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Magazine articles on archaeology, paleontology, artifacts, prehistoric origins.
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Geotimes
January 2005
Megan Sever
Revealing a Rune Stone's Secrets Geologists are trying to determine whether a stone, found in 1898 and covered with ancient Swedish runes telling a tale of a massacre of a band of Scandinavian explorers in Minnesota in 1362, is authentic. mark for My Articles 4 similar articles
Geotimes
January 2005
Naomi Lubick
Horses' Mouths Date Sierra Nevada Uplift Estimates on when the Sierra Nevada began its major uplift vary widely. In an effort to pinpoint the escalation, some geoscientists are going straight to the horse's mouth, literally, using horse teeth to date the mountains' uplift. mark for My Articles 12 similar articles
Geotimes
December 2004
Naomi Lubick
New Dates for Old Deer Bones Improved radiocarbon dating has shown that several creatures previously thought to have died out around 10,000 to 11,000 years ago actually were around much longer. mark for My Articles 22 similar articles
Geotimes
December 2004
Naomi Lubick
Pyrite Fossil Preservation In the Yunnan Province of China, paleobiologists have found evidence for exactly how certain fossils were preserved in the Early Cambrian, around 525 million years ago. mark for My Articles 15 similar articles
Geotimes
November 2004
Megan Sever
Monitoring Aboriginal Rock Art Over the past 30 years, this remote region in Australia, once home only to Aboriginal tribes and wallabies, has become increasingly industrialized, leading to worries about possible acceleration of weathering and deterioration of the rock art. mark for My Articles 7 similar articles
Geotimes
November 2004
Laura Stafford
Parenting Psittacosaurus An adult Psittacosaurus and 34 associated juveniles found in the Yixian Formation of Liaoning, China, may be evidence of parental care by dinosaurs. mark for My Articles 51 similar articles
Outside
October 2004
Bruce Barcott
The Killing Bones When cops learned that a notorious Oregon antiquities collector had graduated from grave robbing to ordering up a contract murder, their macabre sting operation exposed the dark side of digging up the past. mark for My Articles 1 similar article
Geotimes
October 2004
Laura Stafford
T. Rex Hits Puberty New research based on growth ring counts from the bones of Tyrannosaurus rex shows that the dinosaur put on the bulk of its mass during its teenage years and then died shortly after its growth spurt. mark for My Articles 46 similar articles
Geotimes
September 2004
Megan Sever
A Mistaken Link in Human History Reevaluating old dates of sites is quite valuable and is an exciting trend in paleoanthropology right now. mark for My Articles 14 similar articles
Geotimes
September 2004
Megan Sever
Ediacaran Fossil up Close Paleontologists have recently uncovered a goldmine of exceptionally well-preserved fossils in Newfoundland, Canada. mark for My Articles 41 similar articles
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