items tagged with Archaeology
Smaller Stonehenge-like stone circle discovered
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2009-10-05 09:51:54
British archaeologists have discovered a smaller 'Stonehenge' that they are calling 'Bluehenge' due to the color of the original stone that made up each monolith. Bluehenge was found down a pathway from the more famous monument.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2009-10-05 09:51:54
British archaeologists have discovered a smaller 'Stonehenge' that they are calling 'Bluehenge' due to the color of the original stone that made up each monolith. Bluehenge was found down a pathway from the more famous monument.
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We use fire: Earliest blacksmith tools found in Africa
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2009-08-16 15:31:10
According to a group of archaeologists who discovered a group of tools and weapons in South Africa, early humans used fire at least 72,000 years ago—over 50,000 years earlier than previously thought—to modify silcrete in order to more easily create tools.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2009-08-16 15:31:10
According to a group of archaeologists who discovered a group of tools and weapons in South Africa, early humans used fire at least 72,000 years ago—over 50,000 years earlier than previously thought—to modify silcrete in order to more easily create tools.
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Bones of Columbus' crew analyzed with surprising results
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2009-03-22 10:53:45
A team led by a University of Wisconsin archaeologist is analyzing the supposed skeletal remains from the long-dead crew of Christopher Columbus. The researchers found details of what they ate (Old World grains), what diseases they had (scurvy), and what members of the crew (Africans) were not so widely known to have gone on such voyages of discovery.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2009-03-22 10:53:45
A team led by a University of Wisconsin archaeologist is analyzing the supposed skeletal remains from the long-dead crew of Christopher Columbus. The researchers found details of what they ate (Old World grains), what diseases they had (scurvy), and what members of the crew (Africans) were not so widely known to have gone on such voyages of discovery.
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Whoa! Think again, horses tamed, milked 1,000 years earlier
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2009-03-07 10:13:07
New evidence from an international team of researchers show that horses were first domesticated about 1,000 years earlier than previously thought. These people rode, milked, and sometimes ate their horses.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2009-03-07 10:13:07
New evidence from an international team of researchers show that horses were first domesticated about 1,000 years earlier than previously thought. These people rode, milked, and sometimes ate their horses.
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You can look back 1.5M years ago and see us walking
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2009-02-28 12:19:06
According to archeological diggings by an international team of scientists, preserved footprints of an ancestor of modern Homo sapiens (humans), has been discovered in eastern Africa. The footprints, complete with small toes and a big toe, are about 1.5 million years old.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2009-02-28 12:19:06
According to archeological diggings by an international team of scientists, preserved footprints of an ancestor of modern Homo sapiens (humans), has been discovered in eastern Africa. The footprints, complete with small toes and a big toe, are about 1.5 million years old.
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Home is where the brothel and tavern is, in ancient Greece
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2009-01-28 08:48:57
According to new analysis of ancient archeological sites, Greek taverns, called kapeleia, were actually within people’s home, which is probably why previous excavations never found evidence of them elsewhere. Home life sounds pretty lively for ancient Greeks, according to this British study.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2009-01-28 08:48:57
According to new analysis of ancient archeological sites, Greek taverns, called kapeleia, were actually within people’s home, which is probably why previous excavations never found evidence of them elsewhere. Home life sounds pretty lively for ancient Greeks, according to this British study.
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Nano-diamonds suggest comet collisions wrecked havoc on Earth
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2009-01-03 13:37:38
The discovery of numerous tiny diamonds spread out at six sites in North America suggest to scientists that they came from comets impacting the Earth about 13,000 years ago, possibly dooming the Clovis natives and many now-extinct animals.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2009-01-03 13:37:38
The discovery of numerous tiny diamonds spread out at six sites in North America suggest to scientists that they came from comets impacting the Earth about 13,000 years ago, possibly dooming the Clovis natives and many now-extinct animals.
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Direct evidence found of first stowaway house mouse
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2008-09-19 09:43:53
British archeologist Thomas Cucchi has discovered what is believed to be the earliest known rodent to stow away on a ship. The 3,500-year-old mouse jaw helps to directly prove for the first time how rodents spread around the world.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2008-09-19 09:43:53
British archeologist Thomas Cucchi has discovered what is believed to be the earliest known rodent to stow away on a ship. The 3,500-year-old mouse jaw helps to directly prove for the first time how rodents spread around the world.
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Ancient Greeks help build better computer networks
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2008-08-04 09:11:58
The University of Leicester in England is launching a major programme to help develop a new paradigm for future global computing environments. In order to improve code and data mobility over wide area networks the boffins will, err, study Ancient Mediterranean crafts-people from the late bronze age through to classical times...
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2008-08-04 09:11:58
The University of Leicester in England is launching a major programme to help develop a new paradigm for future global computing environments. In order to improve code and data mobility over wide area networks the boffins will, err, study Ancient Mediterranean crafts-people from the late bronze age through to classical times...
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Humans walked America 40,000 years ago
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2008-07-16 09:27:16
An international team of geoarchaeologists have discovered footprints in central Mexico that place the presence of early humans in the Americas further back than previous thought: around 40,000 years ago. The discovery helps to settle a long-standing debate as to when humans first came to the Western Hemisphere.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2008-07-16 09:27:16
An international team of geoarchaeologists have discovered footprints in central Mexico that place the presence of early humans in the Americas further back than previous thought: around 40,000 years ago. The discovery helps to settle a long-standing debate as to when humans first came to the Western Hemisphere.
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Indiana Jones and the Archaeological Stuff Up
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-05-24 19:54:35
An Australian archaeologist says Indiana Jones may well be freaking out real archaeologists with his rule-breaking antics but is still a fabulous drawcard for new students into the literally time honoured profession.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-05-24 19:54:35
An Australian archaeologist says Indiana Jones may well be freaking out real archaeologists with his rule-breaking antics but is still a fabulous drawcard for new students into the literally time honoured profession.
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Stonehenge: Do you dig it?
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Climate
2008-04-02 08:39:31
Beginning Monday, March 31, 2008, Stonehenge archeology scholars will be leading an excavation team to find out more precisely when the Stonehenge bluestones were first placed at the pre-historic site in England.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Climate
2008-04-02 08:39:31
Beginning Monday, March 31, 2008, Stonehenge archeology scholars will be leading an excavation team to find out more precisely when the Stonehenge bluestones were first placed at the pre-historic site in England.
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