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Archaeological discovery provides evidence of a celestial procession at Stonehenge

November, 28 2011

Art Daily

A file photograph showing Arch Druid Keeper of the Stones Terry Dobney inspecting the famous British landmark Stonehenge in Wiltshire, south west England. EPA/LINDSEY PARNABY. The fossilized remains of a prehistoric sea creature inadvertently unearthed by a Syncrude worker last week offers researchers new insights into the evolution of a top of the food chain reptile that swam in northern Alberta's tropical sea up to 115 million years ago.

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Discovered after 400 years: The oldest church in America where Pocahontas married Englishman John Ro

November, 28 2011

Daily Mail

New discovery: Dr William Kelso, Director of Archaeology for Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (APVA), stands at the Jamestown, Virginia site where he says Pocahontas was married in 1614 The site where legendary Native American heroine Pocahontas married tobacco planter John Rolfe in 1614 has been discovered by a prominent U.S. archaeologist.

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Oldest hairy microbe fossils discovered

November, 28 2011

MSNBC

This microscopic fossil closely resembles a modern tintinnid, a single-celled organism that is a type of plankton. Fossil ciliates including this one were recently identified in a deposit in Mongolia, and they are more than 100 million years older than the previously known fossils of this type. Fossils date back more than 100 million years earlier than the oldest foraminifera and ciliates previously known

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Lima uncovers 1,600 year old stone complex

November, 28 2011

China Post

Marcahuamachuco, an enigmatic 1,600 year old archeological complex built from stone in the northern Peruvian Andes, is emerging bit by bit from oblivion and could become a beacon of tourism on the scale of Machu Picchu.

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Excavations in Serbia Raising New Questions About Early Humans in Europe

November, 28 2011

Popular Archaeology

Cave excavations in Sicevo Gorge. Courtesy Vasa Lukich. Excavations in the caves of the Sicevo Gorge in Serbia may be shedding new light on what is becoming a more complex tapestry of early human presence and migration in Ice Age Europe.

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Purdue professor studies coppers role in native culture

November, 28 2011

JCOnline

H. Kory Cooper, a Purdue University assistant professor of anthropology, examines native copper nuggets and tools from the Copper River Basin in Alaska. Cooper received a grant from the Arctic Social Sciences division of the National Science Foundation to study ancient copper innovation in far northwest North America. (By Mark Simons/Purdue University) How did ancient copper lumps in Alaska become tools and move between different native communities?

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Ancient Egyptian chariot trappings rediscovered

November, 28 2011

Nature

A painted box from Tutankhamun's tomb depicts the Pharaoh on a chariot chasing Nubians. Forgotten drawers in Egyptian museum yield 'astonishing' leather find.

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Remains of medieval church discovered in Bulgarias Sozopol

November, 28 2011

Sofia Echo

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a medieval church, said to date from some time in the 12th to 14th centuries, and the front gate of the ancient city on the location of today's Sozopol, on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast.

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Libya displays seized Roman era artefacts

November, 28 2011

AFP

The antiquities include a statue of a woman and sculpted busts of men dating back to 2nd and 3rd century AD (AFP, Mahmud Turkia) Libya displayed on Saturday a treasure trove of Roman era artefacts which officials allege Kadhafi loyalists were planning to sell to finance attacks.

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More on When Humans First Plied the Deep Blue Sea

November, 28 2011

Science Magazine

Fish lover's paradise. Archaeologists have found evidence of deep-sea fishing 42,000 years ago at Jerimalai, a cave on the eastern end of East Timor (inset). In a shallow cave on an island north of Australia, researchers have made a surprising discovery: the 42,000 year old bones of tuna and sharks that were clearly brought there by human hands.