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(antal ord: 138) Källa: vt.se Lycksele 8500 år gammalt De första människorna bosatte sig vid Umeälven i Lycksele redan för 8000 till 8500 år sedan. Det visar de provsvar som arkeologerna vid Västerbottens museum fått efter sommarens utgrävningar i Furuviksområdet. - Det här är fantastiskt. Det finns väldigt få boplatser från äldre stenåldern i Lappland, konstaterar Jans Heinerud, arkeolog vid... (antal ord: 132) Källa: svt.se Lyckseleälgar målade för 4500 år sedan Nu vet man hur gammal hällmålningen i Lycksele är. Den är cirka 4500 år och kom till under yngre stenåldern har Västerbottens museum nu kommit fram till. Västerbottens museum har kunnat datera målningen genom att ta prover från ett jordlager nedanför målningen som påverkats av samma människor som målade älgarna... (antal ord: 372) Källa: sr.se Hvorfor kom de? Mysen-arkeolog med bok om de første som bosatte seg i Norge. Reinsdyret betydde mye for de første som kom flyttende nordover til Norge. Men ikke bare som mat. Ingrid Fuglestvedt, arkeolog fra Mysen og ansatt ved Universitetet i Oslo, er en av Norges fremste eksperter på steinalderen. I sin... (antal ord: 403) Källa: smaalenene.no Early Humans Used Brain Power, Innovation and Teamwork to Dominate the Planet As a species of seeming feeble, naked apes, we humans are unlikely candidates for power in a natural world where dominant adaptations can boil down to speed, agility, jaws and claws. Why we rose to rule, while our hominin relatives died out, has long been a curiosity for scientists. The... (antal ord: 959) Källa: scientificamerican.com How the Alphabet Was Born from Hieroglyphs To the Asiatics, as they were called, the lush Nile Delta, with its open marshlands rich with fish and fowl, was a veritable Garden of Eden. From earliest times, Canaanites and other Asiatics would come and settle here. Indeed, this is the background of the Biblical story of the famine... (antal ord: 8358) Källa: bib-arch.org Lasers lift dirt of ages from artworks Physicists have applied the same laser techniques commonly used for tattoo removal to clean several famous works of art, including wall paintings. Laser cleaning is well established for stone and metal artefacts already. It has now been successfully applied to the wall paintings of the Sagrestia Vecchia and the Cappella... (antal ord: 656) Källa: news.bbc.co.uk Master plan to restore ancient sites in Iraq The Iraqi General Authority for Monuments and Museums along with international archaeological organisations are working on a master plan to restore the ancient city of Babylon and the Iraqi Museum which was turned into a military camp following the war in 2003, a top Iraqi official has said.Addressing a... (antal ord: 521) Källa: gulf-times.com Nail from Christ's crucifixion found? A nail dating from the time of Christ's crucifixion has been found at a remote fort believed to have once been a stronghold of the Knights Templar. The nail was found last summer in a decorated box in a fort on the tiny isle of Ilheu de Pontinha, just off... (antal ord: 236) Källa: telegraph.co.uk Pompeii to offer live excavation experience Visitors to Pompeii will be able to experience a live dig next month in the ancient Roman town that was buried in Mount Vesuvius' catastrophic eruption in 79 A.D. The site of the open-door excavation is the so-called House of the Chaste Lovers, a building that came to... (antal ord: 283) Källa: news.discovery.com Research points to early horse castration Most of the horses in the terracotta army in a Chinese emperor's tomb had no testicles, pointing to the possibility of equine castration some 2000 years ago. Yuan Jing, an archaeologist with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, studied the more than 600 terracotta horses within the tomb of Qinshihuang... (antal ord: 198) Källa: horsetalk.co.nz Researchers evaluate climate fluctuations from 115,000 years ago The Eemian Interglacial was the last interglacial epoch before the current one, the Holocene. It began around 126,000 years ago, ended around 115,000 years ago and is named after the river Eem in the Netherlands. The followed Weichselian Glacial ended around 15,000 years ago is the most recent glacial epoch... (antal ord: 452) Källa: alphagalileo.org Scientists turn migration theory on its head U.S. anthropologists hypothesize that ancestors of aboriginal people in South and North America followed High Arctic route.Two U.S. scientists have published a radical new theory about when, where and how humans migrated to the New World, arguing that the peopling of the Americas may have begun via Canada's High Arctic... (antal ord: 911) Källa: vancouversun.com Spell-covered burial chamber found in Egypt's Saqqara Archaeologists have unearthed the intact sarcophagus of Egypt's Queen Behenu inside her 4,000-year-old burial chamber near her pyramid in Saqqara, chief archaeologist Zahi Hawass announced Wednesday. The Old Kingdom queen's chamber was badly damaged except for two inner walls covered with spells meant to help her travel to... (antal ord: 348) Källa: reuters.com Stone age engraving traditions appear on ostrich eggshells Marks of distinctionOstrich eggshell fragments found at a rock shelter in southern Africa indicate that people living there roughly 60,000 years ago used these eggshells as water containers. In an early example of symbolic communication, the people engraved standardized geometric designs on the shells that probably indicated group identity. P... (antal ord: 642) Källa: sciencenews.org Sudan's land of 'black pharaohs' a trove for archaeologists There is not a tourist in sight as the sun sets over sand-swept pyramids at Meroe, but archaeologists say the Nubian Desert of northern Sudan holds mysteries to rival ancient Egypt."There is a magic beauty about these sites that is heightened by the privilege of being able to... (antal ord: 689) Källa: expatica.com The seeds of written communication on cave walls The first explorers to brave the 7-metre perilous crawl leading to the Chauvet caves in southern France were rewarded with magnificent artwork to rival any modern composition. Stretching a full 3 metres in height, the paintings depict a troupe of majestic horses in deep colours, a pair of boisterous... (antal ord: 1018) Källa: stonepages.com Syria's Stonehenge: Neolithic stone circles, alignments and possible tombs discovered For Dr. Robert Mason, an archaeologist with the Royal Ontario Museum, it all began with a walk last summer. Mason conducts work at the Deir Mar Musa al-Habashi monastery, out in the Syrian Desert. Finds from the monastery, which is still in use today by monks, date mainly to... (antal ord: 1127) Källa: independent.co.uk (Härmed har 5.096 nyhetslänkar publicerats 2004-2010) Hur ser poparks sidor ut i din webb-läsare? -så här ska det vara! Med "Safari", Apples webb-läsare till både PC och Mac. Ladda gratis ner ett eget exemplar! Internationella betalningar: International Banking Account Number förenklar och förbilligar betalningar. 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