http://www.physorg.com/science-news/archaeology-fossils/ en-us PhysOrg.com provides the latest news on archaeology, fossils, archaeological sciences and archaeological technology. (AP) -- A Vatican researcher claims a nearly invisible text on the Shroud of Turin proves the authenticity of the artifact revered as Jesus' burial cloth. The claim made in a new book by historian Barbara Frale drew immediate skepticism from some scientists, who maintain the shroud is a medieval forgery. http://www.physorg.com/news177954765.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:53:35 EST news177954765 A suite of five ancient crocs, including one with teeth like boar tusks and another with a snout like a duck's bill, have been discovered in the Sahara by National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Paul Sereno. The five fossil crocs, three of them newly named species, are remains of a bizarre world of crocs that inhabited the southern land mass known as Gondwana some 100 million years ago. http://www.physorg.com/news177851529.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:17:59 EST news177851529 Researchers from Stony Brook University Medical Center in New York have confirmed that Homo floresiensis is a genuine ancient human species and not a descendant of healthy humans dwarfed by disease. Using statistical analysis on skeletal remains of a well-preserved female specimen, researchers determined the "hobbit" to be a distinct species and not a genetically flawed version of modern humans. Details of the study appear in the December issue of Significance, the magazine of the Royal Statistical Society. http://www.physorg.com/news177828426.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:48:32 EST news177828426 You can make major discoveries by walking across a field and picking up every loose item you find. Dutch researcher Eva Kaptijn succeeded in discovering - based on 100,000 finds - that the Zerqa Valley in Jordan had been successively inhabited and irrigated for more than 13,000 years. But it was not just communities that built irrigation systems: the irrigation systems also built communities. http://www.physorg.com/news177784568.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:00:09 EST news177784568 (PhysOrg.com) -- The evolutionary history of New Zealand's many extinct flightless moa has been re-written in the first comprehensive study of more than 260 sub-fossil specimens to combine all known genetic, anatomical, geological and ecological information about the unique bird lineage. http://www.physorg.com/news177760311.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:00:02 EST news177760311 Hardening of the arteries has been detected in Egyptian mummies, some as old as 3,500 years, suggesting that the factors causing heart attack and stroke are not only modern ones; they afflicted ancient people, too. http://www.physorg.com/news177694227.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:40:03 EST news177694227 (PhysOrg.com) -- Ancient artifacts are almost always concerned with rich and powerful religious and political leaders, but new excavations of an ancient Maya site have unearthed a pyramid decorated with murals depicting the marketing and trading of goods by ordinary people around 1,350 years ago. http://www.physorg.com/news177582245.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:30:01 EST news177582245 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new study pitting academic expertise against a computer in recreating a 425 million-year old jigsaw puzzle has discovered that there is no substitute for wisdom born out of experience. http://www.physorg.com/news177583145.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:40:22 EST news177583145 (AP) -- Israel displayed for the first time Wednesday a collection of rare coins charred and burned from the Roman destruction of the Jewish Temple nearly 2,000 years ago. http://www.physorg.com/news177176994.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:52:37 EST news177176994 (AP) -- Scientists say they've discovered a new dinosaur species in South Africa that may help explain how the creatures evolved into the largest animals on land. http://www.physorg.com/news177154893.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:41:56 EST news177154893 Fossil plants are windows to the past, providing us with clues as to what our planet looked like millions of years ago. Not only do fossils tell us which species were present before human-recorded history, but they can provide information about the climate and how and when lineages may have dispersed around the world. Identifying fossil plants can be tricky, however, when plant organs fail to be preserved or when only a few sparse parts can be found. http://www.physorg.com/news177096593.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:00:02 EST news177096593 Scientists have discovered the first evidence that dinosaurs roamed the South Island of New Zealand with 70-million-year-old footprints found in six locations. http://www.physorg.com/news176809886.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:40:05 EST news176809886 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have extracted organically preserved muscle tissue from an 18 million years old salamander fossil. The discovery by researchers from University College Dublin, the UK and Spain, reported in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B shows that soft tissue can be preserved under a broader set of fossil conditions than previously known. http://www.physorg.com/news176660912.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:20:01 EST news176660912 (PhysOrg.com) -- Archaeologists excavating the former Radcliffe Infirmary site in Oxford have uncovered evidence of a prehistoric monumental landscape stretching across the gravel terrace between the Thames and Cherwell rivers. http://www.physorg.com/news176577298.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:15:33 EST news176577298 (PhysOrg.com) -- Remains of the oldest-known relative of T.rex have been identified, more than 100 years after being pulled out of a Gloucestershire reservoir, according to research published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society today. http://www.physorg.com/news176568098.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:10:01 EST news176568098 The legendary "man-eating lions of Tsavo" that terrorized a railroad camp in Kenya more than a century ago likely consumed about 35 people--far fewer than popular estimates of 135 victims, according to a new analysis led by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The study also yields surprises about the predatory behavior of lions. http://www.physorg.com/news176399116.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:00:01 EST news176399116 We all know adolescents get testy from time to time. Thank goodness we don't have young tyrannosaurs running around the neighborhood. http://www.physorg.com/news176386597.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:17:02 EST news176386597 (PhysOrg.com) -- Pieces of amber containing parts of a spider's web have been found in East Sussex and dated back to the Cretaceous period 140 million years ago, which makes it the oldest spider's web known. http://www.physorg.com/news176364340.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:40:01 EST news176364340 (PhysOrg.com) -- An ancient South American civilisation which disappeared around 1,500 years ago helped to cause its own demise by damaging the fragile ecosystem that held it in place, a study has found. http://www.physorg.com/news176368228.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:11:24 EST news176368228 (PhysOrg.com) -- Paleontologists from the University of California, Berkeley, and the Museum of the Rockies have wiped out two species of dome-headed dinosaur, one of them named three years ago - with great fanfare - after Hogwarts, the school attended by Harry Potter. http://www.physorg.com/news176132721.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:46:07 EST news176132721 A husband and wife team of American paleontologists has discovered a new species of dinosaur that lived 112 million years ago during the early Cretaceous of central Montana. http://www.physorg.com/news176119692.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:08:52 EST news176119692 An Indian doctor working in 600 B.C. might have been the world's first plastic surgeon, according to a new exhibition that challenges Western domination of the history of science and technology. http://www.physorg.com/news176015733.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:50:03 EST news176015733 The fossilised skull of a pliosaur, the largest marine reptile that ever lived, has been discovered along the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. http://www.physorg.com/news175895874.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:58:48 EST news175895874 (PhysOrg.com) -- The bottle sitting in your wine rack at home is probably labelled as a juicy, full-bodied French number, with dark berry flavours and a long, complex finish. http://www.physorg.com/news175507773.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:10:14 EST news175507773 (PhysOrg.com) -- A four thousand year old Egyptian mummy's tooth has yielded its DNA to probing scientists. http://www.physorg.com/news175417317.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:02:25 EST news175417317 (PhysOrg.com) -- Research examining microscopic marks on the teeth of the "Lucy" species Australopithecus afarensis suggests that the ancient hominid ate a different diet than the tooth enamel, size and shape suggest, say a University of Arkansas researcher and his colleagues. http://www.physorg.com/news175415022.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:00:01 EST news175415022 (PhysOrg.com) -- About 40 miles outside Cairo, Egypt, National Science Foundation-supported paleontologists from three American universities are revealing features of a newly discovered African primate and solving a riddle about humankind's evolutionary past. http://www.physorg.com/news175350798.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:41:42 EST news175350798 The world's oldest known submerged town has been revealed through the discovery of late Neolithic pottery. The finds were made during an archaeological survey of Pavlopetri, off the southern Laconia coast of Greece. http://www.physorg.com/news175338826.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:14:52 EST news175338826 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new dinosaur species, Fruitadens haagarorum, is the smallest dinosaur ever discovered from North America. The tiny Fruitadens weighed less than a kilogram (two pounds) and was just 70 cm (28 inches) in length. http://www.physorg.com/news175324667.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:28:28 EST news175324667 (PhysOrg.com) -- A flint hand axe that helped reveal the very ancient age of humankind goes on display at the Natural History Museum October 2009. http://www.physorg.com/news175185404.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:50:01 EST news175185404