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New Aboriginal genome study rewrites the history books
An international team of scientists have just published findings that re-interpret the history of our species. The study, published in the September 22 edition of the journal Science, details how a lock of hair donated by a West Australian Aboriginal man around a hundred years ago was used to sequence a full genome, revealing a new twist in the tale of humankind’s dispersal across the world. For more info, visit http://media.murdoch.edu.au/
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Duplicating the Fossils of Human Evolution at Penn
Discovering a multi-million year old human fossil may represent a truly one-of-a-kind look into the history of the human species, but even the most well preserved specimen is not much use in a vacuum. Fossils must be compared to each other to give scientists insight into where they fit in the long progression to humans of today, and here, the rarity of such finds are a real obstacle. Janet Monge has a solution. As the associate director and manager of [...]
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USC Scientist Cracks Mysterious “Copiale Cipher”
USC’s Professor Kevin Knight is part of an international team that finally cracked the “Copiale Cipher,” a strange, 105-page message handwritten in abstract symbols and Latin letters revealing the rituals and political leanings of a 18th-century secret society in Germany. Knight, a computer scientist at the USC Information Sciences Institute, is now targeting other famous unsolved codes, such as the last section of “Kryptos,” an encrypted message carved into a granite sculpture on the grounds of the CIA headquarters. But [...]
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Archaeologists Find Viking Burial Site
Archaeologists said on October 19th 2011 that they have discovered the remains of a high status Viking buried with his boat, axe, sword and spear on the remote Scottish peninsula of Ardnamurchan, one of the most significant Norse finds ever uncovered in Britain. You can read more about it here: Boat burial of Viking warrior: A 1000 year old story uncovered
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Russian billionaire to buy Valley of the Temples?
Italian newspapers reported on Saturday that a Russian metals mogul wants to buy the ruins of Sicily’s Valley of the Temples. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valle_dei_Templi) Mikhail Prokhorov, who’s thought to be worth about 14 billion euros, has yet to confirm his interest. The seven incredible Greek Doric structures were built around 450 BC. The area was made a UNESCO world heritage site in 1997. “It’s not for sale”, said Marco Zambuto, the Mayor of Agrigento, a small town on the south coast of [...]
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Welsh Rock Cannon
Antur Stiniog are building a £1.3m downhill biking course in the mountains above Llechwedd. During construction the on-site archaeologist discovered a rock cannon causing one of the bike tracks to be re-routed. A rock cannon, also known in Welsh as a cerrig cannan, craig cannan, or in the 19th century, craig fagnel (plural: craig fagnelau; Welsh: magnel – gun, cannon), is a rock or boulder which has been bored with holes which can be partly loaded with black powder (gunpowder) [...]
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Scuppernong River Project
Located in Tyrrell County North Carolina, the Scuppernong River represents an important chapter in the maritime history of the Albemarle Sound. In September of 2011, Archaeologists and graduate students from the UNC Coastal Studies Institute and East Carolina University performed an archaeological survey of this historic waterway.
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John O’Shea on a prehistoric wooden object from the bottom of Lake Huron.
Under the cold clear waters of Lake Huron, University of Michigan researchers have found a five-and-a-half foot-long, pole-shaped piece of wood that is 8,900 years old. The wood, which is tapered and beveled on one side in a way that looks deliberate, may provide important clues to a mysterious period in North American prehistory.
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Alderney Roman Fort Ramparts 2011
360 Production: Alderney Roman Fort Ramparts An overgrown site on Alderney has been found to be one of the best-preserved Roman military structures in the world. Island tradition had long suggested the site, known as the Nunnery, dated back to Roman times, although excavations since the 1930s had always proved inconclusive. A joint project between Guernsey Museums and the Alderney Society was set up in 2008 to find the answers.
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Kerry Murrell on the archaeological finds at Whittlesey
Kerry Murrell from the Cambridge Archaeological Unit on the archaeological finds at Whittlesey The extraordinary find at Hanson’s quarry in Must Farm, Whittlesey, has doubled the total of Bronze Age logboats found in the UK. One of the logboats could date from as long ago as 1300BC – making it the oldest ever discovered. Swords, spears, fish weirs and eel traps have also been found in the ancient water course, which runs along the southern ends of the Flag Fen [...]
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The archaeological finds at Must Farm, Whittlesey
The archaeological finds at Hansons Must Farm, Whittlesey The extraordinary find at Hanson’s quarry in Must Farm, Whittlesey, has doubled the total of Bronze Age logboats found in the UK. One of the logboats could date from as long ago as 1300BC – making it the oldest ever discovered. Swords, spears, fish weirs and eel traps have also been found in the ancient water course, which runs along the southern ends of the Flag Fen Basin. It is home to [...]
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Fort Parker Documentary – Studio 406 pitch
The Extreme History Project has been researching the history of Fort Parker, the First Crow Indian Agency and has been working with PBS Montana to create a documentary detailing the reservation period of the Crow Nation. The Extreme History Project has recieved a grant to film oral history interviews on the Crow reservation as a the foundation of the documentary. These interviews will interweave with the history of Fort Parker and the second agency near Absarokee Montana. This story is [...]
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1.2 Million Year Old Human Remain Found
An exciting discovery in Spain. Archaeologists have unearthed the oldest known European jawbone. Scientists say this latest find proves that early humans may have roamed Europe as early as 1.2 million years ago. Here’s more. The Atapuerca research team is credited with the discovery of the oldest known European jawbone. It was found in the Sierra de Atapuerca in northern Spain. Bones, fossils and stone tools of the earliest known hominids in Europe have been found in several caves there. [...]
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Digging For Britain: Mystery Town Devon
Chance Metal-detecting coin finds, led to the discovery of an unknown Roman Town in Devon. This chance discovery of coins led to the bigger find of a Roman town, further west than it was previously thought Romans had settled in England. The town was found under fields a number of miles west of Exeter, Devon. Nearly 100 Roman coins were initially uncovered there by two metal detectorists. It had been thought that fierce resistance from local tribes to Roman culture [...]
