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Discovery helps solve mystery of South American trophy heads
06 January 2009
The mystery of why ancient South American peoples who created the mysterious Nazca Lines also collected human heads as trophies has long puzzled scholars who theorize the heads may have been used in fertility rites, taken from enemies in battle or associated with ancestor veneration.
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Earth’s original ancestor was LUCA, not Adam nor Eve
05 January 2009
Here's another argument against intelligent design. An evolutionary geneticist from the Université de Montréal, together with researchers from the French cities of Lyon and Montpellier, have published a ground-breaking study that characterizes the common ancestor of all life on earth, LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor).
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Spain’s biggest meteorite strike remembered 150 years on
05 January 2009
Early on Christmas Eve, 1858 “people who in the streets, on pathways and in the fields saw a magnificent ball of fire appear, which shone with a brilliant, blinding light and all the colours of the rainbow, obscured the light of the moon and descended majestically from the sky”.
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Hand-written note shows El Greco defending Byzantine style in face of Western art
05 January 2009
A new investigation could end many of the speculations about the works of El Greco and the man himself.
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Passage graves from an astronomical perspective
05 January 2009
Passage graves are mysterious barrows from the Stone Age. New research from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen indicates that the Stone Age graves' orientation in the landscape could have an astronomical explanation.
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6 North American sites hold 12,900-year-old nanodiamond-rich soil
05 January 2009
Discoveries consistent with theory of Clovis-age disruption by cosmic event, says 9-member team
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