News - September, 2006

Teen Finds Mogollon Artifact Las Cruces Sun-News (9/30/06)

• Teenage Hiker Finds Ancient Artifact LiveScience (9/30/06)

Ancient Hair Dye Harnessed Nanotechnology Scientific American (9/29/06)

A Look at the Past from Under Water Mercury News (9/28/06)

• New Photos Reveal 1935 Airship at Bottom of Pacific Ocean LiveScience (9/28/06)
• Photos Reveal 1935 Airship at Bottom of Ocean MSNBC (9/28/06)

Beauty Boils Down to a Simple Average LiveScience (9/28/06)

2.6 Billion People Lack Basic Sanitation: U.N. Report Scientific American (9/28/06)

Neanderthal 'Butcher's Shop' Found Near Somme Belfast Telegraph (9/27/06)

Research News: Silver Anomalies Found in Jerusalem Pottery Hint at Wealth During Second Temple Period Berkeley Lab News Releases (9/27/06)

• Silver Found in 2,000-Year-Old Jerusalem Pottery Hints at City's Wealth During Late Second Temple Period Jerusalem Post (9/27/06)

Video: Howler Monkeys -- World's Loudest Animals? National Geographic News (9/27/06)

Oxford Archaeologists Want to Join Studies on Iran's Salt Men Payvand (9/27/06)

Pool Knowledge to Find the Origins of Language New Scientist (9/26/06)

Artifacts May Derail Building of College Contra Costa Times (9/26/06)

• Burial Site Imperils Proposed College Contra Cost Times (9/25/06)

How Brain's 'Mirrors' Aid Our Social Understanding Washington Post (9/25/06)

9,500-Year-Old Decorated Skulls Found in Syria Yahoo (9/24/06)

Mummified Dogs Uncovered in Peru BBC News (9/23/06)

• Ancient Pet Cemeteries Had Treats for Afterlife LiveScience (9/23/06)
• Ancient Pet Cemeteries Found in Peru Yahoo (9/23/06)

In Raid, Greek Police Recover 700-Year-Old Stolen Icon New York Times (9/23/06)

University Unearths Account of Early Life in Carolinas Scotsman (9/23/06)

Did They Do Voodoo? They Think So. Washington Post (9/22/06)

Historic Soviet Shipwreck 'Found' BBC News (9/21/06)

• Soviet Shipwreck from 1934 Found MSNBC (9/22/06)

Peru Seeks Dog Breed Status for Ancient Llama Herder Scientific American (9/21/06)

• Peru Seeks Dog Breed Status for Ancient Llama Herder Reuters (9/21/06)

Governor's House May Have Been Surrounded by a Moat Topix (9/21/06)

World Heritage Sites May Soon Be Off Tourism Map Reuters (9/21/06)

Thai Coup Delays Indonesia Orangutan Homecoming Reuters (9/21/06)

Little 'Lucy' Fossil Found - Toddler Hominin Has Arms for Swinging and Legs for Walking Nature (9/20/06)

• Hominid: Web Focus Nature
• 'Lucy's Baby' Found in Ethiopia BBC News (9/20/06)
• Ethiopia's pride in 'Lucy' find BBC News (9/20/06)
• Little Girl, 3 Million Years Old, Offers New Hints on Evolution New York Times (9/21/06)
• Meet Lucy's Child Science (9/20/06)
• Meet the Earliest Baby Girl ever Discovered! Max Planck Society (9/21/06)
• "Lucy's Baby" -- World's Oldest Child -- Found by Fossil Hunters National Geographic News (9/20/06)
• Ancient Fossil Child Discovered in Ethiopia NPR (9/20/06)
• Oldest Juvenile Skeleton Discovered Will Help Piece Together Human Development EurekAlert (9/20/06)
• The Amazing Fossil of 'Lucy's Little Sister' New Scientist (9/20/06)
• Most Ancient Child Unearthed LiveScience (9/20/06)
• Baby Fossil Adds to Debate Over Our Origins MSNBC (9/20/06)
• 3-Million-Year-Old Bones Are Pint-Size `Lucy' Los Angeles Times (9/21/06)
• 3.3 Million Years Later, Skeleton of Girl Found Washington Post (9/21/06)
• Selam, the Three-Year-Old from 3.3m Years Ago Guardian (9/21/06)
• Skeleton Sheds Light on Ape-Man Species CNN (9/20/06)
• Remains of Earliest Child Discovered in Ethiopia Yahoo (9/20/06)
• Fossil Sheds Light on Ape-Man Species Discovery News (9/21/06)

Charles Darwin and the Racing Asparagus NPR (9/20/06)

Ancient Chamber Fed by Deathly Fumes Discovery (9/19/06)

Lebanon's Ancient Ruins Suffer from Israeli Bombing Yahoo (9/19/06)

Imaging Technology Restores 700-Year-Old Sacred Hindu Text Rochester Institute of Technology (9/19/06)

• Ancient Hindu Text Preserved by Modern Technology LiveScience (9/19/06)

Study Assesses Impact of Economic Status for Racial and Ethnic Minorities in US American Political Science Society (9/19/06)

3D Rock Carvings Recorded with Simple Equipment New Scientist (9/18/06)

Institutions Hinder Female Academics, Panel Says New York Times (9/18/06)

• Academia Told to Make Room for Women Science (9/18/06)
• Study Finds U.S. Bias Against Women in Science MSNBC (9/18/06)
• Study Finds U.S. Bias Against Women in Science Reuters (9/18/06)

Evolution Attack Goes Global Wired (9/18/06)

"Water Wars" Loom? But None in Past 4,500 Years Scientific American (9/18/06)

• "Water Wars" Loom? But None in Past 4,500 Years Reuters (9/18/06)

Lost Ship Holds Key to Colony Mystery Western Star (9/18/06)

'Spectrum of Empathy' Found in the Brain New Scientist (9/18/06)

Tourist Jungle Grows Over Angkor Wat Yahoo (9/18/06)

Seeds of Hope Time (9/17/06)

• Africa Farms Get Massive Pledge to Spur "Green Revolution" National Geographic News (9/15/06)

Channel's Key Role in Pre-history BBC News (9/16/06)

Eagle Mountain: Ancient Rock Art Found at Building Site Salt Lake Tribune (9/16/06)

Egyptian Mummy Real LiveScience (9/15/06)

• P.T. Barnum Was Right About His Mummy MSNBC (9/15/06)

'Oldest' New World Writing Found BBC News (9/14/06)

• Written in Stone Nature (9/14/06)
• Stone Writing Earliest Seen in Americas Discovery News (9/14/06)
• Oldest Writing in the New World Discovered in Veracruz, Mexico EurekAlert (9/14/06)
• Researchers Find Evidence of the Earliest Writing in the New World University of California, Riverside (9/14/06)
• Oldest New World Text Found LiveScience (9/14/06)
• Oldest Writing in the New World Discovered New Scientist (9/14/06)
• Writing May Be Oldest in Western Hemisphere New York Times (9/15/06)
• Writing on Olmec Slab Is Hemisphere's Oldest Los Angeles Times (9/15/06)
• Mysterious Stone Slab Bears Ancient Writing CNN (9/15/06)
• Earliest New World Writing Discovered NPR (9/15/06)
• Carved Block May Carry Oldest New World Writing Reuters (9/15/06)

University of California, Davis Study Finds Distinct Genetic Profiles EurekAlert (9/14/06)

Neanderthal's Last Stand Nature (9/13/06)

• The Last of the Neandertals? Science (9/13/06)
• Neandertals' Last Stand Was in Gibraltar, Study Suggests National Geographic News (9/13/06)
• Last Cavemen Were Survivors CNN (9/13/06)
• Tenacious Neanderthals Held Out in Pockets LiveScience (9/13/06)
• Neanderthals and Humans Lived Side by Side New Scientist (9/13/06)
• Neanderthals Lived More Recently Than Thought Reuters (9/13/06)
• Researchers Offer a New Date for Neanderthals' Last Stand New York Times (9/14/06)
• Life on the Edge: Was a Gibraltar Cave Last Outpost of the Lost Neanderthal? Guardian (9/14/06)

Hatch Opened in Confederate Submarine Discovery News (9/13/06)

Egyptologist Backs Bosnian Excavation MSNBC (9/13/06)

• Archaeologist Backs Dig at Bosnia Hills Yahoo (9/14/06)

Where You Live Linked to Life Expectancy LiveScience (9/12/06)

Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, Tonga's King Charlotte Observer (9/11/06)

Ancient Bones Belonged to a Man -- Probably Los Angeles Times (9/11/06)

Colourful Beginning for Humanity BBC News (9/10/06)

Kenya Bishop Leads Anti-Evolution Fight Guardian (9/10/06)

Mayan Ruins Said Center of Mysterious Civilization Scientific American (9/9/06)

Find Near Foxwoods May Rewrite History Norwich Bulletin (9/9/06)

Egyptian Writing "Scanned" Using High-Tech Methods National Geographic News (9/8/06)

Researchers Identify 'Male Warrior Effect' MSNBC (9/8/06)

• Researchers Identify 'Male Warrior Effect' CNN (9/9/06)

Infants and Apes Remember Things Similarly LiveScience (9/8/06)

Peru Bans Flights Over Inca Ruins BBC News (9/8/06)

Men Smarter than Women, Scientist Claims LiveScience (9/8/06)

People Really Do Wash Away Sins LiveScience (9/7/06)

• Cleanliness and Godliness--It's True Science (9/7/06)
• Lady Macbeth Not Alone in Her Quest for Spotlessness New York Times (9/12/06)

Modern Humans, Not Neandertals, May Be Evolution's 'Odd Man Out' EurekAlert (9/7/06)

• Scientist: Humans Strange, Neanderthals Normal LiveScience (9/8/06)
• Humans Strange, Neanderthals Normal MSNBC (9/8/06)
• Modern Human versus Neandertal Evolutionary Distinctiveness by Erik Trinkhaus (pdf) Current Anthropology

Civilizations Born of Hard Times Nature (9/7/06)

• Scientist: Climate Change Forged First Civilizations CNN (9/7/06)
• Climate Change Rocked Cradles of Civilization EurekAlert (9/7/06)
• Climate Change Caused Civilisation, Scientist Says Guardian (9/8/06)

Study: Why Teens Don't Care LiveScience (9/7/06)

• Scans Show Why Teenagers Act the Way They Do MSNBC (9/7/06)
• Why Adolescents Put Themselves First New Scientist (9/8/06)

Parthenon Piece Returned to Greece Discovery News (9/7/06)

Alaska Hunters Find Mammoth Tusk MSNBC (9/7/06)

'Pyramids' Discovered in Ukraine BBC News (9/7/06)

How Did Our Ancestors' Minds Really Work? EurekAlert (9/6/06)

How Did the Chimp Cross the Road? Guardian (9/6/06)

• Male Chimpanzees Show a Caring Side Science (9/6/06)
• How Did the Chimpanzee Cross the Road? New Scientist (9/14/06)

UN Highlights Plight of Human Migrants New Scientist (9/6/06)

• High Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development United Nations
• UNFPA State of World Population 2006 United Nations Population Fund

Britain's Human History Revealed BBC News (9/5/06)

• Britain's 700,000 Years of Immigrants Guardian (9/6/06)
• Ice Foiled Ancient Settlement of Britain Seven Times National Geographic News (9/18/06)

Noah's Ark Discovered ... Again and Again LiveScience (9/5/06)

Scholar: Nefertiti Was an Aging Beauty Discovery News (9/5/06)

An Abolitionist Leads the Way in Unearthing of Slaves' Past New York Times (9/5/06)

Proved: Monkey See, Monkey Do New Scientist (9/5/06)

• Neonatal Imitation in Rhesus Macaques PLoS Biology (9/06)

Scientists Use Obsidian for Temperatures University of Tennessee Daily Beacon (9/5/06)

Humans 'Hardwired for Religion' Guardian (9/4/06)

Furious Evolution Debate Hits Kenyan Museum South African Independent (9/4/06)

Ancient Golden Jewelry Discovered in Thracian Burial Mound in Bulgaria Pravda (9/4/06)

Pope's Debate Group to Publish Evolution Talks Scientific American (9/4/06)

Fiery Furnace? Temple of Apollo Had Secret Death Chamber USA Today (9/4/06)

Elephants and Villagers Battle in Jungles of Bangladesh Scientific American (9/4/06)

What's Wrong With Creationist Probability? ABC News (9/3/06)

Mental Leap: What Apes Can Teach Us About the Human Mind Science News (9/2/06)

A Huge Fight over a Little Man Spiegel (9/1/06)

Photo in the News: Albino Pygmy Monkey Twins Born National Geographic News (9/1/06)

Power Emerges from Consensus in Monkey Social Networks EurekAlert (9/1/06)

If CIA Calls, Should Anthropology Answer? Inside Higher Ed (9/1/06)

Genes Shape Health More than Mood Discovery News (9/1/06)

Birds Die for Decorating Drums in India Scientific American (9/1/06)