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Earliest Humans Not So Different from Us, Research Suggests
February 14, 2011 — New research suggests that "behavioral modernity" is a flawed concept. In truth, early humans were not much different from us, an archaeologist ... > full story -
Ancient Mesoamerican Sculpture Uncovered in Southern Mexico
February 14, 2011 — With one arm raised and a determined scowl, the figure looks ready to march right off his carved tablet and into the history books. If only we knew who he was -- corn god? Tribal chief? Sacred ... > full story -
X-Rays Show Why Van Gogh Paintings Lose Their Shine
February 14, 2011 — Scientists using synchrotron X-rays have identified the chemical reaction in two van Gogh paintings that alters originally bright yellow colors into brown shades. This process is observed in many ... > full story -
Archaeologists Find Hidden African Side to Noted 1780s Enlightenment Building in Maryland, U.S.
February 14, 2011 — A famous US Revolutionary-era building -- lone-surviving testament to an Enlightenment ideal -- has a hidden West African face, archaeologists have discovered. Their excavation at Maryland's 1785 ... > full story -
Lost Whaling Shipwreck With Link to Melville's Moby-Dick Discovered in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
February 13, 2011 — Maritime heritage archaeologists have found the nationally-significant wreckage of a famous 1800's Nantucket whale ship, Two Brothers, on a reef off French Frigate Shoals, nearly six hundred miles ... > full story -
Mummy Remains Show False Toes Helped Ancient Egyptians Walk
February 13, 2011 — Two artificial big toes -- one found attached to the foot of an ancient Egyptian mummy -- may have been the world's earliest functional prosthetic body parts, says the scientist who tested replicas ... > full story -
3-D Digital Dinosaur Track Download: A Roadmap for Saving at-Risk Natural History Resources
February 11, 2011 — Portable laser scanning technology allows researchers to tote a fossil discovery from field to lab in the form of digital data on a laptop. But standard formats to ensure data accessibility of these ... > full story -
Quest for Extinct Giant Rats Leads Scientists to Ancient Face Carvings
February 11, 2011 — Ancient stone faces carved into the walls of a well-known limestone cave in East Timor have been discovered by a team searching for fossils of extinct giant ... > full story -
Mysterious Voynich Manuscript Dates Back to Early 15th Century, Researchers Find
February 10, 2011 — The Voynich manuscript is one of the most mysterious writings ever found -- penned by an unknown author in a language no one understands. While enthusiasts across the world pored over the strange ... > full story -
New View of Human Evolution? 3.2 Million-Year-Old Fossil Foot Bone Supports Humanlike Bipedalism in Lucy's Species
February 10, 2011 — A fossilized foot bone recovered from Hadar, Ethiopia, shows that by 3.2 million years ago human ancestors walked bipedally with a modern human-like foot. These findings support the hypothesis that ... > full story -
Foot Bone Suggests Lucy's Kin Had Arched Foot, for Walking
February 10, 2011 — Researchers have found proof that arches existed in a predecessor to the human species that lived more than 3 million years ago. This discovery could change scientists' views of human ... > full story -
Los Angeles Basin Long Overdue for Major Earthquake: Lake-Effect Theory Sinks, but Quake Timing Questions Go on
February 10, 2011 — A chronology of 1,000 years of earthquakes at the southern end of the San Andreas Fault nixes the idea that lake changes in the now-dry region caused past quakes. However, researchers say, the ... > full story
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