New Evidence Suggests Need to Rewrite Bronze Age History May 01, 2006 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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Separated in history by 100 years, the seafaring Minoans of Crete and the mercantile Canaanites of northern Egypt and the Levant (a large area of the Middle East) at the eastern end of the Mediterranean were never considered ... | |
Britain’s last Neanderthals were more sophisticated than we thought June 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 50 vote(s)
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An archaeological excavation at a site near Pulborough, West Sussex, has thrown remarkable new light on the life of northern Europe’s last Neanderthals. It provides a snapshot of a thriving, developing population – rather ... | |
Fossil record supports evidence of impending mass extinction October 24, 2007 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 56 vote(s)
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Global temperatures predicted for the coming centuries may trigger a new ‘mass extinction event’, where over 50 per cent of animal and plant species would be wiped out, warn scientists at the Universities of York and Leeds. | |
Centuries-old Maya Blue mystery finally solved February 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 36 vote(s)
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Anthropologists from Wheaton College (Illinois) and The Field Museum have discovered how the ancient Maya produced an unusual and widely studied blue pigment that was used in offerings, pottery, murals and other contexts ... | |
Men fighting over women? It's nothing new, suggests research June 03, 2008 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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Men may usually settle it over a drunken brawl in the pub or perhaps a verbal spat – but new evidence has shown for the first time that fighting over women in prehistoric times could have been worse than that. | |
 Molecular analysis confirms T. rex's evolutionary link to birds April 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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Putting more meat on the theory that dinosaurs’ closest living relatives are modern-day birds, molecular analysis of a shred of 68-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex protein – along with that of 21 modern ... | |
 Royals weren't only builders of Maya temples, archaeologist finds February 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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An intrepid archaeologist is well on her way to dislodging the prevailing assumptions of scholars about the people who built and used Maya temples. | |
Academic uncovers Holy Grail of palaeontology December 03, 2007 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 53 vote(s)
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Palaeontologist Dr Phil Manning, working with National Geographic Channel has uncovered the Holy Grail of palaeontology in the United States: a partially intact dino mummy. | |
New research refutes myth of pure Scandinavian race June 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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A team of forensic scientists at the University of Copenhagen has studied human remains found in two ancient Danish burial grounds dating back to the iron age, and discovered a man who appears to be of arabian origin. The ... | |
 Scientists find 245 million-year-old burrows of land vertebrates in Antarctica June 08, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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For the first time paleontologists have found fossilized burrows of tetrapods – any land vertebrates with four legs or leglike appendages – in Antarctica dating from the Early Triassic epoch, about 245 million ... | |
 Giant fossil sea scorpion bigger than man November 21, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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The discovery of a giant fossilized claw from an ancient sea scorpion indicates that when alive it would have been about 2.5 meters long, much taller than the average man. | |
 Dinosaur Deaths Outsourced to India? October 29, 2007 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 43 vote(s)
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A series of monumental volcanic eruptions in India may have killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, not a meteor impact in the Gulf of Mexico. The eruptions, which created the gigantic Deccan Traps lava ... | |
 New evidence debunks 'stupid' Neanderthal myth August 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 35 vote(s)
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Research by UK and American scientists has struck another blow to the theory that Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) became extinct because they were less intelligent than our ancestors (Homo sapiens). ... | |
 Archaeologists explore Peruvian mystery May 22, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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Indiana Jones may be flying over the Nazca Lines in Peru in his latest Hollywood adventure, but two British archaeologists have been investigating the enigmatic desert drawings for several years. | |
 Refining the date of the K/T boundary and the dinosaur extinction April 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Berkeley Geochronology Center have pinpointed the date of the dinosaurs' extinction more precisely than ever thanks to refinements to a common ... | |
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