Natural Science Forum / Biology / Paleontology / May 2006

On the Failure of Human Civilisations
The following points are made by Kathleen D. Morrison (Nature 2006 440:752):
1) Archaeology, it seems, really is a matter of life and death --this was the theme to emerge from a recent meeting convened to address the question of what makes ...

  I am a student in a college class.  I have been assigned by my
professor to ask all of you in this group where your favorite place in
the world is to dig for past remains of dinasours or any type of
artifact that interst you.

At least three times, prehistoric and modern human beings left Africa
and spread over the (old) world.
First, some millions years ago or so, some Homo Erectus left Africa and
colonized parts of Asia and Europe.

I'm looking for pictures of a T-ReX skeleton so I can build a modell of it.
Any one knows where to find good pictures?
TIA.

Muggings were rife in New Stone Age
11 May 2006
Emma Young
IF YOU are worried about being attacked or killed by a violent criminal, just be glad you are not living in Neolithic Britain. From 4000 to 3200 BC, Britons had a 1 in 14 chance of being bashed on the head, and a 1 in 50 ...

New evidence suggests the need to rewrite Bronze Age history
Separated in history by 100 years, the seafaring Minoans of Crete and the mercantile Canaanites of northern Egypt and the Levant (a large area of the Middle East) at the eastern end of the Mediterranean were never ...

Hi, folks -
I've created a simple cladistic program for use in my paleontology
class as a lab exercise.  Please try it out and let me know what you
think.  It's freely available at: