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Monday, 13 June 2011 04:15 |
2,000 years ago, the ancient Greek geographer and historian Strabo claimed that Piraeus, the small peninsula near Athens, was once an island. Results published in the June issue of Geology now prove that he was right.
Analysis of sediment samples has revealed that 8,000 years ago Piraeus was still a peninsula, but sea levels rose to such an extent that approximately 6,000 years ago Piraeus became an island. Over the next 1,500 years the area became a freshwater marsh solid enough for...
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Wednesday, 27 April 2011 03:17 |
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3-D map of Guatemala's 'Head of stone' confirms size, location of ancient buildings
Archaeologists have made the first three-dimensional topographical map of ancient monumental buildings long buried under centuries of jungle at the Maya site "Head of Stone" in Guatemala.
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Monday, 25 April 2011 01:48 |
extiles and rope fragments found in a Peruvian cave have been dated to around 12,000 years ago, making them the oldest textiles ever found in South America, according to a report in the April issue of Current Anthropology.
The items were found 30 years ago in Guitarrero Cave high in the Andes Mountains. Other artifacts found along with the textiles had been dated to 12,000 ago and even older. However, the textiles themselves had never been dated, and whether they too were that old had been...
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Wednesday, 06 April 2011 00:00 |
Archaeologists have discovered an iron oxide mine from 12,000 years ago in northern Chile, making it the oldest mine yet discovered in all the Americas.
The iron oxide mined by the Huentelauquen Indians was used as a pigment in dying cloth and in religious rituals, revealing an unexpected sophistication in what was previously considered a primitive group of people, University of Chile researcher Diego Salazar said. "The fact they developed a mine shows the importance religion had in their...
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Monday, 25 April 2011 01:41 |
Researchers excavating a creek bed in central Texas have found evidence suggesting humans settled in North America some two thousand years earlier than previously estimated. The findings are reported in the March 25 issue of Science.
Earth scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago determined the age using an optical dating technique. They linked sediment and mineral samples to human artifacts and tools found in a single stratigraphic layer located below younger, previously dated...
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