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- Wisconsin GOP Votes To Break Native American Treaties (204 comments)
- Video: Divers find large, unexplained object at bottom of Baltic Sea (47 comments)
- Modern flint expert 'reverse engineers' Neanderthal stone axes - and says our ancestors were clever, elegant craftsmen (1 comment)
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Modern flint expert 'reverse engineers' Neanderthal stone axes - and says our ancestors were clever, elegant craftsmen
Seeded on Sat Jan 28, 2012 5:53 PM EST (the Mail online)
Researchers at the University of Kent have recreated the processes Neanderthals used to produce stone technology, and found that our ancestors were skilled engineers.
Tablet full of crude jokes and riddles about beer is found - dating from the time of the biblical Exodus
Seeded on Fri Jan 27, 2012 10:35 PM EST (the Mail online)
Crude jokes, beer and a hearty disregard for politicians were part of life in ancient Mesopotamia - 3,500 years ago. A newly translated tablet from the area of present-day Iraq runs through a series of riddles which show that even in 1,500BC, people liked a puzzle.
Even In Death, Egyptian Birds Were Fed
Seeded on Fri Jan 27, 2012 9:33 PM EST (Discovery.com)
Ancient Egyptians placed food in the mouths or stomachs of animal mummies, suggesting that animals were treated equally to humans in death and perhaps also in life. In this case the mummies were sacred ibis birds In a study, published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, …
Wisconsin GOP Votes To Break Native American Treaties
Seeded on Fri Jan 27, 2012 10:27 AM EST ()
The Wisconsin GOP is attempting to pass a bill called Assembly Bill 426. Assembly Bill 426 is a bill that was introduced without an author, a bill that to this day cannot get a single person to claim ownership.
Study into Jersey Neanderthal mammoth hunters
Seeded on Fri Jan 27, 2012 9:44 AM EST (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)
About 30 years ago, evidence suggested early residents of what is today the island of Jersey chased wooly mammoths off the cliffs at La Cotte above Ouaisne. Dr Geoff Smith, an analyst for Jersey Archive, is undertaking a more systematic analysis of the evidence to put thi …
Video: Divers find large, unexplained object at bottom of Baltic Sea
Seeded on Thu Jan 26, 2012 1:51 PM EST (Yahoo! News)
A team of salvage divers has discovered an unexplained object resting at the bottom of the Baltic Sea near Sweden. "This thing turned up.
Blame it on the Rain: Scientists Link Climate Change to Fate of Ancient Mesoamerican Civilizations
Seeded on Wed Jan 25, 2012 3:09 PM EST (MarketWatch.com)
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- UNLV geoscientist Matthew Lachniet and an international team of researchers used stalagmites to unveil a 2,400-year climate history from southwestern Mexico.
Neanderthals were using paint 250,000 years ago - 'thousands of years earlier than previously thought'
Seeded on Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:50 PM EST (the Mail online)
Neanderthals were using red paint up to 250,000 years ago -- far earlier than previously thought. Traces of the paint, made from ochre, were dug up in the Netherlands and dated to a quarter of a million years ago.
Ancient domesticated dog skull found in Siberian cave: 33,000 years old
Seeded on Tue Jan 24, 2012 4:03 PM EST (Science Daily)
Man's best friend? Well, yes and no. Out history goes back more than 100,000 years ago, and our canine companions joined us only 1/3 of that time. Dogs appear to have been domesticated some 33,000 years ago.
Harsh reality hits cruise survivors - they waived their rights - Video
Seeded on Tue Jan 24, 2012 11:35 AM EST (msnbc.com)
Costa Concordia: It doesn't seem possible that all those passengers waived their rights when they bought their tickets, and didn't know it. Exactly how tight is that contract on the tickets? Will anyone go to the Italian courts to find out?
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