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12/03/2008
Evidence From Dirty Teeth: Ancient Peruvians Ate Well (Science Daily)
Starch grains preserved on human teeth reveal that ancient Peruvians ate a variety of cultivated crops including squash, beans, peanuts and pacay. Starch grain analysis of human dental remains should prove to be a powerful means to directly study ancient diets.
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12/02/2008
Huge Stash of Marijuana Found in Ancient Tomb (Fox News)
An ancient Caucasian people seem to have buried one of their shamans with a whopping 789 grams of high-potency pot 2,700 years ago.
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12/02/2008
Ancient teeth suggest Peruvians ate well (UPI)
PANAMA CITY, Panama, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- U.S. archeologists say starch grains found preserved on human teeth in Peru suggest ancient Peruvians ate cultivated crops, including squash and beans.
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12/03/2008
Ancient dragonfly-like insect imprint found (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
U.S. researchers say they have discovered what appears to be the oldest imprint of a prehistoric insect, made while the dragonfly-like creature was still alive.
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12/02/2008
Ancient teeth suggest Peruvians ate well (Moldova.org)
U.S. archeologists say starch grains found preserved on human teeth in Peru suggest ancient Peruvians ate cultivated crops, including squash and beans.Dolores Piperno of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and the National Museum of Natural History, and archeology Professor Tom Dillehay of Vanderbilt University, said their finding sets the date of the earliest human consumption ...
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12/02/2008
Rare Mineral Can Track Ancient Climates, And Foretells Major Meltdown (Science Daily)
By discovering the meaning of a rare mineral that can be used to track ancient climates, geologists are helping climatologists to better understand what we're probably in for over the next century or two as global warming begins to crank up the heat and, ultimately, to change life as we know it.
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12/02/2008
Expedition uncovers ancient citadel in Peruvian jungle (AFP via Yahoo! News)
A team of archaeologists on Tuesday announced they had discovered a fortified citadel in the remote Amazonian rainforest of northeast Peru that appears to be from the pre-Inca era.
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12/02/2008
Bloggernacle Back Bench on MormonTimes.com: Wisdom of a Bloggernacle ancient (Deseret Morning News)
Sit on the Bloggernacle Back Bench with an "ancient" blogger who analyzes the Mormon blog community. Plus find your best version of Lucy Mack Smith's history or see how technology could help bishops!
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12/02/2008
Ancient Peruvians ate well, suggests evidence from prehistoric teeth (New Kerala)
Washington, Dec 2 : The diet of ancient Peruvians was quite filling, with a variety of cultivated crops including squash, beans, peanuts and the fruit of cultivated pacay trees, as revealed by evidence from starch grains preserved on human teeth.
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12/02/2008
CO2 may have helped ancient Earth escape a deathly deep freeze (New Kerala)
Washington, Dec 2 : Scientists have suggested that the planet's present day greenhouse scourge, carbon dioxide (CO2), may have played a vital role in helping ancient Earth to escape from completely freezing up by glaciation.
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  • The Ancient Olympics - Includes a comparison of ancient and modern Olympics, essays about the history of the Olympics, and stories of ancient Olympic athletes.
  • The Games at Olympia - The British Museum - Interactive site of the ancient Olympics, making use of a model of Olympia and related objects from the museum’s collection.
  • HickokSports.com: History: The Ancient Olympics - This document is a history of the ancient Olympics. It is a page in the History section of HickokSports.com, an online collection of sports information.
  • Olympic Games in the Ancient Hellenic World - The Ancient Olympic Games Virtual Museum with a plethora of information about the games that are the forefathers of the modern Olympics.
  • The Real Story of the Ancient Olympic Games - Were the ancient games better than ours? More fair and square? More about sports and less about money? Are modern games more sexist? More political? Have we strayed from the ancient Olympic ideal?
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