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A high tech peek underground

July, 31 2010

Ottawa Citizen

Dig director Steve Batiuk shows the ancient basalt stones that once formed the city's south gate. Remote sensing may have located similar stones at the north of the ancient city. They are just hints but still, such tantalizing hints of ancient city walls, a basalt gate, and buildings immolated in a mysterious fire thousands of years ago.

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Was Marden Henge the builders yard for Stonehenge?

July, 29 2010

The Guardian

The famous sarsens may have been shaped at Marden Henge before being dragged to Stonehenge Stone tools, flakes and the remains of a final feast at the site in Wiltshire hint that the huge sarsens that now stand at Stonehenge were brought to Marden Henge first

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Ancient DNA identifies donkey ancestors, people who domesticated them

July, 29 2010

EurekAlert

Genetic investigators say the partnership between people and the ancestors of today's donkeys was sealed not by monarchs trying to establish kingdoms, but by mobile, pastoral people who had to recruit animals to help them survive the harsh Saharan landscape in northern Africa more than 5,000 years ago.

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Notes from an excavation at the Ngandong site

July, 29 2010

Nature

Russell L. Ciochon, who heads the team at the Ngandong site, with a gorilla skull. Russell L. Ciochon and his team are in Indonesia investigating the geological source and age of one of the world's biggest caches of Homo erectus.

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UF archaeologist finds remains near Silver Glen Springs

July, 29 2010

Gainesville Sun

Asa Randall, a UF Ph.D. student who found the bones, estimates they are 500 to 700 years old.

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Chukotka throws up ancient artifacts

July, 29 2010

The Voice of Russia

Chukotka throws up ancient artifacts Moscow archaeologists digging on the site of an ancient Inuit whaling settlement on the Far Eastern Chukotka Peninsula have discovered numerous hunting and household items of bone, antler, wood and stone.

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Zheng He: Symbol of Chinas peaceful rise

July, 29 2010

BBC

Zheng He, a Muslim eunuch, died in 1433 aged 62 and is buried in the Chinese city of Nanjing Standing seven feet tall, China's maritime giant Admiral Zheng He led the world's mightiest fleet, with 300 ships and as many as 30,000 troops under his command.

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More on Abandoned 1854 ship found in Arctic

July, 29 2010

CBC

The wreck of HMS Investigator lies on the bottom of Mercy Bay HMS Investigator, abandoned in the Arctic 155 years ago during a search for Sir John Franklin's expedition, has been found.

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500,000 year old cranium found at Atapuerca, Burgos

July, 29 2010

Typically Spanish

'Craneo 5' from Atapuerca It is the second complete cranium to be found at the site

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Chimney Point Site Yields Archaeological Discoveries

July, 29 2010

Vermont Public Radio

UVM excavation of 18th century H-shaped stone chimney foundation at Chimney Point When the bridge between Crown Point New York and Chimney Point, Vermont was constructed in 1929, builders came across the remains of what was assumed to be an 18th century French fort.