[archaeology]

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• Dinowars: Fossil hunters and scientists turn Jurassic Coast into a battlefront

  
  PID News — Authority: 150
  (Mail Online) – After a storm is, I am told, ideal. And as the December rain lashes down and an angry sea boils, it seems our timing is perfect. For it is under assault and battery from the elements that these crumbling, black shale cliffs are most likely to give up their treasures.via Mail Online.
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• Zerqa Valley has been inhabited and irrigated for 13,000 years

  
  Eideard — Authority: 149
  Gathering can be as productive as digging for an archaeologist.
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• Stone Age Pantry: Archaeologist Unearths Earliest Evidence of Modern Humans Using Wild Grains and Tubers for Food

  
  SciNewsBlog — Authority: 138
  Stone Age Pantry: Archaeologist Unearths Earliest Evidence of Modern Humans Using Wild Grains and Tubers for Food ScienceDaily (Dec. 18, 2009) — The consumption of wild cereals among prehistoric hunters and gatherers appears to be far more ancient than previously thought, according to a University of Calgary ...
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• Ancient seed sprouts plant from the past

  
  Mirabilis.ca — Authority: 117
  From Hurriyet Daily News Ancient seed sprouts plant from the past . A 4,000-year-old lentil seed found during an archeological excavation has germinated, exciting scientists as the event might lead to invaluable data for comparisons between the organic and genetically engineered plants of today. It would be the ...
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• Soup can yields details on doomed 19th-century Arctic expedition

  
  Mirabilis.ca — Authority: 117
  From Canada.com: Soup can yields details on doomed 19th-century Arctic expedition . Scientists studying a 160-year-old can of soup found in the Canadian Arctic have detected lead levels in its broth and sealant that are off the scale — further evidence, they say, of the lead poisoning believed to have doomed ...
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• CCP releases first video tutorial for exploration in EVE Online

  
  Massively — Authority: 655
  Filed under: Sci-fi , Video , EVE Online , Guides , Professions , Making money , Tips and tricks Exploration is one of the more rewarding mini-professions a player can have in EVE Online . With the right skills you can scan down all types of hidden content, such as harvestable gas clouds, hidden ...
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• New Neanderthals?

  
  Beyond Stone and Bone — Authority: 405
  Paleoanthropology and studies of human evolution have long been dependent on discoveries of fossils, with each discovery producing scholarly claims and counterclaims—monkey, ancestor; ancestor, monkey–that eventually advance our knowledge of how we became us. With Neanderthals, for whom we have the most extensive ...
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• Spanish archeologists fail to find Federico García Lorcas grave

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  The poet and playwright killed by death squads during civil war was thought to have been buried in Alfacar One of the greatest mysteries of recent Spanish history will remain unsolved for the foreseeable future, after a team of archeologists admitted they had failed to find the grave of poet and playwright Federico ...
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• Friday Fun Video and Satire Alert: "Internet Archaeologist Discovers Ruins of Friendster Civilization."

  
  Mad Minerva 2.0 — Authority: 142
  The Onionistas strike again with this delightful potshot at Internet culture and social media: Internet Archaeologists Find Ruins Of Friendster Civilization
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• Grain Use Well Before Modern Agriculture

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 150
  Some of our early ancestors weren’t just scavenging fruit and nuts and hunting animals. That’s the conclusion of scientists who discovered evidence of the grain sorghum on hundred thousand-year-old stone tools. The tools were discovered deep in a cave in northwest Mozambique. The research appears in the December ...
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• The Mines of Gladhammar

  
  Aardvarchaeology — Authority: 466
  The mines of Gladhammar near Västervik in SE Sweden were worked at least from the 16th century to the 19th century, producing iron, copper and cobalt. Now they pose a big environmental problem because of heavy metals leaching out of the spoil heaps into a nearby lake. A project is afoot to do something about the ...
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• petraphile

  
  detritus. — Authority: 127
  Ghost Hearders Originally uploaded by TheOdyssey.tv Having visited hundreds of sites all over the world, including Lascaux and Chauvet in France and the Côa Valley in Portugal, [archaeologist David S. Whitley] believes the Coso Petroglyphs to be one of the most important rock art sites on earth. Mr. Whitley ...
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• Christian History’s ‘Top (?) 10 News Stories’ of 2009

  
  Dr Jim West — Authority: 615
  You’ll recognize most of them .  But #5 and #10 have been discussed widely amongst various of the biblioblogs.  Given my aversion to such lists, I have to say I appreciate their putting a ? in parentheses after top. Posted in Archaeology, biblical studies
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• Reconstructing Cleopatra’s Palace

  
  Geology News — Authority: 146
  It is theorized that Cleopatra’s palace was dislodged by earthquakes some 1700 years ago when it fell into the sea. Archaeologists are now retrieving pieces of the complex, and hope to create an underwater museum with the ruins.
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• Egypt lifts huge ‘Cleopatra temple’ block from sea

  
  PID News — Authority: 150
  A huge granite block thought to have once formed part of a temple pillar in a sunken palace of Cleopatra has been raised from the sea at Alexandria.The nine-tonne stone, said to be from a temple to the goddess Isis, was lifted by crane out of the waters which have covered the palace for centuries.It [...]
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• Diving for Treasure in Thailand

  
  Big Blue Tech News — Authority: 427
  As well as enabling professionals to carefully excavate shipwreck sites and recover historic artefacts for the edification of generations to come, Unesco schemes to safeguard Thailand’s submarine cultural heritage will also benefit tourist activities such as scuba-diving, points out Bobby Orillaneda, an academic ...
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• DNA of Jesus-Era Shrouded Man in Jerusalem Reveals Earliest Case of Leprosy

  
  SciNewsBlog — Authority: 138
  DNA of Jesus-Era Shrouded Man in Jerusalem Reveals Earliest Case of Leprosy ScienceDaily (Dec. 16, 2009) — The DNA of a first-century shrouded man found in a tomb on the edge of the Old City of Jerusalem has revealed the earliest proven case of leprosy. The burial cave, which is known as the Tomb of the Shroud, ...
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• New Academic Program in Value and Equivalency

  
  Ancient World Bloggers Group (AWBG) — Authority: 402
  It has been announced that Frankfurt University and the Technical University at Darmstadt will begin their new program in Wert und Äquivalent. This interdisciplinary program will be directed by faculty from the two universities who are of international renown and active in a number of related disciplines: African ...
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• Rock Art Redefines ‘Ancient’

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 900
  
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  Bildungblog — Authority: 154
  Archaeologists Unearth Rare War on Christmas Poster Dating from the First Century A.D.
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