News - July, 2005

Archaeologists Trace Mystery Wall Not to War, But to Beer New York Times (7/31/05)

Unearthing One of America's First Gardens Hampton Roads Daily Press (7/30/05)

Excavations Reveal Secrets of Roman Road Yahoo (7/30/05)

Crowd Watches Tribe Bury Ancestors Seattle Herald (7/30/05)

Uncovering Past Portsmouth Herald (7/30/05)

Debate Over Kennewick Man's Remains Now with Lawmakers Tri-City Herald (7/29/05)

• Hearing Before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act Senate Committee on Indian Affairs

Female Genital Mutilation Can Cause Infertility New Scientist (7/29/05)

Roman Lead Industry Found in Bog BBC News (7/29/05)

Voice of Reason - The Reality of Bigfoot Yahoo (7/28/05)

• In Search of Bigfoot BBC News (7/28/05)

Race Affects How We Learn to Fear Others, Study Says National Geographic News (7/28/05)

• Study - Race Fears Linger Like Dread of Snakes MSNBC (7/28/05)

An Archaeologist's Goose-Bump Moment Washington Post (7/28/05)

Mystery Man of Stonehenge Smithsonian (7/28/05)

Ancient Iraqi Harp Reproduced by Liverpool Engineers Eureka Alert (7/28/05)

• Ancient Looted Harp Re-created BBC News (7/31/05)

Statue of Emperor Found Among Rome Ruins AP (7/28/05)

Roman 'Motorway' Secrets Unveiled IC Wales (7/28/05)

Old Times Explored In Dig At Virginia Institute of Marine Science Gloucester-Mathews Gazette-Journal (7/28/05)

Humans Learn Without Explicit Thought - Amnesiacs Show How We Pick Up New Tricks from Force of Habit Nature (7/27/05)

'Worthless' Gifts Get the Good Girls New Scientist (7/27/05)

Ancient Tiberias Reveals More of Its Beauty Eureka Alert (7/27/05)

Matrimonial Grave Discovered in Long An Vietnam News Service (7/27/05)

Ancient Roman Puzzle Yields Clues BBC News (7/26/05)

Outcomes- In Gauging Twins' Health, Follow the Money New York Times (7/26/05)

Science Explores Meditation's Effect on the Brain NPR (7/26/05)

Search on for Cliff-Top Cemetery BBC News (7/26/05)

Bones Examined in Settler Mystery BBC News (7/26/05)

The Story of the Iraq Museum -- Picking Up the Pieces of 40,000 Years of Cultural Life Scientific American (7/25/05)

Novelist Reichs Bares Her 'Bones' for Television USA Today (7/25/05)

University of Nebraska, Lincoln Archaeologists Hope to Dig in Cuba Lincoln Journal Star (7/25/05)

Ancient Phallus Unearthed in Cave BBC News (7/25/05)

Blacks Pin Hope on DNA to Fill Slavery's Gaps in Family Trees New York Times (7/25/05)

Bulgaria Unearths Thracian Riches BBC News (7/25/05)

• Golden Treasure Unearthed in Bulgaria Yahoo (7/25/05)
• Tomb Discovery Reveals Treasures After 2,400 Years Telegraph (7/26/05)

Planet of the Retired Apes New York Times (7/24/05)

Prof Digs Up Urban Treasures Salt Lake Tribune (7/24/05)

Wreck Discovery Wins Protection BBC News (7/24/05)

Scientists Seek Fresh Chance to Dig Up Stonehenge's Secrets Guardian (7/24/05)

Duke Husband-and-Wife Archaeologists Renowned for Decades of Field Studies Durham Herald Sun (7/23/05)

Arsenic Is Linked to British King's Episodes of Madness Los Angeles Times (7/23/05)

Stone Age Cave Art, Artifacts Found in Borneo National Geographic News (7/22/05)

Mexican Archeologists Find Rare Sacrifice Yahoo (7/22/05)

Wealth Does Not Always Predict Health New Scientist (7/22/05)

Rare Scrolls Reveal Early Biblical Verses Discovery Channel News (7/22/05)

Studies Say We Learn to Fib While Young ABC News (7/20/05)

Robotics Show Lucy Walked Upright BBC News (7/20/05)

Catacomb Find Boosts Early Christian-Jewish Ties, Study Says National Geographic News (7/20/05)

• Did Christians Copy Jewish Catacombs? MSNBC (7/20/05)
• Christian Catacombs May Have Jewish Origin Yahoo (7/20/05)
• Catacombs' Jewish Origins Shown
• Catacombs Show Christianity-Judaism Link Discovery Channel News (7/25/05)

High-Res Images Expose Bone's 'Glue' Scientific American (7/20/05)

Classroom Evolution’s Grass-Roots Defender MSNBC (7/20/05)

Using Science to Rescue Art NPR (7/19/05)

Smithsonian Finds Scopes Trial Photos Yahoo (7/19/05)

• 80 Years Ago, They Inherited the Wind New York Times (7/26/05)
• Unpublished Photographs from 1925 Tennessee vs. John Scopes "Monkey Trial" Found in Smithsonian Archives Smithsonian Institution

British Have Changed Little Since Ice Age, Gene Study Says National Geographic News (7/19/05)

Peruvian ‘Writing’ System Goes Back 5,000 Years MSNBC (7/19/05)

How Linguists and Missionaries Share a Bible of 6,912 Languages New York Times (7/19/05)

Monkeys Get Intermediate Grade on Mirror Test Scientific American (7/19/05)

• Who's That Strange Monkey in the Mirror? New York Times (7/26/05)

A Skeleton Moves From the Courts to the Laboratory New York Times (7/19/05)

• A 9,000-Year-Old Secret Newsweek (7/18/05)

Archaeologists Peel Away More Layers of Butrint Washington Post (7/18/05)

A Gene for Romance? So It Seems (Ask the Vole) New York Times (7/19/05)

Did Discrimination Enhance Intelligence of Jews? National Geographic News (7/18/05)

9,000-Year-Old Beer Re-Created From Chinese Recipe National Geographic News (7/18/05)

Rare Pompeii Dinner Set Unveiled BBC News (7/18/05)

• Silver Treasure Unearthed Near Pompeii Discovery (7/19/05)

Sifting Through the Past Baltimore Sun (7/18/05)

Getty Curator on Trial in Rome in Stolen Art Case Reuters (7/18/05)

Archaeologists Dispute Indonesia Bones Detroit News (7/17/05)

Archaeologists Continue Work on Shipwreck Rocky Mountain Telegram (7/17/05)

Egypt Demands Return of Pharaonic Reliefs (7/17/05)

Archaeologists Peel Away More Layers of Butrint Telegraph (7/17/05)

Scientists Seek Vatican Clarification on Evolution NPR (7/17/05)

• Archbishop Denounces Evolution as 'Unguided' NPR (7/12/05)

In The Beginning... ChallengerNYK (7/17/05)

'Bone Woman' Digs Up Remains to Foil Killers ABC News (7/16/05)

Excavation Yields Ax Thousands of Years Old Detroit Free Press (7/16/05)1

Ancient Aryan Civilization Achieved Incredible Technological Progress 40 Centuries Ago Pravda (7/16/05)

Sensational Find in Germany- 600 Year-Old Papal Seals Mail and Guardian (7/15/05)

Divers Not Able to Track 'Polly' Daily Advance (7/15/05)

Fragments of Biblical Scroll Found in Israel MSNBC (7/15/05)

The Academy Of Natural Sciences Probes What's Eating Historic USS Monitor Science Daily (7/14/05)

Simulated Society May Generate Virtual Culture New Scientist (7/14/05)

Golden Treasure to Return Home BBC News (7/14/05)

Simulated Society May Generate Virtual Culture New Scientist (7/14/05)

Blackbeard's Ship" Yields New Clues to Pirate Mystery National Geographic News (7/12/05)

Email Forwarding Amounts to Ritual Gift Exchange New Scientist (7/12/05)

Arizona Archaeologists Find Hohokam Canals Yahoo (7/11/05)

Jared Diamond - The Rise and Fall of Civilizations NPR (7/11/05)

Scientists Trying to Figure out Kennewick Man's Biography CNN News (7/11/05)

• Scientists Detail Study of Kennewick Man Yahoo (7/11/05)
• Kennewick Man Yields Ancient Secrets Seattle Times (7/11/05)
• Scientists Ponder Who -- or What -- Killed Kennewick Man Seattle Post Intelligencer (7/11/05)
• Scientists Get Their Hands on Kennewick Man at Last Oregonian (7/11/05)
• Kennewick Man's Hip, Skull Replicas Unveiled Tri-City Herald (7/11/05)

Native Lore Tells the Tale - There's Been a Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On Eureka Alert (7/11/05)

• Spirit Tales Reveal Ancient Landslides - North American Folklore Points to Dangers for Seattle Nature (7/13/05)

New Light Thrown on Origins of Chinese Culture as Lost Civilization Emerges Yahoo (7/10/05)

Creationism Special - A Battle for Science's Soul New Scientist (7/9/05)

Researchers Simulate Long-gone Societies Of The American Southwest Science Daily (7/8/05)

Scientists Hesitant to Debate Intelligent Design NPR (7/8/05)

Statue of Orpheus Unearthed Guardian (7/8/05)

Brush Fires Caused Australian Extinctions CNN News (7/7/05)

• Did Humans Cause Ecosystem Collapse in Ancient Australia? Eureka Alert (7/7/05)
• Fire-Starters Blamed for Australian Extinctions - Early Settlers Accused of Sending Animal Species Crashing Down in Flames Nature (7/7/05)

Respiratory Diseases Kill Mountain Gorillas CNN News (7/7/05)

• Gorilla Deaths Show Tourists Should Keep Their Distance New Scientist (7/12/05)

Barkcloths Demonstrate Women's Importance Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (7/7/05)

Genetic Link Confirmed Between Polynesians And Indigenous Taiwanese Science Daily (7/6/05)

"Guns, Germs and Steel"- Jared Diamond on Geography as Power National Geographic News (7/6/05)

Ancient 'Footprints' Found in Mexico Nature (7/4/05)

• 40,000-Year-Old Footprint of First Americans Telegraph (7/5/05)
• Mexico Offers Up Ancient Footprints Guardian (7/5/05)
• Footprints Rewrite History of First Americans New Scientist (7/5/05)
• Footprints Rewrite History Books BBC News (7/5/05)
• Ancient Footprints May Rewrite American History Discovery (7/6/05)
• Mexico Footprints Could Be a Giant Archaeological Step USA Today (7/7/05)

Prehistoric River Samples Dated BBC News (7/4/05)

LSU Scientists Develop New Theory About Human Genome Evolution By Tracking 'Stealth' DNA Elements Science Daily (7/4/05)

Human Selection Hits Natural Selection CNN News (7/4/05)

Ancient Greek Writings Inscribed In Stone, Digitized By Case Classicist Science Daily (7/3/05)