Sunday, August 7, 2005

Diggin' up dirt. Nancy Hamblin described the details of a small, stone statue dating back 2,000 years to the Hopewell Culture. [Archaeology - Topix.net]
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Prehistoric artifacts unearthed in South Carolina. When Croatan Chief Ricky Bruner had timber cleared for his property this year, arrowheads fell from the roots. Thatís when he knew he had discovered a piece of history. Bruner... [Stone Pages Archaeo News]
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New analysis of pottery stirs Olmec trade controversy. Analysis of 3,000-year-old pottery shards from the ancient Olmec capital of San Lorenzo and other sites contradicts the notion among some researchers that the Olmec civilization was the "mother culture"... [Stone Pages Archaeo News]
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Why Men Can't Hear Women. Men who are accused of never listening by women now have an excuse - women's voices are more difficult for men to listen to than other men's.

The research shows men decipher female voices using the auditory part of the brain that processes music, while male voices engage a simpler mechanism. [digg]
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The Real Indiana Jones. Thousands of people saw the movie "Raiders of the Lost Ark", and most of them knew that Indiana Jones was based on a real person, famous archaeologist Dr. Vendyl Jones [digg]
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