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Archaeologists race to save ancient Arctic sites from rising ocean
2016-06-14 15:06:44| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Canadian Press: Arctic archaeologists are fighting to learn what they can from one of the most extensive ancient sites in the North before climate change eats away centuries of history. "It's really happening in a big way," said Max Friesen, a University of Toronto archaeologist who's heading this week to a remote island near the Northwest Territories and Yukon. "We have no idea what we're missing." Friesen is in the middle of a multi-year program to try and preserve what's left of the cultural heritage of...
New fossil find backs up existence of ancient hobbit-humans
2016-06-09 16:00:05| Extremetech
A second group of small hominid fossils has been found on the island of Flores in Indonesia.
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Ancient dagger found with King Tut forged with meteoric iron
2016-06-03 22:38:45| Extremetech
Recent research into an iron dagger in King Tut's tomb has confirmed it was made from meteoric iron at a time when iron was more precious than gold and ironworking wasn't yet thought to exist in Ancient Egypt.
Under attack from beetles, ancient Polish forest faces chop
2016-06-03 18:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Inside Poland's ancient Bialowieza Forest, birds chirp and bison graze as visitors explore the lush green surroundings, a home to boars, beavers, lynx - and beetles. Occupying almost 580 square miles of woodland, Bialowieza is a UNESCO World Heritage site sprawling across the border with Bielorussia. But Europe's last primeval forest is under attack, from bark beetles eating its spruce trees. Foresters working in Bialowieza and the government say the solution is to cut down more trees, to save...
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Ancient Crops Shed Light on Madagascar Migration Mystery
2016-06-03 00:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: A new study involving ancient crops shed some light on how people from South East Asia end up on the African Island of Madagascar, 6,000 km away. Previously, linguistic and genetic evidences revealed that inhabitants of Madagascar share close ancestry with Malaysians, Polynesians, and other speakers of what is classed the Austronesian language family. However, archeological evidences that are found in Madagascar, which were believed to be from the first millennium, provide no concrete proof that...
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