News - January, 2005

Sign Language Reveals Fast Track to Grammar - Languages Are Quick to Develop Conventions About Word Order Nature (1/31/05)

• New Language Points To Foundations Of Human Grammar Science Daily (2/3/05)

Of Monkeys, Stargazing and Autism World Science (1/31/05)

Accounting for Lower Girls' Math Scores ABC News (1/30/05)

Secrets of Pier's Cannon Unveiled BBC News (1/29/05)

French Customs Seize Stash of African Artefacts Expatica (1/29/05)

• France Seizes African Archaeological Objects Yahoo (1/29/05)

Unearthing the Secrets of the Past Washington Post (1/29/05)

Taste for Meat Made Humans Early Weaners New Scientist (1/29/05)

Bronze Age Skeletons Found in Dig BBC News (1/28/05)

Monkeys Pay to See Female Monkey Bottoms Live Science (1/28/05)

• Monkeys Pay for Sexy Pics - Macaques Swap Juice for a Glimpse of Leaders' Faces and Females' Rears Nature (2/1/05)
• Monkeys Pay for Prurient Pictures Scientific American (2/2/05)
• Monkeys Pay to View Sexy Photos Discovery News (2/7/05)
• Monkeys Go Ape for a Little Allure Guardian (2/13/05)

A Look at Research on Gender and the Sciences NPR (1/28/05)

Anger Over Stonehenge Delays Guardian (1/28/05)

Tribe Says Fisherman Had Illegal Harvest Lansing State Journal (1/26/05)

Artifacts Halt State Road Work Seattle Times (1/26/05)

Scientists Discover Remains As Old As 1,300 B.C. in Mexico City's Main Park San Francisco Gate (1/25/05)

Turin Shroud 'Older Than Thought' BBC News (1/27/05)

• Shroud of Turin- Old as Jesus? New York Times (1/27/05)
• Turin Shroud Older Than Thought Discovery (1/25/05)

George Washington's False Teeth Not Wooden MSNBC (1/27/05)

• Laser Scans Used on Washington's Teeth Yahoo (1/26/05)

Chimps Have 'Sense of Fair Play' BBC News (1/26/05)

• All's Fair Between Friendly Chimps - Apes Tolerate Injustice If They Are Close to the Beneficiary Nature (1/26/05)
• Chimps' Sense of Justice Found Similar to Humans' Scientific American (1/26/05)
• If It's Unfair, Chimps Will Forgive a Friend CNN (1/27/05)
• Chimp Sense of Fair Play Depends on Players MSNBC (1/25/05)

Scientists Find Ancient Remains in Mexico ABC News (1/26/05)

• Scientists Find Ancient Remains in Mexico Yahoo (1/26/05)

Protocol for Ancient Human Remains Guardian (1/26/05)

Intellectual Life in Roman Alexandria Al-Ahram (1/26/05)

Human Brain Design Gets a New Timetable New York Times (1/25/05)

Archeologist Unearths Biblical Controversy Globe and Mail (1/25/05)

Arid Australian Interior Linked to Landscape Burning by Ancient Humans Eureka Alert (1/25/05)

Ancient Inbreeding Caused Disease BBC News (1/25/05)

• Limited Gene Pool Made Bad Waves Guardian (1/25/05)
• Hominid Inbreeding Left Humans Vulnerable to Disease New Scientist (1/25/05)

Gray Matter and the Sexes - Still a Scientific Gray Area New York Times (1/24/05)

• The Gender Gap in Math and Science Careers NPR (1/19/05)
• Could Summers Have a Point About Women in Science? NPR (1/19/05)
• The Truth About Science and Sex Guardian (1/27/05)

Museum Unveils 'Hobbit' Remains BBC News (1/24/05)

Farmers Given Ancient Site Advice BBC News (1/24/05)

Dispute Over Columbus Remains Hits Snag ABC News (1/22/05)

• Search for Columbus Remains Hits Snag MSNBC (1/24/05)
• Scientists Can't Examine Columbus' Tomb Yahoo (1/23/05)

Evidence May Back Human Sacrifice Claims ABC News (1/22/05)

• Aztecs Cooked, Skinned, Ate Humans Discovery (1/25/05)

Japanese Team Discovers 3,500-Year-Old Mummy in Egypt Yahoo (1/22/05)

Dangers of Taming the Bull BBC News (1/21/05)

Da Vinci's Secret Workroom Located Discovery (1/21/05)

• Researchers Find Possible da Vinci Workshop MSNBC (1/21/05)

Roman-Era Britons Lived In Suburbia Discovery (1/20/05)

Implications for the Archaeology of Warfare in the Andes Eureka Alert (1/20/05)

Tsunami Folklore 'Saved Islanders' BBC News (1/20/05)

Hawks to Protect Herculaneum BBC News (1/20/05)

• Birds of Prey Fly to Ancient City’s Rescue MSNBC (1/20/05)

Amazing Hominid Haul in Ethiopia BBC News (1/19/05)

• Bones of Prehumans Dated to 4.5 Million Years CNN (1/19/05)
• Really Old Bones of Early Humans Unearthed in Ethiopia Eureka Alert (1/19/05)
• Anthropologists Find 4.5 Million-Year-Old Hominid Fossils in Ethiopia Eureka Alert (1/19/05)
• Anthropologists Find 4.5 Million-Year-Old Hominid Fossils in Ethiopia Indiana University (1/19/05)
• Ancient Hominid Found in Ethiopia Is Yielding Teeth Like the Apes' New York Times (1/20/05)
• New Fossils Help Piece Together Human Origins National Geographic News (1/21/05)

Y Chromosome Reveals Hidden Sequence - Extra Genes May Determine Men's Height and Health Nature (1/19/05)

Scientists Find Sex Differences in Brain ABC News (1/19/05)

• Genders Really Do Think Differently MSNBC (1/20/05)

Gladiators Fought for Thrills, Not Kills Eureka Alert (1/19/05)

In Rome, Hints of Buried Treasure Washington Post (1/19/05)

Pennsylvania Neighbors Feud Over Darwin, 'Design' ABC News (1/18/05)

Visions of Ancient Night Sky Were Hiding in Plain Sight for Centuries New York Times (1/18/05)

Local Claim Astonishes Western Attorney Finger Lakes Times (1/16/05)

Army Base 'Has Damaged Babylon' BBC News (1/15/05)

• Poland Says Forces Did Not Hurt Babylon Yahoo (1/14/05)
• Ancient Babylon Site Wrecked by US-Led Forces - British Museum Yahoo (1/15/05)
• U.S.-Led Forces Damaged Ancient Babylon-Report Yahoo (1/14/05)

Was Ancient Indian Town Swallowed by Tsunami? CNN (1/14/05)

Ancient Rock Carvings Go Online BBC News (1/14/05)

• In Pictures - Prehistoric Rock Carvings BBC News (1/14/05)
• New Prehistoric Rock Carvings Discovered in Northern England Eureka Alert (1/14/05)

Probing the Mysteries of the Mind CNN (1/14/05)

• Brain Scans Aim to Test 'Faith Factor' in Coping with Pain Telegraph (1/19/05)

Pre-Incan Artefact Among 28,000 Artworks Recovered in Italy Yahoo (1/14/05)

Are We Programmed For Kindness? ABC News (1/12/05)

Plague Ants, Plantains and Scorched Plantations New York Times (1/11/05)

Restorers Breathe New Life into Afghanistan's Shattered Heritage Yahoo (1/11/05)

Bones of Contention Guardian (1/13/05)

• Research to Go on Without 'Hobbit' Australian (1/8/05)
• Are There Hobbits in Indonesia? South Africa Daily News (1/3/05)

Two New Lemur Species Discovered NPR (1/13/05)

Judge Nixes Evolution Textbook Stickers MSNBC (1/13/05)

• US School in Eye of Creationist Storm Guardian (1/13/05)
• Judge Orders Evolution Stickers Removed From Georgia School District Textbooks Live Science (1/13/05)

Scientists Hunt the Ghost in the Machine Guardian (1/12/05)

• Can Belief in God Relieve Pain? MSNBC (1/12/05)

Voice of Reason- The 'James Ossuary' and the Need for Skepticism Live Science (1/12/05)

Archaeologists Say Iraq Antiquities Still Unprotected NPR (1/11/05)

Modern Danger and Ancient Mystery on Laos's Plain of Jars Yahoo (1/11/05)

Restorers Breathe New Life Into Afghanistan's Shattered Heritage Yahoo (1/11/05)

Amazon Jungle Soil May Not Be So Barren After All - Archaeologists Find Evidence of Incredibly Fertile Farms San Francisco Chronicle (1/9/05)

Floridian Bringing History St Petersburg Times (1/8/05)

Burial Property Donation May Finally Allow Indians Peace Flint Journal (1/8/05)

Lost Apes Of The Congo Times (1/8/05)

'High Status' Viking Site Found BBC News (1/7/05)

Disasters Waiting to Happen Guardian (1/6/05)

• Reasons to Be Cheerful Guardian (1/13/05)

Boston Tea Party Chest Going Home? Yahoo (1/5/05)

Sacred Ground Louisville Courier-Journal (12/12/04)

Indian Commandos Scour Andaman Island for Stone Age Aborigines Yahoo (1/7/05)

• Ancient Tribe Survives Tsunami CBS News (1/6/05)
• Andaman Tribes Have Lessons to Teach Survivors IPS (1/6/05)
• Instincts May Have Aided Tribes Dallas Morning News (1/5/05)
• Indian Tribe May Struggle to Survive After Tsunami Reuters (1/5/05)
• Home Ravaged, Hunger Looms on Onges Telegraph India (1/5/05)
• Ancient Tribes Survives Tsunami ABC News (1/5/05)
• Reading Winds, Waves May Have Saved Ancient Tribes Canada.com (1/5/05)
• Fate Of Indigenous Tribes Unknown CBS News (1/4/05)

Field Expert, Wife Accused of Stealing Scientist's Work Chicago Sun Times (1/7/05)

• Caral Civilization Peru
• CARAL Proyecto Especial Arqueológico Caral - Supe-INC

Ancient Mesopotamian Accounting and Human Cognitive Evolution Red Nova (1/6/05)

Penn Museum's Tiwanaku Archaeological Project Begins Groundbreaking New Effort University of Pennsylvania (1/6/05)

Hawaiian Temples Tell Tale of Social Change MSNBC (1/6/05)

• In Precontact Hawaii, the Swift Birth of a Temple System--and a Religious State Scientific American (1/7/05)
• Temples Indicate Swift Rise of Hawaiian Society Yahoo (1/8/05)

School District Defends Intelligent Design MSNBC (1/6/05)

King Tut Mummy Scanned -- Could Solve Murder Mystery National Geographic News (1/6/05)

• King Tut's Mummy Scanned CNN (1/6/05)
• Legend of ‘Mummy’s Curse’ Reawakened MSNBC (1/7/05)

Boston Tea Party Chest Going Home? Yahoo (1/5/05)

Builders Find Chariot Race Track BBC News (1/5/05)

Shepherds Whistle While They Work and Brains Process Sounds as Language Eureka Alert (1/5/05)

• Herders' Whistled Language Shows Brain's Flexibility National Geographic News (1/5/05)

Revealed - How We Detect Fear in Others' Eyes National Geographic News (1/5/05)

• Terror Shows Only in the Eyes Nature (1/5/05)

Theory - Oetzi Murdered in Power Play Discovery (1/4/05)

A Rain Forest Debate - Could It Have Been Home to Complex Societies? Boston Globe (1/4/05)

Meditation Gives Brain a Charge, Study Finds Washington Post (1/3/05)

Klallam Indians Caring for Remains at Port Angeles Site Seattle Post Intelligencer (1/1/05)