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Ancient Light: On Public Archaeology, Stonehenge and Petrified Forests.This post originally started on twitter, three tweets about the Stonehenge/Google-Under-the-Earth project .
Topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 20:45
Royal visit will boost museum's Bede bid
His Royal Highness, The Duke of Gloucester, will support the World Heritage Site bid by the twin monastery of Wearmouth-Jarrow. The Duke, who is patron of Bede's World in Church Bank, Jarrow, will return to the museum to hear all about the latest developments over the bid and the museum itself.
Topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 18:35
'Ghost Ships of the Schooner Coast'
Explore the underwater world of Lake Michigan through an exhibit of the photography of Wisconsin Historical Society underwater archaeologist Tamara Thomsen at the Wisconsin Historical Museum opening Tuesday, February 7. Surround yourself with the shipwreck stories of the steamers Continental and Francis Hinton and the schooners Rouse Simmons and ... (more)
Topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 14:26
Experts discount Viking axe find
An axe head found in a garden in Gloucestershire, which was claimed to be of Viking origin, is an 18th Century woodworking tool, experts have said.
Topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 10:16
IAA Finds Remains from the Period of the Prophet Jonah
Foundation of a fortress from the period of the prophet Jonah exposed in an excavation by the Israel Antiquities Authority .
Topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 06:11
Train trench dig finds artifacts near old mission
Archaeologists have dug up thousands of pieces of history along the route of a planned train trench near the historic San Gabriel Mission.
Topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 02:07
A Scientific Jonah: My profile of Joy Reidenberg in tomorrow’s New York Times | The Loom
For anyone in the US who likes to know what it’s like inside a giraffe (hands up, people), it was frustrating to discover the show Inside Nature’s Giants airing on British TV. The best we could manage were snippets on YouTube. Now the show is here in the States. The other day I spent some time with one of the main scientists of the show, Joy Reidenberg, an anatomist at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. I’ve written a profile of her, both as a researcher who’s discovering fascinating new things about whales, and as that most improbable thing: a celebrity anatomist. Check it out.
Be sure to take a look at the extras on the page, such as the podcast, video, and graphic instructions for how to dissect a 50-ton whale.
[Photo courtesy of Joy Reidenberg]
discovermagazine.com | 07-Feb-2012 01:08
Stonehenge as you've never seen it
Millions of people have used Google Earth's geo-modelling software to take a tour of the moon, Mars, foreign countries, or - let's be honest - to compare their homes with those of their neighbours.
Topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 21:57
Archaeologist to speak at SUNY Orange about ancient stories revealed in clay tablets
Irving Finkel of the British Museum in London, who has a doctorate in Assyriology and is considered the world's leading expert in cuneiform writing, will be speaking Monday at 7 p.m. in the great room of Kaplan Hall at SUNY Orange, Newburgh on "New Life on Noah's Ark: An Astonishing Archaeological Discovery." CITY OF NEWBURGH - The design of the ... (more)
Topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 17:52
A future for the past: The El Paso Museum of Archaeology on right path, says director
Julia Bussinger, director of the El Paso Museum of Archeology, 4301 Trans Mountain, stands near one of the museum's exhibits.
Topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 13:43
Despite ceremony, NY fort's skeletons not buried
For decades, tourists visiting this popular Adirondack village could gape at the skeletons of soldiers from nearby French and Indian War sites.
Topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 09:33
Despite ceremony, NY fort's skeletons not buried
A stone memorial from the 1950s marks where the remains of an unknown soldier from the French and Indian War lie near the Fort William Henry Memorial Cemetery at Fort William Henry in Lake George, N.Y., on Friday, Feb.
Topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 09:33
Despite ceremony, NY fort's skeletons not buried
A stone memorial from the 1950s marks where the remains of an unknown soldier from the French and Indian War lie near the Fort William Henry Memorial Cemetery at Fort William Henry in Lake George, N.Y., on Friday, Feb.
Topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 09:33
Camelids of South America: Llama and Alpaca
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 they were domesticated in South America, somewhere high in the Andes.
...about.com | 06-Feb-2012 08:59
Media Advisory: Ryan Harris, Parks Canada Underwater Archaeologist, Speaker at Northern Lights 2012
As part of Northern Lights 2012, Ryan Harris, a member of Parks Canada's Underwater Archaeology Service, will speak on the Agency's archaeological surveys in Canada's Arctic.
Topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 06:23
Hunt resumes for St MacKillop's school
ARCHAEOLOGISTS will descend on Penola again to look for the school Saint Mary of the Cross founded in the South Australian town.
Topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 02:14
Hoboken lecture & film series to feature lecture on Archaeology
The Hudson School, 601 Park Ave., will present a lecture on archaeology in New Jersey this Thursday evening as part of its ongoing lecture & film series for adults, "Think Thursdays." Brock Giordano will speak on some of the archaeological sites in New Jersey, and also, what regulations currently exist to protect them, according to a flyer to the ... (more)
Topix.net | 05-Feb-2012 23:09
For Reporter, Cruise Ship Disaster Is A Local Story
The Costa Concordia cruise ship remains half-submerged three weeks after it crashed.
Topix.net | 05-Feb-2012 22:04
Ancient Scandinavia: Greenland
Greenland, the world's largest island, lies mostly north of the Arctic Circle. For nearly 5,000 years it has been occupied by the Inuit.
Topix.net | 05-Feb-2012 17:50
Science Notes / Archaeology, gerontology
One of our bad habits is as old as the ancient Mayan civilization. Jennifer Loughmiller-Newman of the University at Albany and Dmitri Zagorevski of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute studied scrapings from more than 50 Mayan vessels and found evidence of a potent tobacco in one tiny, 1,300-year-old container.
Topix.net | 05-Feb-2012 13:31
Historic Scotland takeover of RCAHMS: Unwelcome, Unwanted and Wrong
The current land grab that Historic Scotland is making for the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland should keep anyone involved in archaeology, indeed the heritage industry in Scotland, awake at night.
Topix.net | 05-Feb-2012 09:16
Local history buffs focus on cemetery restoration
But for a group of Flagler County history buffs, the Espanola Cemetery was a historical museum worthy of care and attention.
Topix.net | 05-Feb-2012 05:11
Slow steps towards restoring Italy-Libya ties
The events of the Arab Spring disrupted Italy's centuries-old relationship with Libya, its neighbour across the Mediterranean, but - now the dust has settled - both sides are keen to restore a spirit of co-operation. The links between Italy and its former North African territory go back not only to the brief 36 years of colonial rule at the ... (more)
Topix.net | 05-Feb-2012 01:01
A Complete Breakdown Of The 2012 Mayan Apocalypse
Who were the Mayans? The Mayan civilization dates back to 2000 B.C., and extended through what is now southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, and parts of Honduras.
Topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 20:42
Film fest celebrates archaeology
The ArchaeologyFest Film Series by Archaeological Legacy Institute continues tonight with films from around the world about archaeology and culture.
Topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 16:37
Fayetteville man has an unusual hobby: Digging up World War I history
Ralph Whitehead knows he has an unusual hobby, one that blends history, mystery and forensic archaeology with a healthy dose of sweat.
Topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 12:22
Mystery bones suggest sinister death: Curator
A murder cold case or Maori burial site are the latest explanations for human remains found at a Napier building site this week.
Topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 08:13
National World War II Museum expansion enters Delord Sarpy House turf
Reminders of New Orleans' distant and not-so-distant past have been unearthed during excavations for the newest addition to the National World War II Museum complex in the Warehouse District.
Topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 06:08
New archaeological discovery UWI
A construction worker has discovery bones on a site close to the new Basic Medical Sciences Complex at the University of the West Indies Mona.
Topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 02:04
Garrad added to Ontario's highest order
Charlie Garrad with Order of Ontario. Charles Garrad with his Order of Ontario medal.
Topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 21:49
Ebooks on the radio: 6 pm ET tonight | The Loom
I’ll be talking on Wisconsin Public Radio with host Ben Merens about ebooks and the future of publishing. I’ll be on for the hour from 5 pm to 6 pm CT (6-7 ET) You can listen live here.
discovermagazine.com | 03-Feb-2012 21:10
Rescued by ingenuity, luck and two emus
In 1825, when the Royal Charlotte struck grief on its way to India on a mischarted part of the Great Barrier Reef, the 120 souls aboard - including women and children - feared the worst.
Topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 17:45
The forgotten Mound of Down
There are plenty of drumlins in County Down - but have you heard of the Mound of Down? If not, that is probably because it has been hidden from public view by trees and gorse for decades.
Topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 16:44
Community archaeology project success leads to more North East digs
MORE digs are being planned in one of the North East's top landscape areas after the success of a community archaeology project.
Topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 12:35
Honeywell to avoid boat wrecks on bottom of Onondaga Lake while dredging
Honeywell International Inc. has agreed to avoid sunken canal boats, pier remains and other historical artifacts when it dredges decades of industrial waste from the bottom of Onondaga Lake starting this year.
Topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 10:25
Flu Fighters | The Loom
Michael Osterholm, his face a pink-faced scowl, looked out across the table, beyond the packed room at the New York Academy of Sciences, and out through the windows. The New York Academy of Sciences is housed on the fortieth floor of 7 World Trade Center, and their endless bank of windows affords a staggering view of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and New Jersey. One reason that its view is so magnificent is that there’s a huge gap in the skyline–and a huge gouge in the ground–where the Twin Towers once stood.
Osterholm had come here from Minnesota, where he runs a research center for infections diseases and terrorism, to talk Thursday night about the threat of a new kind of flu sitting in labs in the Netherlands and Wisconsin. In nature, it’s a flu that spreads easily between birds but doesn’t travel well from human to human. The Dutch and Wisconsin scientists had found ways to get this bird flu, known as H5N1, to move between ferrets. For Osterholm, ferrets were uncomfortably close to humans on the evolutionary tree. And so he, along with other members of an advisory board, issued a recommendation in December that key information in the papers about ...
discovermagazine.com | 03-Feb-2012 08:26
Discover the Lighthouse with Behind-the-Scenes Tours
The St. Augustine Lighthouse and Museum is launching an exciting new Behind the Scenes tour that gives guests a deeper understanding of how the Lighthouse and its archaeological team are attempting to preserve St.
Topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 06:16
Argentinian archaeologist speaks to students at Benedictine
A mountain climber, a professor and the only woman to be a high altitude archaeologist spoke to students at Benedictine Military on Feb.
Topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 02:01
Tsunami Debris and North America: Is the Tail Wagging the Dog?
The editors of Scientific American regularly encounter perspectives on science and technology that we believe our readers would find thought-provoking, fascinating, debatable and challenging.
Topix.net | 02-Feb-2012 23:56
Human remains could be 1931 quake victim
Buildings collapsed like cardboard as the magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit Hawke's Bay at 10:46am on 3 February 1931.A At least 258 people died in New Zealand's worst natural disaster, with a population of just 60,000 in Hawke's Bay at the time.
Topix.net | 02-Feb-2012 23:56
New approach to Docklands tunnel for Crossrail
Crossrail has adopted a new approach to the restoration of the Connaught Tunnel under the Royal Docks which it says is safer and more efficient.
Topix.net | 02-Feb-2012 20:46
Archaeologists uncover history in South Carolina backyard
When you think of an archaeological dig, your backyard probably doesn't come to mind.
Topix.net | 02-Feb-2012 19:41
Odyssey Marine to recover Victory, but lose 'Black Swan' treasure
Last seen somewhere off the Irish coast , US company Odyssey Marine Exploration have announced that they have "executed an agreement with the Maritime Heritage Foundation for the financing, archaeological survey and excavation, conservation and exhibit of HMS Victory and artifacts from the shipwreck site."A A That's Admiral Balchin's HMS Victory - ... (more)
Topix.net | 02-Feb-2012 18:42
From shipwreck in Italy, a treasure now beckons
In the chaotic evacuation of the Costa Concordia, passengers and crew abandoned almost everything on board: jewels, cash, champagne, antiques, 19th century Bohemian crystal glassware, thousands of art objects including 300-year-old woodblock prints by a Japanese master.
Topix.net | 02-Feb-2012 16:42
Bar Walls walk raises funds for Young Archaeologists' Club
A TROOP of intrepid young volunteers braved the cold to walk York's city walls dressed as Romans to raise cash for their cause.
Topix.net | 02-Feb-2012 13:42
Boy finds 5,000-year-old spearhead
A lucky guy. Mikhaiel Barnes, 10, can not only spell 'archaeologist,' he can brag about being one.
Topix.net | 02-Feb-2012 09:33