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Giant predatory dinosaur discovered with tiny arms, but it's not related to T. rex

David Nield
Science Alert
Fri, 08 Jul 2022 17:06 UTC
Meraxes gigas dinosaur tiny arms not t. rex
© Carlos PapolioAn artist's impression of Meraxes gigas.
Researchers have discovered a new species of giant dinosaur that has been called Meraxes gigas: just like the Tyrannosaurus rex, M. gigas has very short forelimbs, and it seems that both of these massive dino theropods evolved the trait separately.

Not only are T. rex and M. gigas a long way apart on the evolutionary tree, the newly discovered species became extinct during the Late Cretaceous period, some 20 million years before T. rex even appeared on the scene.

M. gigas belongs to a group known as the carcharodontosaurids, large and predatory theropod dinosaurs, characterized by hollow bones and limbs with three main digits. They're some of the biggest predators to ever stomp across Earth.
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SOTT Focus: MindMatters: Plato and Kim Jong-Un Walk Into a Bar: Talking Timeaus and the Bible with Russell Gmirkin

Harrison Koehli and Adam Daniels
Sott.net
Sat, 09 Jul 2022 00:00 UTC
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Russell Gmirkin is back to talk about his blockbuster latest book: Plato's Timaeus and the Biblical Creation Accounts: Cosmic Monotheism and Terrestrial Polytheism in the Primordial History. Join us as we discuss the book's mind-bending conclusions: Plato's Timaeus and Critias were sources for much of the biblical primordial history, from the creation of the cosmos and mortal creatures, to Eden, the Flood and the Nephilim. Genesis reflects Plato's cosmic monotheism and terrestrial polytheism, which devolved into Exodus-Judges' monolatry. Plato was also perhaps the first totalitarian political theorist. And his legacy lives on today.


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Oldest European human fossil possibly found in Spain


Phys Org
Fri, 08 Jul 2022 18:51 UTC
Jaw Bone Testing
© EIAUntil now, the oldest hominid fossil found in Europe was a jawbone which was determined to be 1.2 million years old.
A jawbone fragment discovered in northern Spain last month could be the oldest known fossil of a human ancestor found to date in Europe, Spanish paleontologists said Friday.

The researchers said the fossil found at an archaeological site on June 30 in northern Spain's Atapuerca mountain range is around 1.4 million years old.

Until now, the oldest hominid fossil found in Europe was a jawbone found at the same site in 2007 which was determined to be 1.2 million years old.

Atapuerca contains one of the richest records of prehistoric human occupation in Europe.

Researchers will now have to "complete" their first estimate for the age of the jawbone fragment using scientific dating techniques, palaeoanthropologist Jose-Maria Bermudez de Castro, the co-director of the Atapuerca research project, said during a news conference.

But since the jawbone fragment was found some two meters below the layer of earth where the jawbone in 2007 was found, "it is logical and reasonable to think it is older," he added.
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First ever prayer beads from medieval Britain discovered at Lindisfarne

Dalya Alberge
MSN
Sun, 26 Jun 2022 16:53 UTC
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© The TelegraphThe first ever example of prayer beads from medieval Britain has been discovered on the island of Lindisfarne
The first ever example of prayer beads from medieval Britain has been discovered on the island of Lindisfarne, one of Britain's most historic ancient sites, to the excitement of archaeologists.

Dating from the 8th to 9th century AD, they were made from salmon vertebrae. With fish an important symbol of early Christianity, they were clustered around the neck of one of the earliest skeletons - possibly one of the monks buried within the famous early medieval monastery.

Archaeologists are seeking to unearth the lost history of Lindisfarne, also known as Holy Island, off the coast of Northumberland. It was established by the Kings of Northumbria in the 7th century as an important religious centre and became the scene of the first major Viking raid on Britain in the 8th century.
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Archaeologists carry out first dig at tomb linked to King Arthur

Joe Stafford
The University of Manchester
Fri, 01 Jul 2022 22:54 UTC
Arthur's Stone
© The University of Manchester
Archaeologists from The University of Manchester have started a dig at a 5,000-year-old tomb linked to King Arthur, hoping to answer some of the mysteries surrounding the enigmatic site in the process.

The experts are working in partnership with English Heritage, which looks after Arthur's Stone in Herefordshire, to remove turf to expose and record particularly sensitive archaeological remains.

Arthur's Stone is a Neolithic chambered tomb which has never previously been excavated, but English Heritage say that similar examples in the same region have been found to contain incomplete skeletal remains of several people, together with flint flakes, arrowheads and pottery.

Today, only the large stones of the inner chamber remains, which is placed in a mound of earth and stones whose original size and shape remains a mystery. The chamber is formed of nine upright stones, with an enormous capstone estimated to weigh more than 25 tonnes on top.

Like many prehistoric monuments in western England and Wales, this tomb has been linked to King Arthur since before the 13th century. According to legend, it was here that Arthur slew a giant who left the impression of his elbows on one of the stones as he fell.

More recently, the author CS Lewis is thought to have been inspired by the area when creating his fictional world of Narnia - with Arthur's Stone the inspiration for the stone table upon which Aslan the Lion is sacrificed in The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe.
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Better Earth

Ice age migration from Siberia behind formation of Göbekli tepe, genetic analysis & archeological evidence reveals


Hurriyet Daily News
Tue, 28 Jun 2022 07:00 UTC
Göbekli Tepe
© Brian Weed/ Abode StockAncient Site of Göbekli Tepe in Southern Turkey.
People who migrated from Siberia formed the Göbeklitepe, and those in Göbeklitepe migrated in five other ways to spread to the world, said experts about the 12,000-year-old Neolithic archaeological site in the southwestern province of Şanlıurfa.

Semih Güneri, a retired professor from Caucasia and Central Asia Archaeology Research Center of Dokuz Eylül University, and his colleague, Professor Ekaterine Lipnina, presented the Siberia-Göbeklitepe hypothesis they have developed in recent years at the congress held in Istanbul between June 11 and 13.

There was a migration that started from Siberia 30,000 years ago and spread to all of Asia and then to Eastern and Northern Europe, Güneri said at the international congress.

"The relationship of Göbeklitepe high culture with the carriers of Siberian microblade stone tool technology is no longer a secret," he said while emphasizing that the most important branch of the migrations extended to the Near East.

Comment: Comment: Just what compelled the Siberians to migrate from their home? For possible clues, check out Pierre Lescaudron's series of articles: Did Earth 'Steal' Martian Water?

Ancient Architects presents the findings in the following video:



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Flashback From the CIA Archives: The US was preparing an anti-Soviet operation in Ukraine back in 1957

Vitaly Chervonenko, translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard
StalkerZone
Thu, 02 Mar 2017 17:32 UTC
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Front page of 1957 CIA report on supporting neonazi movements against Russia in Ukraine
The following is a foreword by Michail Michailov:
I would like to say a few words about the spontaneity of Maidan. And not even about Pyatt or Nuland with cookies and American dirty money, which was taken from the Embassy to the headquarters of Maidan in bags. I want to probe into history in connection with the published CIA documents about the "national liberation" movement in Ukraine. It's an interesting fact that the CIA sponsored the Banderist movement, at the same time considering it as a terrorist one. However, this is nothing unusual. They are involved in this to this day, only now instead of Banderists there are all sorts of jihadists. Also, the map of spreading Banderist sentiment in Ukraine is supposedly from 1957. It is seen that Banderism affected less than a quarter of the territory of Ukraine in the West. And there is also a description of the moods. Crimea even was never considered Ukrainian, and about Donbass they said that it "feels itself to be an island of Russian among Ukrainians."

And now, compare this map with today. This cancerous tumor, which at the time was not cut out but was made residual, has spread throughout Ukraine. The grandchildren of those who fought against the Nazis and fought against Banderists are today marching under Banderist flags, and in pure Russian language urge to "cut Russians". And among these marching there are a lot of descendants of those who Banderists killed, dismembered, and burned.

All of this was planned for decades. And the same thing was planned and is being planned against Russia. And there are many of those who, inside Russia, actively work to ensure that the same hell comes to Moscow, Kazan, St. Petersburg, and Khabarovsk.
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American analysts in a secret study from the archives of the CIA argued that in many regions of the USSR the population would have supported an anti-Soviet operation.

Written in August 1957, the report entitled "Resistance Factors and Special Forces actions. Ukraine" was recently declassified and published.
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Flashlight

How abortion became a divisive issue in US politics

Andy Sullivan
Reuters
Sat, 25 Jun 2022 05:49 UTC
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© REUTERS/Evelyn HocksteinPolice officers try to separate abortion rights supporters and anti-abortion protesters outside the United States Supreme Court in Washington, U.S., June 21, 2022.
Since the U.S. Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision legalized abortion nationwide in 1973, the issue has become one of the defining fault lines in U.S. politics, with Democratic politicians firmly supporting abortion rights and Republican lawmakers lining up in opposition.

In 1973 the lines were more blurred. Republican and Democratic voters were equally likely to say abortion should be legal, while it was easy to find Republican officials who supported abortion rights and Democrats who opposed the procedure.

So what changed?

Comment: Again, we see the trend of Democrats becoming more radical and absolutist in their views while Republicans hover around the same. And it's clear that cultural tinkering has lead to the partisan divide on the issue as we see it now.

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Blue Planet

Britain's earliest humans made Canterbury home, 600,000-year-old finds reveal

Tom Almeroth-Williams, University of Cambridge
Phys.org
Mon, 27 Jun 2022 19:41 UTC
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© University of CambridgeA selection of handaxes discovered in the 1920s. Image: authors of the research.
Archaeological discoveries made on the outskirts of Canterbury, Kent (England) confirm the presence of early humans in southern Britain between 560,000 and 620,000 years ago, making it one of the earliest known Paleolithic sites in northern Europe.

The breakthrough, involving controlled excavations and radiometric dating, comes a century after stone tool artifacts were first uncovered at the site.

The research, led by archaeologists at the University of Cambridge, confirms that Homo heidelbergensis, an ancestor of Neanderthals, occupied southern Britain in this period (when it was still attached to Europe) and gives tantalizing evidence hinting at some of the earliest animal hide processing in European prehistory.

Located in an ancient riverbed, the Canterbury site was originally discovered in the 1920s when local laborers unearthed artifacts known as handaxes (most now in the British Museum), but by applying modern dating techniques to new excavations their age has finally been determined.

Comment: See also:

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Rocket

New book offers a vivid insider account of how Cold War Soviet and American efforts to ditch their nukes played out

Robert Bridge
RT
Mon, 27 Jun 2022 15:09 UTC
Book cover
© Scott Ritter
Former US Marine Corps intelligence officer, and RT columnist, Scott Ritter has produced an engaging and timely book that gives an eyewitness account of those Cold War days when ideological foes managed to put the brakes on an out-of-control arms race.

Many people, when confronted with bland Soviet-era terms such as 'arms control' and 'disarmament,' may be tempted to stifle a yawn and move on. However, that would be a mistake.

Here is a real page-turner - part history lesson, part Clancy thriller, with just the right touch of comic relief - that examines a critical period during the Cold War when the Americans and Russians were working to eliminate their missile stockpiles amid a climate of full-blown distrust.

The story begins in 1979 when the Soviets achieved a strategic edge against NATO forces with the introduction of the SS-20 nuclear-tipped missile. As if on cue, the Americans responded with the Pershing II, a projectile that could hit Moscow from Western Europe in eight minutes or less. And just like that, the arms race was on. Recognizing the futility of this tit-for-tat stockpiling, however, diplomats from the United States and Soviet Union, in a moment of rare consensus, understood the need to ban these weapons altogether.
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