News tagged with archeology
Ancient trading raft sails anew
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time in nearly 500 years, a full-size balsa-wood raft just like those used in pre-Columbian Pacific trade took to the water on Sunday, May 10. Only this time, instead of the ...
Trophy heads reveal secrets about ancient South American civilization
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Jan 08, 2009 |
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The Nasca civilization is perhaps best known for the drawings its people etched onto the desert floor in southwest Peru, a massive and mysterious body of simple and intricate works that span several hundred square miles.
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The Fall of the Maya: 'They Did it to Themselves'
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Oct 07, 2009 |
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For 1200 years, the Maya dominated Central America. At their peak around 900 A.D., Maya cities teemed with more than 2,000 people per square mile -- comparable to modern Los Angeles County. Even in rural areas ...
Study finds human population expanded during late Stone Age
Jul 29, 2009 |
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Genetic evidence is revealing that human populations began to expand in size in Africa during the Late Stone Age approximately 40,000 years ago. A research team led by Michael F. Hammer (Arizona Research Laboratory's Division ...
Debate unfolds over origin of grouped stones at lake's bottom
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Feb 15, 2009 |
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Forty feet below the surface of Lake Michigan in Grand Traverse Bay, a mysterious pattern of stones can be seen rising from an otherwise sandy half-mile of lake floor.
Italy's geologic history becomes a personal tale in Walter Alvarez's new book
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 22, 2008 |
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Italy's mountains, from the Apennines to the Alps, have fascinated University of California, Berkeley, geologist Walter Alvarez for more than 35 years, resulting in a new book, "The Mountains of Saint Francis," that traces ...
Passage graves from an astronomical perspective
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Dec 18, 2008 |
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Passage graves are mysterious barrows from the Stone Age. New research from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen indicates that the Stone Age graves' orientation in the landscape could ...
New project to probe Milky Way history in Sloan Digital Sky Survey III
Dec 15, 2008 |
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A new project, the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment, or APOGEE, will survey more than 100,000 Milky Way red giant stars -- bright, bloated stars in a late stage of their evolution. APOGEE ...
Archeology of homelessness
Nov 24, 2008 |
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No matter what you see in the movies, archaeology isn't really about finding ancient temples or golden idols. It's about the day-to-day "stuff"— the material culture—of people's lives. It doesn't even have to be ancient, ...
New Atlas to Reveal Landscape and Undiscovered Archeological Sites in 3-D
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Sep 30, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New methods developed at the University of Arkansas will make decades-old satellite imagery readily available to archeologists and others who need to know what a landscape looked like before ...
New laser spectrometer opens the way for more effective carbon trading, drug development and carbon dating
Jul 01, 2008 |
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Carbon offsets increasingly are becoming a major component in the arsenal for reducing global warming. Even Bon Jovi, the Rolling Stones and the Dave Matthews Band are doing it: acquiring carbon offsets to reduce the carbon ...
Archaeologist uses satellite imagery to explore ancient Mexico
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May 13, 2008 |
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Satellite imagery obtained from NASA will help archeologist Bill Middleton peer into the ancient Mexican past. In a novel archeological application, multi- and hyperspectral data will help build the most accurate and most ...
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