MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'archaeology'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:10:26 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5069595&cid=t_119956_113_f&fid=39280&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FMarkHawker%2F%7E3%2F82_DRE8FXNA%2F8095237018 Hundreds of thousands of fragments of ancient papyri have been put online in a bid to crowd source translations. Thanks, The Egypt Exploration Society and Oxford University! (Source: Mark My Words 2.1) Mark My Words 2.1 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5069595 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:16:36 +0100 5069595 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3189321&cid=t_119956_131_f&fid=34994&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gnxp.com%2Fblog%2F2010%2F01%2Fwhere-are-paleolithic-europeans.php Over at my other blog I have a review up of a new paper in PLoS Biology. The authors argue that a particular Y haplogroup lineage, R1b1b2, which has often been assumed to be a marker of indigenous Paleolithic Europeans (i.e., those who were extant before the rise of agriculture and the spread of farmers), is actually a signature of Anatolians who brough agriculture. This probably isn't too surprising for the genetic genealogy nuts among the readers. After I got a copy of this paper I poked around the internet and the general finding that R1b1b2 was very diverse in the eastern Mediterranean seems to have been well known among the genetic genealogy community (also see Anatole Klyosov's paper and what he says about Basques specifically). And then in eastern Europe you have R1a1, which seems t... Gene Expression blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3189321 Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:22:00 +0100 3189321 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2510903&cid=t_119956_107_f&fid=36672&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencebase.com%2Fscience-blog%2Fvillage-archaeology.html Archaeologists were out in force in our village once again, this past weekend. This time their mini dig was part of our four-day Fen Edge Family Festival, for which I was one of the team of official photographers. A metre-square hole was dug on the edge of Cottenham Village Green and it was quickly discovered just what a near-history find this site is. Apparently, in the 1920s when one of the village ponds had become nothing more than a stinking, muddy pit harbouring disease, the Parish decided to fill it in and villagers were invited to carry out a mass spring clean and dump all their sold rubbish into the pit. Broken bicycles, bricks, unfixable tools, cracked bottles and storage jars were dumped and the site “landscaped” to turn the former pond into a village green. The 2009 ... Sciencebase Science Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2510903 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:00:06 +0100 2510903 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2416928&cid=t_119956_107_f&fid=36672&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencebase.com%2Fscience-blog%2Fbackyard-archaeology.html This weekend we, and a dozen other properties in our village, hosted a team of archaeologists from the University of Cambridge. The team, led by Dr Carenza Lewis (well known to Time Team viewers), were intent on unearthing the secrets of the centuries locked in our gardens. So, armed with mattocks and buckets, we mucked in and set about digging out layer by layer a one cubic metre chunk of earth from various sites including our front garden. Turf was first taken up, I say turf, our weed and moss-infested lawn is nothing to write home about. Then the first layer of top soil was hacked out and sieved through a 10mm mesh and any “finds” inspected and added to the first “context” tray. Given that our house was built in 1967 on old orchard land it was fairly unlikely tha... Sciencebase Science Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2416928 Tue, 19 May 2009 06:33:21 +0100 2416928 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2115491&cid=t_119956_132_f&fid=35016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpeanutbutter.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F01%2F19%2Fall-change-in-2009-no-more-academia%2F Image via Wikipedia Last week I completed what was my first week of working in academia in 2009 and also my last for the foreseeable future. I have decided to leave academia, as well as Newcastle to take a position in a Biotech company in Cambridge. I have certainly enjoyed just over 5 years working in Newcastle encompassing my PhD and a postdoc. Within that time my research interests have developed from representing scientific data, to data standards to ontology development. I am still maintaining some of my research interests in my new position. I will be working for an antibody company called Abcam, and as part of my role I will be investigating how to represent their product catalogue as an ontology and how users can have a more direct interaction with it. I am really looking forwar... peanutbutter blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2115491 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:04:26 +0100 2115491 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1918076&cid=t_119956_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2F434821697%2F I do love archaeology (Buck and I participated on a real dig in England, near the city of Derby). And what better find can there be other than a truly mythological place? Finding King Solomon’s Mines would be almost on a par with Heinrich Schliemann’s discovery of Troy. Now I wonder, where did I leave my trowel?   Researchers may have found King Solomon’s mines - CNN.com. (CNN) — Archaeologists believe a desert site in Jordan may contain the ruins of the elusive King Solomon’s Mines. The mines have been the subject of films, including “King Solomon’s Mines,” starring Patrick Swayze. Researchers using carbon dating techniques at Khirbat en-Nahas in southern Jordan discovered that copper production took place there around the time King Solomon... white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1918076 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:27:59 +0100 1918076 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1463841&cid=t_119956_131_f&fid=34989&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FGeneticsHealth%2F%7E3%2F296470802%2F (Photo credit: British Museum, crystal skull)  Without giving too much of the plot away, the focus of the latest ‘Indiana’ movie is about crystal skulls thought to have been produced by early American civilizations. But experts say examples held at the British Museum in London and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC are anything but genuine.  Their results show the skulls were made using tools not available to the ancient Aztecs or Mayans and were more than likely to have been produced in the 1960s. Researchers say the work, which is published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, should end decades of speculation over the origins of these controversial objects. The researchers were not able to determine where the quartz used in the skulls was quarried. But lo... Genetics and Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1463841 Fri, 23 May 2008 10:32:54 +0100 1463841 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1450191&cid=t_119956_115_f&fid=34670&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsumerdoc.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F05%2Fct-scan-findings-in-otzi-iceman.html Ötzi the Iceman is modern nicknames of a well-preserved natural mumm of a man from about 3300 BC found in 1991 in the Schnalstal glacier in the Ötztal Alps, near Hauslabjoch on the border between Austria and Italy. Why he died was a mystery for a long time, till the time we radiologists intervened. Initially it had been believed that Ötzi died from exposure during a winter storm. Later it was speculated that Ötzi had been a victim of a ritual sacrifice. In 2001 X-rays and a CT scan revealed that Ötzi had an arrowhead lodged in one shoulder when he died and a matching small tear on his coat.In the article originally published in the Journal of Archaeological Science,“lesion of a close-to-the-shoulder artery has been found… lesion of the dorsal wall of the left subclavian artery, th... Sumer's Radiology Site blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1450191 Sat, 17 May 2008 16:41:00 +0100 1450191 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1356006&cid=t_119956_99_f&fid=34593&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fscienceblogs%2FAyaJ%2F%7E3%2F265900078%2Fthe_future_is_always_a_crap_sh.php What's the surest signs that animals of the human species have been somewhere? They always seem to leave their shit lying around. Literally: Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... (Source: Effect Measure) Effect Measure blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1356006 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:55:17 +0100 1356006 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=683244&cid=t_119956_122_f&fid=35077&url=http%3A%2F%2Fneurophilosophy.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F06%2F20%2Farchaeologists-discover-new-worlds-first-gunshot-victim%2F Peruvian archaeologists have excavated the remains of what they believe to be the earliest documented gunshot victim in the Americas.  The well-preserved skeleton was found in an Inca cemetary located in a suburb of Lima. The skull contains two holes, one at the front, and the other at the back. Guillermo Cock and Elena Goycochea, who led the dig at the Puruchuco [...] (Source: Neurophilosophy) Neurophilosophy blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=683244 Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:54:53 +0100 683244 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=623752&cid=t_119956_122_f&fid=35077&url=http%3A%2F%2Fneurophilosophy.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F05%2F19%2Flithographs-by-david-roberts%2F My native country, as seen by David Roberts. (Source: Neurophilosophy) Neurophilosophy blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=623752 Sat, 19 May 2007 04:04:01 +0100 623752