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News From Wednesday, July 07, 2010
11:19:13 PM American Pickers: Andy Fales visits Iowa's American Pickers
WHO-TV - Des Moines,IA,USA

The guest book at Antique Archaeology is new but it's almost full. Folks from all over making the trip to LeClaire to see Iowa's newest TV stars and their ... [more]

8:44:53 PM Tools Offer Record of Earliest Northern Europeans
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

Archaeologists must find clues to their age in the layers of material above and below a find. From fossil voles, of which one species replaced another at a ... [more]

8:32:28 PM Neanderthal Males Had Unusually Large Arms, Research Suggests
ChattahBox - Boston,MA,USA

The paper, which was published in Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia, says that there were shockingly high amounts of hormones in the males of ... [more]

7:26:24 PM Archaeological Dig At The Mount In Alderton
AboutMyArea - UK

Volunteers will be working under the supervision of Northamptonshire Archaeology but visitors are welcome at any time. On each of the three Friday ... [more]

7:04:30 PM Early Britons could cope with cold
Nature.com - London,England,UK

But because they were adapted to a warmer climate, archaeologists have so far believed that they didn't get as far north as Happisburgh — a comparatively ... [more]

6:54:12 PM Find indicates man moved north earlier
United Press International

A Hominin is what once was called a Hominid, which paleoanthropologists said is human or a human ancestor, including all of the Homo species. [more]

6:13:14 PM Digging into Sonoma's past
Santa Rosa Press Democrat

... of animal bone,” said the Sonoma State University anthropology student. ... The dig will continue through Friday, with 12-person shifts from 8 am to ... [more]

5:38:36 PM Earliest Northern European Settlement Discovered in Britain
LiveScience.com - New York,NY,USA

More than 70 flint tools and flakes turned up during an archaeological dig at the shore of Happisburgh in the northeastern part of England's Norfolk region. ... [more]

5:32:08 PM An archaeologist digs through her life
Nature.com - London,England,UK

The colour of her historic, red wood villa on the Bosporus waterfront in Istanbul may be fading, but archaeologist Halet Çambel's memory still shines bright ... [more]

5:21:24 PM Pictures: Secret Tunnel Explored in Pharaoh's Tomb
National Geographic

Standing on wooden steps that protect a 3300-year-old stone staircase, Egyptian antiquities chief Zahi Hawass poses in 2009 in a mysterious tunnel that ... [more]

4:55:21 PM International group digs Pig Point
Annapolis Capital - Annapolis,MD,USA

Still they hovered around county archaeologist Al Luckenbach as he explained the layers of artifacts found and showed off some of the shards, points, ... [more]

3:54:46 PM The role of geophysics in archaeology
Helium - Andover,MA,USA

by Lea Miller Until the twentieth century, archaeologists relied solely on observation, excavation, and cataloging to learn about historical sites. .... [more]

1:16:07 PM OMSI summer series continues
Statesman Journal - Salem,Oregon,USA

3, History & Archaeology: Science of Lewis & Clark stations, and the prehistoric dinosaur puzzle program. -Aug. 10, Chemistry II: states of matter focus, ... [more]

9:24:40 AM Egyptian Archaeologists Discover Rock-Hewn Tombs at Saqqara
BusinessWeek - USA

Both men lived in the Sixth Dynasty, more than 4200 years ago, the council said in an e-mailed statement, citing Hosni and the country's chief archaeologist ... [more]

9:14:13 AM Port Angeles to spend $381100 more on sewage control
Port Angeles Peninsula Daily News - Port Angeles,WA,USA

That includes the additional archaeological work, overflow and plant monitoring, new headwork screens, and the new stormwater collection system. .... [more]

8:23:59 AM Malta Archaeologist Leads American Road Scholars Inside Cultic Monuments
Earthtimes.org - USA

Earthtimes (press release) Accompanied by an archaeologist, participants are permitted to enter megalithic monuments that are the oldest buildings still standing in the world. ... [more]

6:48:42 AM Neanderthal man had giant arms and a body brimming with steroids, new
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA

New York Daily News .... from 100000 years ago and found in what is now Russia. Their findings were published in the journal Archaeology, Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia. [more]

3:36:06 AM Myanmar makes archaeological research to prove origin of Myanmar
China View, Beijing, China

By Feng Yingqiu YANGON, July 7 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar archaeological experts have been making research in cooperation with international primate experts to ... [more]



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