Two more colossal pharaoh statues unveiled in Egypt

Luxor (Egypt) (AFP) - Archaeologists on Sunday unveiled two colossal statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III in Egypt's famed temple city of Luxor, adding to an existing pair of world-renowned tourist attractions.

The two monoliths in red quartzite were raised at what European and Egyptian archaeologists said were their original sites in the funerary temple of the king, on the west bank of the Nile…READ MORE AT…http://news.yahoo.com/two-more-colossal-pharaoh-statues-unveiled-egypt-153602577.html

Neanderthals could speak like modern humans, study suggests

An analysis of a Neanderthal's fossilized hyoid bone - a horseshoe-shaped structure in the neck - suggests the species had the ability to speak.

This has been suspected since the 1989 discovery of a Neanderthal hyoid that looks just like a modern human's…READ MORE AT…http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-25465102

Statue of pharaoh's daughter unearthed in Egypt

A statue of the daughter of King Amenhotep III, grandfather of Tutankhamen and ruler of Egypt around 3,350 years ago, has been unearthed by a team of Egyptian and European archaeologists…READ MORE AT…http://news.yahoo.com/statue-pharaohs-daughter-unearthed-egypt-131416131.html

CLOVIS GENOME SETTLES DEBATE ON INDIGENOUS AMERICAN LINEAGE

Inhabiting what is now North America around 12,600 years ago the Clovis people (named after the type site in New Mexico) were not the first humans to walk this land, but they do represent the first widespread occupation of the continent – until the culture mysteriously disappeared only a few hundred years after its origin…READ MORE AT… http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/02/2014/clovis-genome-settles-debate-on-indigenous-american-lineage

10 Coolest Archaeology Discoveries of 2013

Archaeologists dig through the faint traces of the past to learn more about human history. And 2013 was a big year for new archaeology finds.

From royal tombs to the mysterious vanished inhabitants of Europe, here are some of the strangest and most exciting archaeology finds of the year.

Read more at: http://www.livescience.com/42257-2013-big-archaeology-stories.html

Two Men Accused of Stealing Artifacts From the Great Pyramid

CAIRO, EGYPT—Two German men described as amateur archaeologists have been accused of entering the pyramid of Khufu without permission and stealing samples of the king’s cartouche from a compartment near his burial chamber. 

The two men reportedly smuggled the artifacts out of Egypt and conducted tests on them at Dresden University. The case has been referred to Egypt’s prosecutor-general and the names of the two men have been handed over to Interpol. The German embassy in Cairo has denounced the actions of the men, who were not affiliated with the German Archaeological Institute. 

450 Million Year Old Fossil Used to Make a Native American Necklace

This a 450 million years Crinoid fossil that Native American's turned into a necklace. I was working on a deep auger, Geo-Morphology project and found about fifty of these. They varied in size from about 3 cm to 1/4 cm. In the middle of each of them was a carefully drilled hole. 

I also found two pieces of twisted bone. Both measured about 8 cm in length. After doing some research I discovered this would have been the centerpiece. The Crinoid beads would be arranged from widest in the center and smallest near the shoulders. 

The area I was working in had been a mound but an idiot farmer bulldozed it. He decided he needed a new metal barn and didn't give a crap about the history he was destroying.

Ancient City Discovered Beneath Biblical-Era Ruins in Israel

Archaeologists have unearthed traces of a previously unknown, 14th-century Canaanite city buried underneath the ruins of another city in Israel.

The traces include an Egyptian amulet of Amenhotep III and several pottery vessels from the Late Bronze Age unearthed at the site of Gezer, an ancient Canaanite city.

Read more at: http://www.livescience.com/41143-city-found-under-canaanite-city.html

Nevada petroglyphs the oldest in North America

Ancient rock etchings along a dried-up lake bed in Nevada have confirmed to be the oldest recorded petroglyphs in North America dating back 10,000 years,  Read more at http://news.yahoo.com/nevada-petroglyphs-oldest-north-america-215350914.html

 

Ancient Roman Shipwreck May Hold 2,000-Year-Old Food

The ship is believed to 2,000 years old and is buried in the mud off the coast of Varazze, Italy...to read more visit...http://news.yahoo.com/ancient-roman-shipwreck-may-hold-2-000-old-173924008.html
 

Did Neanderthals Teach Modern Humans How to Make Tools?

Neanderthals apparently created the oldest known examples of a kind of bone tool used in Europe...to read more visit...http://news.yahoo.com/did-neanderthals-teach-modern-humans-tools-191040382.html
 

Ancient 'Hall of the Dead' Unearthed in England

Archaeologists have unearthed two nearly 6,000 year old burial mounds and the remains of two massive buildings in England.

The two wooden long-buildings or, halls, were burnt to the ground and the ashes shoveled back in to make it  into burial mounds.

Excavations at Dorstone Hill in the UK reveal nearly 6,000 year old burial mounds;
Credit University of Manchester

To read more go to:
http://www.livescience.com/38546-hall-of-dead-unearthed-england.html

Who is the Kennewick Man

The skull depicted below may change what is to believed the history of the United States. Found along the Columbia River in 1996 in Kennewick, Washington, first the skull and then most of the skeleton remains date from 8500 B.P. to 4500 B.P. but is not Mongoloid, the typical Native American ancestor. The finding caused a furor among the Native American community, so much so it took the Ninth Circuit United States Court of Appeals to keep in the possession of  the US Department of the Interior; instead of being skirted away and immediately buried as the Native Councils wanted to do. Why did the ancient bones of one person cause such a problem? Because if analyzed to be of non-Native descent then the term Native American would no longer apply. In fact those of Western Europe would be the Native American's.

I conversed with the Laura Phillips the Archaeology Collections Manger at the Burke Museum of Natural History, where the remains resides about what testing has been done since the court's decisions and she said we recently asked the same question. She referred to their blog for the answer: http://burkemuseum.blogspot.com/2011/07/ask-burke-kennewick-man-updates.html

  To read one of the original investigators, James Chatters, findings click here: http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/html/kennewick_man.html

Primate Hibernation More Common Than Previously Thought

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130502094759.htm - Science Daily

Until recently, the only primate known to hibernate as a survival strategy was a creature called the western fat-tailed dwarf lemur, a tropical tree-dweller from the African island of Madagascar…CLICK LINK TO READ MORE…

Frontier fort from Revolutionary War found in Georgia

http://news.yahoo.com/frontier-fort-revolutionary-war-found-ga-145450206.html - Yahoo News

Less than two months after British forces captured Savannah in December 1778, patriot militiamen scored a rare Revolutionary War victory in Georgia after a short but violent gun battle forced British loyalists to abandon a small fort built on a frontiersman's cattle farm…CLICK LINK TO READ MORE…

World's First Know Book on Training Horses

http://www.lrgaf.org/Peter_Raulwing_The_Kikkuli_Text_MasterFile_Dec_2009.pdf



With the Kentucky Derby today I thought I would link to the first known book on training horses. Written by the Hittite's on cuneiform tablets, the Kikkuli Text describes how they trained their horses for chariot duty...CLICK LINK TO READ MORE...

http://sciencenordic.com/what-vikings-really-looked - ScienceNordic

There’s no shortage of myths about the appearance of our notorious Viking ancestors. To find out more about these myths, ScienceNordic’s Danish partner site, videnskab.dk, asked its Facebook readers to list their favorite myths about what the Vikings looked like…CLICK LINK TO READ MORE…

Skin as Art and Anthropology

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/11/1113_021113_Skin.html -National Geographic

Some people think of it as the body's major organ—which it is. Others look at skin as a biological map of the history of early human migration patterns—which it could be…CLICK LINK TO READ MORE…

Gene Mutations Associated With Nearsightedness Identified

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130502131710.htm -Science Daily

People have long taken for granted that glasses and contact lenses improve vision for nearsightedness, but the genetic factors behind the common condition have remained blurry. Now researchers at Duke Medicine are closer to clearing this up…CLICK LINK TO READ MORE…

'Starving Time' Shows Jamestown Residents Resorted to Cannibalism

http://www.scienceworldreport.com/articles/6572/20130501/starving-time-shows-jamestown-residents-resorted-cannibalism.htm  - Science World Report

Archaeologists just released some shocking new information. Jamestown's colonists may have resorted to cannibalism during the "starving time" winter of 1609-10. In a presentation at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, archaeologist Doug Owsley presented the reconstructed skull of a 14-year-old English girl "Jane" discovered at the site of the fort bearing the marks of butchery…CLICK LINK TO READ MORE…