Archaeology & Paleontology

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

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Geotimes April 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Fossil Bites Into Mammal Stereotypes Paleontologists uncovered the fossil of a large beaver-like mammal in China that lived on land and likely fished in lakes. The discovery could tear down previous stereotypes that mammals, while living alongside dinosaurs, could not develop extensive specialization.
Geotimes April 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Tiny Fossils go 3-D Using existing digital technology, paleobiologists for the first time viewed intricate structures of tiny fossils in 3-D - a technique that they say could one day aid in the search for life on Mars.
Geotimes April 2006 Megan Sever	Tiny T. Rex Cousin A new fossil find from China gives paleontologists a better idea of when and how the branch of meat-eating dinosaurs that would eventually lead to T. rex evolved.
Chemistry World March 27, 2006 Bea Perks	Archaeological Chemists Settle Trophy-Head Debate Strontium isotope analysis and modern day guinea pigs point to a violent past for disfigured skulls discovered in 1500-year-old Peruvian mortuaries.
Smithsonian April 2006 Fergus M. Bordewich	Odyssey's End?: The Search for Ancient Ithaca A British researcher believes he has at last pinpointed the island to which Homer's wanderer returned.
Science News March 11, 2006 Ivars Peterson	From Counting to Writing Contrary to the common belief that the first written words were pictures or hieroglyphics, one archaeologist contends that writing developed from abstract numbers.
Geotimes March 2006 Megan Sever	Uncovering Ancient Harbors Geoarchaeologists are coring beneath modern-day Sur, formerly known as Tyre, on the coast of Lebanon, hoping to pin down the locations and chronologies of its ancient harbors.
Scientific American February 13, 2006 Kate Wong	Food for Thought Huge molars and chewing muscles enabled robust australopithecines to make mincemeat of shellfish instead of tough plant foods, a new theory posits.
Geotimes February 2006 Megan Sever	Man-Sized Scorpion Tracks Geologist Martin Whyte's discovery of 330 million-year-old man-sized walking eurypterid tracks helps to shed light on that time's environment.
Geotimes January 2006 Spencer G. Lucas	The Three Faces of Dinosaurs Three images of dinosaurs tell a remarkable story of how paleontological discoveries have driven research that has shaped and reshaped paleontologists' understanding of of the most famous of all extinct creatures.
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