[Jawlist] Science, Archaeology and Ancient History Weekly Report 10-31-08

Sat Nov 1 14:20:50 PDT 2008

Good Evening Everyone,

Below is this week's edition.  Enjoy!

Steve Detwiler

Science, Archaeology and Ancient History Weekly Report
October 31, 2008

“These virtues do not have ineffable meaning, but offer a sense of morality-a way to be, and a way to behave, as a member of the human family.”
Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah of the Kingdom of Jordan on being Muslim

News Articles

Paleontology, Evolution and Prehistoric Studies

Cape stakes claim to origin of modern man
http://www.thetimes.co.za/PrintEdition/Article.aspx?id=870649

Traces of primitive man found in Cao Bang
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/lifestyle/2008/10/810216/

Utah one of world's best spots for dinosaurs
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/24/TRD513LJ3J.DTL&type=science

Humans made fire 790,000 years ago: study
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081026/sc_nm/us_science_fire

Baby dinosaur had full-grown bite
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn15035-baby-dinosaur-had-fullgrown-bite.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news10_head_dn15035

Taking Wing: Uncovering the Evolutionary Origins of Bats
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=uncovering-bat-evolutionary-origins

Jurassic treasure trove lost by Victorians found by Phil Wilby, fossil sleuth
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article5003383.ece

Why did Neanderthals have such big noses?
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn15042-why-did-neanderthals-have-such-big-noses.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news1_head_dn15042

T. rex noses out dinosaur competition
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27426933/

Dinosaur 'mummies' were just thick-skinned
http://environment.newscientist.com/article/mg20026795.800-dinosaur-mummies-were-just-thickskinned.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news4_head_mg20026795.800

Ancient iceman probably has no modern relatives
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081030/sc_nm/us_iceman_children;_ylt=AoVj.FTWtnyfDRDCm24rPTUhANEA

Significant Fossil Discovery In Utah Shows Land Plants Of 200 Million Years Ago
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081029115137.htm

Eight-Armed Animal Preceded Dinosaurs
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/10/30/eight-arm-animal.html

'Living fossil' tree contains genetic imprints of rain forests under climate change
http://www.physorg.com/news144604259.html

Pa. site puts people in North America 16,000 years ago
http://www.projo.com/travel/content/TRV-MEADOWCROFT_11-02-08_0VBR95E_v10.119032a.html

Spiders and Scorpions Among World's Oldest Creatures
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/10/31/spider-scorpion-genetic.html

Tools give earlier date for 'modern-thinking' humans
http://www.physorg.com/news144676690.html

Extinct sabertooth cats were social, found strength in numbers, study shows
http://www.physorg.com/news144668875.html

Innovation Linked to Human Migration Out of Africa
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/10/081031-first-humans-out-of-africa.html

Pope sees physicist Hawking at evolution gathering
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081031/sc_nm/us_pope_hawking

Hawaiian Cave Reveals Ancient Secrets
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20081025/sc_livescience/hawaiiancaverevealsancientsecrets;_ylt=Aktojl9bHwstb_DXMe1mHZZ7hMgF

Ancient and General History

Vikings preferred male grooming to pillaging
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3256539/Vikings-preferred-male-grooming-to-pillaging.html

Star-Spangled Banner Days
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/star-spangled-banner.html

Zeppelins return to the skies in San Francisco
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/10/25/zeppelin.tours.ap/index.html

Researchers dig up the dirt on father of Protestantism
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/27/martin-luther-protestantism

Pilot recalls encounter with UFO
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/bizarre/6077389.html

Inca Elite Imported Diverse "Staff" to Run Machu Picchu
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/10/081027-machu-picchu-diverse.html

The Vikings' burning question: some decent graveside theatre
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article5019976.ece

Nazis hoped to found empire in Amazonian rainforest
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/3252103/Nazis-hoped-to-found-empire-in-Amazonian-rainforest.html

Mystery of cardinal's missing bones
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7672099.stm

Tsunami in 2004 'not the first' 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7697482.stm

Robert Furman, atom bomb spy leader, dead at 93
http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=robert-furman-atom-bomb-spy-leader-2008-10-30

Oct. 30, 1961: USSR's Biggest-Bang Theory Put to Test
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/10/dayintech_1030

In death, WWII survivor joins shipmates
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27476998/

Archaeology

N. Sumatra archeologists find pre-history stone axe
http://www.antara.co.id/en/arc/2008/10/26/n-sumatra-archeologists-find-pre-history-stone-axe/

C.W. Post professor helps unravel pyramid mystery
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/ny-lipyra2112084891oct21,0,5217474.story

Sensational Stone Age discovery
http://politiken.dk/newsinenglish/article585168.ece

Remains of Gaur
http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=60301

Two Thousand Year Old Tunnel Found in Shaanxi Province, China
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/china/ancient-tunnel-shaanxi-china-6169.html

King Solomon's (copper) mines?
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-10/uoc--ks102308.php

Archaeologists return to Macau to continue excavation of 4000-year-old workshop
http://www.macaudailytimesnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18180&Itemid=28

Persepolis studies yield new findings
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=73317&sectionid=351020105

Piecing Central Texas' history, layer by layer
http://www.news8austin.com/content/your_news/default.asp?ArID=222940

New excavations planned for Romanov family burial site 
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20081027/117976408.html

Cemeteries chronicle changes in how societies perceive death
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/science/stories/2008/10/28/sci_lepper28_ART_10-28-08_B5_QVBM4DK.html?type=rss&cat=&sid=101

Jewish, Nazi objects found in dump near Berlin
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jj0RAA1QZYxUQbqmrLeHlbBmKePwD943ITFO0

Spain returns looted Peruvian artifacts
http://www.pr-inside.com/spain-returns-looted-peruvian-artifacts-r883223.htm

Archeological site Çatalhöyük now protected
http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=156828&bolum=101

Archaeologists report finding oldest Hebrew text
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_israel_archaeology

7000-Year-Old Iranian Tappeh Won’t Give Up the Ghost
http://www.cais-soas.com/News/2008/October2008/29-10.htm

"Spider God" Temple Found in Peru
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/10/081029-peru-temple.html

Small Islands Given Short Shrift In Assembling Archaeological Record
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081030144633.htm

'Mardi Gras' shipwreck in Gulf uncovers treasures
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/6084688.html

New Maya Olmec Archeological Find in Guatemala
http://www.guatemala-times.com/archeology/takalik-abaj/484-new-maya-olmec-archeological-find-in-guatemala.html

Temple of Artemis to revived once more in Selçuk
http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=118819

Real Robinson Crusoe: Evidence Of Alexander Selkirk’s Desert Island Campsite
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081029105803.htm

Little object, big find from shipwreck
http://www.enctoday.com/news/artifacts_4703_havelock__article.html/qar_dive.html

Limestone altar Discovered at Dalheim Roman Dig
http://station.lu/newsDetails.cfm?id=22109

New Results for the Classification of the African Middle Stone Age / Scientist at the University of Cologne succeeds in dating this period
http://www.alphagalileo.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=readrelease&releaseid=533505&ez_search=1

Scientists to measure quake effect on Acropolis
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20081031-0618-eu-greece-acropolis-earthquakes.html

Excavations put İzmir at 8,500 years old
http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=118950

'2,000-year-old Jesus box' may not be a fake, as Jerusalem forgery trial nears collapses
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1081705/2-000-year-old-Jesus-box-fake-Jerusalem-forgery-trial-nears-collapses.html

General Science

Pinching display lets you feel the data
http://technology.newscientist.com/article/mg20026796.700-pinching-display-lets-you-feel-the-data.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news1_head_mg20026796.700

Brainy Robots To Lead To Longer Unemployment Lines?
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/10/robot-lovers-an.html

Seven of the greatest scientific hoaxes
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn15012-seven-of-the-greatest-scientific-hoaxes.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news6_head_dn15012

Engineer creating more sensitive, safer landmine detectors
http://www.physorg.com/news144608029.html

Turning dumb dialogue into intelligent conversation
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/oct/30/games-artificial-intelligence-ai

Physics, Earth and Space Sciences

The New Natural Wonders of the World
http://travel.yahoo.com/p-interests-24523045;_ylc=X3oDMTIzdjFyMm9pBF9TAzI3MTYxNDkEX3MDMjcxOTQ4MQRzZWMDZnAtdG9kYXltb2QEc2xrA25hdHVyYWx3b25kZXJzLTIwMDgtMTAtMjU-

Mars pioneers should stay there permanently, says Buzz Aldrin
http://www.physorg.com/news143972922.html

Underground Lab Probes How Matter Licked Antimatter
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/10/underground-lab.html

UK ambitions in space 'at risk' 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7690508.stm

Earth-like planet in Epsilon Eridani? It is logical, Captain
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2008-10-26-epsilon-eridani-star-trek-earth_N.htm

Fireball Captured On Camera
http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/1592862/fireball_captured_on_camera/index.html

Armadillo Aerospace Wins $350,000 in Lunar Landing Contest
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/10/27/armadillo-aerospace-wins-350000-in-lunar-landing-contest/

A Light Take On The Gravity-Time Relationship
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96095009

Solar System's Young Twin Has Two Asteroid Belts
http://www.physorg.com/news144326926.html

Is NASA's Ares doomed?
http://www.physorg.com/news144307123.html

Endeavour crew eager for test run
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2008-10-27-endeavour-crew_N.htm

Quantum Chaos
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=quantum-chaos-subatomic-worlds

Gallery: The real atlas of the world
http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn15041-gallery-the-real-atlas-of-the-world.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news9_head_dn15041

Will We Soon Find Life in the Heavens?
http://www.usnews.com/articles/science/space-and-time/2008/07/24/will-we-soon-find-life-in-the-heavens.html

Space Tourist: Open Space Station to All
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/27/tech/main4549169.shtml

NASA shutting down Phoenix Mars Lander
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27426106/

NASA aims to keep moon's skies junk-free
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27420154/

Spinoffs expected from suborbital vehicle work
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27406229/

Reconnaissance Orbiter Reveals Details of a Wetter Mars
http://www.physorg.com/news144420918.html

Satellites approach the Shannon limit
http://www.physorg.com/news144420242.html

The great cosmic challenge
http://www.physorg.com/news144428286.html

Scientists probe Antarctic glaciers for clues to past and future sea level
http://www.physorg.com/news144397393.html

Plasma rocket space drive in key test milestone
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/28/vasimr_plasma_first_stage_test/

Hubble works but servicing slips 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7701211.stm

Martian Stones Suggest a More Recent Watery Past
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/10/29/martian-stones-suggest-a-more-recent-watery-past/

Magnetic fields record the early histories of planets
http://www.physorg.com/news144592967.html

Searching for primordial antimatter
http://www.physorg.com/news144583237.html

Magnetic Portals Connect Sun and Earth
http://www.physorg.com/news144677133.html

Birth of a new ocean
http://www.physorg.com/news144671445.html

Extreme Resolution Photos and Lasers Create Virtual Yosemite
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/10/geology-20-20-g.html

New NASA capsule Orion resembles Apollo
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-capsule30-2008oct30,0,1165903.story

Cold Storage: Moon Might Preserve Alien Life
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/081030-am-moon-museum.html

Venezuela launches first satellite with Chinese technology
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081030/sc_afp/venezuelachinaspace_081030161952;_ylt=AiY2nxztnSc8ycI_kP30jg3POrgF

Aspiring lunar entrepreneurs contract for help from NASA
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081030/sc_afp/usbritainitspacenasa_081030233216;_ylt=AmQQS3GSP9wSXI2mUlAUma7POrgF

NASA regains contact with Mars spacecraft
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081031/ap_on_sc/phoenix_mars;_ylt=Aj4QmSyaFcXwWGcxZyYMma1vieAA

Mercury was once alive with volcanoes
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081029/sc_nm/us_mercury_spacecraft;_ylt=Aqn1iBKeocqTjK38e7lI7lkhANEA

Environment, Climate Change and Alternative Energy Sources

'Drastic' reforms on energy urged
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7687960.stm

Will Alternative Energy Run Out Of Gas?
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/24/tech/cnettechnews/main4544891.shtml

Climate Change Seeps into the Sea
http://www.physorg.com/news144066924.html

Future of green is not so black, say some
http://www.physorg.com/news144234434.html

Drax has £2bn plan for biomass power stations
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/oct/24/drax-group-alternative-energy

Ranking methods to save the world
http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn15037-ranking-methods-to-save-the-world.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news1_head_dn15037

Climate change 'making seas more salty'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/oct/27/climate-change-water

Stern Says Recession Could Spur Future Low Carbon Growth
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1593402/stern_says_recession_could_spur_future_low_carbon_growth/index.html

Fossil Fuel Use Could Be Ended by 2090
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1593400/fossil_fuel_use_could_be_ended_by_2090/index.html

Earth on course for eco 'crunch' 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7696197.stm

Study Confirms Amphibians' Ability to Predict Changes in Biodiversity
http://www.physorg.com/news144428512.html

Long term strategy needed for reducing greenhouse gases
http://www.physorg.com/news144419668.html

Germany opens first offshore wind farm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081028/sc_afp/germanywarmingwindcompany_081028172635;_ylt=AgU3fUc6au_PUMrSg5iikMbPOrgF

Two-faced approach creates solar cells to dye for
http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn15059-twofaced-approach-creates-solar-cells-to-dye-for.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news3_head_dn15059

Conclusive proof that polar warming is being caused by humans
http://www.physorg.com/news144593037.html

Canada to seek continent-wide approach to climate change
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081030/sc_afp/canadapoliticsenvironment_081030185927;_ylt=Ag55JJH0HefDqGV2zPjeol7POrgF

Global business backs UN efforts to clinch climate change deal
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081029/sc_afp/polandbusinessunenergyclimateenvironment_081029204304;_ylt=Ah7f3NBfuHxM7nOT_hnqoPfPOrgF

China says coal addiction makes climate change fight hard
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081029/sc_afp/chinaenergyenvironmentclimate_081029131552;_ylt=AoWnysEejTCOR6tGYhvB5SLPOrgF

"Smart" Appliances Could Aid Power Grid
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/29/tech/cnettechnews/main4556403.shtml

Quiet wind turbine could provide up to 30% of a home's power
http://www.physorg.com/news144674984.html

Biological, Genetics and Medical Sciences

Researchers Find a Gene Linked to Transsexualism
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/10/27/researchers-find-a-gene-linked-to-transsexualism/

Genetically Engineered Purple Tomato Could Fight Cancer
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/10/27/genetically-engineered-purple-tomato-could-fight-cancer/

Scientists invent device that controls, measures dynamics of chemicals in live tissue
http://www.physorg.com/news144344255.html

French company aims to create artificial heart
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081027/sc_nm/us_france_heart;_ylt=Aj0yA7uC._ekAK_symhVJW0hANEA

Will 'Upgrades' Enhance Our Bodies?
http://www.usnews.com/articles/science/medical-science/2008/07/24/will-upgrades-enhance-our-bodies.html

Dean Kamen: part man, part machine
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2008/10/27/sv_deankamen.xml

Researchers discover new way to attack some forms of leukemia
http://www.physorg.com/news144422426.html

Researchers find more Alzheimer's genes
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081030/sc_nm/us_alzheimers_genes;_ylt=AuIeEq5iro5NCu4VU9jWsgchANEA

Lungs 'breathe' outside body
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/HealthSci/Lungs_breathe_outside_body/articleshow/3656024.cms

Other

The Real Monsters on Halloween
http://www.sciam.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=the-real-monsters-on-halloween-08-10-27

Are You Evil? Profiling That Which Is Truly Wicked
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=defining-evil

Competitors turn bushes into barriers
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3259098/Competitors-turn-bushes-into-barriers.html

My life of discovery among neo-Nazis and anacondas
http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2008/10/27/my-life-of-discovery-among-neo-nazis-and-anacondas-64375-22123404/

Vatican switchboard sees a human touch as the answer
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-phonenuns28-2008oct28,0,4468154.story

Straight From the Page Ten Ways the World Will End
http://discovermagazine.com/2008/nov/28-ten-ways-the-world-will-end

Candy Facts: Halloween Treats Stem From Ancient Recipes
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/10/081030-oldest-candy-facts-halloween.html

Science of the Occult
http://www.sciam.com/report.cfm?id=occult-science

Additional Informational

SciFi Channel: Visions for Tomorrow
http://www.scifi.com/visions/home.html

Graham Hancock’s Website
http://www.grahamhancock.com

Robert Schoch’s Website
http://www.robertschoch.com

John Anthony West’s Website
http://www.jawest.net

Robert Bauval’s Website
http://www.robertbauval.co.uk/index.html

Center for Archaeoastronomy Website
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~tlaloc/archastro/news.html

National Academies
http://www.nationalacademies.org/headlines/index.html

Antikythera Mechanism’s Website
http://www.antikythera-mechanism.gr/

The Genographic Project Website
https://www3.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/

Catalhoyuk Website
http://www.catalhoyuk.com/

Archaeological Survey of India’s Website
http://asi.nic.in/

Ancient Indus Valley Civilization’s Website
http://www.harappa.com/har/har0.html

Near Earth Object Impact Hazard Website
http://star.arm.ac.uk/impact-hazard/

Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, Antiquities Information System
http://www.eais.org.eg/

Minerva (International Review of Ancient Art and Archaeology)
http://minervamagazine.com/index.asp

The Upuaut Project
http://www.cheops.org/

NASA Science, Science Mission Directorate Website
http://nasascience.nasa.gov/

FX Television, 30 Days
http://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/originals/30days/

Sacred Sites and Archaeoastronomy in the Ancient World
http://sacredsites.com/index.html

Beyond Stone & Bone Blog
http://archaeology.org/blog/

Earth Pilgrims Website
http://www.earthpilgrims.com

Wake Forest University, Museum of Anthropology Online Artifact Database
http://cairo.deacnet.wfu.edu/

Science Weekly: The world's first computer (Podcast)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/audio/2008/oct/27/science-weekly-podcast

Fleet-Footed Flyby Reveals Mercury's Unseen Surface
http://www.wired.com/science/space/multimedia/2008/10/gallery_mercury_messenger

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