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Secret History
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Iranian army troops and tanks stand in front of Central Police headquarters after the attempted coup d'etat against Iranian Premier Mohammad Mossadeq in Tehran, Iran, Aug. 16, 1953.
Iranian army troops and tanks stand in front of Central Police headquarters after the attempted coup d'etat against Iranian Premier Mohammad Mossadeq in Tehran, Iran, Aug. 16, 1953.
An account by one of MI6's top spies in the Middle East has revealed how Britain conspired with the United States to bring down the Iranian prime minister, Mohammad Mossadeq in 1953.
After a military coup Mossadeq was put on trial and remained under house arrest until his death 14 years later.
Comment: A sordid business that was so successful, Dulles attempted to replicate it in other countries the US felt needed "guidance".
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Unclassified documents of a secret Israeli meeting held 51 years ago reveal plans of a massive transfer of Palestinians to Paraguay — a program that prompted a PLO terror attack.
Unclassified documents of a secret Israeli meeting held 51 years ago reveal plans of a massive transfer of Palestinians to Paraguay — a program that prompted a PLO terror attack.
The protocols of the May 1969 government vote exposed an Israeli-Paraguayan agreement to "encourage the emigration" of 60,000 Palestinians from territories Israel captured during the 1967 Six-Day War.
The transcript, revealed on Tuesday, detailed each nation's commitments, including Israeli funding for flights transferring Palestinians who agreed to leave the Gaza Strip, a $100 grant per deportee, and a payment of $33 per person to the Paraguayan government, which in turn promised the refugees permanent residence and a four-year path to citizenship.
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Only one-third of the circle has been excavated so far, so archaeologists created this projection to give a better sense of its size. The portion that has been excavated is shown at far left. Archaeologists estimate the circle to be about 66 feet (20 meters) in diameter.
Only one-third of the circle has been excavated so far, so archaeologists created this projection to give a better sense of its size. The portion that has been excavated is shown at far left. Archaeologists estimate the circle to be about 66 feet (20 meters) in diameter.
Though some news outlets have described the circles as a "woodhenge," akin to the famous Neolithic monument of Stonehenge, archaeologists prefer not to call it that - instead referring to them a "Timber Circles." While the archaeologists prefer a different name the design is similar with wooden posts encircling an area.
"We interpret it as a ceremonial place and prefer to refer to it as timber circles," said António Valera, an archaeologist with the Era Arqueologia company, who is leading excavations at the site.
Only about a third of the timber circles have been excavated so far, and only post holes and ditches from the circles remain. There is an opening in the Timer Circles that appears to be aligned to the summer solstice — the longest day of the year — Valera told Live Science.
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Border Cave extends deep into the mountains on South Africa’s border with Eswatini.
Border Cave extends deep into the mountains on South Africa’s border with Eswatini.
The preserved bedding will join the ranks of other "incredible discoveries" from the African archaeological record, says Javier Baena Preysler, an archaeologist at the Autonomous University of Madrid who was not involved in the research. But other researchers point to uncertainty in the dates and note that absent a time machine, scientists have to speculate about exactly how ancient people used the piled-up grasses and ash.
Lyn Wadley, an archaeologist at the University of the Witwatersrand, made the discovery when excavating Border Cave with her team. One morning, she noticed white flecks in the brown earth of the sediment as she was digging. "I looked up at these with a magnifying glass and realized that these were plant traces," she says.
Comment: See also:
- Europe's earliest bone tools found at Britain's Boxgrove "Horse Butchery Site"
- The strange 175,000-year-old circle structures built by Neanderthals in French cave
- Mysterious 25,000-year-old circular structure built from bones of 60 mammoths discovered in Russia's forest steppe
- Humans have been making poison arrows for over 70,000 years
- 45,000 year old lion statuette found in Denisova Cave may be world's oldest
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Strobe Talbott
For those who do not know, the Brookings Institute is a powerful DNC think tank founded by Bill Clinton's former Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott who stepped down as president in 2017. Brookings has become known for its revolving door between officials in the Obama White House/DNC and the private sector. In recent weeks, it has come to light that Talbott reached out to Steele in August 2016 to share his own data accumulated by Danchenko and conspired with Steele on advancing the dossier in the wake of Trump's November 2016 election. Other Brookings Institute agents deployed by Talbott include former NSC Russia Expert Trump impeachment witness Fiona Hill who co-authored a paper with Danchenko and also Talbott's brother-in-law Cody Shearer who circulated a parallel dossier containing many of the falsified evidence printed in Steele's script.
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The Beisamoun pyre fields, where the cremated burial was discovered, during the crepuscular hours.
The Beisamoun pyre fields, where the cremated burial was discovered, during the crepuscular hours.
The body wasn't simply thrown in a fire, however; whoever arranged the funeral pyre did so with care, archaeologists found by sifting through the body's burnt remains. It appears that the deceased was placed in a seated position, with their knees bent to their chest in a kiln-like pit. Then, a fire was ignited next to or under the deceased.
Until now, the earliest known cremation in the Near East dated to the sixth millennium B.C. Meanwhile, the oldest known human cremation in the world — the so-called "Mungo Lady," whose burned remains were found near Lake Mungo in New South Wales, Australia in 1969 — is much older, dating to about 40,000 years ago, according to a 2003 study in the journal Nature.
Researchers discovered the extraordinary burial in 2013, while excavating the Neolithic (the last age of the Stone Age) village of Beisamoun, in the Upper Jordan Valley of northern Israel. The burial pit contained 355 bone fragments, many of which were scorched, said study lead researcher Fanny Bocquentin, an archaeo-anthropologist at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS).
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Tool made out of horse bone.
Tool made out of horse bone.
The most perfectly preserved area of the site is known as the "Horse Butchery Site", a spot where a large horse was slaughtered and processed some 480,000 years ago. Since 1994, we've worked on bone and stone artefacts from here - some of which are the earliest in Europe - as part of a multidisciplinary team led by the UCL Institute of Archaeology. This has has given us important insights into the lives of the mysterious Homo heidelbergensis, which we have just released in a book.
My own research focused on the stone artefacts - more than 1,750 pieces of knapped flint. The tools, along with bones from a single large female horse, were discovered more than a quarter of century ago, and the location of where each artefact was plotted to the nearest millimetre.
Comment: The BBC provides some additional information:
Europe's earliest bone tools found in Britain By Paul Rincon Science editor, BBC News website Image copyright UCL Institute of Archaeology Image caption One of the oldest organic tools in the world. A bone hammer used to make the fine flint bifaces from Boxgrove. The bone shows scraping marks used to prepare the bone as well as pitting left behind from its use in making flint toolsSee also:
They were made by the species Homo heidelbergensis, a possible ancestor for modern humans and Neanderthals.
Researchers found a shin bone belonging to one of them - it's the oldest human bone known from Britain.
The researchers were able to reconstruct the precise type of stone tool that had been made from the chippings left at the site.© UCL Institute of Archaeology
The horse butchery site being excavated in 1990
However, the humans must have taken the tools with them - as they had not been recovered.
At the inter-tidal marshland, which was on what would have been Britain's southern coastline, there was a nearby cliff that was starting to degrade, producing good rocks for knapping - the process of creating stone tools. Silt from the sea had also built up here, forming an area of grassland.
"Grassland means herbivores and herbivores mean food," explained Dr Pope.
Dr Pope added that it was still unclear how the horse ended up in this landscape.
"Horses are highly sociable animals and it's reasonable to assume it was part of a herd, either attracted to the foreshore for fresh water, or for seaweed or salt licks. For whatever reason, this horse - isolated from the herd - ends up dying there," Dr Pope told BBC News.
"Possibly it was hunted - though we have no proof of that - and it's sat right next to an intertidal creek. The tide was quite low so it's possible for the humans to get around it.
Simon Parfitt said: "These are some of the earliest non-stone tools found in the archaeological record of human evolution. They would have been essential for manufacturing the finely made flint knives found in the wider Boxgrove landscape."
She explained that "it provides further evidence that early human populations at Boxgrove were cognitively, social and culturally sophisticated".
This might explain how it was so completely torn apart: the Boxgrove humans even smashed up the bones to get at the marrow and liquid grease.
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- World's oldest cooking pots found in Siberia, created 16,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age
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150-year-old hunting kit of the Kalahari San people
150-year-old hunting kit of the Kalahari San people
The Kalahari San of southern Africa hunt with small bone- or iron-tipped arrows that may look quite dainty, but when coated with poison, they also prove quite lethal. The hunter-gatherers daub their weapons with larvae entrails of a beetle called Diamphidia nigroonata. The larvae contain a diamphotoxin poison that is capable of bringing down an adult giraffe.
Some of the earliest solid evidence of poison use is traces of the highly toxic compound ricin on 24,000-year-old wooden applicators, found in South Africa's Border cave. However, archaeologists have long suspected this hunting technique is much older, and new evidence now suggests humans have been shooting poison arrows through the last 72,000 years.
Comment: See also:
- World's oldest cooking pots found in Siberia, created 16,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age
- 45,000 year old lion statuette found in Denisova Cave may be world's oldest
- The strange 175,000-year-old circle structures built by Neanderthals in French cave
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