Arthur John Evans, Archeologist Nov 20, 2009
He was the son of Sir John Evans, who was an amateur archaeologist and an eminent authority on British prehistory and coinage. His mother was a member of the Dickinson paper manufacturing family. (Suite101.com)
Archaeologists Track Infamous Conquistador Through Southeast Nov 6, 2009
26, 2007) As archaeologists in the last half century have set about reconstructing the prehistory of Southeast Asia, data from one country--centrally located Laos--was conspicuously missing. Little archaeology. (Science Daily)
Forest Clearances Doomed Ancient Nasca People Nov 3, 2009
Nasca People Of Ancient Peru: Forest Clearances Sealed Civilization's Downfall. Nasca People Of Ancient Peru: Forest Clearances Sealed Civilization's Downfall. (Science Daily)
New Books on Africa: Notable Nonfic... Oct 25, 2009
Iris Berger, a U.S. historian, provides a new overview of South African s past from prehistory to recent times. Mark Gevisser and Pippa Green, South African journalists, explore recent South African history with biographies of Thabo Mbeki, former president of South Africa, and Trevor Manuel, the country s top economic policy maker. (Suite101.com)
Bullfights, snails a taste of Andalucia Oct 24, 2009
To learn more about the history and prehistory of Ronda, tour the Mondragon Palace. To really see prehistory, day-trip to the Pileta Cave, the best and most intimate look a tourist can get at prehistoric cave paintings in Spain. (CNN -- International)
Bring Back The Rope Oct 23, 2009
In fact, let's go even further: without a doubt, you are the most pathetic weakling in history and prehistory. If you haven t already broken your computer screen to prove us wrong, we re all bigger wimps than any man in time. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Uncovering sunken Greek civilisation Oct 21, 2009
Archaeological co-ordinator for the Pavlopetri project is Dr Chrysanthi Gallou, a post-doctoral research fellow at The University of Nottingham and an expert in Aegean Prehistory. The investigation offers a great opportunity for [the local community] to be actively involved in the preservation and management of the site. (BBC News -- Europe)
World's Oldest Submerged Town Dates Back 5,000 Years Oct 17, 2009
The Archaeological Co-ordinator Dr Chrysanthi Gallou a postdoctoral research fellow at The University of Nottingham is an expert in Aegean Prehistory and the archaeology of Laconia. Dr Gallou said: The new ceramic finds form a complete and exceptional corpus of pottery covering all sub-phases from the Final Neolithic period (mid 4th millennium BC) to the end of the Late Bronze Age (1100 BC). (Science Daily)
New Mesozoic Mammal Illuminates Ear Evolution Oct 9, 2009
14, 2006) Small but remarkable fossils found in New Zealand will prompt a major rewrite of prehistory textbooks, showing for the first time that the so-called "land of birds" was once home to mammals as. . (Science Daily)
Murcia to house Bronze Age research institute Oct 9, 2009
A team of researchers from the Department of Prehistory of Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona will be directing a research project, creating a museum and scientific dissemination of findings at the archaeological site La Bastida located in the municipality of Totana, Murcia ... La Bastida, located in Totana, Murcia, is one of the most important archaeological sites of European prehistory ... The second focuses on developing a programme for the new museum and dissemination of findings at the site,... (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
'Dinosaurs!' to open Caswell Youth Series Oct 7, 2009
mixing prehistory and storytelling with the latest dinosaur discoveries and a rich musical score by Mozart, Beethoven, Mahler, Stravinsky, and Prokoviev. DINOSAURS. (Yanceyville Caswell Messenger, NC)
October 2009 Geology and GSA Today highlights Oct 2, 2009
The eruption of Santorini and its effects on surrounding civilizations, notably that of Minoan Crete, has long been one of the most discussed questions in Aegean Prehistory. While traces of deposits created by waves stemming from the eruption have been identified in Crete and Asia Minor, the results from Caesarea provide the first conclusive evidence that tsunami waves generated by the eruption reached the farmost eastern shores of the Mediterranean, and indeed in considerable force. (EurekAlert!)
Daniel F. McCall, BU anthropology professor with enduring love of verse Sep 30, 2009
A founding member of the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory, Dr. McCall retired in 1983, but he kept writing, publishing an article last year at age 90. Dr. McCall s first marriage ended in divorce. (Boston Globe)
Treasure trove brings tears to an expert's eye Sep 25, 2009
Leslie Webster, a former keeper of the department of prehistory at the British Museum, who led the team of experts and has spent months poring over metalwork, described the hoard as ''absolutely the equivalent of finding a new Lindisfarne Gospels or Book of Kells. "This is going to alter our perceptions of Anglo-Saxon England as radically, if not more so, as the Sutton Hoo discoveries," she said. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Amateur Finds Anglo-Saxon Treasure Trove Sep 25, 2009
Leslie Webster, an expert on Anglo-Saxons who used to work with the British Museum's Department of Prehistory and Europe, said the find was "absolutely the equivalent of finding a new Lindisfarne Gospels or Book of Kells" - a reference to famous manuscripts produced around the same time. MMIX The Associated Press. (CBS News)
Endless forms most beautiful Sep 6, 2009
The History of the World features grand landscapes and scenes of prehistory inspired by the then fledgling science of geology and palaeontology ... Normal anxieties and irrational fears are played out among the dark, sometimes hilarious and often fantastical depictions of human prehistory by such artists as Britons G.F. Watts (1817-1904) and Odilon Redon (1814-1916). (The Star Online, Malaysia)
* MORAKOT: THE AFTERMATH : Aboriginal survivors fear losing their lands Aug 19, 2009
Pasuya, a former director of National Museum of Prehistory and a member of the Tsou tribe, said Aborigines have long been neglected because of prejudice and lacked a voice in elections. At 490,000 people, they represent about 2 percent of the population. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Archaeologists Find Cache Of Tablets In 2,700-year Old Turkish Temple Aug 12, 2009
The project is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP), and receives support from the University of Toronto. Adapted from materials provided by. (Science Daily)
Human Population Expanded During Late Stone Age, Genetic Evidence Shows Aug 5, 2009
The team's finely executed experimental design and use of supercomputing power enabled them to determine that this expansion in population size likely began at the start of the Late Stone Age a period in prehistory that shows an intensification of archeological sites, an increased abundance of blade-based lithic technologies, and enhanced long-distance exchange. The next step in the project is to gather more data by testing more populations and additional parts of the genome. (Science Daily)
Does Peace Have a Chance? Aug 5, 2009
The economist Samuel Bowles of the Santa Fe Institute recently dozens of archaeological and ethnographic studies of hunter-gatherer societies like the ones our ancestors are thought to have lived in for most of our prehistory. Warfare and other forms of violence led to 14 percent of the deaths in these simple societies, Bowles concludes. (Slate)
Take a dip with 'Monsters of the Deep' Aug 1, 2009
"The exhibit includes displays from prehistory to the whales, sharks and turtles that inhabit our oceans today," said Libby Hartfield, director of the museum. "Visitors will love the 21-foot, fleshed-out, 40 million-year-old toothed Zygorhiza whale!". (The Clarion-Ledger)
New Insights Into Iran's Past: Landlord Villages Of The Tehran Plain Jul 23, 2009
We also consider the creation and expression of identity within these villages and hope to provide a model of spatial analysis linked to function which can potentially be applied to self-contained settlements at different points in history and prehistory. This has been the third season we have worked on this project. (Science Daily)
Exhibit earns accolades Jul 22, 2009
"The exhibit includes displays from prehistory to the whales, sharks and turtles that inhabit our oceans today," said Libby Hartfield, director of the Museum. "Visitors will love the 21-foot, fleshed-out, 40-million year old toothed Zygorhiza whale!". (The Clarion-Ledger)
The Heidi Klum of calculations Jul 19, 2009
BEFORE THE BIG BANG: The Prehistory of Our Universe By Brian Clegg St. Martin's, 320 pp ... In Before the Big Bang: The Prehistory of Our Universe Clegg surveys the current conjectures ... BEFORE THE BIG BANG: The Prehistory of Our Universe By Brian Clegg. (Boston Globe)
Two perspectives on sanctuary walls - Patient, inmate look back at facility for Hansen’s disease Jul 4, 2009
Then there is the museum, which preserves the prehistory of the place, its early days and long years (1894-1999) as a treatment center for people with the long-misunderstood disease. It is filled with haunting remnants of a closed world, where residents who came - or were brought by force - often surrendered their given names upon admission for fear of shame to their families and then their rights. (Missoulian, MT)
Why Mount Taylor? Jun 23, 2009
The video went on to claim its significance: A) Association with events that have made significant contributions to the broad patterns of the nominating tribe's history; B) Association with the lives of persons, historical and spiritual, significant in the tribe's past; C) The property has yielded or may be likely yield information to prehistory or history. Contributing and non-contributing. (Grants Cibola County Beacon, NM)
Gaias Evil Twin: Is life its own worst enemy? by Peter Ward, New Scientist Jun 19, 2009
History and prehistory would tell us that our species is one of the most widely adaptable creatures on the planet. We can survive in almost any environment with help from our simple tools and survive in the most extreme environments with our advanced tools. (Harper's Magazine)
Part of a Neanderthal man's skull is dredged up from the North Sea Jun 16, 2009
" Private collectionNeanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) were our close evolutionary cousins; they appear in the fossil record some 400,000 years ago. These resourceful, physically powerful hunter-gatherers dominated a wide range spanning Britain and Iberia in the west, Israel in the south and Siberia in the east. Our own species, Homo sapiens, evolved in Africa, and replaced the Neanderthals after entering Europe about 40,000 years ago. The specimen was found among animal remains and stone... (BBC News)
Fencing: It's Like Chess With Knives Jun 6, 2009
But its origins as a deadly blood sport go back to prehistory. Sure, the Bronze Age produced an improved plowshare, but that must have paled in comparison with the discovery that stabbing with swords was so much more satisfying than hitting with clubs. (Slate)
Back through history: Museums and exhibits right here in Wisconsin May 30, 2009
It s the only place to get the prehistory of La Crosse, said Michelle Logan, administrator of the La Crosse County Historical Society. Admission is 2 adults, 1 children, 5 family. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Should Apple Enter the Console Business? May 28, 2009
Apple's Gaming Prehistory. To predict the future, you need to look at the past. (IGN Wireless Games)
Early People in Southeast Asia May 23, 2009
Southeast Asia's prehistory is dominated by change and the isolating factors of geography. In 1891 anthropologists found the upper part of a large skull near the village of Trinil on the Solo River in central Java. (Suite101.com)
Ivory Venus Figurine From The Swabian Jura Rewrites Prehistory May 15, 2009
ScienceDaily (May 14, 2009) The 2008 excavations at Hohle Fels Cave in the Swabian Jura of southwestern Germany recovered a female figurine carved from mammoth ivory from the basal Aurignacian deposit. This figurine, which is the earliest depiction of a human, and one of the oldest known examples of figurative art worldwide, was made at least 35,000 years ago. (Science Daily)
Scott McMurray: Darwin meets faith -- about time May 15, 2009
Genesis can be seen more in terms of wisdom literature, its purpose never to inform us of prehistory but of the way we are now. As scientist and Christian Francis Collins says, if we love God and love truth, we don t have to be afraid to look into the Bible or the microscope. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Ancient man sculpts a grotesque vision of the female form May 14, 2009
Professor Nicholas Conard, from the department of Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, at T. bingen University, is the author of the scientific paper reported in Nature magazine. (BBC News -- Science)
Worlds Oldest Submerged Town May 13, 2009
The project has received funding from the Institute of Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP), The University of Nottingham and the British School of Archaeology at Athens but it is still 10,000 short of the amount needed to carry out the main archaeological survey. Four annual fieldwork seasons are planned. (Science Daily)
First evidence for prehistoric farming's East-West spread May 9, 2009
" As that occurred, the exchange of ideas and methods that lead to the agricultural revolution of prehistory may, on the evidence of millet finds, have been taking place in both directions. "There is still a misconception that the 'civilizing' effect of farming was a Western invention," Jones added. "Gradually, this sort of evidence is helping to overturn that mistaken belief. " Editor: Yan Related Stories. (Xinhuanet, China)
World’s Oldest Manufactured Beads Are Older Than Previously Thought May 8, 2009
While the team is still awaiting exact dates for these layers, they believe this discovery makes them arguably the earliest shell ornaments in prehistory. The shells are currently at the centre of a debate concerning the origins of modern behaviour in early humans. (Science Daily)
Strange 'Hobbit' Feet May Change Human Prehistory May 8, 2009
Thursday, May 07, 2009. The hobbit skull meets one of its discoverers. (Fox News)
Cambodia puts 3,000-year-old pre-Angkor relics on show May 6, 2009
"This is an opportunity for scholars as well as the public to understand prehistory. We know so little about it," he said. The artifacts on display were found at two sites within the Angkor Wat area, a 2,000-year-old village location and a 3,000-year-old burial place. (Xinhuanet, China)
• Stop by and wish Lucy Stricker happy 150 Apr 28, 2009
Today, Stricker Ranch/Rock Creek Station is a place out of time, with period equipment and other mementos that hearken to the Magic Valley's prehistory. Complete, of course, with ice cream. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
Under the volcano Apr 28, 2009
Nye, the state geologist, said the previous three eruptions are small compared to recent prehistory. About 3,000 years ago, a massive eruption created Crescent Lake on the south side of Redoubt. (Anchorage Daily News)
Canyon de Chelly a true beauty Apr 28, 2009
There's a lot of history and prehistory here. I try to preserve the canyon for future generations. (AZCentral -- Travel)
The Collection of the Muse Carnava... Apr 11, 2009
Paris Prehistory to the Gallo-Roman Era. Of all the museum, this section is most like the anticipated standard museum with illuminated showcases , display stands and a leaflet pile to explain the exhibits. (Suite101.com)
The Ranch: Timeless, changing Apr 10, 2009
The state park is the latest use that goes back into prehistory. In many ways the world of the park, especially in the interior, seems timeless, isolated, unchanging. (Alpine Avalanche, TX)
Churches, castles crumble in Italy quake Apr 7, 2009
The damaged fortifications, once perfectly preserved, are also home to a museum of archaeology and art from prehistory to modern times. L'Aquila, whose name means "The Eagle" in Italian, was built around 1240 by Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and was under French, Spanish and papal domination through the centuries. (AZCentral -- News)
Italy quake hit historic churches, Roman baths Apr 7, 2009
The damaged fortifications, once perfectly preserved, are also home to a museum of archaeology and art from prehistory to modern times. Pier Paolo Cito / APTheAnime Sante church in L'Aquila was among those damaged. (MSNBC -- International)
The Blog Watch Apr 5, 2009
It was an emotional walk through time, from prehistory through Egypt, early America, slavery, the Civil War and the 20th and 21st centuries, and included Asian, Latino and African American figures. Local figures included former Mayor Joe Serna; former state Sen. (Sacramento Bee -- Opinion)
DNA Analysis Uncovers The Prehistory Of Norwegian Red Deer Apr 3, 2009
2, 2009) For his doctoral thesis, Hallvard Haanes discovered that Norwegian red deer are genetically different from other European red deer, due to their historical distribution. However, a century ago, red deer were imported from continental Europe to the island of Otter;ya in Namsos, and these imported deer have created hybrid forms with the Norwegian red deer on the island. (Science Daily)
Tracing anthrax's American roots Mar 16, 2009
Anthrax is thought to have arisen in Africa, which means it would have had to travel through Asia in prehistory "at a fair clip", he says, to reach Alaska by 13,000 years ago. "A simpler hypothesis is that it did come over with the early Spanish settlers in the 16th Century," says Hugh-Jones, which would mean that the oldest bacterial populations are instead in the south. (USA Today -- Tech)
* Legislators berate Chen Ching-hsiu over recent gaffes Mar 13, 2009
On the same day, Council of Indigenous Peoples Minister Chang Jen-hsiang () apologized for a translation error in a guidebook produced by the National Museum of Prehistory that said facial tattoos used by Aborigines symbolized adultery, when the word should have been adulthood. . (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Taiwan)
New Zealand And New Caledonia Geographically Connected: Ocean's Journey Towards The Center Of The Earth Mar 9, 2009
8, 2009) A Monash geoscientist and a team of international researchers have discovered the existence of an ocean floor was destroyed 50 to 20 million years ago, proving that New Caledonia and New Zealand are geographically connected. Using new computer modelling programs Wouter Schellart and the team reconstructed the prehistoric cataclysm that took place when a tectonic plate between Australia and New Zealand was subducted 1100 kilometres into the Earth's interior and at the same time formed a... (Science Daily)
Expert digs deeper into prehistoric NW Iowa Mar 6, 2009
"There is so little known about the prehistory of the lake, just because so much of it got built up before archeological investigation really got going in northwest Iowa." A Great Oasis People site was reported southwest of Linn Grove way back in the 1960s and still has not been dug. And Titcomb pays homage to Rev. F. L. Van Voorhis, a retired clergyman from Alta who excavated a Brooke Creek village in the 1940s he named "Chan Ya Ta," a Sioux Indian word meaning, "at the woods." At this site he... (Storm Lake Pilot Tribune, IA)
Book Buzz: Womens History Month Mar 4, 2009
This is a four-volume set Vol I: Origins, from Prehistory to the First Millenium; Vol II: The Masculine Mystique, from Feudalism to the French Revolution; Vol III: Infernos and Paradises, The Triumph of Capitalism in the 19th Century; and Vol IV: Revolutions and Struggles for Justice in the 20th Century. One day, no history will be written without the female half of the world. (Lihue Garden Island, HA)
Arch to undergo expansion Mar 3, 2009
There is no representation in the report that deals with prehistory and the recognition that part of the cultural resources that was once a part of this area. DeForest was referring to the Cahokia Mounds, a historic site 15 minutes from East St. Louis, which was once a Native American city inhabited by the Illiniwek people. (Washington University Student Life, MO)
Tiny museum connecting D.C. with B.C. Feb 16, 2009
Palisades' prehistory dates to before Christ ... In a city that boasts some of the greatest museums in the world, it's no surprise the of Prehistory is off the tourist maps ... "His work reminds us that people were coming to , before there was a Washington, D.C., and that in addition to occupying a historic city we walk in the midst of prehistory," said , a neighbor and adjunct history professor at who annually brings his students to the museum. (Insight on the News)
Stone-age mystery Feb 8, 2009
I knew that sugar quartz was pretty important material throughout prehistory, said the 31-year-old Winona resident. I looked inside, and my jaw kind of dropped. (Winona Daily News, MN)
An ancient lust and its echoes Feb 8, 2009
The first human figurines - dating from prehistory, during the period of great cave paintings - were carved from ivory. Many are small, with rounded forms that invite touch. (Boston Globe)
