http://thearchaeologicalbox.com/news This feed displays the latest news posted to TheArchaeologicaBox.com (Science News Daily) (PhysOrg.com) -- Some 125 million years ago--more recently than once thought possible -- the molecular structure of the modern feather began to take form, according to molecular dating research ... Read Full Article at: www.sciencenewsdaily.org/archaeology-fossils-news/cluster134856456/ http://thearchaeologicalbox.com/node/48196 Wed, 8 Feb 2012 12:49:15 Wed, 8 Feb 2012 12:49:15 (About.com) The tasty dried meat product called jerky, available nearly everywhere, and made of nearly every conceivable kind of meat, has a name which is derived from the South American version called ch'arki. Read Full Article at: archaeology.about.com/b/2012/02/08/the-original-jerky.htm http://thearchaeologicalbox.com/node/48194 Wed, 8 Feb 2012 11:00:06 Wed, 8 Feb 2012 11:00:06 (The Megalithic Portal) An article on Milber Down Camp, where some beautiful Bronze animal figurines were found in the 1930s. Hillfort with stock enclosure in Devon. It consists of three concentric enclosures: the Read Full Article at: www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=4629 http://thearchaeologicalbox.com/node/48192 Wed, 8 Feb 2012 05:14:11 Wed, 8 Feb 2012 05:14:11 (Inrap) Colloque organisé par le Centre d'études supérieures de civilisation médiévale, la Conservation des musées de Chauvigny, avec la participation du SRA Poitou- Read Full Article at: www.inrap.fr/archeologie-preventive/Actualites/Agenda/Rencontre-scientifique/p-13911-Colloque-de-Chauvigny-Demeurer-defendre-et-paraitre-Orientations-recentes-de-l-archeologie-des-fortifications-et-des-residences-aristocratiques-medievales-entre-Loire-et-Pyrenees.htm http://thearchaeologicalbox.com/node/48190 Tue, 7 Feb 2012 18:14:09 Tue, 7 Feb 2012 18:14:09 (Mail Online) Archaeologist Mick Aston has walked out of Time Team after 19 years #8211; after producers hired a former model as the programme#8217;s co-presenter. Read Full Article at: www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2097965/Veteran-quits-Cambridge-beauty-joins-TVs-Time-Team.html?ITO=1490 http://thearchaeologicalbox.com/node/48188 Tue, 7 Feb 2012 17:49:13 Tue, 7 Feb 2012 17:49:13 (Science News Daily) The tiny South American rodents were bred as pets throughout 16th- and 17th-century Europe, a new study suggests. Read Full Article at: www.sciencenewsdaily.org/archaeology-fossils-news/cluster134647910/ http://thearchaeologicalbox.com/node/48186 Tue, 7 Feb 2012 16:49:15 Tue, 7 Feb 2012 16:49:15 (The Megalithic Portal) . After 25 years living in Carnac, independent researcher Howard Crowhurst has opened a centre to facilitate access and understanding of the incredible megalithic Carnac sites in English. The Read Full Article at: www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=30889 http://thearchaeologicalbox.com/node/48184 Tue, 7 Feb 2012 15:14:13 Tue, 7 Feb 2012 15:14:13 (Science News Daily) Read Full Article at: www.sciencenewsdaily.org/archaeology-fossils-news/cluster134390004/ http://thearchaeologicalbox.com/node/48182 Tue, 7 Feb 2012 13:21:17 Tue, 7 Feb 2012 13:21:17 (The Megalithic Portal) . Author and tour guide Tim Prevett (The Portal's ShropshireTraveller) gives an illustrated talk about Ancient Routes of North Wales. An excellent talk with lots of stones and ancient sites Read Full Article at: www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=2146414063 http://thearchaeologicalbox.com/node/48180 Tue, 7 Feb 2012 13:14:12 Tue, 7 Feb 2012 13:14:12 (Smithsonian.com) The plot to kill Michael Malloy for life-insurance money seemed foolproof—until the conspirators actually tried Read Full Article at: feedproxy.google.com/~r/smithsonianmag/history-archaeology/~3/0jf0befYKVE/ http://thearchaeologicalbox.com/node/48178 Tue, 7 Feb 2012 11:56:11 Tue, 7 Feb 2012 11:56:11 (PHYSorg.com) As an ice age crept upon them thousands of years ago, Neanderthals and modern human ancestors expanded their territory ranges across Asia and Europe to adapt to the changing environment. Read Full Article at: www.physorg.com/news247831668.html http://thearchaeologicalbox.com/node/48176 Tue, 7 Feb 2012 10:14:23 Tue, 7 Feb 2012 10:14:23 (Biblical Archaeology Society) Archaeologists with the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have uncovered the massive, 3-foot-thick walls of an Iron Age fortress at the coastal site of Ashdod south of Tel Aviv. The walls, dated Read Full Article at: www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/news/iron-age-fortress-unearthed-at-ashdod/ http://thearchaeologicalbox.com/node/48173 Tue, 7 Feb 2012 09:35:26 Tue, 7 Feb 2012 09:35:26 (EurekAlert!) ( Arizona State University ) Although many anthropologists believe that modern humans ancestors "wiped out" Neanderthals, it's more likely that Neanderthals were integrated into the human gene pool Read Full Article at: www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-02/asu-rnd020612.php http://thearchaeologicalbox.com/node/48171 Tue, 7 Feb 2012 09:14:17 Tue, 7 Feb 2012 09:14:17 (Smithsonian.com) Founding Fathers, Great Read Full Article at: feedproxy.google.com/~r/smithsonianmag/history-archaeology/~3/ZHj7FsiWau4/Founding-Fathers-Great-Gardeners.html http://thearchaeologicalbox.com/node/48169 Tue, 7 Feb 2012 07:35:12 Tue, 7 Feb 2012 07:35:12 (Science News Daily) The foundation of an ancient fortress with one-metre-wide walls that was situated at the coastal site in Ashdod in Israel was exposed in an excavation. Read Full Article at: www.sciencenewsdaily.org/archaeology-fossils-news/cluster134497362/ http://thearchaeologicalbox.com/node/48167 Tue, 7 Feb 2012 06:49:17 Tue, 7 Feb 2012 06:49:17 (The Megalithic Portal) . Investigation in 1972 by a naval sub-aqua team under the direction of Dr T D McArdle of Edinburgh University confirmed that the stony island in Loch Awe, known as Carn Dubh, is a crannog. Read Full Article at: www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=30909 http://thearchaeologicalbox.com/node/48165 Tue, 7 Feb 2012 06:42:12 Tue, 7 Feb 2012 06:42:12 (The Megalithic Portal) . One of a pair of Rock Art locations near the village of Garafia in the north of the island of La Palma. Together with La Zarcita, it is located in the Parque Cultural La Zarza which also Read Full Article at: www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=10648 http://thearchaeologicalbox.com/node/48163 Tue, 7 Feb 2012 06:14:24 Tue, 7 Feb 2012 06:14:24 (Inrap) Une équipe d'archéologues de l'Inrap débute actuellement des recherches le long du littoral de La Réunion. Il s'agit de la première intervention d'archéologie préventive française dans l'Océ Read Full Article at: www.inrap.fr/archeologie-preventive/Actualites/Communiques-de-presse/Les-derniers-communiques/Communiques-nationaux/p-14109-Premiere-intervention-de-l-archeologie-preventive-a-La-Reunion.htm http://thearchaeologicalbox.com/node/48161 Tue, 7 Feb 2012 06:14:12 Tue, 7 Feb 2012 06:14:12 (Inrap) Après sa présentation au siège de l'Unesco à Paris, l'exposition « Profession archéologue » est proposée au public au ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, du 6 au 20 février. Read Full Article at: www.inrap.fr/archeologie-preventive/Actualites/Communiques-de-presse/Les-derniers-communiques/Communiques-nationaux/p-14223-L-exposition-Profession-archeologue-presentee-au-ministere-de-la-Culture-et-de-la-Communication.htm http://thearchaeologicalbox.com/node/48159 Tue, 7 Feb 2012 06:14:11 Tue, 7 Feb 2012 06:14:11 (Inrap) Pascal Depaepe, directeur scientifique et technique de l'Inrap et Stéphane Geneté, directeur de l'Inrap Nord-Picardie inaugurent, à Achicourt, mardi 7 février 2012, le nouveau centre de Read Full Article at: www.inrap.fr/archeologie-preventive/Actualites/Communiques-de-presse/Les-derniers-communiques/Communiques-nationaux/p-14219-Inauguration-d-un-nouveau-centre-de-recherches-archeologiques-de-l-Inrap-a-Achicourt-le-7-fevrier-2012.htm http://thearchaeologicalbox.com/node/48157 Tue, 7 Feb 2012 06:14:10 Tue, 7 Feb 2012 06:14:10 (Cyberpresse.ca) ...Richard Lavoie, ethnologue, communicateur et praticien en archéologie , nous informe que son prochain livre, Naviguer en canot, un patrimoine immatériel, sera en vente dans toutes les Read Full Article at: www.cyberpresse.ca/le-soleil/actualites/gens-de-passion/201202/06/01-4493219-le-fabuleux-brunch-de-la-course-en-canot-au-chateau.php http://thearchaeologicalbox.com/node/48155 Tue, 7 Feb 2012 05:28:16 Tue, 7 Feb 2012 05:28:16 (Science News Daily) The famed "corpse flower" plant – known for its giant size, rotten-meat odor and phallic shape – has a new, smaller relative: A University of Utah botanist discovered a new species ... Read Full Article at: www.sciencenewsdaily.org/archaeology-fossils-news/cluster134465278/ http://thearchaeologicalbox.com/node/48153 Tue, 7 Feb 2012 04:49:21 Tue, 7 Feb 2012 04:49:21 (Science News Daily) The famed "corpse flower" plant - known for its giant size, rotten-meat odor and phallic shape - has a new, smaller relative: A University of Utah botanist discovered a new species of Amorphophallus . Read Full Article at: www.sciencenewsdaily.org/archaeology-fossils-news/cluster134465278/ http://thearchaeologicalbox.com/node/48151 Mon, 6 Feb 2012 23:49:18 Mon, 6 Feb 2012 23:49:18 (Science News Daily) The "love song" of a 165-million-year-old insect is recreated from a tiny and remarkably intact fossil, say scientists. Read Full Article at: www.sciencenewsdaily.org/archaeology-fossils-news/cluster134390004/ http://thearchaeologicalbox.com/node/48149 Mon, 6 Feb 2012 18:49:14 Mon, 6 Feb 2012 18:49:14 (Science News Daily) Chirping of ancient katydids reconstructed from Read Full Article at: www.sciencenewsdaily.org/archaeology-fossils-news/cluster134390004/ http://thearchaeologicalbox.com/node/48147 Mon, 6 Feb 2012 15:51:16 Mon, 6 Feb 2012 15:51:16 (Science News Daily) An exceptionally preserved fossil has allowed biologists to reconstruct the sound of an extinct bush cricket. So what did it sound like? Read Full Article at: www.sciencenewsdaily.org/archaeology-fossils-news/cluster134390004/ http://thearchaeologicalbox.com/node/48145 Mon, 6 Feb 2012 15:21:20 Mon, 6 Feb 2012 15:21:20 (PHYSorg.com) Some 165 million years ago, the world was host to a diversity of sounds. Primitive bushcrickets and croaking amphibians were among the first animals to produce loud sounds by stridulation (rubbing Read Full Article at: www.physorg.com/news247755459.html http://thearchaeologicalbox.com/node/48143 Mon, 6 Feb 2012 15:00:17 Mon, 6 Feb 2012 15:00:17 (Mail Online) Demands have been made for the return of soldiers' skeletons to Fort William Henry in New York after it emerged today they were never laid to rest. Read Full Article at: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2097210/Soldiers-given-burial-ceremony-historical-site-inspired-The-Mohicans-laid-rest-20-years-later.html?ITO=1490 http://thearchaeologicalbox.com/node/48141 Mon, 6 Feb 2012 11:28:20 Mon, 6 Feb 2012 11:28:20 (PHYSorg.com) Paleontologists from Chinese Academy of Sciences reported two Jurassic salamanders with stomach contents from Daohugou, Ningcheng County, Inner Mongolia, China, as reported in Chinese Science Read Full Article at: www.physorg.com/news247745244.html http://thearchaeologicalbox.com/node/48136 Mon, 6 Feb 2012 10:07:18 Mon, 6 Feb 2012 10:07:18 (Mail Online) Demands have been made for the return of soldiers' skeletons to Fort William Henry in New York after it emerged today they were never laid to rest. Read Full Article at: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2097210/Soldiers-given-burial-ceremony-historical-site-inspired-The-Mohicans-laid-rest-20-years-later.html?ITO=1490 http://thearchaeologicalbox.com/node/48134 Mon, 6 Feb 2012 10:00:13 Mon, 6 Feb 2012 10:00:13 (Biblical Archaeology Society) Germany last week returned 45 ancient artifacts to Iraq that were stolen and looted from the country’s museums and archaeological sites following the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. The artifacts, Read Full Article at: www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/news/slowly-iraqi-antiquities-begin-to-return/ http://thearchaeologicalbox.com/node/48132 Mon, 6 Feb 2012 09:56:11 Mon, 6 Feb 2012 09:56:11 (Science News Daily) A Spanish silver coin dating from 1816 is among the artifacts a 30-member team of archaeologists has unearthed next to railroad tracks in front of the San Gabriel Mission.Archaeologist Deanna ... Read Full Article at: www.sciencenewsdaily.org/archaeology-fossils-news/cluster134293752/ http://thearchaeologicalbox.com/node/48130 Mon, 6 Feb 2012 09:21:16 Mon, 6 Feb 2012 09:21:15 (About.com) I don't know about you, but I've always been confused about llamas and alpacas. In zoos I've visited, they looked pretty similar to me, and never having done much study on them, well, all I knew was Read Full Article at: archaeology.about.com/b/2012/02/06/camelids-of-south-america-llama-and-alpaca.htm http://thearchaeologicalbox.com/node/48128 Mon, 6 Feb 2012 08:42:08 Mon, 6 Feb 2012 08:42:08 (PHYSorg.com) Scientists digging in a Namibian national park have uncovered sponge-like fossils they say are the first animals, a discovery that would push the emergence of animal life back millions of years. Read Full Article at: www.physorg.com/news247735545.html http://thearchaeologicalbox.com/node/48126 Mon, 6 Feb 2012 07:28:21 Mon, 6 Feb 2012 07:28:21 (The Megalithic Portal) . Round Barrows in Honsh#363;. Recently (2003) excavated 'push button (=a dome on a 2-layered square fundation)' shaped tumulus paved with pebbles behind Kumano Jinja (#29066;#37326;#31070;# Read Full Article at: www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=30913 http://thearchaeologicalbox.com/node/48124 Mon, 6 Feb 2012 07:00:13 Mon, 6 Feb 2012 07:00:12 (The Australian) ARCHAEOLOGISTS will descend on Penola again to look for the school Saint Mary of the Cross founded in the South Australian town. Hunt resumes for St Mackilop's Read Full Article at: www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/hunt-resumes-for-st-mackilops-school/story-e6frea83-1226263540268 http://thearchaeologicalbox.com/node/48122 Sun, 5 Feb 2012 19:07:09 Sun, 5 Feb 2012 19:07:09 (The Australian) ARCHAEOLOGISTS will descend on Penola again to look for the school Saint Mary of the Cross founded in the South Australian town. Dig for Mary MacKillop site to Read Full Article at: www.theaustralian.com.au/dig-for-mary-mackillop-site-to-resume/story-e6frfku9-1226263542864 http://thearchaeologicalbox.com/node/48120 Sun, 5 Feb 2012 19:07:07 Sun, 5 Feb 2012 19:07:07 (The Australian) ARCHAEOLOGISTS will descend on Penola again to look for the school Saint Mary of the Cross founded in the South Australian town. Hunt resumes for St Mackilop's Read Full Article at: www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/hunt-resumes-for-st-mackilops-school/story-e6frea83-1226263540268 http://thearchaeologicalbox.com/node/48118 Sun, 5 Feb 2012 18:56:08 Sun, 5 Feb 2012 18:56:08 (Science News Daily) Birdlike lungs and other factors may have allowed dinosaurs to grow to soaring heights. Read Full Article at: www.sciencenewsdaily.org/archaeology-fossils-news/cluster134235754/ http://thearchaeologicalbox.com/node/48116 Sun, 5 Feb 2012 18:21:16 Sun, 5 Feb 2012 18:21:16 (Science Daily) A tiny mountainous region in southern Siberia may have been the genetic source of the earliest Native Americans, according to new research. Read Full Article at: www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120126123655.htm http://thearchaeologicalbox.com/node/48114 Sun, 5 Feb 2012 18:07:04 Sun, 5 Feb 2012 18:07:04