News - October, 2006

Clifford Geertz 1926-2006 Institute for Advanced Study (10/31/06)

• Pioneering Anthropologist Clifford Geertz Dies News@Princeton (10/31/06)
• Clifford Geertz, Cultural Anthropologist, Is Dead at 80 New York Times (11/1/06)

Modern Maya Perform Ancient "Dia de los Muertos" Rites National Geographic News (10/31/06)

The History of Daylight Saving Time National Geographic News (10/31/06)

Tool Time: Crows Share Tricks of the Trade LiveScience (10/31/06)

Recovering Pompeii European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (10/31/06)

Africa's Neglected Bounty Nature (10/31/06)

An Evolutionary Theory of Right and Wrong New York Times (10/31/06)

Evolution and Those Baby Blues New York Times (10/31/06)

Tool Find Suggests Earliest Europeans Discovery News (10/31/06)

Har, Me Hearties! Crew Excavates Blackbeard's Ship CNN (10/31/06)

New Theory on What Got the Oracle of Delphi High LiveScience (10/31/06)

92-year-old Turkish Archaeologist to Be Tried for Saying Head Scarves Linked to Sex Rites USA Today (10/31/06)

The Wikipedia and the Death of Archaeology ConsortiumInfo.com (10/30/06)

Language May Override Innate Human Spatial Cognition Scientific American (10/30/06)

Cave Fossils Are Early Europeans BBC News (10/30/06)

• Neandertals, Modern Humans Interbred, Bone Study Suggests National Geographic News (10/30/06)
• Did Neanderthals and Modern Humans Get It Together? Nature (10/30/06)
• Humans and Neanderthals Might Have Interbred LiveScience (10/30/06)

Sex and Booze Figured in Egyptian Rites MSNBC (10/30/06)

Cave an Ice Age Time Capsule CNN (10/30/06)

Da Vinci Fingerprint Reveals Arab Heritage? Discovery News (10/28/06)

Smithsonian Refuses To Exhibit Ethiopia's Fragile 'Lucy' Fossil Washington Post (10/28/06)

Genetic Upper Class: Could the Human Race Split? LiveScience (10/27/06)

Pompeii's Most Popular Brothel Goes on Display MSNBC (10/26/06)

• Steamy Pompeii Brothel Opens for Tourism Discovery News (10/27/06)
• Ancient Brothel Restored Guardian (10/27/06)

Ancient Footprints Found in Mexico Discovery News (10/26/06)

• Ancient Human Footprints Found in Mexico CNN (10/26/06)
• Ancient Footprints Found in Mexico Valley LiveScience (10/26/06)

'Stop the Looters Destroying History' Times (10/25/06)

Lucy's Ancient Bones to Tour U.S. BBC News (10/25/06)

• ‘Lucy' Fossil Finally Cleared for U.S. Tour MSNBC (10/25/06)
• Lucy Goes on Tour Science (10/25/06)

Island States Seek Aid from Rising Tides CNN (10/25/06)

Beaufort County Dig Finds 300-Year-Old Yamasee Artifacts Island Packet (10/25/06)

Tombs Found in Syria Hold Riches, Signs of Ritual Sacrifice National Geographic News (10/24/06)

• Artifacts Unearthed in Syria Hint at Ancient Burial Rituals of Elite New York Times (10/24/06)
• Early Bronze Age Mortuary Complex Discovered in Syria EurekAlert (10/24/06)

Korea Scientist Paid Russia Mafia for Mammoth MSNBC (10/24/06)

Book Gives Poor Explanation for Death of ‘Mega-Mammals' Columbus Dispatch (10/24/06)

Bones of 1,800 May Be Unearthed as County Builds New Courthouse Tucson Citizen (10/24/06)

Egypt's Antiquities Chief Combines Passion, Clout to Protect Artifacts National Geographic News (10/24/06)

Study Suggests Evolutionary Link Between Diet, Brain Size in Orangutans EurekAlert (10/23/06)

• Diet Linked to Brain Size in Primates LiveScience (10/24/06)

Parents Fly in African Village Elders to Circumcise Their Young Daughters Times (10/23/06)

Alpacas Get Genetic Helping Hand BBC News (10/23/06)

Thieves Find Pharaohs' Dentists BBC News (10/23/06)

• Egyptian Dentists' Tombs Found by Thieves National Geographic News (10/23/06)
• Ancient Egyptian Dentists Dug Up NPR (10/23/06)
• Thieves Lead to Discovery of Egypt Tombs ABC News (10/23/06)
• Thieves Lead to Discovery of Egypt Tombs MSNBC (10/23/06)

Digging for History in Turkey First Post (10/23/06)

No Charges Filed in ‘Billy the Kid' Exhumation MSNBC (10/23/06)

Geological Feature Key to Finding, Protecting Tombs EurekAlert (10/22/06)

• A New Way to Find Hidden Tombs Science (10/24/06)

Alaska Villagers Living in Bird Flu's Flight Path Los Angeles Times (10/22/06)

The God Delusion. By Richard Dawkins [Book Review] New York Times (10/22/06)

Author Uses DNA Record to Argue Evolution NPR (10/20/06)

Explore Peru's Oldest City MSNBC (10/20/06)

Sucking Up: Why Monkeys Groom the Boss LiveScience (10/20/06)

Vatican Reveals Roman Burial Site BBC News (10/20/06)

Ancient Corral Shows Horse Domestication Discovery News (10/20/06)

• New Evidence of Early Horse Domestication EurekAlert (10/23/06)
• Ancient Horse Corral Unearthed in Kazakhstan LiveScience (10/24/06)

Charles Darwin's Works Go Online BBC News (10/19/06)

• Complete Darwin Works Now Available Online ABC News (10/19/06)
• Darwin American Museum of Natural History
• The Complete Work of Charles Darwin University of Cambridge

Secrets of the Cave Paintings [Book Reviews] New York Review of Books (10/19/06)

The Power of a Stereotype Science (10/19/06)

• Expectations Affect Women's Math Scores Discovery News (10/20/06)
• Limitations, Lessons of Gender Stereotypes Philadelphia Inquirer (10/23/06)

Mastodon Tusks Tell of Brutal Battles Discovery News (10/19/06)

Color Names: More Universal Than You Might Think Ohio State University (10/18/06)

• A Red By Any Other Name Nature (10/16/06)

Explorer Shares His Passion for the Deep CNN (10/18/06)

Macon Emerges from History's Depths Stanford Report (10/18/06)

Ancient Remains Causing Problems Contra Costa Times (10/18/06)

Facial Expressions Are All in the Family Science (10/17/06)

Who Really Sailed the Ocean Blue in 1492? Christian Science Monitor (10/17/06)

Fossils of Dwarf Water Buffalo Found New York Times (10/17/06)

• Ancient Miniature Buffalo Discovered LiveScience (10/17/06)

Omega-3, Junk Food and the Link Between Violence and What We Eat Guardian (10/17/06)

Stonehenge '7 Wonders' Finalist BBC News (10/17/06)

Funding Shortfall Threatens Wollemi Art Australian Broadcasting News (10/16/06)

Why Everyone You Know Thinks the Same as You Washington Post (10/16/06)

Stop Digging Down Under? Christian Science Monitor (10/16/06)

Piltdown's Lessons for Modern Science BBC News (10/16/06)

Haze Distresses Orangutans in Indonesian Reserve Scientific American (10/16/06)

Brain Changes May Suggest Suicide Risk Nature (10/16/06)

Imperial-Era Tomb Stops Work at Beijing Shooting Venue Scientific American (10/16/06)

Salmon Find an Ally in the Far East of Russia New York Times (10/15/06)

Web Lets University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Prof Do Armchair Archaeology News & Observer (10/15/06)

Africa's Lagging Development NPR (10/13/06)

Mexican Archeologists Find Largest Aztec Figure Yahoo (10/13/06)

• Monolith Perhaps Largest Found in Mexico Yahoo (10/13/06)
• Monolith Perhaps Largest Found in Mexico LiveScience (10/14/06)

Nobel Peace Prize Goes to Micro-Loan Pioneers National Geographic News (10/13/06)

• Peace Prize to Pioneer of Loans to Poor No Bank Would Touch New York Times (10/14/06)

Ancient Stonehenge Houses Unearthed Discovery News (10/13/06)

Study Reveals Why Blue Frescoes Fade Discovery News (10/13/06)

Body of Research — Ownership and Use of Human Tissue New England Journal of Medicine (10/12/06)

Wildfires Expose Ancient Artifacts MSNBC (10/12/06)

• Wildfires Expose Ancient Artifacts Yahoo (10/12/06)

Photo Gallery: Child Labor Banned in India National Geographic News (10/12/06)

Seeking Roots of San Carlos Monterey Herald (10/12/06)

Delaware Funds Shipwreck Excavation Daily Times (10/12/06)

Rapid Sea Level Rise in the Arctic Ocean May Alter Views of Human Migration Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Press Release (10/12/06)

• Earth's Orbit Linked to Extinctions Nature (10/11/06)
• Rapid Rise In The Arctic Ocean May Alter Views Of Human Migration SpaceDaily (10/12/06)
• Bering Strait Appeared Earlier Than Believed MSNBC (10/11/06)
• New Land-Bridge Evidence Adds to Mystery of 1st Americans National Geographic News (10/18/06)

Pregnant Women Infected by Cat Parasite More Likely to Give Birth to Boys, Say Researchers Guardian (10/12/06)

• Parasite Is Good News for Baby Boys Science (10/12/06)

Biakker Can Say a Lot in Just a Few Words Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (10/11/06)

Neanderthal DNA Illuminates Split with Humans New Scientist (10/11/06)

DNA Trail Points to Human Brain Evolution New Scientist (10/11/06)

Earth's "Wobbles" Spurring Cycles of Evolution and Extinction? National Geographic News (10/11/06)

• Study Links Extinction Cycles to Changes in Earth's Orbit and Tilt New York Times (10/12/06)
• Mammal Extinction Blamed on Earth's Wobble LiveScience (10/11/06)
• Earth Wobbles Linked to Mammal Extinctions MSNBC (10/11/06)
• Earth's Wobble Wipes Out Species Discovery News (10/12/06)
• Earth's Wobbly Orbit Blamed for Mass Mammal Extinctions Guardian (10/12/06)

Drill Hole Begins Homeric Quest BBC News (10/11/06)

Study Links Women's Fashion Sense to Ovulation Guardian (10/11/06)

• Research Connects Fertility, Fashion Los Angeles Times (10/11/06)
• Fertile Women Dress to Impress, U.S. Study Finds Reuters (10/10/06)

Few Clues About African Ancestry to Be Found in Mitochondrial DNA EurekAlert (10/11/06)

• Finding Roots Tough for African-Americans MSNBC (10/12/06)
• Looking for Roots in Africa? DNA Search Not Easy Yahoo (10/13/06)

Delhi Monkeys Face Forest Future BBC News (10/11/06)

• New Delhi Banishes Menacing Monkeys LiveScience (10/11/06)

The Last Word on the Last Breath New York Times (10/10/06)

Goats Key to Spread of Farming, Gene Study Suggests National Geographic News (10/10/06)

• Travels With Goats, and Their Humans New York Times (10/10/06)

Early Brits Were Original Cheeseheads Discovery News (10/10/06)

Can Men Marry If They Have Ovaries? Philadelphia Inquirer (10/9/06)

For Allen and Webb, Implicit Biases Would Be Better Confronted Washington Post (10/9/06)

Neanderthal Man Smithsonian (10/06)

Return to the Marsh Smithsonian (10/06)

'Garbage' from the 1200s Altposten (10/9/06)

Compelling Evidence Demonstrates That 'Hobbit' Fossil Does Not Represent a New Species of Hominid EurekAlert (10/9/06)

• New Hominid Species May Be Early Version of Homo sapiens EurekAlert (10/9/06)
• Taking Sides in the Battle of the 'Hobbit' New Scientist (10/9/06)

Vatican Unveils Necropolis Inside Its Walls CNN (10/9/06)

• Newly Unveiled Necropolis at Vatican MSNBC (10/9/06)
• Vatican Unveils Roman Necropolis Inside Its Walls Yahoo (10/9/06)
• Ancient Necropolis at Vatican Opens Discovery News (10/10/06)
• Ancient Roman Treasures Found Under Vatican Car Park Independent (10/10/06)
• Unearthed Graves Show How Average Romans Lived, Died Detroit Free Press (10/12/06)

Oracle Inspired by Low-Oxygen Delirium Discovery News (10/9/06)

Greece Hopeful Museum Will House Elgin Marbles CNN (10/9/06)

Archaeologists Find 18th-Century Store Yahoo (10/8/06)

• 18th-Century Store Excavated Discovery News (10/9/06)

Ancient Giant Camel Found in Syrian Desert Pushes Back History New York Times (10/8/06)

• Giant Camel Fossil Found in Syria BBC News (10/10/06)
• Scientists Find More 'Syrian Camel' Bones MSNBC (10/10/06)
• Extinct "Elephant Size" Camel Found in Syria National Geographic News (10/11/06)
• Ancient Humans Hunted Giant Camels Discovery News (10/11/06)
• Ancient Camels Were Huge LiveScience (10/11/06)

Archaeologist Aids Army on Sensitivity Topix.Net (10/6/06)

• Archaeologist Aids Army on Sensitivity Yahoo (10/6/06)

Mummy DNA Reveals Birth of Ancient Scourge Scientific American (10/6/06)

• Aztec Temple Found in Mexico City "Exceptional," Experts Say National Geographic News (10/5/06)
• Researchers in Mexico Discover Sculpture Yahoo (10/5/06)

Early Humans Followed the Coast BBC News (10/5/06)

Tourists Flock to Bosnian Hills But Experts Mock Amateur Archaeologist's Pyramid Claims Guardian (10/5/06)

Shipwreck Off Hawaii Was 1870s Cargo Ship LiveScience (10/4/06)

Roman Mosaics Found on Quantocks BBC News (10/4/06)

Archaeologist Able to Pinpoint Pierre Laclede's 1700s Area Home Belleville News Democrat (10/4/06)

• Remains of St. Louis Founder's Home Believed to Have Been Located EurekAlert (10/4/06)

Baboon "Gangs" Run Wild in Suburban South Africa National Geographic News (10/4/06)

Mastodons Driven to Extinction by Tuberculosis, Fossils Suggest National Geographic News (10/3/05)

Archaeologists Find 11-Millennium-Old Building in Syria Yahoo (10/3/06)

Humble Shoelace Tag Carried More Currency Than Gold on Columbus's Travels EurekAlert (10/3/06)

• Video: Columbus' 1492 Journey Continues to Spark Controversy National Geographic News (10/5/06)
• Columbus Traded Shoelace Tags for Gold Discovery News (10/9/06)

Studying a Navy Relic, Undisturbed for Nearly 60 Years New York Times (10/3/06)

Anthropologist Challenges Species Identification of Ancient Child Skeleton Found in Ethiopia EurekAlert (10/2/06)

• Identity Of Ancient Child Skeleton Found In Ethiopia Challenged TerraDaily (10/3/06)

What Makes us Different? Time (10/2/06)

Nutritional "Boost" Making Westerners Taller, Healthier, Expert Says National Geographic News (10/2/06)

First Neanderthal Tracked to Torquay Times (10/1/06)

• DNA Plan for 'Neanderthal' Tooth BBC News (10/1/06)
• Scientists Test Bones for Neanderthal DNA Guardian (10/1/06)

Delving Deep into Britain's Past BBC News (10/1/06)

Knapping on the Job Brings Dreams of Craftsmanship Des Moines Register (10/1/06)