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Retired U of A prof authors book on AB Stonehenge

February, 26 2009

The Gateway

Retired U of A prof authors book on AB Stonehenge Gordon Freeman s new book focuses on the possibility that the Majorville Medicine Wheel can be used to mark seasonal changes

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Navy's secrets surface

February, 26 2009

The Oxford Times

CANNON brought up from a sunken Elizabethan ship by Oxford archaeologist Mensun Bound have offered up new secrets of English naval successes in the age of Drake.

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Dive finds bits of Charles Bridge predecessor

February, 26 2009

Prague Post

Historian OndYej `efco calls the Judith Bridge a "Czech icon." Researchers and police collaborate to get to the bottom of things

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Fresh Calls for Return of Persepolis Fortification Tablets

February, 26 2009

The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies

Fresh Calls for Return of Persepolis Fortification Tablets More than 500 researchers and archeologists from leading international universities have so far signed a letter to the US President Barack Obama, protesting to the auction of Persepolis Fortification Tablets.

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Modern feet step back 1.5 million years

February, 26 2009

Science News

FOOT FORWARDAt left, geologist Matthew Bennett kneels by a trail of humanlike footprints that his team suggests are Homo erectus prints from 1.5 million years ago. A close-up of a preserved footprint (right) reveals short toes and a forward-oriented big toe typical of modern humans. Footprints preserved at an African site suggest that the feet of a 1.5 million-year-old human ancestor looked much like those of people today

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Pensioner spends 30 years building amazing model of Herod's Temple ... but admits he won't b

February, 26 2009

Daily Mail

Alec Garrard standing next to the model on which he has dedicated the past 30 years of his life. Measuring 20ft by 12ft it is housed in a seperate building in his garden Brick by brick, tiny figure by tiny figure, Alec Garrard has painstakingly worked for 30 years on an astonishing recreation of Herod's Temple.

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New stegosaur is quite a stretch

February, 25 2009

Science News

New stegosaur is quite a stretch Paleontologists have unearthed the fossils of a stegosaur unlike any previously discovered one that would have had a long neck like a sauropod in addition to stegosaurs trademark dorsal plates and tail spikes.

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Archaeologists unearth remnants of Latta House

February, 25 2009

WRAL

The Latta site has been listed on the National Registry of Historic Places since 2002. Some people feared a piece of Raleigh history dating back to the late 1800's was lost forever. But with the help of archaeologists, artifacts from the Latta House in Raleigh are surfacing.

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Mexico unveils largest donated artifact collection

February, 25 2009

The Associated Press

Pre-Hispanic relics belonged to American dentist Milton Leoff are seen at the Xochicalco Archaeological Site Museum in Xochicalco, Mexico, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2009. Mexico's government has placed on display a collection of some 8,100 pieces donated by Leoff's widow, Nadine Vinot Mexico put on display Tuesday selections from the largest private collection of archaeological artifacts ever donated to the government.

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Yorkshire team preserves medieval mill

February, 25 2009

Yorkshire Post

Wood technologist Steve Allen looks at part of the wheel from a 12th century tidal watermill. TECHNIQUES used to preserve the world famous Mary Rose are being employed by Yorkshire archaeologists to help protect an 800-year-old watermill unearthed in London.