http://www.physorg.com/science-news/archaeology-fossils/ en-us PhysOrg.com provides the latest news on archaeology, fossils, archaeological sciences and archaeological technology. The remains of a Minoan-style wall painting, recognizable by a blue background, the first of its kind to be found in Israel, was discovered in the course of the recent excavation season at Tel Kabri. This fresco joins others of Aegean style that have been uncovered during earlier seasons at the Canaanite palace in Kabri. "It was, without doubt, a conscious decision made by the city's rulers who wished to associate with Mediterranean culture and not adopt Syrian and Mesopotamian styles of art like other cities in Canaan did. The Canaanites were living in the Levant and wanted to feel European," explains Dr. Assaf Yasur-Landau of the University of Haifa, who directed the excavations. http://www.physorg.com/news176986342.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:10:01 EST news176986342 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 Spanish researchers have studied the fossil record of hadrosaurs, the so-called 'duck-billed' dinosaurs, in the Iberian Peninsula for the purpose of determining that they were the last of their kind to inhabit the European continent before disappearing during the K/T extinction event that occurred 65.5 million years ago. Most notable among these fossils is the discovery of a new hadrosaur, the Arenysaurus ardevoli, found in Huesca, Spain. http://www.physorg.com/news176637618.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:02:14 EST news176637618 Archaeologists at Atlanta's Fernbank Museum of Natural History have discovered unprecedented evidence that helps map Hernando de Soto's journey through the Southeast in 1540. No evidence of De Soto's path between Tallahassee and North Carolina has been found until now, and few sites have been located anywhere. http://www.physorg.com/news176636443.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:41:38 EST news176636443 (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 (PhysOrg.com) -- Remains of one of the oldest known marsupials have been recovered in Charente-Maritime by a palaeontologist team from the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (CNRS, France) and the University of Rennes. This discovery raises a new hypothesis about the dispersal route of the earliest marsupial mammals. Results are published this week in the journal PNAS. http://www.physorg.com/news176566210.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:20:03 EST news176566210 Using portable 3D laser technology, scientists have electronically preserved a rare 110 million-year-old fossilized dinosaur footprint that was previously excavated and built into the wall of a bandstand at a Texas courthouse in the 1930s. http://www.physorg.com/news176552611.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:50:01 EST news176552611 (PhysOrg.com) -- After 210 million years of being entombed in rock, the Bristol Dinosaur is about to be released, thanks to a Heritage Lottery Fund grant awarded to the University of Bristol. http://www.physorg.com/news176454965.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:30:01 EST news176454965 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 Spanish researchers have confirmed that the largest bat in Europe, Nyctalus lasiopterus, was present in north-eastern Spain during the Late Pleistocene (between 120,000 and 10,000 years ago). The Greater Noctule fossils found in the excavation site at Abríc Romaní (Barcelona) prove that this bat had a greater geographical presence more than 10,000 years ago than it does today, having declined due to the reduction in vegetation cover. http://www.physorg.com/news176035940.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:53:29 EST news176035940 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 (AP) -- The company that has exclusive rights to salvage the Titanic is planning a possible expedition to the world's most famous shipwreck in 2010. http://www.physorg.com/news175758520.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:00:01 EST news175758520 (PhysOrg.com) -- Research under way at the New York State Museum indicates that a huge mastodon tusk, recently excavated by Museum scientists in Orange County, may be the largest tusk ever found in New York State. http://www.physorg.com/news175534654.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:38:38 EST news175534654 (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 University of Colorado at Boulder analysis of a skeleton found in Utah that initially indicated the remains were likely that of Southwest artist and poet Everett Ruess, who mysteriously disappeared in the 1930s, now appears to have been incorrect. http://www.physorg.com/news175418266.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:00:01 EST news175418266 (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 In an article published in the open-access, peer-reviewed journal PLoS ONE on October 21, 2009, Dr Thomas Plummer of Queens College at the City University of New York, Dr Richard Potts of the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History and colleagues report the oldest archeological evidence of early human activities in a grassland environment, dating to 2 million years ago. The article highlights new research and its implications concerning the environments in which human ancestors evolved. http://www.physorg.com/news175330627.html Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:20:01 EST news175330627 (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