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Polygons to the rescue: virtually unwrapping an ancient scroll long thought destroyed
2016-09-27 17:00:15| Extremetech
The beginning of Leviticus talks about burned animal offerings, but somehow we don't think this is what the writers had in mind.
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In a parched corner of Xinjiang, ancient water tunnels are running dry
2016-09-22 14:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: It is an improbable journey that begins on the highest peaks of the Tianshan Mountains, where glacial snowmelt descends across one of the worlds most arid landscapes to reach the lush oasis communities of this ancient Silk Road outpost. Powered by gravity, the water pure and cold makes the entire voyage underground, traveling through scores of subterranean channels, some of them 15 miles long and 100 feet deep, that were built 2,000 years ago by the pastoralists who settled this inhospitable...
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Ancient DNA traces extinct Caribbean 'Island Murderer' back to the dawn of mammals
2016-09-13 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] From skeletal remains found among ancient owl pellets, a team of scientists has recovered the first ancient DNA of the extinct West Indian mammal Nesophontes, meaning “island murder.” They traced its evolutionary history back to the dawn of mammals 70 million years ago. The authors, including Selina Brace, Jessica Thomas, Ian Barnes et al., published their findings in the advanced online edition of Molecular Biology and Evolution. …
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Ancient Native American Lands are Threatened With Destruction by Oil Interests
2016-09-12 15:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
One Green Planet: The Standing Rock Sioux Reservation encompasses 2.3 million acres of land in North Dakota and is home to more than 8,000 members of the Sioux tribe. For the past several months, the people of the reservation have been fighting to protect their sacred lands and precious water supply from potential destruction in the form of the Dakota Access oil pipeline. Water is life, according to the Sioux. In a land where surface water and shallow groundwater are scarce and unreliable sources of water, the...
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Tool or weapon? New research throws light on stone artifacts' use as ancient projectiles
2016-08-18 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — A team of psychologists, kinesiologists and archaeologists at Indiana University and elsewhere are throwing new light on a longstanding archaeological mystery: the purpose of a large number of spherical stone artifacts found at a major archaeological site in South Africa. IU Bloomington professor Geoffrey Bingham and colleagues in the United Kingdom and United States contend that the stones — previously thought by some to be used as tools —…
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