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Bones find from abandoned village show tough life of medieval women

December, 20 2009

Guardian UK

Skeletons from Wharram Percy have much larger bones than those of city contemporaries

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Ceramic beads dating back 3,500 years have been discovered in Leinster

December, 20 2009

Leinster Leader

CERAMIC beads dating back 3,500 years and described as being of great significance have been discovered on the route of the new N9 N10 Athy Link Road.

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Merovingian and Carolingian burial sites discovered near Paris

December, 20 2009

Medieval News

Merovingian and Carolingian burial sites discovered near Paris A team of French archaeo anthropologists have discovered two burial sites dating from the Early Middle Ages in Noisy le Grand, a suburb of Paris. The discovery was made earlier this year.

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Monument lifted from Cleopatras underwater city

December, 20 2009

The Associated Press

Egyptian archaeologists have lifted out of the Mediterranean Sea an ancient granite temple pylon from the palace complex of Cleopatra, submerged in the waters of Alexandria's harbor.

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Rock Art Redefines Ancient

December, 20 2009

New York Times

Some of the rock paintings at China Lake Naval Air Weapons Center near Death Valley have been dated as far back as 16,000 years ago. We were inside Restricted Area R505 of the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, rolling in a minivan across the vast salt pan of an extinct Pleistocene lake on our way to see a renowned collection of ancient rock art. On the console between the seats was a long-range two way radio.

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Sciences breakthrough of the year: Uncovering Ardi

December, 20 2009

EurekAlert

Fossil of early hominid heads the journal's list of top 10 scientific advances of 2009

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Experts bid to decode Roman altar

December, 20 2009

Shields Gazette

History detectives ... Bruno Kessler and Bjorn Brecht. A PAIR of German computer experts are hoping to decode part of South Shields's history by setting their sights on a mysterious Roman altar.

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Human Ancestors Were Homemakers

December, 20 2009

Live Science

A basalt handaxe (top) and basalt cleaver (bottom), found at an archaeological site in Israel demonstrating the earliest known living area organization. In a stone age version of "Iron Chef," early humans were dividing their living spaces into kitchens and work areas much earlier than previously thought, a new study found.

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Archaeologist Unearths Earliest Evidence of Modern Humans Using Wild Grains and Tubers for Food

December, 20 2009

Science Daily

These are Middle Stone Age food processing tools recovered from the Ngalue cave site, Mozambique. The consumption of wild cereals among prehistoric hunters and gatherers appears to be far more ancient than previously thought, according to a University of Calgary archaeologist who has found the oldest example of extensive reliance on cereal and root staples in the diet of early Homo sapiens more than 100,000 years ago.

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Genetic studies show modern humans on Qinghai Tibet Plateau 21,000 years ago

December, 19 2009

Xinhuanet

Chinese scientists have found through genetic studies that modern humans had successfully colonized the Qinghai Tibet Plateau in the Late Paleolithic Age, at least 21,000 years ago.

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