Archaeology & Paleontology

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

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Chemistry World May 20, 2009 Lewis Brindley	New ceramic dating process unearthed A new way to find the age of ceramic objects, such as ancient pottery, has been developed by scientists in the UK.
Chemistry World April 23, 2009 Hayley Birch	Wetlands caused ancient methane belch Air trapped in ancient ice has revealed the likely source of the sudden spike in atmospheric methane concentrations that occurred at the end of the last ice age
Scientific American May 2009 Stuart Fox	How Giant Pterosaurs Took Flight Biomechanics suggests that a giraffe-size pterosaur could have jumped from all fours to get off the ground
Chemistry World April 16, 2009 Jon Cartwright	Isolated microbes survive for millions of years Researchers in the US and the UK have found microbes in the Antarctic that appear to have survived in isolation, without sunlight or new supplies of nutrients, for more than a million years.
Chemistry World April 9, 2009 Lewis Brindley	'Nickel famine' caused ancient oxygen rise A crucial increase in atmospheric oxygen that occurred around 2.4 billion years ago could have been triggered by a shortage of nickel in the oceans, according to Canadian researchers.
Chemistry World April 6, 2009 Simon Hadlington	Did salt lake halogens help cause mass extinction? Life on Earth was all but obliterated around 250 million years ago - but no-one knows why.
Scientific American April 2009 Kate Wong	Super Serpent: Bus-Size Snake Ruled Rainforest 2 Million Years Ago (Thankfully) The 13-meter-long Titanoboa could easily outstretch today's anaconda
Science News March 28, 2009 Janet Raloff	Treaty On Antiquities Hinders Access For Museums by James Cuno James Cuno describes how the United Nations treaty to prevent looting of archeology sites has affected researchers and scientists.
Chemistry World February 4, 2009 Nina Notman	Marine sponges show their age Whilst searching for oil, a team of international scientists have found something completely different -proof that animal life existed more than 635 million years ago.
IEEE Spectrum February 2009	Relief for Digital Relics Three-dimensional laser scans are beginning to gain traction in archaeologist finds.
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