The permafrost of Siberia has once again forwarded us a message from the Ice Age, with this one containing a mammoth specimen so well preserved that scientists are hopeful of extracting sufficient genetic material that it will eventually help to enable them to ‘resurrect the mammoth’…
The six-month-old female calf was discovered on [...]
July 10, 2007
Frozen Baby Mammoth, 10,000 Years Old, Found Almost Intact
July 10, 2007
Archaeology Channel: Tikal, A CyArk Case Study
As many will be aware, the Archaeology Channel has for some time been an excellent resource for archaeology and anthropology related films and videos, with their latest offering is described thus…
Tikal, a World Heritage Site in Guatemala, [...]
July 10, 2007
Book-On-Demand at the Tobacconist’s
Martin at Aardvarchaeology has written up a brief post in which he comments on the possibility of being able in the future to visit a suitable retail outlet, and have them print you up a copy of a desired book which itself may no longer be in print, hopefully at a price significantly lower than [...]
July 10, 2007
Bid To Sail Reed Boat Across Atlantic, East From New York
Readers of these pages over the last couple of weeks will be familiar with the idea that archaic humans may have put to sea hundreds of thousands of years earlier than was thought possible, and to this end I’ve concentrated on the replicative archaeology of Robert Bednarik, who in recent years has designed and built [...]
July 10, 2007
Rotherwas Ribbon – English Heritage Seek To Preserve ‘Very Fragile’ Site
Just a very quick update to report that English Heritage have visited the site, I think on the afternoon of Monday the 9th, and it is expected that a decision will be reached over the next few weeks…
English Heritage inspectors made a visit to the 4,000-year-old archaeological feature in Herefordshire on July 9 to [...]
July 10, 2007
Ethiopia Unveils New Find Of Ancient Fossils
News from Woranso-Mille, in Ethiopia via Yahoo!, which although is as yet brief, will doubtless receive more detailed coverage in due course…
Ethiopian scientists said on Tuesday they have discovered hominid fossil fragments dating from between 3.5 million and 3.8 million years ago in what could fill a crucial gap in the understanding of human [...]
July 10, 2007
Neutral Evolution Has Helped Shape Our Genome
Just a very brief post which I’ll write up more fully later, and today comes news via Science Daily that much of the DNA in our genome appears to be neutral, i.e. large parts of it have appear to have no directly beneficial or detrimental effects to the whole.
“For a long time, the basic belief [...]
