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Star Dust May Point to Human Origins InfoAboutNetwork, United States - Oct 29, 2004 Deep Sea Sediment Might Have Sparked Evolution: German scientists, sifting through dust on the ocean's floor, have discovered stardust that may have helped initiate human evolution. Deutsche Welle, Germany, Oct 28, 2004 Knie, K., Korschinek, G., Faestermann, T., Dorfi, E. A., Rugel, G., anby Paul H. - Ancient History
Highway construction reveals ancient forest in New Brunswick. Written by CBC News Online staff, Wed, 27 Oct 2004 Summary: 345-million-year-old forest found by road construction in New Brunswick. Norton home to country's oldest fossils MAC TRUEMAN, Telegraph-Journal / Canada East, Canada, October 30, 2004 As published on page A1/A8 on October 30, 2004 The published pby Paul H. - Ancient History
Baffling flash-frozen science (Movie Review of the "Day After Tommorrow") October 2004, Geotimes And Mixed media message (Sidebar)by Paul H. - Ancient History
Fool's gold delivers perfect fossils Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News, Wednesday, 27 October 2004 Sarah E. Gabbott, Hou Xian-guang, Michael J. Norry,and David J. Siveter, 2004, Preservation of Early Cambrian animals of the Chengjiang biota. Geology. vol. 32, no. 10, pp. 901–904.by Paul H. - Ancient History
Indian Mounds Mystify Excavators Wired.com, Michelle Delio, Oct. 22, 2004 PTby Paul H. - Ancient History
Ancient sea spider fossils discovered in volcanic ash "New Haven, Conn. - Volcanic ash that encased and preserved sea life in the Silurian age 425 million years ago near Herefordshire, UK has yielded fossils of an ancient sea spider, or pycnogonid, one of the most unusual types of arthropod in the seas today." HALIESTES DASOS - A SILURIAN SEA SPIDER Ancient sea spby Paul H. - Ancient History
Man convicted of theft of Nevada artifacts faces new charges KESQ, News Channel 3by Paul H. - Ancient History
Ancient Bird Fossil May Suggest Link with Dinosaurs Reuters, Oct 22, 2004 "Scientists in China have found a 120 million-year-old fossil of a baby bird which is believed to have died just before it hatched and which could shed light on the relationship between dinosaurs and birds." Birds, dinosaurs evolutionary link NEWS.com.au, Australia - Oct 21, 2004 Ancient Babyby Paul H. - Ancient History
Kat asked: "Does anyone know the scale of some of these images? We were looking at the pyramid shaped ...... uh.. thing .... but without an idea of scale its hard to get your mind around what it could be." This is a real problem with the side-scan images, which a person must remember are not the same as photographs and subject to all sorts of artifacts and distortions. Iby Paul H. - Ancient History
NORTH-EAST DIG THROWS LIGHT ON EARLY SETTLERS The Press and Journal, Scotland, 14 October 2004 8,000 year-old Mesolithic site found enar Aberdeenshire / Kintore.by Paul H. - Ancient History
Wiping the snow off Greenland's oldest ski October 15 2004, Independent Online, South Africa Likely left behind a 1,000 years ago by Norseman.by Paul H. - Ancient History
Lake Constance is historical ships' graveyard Independent Online, South Africa - Oct 19, 2004 "Constance, Germany - Archaeologists believe Lake Constance is a huge ships' graveyard for historical vessels dating back to ancient times."by Paul H. - Ancient History
Fisherman nets statue of ancient Greek athlete KPLC-TV , Lake Charles, Louisiana - Oct 19, 2004 Fisherman nets 2,400-year-old Greek statue Associated Press, October 19, 2004, HindustanTimes.com A Greek fisherman has recovered a 24-hundred-year-old bronze statue from the Aegean Sea near the island of Kythnos.by Paul H. - Ancient History
Archaeologist continues to dig up history Marjorie Wertz, Tribune-Review, October 17, 2004 Excavations by Dr.James M. Adovasio continue at the Meadowcroft Rockshelter in Washington County, Pennsylvania, where cultural deposits as old as 16,000 are hypopthesized to have been found.by Paul H. - Ancient History
Arctic mystery no longer: Dinosaurs walked Canada's great north "Hans Larsson, a McGill University palaeontologist (located in Montreal, Canada), has found physical proof that Canada's Arctic regions once had a Jurassic era. Scientists have suspected that dinosaurs lived in Canada's great north eons ago, yet it remained an unproven theory, since no bones hadby Paul H. - Ancient History
Godzilla gets props as he invades city By Joel Mathis, Lawrence Journal World, October 16, 2004 Godzilla! Event to explore monster's legacy for 50th anniversary JOHN HANNA, Associated Press, The Whichita Eagle, Oct. 16, 2004 ""In Godzilla's Footsteps: Japanese Pop Culture Icons on the Global Stage" marks the fiftieth birthday of the King of the Monsters,by Paul H. - Ancient History
ROMAN REMAINS WERE PRESERVED IN CLAY By Mike Larkin, Cumberland News, United Kingdom - Oct 15, 2004 PRICELESS Roman artifacts were preserved in Carlisle for thousands of years because they ere encased in one and a half metres of waterlogged clay. The objects - clothes, leather chariot straps and coins - would normally rot. ..."by Paul H. - Ancient History
Fossils storm Brevard beaches: Did hurricanes unleash waves of ancient crabs? by Billy Cox, FLORIDA TODAY, Oct 14, 2004 Portell, R. W., Turner, R. L., and Beerensson, J., 2002, Occurence and Significance of the Ghost Crab Ocypode Quadrata (Fabricius, 1787) from the Upper Pleistocene to Holocene? Anastasia Formation of Florida. North-Central Section (36th) and Southeastern Secby Paul H. - Ancient History
'Plant dinosaurs are dying on our doorstep' Independent Online, South Africa - Sep 15, 2004by Paul H. - Ancient History
In Extinction Debate, Dinosaurs and Science Writers are the Losers By Robert Roy Britt, 14 October 2004, space.com The references mentioned in this article are; Penny, D., and Phillips, M. J., 2004, The rise of birds and mammals: are microevolutionary processes sufficient for macroevolution? Trends in Ecology & Evolution. vol. 19, no. 10, pp. 516-522. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2004.by Paul H. - Ancient History
Xu, X., and Norell, M. A., 2004, A new troodontid dinosaur from China with avian-like sleeping posture Nature. vol. 431, no.7010, pp. 838-841 (14 October 2004) doi:10.1038/nature02898by Paul H. - Ancient History
Sunken ships reveal secrets The Free Lance-Star, By RUSTY DENNEN, 10/14/2004 "Variety of wrecks found by underwater archaeologists working in Potomac River's Virginia creeks."by Paul H. - Ancient History
Many mummies and artifacts discovered by French team in Al-Monira Egypt-France, Arbic News, Local, 10/14/2004 "The French team excavating at Kharga Oasis have made an archaeological discovery 8 kilometers from Al-Monira village." Best Regards, Paulby Paul H. - Ancient History
There is a guidebook about the geology of the Sierra Nevada Mountains that can be donwloaded as PDF file on line in "FOP Pacific Cell Field Trip Guidebook 2003" from links at Although extremely informal, the "Friends of the Pleistocene" (FOP) field trips are where Quaternary geologists, various Earth scientists, and archaeologists get together to look at what eby Paul H. - Ancient History
Fossil dinosaur slept like a bird Michael Hopkin, 13 October 2004, Nature News 'Sleeping dragon' rested like a bird Jackie Dent, Guardian Unlimited October 13, 2004 Dinosaur that slept like a bird Tim Radford, October 14, 2004, The Guardian Young dinosaur caught sleeping like bird. Sleeping Dino Assumed Birdlike Pose SCIENCE NEWS, October 14, 2004by Paul H. - Ancient History
Drilling for Africa's climate history By Roland Pease, BBC science, 12 October, 2004 Scientific Drilling at the Bosumtwi Impact Structure, Ghana, West Africa Related PDF files that can be downloaded are: GEOLOGICAL STUDIES AT LAKE BOSUMTWI IMPACT CRATER, GHAN GEOPHYSICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE LAKE BOSUMTWI IMPACT CRATER. Lake Bosumtwiby Paul H. - Ancient History
Eruption Movies and Photograph Setsby Paul H. - Ancient History
Quaternary Stratigraphy and Tectonics, and Late Prehistoric Agriculture of the Safford Basin (Gila and San Simon River Valleys), Graham County, Arizona. Friends of the Pleistocene, Rocky Mountain Cell 46 th Field Conference and Arizona Geological Society Fall Field Trip, 2002, October 11-13, 2002 By Brenda B. Houser, Phillip A. Pearthree, Jeffry A. Homburg, and Lawrence C. Thrasheby Paul H. - Ancient History