Archaeology & Paleontology

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

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IDB America August 2005 Roger Hamilton	A Tale of Two Invasions All over Latin America, many parks are protected in name only. Local people will respect an archeological park only if they benefit from it.
Science News August 20, 2005 Ivars Peterson	Knotted Strings and Inca Accounts New computer databases are allowing searches for patterns that are starting to yield insights into the meaning of ancient knotted messages of the Incas and earlier societies in the Andean region called khipu.
Science News August 13, 2005	The Iceman Cometh Explore Oetzi the Iceman's body, clothing, equipment, and tattoos through a new illustrative website.
Scientific American August 2005 Kate Wong	Footprints to Fill Flat feet and doubts about makers of the 3.6-million-year-old Laetoli footprints, thought to have been made by Australopithecus afarensis.
Geotimes July 2005 Laura Stafford	Rare 3-D Fossil Preservation A new fossil locality in southern China is giving paleontologists a more detailed look at the early body plans of Ediacara organisms.
Smithsonian August 2005 Richard Stone	Mystery Man of Stonehenge Who was he and where did he come from? And what was his role in the making of the great monument? The discovery of a 4,300-year-old skeleton surrounded by intriguing artifacts has archaeologists abuzz.
Geotimes July 2005 Megan Sever	Dinosaur Links Meat-Eaters and Vegetarians A new dinosaur, called Falcarius utahensis, has provided a previously missing link between carnivorous and herbivorous therizinosaurs, which lived millions of years apart.
Scientific American June 20, 2005 Kate Wong	Desert Island Paleontologists have unearthed fossils of giant amphibians that indicate that climate can effectively isolate organisms and thereby foster the appearance of a new species.
Reason June 2005 Julian Sanchez	Soundbite: Darwinian Markets In The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life, University of Toulouse economist Paul Seabright explains how biological dispositions evolved to create the "great experiment" of civilization. Here's an interview.
Geotimes June 2005 Megan Sever	Salt Mass-Produced by Maya An archaeological team found a wealth of new Maya sites in a saltwater lagoon off the coast of Belize, which provide strong evidence that salt was mass-produced there to feed the empire.
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