 replies · 2,813+ views India Daily | Dec. 29, 2005 Ice ages come every 11,000 years. A mega ice age comes every 105,000 years. Both are due between now and 2012. The 11,000 year cycle happens because of increase and decrease of cyclical underwater volcanic eruption. The 105,000 mega ice age happens because of the changing shape of the orbit of the earth around the sun -- circular to elliptical and then back to circular every 105,000 years. Both the cycles are overdue. They have actually started. Europe right now is in deep freeze. Japan and South Korea are experiencing the worst snowfall ever. Even New Delhi is experiencing the...
Catastrophism and Astronomy
1006 AD Supernova (Vanity)
	Posted by Ptarmigan On General/Chat 01/13/2006 7:51:03 PM PST · 2 replies · 21+ views A bright star suddenly appears on April 30, 1006 near the star Beta Lupi in the constellation Lupus. This bright star is yellowish-white in color. The star gets brighter, bright to a point, it is brighter than Venus and half Moon. It has a magnitude of -9 at its peak. The star was visible for a year and it disappeared afterwards. The bright star was a supernova. Supernovas are when a star explodes. The Supernova is recorded in Korea, China, Japan, Mesopotamia, and Europe, often by astrologers. The supernova was seen as an omen. The remnants of the 1006 Supernova...
Solar Storm 'Could Spark Catastrophe'
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 10/27/2003 2:49:22 PM PST · 69 replies · 141+ views Ananova | 10-27-2003 Solar storm 'could spark catastrophe' Scientists are warning a "perfect space storm" that occurred 144 years ago could happen again at any time with catastrophic consequences. Newly uncovered scientific data has shown the true extent of history's most massive electromagnetic storm which blew up on the first two days of September 1859. Like "the perfect storm" at sea which inspired a blockbuster movie, it was the result of a number of titanic events coming together. But in this case the centre of the storm was the sun, not the ocean. A combination of sunspots and solar flares produced an explosive...
Megaliths and Archaeoastronomy
Celestial And Mathematical Precision In Ancient Architecture
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/07/2006 3:22:04 PM PST · 36 replies · 840+ views Manitoban | 1-7-2006 | Melissa hIEBERT CELESTIAL AND MATHEMATICAL PRECISION IN ANCIENT ARCHITECTUREAnd we think we're advanced MELISSA HIEBERT STAFF Many ancient ruins demonstrate that the people who constructed them had not only a special regard for celestial bodies and mathematics, but also a spot-on accuracy. From Egypt to Mexico, there is no doubt that past civilizations were involved in incredibly complex space calculations, mathematics and architectural endeavours. Although many historians and archaeologists debate exactly what these civilizations did intentionally and what they did by mere chance, here are a few examples of how ancient architecture was created with mathematics and the cosmos in mind. iza...
Oh So Mysteriouso
Oldest Hominid Skull In Australia Found Near Bega (7 Million Years Old)
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/13/2006 4:46:20 PM PST · 71 replies · 854+ views Bega District News | 1-13-2006 Oldest hominid skull in Australia found near Bega Friday, 13 January 2006 THE endocast of a primitive hominid-like skull was recovered from among the rubble of a volcanic plug in the Bega district in May 2005 The find could suggest that a race of ancestral hominids had evolved in Australia from tree-dwelling primate ancestors by seven million years ago. This is well before our primate ancestors supposedly left the trees for a terrestrial existence in Africa around six million years ago! The fossil was discovered by noted prehistory researcher Rex Gilroy of Katoomba NSW, where he operates the 'Australian-Pacific Archaeological...
British Isles
Braveheart Killing 'Topped Bill At Fair'
	Posted by blam On News/Activism 01/08/2006 2:22:49 PM PST · 33 replies · 1,247+ views Scotsman | 1-8-2006 | George Mair Braveheart killing 'topped bill at fair' GEORGE MAIR WILLIAM Wallace's execution was the opening attraction of a giant medieval carnival, according to research which sheds new light on the freedom fighter's death in August 1305. The killing of 'Braveheart' Wallace, during which he was hanged, drawn and quartered, is now believed to have marked the opening of Bartholomew Fair - the largest medieval market in England, held annually for centuries to commemorate St Bartholomew's Day on August 24. Tens of thousands flocked to Smithfield - the site of his execution - for the fortnight-long celebration, which featured vast cloth and...
end of digest #78 20060114

[SunkenCiv]

A public welcome to the many folks who have joined the GGG lists. Happy New Year to all of us. :')

This digest is day late. Okay. I had something to do early Saturday (work related), then had some leftover gift certs and stuff to spend, a CD to track down for someone, then got a last minute pizza party invite, and had to do a little quick shopping (dish to pass; we needed appetizers before the pizza), hung some mirrors for the hostess, then watched a movie ("The Wedding Crashers", a lot of fun). And so, I didn't leave for home until after midnight. I apologize, it will happen again. ;')

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[SunkenCiv]

Good news and bad news...

the good news, FR is on PST (I forgot about that), so this Digest is ON TIME.

the bad news, FR is on PST, so most of the digests have probably been a day early.

Hey, I've got some email... just a second... great! I've been chosen to head up the next NASA probe to Mars...

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[Dustbunny]

Thank you

[SunkenCiv]

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