At About.com
- Potassium-Argon Dating, Geology
- Pharos Lighthouse at Alexandria, Ancient History
Archaeology
- Trashing Tara, Afarensis on plans to develop roadways near the famous Irish site
- Aurignacian cave paintings of Fumane, Tim Jones on remote central
- Swedish study of the Kensington rune stone, Martin on Aardvarchaeology
- Inca bridges, Clioaudio, which is Alun Salt's new digs (pun intended)
- Multipurpose terracotta rings and other new evidence from the South India Excavations, from Rama Krishna Pisipaty on Archaeolog
- Fragmentary Knowledge: Was the Antikythera Mechanism the world’s first computer?, John Seabrook in The New Yorker
- Egyptians, not Greeks were true fathers of medicine, from Greg Laden
Carnivals
- Four Stone Hearth #14 on Anthropology 2.0, but not with a permalink so you may have to scroll down
- Tangled Bank #79, on Epigenetics News
- History Carnival #52, on Clioweb
Anthropology
- Supporting Out of Africa Hypothesis, research confirms modern humans descended from small group, Kambiz at Anthro.net on the paper by
- Background to Global creationism, interesting discussion by John Hawks on fundamentalist anti-evolution movement
Coolness Threshold Reached
- EO Wilson's Encyclopedia of Life has started collecting stuff. Say no more.
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