Daily Archives: September 20, 2012

Odyssey Explorer deploying equipment over the HMS Victory site Copyright Astrid Harrisson 2012

September 20, 2012 3 Comments

Possible new restrictions on Victory Salvage

Ministers are considering placing further restrictions on Odyssey Marine Exploration and the Maritime Heritage Foundation as pressure builds on the Cameron Government to stop the Banks and Hedge Fund investors backing Odyssey profiting from the grave and property of lost Royal Navy sailors.

Archaeology

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Ancient tooth may provide evidence of early human dentistry

Researchers may have uncovered new evidence of ancient dentistry in the form of a 6,500-year-old human jaw bone with a tooth showing traces of beeswax filling, as reported Sep. 19 in the open access journal PLOS ONE.

Archaeology

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Khoe-San peoples are unique, special — largest genomic study finds

Some 220 individuals from different regions in southern Africa participated in the research that led to the analysis of around 2.3 million DNA variants per individual – the biggest ever

Archaeology

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Humans were already recycling 13,000 years ago

A study at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili and the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution (IPHES) reveals that humans from the Upper Palaeolithic Age recycled their stone artefacts to be put to other uses. The study is based on burnt artefacts found in the Molí del Salt site in Tarragona, Spain.