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Let's get some DNA analysis on that guy to determine his haplogroup.RUSSIAN archaeologists have uncovered the 2000-year-old remains of a warrior preserved intact in permafrost in the Altai mountains region, the official Rossiiskaya Gazeta daily says.
The warrior was blond had tattoos on his body. He was wearing a felt coat with sable fur trimmings and was buried in a wooden frame containing drawings of mythological creatures with an icepick beside him, the paper said.
This article also should probably go in Human Migration but I thought I should separate them so the first one wouldn't get lost.Modern humans who first arose in Africa had moved into Europe as far back as about 45,000 years ago, according to a new study by an international research team led by the Russian Academy of Sciences and the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Not proven yet.Anatomically modern humans are thought to have arisen in sub-Saharan Africa around 200,000 years ago.
More skull news from our News Section.And team member Erik Trinkaus, also of Washington University, commented: "I think that what this find really shows is the ongoing nature of human evolution. Technically, this skull is a modern human, but humans as we know them today have evolved considerably since then."
From The Daily Grail.LIMA, Peru - An unusual archaeological site discovered in Peru’s mountains may hold clues to the history of the Chachapoya people, known as “cloud warriors,” who fought the Inca Empire before the Spanish conquest.
While the ruin — nicknamed The Penitentiary — may have been some kind of mausoleum, Muscutt thinks the large structures served another purpose. The plaza alone is 200 feet by 300 feet.
"My guess is that it was a ceremonial place where rituals were performed," said Muscutt, associate dean of arts at the University of California at Santa Cruz. "Parades, dances, theatrical events, large feasts or other gatherings may have taken place at the site."
An astonishing collection of fossil animals from southern Australia is reported by scientists.
The creatures were found in limestone caves under Nullarbor Plain and date from about 400,000-800,000 years ago.
Apparently CNN's version of the same story:
Marsupial lions, kangaroos as tall as trucks and wombats the size of a rhinoceros roamed Australia's outback before being killed off by fires lit by arriving humans, scientists said on Thursday.
The giant animals lived in the arid Nullarbor desert around 400,000 years ago, but died out around 50,000 years ago, relatively shortly after the arrival of human settlers, according to new fossil skeletons found in caves.
Fossilized remains were uncovered almost intact in a series of three deep caves in the center of the Nullarbor desert -- east of the west coast city of Perth -- in October 2002.
This is surprising news!In one of the most stark illustrations of how a changing climate can have regional effects, scientists have learned that winds over North America have done a complete 180 since the time of the last Ice Age several thousand years ago.
Winter blizzards and spring thunderstorms today are usually fueled by moisture-laden winds blowing in from the West Coast.
“In this study, we found evidence that during the last glacial period, about 14,000 to 36,000 years ago, the prevailing wind in this zone was easterly, and marine moisture came predominantly from the East Coast,” said lead study author Xiahong Feng of Dartmouth College.”
The findings were detailed today in the online edition of the journal Geology.
I've been thinking about it and I just don't know. It almost makes a case for crustal displacement, but that's not possible IMO.A persistent low pressure system because of the glaciers?
