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Viking mice conquered much of British Isles

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:44:47 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I wish they'd come and get them and take them back...yuk.

They may not have raped and pillaged, but "Viking" mice conquered the outer reaches of the British Isles all the same.

Rodents living in Wales, Scotland and Ireland can trace their ancestry to Norwegian house mice, presumably stowaways on Viking ships.

Because grain-eating house mice – Mus musculus domesticus – depend on dense human populations, they serve as a reliable proxy for human settlement and migration, says Jeremy Searle, an evolutionary biologist at the University of York, UK, who led the new study.

What surprised Searle's team was the difference in mitochondrial DNA from these "Viking" mice and those recovered in other parts of Britain. When they examined the ancestry of rodents from elsewhere in the British Isles, they found a link to Bronze Age human migrations, beginning about 2300 BC.

This probably means that the Vikings were the first humans to live densely enough in Scotland and Ireland to support house mice, Searle says.

Tags: mice, vikings, uk

Stonehenge find: first ever carving . .

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:13:31 GMT

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Clip Source: www.lifeinthefastlane.ca

Researchers have unearthed an amazing new discovery for what has been dubbed as the “Stone Henge-Hog” — the first ever statuette, idol or carving of an animate creature at Stonehenge — an animal carved from chalk which appears at first sight to be a “pig with floppy ears,” now believed to possibly be a hedgehog.

Archaeologists from the Stonehenge Riverside Project discovered this fascinating find while digging to the west of Stonehenge in what’s come to be known as the “Palisade Ditch.”

During the excavation, the researchers uncovered the top of what was clearly a human skull belonging to a child, which later revealed to be the grave of an infant estimated to be around 3 years old, believed to be from the Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age. The “Stone Henge-Hog” was found near the top of the pit in which the infant was buried.

“It seems plausible that the carving may have been placed on the top of the burial pit.

Long-eared hedgehog. Photo Leningrad Zoo.

St Kilda

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:24:59 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Visit website for lots more - including how to visit, and working holidays with the National trust for Scotland.

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There have been people on St Kilda since prehistoric times, exploiting the rich resources of the sea, growing crops and keeping animals. It is not clear when the first settlers came to St Kilda, but simple stone tools found on Hirta suggest that Bronze Age travellers may have visited St Kilda from the Western Isles some 4,000 to 5,000 years ago. In the 1830s the Rev Neil Mackenzie found what were probably remains of burial cists in Village Bay. Excavations in 1995 revealed a possible burial structure dating from the Bronze Age.

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Watercolour of the village in 1831

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Islanders carrying their belongings to the jetty at the evacuation

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St Kilda is one of only 24 global locations to be awarded 'mixed' World Heritage Status for its natural and cultural significance. World Heritage List

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At 1400ft, Conachair boasts the highest sea cliffs in Britain.

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The archipelago of St Kilda, the remotest part of the British Isles, lies 41 miles (66 kilometres) west of Benbecula in Scotland's Outer Hebrides.

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"Isle of Man unearths a prehistoric tragedy"

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:43:58 GMT

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Isle of Man unearths a prehistoric tragedy

ARCHAEOLOGISTS may have unearthed evidence of a prehistoric tragedy at Isle of Man Airport.

They are working on a theory that fire could have razed a Bronze Age village to the ground in a cataclysmic conflagration in the area known as Ronaldsway.

ANCIENT BLAZE? The site of one of the Bronze Age houses which archaeologists believe may have burnt down in a catastrophic blaze some 3,000 years ago

Prehistoric remains including three human skeletons, discovered during earthworks for the airport runway extension project, made headlines around the world.

The excavations have been completed some two weeks ahead of schedule and the site, equivalent to about 20 football pitches, cleared ready for construction work to resume.

It was initially thought that pottery fragments, found under the route of a proposed taxiway extension in the north east of the airfield, dated back some 4,000 years to the late neolithic era.

WRESTLING OVER AGE OLD QUESTION OVER RIGHT & WRONG !

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 07:44:25 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Age old sport ,gets asked age old question ,who's right , who's wrong & who's checking those that judges ? especially when your know your right !

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Officials: Greco-Roman wrestler stripped of medal had right to complain

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BEIJING -- It turns out that the Greco-Roman wrestler who was stripped of his bronze medal for dropping it in disgust on the mat had reason for being angry, according to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Judges said Abrahamian was right.

Age is just a number

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:30:09 GMT

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BEIJING — Twenty-four years after Dara Torres first dived into an Olympic pool for a freestyle relay, she took the plunge again.

There would be no gold medal Sunday morning to match the one she won with the American team as a teenager, but Torres, now 41, would have no problem keeping up with most of the younger set.

Torres and the Americans took silver in 3:34.33 and the Australians the bronze in 3:35.05. But for all but the delighted Dutch, Torres’s remarkable comeback was the keepsake from the event that concluded the morning session.

Torres was already the oldest Olympic female swimming medalist in history, after taking gold in the medley relay in Sydney in 2000. But she is now the oldest swimming medalist of either gender, breaking the century-old standard of Britain’s William Robinson, who was 38 when he won the silver in the 200 breaststroke in the 1908 Games.

“As I’ve said from the beginning of this, age is just a number.

Tags: sport, olimpics, spirit, mind, body

Ice Age Haute Couture

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:48:40 GMT

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According to recent research by archaeologists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the well-dressed Ice Age woman's outfit doesn't resemble anything like the crude hide and fur garments that Wilma Flintstone wore. Instead, the warm weather clothing of at least some of our ancestors included caps or snoods, belts, skirts, bandeaux (banding over the breasts), bracelets, and necklaces—all constructed of plant fibers in a great variety of woven textiles.

The finest weaves of Ice Age seamstresses are comparable not only to Neolithic but even later Bronze and Iron Age products and, in fact, to some of the thin cotton and linen worn today. The new evidence comes in part from a study of 80 textile impressions found on tiny clay fragments in the Czech Republic. The impressions are the earliest evidence for cordage and textile production in the world and reflect technologies heretofore only associated with fine garments of later periods.

Timelines of Art History

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:00:52 GMT

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The World (BC/BCE)

Malta

2500

Egypt	2700	2200	2050	1800	1550	1080	323
Early Dynastic	Old Kingdom	1 Int	Middle Kingdom	2d Int	New Kingdom	Late Dynastic	Ptolemaic

Ancient Near East	2300	2000	1200	625	*	240
Sumeria	Akkad	Babylonia	Assyria	Persia	*	Parthia

Greece	1900	1100	750	500	323
	Bronze Age	Dark Age	Archaic	Classic	Hellenistic

Rome	850	509	100
	Etruscan	Republic	Late R.

India	1500	300
Harappan	Aryan	Classic

Japan	300
Jomon	Yayoi

China	2200	1700	1050	770	221
Neolithic	Xia	Shang	W. Zhou	E. Zhou	Chin-Han

Mesoamerica	1800
	Preclassic / Formative

South America	1000	200
	Early Horizon	E. Int.

North America	1000
	North, East

Old Stones | timelines (ad)

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Khafre

Seneb

Rahotep

Scribe

Geese - Medum, tomb of Itet

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Winged Bull

Ashurnasirpal

Nubian

Deity

Pazuzu

Gold Cup

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5000 year old house found near Windsor Castle

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:17:05 GMT

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Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Archaeologists have found the site of what they believe is one of England's oldest houses.

The Stone Age house was unearthed at Kingsmead Quarry in Horton, close to Windsor Castle, and is thought to be more than 5,000 years old.

The find is thought to date to about the 37th century BC

Archaeologists also found flint tools, arrow heads and a bronze-age pin on the Berkshire site during the excavation

He said only about a dozen Neolithic or Stone Age houses had been discovered in England and the Horton house was one of the most complete examples yet found.

Archaeologists believe the walls of the 33ft (10m) by 16ft (5m) building were made of split logs and the pitched roof consisted of reeds or grass.

We used to think of the Neolithic as the time when people started to farm

"The evidence we now have, shows that hunting and gathering wild foods was still important. Crops were grown, but on a small scale. We can also see that cattle, pig and sheep were herded."

Branding for Christ

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:14:21 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A "science" teacher in Ohio is under scrutiny for mixing religion and science. This miscreant not only is a fundy nut but a liar too. I'm sure the kids in his class are getting the latest in science education (if they lived in the bronze age, that is).

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Report: Science teacher mixed religion, class

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Investigators found that Mount Vernon teacher John Freshwater did burn crosses on some students' arms with an electrostatic device. Read the report [PDF]

A Mount Vernon science teacher burned crosses onto students’ arms, told students that gays are sinners and disobeyed his bosses by not removing all religious items from his classroom, a probe found.

While John Freshwater preached his Christian beliefs in his classroom, he also undermined the teaching of science in Mount Vernon Middle School by discrediting the theory of evolution, according to outside investigators hired by the district. The Dispatch obtained a copy of the report today.

Freshwater told investigators the marks were Xs — not crosses.

It said there is evidence that Freshwater told his class that science is wrong because the Bible states that homosexuality is a sin.

Tags: creationism, religion, education, school

Mesopotamian Mystery: Who Were The Hurrians?

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:23:25 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Abstract from a very interesting article that appears on Archaeology magazine's latest (July/August) issue.

Clip Source: www.archaeology.org

Scholars long assumed that the Hurrians arrived in the middle of the third millennium B.C., and eventually settled down and adopted cuneiform as a script and built their own cities. That theory is based on linguistic associations with Caucasus' languages and the fact that Hurrian names are absent from the historical record until Akkadian times.

But Piotr Michaelowski, an Assyriologist at the University of Michigan, notes that Hurrian, like Sumerian, is a language unrelated to Semitic or Indo-European tongues that dominated the region during and after the third millennium B.C. Perhaps, he suggests, the Hurrians were earlier inhabitants of the region, who, like the Sumerians, had to make room for the Semitic-speaking people who created the world's first empire based at Akkad in central Mesopotamia around 2350 B.C.

Tags: archaeology, mesopotamia, hurrians, syria, akkad, sumer, bronze age

Afghanistan’s Hidden Treasures

Fri, 30 May 2008 16:42:46 GMT

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A plaque from Begram, Afghanistan. (1st or 2nd century A.D.)

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An ivory statue from Begram. (1st or 2nd century A.D.)

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A goblet depicting figures harvesting dates, from Begram.

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The first group consists of three rare Bronze Age gold bowls, one intact and fragments of two others. They were found in 1972 at Tepe Fullol in northeastern Afghanistan

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objects from the Greco-Bactrian city of Ai Khanum, founded in 300 B.C. by a follower of Alexander the Great

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large ceremonial plaque in silver and gold from the third century B.C.

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A bronze mask of Silenus from Begram.

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The scenes here are miniature and worldly, dominated by curvaceous women, sharing gossip, jokes or maybe wine, among elaborately carved archways and grills, and surrounded by opulent plants in gardens whose gates are left tantalizingly ajar.

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These contain the extraordinary jewelry, weapons, coins and clothing ornaments found in six royal graves dating from the first century A.D.

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A small solid-gold Aphrodite

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Unique Dutch settlement discovered from Bronze Age

Sun, 25 May 2008 02:33:21 GMT

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Unique Dutch settlement discovered from Bronze Age

Amsterdam - Archaeologists have found a settlement dating back to the Bronze Age just north of Eindhoven, a city in the southern Netherlands, Dutch archaeologist Nico Arts told Dutch media Friday. The discovery was made during preparations for the building of a highway junction at Ekkersrijt, north of Eindhoven.

The settlement may be the largest ever discovered in the Netherlands, and is definitely the largest settlement ever found in the southern Netherlands.

Bronze Age settlements (1500-850 BC) have also been discovered in the province of Drenthe in the eastern Netherlands. However, these are smaller than the Eindhoven settlement.

Some 4 hectares have been dug out, unveiling at least 19 farms and more than 50 other buildings and two cemeteries. All farms are built in a similar fashion and the distances from one farm to another are the same.

67-Year-Old Equestrian Bound for 2008 Olympics

Fri, 23 May 2008 00:06:44 GMT

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clipper's remarks: He found a new horse, kept on believing in our training and discipline, and now he has succeeded. I am very happy for him. It also proves that new things are possible in dressage, at any age--even at 67!"

Although early records are a little sketchy it seems that Swedish shooter Oscar Swahn holds the record as the oldest competitor ever to win an Olympic gold medal. Swahn won at the London Games in 1908, at age 60. He was still sharp enough to take bronze again at the age of 72 in Antwerp 12 years later.

The oldest equestrian competitor is believed to have been British dressage rider Lorna Johnstone. She competed in three Olympic Games, including Munich in 1972 at age 70.

It was George Bernard Shaw who said "we don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing!"

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The story of Hoketsu's equestrian endeavors is a combination of determination and good fortune. Born in Tokyo, he learned to ride at the elite Tokyo Riding Club and earned a spot on the 1964 Olympic show jumping team

The dream of returning to the Olympic spotlight never faded and, following his retirement from Johnson & Johnson in 2003, Hoketsu flew to Aachen in Germany to meet dressage trainer Ton de Ridder. Under de Ridder's tutelage he qualified for the FEI World Equestrian Games in 2006 only to be disappointed again when his horse, Calando, came up lame. But then Whisper, a chestnut horse with an unusual taste for bananas, came into his life. The horse and rider gelled into a great partnership.

"Hoketsu has been fighting for this dream for the last five years and his perseverance and attitude are admirable," de Ridder said. "While experiencing successes and disasters, like having his horse Calando not sound at the 2006 World Equestrian Games, he stuck to his dream.

Tags: hiroshi hoketsu, 2008 olympic games, equestrian competition, dressage

The Settings - OA ClipSeries

Fri, 02 May 2008 15:03:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Here are some tidbits to help you understand the OA Universe and a quick look at what this is all about

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Information Age: - in OA, the conventional dating of years, centuries etc is often replaced by a more generic techno-socio-political division into ages or eras. Just as today we speak of the bronze age, the iron age, the middle ages, the age of enlightenment, and so on, in the same way future history in this scenario is divided into periods like "Interplanetary Age", "Second Federation Era", and so on. The Information Age is the first of these periods, it corresponds to the twenty-first century of current convention)

Old Earth: - because OA is set many thousands of years in the future, when humanity and other sentient beings have spread among the stars, Earth is a distant memory to many; hence the term "Old Earth" is used.

AI: - Artificial Intelligence. These beings play a large role in OA. Some people today don't believe that AI is possible, and even argue philosophically or scientifically that AI is impossible.

Tags: settings, oa, orionsarmproject, science fiction, scifi, worldbuilding, clipseries