News - February, 2005

Ancient Texts as "Fossils"- How They Survive National Geographic News (2/28/05)

At Remote Eskimo School, Yearning for the Lower 48 National Geographic News (2/24/05)

Ancient Earth Drawings Found in Peru Yahoo (2/28/05)

Team Finds Best Preserved 26th Dynasty Egypt Mummy Yahoo (2/28/05)

Indian Archaeologists Divers Discover Ancient Port City in South India Yahoo (2/27/05)

Manuscripts 'Treated as Fossils' BBC News (2/27/05)

Market's Medieval Site Documented BBC News (2/27/05)

India Finds More 'Tsunami Gifts' BBC News (2/27/05)

US Hero's Relation's Body 'Found' BBC News (2/25/05)

Decapitated Bodies Baffle Experts BBC News (2/24/05)

Hominids Lose Control Public Library of Science - Biology (2/25/05)

Saga Ends with Return of the Hobbits Sydney Morning News (2/24/05)

Prawn Farmers Count Tsunami Cost BBC News (2/24/05)

How Time Flies Guardian (2/24/05)

Tests of Faith  Guardian (2/24/05)

Medieval Finds Block New Exit from Uffizi Guardian (2/24/05)

Panda Skeleton Found in Chinese Tomb MSNBC (2/23/05)

Were Cavemen Painting for Their Gods? Telegraph (2/23/05)

Prehistoric Polluters Independent (2/23/05)

Lab Reveals Truths Hidden in Human Bones Idaho State University (2/23/05)

China's Imperial Treasures Live on in Taiwan Yahoo (2/23/05)

Americas Forensic Team Ends 9-11 Efforts BBC News (2/23/05)

Giant Panda Skeleton Found CNN (2/23/05)

Move Against Eating Dogs, Cats Stirs Debate Seattle Post Intelligencer (2/22/05)

Venice Turns to Future to Rescue Its Past New York Times (2/22/05)

Underwater Arrowheads, Tools Dazzle Maritime Historians Sympatico MSN (2/22/05)

Recent Origin and Cultural Reversion of a Hunter–Gatherer Group PLOS-Biology (2/22/05)

• An Evolutionary Road Less Traveled Eureka Alert (2/21/05)

Reflooding Bodes Well for Iraqi Marshes - UN-Funded Scheme Could Restore the Marsh Arabs' Homelands Nature (2/21/05)

• Iraq's Marshlands Show Renewed Signs of Life New Scientist (2/21/05)
• Marsh Arabs Create New Life in the Garden of Eden Telegraph (2/23/05)
• Dried-up Garden of Eden Can Flourish Again, Say Scientists Guardian (2/21/05)
• Report Sees Hope for Resurrecting Iraq's Marshes NPR (2/19/05)

An Evolutionary Road Less Traveled Eureka Alert (2/21/05)

Mysterious 'Swan Pits' Found in U.K. Discovery (2/21/05)

Theory- Iceman Oetzi Wore High-Tech Shoe Discovery (2/21/05)

• Alpine Iceman Reveals Stone Age Secrets Yahoo (2/22/05)
• Alpine Iceman Reveals Stone Age Secrets MSNBC (2/22/05)
• Alpine Iceman Reveals Stone Age Secrets CNN (2/23/05)
• Ötzi , the Iceman South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology
• Ultimate Guide- Iceman Discovery

Pyramid Search Goes Cosmic Guardian (2/21/05)

Tomb of Saint Paul Found Discovery (2/21/05)

Obituaries - Peter Roger Stuart Moorey, Archaeologist Scotsman (2/21/05)

The Way We Live Now- Unintelligent Design New York Times (2/20/05)

Find or Forgery, Burial Box Is Open to Debate Washington Post (2/20/05)

Coptic Manuscripts Unearthed in Egyptian Tomb ABC News (2/20/05)

History of Modern Man Unravels as German Scholar Is Exposed as Fraud Guardian (2/19/05)

Evolving to Eat Mush- How Meat Changed Our Bodies National Geographic Magazine (2/18/05)

• Human 'Dental Chaos' Linked to Evolution of Cooking New Scientist (2/19/05)

Language Development Via the Internet Eureka Alert (2/18/05)

Natural Selection As We Speak Max Planck Society (2/18/05)

Were Bigger Brains Really Smarter? Eureka Alert (2/18/05)

Abandoned Bones Suggest TB Wiped Out Leprosy In Battle Of Killer Diseases Eureka Alert (2/18/05)

Gorilla Foundation Rocked by Breast Display Lawsuit San Francisco Gate (2/18/05)

Controversial Dates of Biblical Edom Reassessed in Results from New Archeological Research Univ of California, San Diego (2/17/05)

Pottery Presented as Evidence Of Olmec Culture's Influence Washington Post (2/17/05)

Tele-Hobbits Start Small War Sydney Morning News (2/17/05)

Archaeologists Find Ancient Pueblo Site Yahoo (2/17/05)

A Race to Fix a 30-Year-Old 'Solution' Christian Science Monitor (2/17/05)

Ancient DNA Comes of Age Public Library of Science - Biology (2/15/04)

Ancient Egyptians Hoarded Crude Oil Discovery (2/14/05)

Boning Up on Human Evolution Univ of California, Berkeley (2/11/05)

In the Valley of Life, Oil Is Death to the Art of a Lost Civilisation Guardian (2/10/05)

All For One? Why Humans Cooperate ABC News (2/16/05)

Age of Ancient Humans Reassessed BBC News (2/16/05)

• Ethiopia Is Top Choice for Cradle of Homo sapiens Nature (2/16/05)
• Oldest Remains of Human Beings Are Identified New York Times (2/16/05)
• The Oldest Homo sapiens Eureka Alert (2/16/05)
• Oldest Human Fossils Identified National Geographic News (2/16/05)
• University Researcher Helps Determine Age of Oldest Humans Salt Lake Tribune (2/16/05)
• Human Fossils Dated to 195,000 Years ABC News (2/16/05)
• Oldest Humans Now Seen Even Older MSNBC (2/16/05)
• Oldest Known Humans Just Got Older New Scientist (2/16/05)
• Skulls May Be Oldest Known Human Remains CNN (2/17/05)

12,000-Year-Old Bones Found in Kansas ABC News (2/16/05)

New FBI Art Unit Recovers Looted Seals from Iraq Yahoo (2/16/05)

For Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens, Was It De-Lovely? New York Times (2/15/05)

Chimpanzees Show Quality Of Relationship Drives Sense Of Fairness Science Daily (2/15/05)

Color Restored to Ancient Sculptures Discovery (2/15/05)

Tut's Tomb of the Americas Globe and Mail (2/15/05)

Drydock Work Won't Be Resumed at Grave Site Seattle Post Intelligencer (2/15/05)

Maths Skills Survive Linguistic Damage Nature (5/14/05)

• Key to Intelligence Questioned BBC News (2/15/05)
• Brain Is Wired for Maths Guardian (5/15/05)

Holy Evolution, Darwin! Comics Take On Science NPR (2/14/05)

Ruins Support Myth of Rome's Founding Yahoo (2/14/05)

• Royal Roman Ruins Go Back to Age of Myth MSNBC (2/14/05)
• Vast Palace of Rome's First Kings Discovered Deep Beneath the Forum Independent (2/15/05)
• Palace Find Lends Weight to Myth Guardian (2/15/05)

New Zealand Unveils Stonehenge Replica BBC News (2/14/05)

Tsunami Throws Up India Relics BBC News (2/11/05)

• Tsunamis Reveals Ancient Sculptures on Southern Indian Shores Yahoo (2/11/05)
• The Sea Claimed an Ancient Capital of India. Now It Has Given It Back Independent (2/14/05)

Chinese Used Diamonds to Polish Sapphire-Rich Stone in 2500 BC Eureka Alert (2/11/05)

City of Fables Unearths Real Heroes from Roman Era Yahoo (2/11/05)

Rhodes Mayor Wants to Rebuild Colossus, A Wonder of the Ancient World Yahoo (2/11/05)

Eritrea to Demand Return of Ancient Artifacts from Ethiopia, Italy Yahoo (2/10/05)

Interviews- Exploring Tibet's Lost Civilization NPR (2/9/05)

US School's New Challenge to Darwin BBC News (2/9/05)

Killer Chimps Fuel Debate on How War Began World of Science (2/9/05)

First Anthropologist Wins Premier Ocean Award Environmental News Network (2/7/05)

• UC Santa Barbara Anthropologist Wins Premier Ocean Award From the Pew Foundation's Marine Conservation Program University of California, Santa Barbara (2/7/05)
• Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation

First Contact The Selling of the Last Savage Outside (2/8/05)

Study Identifies Trade-Off between Motherhood and Longevity Scientific American (2/8/05)

Abandoned Bones Suggest TB Wiped Out Leprosy in Battle of Killer Diseases Eureka Alert (2/8/05)

Menagerie of Mummies Unwraps Ancient Egypt New Scientist (2/8/05)

'Zero Intelligence' Explains Stock Market Discovery (2/8/05)

Random Trading Good Predictor of Market Behavior, Study Shows Scientific American (2/1/05)

Afghan Archaeologist Seeks Sleeping Buddha Washington Post (2/7/05)

Design for Living New York Times (2/7/05)

Religious Right Fights Science for the Heart of America Guardian (2/7/05)

Engravings Found in County Cave BBC (2/7/05)

• Ancient Engravings Found in Somerset Cave University of Bristol (2/7/05)
• Researchers Uncover Ancient Cave Engraving ABC News (2/8/05)
• Ancient Cave Engravings Found in Britain MSNBC (2/7/05)

Why North Americans Ain’t Got Rhythm MSNBC (2/7/05)

New Study Suggests Race Fear Isn't Hard Wired Science Daily (2/7/05)

Why Left-Handers May Not See the Wood for the Trees Guardian (2/7/05)

Cajun Chicken Chases Spice Up Rural Mardi Gras National Geographic News (2/7/05)

Puberty Starts With a 'KiSS' MSN (2/5/05)

Ernst Mayr Dies, Aged 100 - German-Born Biologist Formulated the Modern Concept of Species Nature (2/4/05)

• Evolutionary Theorist Dies at 100 MSNBC (2/4/05)
• Evolution Pioneer Dies Aged 100 BBC News (2/7/05)
• Ernst Mayr, 100; Biologist Explained Species Shifts in Darwin's Theory of Evolution Los Angeles Times (2/5/05)
• Ernst Mayr Dies, Aged 100 - German-Born Biologist Formulated the Modern Concept of Species Nature (2/4/05)
• Evolutionary Biologist Ernst Mayr Dies at Age 100 NPR (2/4/05)

Bonobos Dying As They Flee Hunters New Scientist (2/4/05)

Experts Check Prehistoric Colorado Village ABC News (2/4/05)

• Experts Check Prehistoric Colorado Village MSNBC (2/4/05)

Row Over Delhi's Errant Monkeys BBC News (2/4/05)

Gorilla on the Rise National Geographic News (2/4/05)

New Washington Depictions Shocking Discovery (2/4/05)

Bob Marley Anniversary Spotlights Rasta Religion National Geographic News (2/4/05)

Bronze Age Finds to Go on Display BBC News (2/3/05)

Older People Get The Big Picture Faster, And They Are Less Inhibited Science Daily (2/2/05)

Negative Words Dominate Language ABC News (2/2/05)

Treasure Found in Viking Market BBC News (2/1/05)

Pompeii Neighbor Sics Falcons on Pigeons Discovery (2/3/05)

'Man the Hunter' Theory Is Debunked in New Book Washington University in St Louis (2/3/05)

Obituary- Roger Moorey Guardian (2/3/05)

Do Men and Women Have Different Brain Chemistry? Guardian (2/3/05)

Archaeologist Wins Desert Research Award Yahoo (2/3/05)

Man Offers $10K for Pedro Mountain Mummy Yahoo (2/2/05)

Professor's New Book Explores Space, UFOs Northerner (2/2/05)

Evolution Takes a Back Seat in U.S. Classes New York Times (2/1/05)

The Perils of Needles to the Body New York Times (2/1/05)

Random Trading Good Predictor of Market Behavior, Study Shows Scientific American (2/1/05)

DNA Sought to ID Jamestown Skeleton Yahoo (2/1/05)