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2,000 year old Stone Adzes from Tuamotus reveal Polynesian Trading Capabilities
Kenneth Collerson and Marshall Weisler the University of Queensland, Australia have been studying 19 2,000 year old adzes which were excavated in the 1930′s from coral atolls in the Tuamotus, in the...
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Again on Ancient African Megadroughts
PNAS finally published one of the two sets of ecological explanations for the Out-of-Africa theory in “East African megadroughts between 135 and 75 thousand years ago and bearing on early-modern human...
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Strontium isotope used to investigate Neandertal mobility
Some heavy hitting names are behind an upcoming paper on Neandertal mobility, which is based upon an isotope analysis of a tooth. A couple of them that you may recognize are Katerina Harvati and...
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The Age of Omo I and Omo II from the Kibish Formation, Omo Valley, Ethiopia
Two articles in the Journal of Human Evolution reanalyze the geochronology of the Kibish Formation, in the Omo Valley, Ethiopia. One is titled, “Microstratigraphy of the Kibish hominin sites KHS and...
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A Refined Ar/Ar Date For The ‘Devil’s Footprints’ From The Roccamonfina...
I remember reading a short announcement in 2003 about the discovery of 385,000–325,000 years old human-like footprints near the Roccamonfina volcanoes in southern Italy. We haven’t found many...
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A Weak Sun Possibly Brought Down The Tang Dynasty & Mayan Civilization
Tomorrow’s issue of Science hosts lots of interesting papers, one of which is titled, “A Test of Climate, Sun, and Culture Relationships from an 1810-Year Chinese Cave Record,” and reports on the...
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Megafloods and the Collapse of Cahokia
My first understanding of Cahokia and pre-Columbian cities of the Americas came from the book 1491. Between 1050 and 1200 A.D., Cahokia was North America’s largest and most prominent cultural center...
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