If you look at the time stamp of both Bora’s and Greg Laden’s posts, you’d notice that they just broke the embargo on a new study of a prehistoric case of tuberculosis that was supposed to go live at 5pm PST, 8pm EST. Now that the news is out, albeit slightly earlier than expected, I [...]
October 14, 2008
Molecular Evidence For Tuberculosis From 9,000 Year Old Remains From Atlit-Yam, Israel
October 14, 2008
A Refined Ar/Ar Date For The ‘Devil’s Footprints’ From The Roccamonfina Volcano In Italy
I remember reading a short announcement in 2003 about the discovery of 385,000–325,000 years old human-like footprints near the Roccamonfina volcanoes in southern Italy. We haven’t found many paleo-footprints, so any discovery is welcomed with excitement and of course with controversy. Some of the most notable paleo-footprints are the 3.5 million year old prints from [...]
