Archaeology, Pyramids, Science
“An inscription on a 3,500-year-old stone block from Egypt may be one of the world’s oldest weather reports—and could provide new evidence about the chronology of events in the ancient Middle East. A new translation of a 40-line inscription on the 6-foot-tall calcite block called the Tempest Stela describes rain, darkness and “the sky being […]
"Ancient Climate Change", "Climate Change", "Earth Changes", "Human History", Archaeology
Archaeology, Earth Sciences, Paradigms, Science
“A joint international research team led by the University of Oxford, in collaboration with the Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities (SCTA), has discovered a giant tusk in the Arabian Desert. The two pieces of tusk, which together measure six feet (2.25m) in length, are thought to have belonged to a now extinct genus known […]
"Ancient Climate Change", "Climate Change", Archaeology, Paradigm
Archaeology, Earth Sciences, Paradigms, Science
“Andalusian researchers, led by the University of Granada, have discovered a curious characteristic of the members of the human lineage, classed as the genus Homo: they are the only primates where, throughout their 2.5-million year history, the size of their teeth has decreased alongside the increase in their brain size. The key to this phenomenon, […]
"Human History", "Human Origins", "primate fossil", Archaeology, fossils
Archaeology, Paradigms, Science
“SERRA DA CAPIVARA NATIONAL PARK, Brazil — Niede Guidon still remembers her astonishment when she glimpsed the paintings. Preserved amid the bromeliad-encrusted plateaus that tower over the thorn forests of northeast Brazil, the ancient rock art depicts fierce battles among tribesmen, orgiastic scenes of prehistoric revelry and hunters pursuing their game, spears in hand. “These […]
Archaeology, Earth Sciences, Science
“A global economy held together by interdependence — possibly to a fault. A changing climate causing worldwide disaster. And a warlike people seeking to wreak havoc throughout civilization. It sounds like modern times, but the description above applies to the period known as the Late Bronze Age, around 3,200 years ago. In his new book, […]
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Archaeology, Paradigms, Science
“A dental study of 1,200 molars and premolars from 13 hominin species shows that no known species matches the expected profile of the last common ancestor of Homo neanderthalensis and anatomically modern Homo sapiens. The study, published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, also provides evidence that the lines that led to Neanderthals and modern humans […]
“Although Christopher Columbus is associated with discovering America, the 15th century explorer actually first set foot upon modern day Haiti and the Dominican Republic. But people were inhabiting both North and South America for thousands of years before Columbus sailed the ocean blue. Historians commonly believe that humans first crossed to the Americans from Asia […]
Genesis Quest, Paradigms, Science
Understanding Paradigms and the Birth of Uniformity and Scientific Materialism The term Paradigm was popularized by Thomas Kuhn in his groundbreaking book “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” in regards to the Sciences, in that Science as an institution, born out of and comprised of social agents in a social world is not, and cannot be outside of, […]
"Philosophy of Science", "Science as Paradigm", Darwin, Lyell
“A carved stone found marking a Bronze Age grave in the Ukraine is the oldest sundial of its kind ever found, a new study reveals. The sundial may have marked the final resting place of a young man sacrificed or otherwise marked as a messenger to the gods or ancestors, said study researcher Larisa Vodolazhskaya […]
“A comet that struck Earth around 28 million years ago annihilated part of modern-day Egypt — but managed to leave behind a few relics for modern scientists to marvel over. According to a team of South African researchers, a small pebble discovered by an Egyptian geologist in 1996 has been identified as having come from […]
“Study leader Ashton Flinders from the University of Rhode Island and his colleagues have determined that it is the eruptions of lava on the surface, extrusion, which grow Hawaiian volcanoes, rather than internal emplacement of magma, as was previously thought. Before this study, most scientists thought that Hawaiian volcanoes grew primarily internally – by magma […]
