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Updated July 17th, 2010 Archive of Breaking News
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Breaking News! is predominantly advance "gleanings" from the NEARA Transit, abstracted by Rob Buchanan, with additional items from Ros Strong, Susie Thompson and Glenn Kreisberg. The NEARA Transit is a twice yearly NEARA publication of archaeological news and abstracts. Suggestions and comments welcome: Email Terry J. Deveau. Treasure hunter
hopes new law clears path to gold Dan
Blankenship says he’s growing impatient waiting for a green light to resume
exploration for buried treasure on Oak Island. News
the province plans to repeal the Treasure Trove Act and create an Oak
Island Act is interesting at best, the 87-year-old said Wednesday. He
and his American partners applied two years ago for a licence to dig for
treasure believed to be buried on Oak Island. And even though they’re paying
"over $30,000 a year in taxes (on property), we can’t get a treasure
trove licence," he said. He
and his partners own about 78 per cent of Oak Island, including the money
pit, the spot where treasure is said to be hidden. Link to full
story click here 3,350-year-old fragment of text found July 13th
– Bloomburg News
JERUSALEM — A tiny clay fragment dating from the
14th century BC discovered outside Jerusalem’s Old City walls contains the
oldest written document found in the city, researchers say. The 3,350-year-old clay fragment was uncovered
during sifting of fill excavated from beneath a 10th-century BC tower, dating
from the period of King Solomon in an area near the southern wall of the Old
City, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem said yesterday in an e-mailed
statement. Details of the find appear in the current Israel Exploration
Journal. Link
to full article click here Skulls show New World was
settled twice: study JUNE 14th, 2010 Paleoanthropologists from Brazil, Chile and
Germany compared the skulls of several dozen Paleoamericans, dating back to
the early days of migration 11,000 years ago, with the more recent remains of
more than 300 Amerindians. "We found
that the differences between Early and Late Native American groups match the
predictions of a two-migration scenario far better than they do those of any
other hypothesis," they said. "In
other words, these differences are so large that it is highly improbable that
the earliest inhabitants of the New World were the direct ancestors of recent
Native American populations." Their
landmark research found differences in the cranial morphology that could only
be explained by the fact that the last common ancestor of
the Early and Late Native American groups came from outside the continent. Link to full
article click here Who Were the First Americans?
by
STEPHEN FRIED Parade June 13, 2010 Who really discovered America? If you think the
earliest Americans were Christopher Columbus and his crew, or even the Native
Americans they met here, you’d be off by thousands of years. The debate over
just how many years—and how people lived after arriving here—is one of the
most important in ancient U.S. history. The hunt for “the American Adam,”
says David Meltzer, a professor of prehistory at Southern Methodist
University, is a “search for insight into how our species adapted to a truly
new world.” Archaeologist
Dennis Jenkins displays cordage, netting, and basketry from the Paisley Caves
in central Oregon. A
12,000-year-old find in Keene
By MELANIE PLENDA KEENE – Just beyond the grind of machinery and trucks working to build a state of the art middle school in Keene lays the remnants of the life that used to be there. Before machines, before planes and cars, before the first settlers from strange lands, people were here. They built fires and carved tools, had families, and most of all, existed. Link to article click here Discoveries
might reveal origins of Southeastern N.C.'s first inhabitants
Sunday, May 9, 2010 at 3:30 a.m. By Cece Nunn |
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