News - April, 2005

Pygmy Found Near Home of Hobbits Herald Sun (4/30/05)

All of Human History Can Be Written with Four Letters Guardian (4/28/05)

Archaeologists Unearth Seals Used on Pharaonic Desert Missions Yahoo (4/28/05)

Does "Intelligent Design" Threaten the Definition of Science? National Geographic News (4/27/05)

Jawbone Hints at Earliest Britons BBC News (4/27/05)

Kansas Board Taking Up Evolution Debate ABC (4/26/05)

• Kansas Revisits the Evolution Debate MSNBC (4/26/05)

Ancient Metalworkers Burned Out of History Discovery (4/26/05)

Barbary Apes Out of Africa Guardian (4/26/05)

British Gardener Unearths Major Bronze Age Hoard Reuters (4/26/05)

France's New Look at Brazil's Indians New York Times (4/26/05)

Taiwan Dispersal Theory Backed Taipei Times (4/26/05)

Ancient Tombs Found Near Obelisk BBC News (4/26/05)

• Egyptologists Find Tomb of Ancient Southern Ruler Reuters (4/26/05)

Bill's Delight at Ancient Stones idNewcastle (4/26/05)

History Lost in Dust of War-Torn Iraq BBC News (4/25/05)

Roman Relics Spark Village Dig BBC News (4/25/05)

Mercyhurst College Workers Become Key in Local Homicide Investigations RedNova (4/25/05)

Chicago University Professor to Lead Volunteers in Search of Genghis Khan Tomb PR Web (4/24/05)

Clue to Earliest American May Lie in Suffolk Grave Times Online (4/21/05)

Papyrus Reveals New Clues to Ancient World National Geographic News (4/25/05)

• New Technology Unlocks Ancient Texts NPR (4/20/05)

Ocean Off Hawaii Filled With Wreckage Washington Post (4/23/05)

• Off Hawaii, a Big Junkyard to Sift With Masks and Fins New York Times (4/24/05)

Italy Returns Piece of Ethiopia Obelisk Yahoo (4/22/05)

• Final Obelisk Section in Ethiopia BBC News (4/25/05)
• Italy Returns Obelisk to Ethiopia Discovery (4/25/05)

Creswell Rock Art Dated BBC News (4/21/05)

• Experts Put Date to UK Rock Art BBC News (4/25/05)

Egyptian Sea Vessel Artifacts Discovered at Pharaonic Port of Mersa Gawasis Along Red Sea Coast Eureka Alert (4/21/05)

Church of England OKs Jamestown DNA Sample Yahoo (4/20/05)

• Church Approves Jamestown DNA Removal CNN (4/21/05)

Scientist Seen as Latest 'Victim' of Iceman Guardian (4/20/05)

Egyptologists Find Tomb of Ancient Ruler CNN (4/20/05)

• Egyptologists Find Tomb of Ancient Southern Ruler Yahoo (4/20/05)
• Ancient Necropolis Found in Egypt BBC News (4/21/05)
• Archaeologists Find Ancient Egyptian Tomb Yahoo (4/21/05)
• 5,600-Year-Old Funeral Site Uncovered Scotsman (4/22/05)

Great Apes to Learn Human Behaviors CNN (4/20/05)

Divorce Rate- It's Not as High as You Think New York Times (4/19/05)

Peruvian Plan to Save Inca City BBC News (4/19/05)

Obelisk Arrives Back in Ethiopia BBC News (4/19/05)

• Looted Obelisk Heading Home to Ethiopia MSNBC (4/19/05)
• The Axum Obelisk Coming Home to Ethiopia Yahoo (4/18/05)

Are Rice and Wheat Behind China's Population Boom? Eureka Alert (4/19/05)

Genetic Testing Reveals Awkward Truth About Xinjiang's Famous Mummies Yahoo (4/19/05)

Layers of Clustered Apartments Hide Artifacts of Ancient Urban Life - City on Turkish Plains a Major Draw for 'Goddess Tours' San Francisco Gate (4/18/05)

Hawaiian Soils Reveal Clues to Cultural History Eureka Alert (4/18/05)

Prehistoric Humans Wiped Out Elephants MSNBC (4/18/05)

Risk-Taking Boys Do Not Get the Girls New Scientist (4/17/05)

Pompei Discovery for Swedish Archeologists Local (4/17/05)

Reburial for Nelson's Lost Allies BBC News (4/17/05)

Sea-Level Records Reveal Surprising Choppiness - Fresh Analysis Shows That Levels Changed Even Between Ice Ages Nature (4/14/05)

• Sea Level Changes Faster Than Thought Discovery (4/19/05)

£70m Plan to Save Lost Inca City Guardian (4/14/05)

• Tourists Endanger Legendary Inca Citadel of Machu Picchu Yahoo (4/15/05)

Remains of Roman Rabbit Dinner Unearthed in England Yahoo (4/14/05)

Renovation Exposes Civil War-Era Graffiti Yahoo (4/14/05)

Stone Age Erotica Found? Discovery (4/14/05)

Lessons from Killing Fields of Cambodia - 30 Years On Christian Science Monitor (4/14/05)

DNA Project to Trace Human Steps BBC News (4/13/05)

• DNA Project to Trace Human Steps BBC News (4/13/05)
• Gene Project to Trace Migration Los Angeles Times (4/13/05)
• Gene Project Will Map Humans' Global Spread New Scientist (4/13/05)
• Finding the Roots of Modern Humans CNN (4/13/05)
• Human Migration Traced Through Genes - Genetic Genealogy MSNBC (4/13/05)
• Gene Project Aims to Trace Human Migration Yahoo (4/13/05)
• National Geographic Society Launches Five-Year Project to Track Human Connections Yahoo (4/13/05)
• National Geo, IBM Trace Human Migration Via Genes Yahoo (4/13/05)
• Global Gene Project to Trace Humanity's Migrations National Geographic News (4/13/05)
• The Biggest Family Tree Ever Eureka Alert (4/15/05)
• Mapping the Human Race's Journey NPR (4/13/05)
• The Genographic Project Video IBM
• The Genographic Project - Human Migration, Population Genetics, Maps, DNA National Geographic

Exhibit Aims for the Real George Washington MSNBC (4/13/05)

• Exhibit Aims to Portray Real Washington Yahoo (4/13/05)

'Eat Right' Enzyme Directs Healthy Eating ABC News (4/13/05)

Temptation to Cheat Is Strong for Those Who Think Everyone Else Does So Newswise (4/13/05)

Deeper Into the Donners Los Angeles Times (4/12/05)

Hints of Cosmic Crash at Serpent Mound Cleveland Plain Dealer (4/12/05)

Colonial Armor Found in Jamestown Pit MSNBC (4/12/05)

• Armor Used by Jamestown Colonists Found Yahoo (4/12/05)

Ancient African Kingdom May Anchor Cross-Border Conservation Area National Geographic News (4/11/05)

Designs for a Happy Life BBC News (4/11/05)

Test Tube Gorilla Not Bonding with Newborn CNN (4/11/05)

Obelisk Points to Ancient Ethiopian Glory BBC News (4/11/05)

Early Toolmakers Cast Off Rock-Banger Image New Scientist (4/10/05)

Steven and Hilary Rose - Why We Should Give Up on Race Guardian (4/9/05)

Jane Goodall Defends Exotic Deer in Calif. ABC News (4/9/05)

Brass Jugs Polish Off Disease - Developing World Urged to Ditch Plastic for Traditional Pitchers Nature (4/8/05)

Kennewick Man Scientists Lobby Against Bill MSNBC (4/8/05)

Mammoth Remains Unearthed at California Construction Site CNN (4/8/05)

• Ice Age Discovery in Sunny California (4/8/05)

Woolly Mammoth Resurrection, "Jurassic Park" Planned National Geographic News (4/8/05)

They're Not in O.C. to Unwind Los Angeles Times (4/8/05)

• Mummies Undergo CT Scans at Calif. Museum Yahoo (4/7/05)

Civil War-Era Casket Vandalized in D.C. Washington Post (4/7/05)

Early Hominid 'Cared for Elderly' BBC News (4/7/05)

• Toothless Skull Raises Questions about Compassion among Human Ancestors Scientific American (4/7/05)

Quarter of Primates Face Abyss BBC News (4/7/05)

• Primates on the Brink IUCN -The World Conservation Union (4/7/05)
• Experts List 'Most Endangered' Primates MSNBC (4/7/05)

Chad Skull 'Leans to Human Line' BBC News (4/6/05)

• Facelift Seals Standing of Oldest Hominid - Computer Reconstruction and New Fossils Cement Place in History for Toumaï Nature (4/6/05)
• Fossils Make Case for Apparent Human Ancestor CNN (4/6/05)
• More Human Than Ape Guardian (4/7/05)
• Photo in the News- Earliest Known Human Ancestor National Geographic News (4/7/05)
• African Skull Points to Common Ancestry for All Hominids NPR (4/7/05)
• More Evidence of Skull's Link to Humans Washington Post (4/7/05)
• Evidence Shows Skull Is of Earliest Human - Study Yahoo (4/6/05)
• Experts- Fossil Apparently Human Ancestor Yahoo (4/6/05)

'Drinking Beer in a Blissful Mood' Eureka Alert (4/6/05)

Research Team Recreates Ancient Underwater Concrete Technology Eureka Alert (4/6/05)

First Intensive Investigation of Early Agriculture in Liangchengzhen Suggests Rice Was Prevalent Eureka Alert (4/6/05)

Earliest Evidence of Domestic Herding in the Negev Desert Revealed Eureka Alert (4/6/05)

Muck Yields a Maya Treasure- Empire's First Wooden Artifacts Los Angeles Times (4/5/05)

• Archaeologists Discover Ancient Mayan Saltworks CNN (4/5/05)
• Experts Find 41 Saltworks Used by Mayans Yahoo (4/5/05)
• Ancient Maya Entrepreneurs Made Salt, Study Finds Yahoo (4/4/05)

Medieval Works Found at LNG Site BBC News (4/5/05)

Clues Emerge About Crewmen of Civil War-Era Wreck National Geographic News (4/4/05)

Ebola Flares in Western Gorilla, Chimp Stronghold National Geographic News (4/4/05)

Was Agnès Sorel, the First Official Royal Mistress of France, Poisoned? ESRF (4/2/05)

Would You Adam and Eve It? BBC News (4/1/05)

Rabbi Backs India's 'Lost Jews' BBC News (4/1/05)

Mesoamerican Book Wins Archaeology Book Award Eureka Alert (4/1/05)