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Archaeology Newsarchaeology.org: Archaeological HeadlinesBBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/topics/c1038wnxyy0t/archaeology Fox-News: https://www.foxnews.com/category/science/archaeology.html GlobalNews: https://globalnews.ca/tag/archaeology/ Science Daily: https://www.sciencedaily.com/news/fossils_ruins/archaeology/ Live Science: https://www.livescience.com/topics/archaeology Phys.org: https://phys.org/search/?search=archaeology Popular Mechanics: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/ Sci-News: https://www.sci-news.com/news/archaeology ScienceMag: https://www.sciencemag.org/category/archaeology Loss of Arctic archeological sites a ‘catastrophe’: experts Archeologists are discovering that much of that evidence has been destroyed in less than a generation, owing to the accelerating effects of climate change. Unless a concerted effort is made to rescue what is left, they say, a vast treasury of knowledge about the humanity’s presence at the world’s northern extremes will be wiped from existence. Read more... |
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Courses on Khan Academy Introduction to the Ancient Near East |
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Sumerian Dictionary |
Are you interested in archaeology and anthropology? Start by learning about underground shelters built around 7000 BC: the Anatolian Cappadocia.
These complex underground cities stretched 8 levels underground, containing temples, live animals and interconnecting tunnels.
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Enuma Elish: The Seven Tablets of the History of Creation
L W King |
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Uruk, The First City by Mario Liverani |
Space Archaeologists - New Technologies
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Mysterious Devices:Lego Antikythera Mechanism |
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The Oldest Book Printed with Movable Type is Not The Gutenberg Bible: Jikji, a Collection of Korean Buddhist Teachings, Predated It By 78 Years and It’s Now Digitized Online |
Prehistoric Europe
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Famous Viking Warrior Was a Woman, DNA Reveals |
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https://discovermagazine.com/2018/janfeb/37-unraveling-mummies-genetic-secrets
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/archaeology-and-history/archaeology/crystal-skulls/
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Interactive Map of the Ancient City of Troy:
Each color represents a different time period and highlights certain archaeological features of each era.
Read more about how the settlement and its inhabitants changed over
time.
Click a settlement layer to select it.
Remains of hybrid human girl with Neanderthal mother discovered in Siberian cave
Neanderthal Bone Fragment Identified in Denisova Cave
Denisova Cave Yields a 50,000-Year-Old Needle
Caveman Genetics: Early Humans, Neanderthals, and Denisovans.
Unknown hominid species, most likely related to Neanderthals:
"What species name is it?" Quam asks. "It is broadly similar to other ones from the Middle Pleistocene in Europe, but shows a unique combination of features, and these are all broadly ancestral to the later Neanderthals."
The world’s oldest mummies aren’t found in Egypt, but in the sands of Chile’s Atacama Desert. The oldest dates to an astonishing 5000 B.C., and even the youngest are nearly 5,000 years old. But since the moment they were excavated, they’ve been undergoing changes that even millennia in the ground didn’t bring about.
What Would a human Neanderthal hybrid look like (Dr Kerryn Warren) |
The Rate of
DNA Disintegration "By comparing the specimens' ages and degrees of DNA degradation, the researchers calculated that DNA has a half-life of 521 years. That means that after 521 years, half of the bonds between nucleotides in the backbone of a sample would have broken; after another 521 years half of the remaining bonds would have gone; and so on. The team predicts that even in a bone at an ideal preservation temperature of −5 ºC, effectively every bond would be destroyed after a maximum of 6.8 million years." ..... “Other factors that impact on DNA preservation are clearly at work,” says Bunce. “Storage following excavation, soil chemistry and even the time of year when the animal died are all likely contributing factors that will need looking into.” Read more... |
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