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“WHAT did you just pick up?”

9 April 2010 grant b 0

BBC shares the cute story of the discovery of what could be our greatest grandparents, the oldest members of the genus Homo:

The site was found by the team thanks to the “virtual globe”

… Read the rest ““WHAT did you just pick up?””

Science Art: Cist of a Child Found at the Gates of Athens, by P. Broux

4 April 2010 grant b 0



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I found this on the wonderful Old Book Illustrations blog. It’s from Les merveilles de l’industrie (The wonders of industry), an 1871 celebration of technological… Read the rest “Science Art: Cist of a Child Found at the Gates of Athens, by P. Broux”

So that’s what written Pict looks like….

31 March 2010 grant b 0

Discovery News takes another look at Iron Age Scotland and finds something more than pretty pictures:

The ancestors of modern Scottish people left behind mysterious, carved stones that

… Read the rest “So that’s what written Pict looks like….”

Eldest alphabet.

19 February 2010 grant b 0

New Scientist takes a closer look at the squiggly bits around some famous cave paintings – shapes that might just be some of the world’s oldest written messages:

While some

… Read the rest “Eldest alphabet.”

Once, we were endangered.

26 January 2010 grant b 0

SciAm puts us back in our place with the revelation from our DNA that humans used to be rarer than mountain gorillas:

[A]ccording to scientists from the University of Utah, about a million

… Read the rest “Once, we were endangered.”

Ancient Amazonian society revealed.

8 January 2010 grant b 0

National Geographic really does specialize in that whole lost jungle city thing, doesn’t it? And it’s so nice when they actually deliver faint traces of long-gone civilizations… Read the rest “Ancient Amazonian society revealed.”

SONG: A Strong Enough Lie

23 November 2009 grant b 0

SONG: “A Strong Enough Lie” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: “Vanished Persian army said found in desert”… Read the rest “SONG: A Strong Enough Lie”

Like a wolf on the fold. Like an ocean of choking sand.

11 November 2009 grant b 1

Discovery News has me imagining the text of a classified ad in the ARCHAEOLOGY – PRE-CHRISTIAN section…. Found: Persian army. Lots of mileage, but well-preserved:

Bronze

… Read the rest “Like a wolf on the fold. Like an ocean of choking sand.”

Out of Asia.

7 August 2009 grant b 0

The “tree where Man was born” might not be growing near Cape Town after all, some archeologists have said recently on PhysOrg. It might have taken root closer to Rangoon:

In

… Read the rest “Out of Asia.”

Cave man boogie.

7 July 2009 grant b 0

The New York Times reports on a German discovery – or, really, a whole set of discoveries – of Stone Age tools, sculptures and the oldest known flutes:

Dr. Conard, a professor

… Read the rest “Cave man boogie.”

Needed: Rosetta Stones, good condition, not yet used.

29 May 2009 grant b 0

Just in case you thought we knew everything there was to know about the ancient world, New Scientist brings a little mystery back with their list of eight untranslated alphabets:

These fall

… Read the rest “Needed: Rosetta Stones, good condition, not yet used.”

Hobbit feet.

8 May 2009 grant b 0

The New York Times has nothing better to do than look at hobbit feet:

The new anatomical evidence, being reported Thursday in the journal Nature, is unlikely to solve the mystery of just where

… Read the rest “Hobbit feet.”

Peking man is an old, old man.

13 March 2009 grant b 0

Researchers have pushed back the date humanity landed in China by a colossal 200,000 years, LiveScience reports. The latest dating of Homo erectus skulls from the Zhoukoudian cave system… Read the rest “Peking man is an old, old man.”

Trophy Heads of Nazca.

6 January 2009 grant b 0

The same mysterious civilization that left us the lines and inspirational giant pyramids also left puzzling piles of human heads… and PhysOrg.com reports that the more we learn … Read the rest “Trophy Heads of Nazca.”

A 2,000-Year-Old Brain

17 December 2008 grant b 0

Archaeologists found a surprise inside the severed skull of a man who lived in Britain before the Romans came. As PhysOrg reports, it had Britain’s oldest pickled brain inside:

The

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