History Forum / General / Archaeology / January 2009

U Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/01/29/penn
David Christainsen

http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=6064
I have determined that this article gives
a valuable explanation for the beginner
to understand why an "index fossil" is

Gold rush: The battle over sunken treasure
Shipwrecks! Treasure! Gold, gold, gold! The hallmarks of treasure-
hunting are the stuff of adventure stories, more than fun enough to
make archaeologists, who are mounting increasing complaints against

http://www.valleymorningstar.com/news/ballard_44210___article.html/students_tita
nic.html
Robert Ballard is a distant relative of mine.
David Christainsen

Meredith F. Small
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090124/sc_livescience/whydidhumansmigratet
otheamericas;_ylt=AhSZO_d3d82yUbfRtAYlGp2yvtEF
Could it have been thousands of years earlier
than 15,000 years ago?

Listeros,
Two researchers, publishing in New Scientist, have theorized that the
Nazca lines may have been made for prayer walking. They measured
anomalies in the Earth's magnetic field caused by changes in soil

Study on early human migration focuses on stomachs
By ERIC BERGER Copyright 2009 Houston Chronicle
Jan. 22, 2009, 2:17PM
To better understand the early migrations of humans, modern scientists

"Signatures for warfare in the archaeological record are
    manifold, and include the construction of fortified
    settlements by means of walls and palisades, the
    erection of sites in strategic defensive locations,

Elena Blavatskaya raises her head to suggest to intelligent scholars
that the age of the Egyptian Sphinx is about 750,000 years, give or
take a few.
GEOLOGICAL ASPECT OF THE PROBLEM OF DATING THE GREAT EGYPTIAN SPHINX

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

Pictures as indicated below at the cite. Measurements of core samples
suggest a gradual infilling of the pre-existing "Black Lake" and a
near constant level of the Black Sea after the present levels had been
reached.

Australian News.Net
Tuesday 20th January, 2009 (IANS)
New maps of the earth's surface during the peak of the last Ice Age
points to northern Australia become wetter and southern Australia

http://eclectech.co.uk/b3ta/drunkkangaroo.jpg
That day's work was in a fact a crop of questions put to Stuart
through long distance calls in trying to work out why transform faults
stay put now ... not  transforming an inch indeed since the last 60

This implies that for the 1,000 years the lines have been there
someone has cleaned them up after a similar rain. Implies again that
there was a lengthy dedication to keeping the lines visible and an
organization that maintained that dedication, otherwise they would

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Last summer an excavation in Carvin, Pas-de-Calais,
France (just south of Lille) revealed a major
fortified Neolithic enclosure. The site is located on