Wikio - Prehistoric

Real dope on human evolution (Millard Fillmore's Bathtub)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:16:15 GMT

Subtitle this one, “DBQs in prehistory, paleontology, and anthropology.” Younger son James complained yesterday about . . . well, about stuff he wasn’t taught. His questions to me were about what was available in the history textbooks on the great advances in science in the 20th century. Very little is available, really. What had [...]

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Explore : Anthropology, Paleontology

Giveaway — Jurassic Fight Club — 5 Winners!! (Screenhead)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:03:31 GMT

Post your name to enter to win prizes from HISTORY’s JURASSIC FIGHT CLUB Catch the premiere of Jurassic Fight Club Tuesday, July 29 at 9 PM ET/PT on HISTORY. Jurassic Fight Club - live at www.history.com/jurassic - a new series that illustrates prehistory and depicts how dinosaurs hunted their prey, dissecting these battles and uncovering a [...]

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Why not just call it the Prehistory Channel? (Laelaps)

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:05:26 GMT

Is it just me or is the History Channel mutating? I guess they've covered just about everything there is to cover in human history as I keep seeing more announcements for programs about natural history, particularly involving extinct creatures. On July 29 the new series Evolve will premiere along with Jurassic Fight Club and Prehistoric Monsters Revealed ; it seems like the whole day will be full...

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A Prehistory of the Pandemic (Sound Affects) (PopMatters Music)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:00:00 GMT

"Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music." -- John Cage

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Warning: Only Six Months To Save Lascaux Caves (ArtsJournal)

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:17:59 GMT

"Unesco, the world cultural body, has threatened to humiliate France by placing the Lascaux caves - known as the "Sistine Chapel of prehistory" - on its list of endangered sites of universal importance."...

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'Six months to save Lascaux' (The Independent)

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:00:01 GMT

Unesco, the world cultural body, has threatened to humiliate France by placing the Lascaux caves – known as the "Sistine Chapel of prehistory" – on its list of endangered sites of universal importance.

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Paleontology: Life's Innovations Let It Diversify, At Least Up To A Point (Complexity digest 2008.03)

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:18:18 GMT

Although marine invertebrates had continued to innovate new ways of making a living, the scientists concluded, total diversity had hardly increased in 400 million years. Now the number crunchers have rewritten the prehistory books again. On page 97, 35 of them--including authors of the original paper--present a new analysis of the Paleobiology Database, which records about 3.5 million specimens...

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Curry in Rome (Indian Express)

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:34:42 GMT

An exhibition of art from India was being installed at Rome's Luigi Pigorini Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography.

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Creating Prehistory: Druids, Ley Hunters and Archaeologists in Pre-War Britain (The Earth Times Online Newspaper)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:39:30 GMT

DUBLIN, Ireland - (Business Wire) Research and Markets () has announced the addition of the "Creating Prehistory: Druids, Ley Hunters and Archaeologists in Pre-War Britain" report to their offering. Creating Prehistory deals even-handedly and sympathetically with the creation of several different sorts of prehistory during the volatile period between the two World Wars. Investigates...

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Explore : Archeology

Ancient Australia not written in stone (Archaeonews)

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:33:00 GMT

Has the life of Australia's Aborigines remained unchanged for 45,000 years? A new approach to archaeology challenges us to rethink prehistory. Aboriginal people are thought to have inhabited the Australian continent for around 45,000 years before European contact, and are frequently cited as the oldest continuous living culture on Earth.[...] Source

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Evolution of the theory of evolution (nanopolitan)

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:20:00 GMT

Two very good articles: the shorter one, with a clear emphasis on Darwin's contributions, is by Olivia Judson , and the longer one, with some details about the prehistory of the idea of evolution is by Richard Conniff [via Jason Kottke ]. The interest in Darwin and his big idea has been rekindled now because, as Judson explains, ... July 1, 2008, is the 150th anniversary of the first announcement...

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Anarkasis: Erotic Art History (Unscathed Corpse)

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:47:00 GMT

LINK quote [Sex and eroticism in the art history from prehistory to the present day]. [Thumbnail: Rigel Herrera Bracho]

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The Morville Hours, By Katherine Swift (The Independent)

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:00:01 GMT

Measured time is the heartbeat of The Morville Hours: a 20-year lease, the seasons of the gardener's year, the hours of the monastic day, the quartered hours of the church clock, the fleeting moment... and time stretching backwards, the recorded past, history and prehistory of a particular place.

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The Directory of Open Access Journals (MonkeyFilter)

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:34:43 GMT

The Directory of Open Access Journals is a portal to 3416 free, full text, peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly journals. Talk about the weather , dig some prehistory , learn why making websites isn't computer science. Learn how to build an aqueduct or a bridge . [ more inside ]

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Book Review: When Fish Got Feet, Sharks Got Teeth, and Bugs Began to Swarm (Big A little a)

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:16:00 GMT

Have you read many children's books on the Silurian and and Devonian eras? Probably not as the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods are the real stars of children's non fiction. Hannah Bonner's When the Fish Got Feet, Sharks Got Teeth, and Bugs Began to Swarm: A Cartoon Prehistory of Life Long Before the Dinosaurs remedies Dino-dominance of the prehistory market with a focus on a fascinating...

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"The sixties" prehistory: urban riots before 1964 (The Blue Voice)

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:46:00 GMT

In the course of my eclectic research into the collective phenomenon we call "The sixties", I came across the March 1969 of The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (382), a issue organized around the theme, "Protest in the Sixties". I'm sure I'll be using it in more than one post. One of the most disturbing aspect of "the sixties" were the urban riots. Two of the articles...

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In Utah, rafting through prehistory (International Herald Tribune)

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 06:42:28 GMT

Rafting along the San Juan River in southeastern Utah is one of the most intimate ways to see a region rich with history and prehistory.

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In Utah, Rafting Through Prehistory (New York Times)

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 04:03:12 GMT

The San Juan River, as wide as a football field and as fast as a galloping horse, surges amid the red rocks of southeastern Utah.

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Solving the "Sapient Paradox" (Red Orbit )

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:00:13 GMT

By Renfrew, Colin Solving the "Sapient Paradox" Origins and Revolutions: Human Identity in Earliest Prehistory. Clive Gamble. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2007. 364 pp., illus. $27.99 (ISBN 9780521677493 paper).

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TC PC (The Corner)

Thu, 29 May 2008 19:37:51 GMT

A fellow TeachCo addict (and sorry, I screwed up the link last time ... there goes my commission): Dear Mr. Derbyshire -- I have been listening to Brian Fagan's Teaching Company course on Human Prehistory and the First Civilizations, while following along in his textbook People of the Earth. The book uses the term 'Inca,' so this may be a manifestation of Teaching Company's PC, which goes deep....

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