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N ilsson’s 1920 Primitive Time-Reckoning detailed the long human process of arriving at the concept of a year: it may have first concerned only a period from sowing to harvest, and then measured from “a season to its recurrence”: a challenge amid fluctuations that was aided by the daily utility of the moon, “the first chronometer” (354, 359, 148). Cohen’s 1993 study of ancient Near Eastern “cultic calendars” found their origins also in seasons and lunar cycles beginning with a First Crescent (3-4). Crete lives a round of three distinct and reliable seasons: After 90-95 days of cool rainy Winter, about 140 days of Spring lead into Summer and the grain harvest; and about 130 days from thence bring Winter again. MacGillivray’s 2008 study of The Decans confirms a Cretan year of three seasons, each (with their overlaps) about 4 moons/months in duration.
Calendar House: Chapter 4 - Forms of Time
ScienceDaily (Sep. 27, 2004) — Scientists have found a remarkable new structure deep within the West Antarctic Ice Sheet which suggests that the whole ice sheet is more susceptible to future change than previously thought. The discovery, by scientists from Bristol University and the British Antarctic Survey in collaboration with US colleagues, is reported this week (September 24) in the international journal Science. The stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has been hotly debated since the 1960s because of its potential to raise global sea level by around 5 m over several centuries. The potential impacts of a major change in the West Antarctic ice sheet are severe – sea level rise will be fantastically expensive for developed nations with coastal cities and dire for poor populations in low-lying coastal areas.
New Structure Found Deep Within West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Press Release - New structure found deep within West Antarctic Ice Sheet - British Antarctic Survey
21 September 2004 No. 13/2004 Scientists have found a remarkable new structure deep within the West Antarctic Ice Sheet which suggests that the whole ice sheet is more susceptible to future change than previously thought. The discovery, by scientists from Bristol University and the British Antarctic Survey in collaboration with US colleagues, is reported this week (September 24) in the international journal Science. The stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has been hotly debated since the 1960s because of its potential to raise global sea level by around 5 m over several centuries. The potential impacts of a major change in the West Antarctic ice sheet are severe ? sea level rise will be fantastically expensive for developed nations with coastal cities and dire for poor populations in low-lying coastal areas. Lead author Prof Martin Siegert of Bristol University said, ?
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Deadly time vortex appears over Antarctica | EUTimes.net
Sector of erupting anomalies. Disturbing news has been leaking out from the giant continent at the bottom of the world. Some scientists manning lonely outposts under the drifting and shifting aurora are nearly paralyzed with fear.
Lost ancient civilisation's ruins lie beneath Gulf, says boffin • The Register
Refugees from a lost civilisation whose ruins and relics lie submerged on the seabed deep beneath the Persian Gulf may have founded ancient, advanced Middle Eastern societies thousands of years ago in the time before the Pharaohs. According to Jeffrey Rose, a Birmingham uni archaeologist, recent excavations and discoveries indicate that a large number of substantial and relatively sophisticated settlements sprang up around the shores of the Persian Gulf quite suddenly perhaps 7,500 years ago. “Where before there had been but a handful of scattered hunting camps, suddenly, over 60 new archaeological sites appear virtually overnight,” says Rose.
White Europeans 'only evolved 5,500 years ago after food habits changed' | Mail Online
Scientists believe that a sudden change in the diet around that time from hunter-gathering to farming may have led to a dramatic change in skin tone to make up for a lack of vitamin D. Farmed food is lacking in vitamin D and while humans can produce it when exposed to the ultraviolet light in sunlight darker skin is far less efficient at it. People with pale skin may be descended from Europeans who dramatically changed their diets after switching from hunter-gathering to farming Scientists at the University of Oslo believe this change in diet may have led to our dark-skinned ancestors evolving paler skin to overcome this problem. The link between skin colour and Vitamin D from sunlight has been suggested before.
Acupuncture 5,200 Years Ago?
Acupuncture 5,200 Years Ago? The Tyrolean Iceman died in the Alps about 5,200 years ago, but his mummified body is exceptionally well-preserved -- so well-preserved that 15 groups of tattoo marks on his body stand out vividly. These punctures do not seem to be ornamental, like those on a sailor's biceps, nor are they on parts of the body usually displayed. What is most interesting are their locations; some groups are placed at traditional Chinese acupuncture points. Bolstering this suspicion is the determination from computer tomography (noninvasive imaging) that the Iceman suffered from arthrosis of the lumbar spine.
Çatalhöyük - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Çatalhöyük ( Turkish pronunciation: [tʃaˈtaɫhøjyc] ; also Çatal Höyük and Çatal Hüyük , or any of the three without diacritics ; çatal is Turkish for "fork", höyük for "mound") was a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement in southern Anatolia , which existed from approximately 7500 BCE to 5700 BCE. It is the largest and best-preserved Neolithic site found to date. Çatalhöyük is located overlooking wheat fields in the Konya Plain, southeast of the present-day city of Konya (ancient Iconium) in Turkey , approximately 140 km (87 mi) from the twin-coned volcano of Mount Hasan . The eastern settlement forms a mound which would have risen about 20 m (66 ft) above the plain at the time of the latest Neolithic occupation. There is also a smaller settlement mound to the west and a Byzantine settlement a few hundred meters to the east. The prehistoric mound settlements were abandoned before the Bronze Age .
Antikythera mechanism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Antikythera mechanism (main fragment) The Antikythera mechanism ( / ˌ æ n t ɨ k ɨ ˈ θ ɪər ə / ANT -i-ki- THEER -ə or / ˌ æ n t ɨ ˈ k ɪ θ ər ə / ANT -i- KITH -ə-rə ) is an ancient mechanical computer [ 1 ] [ 2 ] designed to calculate astronomical positions. It was recovered in 1900–1901 from the Antikythera wreck . [ 3 ] Its significance and complexity were not understood until decades later.He wrote of a great city destroyed by floodwaters following an earthquake deep under the sea — an image that resonates at a time when Japan is struggling to recover from a devastating earthquake and tsunami off its northeast coast. A National Geographic television special that aired on Sunday details the work of American, Canadian and Spanish scientists as they attempt to prove Atlantis existed by following up on space satellite images showing unusual features in an area just north of Cadiz. The area is near the Straits of Gibraltar — widely thought to be the "Pillars of Hercules" Plato mentioned in his description of the location of Atlantis. The team is led by archaeologist Richard Freund of the University of Hartford in Connecticut.
Signs of Atlantis found in southern Spain: scientists - Health - CBC News
Top 10 Civilizations That Mysteriously Disappeared | Top 10 Lists | TopTenz.net
You are here: Home / All / Top 10 Civilizations That Mysteriously Disappeared Throughout our history, most civilizations have either met a slow demise or were wiped out by natural disasters or invasion. But there are a few societies whose disappearance has scholars truly stumped: One of the first Mesoamerican societies, the Olmec inhabited the tropical lowlands of south-central Mexico .http://www.atlan.org/
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