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No single origin for agriculture in the Fertile Crescent

29/07/2013 13:25
Transition from foraging to farming occurred over the entire Fertile Crescent. A rich assemblage of fossils and artifacts in the foothills of the Zagros Mountains in Iran has revealed that the early inhabitants of the region began cultivating cereal grains for agriculture between 12,000 and 9,800...

DNA hints at African cousin to humans

29/07/2013 13:23
By Tina Hesman Saey Gene profiles suggest people interbred with a now-extinct species on the continent not that long ago. Expeditions to Africa may have brought back evidence of a hitherto unknown branch in the human family tree. But this time the evidence wasn’t unearthed by digging in the dirt....

Gene breakthrough shows Neanderthals in new light

29/07/2013 13:21
WHEN Neanderthal bones were discovered in the 19th century, their robust build and heavy brows led palaeontologists to characterise them as brutish, and their name is still pejorative today. Since then, we have found ample circumstantial evidence to suggest this stereotype is far from fair. Tools,...

Early Developments of Art, Symbol and Technology In The Indus Valley Tradition

29/07/2013 13:19
| by  Jonathan Mark Kenoyer | Archaeologists studying the emergence of early civilizations often focus on finely crafted art objects in order to understand aspects of economic, socio-political and religious organization. The importance of such objects is increased when studying early...

Evidence of Ancient Farming in Iran Discovered

29/07/2013 13:16
By Tia Ghose, Staff Writer Agriculture may have arisen simultaneously in many places throughout the Fertile Crescent, new research suggests. Ancient mortars and grinding tools unearthed in a large mound in the Zagros Mountains of Iran reveal that people were grinding wheat and barley about 11,000...

What is globalization?

29/07/2013 07:59
In the 20th century the human race was confronted with such a natural phenomenon as globalization. Globalization can be defined as the process of concentration of power over all the mankind in one person or a small group. This process has been under way throughout the whole human history and is now...

Is GMO Rewiring our DNA?

29/07/2013 07:51
New studies in cell research are bringing up some alarming new questions concerning GMOs, and one of them in particular makes liver failure or cancer seem like child’s play compared to the garish possibilities that arise when we start to look at how genetically modified foods likely affect our...

Overcome Inertia by Conscious Awareness – and Action

29/07/2013 07:42
by Zen Gardner When we’re struggling it’s time to transcend what’s going on around us and get conscious. When we respond consciously it immediately gets easier. While being fully here and Now is the objective and this realization is complete unto itself, there’s a very practical daily path that...

Living In A Hologram: Our Holographic Reality

29/07/2013 07:37
Sunday, July 28th, 2013 We grow up thinking and believing that the world and reality in which we exist in is something tangible and physical and is just as is perceived. However, not only does this thought-process become disillusioned with various difficult-to-explain phenomena, but perceptions...

Lost Techs of Ancient Rome and Renaissance England

29/07/2013 06:13
By Thomas L. McDonald One of the more persistent myths is the idea of continual progression: man advances, building on the great wisdom of those who came before. This notion of movement towards an achievable ideal is one of the more charming delusions of liberalism. I really do wish it were true,...
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