Archaeology & Paleontology

Magazine articles on archaeology, paleontology, artifacts, prehistoric origins.

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Geotimes August 2007 Erin Saupe	Climate Kick-Started Agriculture Researchers examined charcoal and plant microfossils in the Balsas Valley in southern Mexico to determine when agriculture began there.
Smithsonian August 2007 Diana Parsell	Monumental Shift Tackling an ages-old puzzle, a French architect offers a new theory on how the Egyptians built the Great Pyramid at Giza.
Smithsonian July 2007 Eric Jaffe	Walk This Way A treadmill experiment is giving anthropologists runaway evidence about evolution: early human ancestors may have started walking upright because the process conserves energy compared with the four-limbed knuckle-walking of chimpanzees.
Scientific American August 2007	Cosmic Questions -- Baboon Melodrama Books on the origin of the universe. Cosmic Jackpot: Why Our Universe is Just Right for Life... Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind... The Snoring Bird: My Family's Journey Through a Century of Biology...
Geotimes July 2007 Josh Chamot	Largest Fossilized Forest Found in Mine Deep within a maze of coal mines nestled along the eastern edge of Illinois, an ancient swamp forest is preserved at its time of death by a catastrophic flood 307 million years ago.
Geotimes July 2007 Megan Sever	La Brea Yields Oil-Eating Bacteria Fossils are not the only surprises hidden in the Rancho La Brea tar pits in Los Angeles, Calif. Researchers have recently discovered entire new families of bacteria happily living in the toxic asphalt.
Smithsonian July 2007 Dina Modianot-Fox	Ancient Rome's Forgotten Paradise Stabiae's seaside villas will soon be resurrected in one of the largest archaeological projects in Europe since World War II.
Smithsonian June 2007 Eric Jaffe	Saving Our Shipwrecks New technologies are aiding the search for one Civil War submarine, and the conservation of another.
Outside May 2007 Joshua Foer	Love Triangles An amateur archaeologist's discovery of ancient pyramids under the hills of Bosnia and Herzegovina has kicked off an exuberant national celebration and a massive dig that's drawing tourists by the thousands.
Geotimes May 2007 Katherine Unger	"Clovis First" in Doubt Clovis' status as the first Americans has now been called into question by new radiocarbon dates that indicate Clovis technology flourished for a much shorter time than previously thought.
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