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Friday, August 26, 2022
Early Hominin Was Walking 7 Million Years Ago, Study Confirms
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Almost 70 years after being taken as souvenirs, historic artefacts to be returned to Antarctica
https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/129664327/almost-70-years-after-being-taken-as-souvenirs-historic-artefacts-to-be-returned-to-antarctica
AUSTRALIA: Charred eggshell fragments from numerous sites across Australia suggest that 50,000 years ago, the continent's earliest human inhabitants frequently dined on the eggs of a previously unidentified avian species.
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'Magical' rock crystals found at Stone Age ceremonial site in England
Hundreds of fragments of a rare transparent type of quartz called "rock crystal" suggest Neolithic people used the mineral to decorate graves and other structures at a ceremonial site in western England, archaeologists (opens in new tab) say. Overton is the lead author of a study published in July in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal (opens in new tab) that describes the discovery of more than 300 of these quartz crystal fragments at a 6,000-year-old ceremonial site at Dorstone Hill in western England.
https://www.space.com/crystals-neolithic-ceremonial-site-uk
Cold War spy planes photographed a lot more than Soviet military sites, including ancient buried ruins
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The Sirius was wrecked in Sydney Bay, Norfolk Island. This weekend locals, will learn how to monitor the site using the GIRT method so as to assess and quantify the incremental changing condition of features. Members will also learn to do video transect surveys in a repeatable manner for longitudinal comparison. The GIRT site monitoring of the Sirius will inform our understanding of the impact of mechanical, chemical and biological processes on the preservation of the site and enable science-based decision making around potential and effective mitigation measures.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/NZUHG/permalink/5460643844001375/
From Explorator:
Review of Peter Bellwood, *The Five-Million-Year Odyssey:
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/human-evolution-five-million-year-odyssey-review
Feature on underwater archaeology in Japan:
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2022/07/18/environment/underwater-archaeology/
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