Modern, Post-War Architecture is Shit

June 7, 2008 on 2:39 pm | Friedrich Braun | Archeology , Liberalism & the Left , Marxism & Culture War , Oh Tempora, Oh Mores | No Comments | Email This Post | Print this Post

Paris is a miraculous city in no small measure because modern architects have not been able to get their hands on it.

Neolithic men were prepared to fight for their women

June 3, 2008 on 9:16 am | Friedrich Braun | Anthropology , Archeology , History | No Comments | Email This Post | Print this Post

This is from today’s Daily Telegraph (London):

By Roger Highfield, Science Editor Many archaeologists have argued that women have long motivated cycles of violence and blood feuds throughout history but there has really been no solid archaeological evidence to support this view. Now a relatively new method has been used to work out the origins of the victims tossed into a mass grave of skeletons, and so distinguish one tribe from another, revealing that neighbouring tribes were prepared to kill their male rivals to secure their women some 7000 years ago.
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Vikings Filed Their Teeth, Skeleton Study Shows

April 17, 2008 on 4:05 pm | Friedrich Braun | Anthropology , Archeology , History | No Comments | Email This Post | Print this Post

No one would accuse them of being dandies, but contrary to popular belief, the Vikings took great pride in their looks.

Oldest known human fossil found in Europe

March 26, 2008 on 8:24 pm | Friedrich Braun | Anthropology , Archeology , Origin of Man | No Comments | Email This Post | Print this Post

MADRID, Spain - A small piece of jawbone unearthed in a cave in Spain is the oldest known fossil of a human ancestor in Europe and suggests that people lived on the continent much earlier than previously believed, scientists say.

Homo sapiens

March 26, 2008 on 8:14 pm | Friedrich Braun | Anthropology , Archeology , Evolution | No Comments | Email This Post | Print this Post

Here, we are looking at ourselves, Homo sapiens. We first appeared approximately 120,000 years ago. Our average cranial capacity is, on average, 1350 cc. at about 40,000 years ago, with Cro-Magnon culture first appearing, we use our first diversified tool kits. such technological breakthroughs would lead to others, allowing Homo sapiens to take over and inhabit nearly every ecological niche on the planet.

Sea reptile is biggest on record

March 3, 2008 on 6:56 pm | Friedrich Braun | Archeology , Evolution, Science & Technology | No Comments | Email This Post | Print this Post

A fossilised “sea monster” unearthed on an Arctic island is the largest marine reptile known to science, Norwegian scientists have announced.

The 150 million-year-old specimen was found on Spitspergen, in the Arctic island chain of Svalbard, in 2006.

Oldest hominid discovered is 7 million years old - study

March 3, 2008 on 6:39 pm | Friedrich Braun | Archeology , Evolution, Origin of Man | No Comments | Email This Post | Print this Post

Undated handout photo shows the skull of Toumaï, a seven-million- year-old fossil believed to be the remains of the earliest human ever found, found in 2001. New fossil remains as well as the 3D reconstruction of the skull confirm that the creature is the oldest species of the human branch, a common ancester of the chimpanzee and of homo sapiens.

Ancestral Human Skull Found in China

February 26, 2008 on 8:35 pm | Friedrich Braun | Anthropology , Archeology , Evolution, Origin of Man | No Comments | Email This Post | Print this Post

A human skull tentatively dating back 80,000 to 100,000 years may shed light on a murky chapter of evolutionary history, its discoverers say.

China finds 100,000-year-old human skull - report

January 23, 2008 on 8:28 pm | Friedrich Braun | Archeology | No Comments | Email This Post | Print this Post

An almost complete human skull dating back 80,000 to 100,000 years has been unearthed in central China, state media reported Wednesday.

Dashing Finns were first to get their skates on 5,000 years ago

December 26, 2007 on 7:15 pm | Friedrich Braun | Anthropology , Archeology , History | No Comments | Email This Post | Print this Post

The origins of ice-skating have been traced by scientists to the frozen lakes of Finland about 5,000 years ago, when people used skates made from animal bone.

Hoard of Celtic Coins Found: a reminder of the advanced civilization destroyed by the Romans’ Operation Gaulist Freedom

December 21, 2007 on 6:00 pm | Friedrich Braun | Archeology , History | No Comments | Email This Post | Print this Post

Asterix and Obelix, had they existed, might have paid for their mead and other magic potions with gold-silver-copper coins stamped with elaborate images of men and horses.

Fresh fossil evidence of eye forerunner uncovered

December 13, 2007 on 8:55 am | Friedrich Braun | Archeology , Evolution | No Comments | Email This Post | Print this Post

Ancient armoured fish fossils from Australia present some of the first definite fossil evidence of a forerunner to the human eye, a scientist from The Australian National University says.

Neanderthal bearing teeth

December 4, 2007 on 6:09 pm | Friedrich Braun | Anthropology , Archeology , Evolution, Origin of Man | No Comments | Email This Post | Print this Post

An international European research collaboration led by scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology reports evidence for a rapid developmental pattern in a 100,000 year old Belgian Neanderthal (Homo neanderthalensis).

New Ape Fossils Found in Africa

November 17, 2007 on 8:34 pm | Friedrich Braun | Africa, Archeology , Evolution, Origin of Man , Science & Technology | No Comments | Email This Post | Print this Post

Fossil hunters exploring the eastern edge of the Rift Valley of Kenya have found the jawbone of a 10-million-year-old ape that appears to be a close relative of the last ancestor of humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas. The discovery of this ancient ape strikes a new blow against a theory that apes in Africa died out millions of years ago only to be replaced by other apes that had migrated to Europe and Asia and then returned.

New Ancient Ape Species Discovered

November 13, 2007 on 7:36 pm | Friedrich Braun | Archeology , Evolution, Origin of Man | No Comments | Email This Post | Print this Post

A fossil unearthed in Kenya belongs to a new species of ape that lived around the same time as the last common ancestor of gorillas and humans.

Ancient skeleton was ‘even older’

October 31, 2007 on 3:09 pm | Friedrich Braun | Archeology | No Comments | Email This Post | Print this Post

The Red Lady of Paviland has always been a little coy about her age - but it appears she may be 4,000 years older than previously thought.

Those Brilliant Ancient Greeks

October 5, 2007 on 7:48 pm | Friedrich Braun | Archeology , History | No Comments | Email This Post | Print this Post

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., October 1, 2007—Move over, Archimedes. A researcher at Harvard University is finding that ancient Greek craftsmen were able to engineer sophisticated machines without necessarily understanding the mathematical theory behind their construction.

Biblical archeology

October 2, 2007 on 2:57 pm | Friedrich Braun | Archeology , Atheism/Agnosticism, Books , Religion | No Comments | Email This Post | Print this Post

And partly it is because scientific findings may challenge religious dogma. Biblical scholarship is highly charged because the Bible is a religious book and any research carries the prospect of “proving” or “disproving” treasured beliefs. What if the Exodus might not have taken place as described in the Bible? Similarly, what will people do when told that there are identical stories to Noah and the Ark, but they were recorded between 500 and 1,000 years earlier sans Noah? And that the flood was sent because the people were too noisy and the Gods couldn’t sleep, not because people were evil and sinning? Or when you tell them that “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth” was a concept expressed in Hammurabi’s Law Code nearly 1,000 years before the Bible?

Go East old man: Neanderthals reached China’s doorstep

October 1, 2007 on 7:17 pm | Friedrich Braun | Anthropology , Archeology , Immigration , Origin of Man | No Comments | Email This Post | Print this Post

European Neanderthals, modern man’s ill-fated cousins who died out mysteriously some 28,000 years ago, migrated much further east than previously thought, according to a study released Sunday.

Inca Sacrifices Were ‘Fattened Up’ First

October 1, 2007 on 7:05 pm | Friedrich Braun | Anthropology , Archeology , History , Multiculturalism | No Comments | Email This Post | Print this Post

(AP) — Children sacrificed by the Inca appear to have been “fattened up” in a yearlong ritual, new research suggests.

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