Showing posts with label archeology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label archeology. Show all posts
Monday, February 9, 2009
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Friday, November 28, 2008
Oldest dope stash found - 2,700 years later.
TheStar.com | sciencetech | 2,700-year-old marijuana found in Chinese tomb
OTTAWA – Researchers say they have located the world's oldest stash of marijuana, in a tomb in a remote part of China.
The cache of cannabis is about 2,700 years old and was clearly ``cultivated for psychoactive purposes," rather than as fibre for clothing or as food, says a research paper in the Journal of Experimental Botany.
The 789 grams of dried cannabis was buried alongside a light-haired, blue-eyed Caucasian man, likely a shaman of the Gushi culture, near Turpan in northwestern China.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Monday, October 6, 2008
570 million year old footprints
Oldest 'Footprints' on Earth Found | LiveScience
The oldest-known tracks of a creature apparently using legs have been discovered in rock dated to 570 million years ago in what was once a shallow sea in Nevada.
New findings about prehistoric cave paintings
Prehistoric cave paintings took up to 20,000 years to complete - Telegraph
Rather than being created in one session, as archaeologists previously thought, many of the works discovered across Europe were produced over hundreds of generations who added to, refreshed and painted over the original pieces of art.
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