Archaeology & Paleontology

Magazine articles on archaeology, paleontology, artifacts, prehistoric origins.

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Geotimes April 2005 David B. Williams	Mass Extinction, Massive Problem The great debate continues over the Great Dying -- the largest of all mass extinctions, which occurred 250 million years ago. The latest round of research casts doubt on an extraterrestrial impact as the cause of the extinction event.
Geotimes March 2005 Naomi Lubick	Broken bones yield T. rex tissue When researchers reluctantly sliced a Tyrannosaurus rex femur in half to get it out of the field, they found something completely unexpected -- the original structure of blood vessels and other soft tissues. Might DNA testing reveal detailed information on the genetic code of T. rex, and more?
Geotimes March 2005 Laura Stafford	New Neanderthal Knowledge Recent studies are making links -- both genetic and morphologic -- between Neanderthals and modern people, thus helping to put together the pieces of the human evolution puzzle.
Scientific American March 7, 2005 Kate Wong	Rooting the River Horse Evolutionary biologists think they have finally figured out where the ill-tempered creature belongs on the mammalian family tree.
Geotimes March 2005 Megan Sever	Dinosaur-Eating Mammal Recent excavations in China's Liaoning province have uncovered a well-preserved complete skeleton of a dog-sized mammal, alongside a cat-sized mammal that had the remains of its last supper -- a young dinosaur -- fossilized in its stomach.
Geotimes March 2005 Megan Sever	Mother Lode of Hominid Fossils Researchers excavating in Ethiopia have recently discovered the remains of nine individual hominids from the Early Pliocene, thus helping scientists understand more of the human evolution puzzle.
Geotimes March 2005 Naomi Lubick	Paleo-Antarctic Puzzle Even though Antarctica was at the south pole around 35 million years ago, it was warm and relatively ice free. What exactly caused its shift to a deep freeze has long puzzled paleoclimatologists.
Adventure March 2005 David Roberts	Stephen Lekson Has a Theory... And He's Sticking With It On a road trip to several of the most significant prehistoric ruins in the Southwest, an impassioned archaeologist plumbs the two greatest mysteries of the Anasazi.
Geotimes February 2005 Laura Stafford	Redating the Earliest Humans Forty years after anthropologist Richard Leakey dated early humans to 130,000 years ago, researchers have pushed back the ages of these earliest-dated modern humans to 195,000 years ago.
Smithsonian March 2005 Kurt Repanshek	Traces of a Lost People Who roamed the Colorado Plateau thousands of years ago? And what do their stunning paintings signify?
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