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- Council boss under fire for “bunny huggers” attack
- Archaeological dig launched under car park
- Capita consultant on Cumbrian Roman visitor centre
- No Family Plots, Just Communal Burials In Ancient Settlement
- Peking man differing from modern humans in brain asymmetry
Posted: 30 Jun 2011 05:52 AM PDT A council leader has become a hate figure among archaeologists after announcing plans to relax the need for historical surveys which are hampering new developments in the East of England. Fenland council leader Alan Melton said the "the bunny huggers won't like" while launching his proposals this week. The move has sparked a storm of protest among archaeologists. Read the rest of this article...  |
Posted: 30 Jun 2011 05:51 AM PDT An archaeological dig is under way at a city centre site earmarked for redevelopment. Specialists will be exploring the area under the Sawclose car park for three weeks to see what historical evidence is there. A private car park behind the public spaces opposite the Theatre Royal will be shut completely while spaces in the council car park will be cut during the project Read the rest of this article...  |
Posted: 30 Jun 2011 05:49 AM PDT Firm is lead consultant and architect on the £10.7m Roman Maryport Development Capita Symonds is the lead consultant and architect for a Roman visitor attraction centre in Cumbria. The £10.7m Roman Maryport development is at Camp Farm, a Victorian model farm that includes a Roman fort and civilian settlement in the Solway Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The site is owned by Hadrian's Wall Heritage and plans have been submitted to Allerdale Borough Council. Read the rest of this article...  |
Posted: 30 Jun 2011 05:46 AM PDT Human remains discovered beneath the floors of mud-brick houses at one of the world's first permanent settlements, were not biologically related to one another, a finding that paints a new picture of life 9,000 years ago on a marshy plain in central Turkey. Even children as young as 8 were not buried alongside their parents or other relatives at the site called Çatalhöyük, the researchers found. "It speaks a lot to the type of social structure that they might have had," study researcher Marin Pilloud, a physical anthropologist with the United States military at Joint Accounting Command, in Hawaii, told LiveScience Read the rest of this article...  |
Posted: 30 Jun 2011 05:44 AM PDT Paleoanthropologists studying the fossil endocasts of Australopithecus, Homo habilis, Homo erectus, Neanderthals, and Homo sapiens have reported that almost all brain endocasts display distinct cerebral asymmetry. Peking man's endocasts are good examples of ancestral brains and are useful in studying human evolution. However, studies examining brain asymmetries in fossil hominids are usually limited to scoring of differences in hemisphere protrusion rostrally and caudally, or to comparing the width of the hemispheres. Read the rest of this article...  |
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