Botanical evidence indicates "Shroud of Turin" originated in Jerusalem area before 8th century
...esearchers hadconcluded in 1988 based on carbon-14 dating tests. The authors do not questionthe accuracy of the carbon-14 dating test which was done on only a single sampletaken from one highly contaminated corner of the shroud, ...Huge Antarctic ice sheet could be in its death throes
...timing of deglaciation was determined by carbon-14 dating of samplesfound on raised beaches that are now up to 90 feet above present sea level. Other evidence comes from Roosevelt Island, an ice island in the Ross Sea.Floating ice now surrounds it, but reconstructions suggest that ice in the areaof Roosevel...New paleontology research from Natural History Museum of L.A. at international conference
... Fossil remains of an early, long-snouted dolphin dating backapproximately 23 million years have been collected on the coast of Oregon byMuseum Associate, James L. Goedert. In analyzing this find and othersimilar-age dolphins from California, Oregon and Washington, Dr. LawrenceBarnes, curator of vertebrat...New dinosaurs appear to be oldest yet, as reported in the 22 October issue of Science
...ossils were unusually old.Previously, radioisotope dating had shown the oldest known dinosaurs, Herrerasaurus and Eoraptor , to be just under 228 million yearsold. Could the new prosauropods be even older? Because the rock layers at the Madagascar sites have not yet yielded the rightminerals for radioiso...Scientists document most recent date for Neandertals
...f scientists hasdocumented through new radiocarbon dating that Neandertals roamed central Europeas recently as 28,000 years ago, representing the latest date ever recorded forNeandertal fossils worldwide. The team's findings -- published in the Oct. 26 issue of the prestigiousjournal, Proceedings of the Nat...Chemistry to play major role in solving 21st century challenges
... to corporate manufacturing and business practices dating at least to the 1970s when dioxin spills and use of the defoliant Agent Orange frightened and concerned many people." Whether chemical companies will actually meet this challenge remains to be seen. If they succeed, Reisch remarks, "it will be the...Past climate change effects on mammals may mirror global warming impact
...middle Holocene," he said. "There are human sites dating back to around 11,000 years ago. It appears that when it got hot and dry the human population dropped dramatically and didn't come back until the late Holocene when the number of sites increase. Human sites are really hard to come by in the middle H......l thinking. It is one of the few significant works dating back to pre-Constantinian times, even though only fragments could be preserved. Martin Wallraff intends to prepare a critical edition of this work, including in his study - and thus making accessible - material available in Syrian and Armenian. Biol...Researchers study 10,000-year-old buried forest
...ent was like then." Paleoindian artifacts,probably dating from the same era, have been found within a few miles ofthe buried forest. Dr. Theodore Bornhorst, chair of Michigan Tech's Department of GeologicalEngineering and Sciences, described how the forest came to be preserved. "It takes a real unusual set ...Stone tools reveal ancient seafood diet
...e of Abdur on Eritrea's Red Sea coast. Radiometric dating of the tools shows they are roughly 10,000 years older than the estimated age of tools found in South Africa - up until now the oldest known coastal site in Africa containing fossil remains of early human implements. "The stone tools from Abdur signa...Intriguing archaeological sites, isolated lake targets of Kuril Expedition
...d landforms that could hold archaeological remains dating back as far as 15,000 years ago. How early humans may have altered the fragile balance of species makes the archaeological work pertinent to the efforts of scientists studying biodiversity in the Kurils, expedition leader Pietsch says. Large terres...Gabon ends logging in key wildlife area
...el in all of Central Africa, including stone tools dating back 350,000 years and an astonishing collection of over 2,000 rock engravings. Until recently, logging had been permitted within the reserve through a legal loophole that opened more than half of the original area to some form of deforestation. In...Study provides direct evidence of cannibalism in the Southwest
...vidence of human tissue in prehistoric human waste dating back about 850 years shows that people of southwestern Colorado engaged in cannibalism during a long drought, according to a new study. "Cannibalism is one of the most controversial issues in the archaeology of the American Southwest," said Dr. Bria...150-year global ice record reveals major warming trend
...idual records are of astonishing lengths, with one dating back to the 9th century, another to the 15th centu...700s. For example, Lake Suwa in Japan has a record dating back to 1443 that was kept by holy people of the Shinto religion. The religion had shrines on either...Wolves in Yellowstone may aid aspen recovery
...photographs, and dendrochronological, or tree ring dating techniques, Ripple and Larsen determined that Yellowstone Park aspen successfully recruited tree-sized aspen into their overstory from about 1751 to 1928, but have been unable to do so since. Various theories have been proposed to explain the lack of......sils - microscopic spores and threads in sediments dating from 460 to 455 million years ago - push the origin of land-based fungi back some 55 to 60 million years to about the same era that green plants invaded land, said Dirk Redecker, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. "T...Linear algorithm for sequence analysis
...tage theories for artifact and site dating in archeology; stage theories of economic and political development in political science; stage theories of child and moral development in psychology; sequential effects in perception, cognition, and ...Researchers expand dating of marine animals to brachiopods
...more piece into the puzzle. They have expanded the dating of marine animals beyond mollusks to brachiopods, ...and works when calibrated with C-14 (radio-carbon) dating that has long been used to determine the ages of things from the past but is prohibitively expensive...Ancient South African soils point to early terrestrial life
...rt in this week's issue of Nature, that a paleosol dating to between 2.6 and 2.7 billion years ago contains organic carbon that was neither created by high temperature fluids nor is the remnant of later petroleum migration, but is in-situ biological in origin. A paleosol is a layer of ancient soil, in ...2000 FALL MEETING: updated press conferences, press registration, and other information
... ruins, under several meters of water and silt and dating to the first millennium, may have been caused by two or three large historical earthquakes and/or subsidence and liquefaction of Nile delta sediments. Outstanding questions are the location of the faults responsible for these earthquakes, the causes ...