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    Stone-age mystery resurfaces: Farm boys’ 70-year-old stone-tool find etches out image of area’s earliest visitors  Nov 29, 2008
    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. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)

    The High Place in Ancient Religious...  Nov 16, 2008
    Is there a connection to prehistory notions of primitive animism when spirits controlled the forces of nature. Scholars disagree and on-going research continues. (Suite101.com)

    With nudge, a trail of prehistory winds here  Nov 13, 2008
    Local Search Site Search. THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING. (Boston Globe)

    * Water wars  Nov 8, 2008
    But Mithen, professor of early prehistory at the University of Reading, England, and his fellow archeologist Bill Finlayson, believe that gradually people stayed longer ... On the one hand you can see this amazing technological ingenuity of humans, which throughout prehistory and history continually invented new ways to manage water supply, Mithen said. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)

    Toumani Diabate's music transcends borders  Nov 4, 2008
    Martin Scorsese once said Tour's music was "the DNA of the blues," for the way it reflected the prehistory of the blues and jazz. A: Talking about jazz and blues - they're all from Africa. (San Francisco Chronicle)

    LETTERS: The Californian, Oct. 31, 2008  Nov 1, 2008
    HotJobs Local Search. Elect Pulsipher to TVUSD school board. (North County Times)

    Old Montral, Quebec Travel, QC  Oct 29, 2008
    The collection takes visitors from Amerindian prehistory up to the early 20th century, showing what it was like to live during these times. Stewart Museum. (Suite101.com)

    Britain's Oldest Toy Found Buried with Stonehenge Baby?  Oct 22, 2008
    "In fact, it's very rare to find any kind of representational art in British prehistory almost to the extent where you get the impression there's a bit of a taboo on making images of animals or people.". The young child's grave, tentatively dated to between 800 B.C. to 20 B.C., included a pottery vessel, which may have contained food intended for the child's journey to the afterlife, the team said. (National Geographic)

    A History of Beef, Times Two  Oct 22, 2008
    Fussell, a vigorous and delightful writer, focuses her laser-sharp observations on the American West, while Rimas and Fraser are a little rangier, spanning from prehistory to the present and from Argentina to Africa. Highlight Reel:1. (Time.com)

    Roman invasion beach found in Kent  Oct 3, 2008
    The site represents the moment Britain's prehistory ended and its history began. The archaeologists from English Heritage have only exposed four square metres of the beach, but the discovery is already shedding new light on the earliest events of the conquest. (Independent)

    Colonial clue to the rise of HIV  Oct 3, 2008
    " HIV was and remains a "relatively poorly transmitted" virus, he said, so the key to the success of the virus was possibly the development of cities such as Leopoldville in the early 1900s. The large numbers of people living in close proximity would have allowed more opportunity for new infections. "I think the picture that has emerged here, is that changes the human population experienced may have opened to the door to the spread of HIV," he said. Professor Paul Clark, a researcher into... (BBC News -- Health)

    NCT: LETTERS, Sept. 22, 2008  Sep 23, 2008
    Maybe Ron thinks this is "Marxist", which is once again an absurd projection of a modern situation onto history and prehistory. Personally, the real lives of Ron's cavemen could teach Ron a lot about what it means to be human. (North County Times)

    Everything old is new again in Quito, Ecuador  Sep 18, 2008
    The San Juan de Dios Hospital has become the innovative Museo de la Ciudad (City Museum), which documents Quito's past with displays recreating daily life from prehistory to the 19th century with wax figures and sound effects. The Neoclassical Teatro Sucre has been restored to its former glory, along with its nearby cousin, the Variety Theatre. (MSNBC -- Travel)

    College mourns David Macey  Sep 18, 2008
    "Government and Peasant Reform in Russia, 1861-1906: The Prehistory of the Stolypin Reforms", Macey's 1987 book, based largely on his studies at the Harriman Institute of Columbia University, remains one of the most important studies of pre-Revolutionary Russia. In 2004 Macey co-edited with Middlebury Economics Professor Will Pyle, and Stephen K. Wegren, "Building Market Institutions in Post-Communist Agriculture: Land, Credit, and Assistance". (Middlebury College -- The Campus, VT)

    A Payson getaway  Sep 13, 2008
    Payson, 90 scenic miles northeast of the Valley, has plenty of activities for visitors, whether you're interested in learning about local history (and prehistory), exploring the area on foot, sightseeing through the windshield or shopping and dining. Here are some suggestions for those who have one day or several. (AZCentral -- Travel)

    A Jewish family's hidden shame  Sep 5, 2008
    Miller exposes it in pieces, hopscotching back and forth in time from the mid-1980s, when adult Fran;ois (the great Mathieu Amalric, consigned to a modest narrator role) finally confronts Maxime about the past, back to Fran;ois' '50s childhood and then to the family's gradually revealed prehistory, 10 to 20 years earlier. Despite the cut-up chronology, there's nothing unconventional about Miller's storytelling, which relies heavily on Amalric's voice-over narration, expositional family... (Salon)

    Western unions  Aug 24, 2008
    After a brief fling with anthropologists and prehistory, she gets down with the Bible (Old Testament and New), the Greeks (Solon, Xenophon, Aristotle, Demosthenes, and Plutarch), the Romans (Cato, Livy, Augustus, Juvenal et al.), and a varied crew of Christians (from Augustine, through a bunch of popes, to the aforementioned Luther), witch haters (the infamous "Malleus Maleficarum," everyone's favorite 15th-century witch-hunting manual), and canonical authors (Boccaccio, Chaucer, Shakespeare:... (Boston Globe)

    Process By Which All Blood Cells Originate Is Essentially The Same Throughout Mammal World  Aug 6, 2008
    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. (Dec. (Science Daily)

    Glazed America: IUPUI anthropologist examines doughnut as symbol of consumer culture  Jul 22, 2008
    Sometime in prehistory someone dropped flour into oil and the ancestor of the doughnut was born. Since that time every culture has fried flour and many have added something sweet to the dough. (EurekAlert!)

    Sul Ross students ‘dig’ summer archaelogy class  Jul 19, 2008
    He added, "This is an exceptional opportunity afforded to us by the ranch owners, and these students have contributed to our knowledge of prehistory in the region.". Reader Comments Many of you have expressed concerns about some of the harsh anonymous comments from readers. (Odessa American, TX)

    Flatfish Fossils: Evolutionary Missing Link?  Jul 13, 2008
    13, 2007) Two new fossils cast fresh light on a little understood and important period of human prehistory at the dawn of our own genus, Homo. One of the two fossils, an upper jaw bone of Homo habilis (KNM-ER. (Science Daily)

    Three Great American Ideas  Jul 2, 2008
    Certainly when compared to Europe, we have no very ancient history as a people -- no ruins of past iterations of our own civilization dot the landscape to remind us of any deep roots in the mists of prehistory. No mythical Romulus and Remus, suckled by wolves, form our creation myth. (Townhall.com)

    Lake Sediments Help Scientists Trace 7,000 Years Of Mining, Metal Use In China  Jun 20, 2008
    The study could help scientists better assess the accumulative environmental effects of human activity in the region since prehistory times. See also. (Science Daily)

    Evolution of the action film  Jun 12, 2008
    Scripps Howard News Service. SHNS is distributed by United Media. (Scripps Howard News Wire)

    Action's Evolution  Jun 8, 2008
    Evolution of the action film. Article:Evolution of the action film:/c/a/2008/06/06/PK3A10U7BQ.DTL Article:Evolution of the action film:/c/a/2008/06/06/PK3A10U7BQ.DTL. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)

    The Ball Is Round  Jun 7, 2008
    Perhaps the finestcertainly the stoutestsoccer history ever written is David Goldblatt's 974-page (2006), which crams it all in, from the game's ancient prehistory in Tan dynasty China to Zinedine Zidane. Goldblatt thinks and writes lucidly, offering insights on the social and economic aspects of soccer in the globalized age. (Slate)

    REVIEW: 'Savage Grace,' a film of decadent decline  Jun 6, 2008
    Savage Grace,' a film of decadent decline - International Herald Tribune. Julianne Moore marries up and then has a long spiral down in "Savage Grace." (IFC Films). (International Herald Tribune)

    We as black people now have hope that we have never, ever had. I have new goals for my little girl. She can't give me any excuses because she's black."  Jun 6, 2008
    Many African-Americans see a tipping point in Obama's victory - International Herald Tribune. Kwabena Sam-Brew after the Barack Obama Rally in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota, on Tuesday night. (International Herald Tribune)

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    Many African-Americans see a tipping point in Obama's victory - International Herald Tribune. Many African-Americans see a tipping point in Obama's victory. (International Herald Tribune)

    U.S. not seeking permanent Iraq bases, ambassador says  Jun 6, 2008
    Published: June 6, 2008. The United States ambassador to Iraq dismissed any suggestion on Thursday that the Bush administration was maneuvering to set up permanent military bases in Iraq. (International Herald Tribune)

    Read Article »  Jun 6, 2008
    In Utah, rafting through prehistory - International Herald Tribune ... In Utah, rafting through prehistory ... AND when it comes to the river, which flows through a layered, time-carved landscape that reeks of prehistory, there are even deeper mysteries. (International Herald Tribune)

    Swiss co-hosts meet Czechs in opening match  Jun 6, 2008
    Reuters Published: June 6, 2008. Euro 2008 gets underway on Saturday with co-hosts Switzerland pitting their promising young team against an experienced Czech Republic side (5 p.m. British time) keen to prove their best days are not behind them. (International Herald Tribune)

    Bones of large prehistoric camel found in Gilbert  May 22, 2008
    Another piece of prehistory has been uncovered in Gilbert. Town officials announced Wednesday that the upper-foreleg bone of a large camel known as camelops was discovered in February during construction of a water treatment plant in southeast Gilbert. (AZCentral)

    Soccer And Sightseeing In Europe  May 13, 2008
    The city features art museums and the Swiss National Museum, with exhibits on the country's cultural heritage going back to prehistory. On the outskirts of town is the zoo with the Masoala Rainforest, a dome-shaped enclosure recreating a Madagascar environment complete with live lizards and lemurs in the trees overhead as you wander the paths below. (CBS News -- World)

    May at the Landing  May 10, 2008
    In addition to the river cleanup, the Landing is hosting a night of history at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, May 15, when Bernie Otto, president of the Massasoit chapter of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society, will present a talk and slide show on the prehistory of the Kingston Bay area. The presentation will focus on archaeological digs in the River Street and Rocky Nook areas, and the talk is free. (Kingston Mariner, MA)

    Book Review: Becoming Roxy Music  May 8, 2008
    The more likely result of reading "Re-Make/Re-Model," a prehistory of Roxy Music by the English novelist and cultural critic Michael Bracewell, will be a visit to the Museum of Modern Art. Today in Culture. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)

    Carnac Rows of prehistoric Stones  Apr 14, 2008
    The region is a megalithic paradise and features many more prehistoric monuments dotted around the area, and is a fascinating introduction to European prehistory for all ages ... Museum of Prehistory. (Suite101.com)

    Fooling Ourselves into Entitlements  Apr 13, 2008
    To find such a large decline in a year you must peer back into the mists of prehistory, all the way back to ... To find such a large decline in a year you must peer back into the mists of prehistory, all the way back to. (Townhall.com)

    * The best of all worlds  Apr 11, 2008
    Taitungs National Museum of Prehistory (OWve]), Taitung Hunter School (xFyH) and Mountain Boar University (sj) make up the second days itinerary. Participants will see how hunting knowledge is passed from generation to generation, as well as how elders pass on their tribes history and ways of thinking through storytelling. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)

    Stonehenge is a shrine ... to red tape  Apr 3, 2008
    And I'm sorry that regular contributors, who usually think history in our schools is so important, have so little appreciation of Britain's prehistory. Posted by cyn on April 2, 2008 2:52 PM. (Telegraph.co.uk)

    Bigger future for hobo museum?  Mar 29, 2008
    Palan said a building must either have architectural significance; historical ties with famous people; hold clues to the past or prehistory itself or must have significance in the overall scheme of society or within the community. It is this fourth requirement that he is currently working on. (Forest City Summit, IO)

    Spain dig yields ancient European  Mar 27, 2008
    "In terms of European prehistory, this [find] is very significant," said Professor Chris Stringer, research leader in human origins at London's Natural History Museum. The timing of the earliest human habitation in Europe has been controversial. (BBC News)

    Oldest Cretaceous Period Dinosaur Discovered Represents New Genus Of Prehistoric Aquatic Predator  Mar 21, 2008
    It represents the oldest known forerunner of this amazing period in North American prehistory. The excellent condition of the fossil has also proven to be a gold mine for palaeontologists, who often rely on scattered and incomplete examples for classifying and reconstructing plesiosaur prehistory. (Science Daily)

    Does scripture have a place in treating mental illness?  Mar 17, 2008
    The Sydney Morning Herald Blogs: News Blog. Welcome to Sydney Morning Herald Online. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)

    Exploring A 'Lost' City Of The Mycenaeans  Mar 15, 2008
    SHARP has received financial support from several groups, including the Institute for Aegean Prehistory, the Loeb Classical Library Foundation, the Stavros S. Niarchos Foundation, FSU and the University of Pennsylvania. Adapted from materials provided by , via , a service of AAAS.. (Science Daily)

    Play history  Mar 3, 2008
    This section also links videogames to a rich prehistory of card and board games, penny arcades and pinball machines, military strategy games and pen and paper role playing games, as well as traditional sports. Each category is divided into 'families' that represent a vast spectrum of gameplay, from the early puzzle games such as Codebreakers (1978), to genre defining games such as the adventure game Zelda - Ocarina of Time (1998), the simulation Populous (1989), and the fighting game Street... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)

    Video star pushes the nostalgia button  Mar 1, 2008
    Andy Hain, a software engineer in Brighton, England, maintains the website and "virtual museum" , which scrupulously charts the evolution of VCRs from prehistory to obsolescence. Since it functions as an elegy for a departed medium, Be Kind Rewind differs substantially in tone from most other movies that have prominently featured videotapes and video technology. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)

    Land before time: 11 great prehistoric flicks  Mar 1, 2008
    But Hollywood has a history of mining prehistory for entertainment value over archaeological exactness or, as legendary animator Ray Harryhausen once put it, professors probably dont go to the cinema anyway ... Sure, its not much by todays standards, but think of it as the prehistory of prehistory. (MSNBC -- News)

    Dead reckoning  Feb 25, 2008
    The pages contain fast, fact-packed yet amusing essays on history and prehistory, with vivid insights and descriptions of critters long departed, the landscape, bureaucracies, scientists, speculators and other peculiar personalities who find their Nirvana while digging through dry dust and rock for any hint of life from long, long ago. It's a bit like what you'd get if Hunter Thompson had written a book about geology. (Anchorage Daily News)

    'Who is Jesus?' program to be presented  Feb 22, 2008
    The Tin B Cailnge is an epic tale, glimpsing back into Celtic prehistory, and an equal to Beowulf or The Canterbury Tales. Irish manuscripts, like the Book of Kells, are an impressive art form that is uniquely Irish. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)

    A terrible, beautiful history of hope  Feb 16, 2008
    It suggests we have a connection with our land not solely based on commerce, and that there are continuities in our understanding of our land that extend into prehistory. It is an argument, never more timely, that we are our own people, not a poor imitation of elsewhere. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)

    Text of PM Rudd's 'sorry' address  Feb 13, 2008
    We embrace with pride, admiration and awe these great and ancient cultures we are truly blessed to have among us cultures that provide a unique, uninterrupted human thread linking our Australian continent to the most ancient prehistory of our planet. Growing from this new respect, we see our indigenous brothers and sisters with fresh eyes, with new eyes, and we have our minds wide open as to how we might tackle, together, the great practical challenges that indigenous Australia faces in the... (Sydney Morning Herald)

    How a building becomes 'historic'  Feb 3, 2008
    It could yield or likely to yield information to the history of our prehistory. Peggy Brooker, Casper's Historic Preservation Commission coordinator, said the five additional buildings are eligible because of their association with the economic development of Casper, as well as their age. (Casper Star-Tribune, WY)

    Past and future perfect  Jan 12, 2008
    Maybe what it was like to walk with an Albertosaurus in prehistory ... BADLANDS, ALBERTA: THE ROAD TO PREHISTORY. (Globe and Mail)

    'The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken' Former Hoboken resident discovers food and family  Jan 11, 2008
    That book recounts the story of women and food from prehistory to present day. Schenone said that after writing that first book about women and food it was time for her to recount her own life. (Hoboken Reporter, NJ)

    Neanderthals may be ancestors of modern humans, scientist says  Jan 3, 2008
    SOURCES: HISTORY OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HUMAN EVOLUTION AND PREHISTORY. Recommend this article. (Globe and Mail)

    Rewarded for a scam  Dec 28, 2007
    " ManBearPig wrote on Dec 25, 2007 1:39 AM:" FlimFlam-Lets see, I have to grow up, I have to stop being so selfish, You don't care about my "Conspiracy theory", I insinuated your ignorance, I insinuated your prehistory intelligence, I appear to lack the self control to debate civilly, and it's very hard for you to listen to people like me ... " FlimFlam wrote on Dec 24, 2007 9:41 AM:" ManBearPig, Lets see you insinuated my ignorance (inflammatory) then you insinuated a prehistory human mentality... (Sioux City Journal, IO)

    'We'd be better off if women ran everything'  Dec 18, 2007
    For the whole of prehistory, this separation of roles worked well, Morris says - a perfect union designed to rear young and perpetuate the species. The problem came when we started to expand from our natural tribal groups of around 100 and develop big settlements. (Guardian Unlimited)

    Historical Register listing looking hopeful for Canal Place  Dec 11, 2007
    that have yielded, or may be likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history. Some of the effects of being listed on the State and National Historic Registers, Smith said, include the fostering of community pride. (Little Falls Evening Times, NY)

    Review: Schliemann blurs line between discovery, fraud in 'Troy'  Nov 25, 2007
    (The Nazis, after all, were themselves enthusiastic crank archaeologists, eager to concoct their own sufficiently ennobling prehistory out of whole cloth if necessary. . (San Francisco Chronicle)

    * Their amp goes up to eleven  Nov 23, 2007
    "It's either historical or prehistorical, or vaguely crypto-zoology. Usually when I'm with them I do prehistorical - prehistory way back like zygotes.". "We have no idea what he's singing about," Walters says. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)

    READERS WRITE  Nov 19, 2007
    We can't prove that a guy named Smith didn't find a bunch of golden tablets about the prehistory of the Americas (and then hide them away at some secret undisclosed location). We can't prove that dead jihadists don't arrive at paradise equipped with 42 virgins. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)

    LOST CAVES REVEALED  Nov 17, 2007
    When New Melones Dam was filled a quarter century ago this year, thousands of acres of history and prehistory were lost to its watery depths. Drought conditions, however, have lowered the lake level by 93 feet, bringing back a glimpse of what was lost notably, several of the 20-plus caves inundated when the dam's floodwaters began to rise. (The Union Democrat)

    * Events & Entertainment  Nov 9, 2007
    The exhibit will move to the National Museum of Prehistory (xWve]) and Kaohsiung Museum of History (v]). For more information, visit www. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)

    Filling In The Blanks Of Southeast Asian Prehistory  Oct 27, 2007
    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 ... Dr. Joyce White, Senior Research Scientist at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and Director of the Museum s Ban Chiang, Thailand project, has long believed that the key to understanding the early prehistory of the entire region lay in Laos, especially northern Laos,... (Science Daily)

    Interest rising in Britain  Oct 24, 2007
    In the television prehistory of 30 years ago, the only hint many Britons had of the NFL came courtesy of one of the 20th century's foremost American icons, J.R. Ewing, who was fictional if you must be a stickler about it. The opening credits of "Dallas" showed a Cowboys game from atop Texas Stadium and, Halling said, "Most of us before 1982, that was the only thing we knew about American football.". (Los Angeles Times)

    * Say what you see, see what you say  Oct 18, 2007
    A joint venture between the Museum of Filipino People, National Museums of Thailand, Museum of Vietnamese History, National Taiwan Museum, National Museum of Prehistory and National History Museum, the exhibit contains 226 cultural artifacts including tapestries, bowls, masks, puppets, stonework and sculpture. There is even a section on betel nuts. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)

    Commitment to Illinois River continues ... Soldier's remains ID'd after 40 years ... Pekin Park District reports on current and future projects ... Hopedale surgeon sued for medical malpractice ... Court briefs ... Police notes ... ';var marqueewidth="350px";var marqueeheight="25px";var marqueebgcolor="#FFFFFF";////NO NEED TO EDIT BELOW THIS LINE////////////var pauseit=1;var marqueespeed=1 //slow speed down by 1 for NSvar copyspeed=marqueespeedvar pausespeed=(pauseit==0)? copyspeed: 0var iedom=document.all||document.getElementByIdif (iedom)document.write(''+marqueecontent+'')var actualwidth=''var cross_marquee, ns_marqueefunction populate(){if (iedom){cross_marquee=document.getElementById? document.getElementById("iemarquee") : document.all.iemarqueecross_marquee.style.left=parseInt(marqueewidth)+8+"px"cross_marquee.innerHTML=marqueecontentactualwidth=document.all? temp.offsetWidth : document.getElementById("temp").offsetWidth}else if (document.layers){ns_marquee=document.ns_marquee.document.ns_marquee2ns_marquee.left=parseInt(marqueewidth)+8ns_marquee.document.write(marqueecontent)ns_marquee.document.close()actualwidth=ns_marquee.document.width}lefttime=setInterval("scrollmarquee()",20)}window.onload=populate;function scrollmarquee(){if (iedom){if (parseInt(cross_marquee.style.left)>(actualwidth*(-1)+8))cross_marquee.style.left=parseInt(cross_marquee.style.left)-copyspeed+"px"elsecross_marquee.style.left=parseInt(marqueewidth)+8+"px"}else if (document.layers){if (ns_marquee.left>(actualwidth*(-1)+8))ns_marquee.left-=copyspeedelsens_marquee.left=parseInt(marqueewidth)+8}}if (iedom||document.layers){with (document){document.write('')if (iedom){write('')write('')write('')write('')}else if (document.layers){write('')write('')write('')}document.write('')}}Thursday, October 04, 2007 Participants in a River Conference Conservation Tour make a stop at the Mackinaw River near Townline Road outside of South Pekin Tuesday. Photo by Josh Bradshaw / Times staff Commitment to Illinois River continues  Oct 4, 2007
    Topics include public issues such as stormwater management, restoration projects, public/private partnerships, nature-based tourism, scenic byways, Asian carp, and the prehistory and archeology of the river valley. Taking off from Peoria's Holiday Inn City Centre Hotel, the motorcoach tour departed at 9 a.m. The pre-registered passengers heard various speakers give educational talks on environmental issues, such as erosion control, a Mossville subdivision striving for environmental friendliness,... (Pekin Times, IL)

    Greatest moments in Web history  Oct 4, 2007
    Yet it already has a long and storied history (and some prehistory). We've decided to chronicle its 16 greatest moments here. (InfoWorld)

    Do we have a right to reproduce? [Guest Opinion]  Oct 2, 2007
    More specifically, within the human species, there is evidence from prehistory regarding isolated populations overtaxing local ecosystems, leading to an associated loss of cultures. But examining the historical global human population growth rate, it is clear that the problems associated with current population levels are indeed a very recent phenomenon with no historical precedent. (Daily Iowan, IA)

    What language barrier?  Oct 1, 2007
    Evolutionary psychology is open to a similar criticism: that it takes today's social prejudices and projects them back into prehistory, thus elevating them to the status of timeless truths about the human condition. Champions of the evolutionary approach often say it is their opponents whose arguments are based on prejudice rather than facts or logic. (Guardian Unlimited)

    Extraterrestrial Impact Likely Source Of Sudden Ice Age Extinctions  Sep 26, 2007
    Now a team of scientists, including Brown University planetary geologist Peter Schultz, provides evidence that an asteroid impact likely caused the sudden climate changes that killed off the mammoths and other majestic beasts of prehistory. In the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the international team lays out its theory that the mass extinctions in North America were caused by one or more extraterrestrial objects comets or meteorites that exploded over the Earth or slammed into... (Science Daily)

    The first Helenans  Sep 23, 2007
    Throughout prehistory and into the 1800s, the Helena Valley drew hunter-gatherers, most of them transient. The Nez Perce, Blackfeet, Shoshone, Crow and Assiniboine all hunted here. (Helena Independent Record)

    Vote for your favorite life science blogs  Sep 21, 2007
    He didn't have a childhood but a prehistory (comments on evolution). No tuvo infancia, tuvo prehistoria (comentarios sobre evolucin). (The Scientist)

    Infotainment  Sep 15, 2007
    For the past month, the Colombian pop star has been taking a class at the University of California, Los Angeles, called Introduction to Western Civilization: Ancient Civilizations from Prehistory. In the Valley of ElahHollywood: Cast members Frances Fisher (L), Jake McLaughlin (2nd R), Charlize Theron (R) and director Paul Haggis attend the premiere of In the Valley of Elah. (Daily Times, Pakistan)

    Shakira's hips don't lie, and they go to UCLA  Sep 15, 2007
    For the past month, the Colombian pop star has been taking a class at the University of California, Los Angeles, called Introduction to Western Civilization: Ancient Civilizations from Prehistory to Circa A.D. 843. She went when she finished her tour, for the summer, Shakira s manager Fifi Kurzman told The Associated Press. (KHOU.com, TX)

    Shakira: Pop star, UCLA student  Sep 14, 2007
    For the past month, the Colombian pop star has been taking a class at the University of California, Los Angeles, called "Introduction to Western Civilization: Ancient Civilizations from Prehistory to Circa A.D. 843." ... For the past month, the Colombian pop star has attended a class at the University of California, Los Angeles, called 'Introduction to Western Civilization: Ancient Civilizations from Prehistory to Circa A.D. 843. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

    Shakira takes break from hip-shimmying to study at UCLA  Sep 14, 2007
    For the past month, the Colombian pop star has been taking a class at UCLA called "Introduction to Western Civilization: Ancient Civilizations from Prehistory to Circa A.D. 843.". The class began August 6th and ended Thursday. (KRNV.com, NV)

    Whiteside House on historic list  Aug 22, 2007
    It has to be associated with historic events or a historically significant person; have relics from prehistory, such as an archaeological site might have; or embody a distinct type of architecture. Eaton initially wanted to use the association with the Whiteside family as the main qualifying criterion. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)

    Oldest footprint discovered  Aug 22, 2007
    Khaled Saad, the director of prehistory at the council, said that, based on the age of the rock where the footprint was found, it could date back even further than the renowned three million year-old fossil Lucy, the partial skeleton of an ape-man which was found in Ethiopia in 1974. Most archaeological interest in Egypt is focused on the time of the pharaohs. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)

    Whiteside House listed on National Register of Historic Places  Aug 21, 2007
    It has to be associated with historic events or a historically significant person, or it must have relics from prehistory, such as an archaeological site might have, or it has to embody a distinct type of architecture. Eaton initially wanted to use the association with the locally prominent Whiteside family as the main qualifying criterion. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)

    What's so special about Lake Winnipesaukee? (And more travel tidbits)  Aug 7, 2007
    Finally, a quick survey in the back covers "Thirty-Two Millennia in Six Pages" from prehistory through ancient Greece and Rome, the Middle Ages and Renaissance, right up to modern times. The book is not a travel guide per se, however, so you won't find addresses, hours and admission information - just an entertainingly written overview. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

    The 1 million treasure buried by a  Jul 22, 2007
    Jonathan Williams, the British Museum s keeper of prehistory and Europe, said that the remarkable find shed new light on a period overshadowed by bloodshed and brutality. This was a crucial moment in the country we now live in, he said. (Times Online)

    Linguists seek a time when we spoke as one  Jul 21, 2007
    "That time limit is totally wrong," says John Bengtson, vice president of the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory in Cambridge, Mass. "Languages that have been separated 8,000 years get down to a low percentage of common words. However, that low percentage seems to be very stable.". (USA Today -- Tech)

    Viking treasure hoard uncovered  Jul 20, 2007
    " The ancient objects come from as far afield as Afghanistan in the East and Ireland in the West, as well as Russia, Scandinavia and continental Europe. The hoard contains 617 silver coins and 65 other objects, including a gold arm-ring and a gilt silver vessel. Dr Jonathan Williams, keeper of prehistory in Europe at the British Museum, said: "[The cup] is beautifully decorated and was made in France or Germany at around AD900. "It is fantastically rare - there are only a handful of others known... (BBC News -- Science)

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