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&lt;p&gt;&lt;embed src="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/1399191810" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashvars="videoId=35620919001&amp;linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.scientificamerican.com%2Farticle.cfm%3Fid%3Dvideo-the-mysterious-down&amp;playerId=1399191810&amp;viewerSecureGatewayURL=https://console.brightcove.com/services/amfgateway&amp;servicesURL=http://services.brightcove.com/services&amp;cdnURL=http://admin.brightcove.com&amp;domain=embed&amp;autoStart=false&amp;" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" name="flashObj" width="510" height="550" seamlesstabbing="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" swliveconnect="true" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/173854561</link><guid>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/173854561</guid><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:38:29 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Mapa do Magdalenense? (Ou seja... muito antigo!)</title><description>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" id="RTVEPlayer" width="400" height="300"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.rtve.es/swf/v2/RTVEPlayer.swf?assetID=562419_es_videos&amp;location=embed"&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Uma pedra descoberta na Gruta de Abauntz (Arraiz, Navarra), em 1993, pode ter gravado o mais antigo mapa (conhecido) da Europa Ocidental. Recolhida em níveis magdalenenses, a pedra tem as dimensões de 17,5 x 10 x 5,4 cm e pesa pouco menos de 1kg. A datação associada é de 13.600 anos cal BP.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.skitch.com/20090809-cixxmea5qujekgttshr2upedw.png" alt="Cueva Abauntz Map - DN"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Fonte imagem: &lt;a href="http://www.diariodenavarra.es/actualidad/fotosdeldia.asp?id=20090805-navarra-2009080501442451-culturaysociedad&amp;fot=2009080501442451"&gt;Diario de Navarra&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Referência:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Utrilla, P. &lt;em&gt;et al.&lt;/em&gt; (2009) - A palaeolithic map from 13,660 calBP: engraved stone blocks from the Late Magdalenian in Abauntz Cave (Navarra, Spain). JHE, 57:2, pp. 99-111.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2009.05.005"&gt;doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2009.05.005&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sumário:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;An engraved block from the cave of Abauntz is interpreted as a Magdalenian map in which the actual surrounding landscape, including mountains, rivers, and ponds, is represented. Some possible routes or avenues of access to different parts of the geography are also engraved on the landscape. The engraving seems to reproduce the meandering course of a river crossing the upper part of side A of the block, joined by two tributaries near two mountains. One of these is identical to the mountain that can be seen from the cave, with herds of ibex depicted on its hillsides, on both sides of the gorge in front of which the cave of Abauntz is strategically located. In the southern part of the gorge, there is a completely flat area where the watercourses slow down, forming meanders and flooding in springtime. The following elements are also represented on the block: tangles of concentric strokes and bundles of lines forming very marked meanders. In short, all of these engravings could be a sketch or a simple map of the area around the cave. It could represent the plan for a coming hunt or perhaps a narrative story of one that had already happened. This paper is provided in the context of recent discussions on early modern human capacities of spatial awareness, planning, and organized hunting. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/159335052</link><guid>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/159335052</guid><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:23:10 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Lucy — prostituta ou nossa senhora?</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=lucy-on-broadway-discoverer-says-th-2009-07-15"&gt;Lucy — prostituta ou nossa senhora?&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;De quando em quando o Donald Johanson e alguém da família Leakey pegam-se mais ou menos publicamente (a estória é longa e velhíssima). Desta feita foi a propósito da série de exposições que têm como atracção central o esqueleto da Lucy (&lt;i&gt;Australopithecus afarensis&lt;/i&gt;), cujo depósito definitivo é na Etiópia… Johanson advoga a importância das “aparições” do fóssil pelo mundo fora e o Leakey considera que estão a “prostituir” a nossa antiquíssima prima ou antepassada.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Discussão à parte, se eu &lt;a href="http://lucyexhibition.hmns.org/"&gt;estivesse em Nova York&lt;/a&gt; já sei qual seria o programa de uma das minhas tardes: Discovery Times Square Exposition. A Lucy e a Ida (&lt;i&gt;Darwinius masillae&lt;/i&gt;) juntas num local apenas? I’m on. Seja esse local um bordel ou uma capela das aparições.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/142716294</link><guid>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/142716294</guid><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:24:19 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Music from 40,000 years ago (via ReutersVideo)

Vídeo sobre a já...</title><description>&lt;object width="400" height="336"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/B_ihF6keN8s&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/B_ihF6keN8s&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Music from 40,000 years ago (via &lt;a href="http://youtube.com/user/ReutersVideo"&gt;ReutersVideo&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Vídeo sobre a já famosa &lt;a href="http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/130076978/new-flutes-document-the-earliest-musical-tradition-in"&gt;flauta&lt;/a&gt; recuperada na gruta de Hohle Fels.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/134145885</link><guid>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/134145885</guid><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:38:33 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Stonehenge no seu melhor: o lixo do solstício</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Até fiquei mal disposta quando vi isto… O resultado de uma mega-festa de solstício em Stonehenge.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.skitch.com/20090629-mhjuitqc75gb5bun6tg7999h9u.jpg" alt="Stonehenge e o lixo"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Não que eu tenha uma infinita estima por Stonehenge (sempre achei a sua importância um pouco empolada). Mas mesmo assim… é preciso não esquecer que Stonehenge é Património Mundial. Sem mais comentários.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Notícia (e foto) original no &lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1194470/Stonehenge-left-littered-rubbish-36-500-revellers-descend-ancient-site-summer-solstice.html?ITO=1490"&gt;Daily Mail&lt;/a&gt;. (via TYWKIWDBI)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/132188119</link><guid>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/132188119</guid><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:30:17 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>New flutes document the earliest musical tradition in southwestern Germany (Nature)</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature08169.html"&gt;New flutes document the earliest musical tradition in southwestern Germany (Nature)&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Considerable debate surrounds claims for early evidence of music in the archaeological record. Researchers universally accept the existence of complex musical instruments as an indication of fully modern behaviour and advanced symbolic communication but, owing to the scarcity of finds, the archaeological record of the evolution and spread of music remains incomplete. Although arguments have been made for Neanderthal musical traditions and the presence of musical instruments in Middle Palaeolithic assemblages, concrete evidence to support these claims is lacking. Here we report the discovery of bone and ivory flutes from the early Aurignacian period of southwestern Germany. These finds demonstrate the presence of a well-established musical tradition at the time when modern humans colonized Europe, more than 35,000 calendar years ago. Other than the caves of the Swabian Jura, the earliest secure archaeological evidence for music comes from sites in France and Austria and post-date 30,000 years ago.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature08169.html"&gt;DOI:10.1038/nature08169&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height="341" width="500" alt="Flauta de Hohle Fels" src="http://img.skitch.com/20090625-ju9fkgnqfi82b6w9iqmbekght9.jpg"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gjlhuiV8Ebp72c_6bYVyKd529oQgD9917URG2"&gt;Fonte da Imagem&lt;/a&gt; (e mais texto sobre a flauta)&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Note-se que a suposta &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divje_Babe"&gt;“flauta” de Divje Babe&lt;/a&gt; (Eslovénia), apesar de contextualmente atribuída ao Mustierense e aos Neandertais (mais antiga, portanto), é particularmente controversa. Entre outros, &lt;a href="http://www.svf.uib.no/sfu/blombos/pdf/11.%20FDE%20et%20al%20Origins%20symbol%20JWP%202003.pdf"&gt;D’Errico e colegas (pdf) &lt;/a&gt;consideram que os seus orifícios se devem muito provavelmente a agentes carnívoros, não se tratando de um instrumento musical.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/130076978</link><guid>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/130076978</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:58:10 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Neandertal submerso na Holanda</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Scientists have identified a fragment of Neanderthal skull in sediments extracted from the bottom of the North Sea, (…). This is the oldest human bone discovered underwater, and it gives scientists clues about humans living in northern Europe during the last ice age. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;The skull fragment, which probably belonged to a young adult male, was found with animal remains and artefacts. They were dredged up 15km off the coast of the Netherlands in an area called Zeeland Ridges, part of the now submerged ‘Doggerland’.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;(…)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;It matched most closely remains from France that belonged to Neanderthals living roughly &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;50-60,000 years ago&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Fonte: &lt;a href="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2009/june/neanderthal-of-the-north-sea.html"&gt;NHM&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.eva.mpg.de/english/press/PMs_eng/News_NorthSeaFossil.pdf"&gt;Comunicado oficial&lt;/a&gt; (pdf).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height="303" width="429" alt="Fragmento de crâneo de Neandertal" src="http://w3.ualg.pt/~mvalente/pictures/neanderthal_netherlands.png" align="middle" border="2"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Foto: National Museum of Antiquities (Leiden, NL)&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Tivéssemos nós dinheiro para fazer prospecções subaquáticas continuadas…  Este achado será brevemente publicado no &lt;a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00472484"&gt;Jornal of Human Evolution&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/125811110</link><guid>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/125811110</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:58:49 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>6ª Edição do Curso Livre de História do Algarve</title><description>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://w3.ualg.pt/~mvalente/Website_DHAP/VI_CLHA_cartaz.jpg"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;A realizar durante o mês de Julho no Campus de Gambelas da Universidade do Algarve.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Webpage oficial &lt;a href="http://cursohistoriaalgarve.wordpress.com/"&gt;aqui&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/125161260</link><guid>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/125161260</guid><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:02:46 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Viva o (novo e mais antigo) Quaternário!</title><description>&lt;a href="http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/603/1?rss=1"&gt;Viva o (novo e mais antigo) Quaternário!&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;On 21 May, the final committee vote on the question was announced: The quaternarists will endure. Pending an almost certain ratification by the ultimate authority—the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS)—the Quaternary will officially take over the past 2.6 million years of the geologic time scale, when humans took up tools and the world began slipping in and out of the ice ages. &lt;/i&gt;(Via ScienceNow)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Para os mais desatentos: ficam a saber que a manutenção do termo Quaternário esteve em causa ao longo dos últimos anos. Isto porque, do ponto de vista geológico, o período tem poucas razões de existir independentemente do Terciário. Contudo, para nós, arqueólogos, a palavra (e a divisão) Quaternário significa, essencialmente, a época humana (daí ser por vezes chamado de Antropocénico), sendo, por conseguinte, um termo que nos é muito querido.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ora, segundo estas notícias, não só o período Quaternário se vai manter, como temos ainda a novidade do período recuar até parte do anterior Pliocénico (2.6 milhões de anos) e não apenas ao princípio do antigo Plistocénico (1.8 milhões de anos). Ou seja, o novo Plistocénico situa-se agora entre 2.6 milhões de anos e 10 mil anos BP (ver &lt;a href="http://www.quaternary.stratigraphy.org.uk/correlation/GSAchron09.jpg"&gt;Escala do Tempo Geológico&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Quanto mais velho melhor, não? (O velho lema dos arqueólogos, já dizia Agatha Christie.)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/120803841</link><guid>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/120803841</guid><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:06:00 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>"One of science’s most puzzling mysteries - the disappearance of the Neanderthals - may have..."</title><description>“One of science’s most puzzling mysteries - the disappearance of the Neanderthals - may have been solved. Modern humans ate them, says a leading fossil expert. The controversial suggestion follows publication of a study in the Journal of Anthropological Sciences about a Neanderthal jawbone apparently butchered by modern humans. Now the leader of the research team says he believes the flesh had been eaten by humans, while its teeth may have been used to make a necklace.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/may/17/neanderthals-cannibalism-anthropological-sciences-journal"&gt;How Neanderthals met a grisly fate: devoured by humans | Science | The Observer (The Guardian)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;O artigo do &lt;i&gt;The Guardian&lt;/i&gt; parece-me uma generalização especulativa… mas os dados de base são muito interessantes e o artigo publicado no &lt;i&gt;Journal of Anthropological Sciences&lt;/i&gt; vai ser lido atentamente.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Fonte:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.isita-org.com/jass/Contents/ContentsVol87.htm"&gt;Rozzi &lt;i&gt;et al&lt;/i&gt;. 2009 - Cutmarked human remains bearing Neandertal features and modern human remains associated with the Aurignacian at Les Rois. Journal of Anthropological Sciences, v. 87, pp. 153-185&lt;/a&gt;. (versão pdf disponibilizada)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/108984700</link><guid>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/108984700</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 12:00:28 +0100</pubDate><category>neandertal</category><category>canibalismo</category></item><item><title>Máquina capaz de digitalizar 2.400 páginas por hora chega a Portugal</title><description>&lt;a href="http://ultimahora.publico.clix.pt/noticia.aspx?id=1378955&amp;idCanal=10"&gt;Máquina capaz de digitalizar 2.400 páginas por hora chega a Portugal&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;No Público.pt:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Uma máquina capaz de digitalizar 2.400 páginas por hora sem intervenção humana foi introduzida esta semana em Portugal, pela empresa Meiostec. O serviço já tem como clientes o Instituto de Meteorologia e Geofísica e &lt;b&gt;o Museu de Arqueologia&lt;/b&gt;. Criado pela empresa internacional Kirtas, o “Bookscan APT 2400”, incorpora um braço robótico que vai folheando as páginas dos livros utilizando um sistema de vácuo que, assegura a Meiostec, torna o processo “mais suave do que com a mão humana”. As páginas vão sendo fotografadas por duas câmaras Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III, com 21.1 megapixel cada, sendo depois submetidas a um software que faz a parametrização do formato das imagens. (…)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Belíssima aposta do MNA. :)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/104277191</link><guid>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/104277191</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 20:59:36 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>E se os 'Modernos' copiaram o 'Hobbit'? </title><description>&lt;a href="http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/417/3"&gt;E se os 'Modernos' copiaram o 'Hobbit'? &lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;Finalmente algo realmente interessante no mundo da pré-história antiga. (Convenhamos que as últimas notícias não foram realmente *novidades*).&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;A análise à tecnologia lítica dos instrumentos de Liang Bua Cave (Ilha das Flores, Indonésia), onde foram encontrados níveis de ocupação pelo &lt;em&gt;Homo floresiensis&lt;/em&gt; (o famoso &lt;em&gt;Hobbit&lt;/em&gt;) sobrepostos por níveis de ocupação do &lt;em&gt;Homo sapiens sapiens&lt;/em&gt; (mais recentes, portanto), sugere que as duas espécies tinham tecnologia similar e que essa tecnologia pode derivar de contactos entre ambas e sequente imitação tecnológica.&lt;/p&gt;


&lt;blockquote&gt;Thousands of small, sharp-edged flakes of volcanic tuff and chert have been unearthed from the cave of the “hobbit,” the roughly 1-meter-tall ancient human found on the island of Flores in Indonesia. The stone tools have puzzled researchers: How could a hominid with a brain the size of a grapefruit craft tools? Now a detailed analysis sheds light on the hobbit’s technological capabilities and raises a new mystery: Why did the modern humans who arrived later on Flores make tools the same way hobbits did?

&lt;p&gt;(…) Excavators have unearthed hobbit bones in cave layers dated to between 17,000 and 95,000 years ago. These older layers lie beneath a layer of volcanic tuff dated to 12,000 years ago. Above that layer, at 11,000 years and younger, researchers have found Holocene burials of Homo sapiens along with more tools.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Moore’s team analyzed the shapes of flakes, the position of scars left when flakes were struck off a stone, and other details to reconstruct the sequence of blows struck to make the tools. In a paper now in press at the Journal of Human Evolution, they report that hominids knapped stone in the same, simple way throughout the roughly 100,000 years represented in the cave layers. (…) &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Moore concludes that the hobbit, H. floresiensis, made the older tools, and then H. sapiens arrived and made similar tools. He even suggests that there was contact between the species, with modern humans copying H. floresiensis toolmakers before they went extinct: (…)&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Estou muito interessada em ler este artigo, que certamente irá mexer com algumas mentes mais cépticas. Por mim, ainda não tenho opinião formada sobre o assunto, mas não ficarei totalmente surpresa se a hipótese acima defendida por Mark Moore (University of New England, Armidale, Australia) e colegas se vier, de futuro, a confirmar.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Fonte: &lt;a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&amp;_udi=B6WJS-4W1SGCM-1&amp;_user=1671004&amp;_rdoc=1&amp;_fmt=&amp;_orig=search&amp;_sort=d&amp;view=c&amp;_acct=C000050221&amp;_version=1&amp;_urlVersion=0&amp;_userid=1671004&amp;md5=7f037940b962d1b8f1b1d4b5dd334519"&gt;Moore, M. et al. (2009) - Continuities in stone flaking technology at Liang Bua, Flores, Indonesia. Journal of Human Evolution, in press.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;DOI: &lt;a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&amp;_udi=B6WJS-4W1SGCM-1&amp;_user=1671004&amp;_rdoc=1&amp;_fmt=&amp;_orig=search&amp;_sort=d&amp;view=c&amp;_acct=C000050221&amp;_version=1&amp;_urlVersion=0&amp;_userid=1671004&amp;md5=7f037940b962d1b8f1b1d4b5dd334519"&gt;10.1016/j.physletb.2003.10.071 &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/98269766</link><guid>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/98269766</guid><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:46:23 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Grupos de neandertais? 1, 2... 3!</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Since the 1950s paleoanthropological studies have suggested variability in this group. Different sub-groups have been identified in western Europe, in southern Europe and in the Middle East. On the other hand, since 1997,&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt; research has been published in paleogenetics, carried out on 15 mtDNA sequences from 12 Neanderthals. In this paper we used a new methodology derived from different bioinformatic models based on data from genetics, demography and paleoanthropology. The adequacy of each model was measured by comparisons between simulated results (obtained by BayesianSSC software) and those estimated from nucleotide sequences (obtained by DNAsp4 software). The conclusions of this study are consistent with existing paleoanthropological research and show that Neanderthals can be divided into at least three groups: one in western Europe, a second in the Southern area and a third in western Asia.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Acabou de ser publicado, no PLoS ONE, um trabalho de Fabre, Condemi e Degioanni sobre 12 sequências de ADN mitocôndrial de fósseis neandertais, datados de entre 100 e 29 mil anos BP.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Os resultados reforçam a hipótese (já defendida por outros investigadores na área da paleoantropologia) da população neandertal se poder dividir em, pelo menos, três grupos distintos: um na Europa Ocidental, outro na Europa Meridional e outro ainda na Ásia Ocidental.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;O único fóssil ibérico analisado provêm de El Sidron, na Cantábria, e é atribuído ao grupo da Europa Ocidental (tal como os exemplares Franceses). À Europa Meridional pertencem os exemplares italianos e croatas.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;De futuro será interessante a inclusão de restos do Sul da Ibéria neste tipo de análise.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Fonte: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0005151"&gt;Fabre, V.; Condemi, S.; Degioanni, A. (2009) - &lt;i&gt;Genetic Evidence of Geographical Groups among Neanderthals&lt;/i&gt;. PLoS ONE 4(4):       e5151.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;DOI:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0005151"&gt;10.1371/journal.pone.0005151&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/96922021</link><guid>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/96922021</guid><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:05:00 +0100</pubDate><category>neandertal</category><category>ADN</category></item><item><title>"A divulgação do património e sensibilização de jovens para a sua conservação são objectivos das..."</title><description>“A divulgação do património e sensibilização de jovens para a sua conservação são objectivos das Oficinas de Arqueologia organizados pelo Centro de Investigação e Informação do Património de Cacela, que incluem visitas ao túmulo megalítico de Santa Rita. (…)”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;In: &lt;a href="http://www.barlavento.online.pt/index.php/noticia?id=32268"&gt;Barlavento - Jornal de Informação Regional do Algarve&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/95416171</link><guid>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/95416171</guid><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 12:38:48 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Canibalismo pelos Neandertais? Talvez não — Scientific American Blog</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=neandertal-cannibalism-maybe-not-2009-04-02"&gt;Canibalismo pelos Neandertais? Talvez não — Scientific American Blog&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Scientists have long argued that Neandertal remains from the site of Krapina in northern Croatia exhibit evidence of cannibalism. The fragmentary nature of the bones, along with cut marks on a number of fragments, were said to be signs that our closest relatives feasted on one another. But a new study suggests that the nicks seem to be the result of much more recent handiwork. &lt;/i&gt;(…)&lt;i&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Interessantes observações, a verificar no artigo em revista especializada quando ele for publicado.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Nota extra: não é necessário andarmos todos aos pulos com a questão do canibalismo dos Neandertais (quais selvagens que se deseja que eles fossem)… até porque o canibalismo está bem atestado nos &lt;i&gt;Homo sapiens sapiens&lt;/i&gt; (i.e., nós).&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/92709795</link><guid>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/92709795</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 23:52:09 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Domesticação do milho: pelo menos há 8.700 anos</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Maize was domesticated from its wild ancestor more than 8,700 years according to biological evidence uncovered by researchers in the Mexico’s Central Balsas River Valley. This is the earliest dated evidence — by 1,200 years — for the presence and use of domesticated maize.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;— &lt;/i&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.temple.edu/newsroom/2008_2009/03/stories/balsas_teosinte.htm"&gt;Temple University&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Referências:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ranere, A. et al. (2009) - The Cultural and chronological context of early Holocene maize and squash domestication in the Central Balsas River Valley, Mexico. PNAS, March 23. &lt;a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/03/20/0812590106.abstract"&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Piperno, D. et al. (2009) - Starch grain and phytolith evidence for early ninth millennium B.P. maize from the Central Balsas River Valley, Mexico. PNAS, March 23. &lt;a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/03/20/0812525106"&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/89326371</link><guid>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/89326371</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:41:31 +0000</pubDate><category>domesticação</category><category>milho</category></item><item><title>O fim da Battlestar Galactica e a teoria da Eva Mitocondrial | Mac ao Quadrado</title><description>&lt;a href="http://macaoquadrado.com/2009/03/o-fim-da-battlestar-galactica-e-a-teoria-da-eva-mitocondrial/"&gt;O fim da Battlestar Galactica e a teoria da Eva Mitocondrial | Mac ao Quadrado&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;No meu outro blogue, resolvi falar deste tema. Porque a Battlestar Galactica (remake) foi uma série fora do comum… inclusive no seu fim.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/89054467</link><guid>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/89054467</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:31:50 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>"Manuel Maria Carrilho afirma que a política do Governo para a cultura pode causar danos..."</title><description>“Manuel Maria Carrilho afirma que a política do Governo para a cultura pode causar danos irreversíveis. O antigo ministro lamenta a falta de atenção do Executivo no que entende ser uma legislatura perdida.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://tsf.sapo.pt/PaginaInicial/Portugal/Interior.aspx?content_id=1177755"&gt;Manuel Maria Carrilho lamenta política do Governo para cultura - TSF&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Seja qual for a razão (altruista ou interesseira), o Manuel Maria Carrilho tem toda a razão.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/88472572</link><guid>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/88472572</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 14:10:33 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>"Arrancam esta quinta-feira, dia 19, sondagens do tipo geoarqueológico, na Rua da Barroca, trabalho a..."</title><description>“Arrancam esta quinta-feira, dia 19, sondagens do tipo geoarqueológico, na Rua da Barroca, trabalho a ser desenvolvido no âmbito da obra de Requalficação da Frente Ribeirinha que está a decorrer em Lagos, desde Abril de 2008.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;In &lt;a href="http://www.barlavento.online.pt/index.php/noticia?id=31487"&gt;Barlavento - Jornal de Informação Regional do Algarve&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/87958625</link><guid>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/87958625</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:45:29 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>PUBLICO.PT - Governo cria fundo para protecção do património</title><description>&lt;a href="http://ultimahora.publico.clix.pt/noticia.aspx?id=1369947"&gt;PUBLICO.PT - Governo cria fundo para protecção do património&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;Parecem ser boas novas, mas tendo em conta as tristes notícias que recentemente têm afectados o património cultural (e arqueológico) português, estou como São Tomé: preciso de ver para crer.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Os diplomas, que tenho ainda que ler, são:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1. Decreto-Lei que cria o Fundo de Salvaguarda do Património Cultural.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;2. Decreto-Lei que estabelece o regime jurídico dos estudos, projectos, relatórios, obras ou intervenções sobre bens culturais classificados, ou em vias de classificação, de interesse nacional, de interesse público ou de interesse municipal.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;3. Decreto-Lei que estabelece o regime jurídico de salvaguarda do património cultural imaterial.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Se arranjar os links dos diplomas, coloco-os aqui. Entretanto podem saber mais no &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.portugal.gov.pt/Portal/PT/Governos/Governos_Constitucionais/GC17/Conselho_de_Ministros/Comunicados_e_Conferencias_de_Imprensa/20090319.htm"&gt;Portal do Governo&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/87949267</link><guid>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/87949267</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
