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Nature Killed Off Megafauna, And It Could Happen Again
... that dominated the area from present-day Myanmar to Indonesia were affected by climate change . As the ...
ashley cowie - 09/10/2020 - 00:40
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“Superhighways” of the Original Australians Uncovered by Virtual Migrant
... to the northwest that included what are now the islands of Indonesia. These early settlers in Sahul were the ancestors ...
Nathan Falde - 05/05/2021 - 14:39
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Caves and Portals: The Hidden World Beneath Us & Rites of Passage
... years ago (although recent discoveries of similar caves in Indonesia push this date back an astonishing 164,000 years!) ...
jim willis - 30/05/2017 - 18:50
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The Age of Sail Recaptured: Model Maritime History in Mauritius
Gazing at model replicas of the HMS Victory and the Bucentaure one conjures up the naval Battle of Trafalgar; breathing the toxic gun smoke, gagging on the smell of gun powder, deafening booms of cannon fire echoing, and the horror of watching men dying agonizing deaths on deck with limbs being blown off or jumping into the raging sea to escape a burning ship. The model of the Confiance, paints a canvas of the corsair Robert Surcouf cruising the Indian ocean like a shark preying on British ships, heavily
micki pistorius - 27/04/2019 - 00:37
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Ten Mysterious Rock Art Examples from the Ancient World
... within seven limestone caves on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia, are as old as famous prehistoric art in Europe. ... Eurasian world. Prehistoric hand stencils from a cave in Indonesia. ( Kinez Riza/Nature ) Maxime Aubert, study lead ...
Joanna Gillan - 21/01/2024 - 17:00
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Catch of the Day! Medieval Fishing Basket Found in the Severn
... Funerary Fish Hooks Indicate Women Fished in Ancient Indonesia Metal Detectorist’s Roman Hoard Linked to a ...
Ed Whelan - 19/12/2019 - 22:39
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Ye Xian, Chinese Cinderella At The Chinese New Year Spring Festival
February 12, is the celebration of the Chinese New Year Spring Festival. In ninth-century Chinese folklore, this is the festival where Ye Xian, the Chinese Cinderella, lost her slipper, and the rest is history. The Cinderella story is a tale of serendipity and love - both of which are universal themes.
MartiniF - 13/02/2021 - 02:03
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Surya Siddhanta: The Startlingly Accurate Astronomy Book of the 1st Millennium BC
Many people know the deeds of Ravana, the captor of Sita in the Indian Epic the Ramayana; however, less well known are the incredible accomplishments of his father-in-law, King Maya. According to legend, the Hindu Sun god, Surya, revealed to Maya highly specific knowledge of the cosmos, presumably to allow the people of Earth to better worship him. This series of treatises is known as the Surya Siddhanta and it is the oldest book of astronomy known to exist. It is startlingly accurate.
Kerry Sullivan - 31/08/2016 - 14:40
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Why are humans unique? It’s the small things that count
... and eventually Asia as far east as present day China and Indonesia beginning from at least 1.8 million years ago. ... walls, the oldest, as of last year, being found in Indonesia and dating to about 40,000 years old, older than ...
ancient-origins - 02/11/2015 - 13:48
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From Medicine to Nanotechnology: How Gold Has Quietly Shaped our World
... has dropped to 8th position, even surpassed by Peru and Indonesia. But gold’s uses and its chemical properties ...
ancient origins - 06/04/2019 - 22:55
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Descent to the Underworld: The Little-Known Practices and Symbols in Ancient Mythology of the Great Below
... among the Bugis and Makassar people of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. The poem described the earth as being in chaos at ...
MartiniF - 06/12/2016 - 01:51
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Fishing Tackle Used to Catch Monster Carp 12,000 Years Ago, Says Study
... Funerary Fish Hooks Indicate Women Fished in Ancient Indonesia Ask a fisherman to describe a fishhook and they ...
ashley cowie - 08/10/2021 - 22:47
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Bones Suggest Romans Hunted Whales in the Mediterranean
... Funerary Fish Hooks Indicate Women Fished in Ancient Indonesia Researchers trace origin of global fish trade in ...
ancient-origins - 12/07/2018 - 01:55
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Neolithic Bamboo House and the Birthplace of Paddy Fields Found
... methods. Top image: This mud and bamboo house in Bali, Indonesia, with rice paddies in the background, captures what ...
Sahir - 17/06/2021 - 01:13
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Strange ‘Huddled’ Skeletons Discovered in Berenice Troglodytica Tombs
... from modern day Pakistan, India, and the islands of Indonesia. This included intricately worked onyx and ...
Sahir - 25/05/2022 - 22:56
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Finnish Study Reveals Human Bones Were Used to Make Jewelry in 6,000 BC
During the Late Stone Age, our prehistoric ancestors regularly constructed and presumably wore pendants covered with symbolic images. These pendants were often made out of animal bones and teeth, but revolutionary new research reveals that human bones were also used to make this popular form of ancient jewelry.
Nathan Falde - 07/07/2022 - 14:59
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Music, Math, Megaliths and the Dawn of Humanity
... 20,000 and 40,000 years. If recent discoveries from Indonesia continue to hold up to close scrutiny, our ...
jim willis - 18/06/2018 - 15:32
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Giraffe and Sea Urchin on the Menu for People of Pompeii
... the exotic and imported spices, some from as far away as Indonesia. But one of the most unusual findings was the ...
aprilholloway - 04/01/2014 - 06:46
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Edgar Cayce, Six-fingered Giants and the Supernatural Creation Gods of Atlantis: Part 2
This is the second part of a two-part article. Read Part 1
In Plato’s Symposium (189–190 AD), Aristophanes displays knowledge of an ancient myth of the androgyne, according to which our original nature was by no means the same as it is now.
Jim Vieira - 28/09/2017 - 01:48
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Do Your Eyes Fool You? Ancient Vision and a New Reality — How to See and Draw Like the Ancients
From the beginning of time, those among us we now call artists have tried to capture in two dimensions what they saw of the real, three-dimensional world in which they lived. Almost from the very beginning, space, the immaterial stuff that envelops us, became the object of their fascination; how could they represent it?
Chris Morgan - 27/06/2017 - 22:53