Archaeology & Paleontology

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

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Geotimes November 2005 Naomi Lubick	Donald Russell: Paleontologiste Francais The current Romer-Simpson Medal recipient has worked to gather support for evolution in the field, and his own revolutionary methods have helped amass huge amounts of paleontological data.
Smithsonian November 2005	35 Who Made a Difference: Richard Leakey The leader of the Kenyan fossil-hunting Hominid Gang is still keenly interested in what makes us human as well as being deeply motivated to make the African continent work.
Smithsonian November 2005	35 Who Made a Difference: Mark Lehner He took the blue-collar approach to the great monuments of Egypt.
Smithsonian November 2005	35 Who Made a Difference: Douglas Owsley Dead people tell no tales -- but their bones do, when this forensic anthropologist examines them.
Geotimes October 2005 Megan Sever	Ancient Peruvian Engineers New field studies at 600- to 2,000-year-old archaeological sites in northern Peru are revealing that ancient Andeans engineered structures to protect themselves from hazardous debris flows.
Geotimes October 2005 Megan Sever	Volcanic Prepping for Dinosaur Extinction Many scientists accept that an impact on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula is to blame for the dinosaurs' demise. But as more research is conducted on a lava flow in India, some geologists grow more convinced that the environment was already significantly perturbed when that projectile struck, and that the impact was simply a final straw.
Geotimes October 2005 Kathryn Hansen	Ancient Teeth Tell Diet Secrets Fossilized teeth have revealed that millions of years before supermarkets hit the scene, our ancestors still managed to have varied diets. Now, a new analysis shows that the variation was subtle and was driven by resource scarcity, not preference.
Science News September 10, 2005	Dinosaurs! The Smithsonian Institution's dinosaur website lets on-line visitors peruse through their collection as well as view the evolution of the dinosaur.
Geotimes September 2005 Megan Sever	Footprints Push Back American Migration A newly found set of human footprints in Mexico is suggesting that people were in the Americas much earlier than previously thought -- 30,000 years earlier.
IDB America August 2005 Roger Hamilton	And This Stone Goes Where? Architects are finally getting respect at an ancient Mayan temple site.
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