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Fire and water reveal new archaeological dating method
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May 20, 2009 |
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Scientists at The University of Manchester have developed a new way of dating archaeological objects - using fire and water to unlock their 'internal clocks'.
Neanderthal Lacked Anatomical Competitive Edge: Skeletal Remains Tell the Story
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Jan 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study of the skeletal fossils of Neanderthal and Early modern man suggest the lack of a "throwing arm" may have made the difference in human evolution. Researchers Jill A. Rhodes and ...
Origin of claws seen in 390-million-year-old fossil
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Feb 05, 2009 |
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A missing link in the evolution of the front claw of living scorpions and horseshoe crabs was identified with the discovery of a 390 million-year-old fossil by researchers at Yale and the University of Bonn, ...
Archaeologist Uncovers Evidence of Ancient Chemical Warfare
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Jan 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A researcher from the University of Leicester has identified what looks to be the oldest archaeological evidence for chemical warfare--from Roman times.
Ancient turtle migrated from Asia to America over a tropical Arctic
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Feb 01, 2009 |
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In Arctic Canada, a team of geologists from the University of Rochester has discovered a surprise fossil: a tropical, freshwater, Asian turtle. The find strongly suggests that animals migrated from Asia to ...
Study shows competition, not climate change, led to Neanderthal extinction
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Dec 29, 2008 |
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In a recently conducted study, a multidisciplinary French-American research team with expertise in archaeology, past climates, and ecology reported that Neanderthal extinction was principally a result of competition with ...
Census of modern organisms reveals echo of ancient mass extinction
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Feb 05, 2009 |
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Paleontologists can still hear the echo of the death knell that drove the dinosaurs and many other organisms to extinction following an asteroid collision at the end of the Cretaceous Period 65 million years ...
Competition may have led to new dinosaur species in Grande Prairie area
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May 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The discovery of a gruesome feeding frenzy that played out 73 million years ago in northwestern Alberta may also lead to the discovery of new dinosaur species in northwestern Alberta.
Rapid burst of flowering plants set stage for other species
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Feb 09, 2009 |
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A new University of Florida study based on DNA analysis from living flowering plants shows that the ancestors of most modern trees diversified extremely rapidly 90 million years ago, ultimately leading to the formation of ...
CT scans reveal that dinosaurs were airheads
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Dec 08, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Paleontologists have long known that dinosaurs had tiny brains, but they had no idea the beasts were such airheads.
Fifth century BC objects returned to Greece
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May 19, 2009 |
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Greece on Tuesday reclaimed scores of ancient objects dating to the fifth century BC that Belgian, British and German authorities returned, the culture ministry said.
Neandertals sophisticated and fearless hunters
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May 14, 2009 |
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Neandertals, the 'stupid' cousins of modern humans were capable of capturing the most impressive animals. This indicates that Neandertals were anything but dim. Dutch researcher Gerrit Dusseldorp analysed their daily forays ...
Archaeologists Locate Confederate Cannons, Naval Yard
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Jun 06, 2009 |
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Archaeologists from the University of South Carolina and East Carolina University have located two large cannon from a sunken Confederate gunboat in the Pee Dee River and have identified where the Mars Bluff Naval Yard once ...
Study looks at early Navajo use of smoke signals
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May 16, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Archaeologists and volunteers armed with special flares will fan out over part of the Four Corners region on Saturday to study how early Navajos could have used smoke signals to warn against invaders.
Scientists: Earthquakes, El Ninos fatal to earliest civilization in Americas
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Jan 19, 2009 |
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First came the earthquakes, then the torrential rains. But the relentless march of sand across once fertile fields and bays, a process set in motion by the quakes and flooding, is probably what did in America's earliest civilization.
