 New evidence from earliest known human settlement in the Americas May 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 35 vote(s)
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New evidence from the Monte Verde archaeological site in southern Chile confirms its status as the earliest known human settlement in the Americas and provides additional support for the theory that one early ... | |
Egyptian elite tombs accessible for all May 08, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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A number of elite tombs from Ancient Egypt are now accessible to all thanks to the launch of the Mastabase. The Mastabase is a CD-ROM containing descriptions and hieroglyphic inscriptions of scenes of daily life from 337 ... | |
 X-rays power discoveries at Chicago's Field Museum May 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Digital medical imaging and information technology from Carestream Health, Inc., is playing a key role in helping The Field Museum of Chicago discover and analyze secrets hidden within its world-class collections. | |
 New fossil bird found May 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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Details of a fabulous new fossil bird from the world-famous fossil deposits of Liaoning in China, are published this week in the journal Science in China. Details of the bird's bone structure and feathers ... | |
 Refining the date of the K/T boundary and the dinosaur extinction April 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 18 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 ... | |
 Molecular analysis confirms T. rex's evolutionary link to birds April 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 29 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 ... | |
 Shell-breaking crabs lived 20 million years earlier than thought April 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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While waiting for colleagues at a small natural history museum in the state of Chiapas, Mexico last year, Cornell paleontologist Greg Dietl chanced upon a discovery that has helped rewrite the evolutionary ... | |
 Researcher finds fossilized shell-breaking crab April 17, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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While waiting for colleagues at a small natural history museum in the state of Chiapas, Mexico last year, Cornell paleontologist Greg Dietl chanced upon a discovery that has helped rewrite the evolutionary ... | |
 URI analysis of rare textiles from Honduras ruins suggests Mayans produced fine fabrics April 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Very few textiles from the Mayan culture have survived, so the treasure trove of fabrics excavated from a tomb at the Copán ruins in Honduras since the 1990s has generated considerable excitement. | |
Keeping African artifacts in Africa April 07, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
It is common for professional archaeologists and paleoanthropologists working in Africa to populate western museums with foreign artifacts by excavating and permanently removing them from history rich communities in Africa. ... | |
 Unlocking the Maya Code April 04, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 29 vote(s)
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Think of Megan O’Neil’s scholarly work as forensic art history. She’s not looking to solve crimes, although she uncovers plenty of murder and mayhem. | |
The voyage to America: Fossilized human feces reveals the first immigrants April 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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A team of researchers led by Danish professor Eske Willerslev shows that the ancestors of the North American Indians who came from Asia were the first people in America, and that they were of neither European nor African ... | |
 Researchers find pre-Clovis human DNA April 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 40 vote(s)
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DNA from dried human excrement recovered from Oregon's Paisley Caves is the oldest found yet in the New World -- dating to 14,300 years ago, some 1,200 years before Clovis culture -- and provides apparent ... | |
Brunel cement find is world first April 03, 2008 | User rating: 3.2 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Archaeologists working on a site in the Bristol Docks have discovered what is thought to be the first ever substantial use of Portland cement in the construction of a major building. The building was designed in 1839 by ... | |
Were Assyrian rulers the forefathers of today's CEOs? April 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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Tel Aviv University archaeologists find ancient Jerusalem may be a model for today's corporations. | |
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