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Fred Flintstone's bed uncoveredBedding 77,000 years old has been uncovered at a cave site in South Africa.... ... 11th Dec 2011
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First seafaring fishermanThe world's oldest tackle, together with evidence of deep-sea fishing 40,000 years ago, has been unearthed in East Timor. ... 25th Nov 2011
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News from the Royal Astronomical SocietyDr Robert Massey brings us up to date with what's been happening at the Royal Astronomical Society... ... 4th Nov 2011
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Being a Culture Vulture makes for a Happy VultureThis week, researchers from Norway have reported that people who take part in or attend ‘cultural’ activities tend to have better physical and mental health. And cultural activities are defined as creative – such as playing music or drawing; and they’re defined as receptive – such as going to the theatre, a museum and watching sport. ... 26th May 2011
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Syrian kite hunting trapsImagine a group of British Army Air Corps pilots flying over the deserts of the Near East in the early years of the 20th Century. From the cockpits of their bi-planes they could see strange lines and circles seemingly etched into the landscape below. These airmen dubbed the bizarre shapes ‘desert kites’ and were spotted throughout the region of what is now northeast Syria. ... 18th May 2011
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The AnthropoceneEarlier this month, a major conference was held at the Geological Society in London to discuss something that will not only have implications for scientists in the future when they refer back to the current geological epoch, but also for own understanding of our place in Earth’s history. ... 18th May 2011
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Crucifiction?Naked Archaeologist Simcha Jakobovici claims to have found candidates for some cross nails, or nails from the cross. ... 19th Apr 2011
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Pre-Clovis Site in TexasThere’s been a discovery in Central Texas that’s stirring-up the debate on the first peopling of the Americas. Thousands of stone artefacts have been unearthed in a creek valley northwest of Austin, including more than 50 tools which potentially pre-date the technology used by the Clovis people. The contents of this site could finally put an end to the ‘Clovis first’ model. ... 19th Apr 2011
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The Nichoria BonePaddling across the pond, this next news story talks about the famous ‘Nichoria Bone’, a large fossil of an extinct mega mammal, likely a woolly rhinoceros, that roamed southern Greece around one million years ago. It’s significant because the bone wasn’t found by a modern team of palaeontologists or fossil hunters, but excavated by ancient Greeks two and a half thousand years ago. ... 19th Apr 2011
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Iron Age MassacreArchaeologists working in Derbyshire have this month reported the discovery of a mass grave on an Iron Age hill fort. Dr Clive Waddington of Archaeological Research Services described how a series of burials, dated to around 390BC, indicated something of a massacre occurred at Fin Cop. ... 19th Apr 2011
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