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Plan Brokered By Archaeologists Would Remove Roadblock To Mideast Peace
April 11, 2008 Israelis and Palestinians may not be able to agree right now on their present or future, but, if a pair of Los Angeles archaeologists have their way, they soon will see eye to eye on their past. ... > full story -
Precise Cut for Sparkling Jewels Using Automated Gem Cutting Machine
April 8, 2008 Rubies, emeralds and tourmalines can only sparkle with the right cut. Since early this year, a fully automatic machine has undertaken this grinding process one gem cutter. It saves up to 30 percent ... > full story -
Archaeologist Helps Community By Keeping African Artifacts In Africa
April 7, 2008 It is common for professional archaeologists and paleoanthropologists working in Africa to populate western museums with foreign artifacts by excavating and permanently removing them from history ... > full story -
Pre-Clovis Human DNA Found In 14,300-Year-Old Feces In Oregon Cave Is Oldest In New World
April 3, 2008 DNA from dried human excrement recovered from Oregon's Paisley Caves is the oldest found yet in the New World -- dating to 14,300 years ago, some 1,200 years before Clovis culture -- and provides ... > full story -
Is Globalization as Old as the Earth?
April 2, 2008 Archaeologists find ancient Jerusalem may be a model for today's corporations. As today's corporations know well, the strategy was all about location. Where did they set up their branch offices? In ... > full story -
Oldest Known Gold Artifacts In The Americas Discovered
March 31, 2008 Gold has long been more than a fashion statement, and wearing jewelry and other adornments made of it often connotes prestige. And it did not take long for ancient people to figure that out. ... > full story -
How Were The Egyptian Pyramids Built?
March 28, 2008 The Aztecs, Mayans and ancient Egyptians were three very different civilizations with one very large similarity: pyramids. However, of these three ancient cultures, the Egyptians set the standard for ... > full story -
Early Americans Arrived Thousands of Years Earlier Than Previously Believed
March 20, 2008 Anthropologists provide evidence that the first Americans came to this country 1,000 to 2,000 years earlier than the 13,500 years ago previously thought, which could shift historic ... > full story -
Clovis-Age Overkill Didn't Take Out California's Flightless Sea Duck
March 17, 2008 Clovis-age natives, often noted for overhunting during their brief dominance in a primitive North America, deserve clemency in the case of California's flightless sea duck. New evidence says it took ... > full story -
Exploring A 'Lost' City Of The Mycenaeans
March 11, 2008 Along an isolated, rocky stretch of Greek shoreline, researchers are unlocking the secrets of a partially submerged, "lost" harbor town believed to have been built by the ancient Mycenaeans nearly ... > full story
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