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Ancient Tides: Civilization Timelines Keep Getting Earlier
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015. Civilization Timelines Keep Getting Earlier. Anyone studying the origins of human civilization on earth is aware of the earlier, earlier, earlier start-dates archaeologists are citing. The reasons are basically the discovery of previously unexplored sites and the enhanced technology enabling more precise dating of artifacts. Gunung Padang is a recent addition to the growing list of archaeological sites proving that our history books regarding early civilizations are now hopeles...
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Ancient Tides: More Uses Deduced for Antikythera
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Thursday, January 22, 2015. More Uses Deduced for Antikythera. Scientists keep edging closer to determining the who, what and why of the Antikythera Mechanism recovered from an ancient shipwreck near Crete in 1901. So far, we know the strange, complex assembly of bronze gears could accurately predict lunar and solar eclipses and tell the positions of planets throughout the solar system. According to the New York Times:. Just seven years after Archimedes died. Over the years scientists have speculated tha...
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Ancient Tides: Clovis DNA Points to Native-American Origins
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Sunday, February 16, 2014. Clovis DNA Points to Native-American Origins. The genetic sequence from a prehistoric baby in a 12,000-year-old Clovis burial site in Montana is providing significant data on the origins of the earliest Americans. Until now, archaeologists have had to rely mainly on tools made of stone and bone, and other artifacts to tell the story of human migration about 15,000 years ago to the New World. Clovis is what we like to refer to as an 'archaeological complex,' " says Michael Waters.
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Ancient Tides: January 2013
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Sunday, January 13, 2013. Isolation Forced Viking Departure. Ruins of the Viking church in Qaqortoq, Greenland. Archaeologists now suspect the economic and identity issues not starvation and disease caused Vikings to abandon Greenland in the 15. Century, something that has puzzled researchers for centuries. According to Spiegel Online:. It became more and more difficult for the Greenlanders to attract merchants from Europe to the island," speculates Jette Arneborg, an archeologist at the National Museum ...
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“It will sound rather strange to you…”: A Phone Call, a Letter, and the Corporal | Historians@Work
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A blog from Marquette University history faculty. Changing Ideals: Ireland in Transition. On the Passing of Vietnam’s Founding Generation. 8220;It will sound rather strange to you…”: A Phone Call, a Letter, and the Corporal. October 8, 2013. Tags: America’s Corporal: James Tanner in War and Peace. University of Georgia Press. James Marten is professor and Chair of the history department at Marquette University. I first blogged about James Corporal Tanner about a year-and-a-half ago. And she called in hop...
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Reflections on a Man With No Feet | Historians@Work
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A blog from Marquette University history faculty. Making History in Nigeria: The Fieldwork Experience. Some initial thoughts from China. Reflections on a Man With No Feet. February 28, 2012. James Marten on his new study of an injured Civil War Veteran. Photograph from Thomas and Andrew White, Ancestral Chronological Record of the William White Family from 1607 to 1895 (1895), 117. Nineteenth century sensibilities about disabled people were quite different. Representations of disabled survivors offer...
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Alumni@Work: Catching Up With Our Former Students, Part IV | Historians@Work
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A blog from Marquette University history faculty. Platypi, Hermophrodites, and Intellectual Women: The Humanities’ Relationship with Oddities. My Dear Comrade: Adventures with Corporal Tanner (continued). Alumni@Work: Catching Up With Our Former Students, Part IV. May 14, 2015. Today we feature two of our PhD alums, Enaya Othman and Paul Beck. Although both teach in the Milwaukee area, they have followed very different paths through academia. Effective and successful projects was Beyond the Veil:. I have...
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Fr. Francis Paul Prucha, SJ: A Reminiscence | Historians@Work
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A blog from Marquette University history faculty. Wrapping Up 2014-2015: Journeys, Real and Virtual. What Colleen Did on Summer Vacation. Fr Francis Paul Prucha, SJ: A Reminiscence. August 5, 2015. Tags: Francis Paul Prucha. Marquette University history department. Fr Francis Paul Prucha, SJ, 1921-2015. My wife Kitty and I particularly enjoyed Father Prucha’s two-year tenure as Gasson Professor at Boston College in the 1980s, when I taught at Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts. We list...
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Animal Science News: Holidays and the Domesticated Turkey
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Monday, December 12, 2011. Holidays and the Domesticated Turkey. Have you ever wondered why we eat turkeys on holidays? Who started the tradition? Why would we even domesticate turkeys? This is the history of the domesticated turkey. However, while the British have always associated turkey with Christmas dinner, Americans have grown accustomed to eating it for Thanksgiving as well. By the 1940s, intensive farming production techniques had improved, which allowed turkey to be more affordable. In addit...
