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Conservation of the Warship Mary Rose Continues

Credit: Grethe et al. 2022PORTSMOUTH, ENGLAND--According to a statement released by Diamond Light Source, Eleanor Schofield of the Mary Rose Trust and Donna Arnold of the University of Kent utilized high-tech tools at Diamond Light Source to analyze bricks recuperated from the wreck of Mary Rose, King Henry VIII's wooden battleship that sank during...

Ancient People in India Might Have Buried Their Dead in Gigantic Stone Jars

The enormous stone jars may be linked to mysterious containers discovered in Laos.The first four jar sites were found by British archaeologists in Assam state in 1928. Expeditions to the region by a team of archaeologists since 2014 have discovered six more sites in Assam and neighboring Meghalaya state. Credit: Tilok ThakuriaArchaeologists have found hundreds...

Yorkshire’s ‘Atlantis’ May Ultimately Be Revealed

Repudiate Factor is where the Humber estuary fulfills the North Sea. (Image debt: Mr. Nut/ Alamy Stock Photo).Archaeologists are closing in on a shed middle ages town often described as Yorkshire's "Atlantis.".Excavators are closer than ever to situating a shed medieval town sometimes described as Yorkshire's "Atlantis" beneath the waves.Additionally called Ravenser Odd, the...

19th-Century Whaling Shipwreck Identified in the Gulf of Mexico

This picture of the try-works was drawn from the shipwreck site of the whaler Market by an NOAA ROV. The try-works was a cast-iron stove with two deep kettles utilized to make whale blubber right into the oil. (Picture credit: NOAA Sea Expedition).Indigenous Americans and the descendants of enslaved African individuals functioned as crew...

Sick Dinosaur May Have Had the Earliest Known Cough

Credit: WOODRUFF ET AL. (2022); CORBIN RAINBOLTPeculiar growths on dinosaur neckbones hint at old infectionIt takes much force to cough a loogie up a nearly 4-meter-long neck, but that is what one dinosaur had to do. The Guardian reports that paleontologists have discovered unusual nodules on the neck of a 150-million-year-old sauropod, proof of the...

DNA From Child Burials Shows ‘Exceptionally Different’ Human Landscape in Ancient Africa

People like these Baka hunter-gatherers once ranged well beyond their current homeland in Central Africa. Credit: CYRIL RUOSO/MINDEN PICTURESChildren's skeletons give genomes more than 3000 years oldCentral Africa is far too hot and humid for ancient DNA to survive-- or so scientists assumed. Currently, the bones of four children buried thousands of years earlier...

Worms Frozen for 42,000 Years Come Back to Life

Credit: Ghedoghedo/Wikimedia CommonsPleistocene age worms found in Arctic permafrost live and eat well after being defrosted some 42,000 years later.Two ancient nematodes are moving and eating normally again for the very first time since the Pleistocene age. The roundworms were discovered frozen in the Siberian permafrost and subsequently thawed out and resuscitated in Petri...

Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals Mating Across Groups Led to Human Evolution

Credit: Natural History Museum, construction by the Kennis brothers. Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals Mating Across GroupsHomo Sapiens and Neanderthals Mating Across Groups seem to be a new scientific discovery. Proof that cross-continental Stone Age networking occasions powered human evolution increased in 2021.Homo Sapiens may not have eliminated NeanderthalsA long-lasting argument that Homo sapiens originated...

The Connection of Sociology with Other Social Sciences

Sociology is such a significantly variable area that restricting its interpretation to a couple of words would be an injustice to it. It is among the numerous social sciences that take care of the man and his ventures in society. In contrast, the other sciences are history, geography, philosophy, political science, economics, and even...

Nativism: What is and How it Affects Society

The caricature depicts how nativism affected minority ethnic groups in the United States. Credit: Angelo LopezThe movement refers to the preservation of native culture, as opposed to acculturation. Nativism is an anti-migrant philosophy.Nativism, according to Myron Weiner, is a form of ethnic politics. It is a type of ethnic originality in which persons who...