warrenellis + history 54
How stone age man invented the art of raving | Science | The Observer
12 days ago by warrenellis
@MelissaSterry: [The Really] Old School Ravers: New scientific techniques reveal how large tribal gatherings swept neolithic Britain http://t.co/dkEZkibO http://twitter.com/MelissaSterry/status/201609554155409408
ifttt
twitter
history
social
culture
12 days ago by warrenellis
BBC iPlayer - The Two-Thousand-Year-Old Computer
12 days ago by warrenellis
@mothninja: Lovely BBC4 doco on the Antikythera mechanism http://t.co/mkhqZ8gV (FAO @woofbarkyap amongst others) http://twitter.com/mothninja/status/201734655739830272
ifttt
twitter
history
video
12 days ago by warrenellis
Cairo Calendar shows Egyptians discovered binary Algol first
24 days ago by warrenellis
"Algol, aka the Demon Star, is actually a binary star in the Perseus constellation, and has been the subject of speculation for hundreds of years. Now a group of Finnish researchers propose that the peculiar behavior of Algol was first noted by the Egyptians some 3200 years ago."
space
history
24 days ago by warrenellis
BBC News - Ancient virus DNA thrives in us
4 weeks ago by warrenellis
"Traces of ancient viruses which infected our ancestors millions of years ago are more widespread in us than previously thought. A study shows how extensively viruses from as far back as the dinosaur era still thrive in our genetic material."
med
bio
history
4 weeks ago by warrenellis
Three-toed horses reveal the secret of the Tibetan Plateau uplift
4 weeks ago by warrenellis
"Fossils of the three-toed horse genus Hipparion that have been found on the Tibetan Plateau have provided concrete evidence for studying the uplift of the plateau, including a skull with associated mandible of Hipparion zandaense from Zanda."
history
4 weeks ago by warrenellis
BBC News - Europe: A crisis of the centre
4 weeks ago by warrenellis
"There were two "moments" in the defeat of liberal centrist politics in Germany, Austria, Spain etc. in the 1930s: the first, where polite society realised the working classes were swinging to the right and left, but patronisingly reassured themselves that the world of Jazz, surrealist poetry and foreign holidays could never end. That is, they said to themselves: the workers are clinging to the past, but we, avatars of a more liberal and progressive future, have economic history with us, which points only in the direction of liberalism and economic co-operation."
money
pol
history
4 weeks ago by warrenellis
'Red Deer Cave people' may be new species of human | Science | The Guardian
10 weeks ago by warrenellis
"Named the Red Deer Cave people, after their apparent penchant for home-cooked venison, they are the most recent human remains found anywhere in the world that do not closely resemble modern humans."
history
10 weeks ago by warrenellis
Entire genome of extinct human decoded from fossil
february 2012 by warrenellis
"The genome represents the first high-coverage, complete genome sequence of an archaic human group - a leap in the study of extinct forms of humans. “We hope that biologists will be able to use this genome to discover genetic changes that were important for the development of modern human culture and technology, and enabled modern humans to leave Africa and rapidly spread around the world, starting around 100,000 years ago” says Pääbo."
history
sci
february 2012 by warrenellis
Fogou - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
january 2012 by warrenellis
"A fogou or fougou (pronounced "foo-goo") is an underground, dry-stone structure found on Iron Age or Romano-British defended settlement sites in Cornwall." (Also ref. Cope's "The Modern Antiquarian" tv docu, available on YouTube) (I'm always forgetting this word.)
history
architecture
january 2012 by warrenellis
Man Myth & Magic: Volume 1, Issue 1 - a set on Flickr
december 2011 by warrenellis
via John Coulthart: someone is posting the entire run of Man, Myth & Magic--1970 occult encyclopaedia in 112 weekly parts--on Flickr
magazine
magic
history
research
december 2011 by warrenellis
When banks were frank
december 2011 by warrenellis
" I unearthed this rather charming and naive, cheque book size, direct mail piece produced for the Midland Bank in 1975, although its design styling is pure 60s…"
design
money
history
december 2011 by warrenellis
BBC News - The only living master of a dying martial art
october 2011 by warrenellis
A former factory worker from the British Midlands may be the last living master of the centuries-old Sikh battlefield art of shastar vidya. The father of four is now engaged in a full-time search for a successor.
war
history
october 2011 by warrenellis
Scientists Use Google Earth to Understand Mysterious Giant Wheels
september 2011 by warrenellis
"Thousands of geoglyph "wheels," almost completely unknown to the public, are now part of public knowledge thanks to advances in technology, both photographic and social. These wheels are scattered across the deserts of Jordan and adjacent countries."
geo
history
cult
september 2011 by warrenellis
Volcanic artifacts imply ice-age mariners in prehistoric Greece
august 2011 by warrenellis
Mariners may have been traveling the Aegean Sea even before the end of the last ice age, according to new evidence from researchers, in order to extract coveted volcanic rocks for pre-Bronze Age tools and weapons.
history
august 2011 by warrenellis
BBC News - Iron Age road link to Iceni tribe
august 2011 by warrenellis
A suspected Iron Age road, made of timber and preserved in peat for 2,000 years, has been uncovered by archaeologists in East Anglia.
history
august 2011 by warrenellis
Transcript of Nixon phone call reveals depth of collapse of the US/UK special relationship in 1973
august 2011 by warrenellis
The programme examines a fascinating transcript of a conversation between President Nixon and Henry Kissinger which reveals the depth of the US antagonism towards Edward Heath's pro-European stance.
pol
history
august 2011 by warrenellis
Mathematics of ancient carvings reveals lost language - life - 01 April 2010 - New Scientist
august 2011 by warrenellis
"The team compared symbols created by the Picts – a Scottish Iron Age society that flourished from the fourth to the ninth centuries AD – with over 400 known ancient and modern language texts."
history
august 2011 by warrenellis
Scientists map religious forests and sacred sites
august 2011 by warrenellis
Oxford scientists are aiming to produce a global map of the land owned or revered by the world’s religions. Many of these ‘religious forests’ and sacred sites contain some of the richest biodiversity in the world, including some of the highest numbers of threatened species.
history
cult
maps
august 2011 by warrenellis
Tooth filing was a worldwide craze among Viking men | Science | guardian.co.uk
july 2011 by warrenellis
"Vikings worldwide seem to have taken up a fashion for painful but impressive modification of teeth around the 10th century AD"
history
bodymod
july 2011 by warrenellis
Trotting ahead of Malthus
june 2011 by warrenellis
"I have previously discussed Great Britain's unprecedented escape from the Malthusian trap. Such escapes require virtuous cycles, i.e. positive feedback loops that allow productive capital to accumulate faster than it is destroyed. There are a number of these in Britain in the era of escape from the Black Plague to the 19th century, but two of the biggest involved transportation. "
history
june 2011 by warrenellis
Tomorrow's World
june 2011 by warrenellis
"Themes and moods for documentary, scientific and industrial subjects."
music
history
june 2011 by warrenellis
The Life and Madness of Edward H. Rulloff | Victorian Gothic
june 2011 by warrenellis
"Rulloff was a murderer and a thief whose savant-like intelligence and erudition have invited comparison to Doyle’s Professor Moriarty. He committed robberies throughout his life in order to fund his grandiose research into the science of philology; an obsession that may have had unrecognized origins in a deep-seated sense of remorse."
crime
history
june 2011 by warrenellis
Neolithic Britain revealed
june 2011 by warrenellis
"Previously it had been thought that causewayed enclosures spread slowly across the country over five centuries, between 3700-3000BC. However the research team was able to show that these enclosures actually spread within around 75 years."
history
june 2011 by warrenellis
Tunnel found under temple in Mexico
may 2011 by warrenellis
"Researchers found a tunnel under the Temple of the Snake in the pre-Hispanic city of Teotihuacan, about 28 miles northeast of Mexico City."
history
may 2011 by warrenellis
BBC News - Gazelles caught in ancient Syrian 'killing zones'
april 2011 by warrenellis
"It has long been suspected that the enigmatic stone structures that dot the Syrian landscape were involved in harvesting gazelles."
history
april 2011 by warrenellis
Atomic Deserts: A Survey of the World's Radioactive No-Go Zones - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
april 2011 by warrenellis
"Everyone knows about Chernobyl, Three Mile Island and, now, Fukushima. But what about Semipalatinsk, Palomares and Kyshtym? The world is full of nuclear disaster zones.."
history
eco
zones
april 2011 by warrenellis
Unlocking the past with the West Runton Elephant
march 2011 by warrenellis
"Researchers from the University of York and Manchester have successfully extracted protein from the bones of a 600,000 year old mammoth, paving the way for the identification of ancient fossils."
history
march 2011 by warrenellis
Scientists trace violent death of Iron Age man
march 2011 by warrenellis
"Scientists say that fractures and marks on the bones suggest the man, who was aged between 26 and 45, died most probably from hanging, after which he was carefully decapitated and his head was then buried on its own."
history
march 2011 by warrenellis
Humans arrived in North America 2,500 years earlier than thought | Science | The Guardian
march 2011 by warrenellis
"Humans first arrived in North America more than 2,500 years earlier than previously thought, according to an analysis of ancient stone tools found in Texas. And the people who left them appear to have developed a portable toolkit for killing and preparing meat."
history
march 2011 by warrenellis
BBC News - North Wales hillfort test of Iron Age communication
march 2011 by warrenellis
"An experiment has shed light on how Iron Age people communicated from their hilltop homes 2,500 years ago."
history
comms
march 2011 by warrenellis
God's Wife Edited Out of the Bible -- Almost : Discovery News
march 2011 by warrenellis
"God had a wife, Asherah, whom the Book of Kings suggests was worshiped alongside Yahweh in his temple in Israel, according to an Oxford scholar."
history
cult
march 2011 by warrenellis
Atlantis, Lost City Swamped By Tsunami, May Be Found
march 2011 by warrenellis
"A U.S.-led research team may have finally located the lost city of Atlantis, the legendary metropolis believed swamped by a tsunami thousands of years ago in mud flats in southern Spain."
history
bullshit?
march 2011 by warrenellis
Money as Big Data: Mapping the History of Filthy Lucre
march 2011 by warrenellis
"...allowing for the custom visualization of numismatic data might lead to intuitive leaps in the understanding of history by economists, art historians, classicists and others that both the coins themselves and the data itself would not."
dataviz
history
march 2011 by warrenellis
Dating Anglesey's birth as an island and formation of the Menai Strait
march 2011 by warrenellis
"His research, just published in an academic journal, reveals that the Strait became a permanent feature between 5,800 and 4,600 years ago around the time when hunter-gatherers were replaced by the first farmers in North Wales..."
history
march 2011 by warrenellis
Digital Language Analysis Uncovers Truth of Irish Rebellion
march 2011 by warrenellis
"Using LanguageWare as a basis, the team created a set of digital language analysis tools, including one they called Wordsmith, and used them to understand the creation of propaganda in the aftermath of the 1641 Irish Rebellion..."
history
march 2011 by warrenellis
U B U W E B - Film & Video: Marcel Duchamp - Jeu d'échecs avec Marcel Duchamp (1963)
february 2011 by warrenellis
"This film records an in-depth interview with Duchamp which took place five years before his death, at the time of his first ever one-man show (at the Pasadena Art Museum). It records for posterity Duchamp talking about his life, his ideas on art, why he chose to continue living in America after fleeing France in 1915, and why he virtually abandoned his work as an artist in 1923"
art
video
history
february 2011 by warrenellis
Plant or Animal? Mysterious Fossils Defy Classification - Yahoo! News
february 2011 by warrenellis
Strange fossils, including some that could be predecessors to modern animals, found in China shed new light on the evolution of large, complex organisms, and indicate that they may have diversified earlier than thought.
history
bio
february 2011 by warrenellis
English Russia » Underground World Is Calling
february 2011 by warrenellis
"It still remains unknown who discovered the Kungur Ice Cave. It is cloaked with legends which is actually easy to understand judging from the mysterious atmosphere inside."
history
geo
photography
february 2011 by warrenellis
English Russia » Caves Just Under The Capital City – Syani Stone Mines
february 2011 by warrenellis
"Syani or Syanskie stone mines is a Moscow artificial cave system, where limestone was excavated for the city building."
cities
history
february 2011 by warrenellis
2,000 New Archaeological Sites Found Using Google Earth
february 2011 by warrenellis
"In a number of places, places rich in history and therefor rich in latent archaeological information, it is too hard to dig. Either the politics, terrain or the need to budget makes even educated guesswork prohibitive. But now, an Australian archaeologist has found almost 2,000 new sites in Saudi Arabia using a program that takes less than a minute to download: Google Earth."
history
web
february 2011 by warrenellis
The Nottingham Caves Survey Homepage
february 2011 by warrenellis
"The Nottingham Caves Survey is in the process of recording all of Nottingham’s 450+ sandstone caves. The project is now underway and we are surveying caves even as you read this."
history
geo
february 2011 by warrenellis
English Russia » Destiny Of A Soviet Spaceship
february 2011 by warrenellis
"There were also 4 models of “Buran” spaceship. One of them still rests in Baikonur cosmodrome. In the 1990s it was used by local youth for drinking sessions, so some windows are broken and its general condition is very poor."
space
history
february 2011 by warrenellis
restored ratzer map of new york
february 2011 by warrenellis
"The Brooklyn Historical Society has strikingly restored this beautiful map, an early edition of Bernard Ratzer‘s “Plan of the City of New York” from 1770:"
history
maps
february 2011 by warrenellis
Music and spirituality may be legacies of motherese: expert
january 2011 by warrenellis
"Professor Parncutt said one of the most compelling arguments is that music is based on ‘motherese’, a universal form of sonic and gestural communication between mothers and infants, which probably emerged between one and two million years ago as brain size increased and the gestation period of humans shortened. As infants became increasingly fragile, mother-infant communication became increasingly important for survival..."
history
language
music
january 2011 by warrenellis
Stone tools discovered in Arabia force archaeologists to rethink human history | Science | The Guardian
january 2011 by warrenellis
"A spectacular haul of stone tools discovered beneath a collapsed rock shelter in southern Arabia has forced a major rethink of the story of human migration out of Africa."
history
january 2011 by warrenellis
Not by the Direct Method., Cahokia.
january 2011 by warrenellis
"Anyone who traveled up the Mississippi in 1100 A.D. would have seen it looming in the distance—a four-level earthen mound bigger than the Great Pyramid of Giza."
history
january 2011 by warrenellis
Found Objects: Landscape and Perception
january 2011 by warrenellis
"A research project investigating the sonic properties of the rock outcrops at Preseli in SW Wales, source of the original bluestones transported to Stonehenge."
history
archaeoacoustics
geo
january 2011 by warrenellis
BLDGBLOG: Project Iceworm
january 2011 by warrenellis
"Camp Century—aka "Project Iceworm"—was a "city under ice," according to the U.S. Army, a "nuclear-powered research center built by the Army Corps of Engineers under the icy surface of Greenland," as Frank J. Leskovitz more specifically explains. A fully-functioning "underground city," Camp Century even had its own mobile nuclear reactor—an "Alco PM-2A"—that kept the whole thing lit up and running during the Cold War..."
architecture
history
january 2011 by warrenellis
ancient robots (19 Jan., 2011, at Interconnected)
january 2011 by warrenellis
"Around 450 BC, the ancient Greek island of Rhodes was so well known for its robots that the poet Pindar wrote..."
history
tech
robots
january 2011 by warrenellis
Caligula's tomb found after police arrest man trying to smuggle statue | World news | The Guardian
january 2011 by warrenellis
The lost tomb of Caligula has been found, according to Italian police, after the arrest of a man trying to smuggle abroad a statue of the notorious Roman emperor recovered from the site.
history
january 2011 by warrenellis
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