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Pollution May Drive Out One in Five from Hong KongMonday, January 5, 2009 @ 10:53AMA survey finds 1.4 million residents of Hong Kong are thinking about moving.

Discovery helps solve mystery of South American trophy headsMonday, January 5, 2009 @ 9:41AMThe mystery of why ancient South American peoples who created the mysterious Nazca Lines also collected human heads as trophies has long puzzled scholars who theorize the heads may have been used in fertility rites, taken from enemies in battle or associated with ancestor veneration.

Home ArticleMonday, January 5, 2009 @ 12:01AMA conclusion that "Human beings lived in the Three Gorges reservoir area at least 7,000 years ago" was drawn by Professor Yu Xiyun, Wuhan University. The prints are 2,000 years earlier than the 5,000 years old Da Xi Culture which was discovered in the Qutang Gorge.

Bridge-Site Digging Yields Historic FindsThursday, January 1, 2009 @ 3:35PMLOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Pre-construction work by archaeological experts at the sites where two new Ohio River bridges will be built has produced a wealth of information about people who lived there as long ago as 3,500 B.C.

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Obituary: Art World Loses Singular and Durable Talents this YearTuesday, December 30, 2008 @ 10:27PMSwiss Art Collector Hildy Beyeler Died at Age 86. The art world lost some singular and durable talents this past year.

Search the ArchivesTuesday, December 30, 2008 @ 9:20AMAn object described by the university as a $5.5 million gold and bronze ritual vessel. (Left to right) Library Dean Susan Curzon, Teresa Tseng, Roland Tseng, C.K. Tseng, and CSUN President Jolene Koester.

Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation and International Scientific Team Show Prehistoric Foragers from Southeastern ...Tuesday, December 30, 2008 @ 8:25AM SALT LAKE CITY----Genetic research by the Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation and scientists from ten organizations in Europe and the U.S. shows human groups with the deepest roots in southeastern Europe were not pushed out by an incoming wave of farmer-colonists as agriculture first spread into Europe.