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Friday, January 31, 2020
Rare locomotive pulled from river bank in Northern Southlandhttps://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/news/119115296/rare-locomotives-pulled-from-river-bank-in-northern-southland?fbclid=IwAR3zu4fPTX-zIsFrhezC5cbnXyUGvhLkP7hqZW5tmSwmHsxAaqnEglCuDRg Neanderthals made epic trek from Europe to Siberia 60,000 years agohttps://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00183-5?fbclid=IwAR0RNa2DYqhVTrnHHFIIE2msK_S8ZzwwVqyrAdQF_DNwWp5EXtwQUmkzZxA Transport Agency halts work on Kaikōura coastal path after opposition RNZ The work was being done by North Canterbury Transport Infrastructure Recovery (NCTIR), an alliance which includes the Transport Agency, which ... Whitianga footbridge stepping back into actionhttps://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK2001/S00455/whitianga-footbridge-stepping-back-into-action.htm Earliest Mosaic in the World Found in Turkey (second millennium BC)https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium.MAGAZINE-earliest-mosaic-in-the-world-found-in-turkey-1.8435728 The search for Eden: in pursuit of humanity's originshttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/05/the-search-for-eden-in-pursuit-of-humanitys-origins?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other 3000-year-old teeth solve Pacific banana mystery HeritageDaily Teouma is the oldest archaeological cemetery in Remote Oceania, a region that includes Vanuatu and all of the Pacific islands east and south, ... Iconic pipeline tipped to be replaced, ending a century of historyhttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-24/goldfields-pipeline-built-by-cy-oconnor-set-to-be-replaced/11895482 Researchers in UK recreate Nesyamun's sound using 3D version of his vocal tract https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jan/23/talk-like-an-egyptian-mummys-voice-heard-3000-years-after-death University of Adelaide School of Humanities PhD Scholarship -https://scholarships.adelaide.edu.au/Scholarships/postgraduate-research/faculty-of-arts/school-of-humanities-phd-scholarship-reconciling Christchurch uncoveredhttps://blog.underoverarch.co.nz/2020/01/the-risky-business-of-exporting-beer-in-the-19th-century/?fbclid=IwAR21N6AuqYg-gdWcmLsxu2I9hoIBmYcOCqipr8cc-I1urglA5H9P3qOMjK4 Thousands of ancient Aboriginal sites probably damaged in Australian fireshttps://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00164-8 A brief history of Auckland's urban form.http://www.knowledgeauckland.org.nz/assets/publications/Brief-history-of-Aucklands-urban-form-2019-WEB.pdf?fbclid=IwAR34WcONt_cur4Dfx3E1TKWSar9hgz82JvP9DpN3XniLQuS7p40Ka_MTYIQ
For 10 years, geneticists have told the story of how Neanderthals—or at least their DNA sequences—live on in today’s Europeans, Asians, and their …
sciencemag.org Central Africa is too hot and humid for ancient DNA to survive—or so researchers thought. But now the bones of four children buried thousands of …
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