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How science is helping us to find out things about the past...
This thread is to be dedicated to information on how we know about the past through using scientific techniques. This could include dating methods (the approximate age of an object, as opposed to finding the best way to convince a member of the opposite sex to go out with us), excavation (not quite the fortune-and-glory approach employed by Indiana Jones), the authenticity of artifacts and arts (…that $100 original Rembrandt is just too good to be true…), etc. As the purpose of this thread is to promote discussions and understanding, and not intended to be a cheap cure for insomnia, it would be to everyone’s advantage if all the information is kept at an easy-to-understand level (no doctoral dissertations from MIT, please).
Hopefully, the information from this thread would help people to better understand how we know what we know (or why we don’t know more, or why we are not sure about what we know, or why we don’t want to know more…. Etc.)
This thread is not limited only to the realm of the New World. I am starting it here since, well, I am a proud citizen of Machu Picchu.
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Very cool, thankyou BlueStar (* Mangas Cochise, Jul 10, 2005 - 09:43 ) Footprints of 'first Americans' (* BlueStar Tupac, Jul 9, 2005 - 15:41 ) Copy of the First 'Globe' Map: The Name 'America' (* Norvegicus Lupus, Apr 15, 2005 - 04:08 ) 'Atomic Paring Knife' Will Help Probe Ancient Civilizations (* Marduk Hammurabi, Mar 1, 2005 - 18:35 ) This newslink here deals with the Peopling of the Americas (* Marduk Hammurabi, Jan 17, 2005 - 15:46 ) Very timely articles, Marduk (* Mangas Cochise, Jan 16, 2005 - 07:12 ) Conversations: Hunting Fakes (* Marduk Hammurabi, Jan 11, 2005 - 15:42 ) Thank you so much (* Marduk Hammurabi, Jan 10, 2005 - 20:21 ) Great articles Marduk! (* CherokeeRose Sequoyah, Jan 10, 2005 - 18:11 ) Penn School of Engineering Joins Forces with Penn Museum (* Marduk Hammurabi, Jan 9, 2005 - 02:25 ) Technology rescues Italy's art (* Marduk Hammurabi, Jan 9, 2005 - 02:14 ) Lasers uncover Stonehenge secrets (* Ankari Atrahasis, Dec 29, 2004 - 23:47 ) Computer helps map ancient Rome (* Marduk Hammurabi, Dec 29, 2004 - 20:06 ) Computer modeling lets scientists make virtual re-creations of ancient people. (* Theodious Cocceius, Dec 20, 2004 - 20:24 ) Olmecs-Writing (* BlueStar Tupac, Aug 20, 2004 - 13:16 ) related to aerial surveys and 3D (* Bryce Yupanqui, Mar 1, 2003 - 08:22 ) aerial photos revisited (* Nakala Amaru, Feb 26, 2003 - 22:25 ) Aerial Survey III + 1... (* Dopey Cusi, Feb 26, 2003 - 00:44 ) Aerial Survey III (* Nakala Amaru, Feb 25, 2003 - 23:52 ) Never see Indiana Jones lugging a metal detector around! (* Dopey Cusi, Feb 25, 2003 - 01:00 )| 3 more |
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