Found: Ancient Peruvian Executioner's Lost Head
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Topic: Found: Ancient Peruvian Executioner's Lost Head
Posted By: Centrix Vigilis
Subject: Found: Ancient Peruvian Executioner's Lost Head
Date Posted: 21-Jul-2011 at 22:08
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Found: Ancient Peruvian Executioner's Lost Head
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/07/20/ancient-peruvian-tomb-points-to-human-sacrifice/# - ''Archaeologists in Peru have discovered the tomb of a lord of the Lambayeque culture, believed to have been an executioner due to the three ceremonial knives found buried with him.''
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/...#ixzz1SnNbzLzn - http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/...#ixzz1SnNbzLzn Quite the story. ------------- "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" S. T. Friedman Pilger's law: 'If it's been officially denied, then it's probably true' |
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Posted By: Don Quixote
Date Posted: 22-Aug-2011 at 03:16
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http://www.kplctv.com/story/15281377/archaeologists-discover-8000-year-old-stone-shelter "...GRAND JUNCTION, CO (KKCO/NBC) - Archaeologists may have discovered evidence of people living in Colorado's Grand Valley 8,000 years ago.During a recent dig, researchers with the Dominguez Anthropological Research Group (DARG) uncovered a prehistoric stone shelter.Due to an agreement with the Bureau of Land Management, which oversees the land where the shelter was found, the group could not disclose its exact location, but says it was north of Grand Junction, CO, near the Bookcliffs...."  ------------- |
Posted By: Don Quixote
Date Posted: 22-Aug-2011 at 03:21
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http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-human-precursors-sea-team.html "...A team of researchers that included an North Carolina State University geologist found evidence that our ancestors were crossing open water at least 130,000 years ago. That's more than 100,000 years earlier than scientists had previously thought.Their evidence is based on http://www.physorg.com/tags/stone+tools/ - stone tools from the island of Crete. Because Crete has been an island for eons, any prehistoric people who left tools behind would have had to cross open water to get there... ...The tools the team found are so old that they predate the http://www.physorg.com/tags/human+species/ - human species , said Thomas Strasser, an archaeologist from Providence College who led the team. Instead of being made by our species, Homo sapiens, the tools were made by our ancestors, http://www.physorg.com/tags/homo+erectus/ - Homo erectus .The tools are very different from any others found on Crete, Strasser said. They're most similar to early stone-age tools from Africa that are about 700,000 years old, he said...." ------------- |