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| WHERE AND WHY HUMANS MADE SKATES OUT OF ANIMAL BONES |
| Archaeological evidence shows that bone skates (skates made of animal bones) are the oldest human powered means of transport, dating back to 3000 BC. Why people started skating on ice and where is not as clear, since ancient remains were found in several locations spread across Central and North Europe. |
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| Ancient Egyptian glassmaking recreated. 3000-year-old furnace rebuilt by archaeologist. |
| A team led by a Cardiff University archaeologist has reconstructed a 3,000-year-old glass furnace, showing that Ancient Egyptian glassmaking methods were much more advanced than previously thought. |
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| HOBBIT WIELDED BIG TOOLS, CLAY MODEL SHOWS. |
| A clay sculpture of a mature female Hobbit is helping to convince an Australian scientist the small people of Flores could have handled large tools. |
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| EARLY MAN HAD MINING IN MIND |
| An Israeli research team has caught our ancestors in the act of learning to mine raw materials for tools. The discovery suggests that some cave-dwellers were mining flint 300,000 years ago, while their neighbours were still using whatever stones were lying around. |
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| HALLEY'S COMET PORTRAYED ON ANCIENT COIN |
| A rare ancient coin may feature an early record of Halley's comet, researchers say. |
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| HUMAN SETTLEMENTS ALREADY EXISTED IN THE AMAZON BASIN (ECUADOR) 4000 YEARS AGO |
| July 2003 saw a significant discovery in Ecuador by IRD archaeologists: 4000-year-old structures indicating the presence of one of the first great Andean civilizations in the upper Amazon Basin, where their presence had not been suspected. |
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| INCAN MUMMIES FOUND BY EDGE OF ROAD |
| Dozens of mummies dating back more than 500 years have been discovered on the path of a proposed highway on the outskirts of the Peruvian capital. |
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| MANUAL TOOTHBRUSHES WORK JUST AS WELL |
| Old-fashioned toothbrushes are just as good as electric ones at reducing plaque and gum disease, a U.K. review has found. |
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| STANFORD STUDY QUESTIONS IDENTITY OF ALLEGED ROMANOV BONES |
| One of the most riveting detective stories of the last century supposedly ended in 1998, when the Russian government declared that bones excavated from a Siberian mass grave seven years earlier indeed belonged to the Romanovs, Russia's last royal family, who were executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918. |
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| ANTARCTIC DINOSAURS FOUND IN ICY GRAVES |
| Two new species of dinosaur, one a meat eater, the other a plant eater, have been found in Antarctica, by an international team of scientists. |
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| MYSTERY ROMAN EMPEROR SHOWS HIS FACE |
| The discovery of a coin appears to confirm the brief rule of Domitianus, a mystery Roman emperor whose very existence had been doubted, according to a museum curator. |
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| MAYAN CITY PLAYED POLITICS WITH NEIGHBOURS |
| Archaeologists are exploring a ruined kingdom in Guatemala to work out how it survived centuries of conflict in the ancient Mayan Indian world before being abandoned to the jungle more than 1200 years ago. |
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| HUMAN EVOLUTION AT THE CROSSROADS: INTEGRATING GENETICS AND PALEONTOLOGY |
| Advances in genetics during the last decade not only have influenced modern medicine, they also have changed how human evolution is studied, says an anthropologist from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. |
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| ANCIENT INSECTS BUZZ INTO HISTORY BOOKS |
| Scientists have discovered the remains of a 400 million-year-old insect, the oldest ever located, in a fossil unearthed in Scotland in the early 1900s. |
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| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO ARCHAEOLOGIST, COLLEAGUES HOT ON THE TRAIL OF ANCIENT PERSIAN WARSHIPS |
| An international research team including a University of Colorado at Boulder professor has mounted a deep-water search off the northern coast of Greece in search of a fleet of Persian warships presumed lost in a massive ocean storm in 492 B.C. |
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| CAVE-DWELLING MICHAELANGELOS |
| Three tiny figurines carved out of mammoth ivory, unearthed in a cave in southwestern Germany, have demonstrated that Early Man was far from primitive in his artistic skills. |
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| WORLD'S OLDEST MARSUPIAL FOUND IN CHINA |
| An exquisitely preserved 125 million-year-old fossil found in China has set a new record for the oldest known marsupial and may rewrite the history of mammal evolution, a new report suggests. |
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| COOKED UP FOSSILS REHEAT FIRST-LIFE DEBATE |
| Researchers have been cooking up inorganic, worm-like structures that look like some of the earliest fossils believed to exist. |
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| CANCER DIAGNOSED IN 70 MILLION-YEAR-OLD |
| The first discovery of a brain tumour in a dinosaur has revealed that they are indistinguishable from human tumours, suggesting the global disease has barely changed over 70 million years. |
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| GIANT MAMMALS CAUSE PREHISTORY RETHINK |
| Two of the world's lost prehistoric giants, a rhino-sized Australian marsupial and a buffalo-sized South American rodent, were the largest known mammals of their kind and much larger than previously thought, according to two new studies. |
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| FIELD MUSEUM ARCHAEOLOGISTS DISCOVER TOMB UNDER ZAPOTEC RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX IN OAXACA, MEXICO. |
| On a high hilltop terrace in Oaxaca, Mexico, a team of Field Museum archaeologists discovered a 1,500-year-old underground tomb while excavating a palace-like residence. Although it was near the end of their excavation season, they dared not leave the tomb unexplored. News of this find at El Palmillo was sure to get around, and looting would follow. As it was, workers had to guard the tomb every night until the tomb was excavated. |
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| LEAF FALL IN ANCIENT POLAR FORESTS STILL A MYSTERY |
| Explorers in the 1800s discovered through fossils that deciduous forests once covered the poles, but researchers still do not know why leaf-dropping trees were preferred over evergreens. |
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| VANISHED INCA MAY HAVE USED BINARY CODE LANGUAGE |
| The vanished Inca civilisation of the Andes, long thought to have no writing, invented a seven-bit binary code to store information more than 500 years before the invention of the computer, argues an American anthropologist. |
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| CELTIC ARRIVED IN BRITAIN, FRANCE WITH FARMERS |
| A new method of analysing language supports the idea that farmers carried Celtic to the British Isles, Ireland and France in a single wave 6,000 years ago, researchers report. |
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| ANOTHER METEOR STRIKE BLAMED FOR EXTINCTIONS |
| A large meteorite collided 380 million years ago into what is now the Moroccan desert and may have caused one of the five known mass extinctions of life on Earth, researchers report. |
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| EARLIEST HOMO SAPIENS FOSSILS DISCOVERED IN ETHIOPIA |
| Scientists from the University of California at Berkeley along with researchers from Ethiopia and several other countries have uncovered fossils of the earliest modern human, Homo sapiens, estimated at 154,000 to 160,000 years old. According to the scientists, the findings provide strong evidence that Homo sapiens and Neanderthals co-existed, rather than the former descending from the latter. |
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| MUMMY OF ANCIENT EGYPT'S NEFERTITI FOUND? |
| The mummy of Queen Nefertiti, a co-ruler of Ancient Egypt and stepmother to the legendary boy king Tutankhamun, may have been found, archaeologists have announced. |
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| ANCIENT DUNG REVEALS A PICTURE OF THE PAST |
| The successful dating of the most ancient genetic material yet may allow scientists to use preserved DNA from sources such as mammoth dung to help paint a picture of past environments. |
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| HEBREW UNIVERSITY EXCAVATIONS STRENGTHEN DATING OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL FINDINGS TO DAVID, SOLOMON. |
| A new, laboratory-based affirmation of the existence of a united Israelite monarchy headed by kings David and Solomon in the 10th century B.C.E. has been revealed as the result of excavations carried out by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Institute of Archeology. |
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| WOODEN COFFIN YIELDS OLDEST EGYPTIAN MUMMY |
| Archaeologists have uncovered a 5,000-year-old wooden coffin in the desert near Cairo to find a pile of bones which shows the oldest evidence yet found of human mummification in Egypt. |
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| EXTINCT REPTILE SPECIES LIVED ON IN AUSTRALIA |
| An ancient hippo-like reptile, extinct elsewhere, existed in Australia for another 110 million years – alongside the dinosaurs that wiped them out in other places, palaeontologists have found. |
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| ANCIENT DNA MAY BE MISLEADING SCIENTISTS |
| Ancient DNA in skeletons has a tendency to show damage in a particular region, resulting in misleading genetic data and mistaken conclusions about the origin of the skeleton, British scientists said. |
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| RESEARCHERS HELP TRACE ORIGIN OF MADAGASCAR’S MAMMALS. RESEARCH ANSWERS ONE OF NATURAL HISTORY'S MOST INTRACTABLE QUESTIONS. |
| All of Madagascar's living Carnivora (an order of mammals that includes dogs, cats, bears, hyenas and their relatives) descended from a single species that dispersed from Africa to Madagascar, apparently floating across the ocean barrier aboard wayward vegetation about 24 million to 18 million years ago. Previously, scientists believed that Madagascar's seven living species of native Carnivora represented two to four separate lineages, which would have implied that these animals colonized the island independently several times. |
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| PREHISTORIC TUSKS POINT TO EARLIEST FOSSIL EVIDENCE OF DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SEXES. FINDINGS POINT TO COMPLEX SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR. |
| The large tusks of an animal that roamed Earth before the dinosaurs may provide the earliest evidence yet of male-female distinctions in land animals that existed millions of years ago, say U of T scientists. |
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| ANCIENT TRAVELLERS USED HIGHWAYS, SPY PHOTOS SHOW |
| People of the Bronze Age traded and travelled more widely along a network of ancient highways in the the Middle East than previously thought, newly-released satellite images show. |
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| PALAEONTOLOGISTS IN A FLAP OVER FOUR-WINGED DINOSAURS |
| The discovery of fossils in China with feathers on both their front and hind limbs has given the 'gliding' theory of the origins of flight an enormous boost. |
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| CURSE OF TUTANKHAMEN FINALLY LAID TO REST |
| After 80 years, the curse of Tutankhamen's tomb - credited with a host of untimely deaths since its discovery - has finally been disproven by an Australian epidemiologist. |
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| LIFE MAY HAVE EMERGED FROM ROCKS |
| A major new theory argues that life began in tiny cavities in rocks that acted like cells - challenging the established view that it began as self-replicating molecules floating in the chemical soup of the early Earth. |
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| ONCE BIG BAD WOLF, NOW MAN'S BEST FRIEND: SCIENCE STUDIES TRACE DOGS' ORIGINS |
| Domesticated dogs first appeared in East Asia, spread across Asia and Europe, and then accompanied their two-legged companions into the New World 12,000-14,000 years ago. This scenario is suggested by two reports in the journal Science, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. |
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| NEANDERTHALS USED BOTH HANDS TO KILL |
| Neanderthals and early humans knew how to make spears but they didn't know how to throw them. Instead, they had a limited hunting strategy, and used their spears merely to stab animals they had already trapped or ambushed. This finding by a team of anthropologists provides an important insight into a defining moment in our ancestors' development, when early humans evolved from hunters who killed at close-quarters to sophisticated killers capable of bringing down large beasts from a distance. |
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| SCIENTISTS DISCOVER ANCIENT PROTEIN AND DNA SEQUENCES IN THE SAME FOSSIL |
| For the first time in the world, researchers at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, along with collaborators at the University of Oxford, Harvard University, and Michigan State University have uncovered two genetically informative molecules from a single fossil bone. In addition to the recovery of mitochondrial DNA, the complete sequencing of a bone protein, osteocalcin, makes this a major scientific breakthrough. Extending this work to additional fossils could change perceptions of evolutionary theory. Results of the study are published in the December issue of GEOLOGY, published by the Geological Society of America. |
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| ANCIENT SEABED YIELDS DOLPHIN-LIKE FOSSIL |
| Palaeontologists have uncovered the most complete specimen yet of a dolphin-like marine reptile that swam the freezing inland sea of South Australia some 120 million years ago, potentially giving them new insights into the ecology of ancient inland oceans. |
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| DISSECTS MUMMY-HID SCROLL |
| During the second century B.C., a mummy-maker took a scroll of poetry and used it as stuffing for a corpse. The roll of papyrus remained hidden inside the mummy's chest cavity until its rediscovery in the early 1990s. Today, what was once treated like trash survives as the oldest surviving example of a Greek poetry book, as well as an important source of information about the past. |
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| SCIENTIST SAYS OSTRICH STUDY CONFIRMS BIRD 'HANDS' UNLIKE THOSE OF DINOSAURS |
| To make an omelet, you need to break some eggs. Not nearly so well known is that breaking eggs also can lead to new information about the evolution of birds and dinosaurs, a topic of hot debate among leading biologists. |
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| DINSOAUR ELLIOT UNEARTHED |
| A significant portion of what appears to be Australia's first complete dinosaur has just been uncovered during a five-week dig in Queensland.
A large team of workers and volunteers unearthed the remains of sauropod called Elliot, a large, plant-eating dinosaur from the Cretaceous period of the giant dinosaurs, 95 million years ago. |
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| PENN MUSEUM ARCHAEOLOGISTS UNCOVER 3700 YEAR OLD 'MAGICAL' BIRTH BRICK AT MAYOR'S RESIDENCE JUST OUTSIDE ABYDOS, EGYPT |
| July 2002-University of Pennsylvania Museum archaeologists have discovered a 3700-year-old "magical" birth brick inside the palatial residence of a Middle Kingdom mayor's house just outside Abydos, in southern Egypt. The colorfully decorated mud birth brick-the first ever found-is one of a pair that would have been used to support a woman's feet while squatting during actual childbirth. |
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| PTEROSAURS ATE ON THE FLY |
| Palaeontologists working in South America think they may have discovered a new species of pterosaur that skimmed over the surface of water to catch its food. |
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| MUDDY MAYAN MYSTERY MADE CLEARER BY RESEARCHERS WORKING IN THE 'BAJOS' |
| A team of scholars led by University of Cincinnati professors Nicholas and Vernon Scarborough found evidence of a major environmental transformation that helps to explain a puzzle that has stumped Maya scholars for decades. Why would the Maya live in an area where the primary water source is little more than mud half of the year? |
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| THE ROMANS PREFERRED SMALL-SCALE SOLUTIONS TO AQUEDUCTS AND SEWERS |
| Contrary to common opinion, the Romans had several systems for the supply and drainage of water. The Romans preferred small-scale provisions such as cesspits, wells and rainwater tanks. The residents only constructed a water supply network or a sewerage system if these were not effective. |
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| UC SAN DIEGO ARCHAEOLOGISTS DISCOVER LARGEST BRONZE AGE METAL FACTORY IN MIDDLE EAST |
| Working in a remote desert area in southern Jordan, archaeologists from the University of California, San Diego have discovered the largest Early Bronze Age metal factory in the Middle East, dating to ca. 2700 BC. The discovery was reported in the June 2002 issue of the British journal, Antiquity. |
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| STUDY OF FOSSILS FOUND IN ARCTIC SHOWS PLANTS MORE DEVELOPED AT EARLIER TIME |
| Along with Canadian colleagues, a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill scientist has discovered fossils of plants dating back some 420 million years. |
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| REWRITING THE ‘BIBLE OF EGYPTOLOGY’ |
| An Australian Egyptologist has been studying the tombs of the vast Giza cemetery and is re-writing the history of ancient Egypt.
Professor Naguib Kanawati of the Australian Centre for Egyptology at Macquarie University has been recording and interpreting the scenes and hieroglyphs which chronicle the lives of government officials, priests and bureaucrats as far back as the 4th Dynasty, the age that saw the construction of the Great Pyramids. |
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| NEW RESEARCH QUESTIONS EVIDENCE FOR EARLIEST LIFE ON EARTH. U.S. AND SWEDISH SCIENTISTS SUGGEST A NON-BIOLOGICAL ORIGIN FOR CARBON IN ANCIENT ROCKS. |
| New geological and geochemical data call into question recent claims for fossil life on Earth greater than 3.8 billion years ago, say researchers from The George Washington University and the Swedish Museum of Natural History in the May 24 issue of the journal Science. Such claims have been based on interpreting the sensitive biochemical behaviour of carbon, the principal element of life, and its relationship with the rocks in which the carbon is found. |
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| EARLIEST EVIDENCE OF ANIMALS YET? |
| Scientists say they have found fossil evidence of an "animal-like" creature which they report is twice as old as any animal fossils generally accepted by palaeontologists. |
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| NEW REPORT EXPLAINS ICE-AGE MYSTERY |
| University of California researchers have solved a longstanding mystery for scientists trying to understand how Earth's climate can quickly shift between cold and warm modes. |
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| SCIENTISTS PUSH BACK PRIMATE ORIGINS FROM 65 MILLION TO 85 MILLION YEARS AGO. FIELD MUSEUM SCIENTIST CHALLENGES ACCEPTED THEORIES, DATING METHODS. |
| New research that accounts for gaps in the fossil record challenges traditional methods of interpreting fossils and constructing evolutionary trees. Applying a new statistical approach to primates demonstrates that this group-from which humans developed-originated 85 million years ago (Mya) rather than 65 Mya, as is widely accepted. |
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| HUMAN ANCESTOR AUSTRALOPITHECUS DID INDEED WALK UPRIGHT |
| Was Australopithecus ancestral to humans? Were they merely cousins in the evolutionary chain? Or simply a stage between apes and humans? Among various debates about these early hominids is the argument whether or not they could stand and walk upright like people do. |
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| ORGIN OF MYSTERIOUS SUBTERRANEAN GASES IDENTIFIED, SAYS UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO RESEARCHER |
| Evidence of gases similar to those that may have played a part in the formation of the earliest life on the planet has been found by a University of Toronto geochemist. |
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| HUMANS LIVE A DOG'S LIFE |
| A new theory claims that many human behaviours are a result of our long-standing relationship with dogs, and vice versa. |
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| ETHIOPIAN FOSSIL SKULL INDICATES HOMO ERECTUS WAS SINGLE, WIDESPREAD SPECIES 1 MILLION YEARS AGO |
| Berkeley - A million-year-old Homo erectus skull found in Ethiopia indicates that this human ancestor was a single species scattered widely throughout Asia, Europe and Africa, not two separate species, according to an international group of scientists who discovered the skull in 1997. |
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| UCLA SCIENTISTS, COLLEAGUES SUBSTANTIATE BIOLOGICAL ORIGIN OF EARLIEST FOSSILS |
| UCLA paleobiologist J. William Schopf and colleagues have substantiated the biological origin of the earliest known cellular fossils, which are 3.5 billion years old. The research is published in the March 7 issue of the journal Nature. |
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| UNDERGRAD FINDS CLUES TO 400- MILLION-YEAR-OLD MYSTERY |
| Steven Porter, a Johns Hopkins University senior from Cherry Hill, N.J., has conducted original research that adds new and potentially decisive evidence to a debate about the identity of one of the first organisms to make the epochal leap from the sea to dry land approximately 400 million years ago. |
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| SCIENTISTS LOOK TO EUROPE AS EVOLUTIONARY SEAT |
| U of T anthropologist David Begun and his European colleagues are re-writing the book on the history of great apes and humans, arguing that most of their evolutionary development took place in Eurasia, not Africa. |
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| REMAINS OF SEVEN TYPES OF EDIBLE NUTS AND NUTCRACKERS FOUND AT 780,000-YEAR-OLD ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE |
| The remains of seven types of 780,000-year-old nuts have been found at the Gesher Benot Ya’aqov site in Israel’s Hula Valley. The nuts and the stone tools found with them are the first evidence that various types of nuts formed a major parts of man’s diet 780,000 years ago and that hominins (prehistoric men) had developed an assortment of tools to crack open nuts during the Early-Middle Pleistocene Period, according to researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Bar-Ilan University, who explained that the nuts were anaerobically preserved because the site has been waterlogged since its destruction. |
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| GENETIC MARKER TELLS SQUASH DOMESTICATION STORY |
| In the January 8 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), The Cucurbit Network and the University of Puerto Rico establish mitochondrial DNA analysis as a powerful tool for understanding relationships among flowering plants. |
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| UPM ARCHAEOLOGIST ASSERTS THAT ENIGMATIC IVORY STATUETTE MAY BE PART OF THE THRONE OF THE FAMED KING MIDAS |
| UPM archaeologist Keith Devries asserts that enigmatic ivory statuette, uncovered in Greece in 1939, may be part of the throne of the famed King Midas
It isn’t made of gold, but a well-known and much-discussed ivory statuette of a lion-tamer, found in 1939 at Delphi, may very well be part of the throne given to the god Apollo by the famous King Midas of Phrygia. |
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| ARCHAEOLOGISTS REWRITE TIMELINE OF BRONZE AND IRON AGES, INCLUDING EARLY APPEARANCE OF ALPHABET |
| Using information gleaned from the sun's solar cycles and tree rings, archaeologists are rewriting the timeline of the Bronze and Iron Ages. The research dates certain artifacts of the ancient eastern Mediterranean decades earlier than previously thought. And it places an early appearance of the alphabet outside Phoenicia at around 740 B.C. |
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| WATER QUALITY WAS ISSUE IN ANCIENT ROME, SAYS SCHOLAR. AQUEDUCTS WERE TECHNOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL MARVELS. |
| Can the great technological feats of the early Romans still inform urban planning today? Professor Christer Bruun of classics says they can in the area of water conservation. |
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| MEGA COCKROACH |
| A 300-million-year-old cockroach fossil has been found in a mine site in the United States. And it's huge.
The cockroach, which lived in the Carboniferous period, 55 million years before dinosaurs, was found in a coal mine in eastern Ohio by Cary Easterday, a graduate student in geological science at Ohio State University. |
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| MUMMY-MAKERS USED ELABORATE RECIPES |
| The process of embalming in Ancient Egypt was more sophisticated than previously thought, new analysis shows.
Richard Evershead and Stephen Buckley of the University of Bristol completed a chemical analysis of 13 mummies. They found that embalmers used a wider variety of ingredients, and changed their techniques more frequently, than other research has shown. |
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| YALE AND UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO RESEARCHERS DISCOVER 40-FOOT CROCODILE FOSSIL, POSSIBLY THE LARGEST KNOWN SO FAR |
| The bones of a 40-foot crocodile that dined on dinosaurs and 12-foot-long fish have been discovered by researchers at Yale and at the University of Chicago in the Cretaceous rocks in Niger, Africa. |
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| HUGE DINOSAUR FIND IN QUEENSLAND |
| The biggest dinosaur fossil ever found in Australia was announced yesterday at the Queensland Museum. Dubbed 'Elliott', the sauropod dinosaur was found near Winton in western Queensland.
Dr Steve Salisbury, honorary research fellow at the museum, said the fossil could represent the first evidence of a unique group of sauropods. |
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| NEW FOSSILS SUGGEST WHALES AND HIPPOS ARE CLOSE KIN |
| Partial skeletons of ancient whales found in Pakistan last year resolve a longstanding controversy over the origin of whales, confirming that the giant sea creatures evolved from early ancestors of sheep, deer and hippopotami and suggesting that hippos may be the closest living relatives of whales. The new finds, reported in the Sept. 21 issue of the journal Science, are the first and only specimens known that combine sheep-like ankle bones and archaic whale skull bones in the very same skeletons. |
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| NEW RESEARCH SHEDS LIGHT ON THE CRUEL FATE THAT AWAITED OFFICIAL SCRIBES FOR MAYA KINGS WHO HAD BEEN CONQUERED BY RIVALS. |
| "The fact that these king's scribes were specifically targeted for torture and execution showed the importance they played in Maya society."
These scribes - the rough equivalent of today's public relations writers - would have their fingers broken and then be executed after their kings were defeated in battle. |
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| ORDINARY EGYPTIANS MADE MUMMIES FIRST |
| An Australian researcher has discovered that the Egyptian practice of mummifying Pharaohs started one thousand years earlier than previously thought, and that the working class were using the technique even earlier. |
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| THE ANCIENTS WERE RIGHT - DELPHI WAS A GAS! |
| The Oracle of Delphi was the most important shrine in ancient Greece and was considered the center of the world. It was a crucial pilgrimage for those seeking guidance from Apollo's mouthpiece, the Pythia, who gave cryptic answers to such matters as timing for planting crops, preparing for war, or resolving a moral dilemma. |
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| TINY ANCIENT CRUSTACEAN FORCES RETHINK |
| A tiny fossilised relative of modern-day lobsters is forcing a rethink of beliefs about the emergence of complex organisms. The 511-million-year old fossil is less than half a millimetre long and the oldest complete example of a crustacean, the group that includes lobsters, crabs and prawns. It resembles the juvenile form of today’s barnacles. |
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| SOIL SUGGESTS EARLY HUMANS LIVED IN FORESTS INSTEAD OF GRASSLANDS |
| Carbon isotope evidence in almost 6-million-year-old soils suggests that the earliest humans already were evolving in - and likely preferred - humid forests rather than grasslands, report a team of scientists working in Ethiopia. |
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| HUMANS HUNTED MAMMALS TO EXTINCTION IN NORTH AMERICA |
| Woolly mammoths, giant armadillos and three species of camels were among more than 30 mammals that were hunted to extinction by North American humans 13,000 to 12,000 years ago, according to the most realistic, sophisticated computer model to date. The news is reported in the June 8 issue of the journal Science. |
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| CLAY DISHWARE SHOWS THE FACE OF THE LOST TRIBE LIVED 1,000 YEARS B.C. |
| A face of a person lived 3,000 years ago has been found on clay figures remained from that era, which were discovered on the seabed near the coastal line of Papua New Guinea. |
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| RESULTS OF A NEW RESEARCH OF PRIMITIVES' SILICIFIED REMAINS CONTRADICT TRADITIONAL THEORY AND SAY IN FAVOR OF INDEPENDENT ORIGIN OF MODERN PEOPLE'S RA |
| In contradiction with a widely-accepted theory, a study conducted at the University of Michigan shows that skeleton remains of primitives anthropologists have found belonged to people who lived not in one specific area, but in different areas of the world. Milford Hom. Folkpoff and his colleagues have compared primitives’ bones and consider that their discovery could trigger new disputes over the races origin. |
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| A MYSTERY OF THE LEGENDARY NASKA'S LINES IN PERU SEEMS TO BE RESOLVED |
| One of the byway South American civilizations created these mysterious pictures about 2,000 years ago. On the amplitudes of the Naska, a Peruvian desert, these lines drawn over the red docks of the desert depict over 100 known plants and animals, geometrical figures, as well as a lot of unknown separate straight lines. There are a plenty of theories available which try to explain the sense of the drawing and the reason why these pictures had been drawn at all. But nobody has known so far their real destination. |
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