News - March, 2007

Mexico Opens Windows on Buried Treasures Yahoo (3/30/07)

Breast Is Best for Babies of Impoverished HIV Mothers New Scientist (3/30/07)

Brazil Offers Internet Access to Indians ABC News (3/30/07)

Humans Can See Race and Sex Even in Simple Outlines LiveScience (3/30/07)

Ancient Wreath Returns to Greece BBC News (3/30/07)

Was Great Pyramid Built from Inside Out? MSNBC (3/30/07)

Parthenon Fragments Won't Go Back Home Discovery (3/30/07)

Controversial Human Ancestor Gets Major Facelift LiveScience (3/29/07)

• Human Ancestor Gets Digital Facelift MSNBC (3/30/07)

Ancient Head-Squishing Violence Revealed LiveScience (3/28/07)

• Ancient Head-Squishing Violence Revealed Yahoo (3/29/07)

Monkeys Are More Cultured Than We Think Telegraph (3/28/07)

Prehistoric Women: Not So Simple, Not So Strange [Review of The Invisible Sex: Uncovering the true roles of women in prehistory by J. Adovasio, Olga Soffer & Jake Page, Collins] New Scientist (3/28/07)

Fashions Change, But Change Is Always the Fashion, New Research Suggests EurekAlert (3/28/07)

Caring Fathers Take Care of Their Genes Telegraph (3/28/07)

• Study Explains Why We're Not All Beautiful LiveScience (3/28/07)

Skeletons Speak - Even from the Grave South Africa Independent (3/27/07)

Rome Show Features Ancient Perfumes LiveScience (3/27/07)

• Oldest Perfumes Found on "Aphrodite's Island" National Geographic News (3/29/07)

Engineers to Help Find Homer's Ithaca Yahoo (3/27/07)

Cavemen Preferred Full-Figured Ladies Discovery (3/27/07)

Llama Dung Mites Track Inca Fall BBC News (3/26/07)

• Dung-eating Mites Throw Light on Inca Civilisation Times (3/26/07)
• Dung-Eating Mites Reveal Inca History Discvoery (3/28/07)
• Mite Fossils Reflect Rise and Fall of Incas Los Angeles Times (3/31/07)

Greek Island Antiquities Damaged by Quake Yahoo (3/26/07)

Pollen Clue to Clay Army Origins BBC News (3/26/07)

French Scientists Rebut U.S., Muslim Creationism Reuters (3/26/07)

Lost and Found [Review of The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh by David Damrosch] New York Times (3/25/07)

Virginia's Monacan Indian Nation Seeks Recognition NPR (3/25/07)

Scientific Meeting to Address How Chimpanzees Think LiveScience (3/25/07)

• Goodall's Revolutionary Research Still Inspires MSNBC (3/25/07)

Why the Greeks Could Hear Plays from the Back Row Nature (3/23/07)

Monkeys' Stone Percussion Studied BBC News (3/23/07)

• New Evidence of “Human” Culture Among Primates University of Cambridge (3/23/07)

Afghans Struggle to Rebuild National Museum NPR (3/23/07)

Is That Chimp Angry? Facial Cues Crucial Reuters (3/23/07)

• How Chimps Communicate With a Look MSNBC (3/23/07)

New Archaeological Findings on Political Power in Peru EurekAlert (3/22/07)

Mother Knows Best: Plant Knowledge Key to Childhood Health in Remote Amazon EurekAlert (3/22/07)

Ancient Estate Shows Class History Discovery News (3/22/07)

Pyramid's Secret Doors to Be Opened Discovery News (3/22/07)

To Kill One, or Watch Many Die? Nature (3/21/07)

• How the Heart Can Rule the Head Science (3/21/07)
• Empathy Is Hard-wired Into the Mind, Study Finds Los Angeles Times (3/22/07)
• Brain Injury Said to Affect Moral Choices New York Times (3/22/07)
• Impaired Emotional Processing Affects Moral Judgements New Scientist (3/22/07)

Video: Jamaica Mountain Villages Home to Vanishing Culture National Geographic News (3/21/07)

Book Lays Out How Portuguese Found Australia MSNBC (3/21/07)

Ancient Roman Column Toppled in Pompeii MSNBC (3/21/07)

Scientist Finds the Beginnings of Morality in Primate Behavior New York Times (3/20/07)

Skilled Ear for Music May Help Language New York Times (3/20/07)

Home of Jefferson's Girlfriend Excavated Yahoo (3/19/07)

Behavior May Suggest We're Not Only Human Washington Post (3/19/07)

Pakistan's Ancient Ruins Fast Disappearing MSNBC (3/19/07)

Lost Language of Ladino Revived in Spain NPR (3/19/07)

Painful Memories for China's Footbinding Survivors NPR (3/19/07)

Stone Age Massacre Revealed in British Tombs National Geographic News (3/17/07)

'Cousins' at War: Baboons vs. People ABC News (3/17/07)

Pharaoh's Pots Give Up Their Secrets New Scientist (3/16/07)

The Laugh Gap Explained New York Times (3/16/07)

• Laughter May Boost Altruistic Behavior LiveScience (3/16/07)
• What's So Funny? Well, Maybe Nothing New York Times (3/13/07)

Ancient Mashed Grapes Found in Greece Discovery (3/16/07)

Fertility Planning Makes Male Chimps Fight LiveScience (3/16/07)

• Fertility Planning Makes Male Chimps Fight MSNBC (3/16/07)

Mummy's Mom Was European, Tech Reveals Discovery (3/16/07)

• Modern Technology Reveals Baby Mummy's Past LiveScience (3/16/07)

Pricking Consciences Economist (3/15/07)

Afghan Treasures Head for Kabul BBC News (3/15/07)

Headless Bodies Hold Secrets to Pacific Migration Yahoo (3/15/07)

Chimps Cheer for Attention Discovery (3/15/07)

Weighing Up Losses to Iraq's Heritage Yahoo (3/15/07)

Study Challenges Idea That Schizophrenia Is Distinct in Developing and Developed Regions EurekAlert (3/14/07)

Computer Model Hints at How Opinions Evolve New Scientist (3/14/07)

Israel Urged to Halt Archaeological Work Yahoo (3/14/07)

Scholar: 'Jesus Tomb' Documentary Got It Wrong CNN (3/14/07)

• Scholar: 'Jesus Tomb' Makers Mistaken LiveScience (3/14/07)
• Paper: Jesus Tomb Not Mary Magdalene's Discovery (3/14/07)
• Titanic Find or Sinking Feeling? Archaeology (2/27/07)
• The "Jesus Tomb" on TV Archaeology (3/3/07)
• Q&A With the Statistician Who Calculated the Odds That This Tomb Belonged to Jesus Scientific American (3/2/07)
• Has James Cameron Found Jesus's Tomb or Is It Just a Statistical Error? Scientific American (3/2/07)

Oh Mummy: Louvre's Pharoah Jars Are Not What They Seemed Yahoo (3/14/07)

Famed Paleoanthropologist Clark Howell Has Died UC Berkeley News (3/13/07)

• F. Clark Howell Dies National Center for Science Education (3/13/07)
• Anthropologist Known for Fossil Work Dies CNN (3/14/07)
• F. Clark Howell, 81; Remade Anthropology Los Angeles Times (3/18/07)

Indiana Circle Believed to Be Ancient Site Yahoo (3/13/07)

Epic of Human Migration Is Carved in Parasites' DNA New York Times (3/13/07)

Philistines, But Less and Less Philistine New York Times (3/13/07)

I Don't Want to Grow Up Science (3/12/07)

• 160,000-year-old Jawbone Redefines Origins of the Species Guardian (3/13/07)
• Why Children Never Leave Home: Evolution LiveScience (3/12/07)
• Why Children Never Leave Home: Evolution Yahoo (3/12/07)
• A Modern Child - But Born 160,000 Years Ago Telegraph (3/13/07)

Nigeria's Neglected Diseases NPR (3/12/07)

Incest: An Age-old Taboo BBC News (3/12/07)

Experts Reveal 'Ancient Massacre' BBC News (3/12/07)

Pig Study Forces Rethink of Pacific Colonisation EurekAlert (3/12/07)

• Pig DNA Sheds Light on Human Migration Discovery (3/13/07)
• Pig DNA Offers New Clues on Humans' Pacific Migration Los Angeles Times (3/17/07)
• Pig Journeys Reveal Human Migration Patterns LiveScience (3/20/07)
• Pig Journeys Show Patterns of Human Migration MSNBC (3/21/07)

These Legs Were Made for Fighting EurekAlert (3/11/07)

• Short Legs Made Human Predecessors Better Fighters LiveScience (3/12/07)
• Short Legs Made Human Predecessors Better Fighters Yahoo (3/12/07)

Freedmen Question Divides Cherokees NPR (3/10/07)

Roman Clues Found at Ancient Hill BBC News (3/10/07)

Score One for the Sociable Ape Science (3/8/07)

Gorillas Gave Us the Itch Science (3/7/07)

• Human Pubic Lice Acquired from Gorillas Gives Evolutionary Clues EurekAlert (3/7/07)
• Gorillas Gave Pubic Lice to Humans, DNA Study Reveals National Geographic News (3/16/07)

Rain Forest Rebel Smithsonian (3/6/07)

Paper Challenges 1491 Amazonian Population Theories EurekAlert (3/6/07)

• Raining on Theories of Amazonian Rainforest Populations USA Today (2/25/07)

What Really Happens in Out of Body Experiences Telegraph (3/6/07)

English, Irish, Scots: They’re All One, Genes Suggest New York Times (3/5/07)

• A United Kingdom? Maybe New York Times (3/6/07)

Ship Excavation Sheds Light on Napoleon's Attack on the Holy Land EurekAlert (3/5/07)

• Mystery Solved? The Shipwreck that Thwarted Napoleon LiveScience (3/7/07)

Earliest Gospels Acquired by Vatican Discovery News (3/5/07)

Evolution and Religion - Darwin’s God New York Times (3/4/07)

Reading Fiction with Darwin's Eyes New Scientist (3/3/07)

Island People Swallowed by the Sea BBC News (3/3/07)

How Multitasking Affects Human Learning NPR (3/3/07)

The Neanderthal Within New Scientist (3/3/07)

Village by Village, Stamping Out Guinea Worm NPR (3/3/07)

A Sound Idea: Archiving the World's Accents NPR (3/3/07)

How Vikings Might Have Navigated on Cloudy Days LiveScience (3/2/07)

• How Vikings Might Have Navigated on Cloudy Days Yahoo (3/3/07)

Ruins in Athens May Be an Ancient Market MSNBC (3/2/07)

• Ruins in Athens May Be an Ancient Market Yahoo (3/2/07)

Unbrushed Teeth Reveal Ancient Diets Discovery News (3/2/07)

Archaeologists Discuss Blackbeard's Ship Yahoo (3/2/07)

Monkeys Hug to Head Off Conflict, Study Finds National Geographic News (3/2/07)

Fact or Fiction?: Living People Outnumber the Dead Scientific American (3/1/07)

Science Team to Search Gulf of Mexico Houston Chronicle (3/1/07)

• Famed Scientist to Explore Gulf of Mexico MSNBC (3/2/07)
• Submarine to Search for Early Americans Science (3/2/07)
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Greek Archaeologists Find Hera Statue MSNBC (3/1/07)

• Greek Archaeologists Find Hera Statue Yahoo (3/1/07)
• Greek Goddess Hera Statue Found Discovery News (3/2/07)
• Greek Archaeologists Find Hera Statue LiveScience (3/2/07)

Towers Point to Ancient Sun Cult BBC News (3/1/07)

• Pre-Inca Observatory Is Oldest in Americas, Study Says National Geographic News (3/1/07)
• Oldest Solar Observatory in Americas Found in Peru NPR (3/1/07)
• Ancient Towers in Peru Were a 'Solar Calendar' Independent (3/1/07)
• Ancient Solar Observatory Discovered Yahoo (3/1/07)
• Peruvian Citadel Is Site of Earliest Ancient Solar Observatory in the Americas EurekAlert (3/1/07)
• Towers in Peru Called Solar Observatory Los Angeles Times (3/2/07)
• Ancient Observatory Lights Up History of Solar Worship Telegraph (3/2/07)
• Stone Towers Are Decoded as Earliest Solar Observatory in the Americas New York Times (3/6/07)

Saving Gabon's Orphan Gorillas BBC News (3/1/07)

• Baby Gorilla Raises Hope for Threatened Species MSNBC (3/2/07)
• Rare Gorilla Birth Recorded in Congo LiveScience (3/2/07)
• Photo in the News: Rare Mountain Gorilla Born in Congo National Geographic News (3/2/07)

Sex Marathons and Anatomical Freaks: The Guiness Book of the Ancient World Spiegel Online (3/1/07)

Chili Peppers: An Ancient Social Mixer Christian Science Monitor (3/1/07)