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Evidence from dirty teeth: Ancient Peruvians ate well
Starch grains preserved on human teeth reveal that ancient Peruvians ate a variety of cultivated crops including squash, beans, peanuts and the fruit of cultivated pacay trees.
This finding by Dolores Piperno, staff scientist ...

San Marino issued this spectacular set of DINOSAURS on Stamps on June
30, 1965, over 43 years ago.
These creatures roamed around on earth millions of years ago.
Some were over 100 feet long and close to 50 feet tall.

What could look like this if not a fossilized human RBC?
http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=lin440315&b=15&f=1126501267&p=69

Anthropology Today
Volume 24, Issue 6, 2008.
Online ISSN: 1467-8322
Print ISSN: 0268-540X

I'm wondering if someone can clarify this. All the standard quotes about
Douglass' work on tree ring dating state that he was motivated by his
search for historical records of sunspots. Wikipedia even states that he
assumed correctly that sunspots influence climate.

Archeology of homelessness
No matter what you see in the movies, archaeology isn't really about finding ancient temples or golden idols. It's about the day-to-day "stuff"- the material culture-of people's lives. It doesn't even have to be ancient, as a study of homeless peoples' ...

Are these ultrastructures of a Carboniferous human femur fossil?
Fossil embedded in Mahanoy, Pennsylvania:
http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=lin440315&b=15&f=1126387419&p=0
A COMPLETE OSTEON?

I was looking over at Wikipedia an article on a newly discovered and
extinct Penguin species in New Zealand. And it got me thinking about a
recently extinct (c last 500 years) raptor, the Haast Eagle (http://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haast%27s_Eagle). Which when alive, was the

Study of ancient and modern plagues finds common features
In 430 B.C., a new and deadly disease-its cause remains a mystery-swept into Athens. The walled Greek city-state was teeming with citizens, soldiers and refugees of the war then raging between Athens and Sparta. As streets ...

New excavations strengthen identification of Herod's grave at Herodium
Analysis of newly revealed items found at the site of the mausoleum of King Herod at Herodium (Herodion in Greek) have provided Hebrew University of Jerusalem archaeological researchers with further assurances ...

World's earliest nuclear family found
The researchers dated remains from four multiple burials discovered in Germany in 2005. The 4,600-year-old graves contained groups of adults and children buried facing each other - an unusual practice in Neolithic culture.
One of the graves was ...

Are these fossilized cells on the growth plate of femur?
The “cell” remains are displayed at:
http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=lin440315&b=15&f=1126419204&p=52
http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=lin440315&b=15&f=1126419205&p=53