News - June, 2006

Early Signs of Elephant Butchers BBC News (6/30/06)

Jamestown Colony Well Yields Clues to Chesapeake's Health National Geographic News (6/30/06)

World Cup Witchcraft: Africa Teams Turn to Magic for Aid National Geographic News (6/30/06)

California Scientists Reopen Ice Age Dig Site MSNBC (6/30/06)

Animal Intelligence Resists Definition Discovery News (6/30/06)

Meteorite Crash Helped Form King Tut Necklace Discovery News (6/29/06)

Ancient Garland in Egyptian Tomb BBC News (6/29/06)

• Ancient Flowers Found in Egypt Coffin National Geographic News (6/29/06)
• They Hoped for Tut's Mom, But Tomb Has No Mummy CNN (6/29/06)
• Egypt Tomb Reveals Ancient Woven Flowers LiveScience (6/28/06)
• Ancient Egyptian Coffin Holds Jewels Discovery News (6/28/06)
• Final Coffin Opened in Egyptian Chamber MSNBC (6/28/06)
• 2,500 Year-Old Sarcophagi Uncovered CNN (6/26/06)

Florida State University Etruscan Expert Announces Historic Discovery at Ancient Site EurekAlert (6/29/06)

Humans Gave Big Cats Ulcers LiveScience (6/28/06)

• Study: Humans Gave Big Cats Ulcers MSNBC (6/29/06)

Another ‘Stonehenge' Discovered in Amazon MSNBC (6/27/06)

• Archaeologists Discover Brazilian 'Stonehenge' LiveScience (6/28/06)
• Ruins Suggest Tropical Stonehenge Discovery News (6/28/06)

Dive Bids to Solve Wreck Mystery BBC News (6/26/06)

Scientists Unearth Key to Dodo's Past Reuters (6/26/06)

• Newfound Island Graveyard May Yield Clues to Dodo Life of Long Ago New York Times (7/4/06)

Spoils of War BBC News (6/26/06)

Chinese, English Speakers Vary at Math Washington Post (6/26/06)

Men With Older Brothers More Likely to Be Gay LiveScience (6/26/06)

• Sexual Orientation of Men Determined Before Birth Reuters (6/27/06)
• Being Gay 'Starts in the Womb' Telegraph (6/27/06)
• Changes in the Womb Tied to Homosexuality In Boys With Brothers Washington Post (6/27/06)

Uganda Says Development Can Protect Great Apes Reuters (6/26/06)

Digging Deep Into Caithness' Past BBC News (6/25/06)

Cameroon Girls Battle 'Breast Ironing' BBC News (6/23/06)

Scientist Prepares Congo Gorillas for Tourism Reuters (6/22/06)

Shells from Israel and Algeria may be the oldest known beads, researchers report in Science EurekAlert ((6/22/06)

• Shell Necklace a Sign of 100,000-Year-Old Culture NPR (6/22/06)
• Earliest Known 'Bling' Revealed EurekAlert (6/22/06)
• Shells May Have Been Earliest Jewelry CNN (6/22/06)
• Ancient Shell Beads Could Be First Sign of Modern Culture Scientific American (6/23/06)

Solstice Sun Beams Into Chamber BBC News (6/21/06)

• Ancient Monument Aligned to Sun BBC News (6/18/06)

The Older We Get, the Happier We Are ABC News (6/21/06)

Front Garden Yields Ancient Tools BBC News (6/20/06)

The Battle to Save the Cave Time (6/19/06)

Experts' Hope Over Shipwreck Find BBC News (6/18/06)

DNA Test to Clear Up Confucius Confusion Reuters (6/16/06)

• DNA May Clear Confucius Confusion CNN (6/18/06)

That Wild Streak? Maybe It Runs in the Family New York Times (6/15/06)

• Scientists Identify Brain Region Responsible for Calculating Risk Versus Reward Scientific American (6/15/06)

Medieval Homes Under Golf Course BBC News (6/15/06)

Bosnian "Pyramids" Update Archaeology (6/14/06)

• 'Bosnian Pyramids': A Pseudoarchaeological Myth and a Threat to The Existing Cultural And Historical Heritage of Bosnia-Herzegovina Letter to Director-General Koichiro Matsuura signed by 26 professional archaeologists (6/12/06)
• Bosnia "Pyramid" Is Not Human-Made, U.K. Expert Says National Geographic News (6/13/06)
• British Expert Nixes Bosnia Pyramid Claim Yahoo (6/10/06)
• UNESCO Team to Probe Bosnia's "Ancient Pyramid" Yahoo (6/5/06)
• The Bosnia-Atlantis Connection Archaeology (4/27/06)

'Fang' Dentures Link to Skeleton BBC News (6/14/06)

• Oldest Dentistry in Americas Found -- Fang Dentures? National Geographic News (6/14/06)
• Archaeological Site Yields Dental Surprise ABC News (6/15/06)
• The World's Oldest Dentures Found LiveScience (6/15/06)

Bones & Bureaucrats Archaeology (6/14/06)

The Antiquities Act Centennial Archaeology (6/14/06)

In Katrina's Wake Archaeology (6/14/06)

African Leaders Pledge Farming 'Green Revolution' CNN (6/13/06)

• African Leaders Say Yes to More Fertilizer for Farmers Nature (6/14/06)

New Glacier Theory on Stonehenge BBC News (6/13/06)

Breast-Feed or Else New York Times (6/13/06)

View from the Lab: Prof Steve Jones Considers the Consequences of Human Rights for Chimps Telegraph (6/13/06)

In a Ruined Copper Works, Evidence That Bolsters a Doubted Biblical Tale New York Times (6/13/06)

Scientists Reassembling 800-Year-Old Text MSNBC (6/13/06)

A Multimedia Archaeological Tour on Your Mobile Phone Information Society Technologies (6/13/06)

Excavation of Home of UNC Founder William R. Davie Finds No Evidence That It Was Burned by Union Troops University of North Carolina (6/13/06)

Climate Change May Have Helped Humans Out of Africa, Study Says National Geographic News (6/12/06)

Backs to the Future EurekAlert (6/12/06)

Jade Axes Proof of Vast Ancient Caribbean Network, Experts Say National Geographic News (6/12/06)

Booming Bushmeat Trade Threat to Africa Wildlife Reuters (6/12/06)

Body Shape Changes with the Seasons Discovery (6/12/06)

In Nature, Plenty of Animals Pass the Paternity Test Washington Post (6/12/06)

Angry Young Men Get Noticed New Scientist (6/11/06)

• Men Are Better Than Women at Ferreting Out That Angry Face in a Crowd New York Times (6/13/06)

The Battle to Save the Cave Time (6/11/06)

Who's Your Great-Great-Great-Great-Granddaddy? New York Times (6/11/06)

Search for India's Ancient City BBC News (6/11/06)

Napoleon on Madison Archaeology (6/9/06)

Looted Maya Treasure Returned Anonymously National Geographic News (6/9/06)

How Bilingual Brains Switch Between Tongues New Scientist (6/9/06)

Stone Table of Royal Power Lunch Found in Seat of Democracy Times (6/9/06)

Archaeologists Try to Save Ancient Sites Guardian (6/9/06)

• Archaeologists Try to Save Ancient Sites Yahoo (6/9/06)

Computer 'Beings' Evolve as Society Discovery News (6/8/06)

Researchers Find Hidden Greek Text On Oldest Astronomy Computer Space Daily (6/7/06)

• Ancient Astronomy Artifact Bears Hidden Text Discovery News (6/8/06)
• The Antikythera Mechanism Research Project

Tut's Mum's Mummy? Cliffhanger in Egypt's Valley of the Kings Yahoo (6/6/06)

Inspiring Evolutionary Thought, and a New Title, by Turning Genetics Into Prose New York Times (6/6/06)

No Room on Resort Island for Philippine Tribe ABS-CBN (6/6/06)

Ancient Human Fossils Find Modern Virtual Home IST (6/6/06)

Did Neanderthals Invent Music? MSNBC (6/5/06)

100,000 Year-old DNA Sequence Allows New Look at Neandertal's Genetic Diversity EurekAlert (6/5/06)

• Tooth Gives Up Oldest Human DNA BBC News (6/6/06)
• Ancient DNA Sequence Allows New Look At Neandertals Diversity Space Daily (6/7/06)

Native Americans Recorded Supernova Explosion New Scientist (6/5/06)

Chaco Canyon: A Place of Kings and Palaces? EurekAlert (6/5/06)

• Chaco Canyon A Place Of Kings And Palaces Space Daily (6/7/06)

Skeletons Found at Army Ranger Site Yahoo (6/5/06)

Iceman Discoverers Named by Appeals Court Discovery News (6/5/06)

June 6 Focuses Attention on "666" Superstitions University of Buffalo (6/5/06)

Hidden History of Donner Lake to Be Unearthed Reno Gazette Journal (6/5/06)

Duke Lemur Center Has New Research Focus ABC News (6/4/06)

Paleolithic Period Cave Art Draws Rave Reviews Washington Post (6/3/06)

• Cave Face 'the Oldest Portrait on Record' Times (6/5/06)

Report Claims Experiments on Monkeys Are Vital New Scientist (6/2/06)

• Testing on Apes 'Might Be Needed' BBC News (6/3/06)
• Questions Raised Over Ban on Research Using Great Apes Guardian (6/3/06)

Female Genital Mutilation Complicates Births New Scientist (6/2/06)

Ancient Calendar Unearthed in Peru Discovery News (6/2/06)

Tamed 11,400 Years Ago, Figs Were Likely First Domesticated Crop EurekAlert (6/1/06)

• Ancient Fig Find May Push Back Birth of Agriculture National Geographic News (6/1/06)
• In West Bank, a First Hint of Agriculture: Figs New York Times (6/2/06)
• Ancient Fig Clue to First Farming BBC News (6/2/06)
• Ancient Figs May Be First Cultivated Crops NPR (6/2/06)
• Try a Fig, Bite into History LiveScience (6/2/06)
• Dried-up Figs May Have Been Humanity's First Crop Reuters (6/2/06)

Top Australian Cave Art Site Faces Industrial Expansion Christian Science Monitor (6/1/06)

Expedition Seeks Clues to Lost Bronze Age Culture Reuters (6/1/06)

A Pirate's Life for Him -- at Age 9 Los Angeles Times (6/1/06)

Ancient Scroll May Yield Religious Secrets MSNBC (6/1/06)

• Ancient Scroll May Yield Religious Secrets LiveScience (6/1/06)
• Europe's Oldest "Book" Read With High-Tech Imaging National Geographic News (6/6/06)

Ancient Java Palace Defies Quake CNN (6/1/06)