Archaeology & Paleontology

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

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Geotimes September 2007 Kathryn Hansen	Controversy in the Cradle of Humankind East Africa indeed has much heritage to protect, as the region has been a hotspot for paleoanthropologists trying to understand the evolutionary relationships between early hominins since at least the 1950s.
Geotimes September 2007 Ari Hartmann	Rapid Evolution in Early Trilobites Fueled by High Variation Trilobites were even more ubiquitous on the Cambrian seafloor than they are now in museum gift shops.
Geotimes September 2007 Erin Wayman	Ancient Humans Dodged Super-Eruption? The Toba volcanic eruption 74,000 years ago -- much more destructive than the Mount St. Helens eruption -- may have drastically altered Earth's climate. New research suggests humans were flexible enough to survive these changes.
Geotimes September 2007 Nicole Branan	Understanding the Crust Beneath Iran The most recent continent-continent collision on Earth began about 10 to 20 million years ago when the Arabian Plate slammed into Eurasia in what is modern-day Iran. An international team of researchers has brought to light an important piece of this ancient history.
Geotimes September 2007 Marilyn Keane	A Huge Discovery in Wyoming A geologist and a band of volunteers digging on private land in Wyoming discovered a spectacular skeleton of a 150-million-year-old Camarasaurus.
Geotimes September 2007 Erin Wayman	Baby Woolly Mammoth Frozen in Time Recently, an international team of researchers announced the discovery of a perfectly preserved months-old baby woolly mammoth that had been buried under western Siberia's thick permafrost for at least 10,000 years.
Outside August 2007 Steven Rinella	Meet the Flintstones They're more than 13,000 years old, priceless, and maybe the best evidence yet of the first Americans. Traveling to remotest Alaska, Steven Rinella goes digging for history before it's too late.
Geotimes August 2007 Erin Wayman	DNA Holds Clues to Extinction A new DNA study is showing that mammoths were in decline before humans hunted them en masse.
Geotimes August 2007 Kathryn Hansen	Dino Pose Discloses Cause of Death Dinosaur fossils reveal skeleton after skeleton posed with back arched and head and tail thrown back, and new research is finally revealing what caused such tortuous death poses.
Geotimes August 2007 Erin Wayman	Sandbar Led Alexander the Great to Victory More than any battering ram, catapult or sword, Alexander the Great may owe his success in seizing the island of Tyre to waves and sand.
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