Water levels in Lake Whitney in Texas have dropped recently due to drought, revealing several 8,000-year-old sites. It’s against federal law to remove any Native American artifact from government property and in Texas, doing that also violates the state Antiquities Code. But in the past few months, authorities say more than thirty people have been [...]
I was just reading the latest issue of Wired on my iPad and came across this cool article which explains the math behind radiocarbon dating. Living things constantly consume carbon—through photosynthesis, for plants, and for animals, ingestion of those plants. The atmospheric ratio of carbon-14 to regular carbon-12 remains consistent at one part per trillion, [...]
A stone altar which dates back nearly 3,000 years has been found at Chalcatzingo in Mexico. “The discovery shows allow us to understand how they used their objects and how they managed to use them as part of rituals. They usually used bowls during their rituals. This was probably a place of worship, or living [...]
A new study has revealed that our common perception of how flying reptiles, such as pterosaurs, flew has been wrong all this time. The new research suggested that estimates of pterosaur wing size and shape have been wrong, and that, mechanically, the wings would have had to be crescent-shaped and angled much farther forward on [...]
The SS Gairsoppa, a British cargo steamship that was enlisted by the UK Ministry of War Transport to do its cargo runs, was sunk by a German U-boat torpedo on February 17, 1941, in the North Atlantic about 300 miles west of Ireland. It had been loaded in Calcutta with an immense load of commodities [...]
A new study has revealed that the metallic rainbow sheen that is the mark of a fossilized beetle actually becomes redder over time. To reveal the insects’ true colors, Yale University postdoctoral researcher Maria McNamara and her colleagues took tiny samples from beetle fossils dating back 15 million to 47 million years that were found [...]
Archaeologists have uncovered a 7,000-year-old settlement in the Dardanelles, Turkey. The settlement was 2,000 years older than Troy, Aslan said. “We know that almost all settlements older than 5,000 years ago were established on high plateaus.” The reason for the settlement pattern in high places has been questioned, he said. “This discovery gives us important [...]
High resolution photos of five of the Dead Sea Scrolls have been posted for free online. Click here to view them. “Some of these images are appearing for the first time in Google — what no one has seen for 2,000 years and no scholar since the Dead Sea Scrolls were found,” says James Charlesworth, director [...]
The remains of eight slaves, ranging in age from 7 to 40, have been uncovered in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Some showed evidence of the hard work they performed throughout their short lives, some had poor teeth, some had childhood diseases. All were Africans or of African descent. This and much more was learned painstaking moment [...]
A luxury Roman-era home has been found in the ancient city of Smyrna in Turkey. …the 400-square-meter residence has many rooms, including a bathroom and kitchen. “The presence of numerous rooms, a bathroom and kitchen show us that a rich family must have lived here together with slaves. We see many details of their lifestyle [...]
A 90-year-old tuft of hair has been used to generate the first complete genome of an Australian Aboriginal, revealing some interesting findings. He, and perhaps all Aboriginal Australians, the genome indicates, descend from the first humans to venture far beyond Africa more than 60,000 years ago, and thousands of years before the ancestors of most [...]
Builders working in Kaikoura, New Zealand, have uncovered ancient human remains, jewellery, hand tools and ochre. The remains will be reburied in a specially designated area at Takahanga Marae, in Kaikoura. Runanga chairman Maurice Manawatu said the latest discovery was a classic example of the importance of a cultural monitor, because kaitiakitanga played an essential [...]
Two tombs, one on top of the other, containing the remains of Maya royalty have been found in Guatemala. The roughly 2,000-year-old tomb was found underneath another, 1,300-year-old tomb filled with treasures such as jade gorgets—normally used to protect the throat—beads, and ceremonial knives. The upper tomb’s corpse had been badly destroyed by rodents within [...]
Archaeologists working in Leicestershire, England, have uncovered Iron Age human remains. He believes the remains, found at Burrough on the Hill, could have belonged to an important young man who lived 200 years before the Romans arrived in Britain. Dr Taylor added it was unsual from them to come across an ancient body buried in [...]
As Tropical Storm Irene blasted through Connecticut it uncovered human remains from what may have been a Native American burial site. Part of Linden Avenue collapsed from the storm and neighbors of a beach there found what they believed were human bones protruding from the embankment that the storm eroded and called Branford police. Those bones, experts [...]
Archaeologists have uncovered a massive Roman shipyard as big as a soccer pitch. It might have been used as a base for galleys that transported emperors, like Hadrian, across the empire on their way to places like Britain. The latest discovery comes after the team found an ornate private amphitheatre at the same site two [...]
Several sites in the ancient city of Apamea in Syria have been damaged by vandals. Several archeological sites in the ancient city of Apamea were vandalized and pillaged by groups taking advantage of the events in Syria to excavate secretly, dig randomly and steal artifacts in secret, damaging several finds including a mosaic and the [...]
Heavy rainfall has uncovered five Mycenaean tombs in Soha, Greece. Five box-shaped Mycenaean era tombs were unearthed in Soha, near Vaskina village, some ten kilometers northwest of Leonidio, by recent heavy rainfall. The most impressive of the funerary gifts found in the graves were several clay sympotic vases. According to archaeologists, the finds dating back to the [...]
A 300-year-old tomb has been found in Vietnam which is remarkably small. The outer coffin was 107cm in length, 36cm in width and 40cm in height, while the inner coffin was 94.5cm in length, 27.3cm in width and 33.4cm in height. The compound was said to consist of lime, molasses, sand and charcoal with a [...]
8,000-year-old human skulls impaled on stakes have been found in Sweden. The rituals at Kanaljorden were conducted on a massive stone pavement constructed on the bottom of a shallow lake (currently a peat fen). Some crania were fairly intact while others were found as isolated fragments. The more intact ones represent eleven individuals, both men [...]
The Ventura County Boat Show traditionally kicks off the sailing season here at Channel Islands Harbor. Once again, we will be attending and showing our Hunter 33, Rainbow. This year, the show moves over to the other side of the harbor. It is now going to be held in the Channel Island Marina on Harbor [...]
Ok, So… Bob Dylan turned 70 this week <gulp>. Like Bob said, many moons ago, “The times they are a changin!” But I don’t think he nor anyone else from the 60′s ever believed they could change at the pace they do, now! These days, we “microblog” on Facebook more than we post here on [...]
This summer in the Channel Islands Harbor looks to be fun for all and especially good for admirers of classic sailing yachts and tall ships! The nautical activities gets started on May 14th for the Safe Boating Expo. The big hit of this event is the tour of the USCG vessels and the helicopter rescue [...]
The Channel Islands Harbor community lost a business this past month that will be missed by many. Coast Chandlery had an exceptionally long history that spanned pretty much, this harbors’ entire existence. At one point, we understand there was more than one outlet that included a store in far flung Cabo San Lucas. It was [...]
January and early February sailing conditions out of Channel Islands Harbor kicked our sailing season into high gear. There has been an inordinate amount of warm days with gentle winds. In fact, January for the most part, was warmer than July! The real test of these statements though is the Membership roster at our sailing [...]
The earliest record of beavers existing in North America has been found in Oregon. An archaeologist discovered two fossil teeth on the boundary of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument near Dayville that represent the earliest record of a beaver in North America. The molar and premolar — back teeth — were below an [...]