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Bamboo Tool making tool to study shines light on East Asias Stone Age to scarcity

April, 08 2011

Southern Methodist University

Bamboo knives are easy to make and will cut meat, but not hides, suggesting prehistoric people preferred crudely made stone flakes

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2000 year old tomb to be opened in China

April, 08 2011

China org

2000 year old tomb to be opened in China Archeologists in northwest China's Shaanxi Province are about to open an ancient tomb dating back some two thousand years in the southern suburb of Xi'an, capital of Shaanxi.

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Bodies found from Londons old Bedlam hospital

April, 08 2011

Reuters

Archaeologists may have found more than a thousand bodies at a 16th century burial ground that served London's "Bedlam" mental hospital. Archaeologists have unearthed hundreds of skeletons at a 16th Century burial ground in the heart of the city that once served London's most notorious psychiatric hospital, the original "Bedlam."

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More on Pickled Human Brain Found in Prehistoric Bog

April, 07 2011

Discovery News

One of the pieces of a 2,600-year-old brain after removal from the skull. A near perfect condition is found in brain of a decapitated skull of a person who was over 2.600 years ago.

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Italian researchers hope to dig up remains of the real Mona Lisa

April, 07 2011

Guardian UK

Researchers hope the excavation of a convent in Florence will lead them to the bones of the woman who posed for Leonardo da Vinci's painting. Photograph: Amel Pain/AP Excavators in Florence are searching for the bones of Lisa Gherardini, thought to be the model for Leonardo's painting

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Funny shaped stone was the Stone Age ax head

April, 07 2011

The Stone Pages

A 'funny shaped stone' that had been used as an ornament, turned out to be a 5,000 year old Stone Age axe head.

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More on Human remains found at the site could be 7.000 years old Des Moines sewer

April, 07 2011

Des Moines Register

Workers dig at the scene where the remains were found in January. The exact location, where a sewer project is under way, is not being disclosed because of fears of looting. / U of I, State Archaeologist' s Office Sewer construction workers made an unusual discovery on Des Moines' southeast side in January: remains of a human body archeologists believe could be as old as 7,000 years.

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Archeologists dig for secrets in Mexico tunnel

April, 07 2011

AFP

It is now know that Teotihuacan was built as a replica of how Mesoamericans saw the cosmos, the universe Sewer construction workers made an unusual discovery on Des Moines' southeast side in January: remains of a human body archeologists believe could be as old as 7,000 years.

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What caused Britains Bronze Age recession?

April, 07 2011

BBC

Archeological finds, such as this skull, have shed light on what happened throughout ancient history A large gap in pre history could signal that Britain underwent an economic downturn over 2,500 years ago.

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St Brides Bay grave remains recorded by archaeologists

April, 07 2011

BBC

Bone preservation in the graves has not been good due to the acidic soil Archaeologists are excavating early medieval remains from a cemetery before they are washed away by the sea.