[Jawlist] Weekly Science Report 1-10-20

Sun Jan 12 16:36:23 PST 2020

*Weekly Science Report*

*January 10, 2020*

*“History teaches us that war begins when governments believe the price of
aggression is cheap.”*

Ronald Reagan

Introduction

Steve Detwiler created this publication with the support of Graham Hancock
and the late John Anthony West to share news and information on various
disciplines to include but not limited to paleontology, space sciences,
genetics and archaeology.  His goal behind sharing this publication has
always been very simple, by sharing knowledge we can make our world a
better place.  This publication is Mr. Detwiler’s contribution to bring
people together and share ideas and discoveries with his fellow humans.

I hope you enjoy this publication and that the content challenges and
inspires you!

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News Articles   *Paleontology, Evolution and Prehistoric Studies*

Early humans revealed to have engineered optimized stone tools at Olduvai
Gorge

https://phys.org/news/2020-01-early-humans-revealed-optimized-stone.html?fbclid=IwAR0-NeW2HcQFrHMAsjPY7OTG2NuklEAnoCOmzKV63nCPPHDMQY6HSBd05JA

Giant Chinese paddlefish declared extinct after surviving 150 million years

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/giant-chinese-paddlefish-declared-extinct-in-china-as-human-presence-kills-off-an-ancient-species/

DNA from Stone Age woman obtained 6,000 years on

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-50809586

New Dates for Arrival of Homo erectus in Southeast Asia

https://www.archaeology.org/news/8347-200110-homo-erectus-chronology

MU scientists find oldest-known fossilized digestive tract -- 550 million
years

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/uom-msf011020.php

Always counterclockwise

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/ku-ac010920.php

*History*

Ghent Altarpiece Restorations Reveal the Alarmingly Humanoid Face of the
Famous Mystic Lamb

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ghent-altarpiece-restorations-reveal-alarmingly-humanoid-face-famous-mystical-lamb-180973846/

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Announce Shocking Move to 'Step Back as
Senior Members of Royal Family'

https://people.com/royals/prince-harry-and-meghan-markle-announce-shocking-move-to-step-back-as-senior-members-of-royal-family/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social-share-article&utm_content=20200108&utm_term=7554552&fbclid=IwAR2dRvMnDfBZuIuaqvj6rsx0-qgrV_LdM5xuwpKz6jl_mhoK1gZev_RX1F8

A scandal in Oxford: the curious case of the stolen gospel

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/jan/09/a-scandal-in-oxford-the-curious-case-of-the-stolen-gospel?CMP=share_btn_fb&fbclid=IwAR1wNID6GBaT12_AauermPQjJf-mImG04uCGVO0UXXLSijTX_6DVyY71GKQ

Why the U.S. Sent Librarians Undercover to Gather Intelligence During World
War II

https://time.com/5752115/world-war-ii-librarians/?amp=true&__twitter_impression=true

A Forward-Thinking Approach to Preserving Our Past

https://gentry.goldenstate.is/a-forward-thinking-approach-to-preserving-our-past/

Senate confirms KC’s Crosby Kemper III for federal post; Library needs new
director

https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article239141888.html?fbclid=IwAR1P2Pdvxl_FmuBGpPvopnS6T8i04Dh2m8MxUtu1OqZPE3ClZMAWrjB9lgA

‘Hate and its Impact’ discussed at U.S. Holocaust Museum program in Boca

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/florida-jewish-journal/palm/fl-jj-boca-raton-ushmm-anti-semitism-program-2020015-20200110-jsajapkaxzh6dfvlns2gxiophu-story.html?fbclid=IwAR2e3Twca4EMPEIL1a91pgRyYhDn_7ZidjkAM3khpfO2dbo-7SyRnD1nkAc

Iran and America: A forgotten friendship

https://theconversation.com/iran-and-america-a-forgotten-friendship-99350
  Ancient monkey painting suggests Bronze Age Greeks travelled widely
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2227146-ancient-monkey-painting-suggests-bronze-age-greeks-travelled-widely/#ixzz67timcCrJ

New Thoughts on Translation of Viking Runestone

https://www.archaeology.org/news/8344-200109-sweden-viking-runes

*Archaeology*

Skeletons Unearthed in Connecticut May Belong to Revolutionary War Soldiers

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/skeletons-likely-revolutionary-war-soldiers-found-connecticut-180973931/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia&fbclid=IwAR2r6X7NG7-EVOTY0Hbg96JjYsJhDOxDIonK_BvDflOhqDqkopi-3_rIuhM

A perfect storm: An archaeological management crisis in the Mississippi
River Delta

https://parks.berkeley.edu/psf/?p=1651&fbclid=IwAR3GWemZCoJFFYB1tNGq2lPeZXwDkopgyNJUAoNd9HSBWO9R-ZmA0hRsUcg

The Pentagon Has Rejected Trump’s Threat to Bomb Iran’s Heritage Sites.
Here’s What May Have Been Saved

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/pentagon-trump-iran-cultural-sites-1747071?fbclid=IwAR09MQ21PAPR5kyK4S4GN0FYFMnrCh005f6T6YcW2bEcLMQ6thHse5HYs-A#.XhYMnG9KE-c.facebook

Archaeologists Excavate 200 More Chinese Terracotta Warriors

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/200-more-terracotta-warriors-excavated-china-180973900/?linkId=80171223

In a Rare Political Gesture, the Met Speaks Out Against Trump’s Threats to
Iranian Cultural Sites, Calling Such Targeting ‘Abhorrent’

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/rare-political-gesture-met-released-statement-speaking-trumps-threats-iran-1746549?utm_content=buffer3a788&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=news&fbclid=IwAR2lD6V6LNlARuQiXcMyfwFPd0-GODnt6WohNPC-nvbfdqUacLDlUwz37jo

17-year-old high school student discovers rare new planet 3 days into NASA
internship

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-planet-toi-1338-b-discovered-by-nasa-intern-wolf-cukier-tess-satelitte/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab6a&linkId=80395607&fbclid=IwAR2WmxDvZv5xDLxygFuuJRpEbFSBBCviPqK2CEZLLGHxTnWwpnxD9KtbUp4

Shinneckock Indian Nation seeks halt to construction on sacred ground

http://longisland.news12.com/story/41518075/shinneckock-indian-nation-seeks-halt-to-construction-on-sacred-ground?utm_content=buffer3b3c5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Priceless Treasures and Their Shaky Pedestals

https://harvardpolitics.com/world/art-museum-repatriation/

Sacred artifacts held by Southern Illinois University Carbondale reburied
with Hopi, Navajo ancestors

https://herald-review.com/news/state-and-regional/sacred-artifacts-held-by-southern-illinois-university-carbondale-reburied-with/article_4bf929e2-9446-5ce0-93a5-d34d2cf9d607.html?utm_content=bufferca014&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

‘Look without looting’: the Imperial War Museum charts a history of
destruction

https://amp.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/jul/03/imperial-war-museum-what-remains-exhibition-war-cultural-destruction?CMP=share_btn_tw&__twitter_impression=true

A new kind of research is blossoming at Historic Jamestown

https://wydaily.com/local-news/2019/12/26/a-new-kind-of-research-is-blossoming-at-historic-jamestown/

Archaeologists discover Phoenician family tomb in ancient city of Achziv

https://www.timesofisrael.com/archaeologists-discover-phoenician-family-tomb-in-ancient-city-of-achziv/

Great Orme’s golden age of European trade

https://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/great-ormes-golden-age-of-european-trade.htm

How to Remember the Alamo: Battle Site or Burial Ground?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/21/us/human-remains-found-alamo.html

Greece's Parthenon temple has had the wrong name for centuries, new
research by archeologists claims

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/12/17/greeces-parthenon-temple-has-had-wrong-name-centuries-new-research/

Racing to Preserve Rock Art in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands
https://www.texasmonthly.com/travel/preserve-rock-art-lower-pecos-canyonlands/

The mystery of Easter Island revealed?
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2019/12/the-mystery-of-easter-island-revealed/124953

Study puts the 'Carib' in 'Caribbean,' boosting credibility of Columbus'
cannibal claims

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/fmon-spt010920.php

1,400 Ancient Cuneiform Tablets Identified from Lost City of Irisagrig in
Iraq. Were They Stolen?

https://www.livescience.com/lost-city-in-iraq-cuneiform-tablets.html

Demon with Forked Tongue Found on Clay Tablet in Library of Assyrian
Exorcists

https://www.livescience.com/assyrian-demon-tablet-found.html

Gold bar found in Mexico was Aztec treasure: study

https://phys.org/news/2020-01-gold-bar-mexico-aztec-treasure.html

*Egyptology*

Professor honored for book about Egyptian history

http://newsroom.ucla.edu/dept/faculty/professor-honored-for-book-about-egyptian-history

*General Science*

*STEAM not STEM: Why scientists need arts training*

https://theconversation.com/steam-not-stem-why-scientists-need-arts-training-89788?utm_sq=g670rujvdv&fbclid=IwAR0KNyXBbzU_DoBrWfEw4zzqUy1kNS-Ne1YwzTeCWC63MYnoEP_BozqHi34

Transformative 3D printing approach established from insight into
developmental biology
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/uob-t3p011020.php
*Physics, Earth and Space Sciences*

Earth-size planet that may support water found 100 light years away

https://abc7ny.com/science/possibly-habitable-planet-found-100-light-years-away/5821548/?fbclid=IwAR3qWUtCp1IAoT5ejwLANxE87g8cV1nIUHOfmoc-D97XnIJD3t4WDvZKZQE

Mysterious repeating fast radio burst traced to nearby galaxy

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/06/world/repeating-fast-radio-burst-source-scn/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_term=link&utm_source=twCNN&utm_content=2020-01-07T04%3A51%3A56

International Space Station astronauts play with fire for research

https://amp.theguardian.com/science/2020/jan/01/international-space-station-astronauts-play-with-fire-for-research

800,000 years ago, a meteor slammed into Earth. Scientists just found the
crater.

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/800-000-years-ago-meteor-slammed-earth-scientists-just-found-n1112971?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_nw&fbclid=IwAR2TJ37F6ki_nDi9k5KHQdRhkQM2g7LkW-paHWJ1o2ICsfqdyp_8ByaOmn8

China's quantum satellite clears major hurdle on way to ultrasecure
communications

https://www.nature.com/news/china-s-quantum-satellite-clears-major-hurdle-on-way-to-ultrasecure-communications-1.22142

Shocked meteorites provide clues to Earth's lower mantle

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/asu-smp011020.php

Martian water vapor varies with the seasons

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/aaft-mwv010620.php

Satellite constellations harvest energy for near-total global coverage

https://phys.org/news/2020-01-satellite-constellations-harvest-energy-near-total.html

Astronomers Prepare a Mission Concept to Explore the Ice Giant Planets

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/astronomers-prepare-concept-mission-to-ice-giant-planets-180973924/

SpaceX Tests Black Satellite to Reduce “Megaconstellation” Threat to
Astronomy

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/spacex-tests-black-satellite-to-reduce-ldquo-megaconstellation-rdquo-threat-to-astronomy/

*Environment, Climate Change and Alternative Energy Sources*

'The smell will knock you off your feet': mass mussel die-offs baffle
scientists

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/14/the-smell-will-knock-you-off-your-feet-mass-mussel-die-offs-baffle-scientists?fbclid=IwAR0aWNKuED4Bm7KMplvMbcFk8BC5YwF0OtcKjmZU8HDH7lCKeMmemgrQFTs

Chemists report a new use for the waste product of nuclear power generation

https://phys.org/news/2020-01-chemists-product-nuclear-power.html

Study looks at how the global energy mix could change over the next 20 years

https://phys.org/news/2020-01-global-energy-years.html

The Amazon Has Lost More Than Ten Million Football Fields of Forest in a
Decade

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/amazon-has-lost-more-ten-million-football-fields-forest-decade-180973879/

*Biological, Genetics and Medical Sciences*   Wake up dormant dopaminergic
neurons to reverse Parkinson's disease
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/ifbs-wud010920.php
*Other*

PHOTO: WAITRESS's Former Jennas Reunite On Closing Night

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/PHOTO-WAITRESSs-Former-Jennas-Reunite-On-Closing-Night-20200106?fbclid=IwAR1WFiIlEw7ukmbebL6H5I7pk8LbIZB7uBmJhPXmwUuHLQvS7-YNUeHdpZI

Tackling the Native American achievement gap

https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/accessibility/476521-new-charter-school-tackles-the-native-american

The Navy Has Secret Classified Video of an Infamous UFO Incident

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxe54z/the-navy-has-secret-classified-video-of-an-infamous-ufo-incident?utm_source=vicefbus&fbclid=IwAR2A_9E9GWPNdSBD_vPz3fdnDiouPCZXRo2QBa9KtqQqO_CMiC_y2bHj13Y

Aliens definitely exist and they could be living among us on Earth, says
Britain's first astronaut

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/06/uk/helen-sharman-aliens-exist-scli-scn-gbr-intl/index.html

Origin of mystery humming noises heard around the world, uncovered

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/09/world/seismic-hum-volcano-scn-trnd/index.html

Additional Informational

Blue Shield International Statement on potential specific targeting of
cultural sites in Iran

https://theblueshield.org/bsi-statement-on-potential-specific-targeting-of-cultural-sites-in-iran/?fbclid=IwAR115NT2hHaIQTenDSthI-swhun8__83YJAFUvns2_EiLQvRerqG2YQrOos

Global Heritage Fund Calls for International Commitment to Protecting
Heritage Sites

https://globalheritagefund.org/2020/01/06/global-heritage-fund-calls-for-international-commitment-to-protecting-heritage-sites/

AIA Statement Condemning Intentional Targeting Of Iranian Cultural Heritage
Sites

https://www.archaeological.org/aia-statement-condemning-intentional-targeting-of-iranian-cultural-heritage-sites/

A historic resolution to protect cultural heritage

https://en.unesco.org/courier/2017nian-di-3qi/historic-resolution-protect-cultural-heritage?fbclid=IwAR1Fdrz06IS340NaucMv1uKJxI62klhFIarqC_GmVycAgpi7sjXqzsx5BXY

American Anthropological Association, Targeting Cultural Sites is a War
Crime

https://www.americananthro.org/ParticipateAndAdvocate/AdvocacyDetail.aspx?ItemNumber=25357#/8/thankyou

ICOM and ICOMOS Statement on the Threats to Cultural Heritage in case of
Armed Conflict

https://www.icomos.org/en/89-english-categories/home/70868-statement-on-the-threats-to-cultural-heritage-in-case-of-armed-conflicts

National Trust for Historic Preservation Urges the U.S. Government to
Protect Iran’s Cultural Heritage Sites

https://savingplaces.org/press-center/media-resources/national-trust-urges-government-to-protect-irans-cultural-heritage-sites?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=advocacy#.Xhj6PMhKiiO

Getty Stands against Threats to Cultural Heritage

https://blogs.getty.edu/iris/getty-stands-against-threats-to-cultural-heritage/

FACEBOOK’S BLACK MARKET IN ANTIQUITIES REPORT

http://atharproject.org/report2019/
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