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Outside July 2002 |
The Last Horizon Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl was a charismatic, controversial figure, who launched a revolution in experimental archaeology. |
D-Lib May 2002 Robert Sullivan |
Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights: A Digital Library Context A discussion about the digitization of the creative works of our ancestors... |
Salon.com May 11, 2002 Katharine Mieszkowski |
Hey, mister -- wanna buy a 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablet for $10? Iraq's economic collapse means the oldest writing in the world can be bought for a song on eBay -- and has scholars racing to digitize Sumerian artifacts before they become paperweights... |
Salon.com April 22, 2002 Juno Gregory |
Bones of contention The ongoing debate over where the first Americans came from has anthropologists battling with Native Americans, white supremacists and the Army Corps of Engineers... |
Salon.com March 7, 2002 Katharine Mieszkowski |
"Jurassic Park," eat your heart out Ecological historian Tim Flannery describes the days of megafauna, when 13-ton elephants and shoulder-height armadillos clomped around among humans... |
Outside January 2002 Rob Laymon |
Dino Might When they stumbled across the second-largest dinosaur ever found -- an 80-foot-long Paralititan stromeri -- University of Pennsylvania grad students Josh Smith and Matt Lamanna, along with geologist Ken Lacovara, became dino-hunting superstars... |
D-Lib November 2001 |
Sue at The Field Museum 'Sue' is the largest, most complete and best-preserved Tyrannosaurus rex (T. rex) to have been discovered to date. The award winning online exhibition makes learning about Sue possible for those who cannot visit The Field Museum... |
High on Adventure October 2001 |
Turkey's Ancient Metropolis of Ephesus Greeks, Romans, and Early Christians Speak Through the City's Stones... |
Science News September 22, 2001 Ivars Peterson |
Sand Drawings and Mirror Curves To accompany the telling of a story or recounting of a fable, men of the Chokwe people in south-central Africa traditionally made sand drawings, called sona, to illustrate the tale. These highly stylized geometric illustrations also served as memory aids... |
Salon.com August 23, 2001 Charles Taylor |
"Beauty and the Beasts" by Carole Jahme Women primatologists braved death threats, rapist orangutans and the twisted mentoring of Louis Leakey to bring us the truth about apes... |
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