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17th Jan 2011

First Farmer DNA, Crystals and Chessmen


Tom Birch

Diana O'Carroll
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This month's divested archaeology consists of the mitochondrial DNA of Europe's first farmers; how to identify plaster using infrared light; who the Denisovans were; what to expect from twelfth century chessmen and why the Arabo-Persian gulf is so important.

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