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BBC documentary</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/qIvBvnxpm0Q?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mystery Of The Human Hobbit
BBC documentary&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/6229203985</link><guid>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/6229203985</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 00:13:00 +0100</pubDate><category>hobbit</category><category>human_evolution</category><category>video</category></item><item><title>The Neanderthal Genome Project
Interview with S. Paabo</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/GuIRjtZJGmQ?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Neanderthal Genome Project&lt;br/&gt;
Interview with S. Paabo&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/6229024003</link><guid>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/6229024003</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 00:07:00 +0100</pubDate><category>neanderthal</category><category>video</category></item><item><title>Neanderthals Wore Feathers as Fashion Accessories : Discovery News</title><description>&lt;a href="http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/neanderthals-feathers-accessories-110223.html"&gt;Neanderthals Wore Feathers as Fashion Accessories : Discovery News&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;“Neanderthals living in what is now Italy may have used feathers as fashion accessories, according to a study on 44,000-year-old bird bones.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;While investigating Neanderthal remains in the Fumane Cave near Verona in northern Italy, paleoanthropologist Marco Peresani from the University of Ferrara and colleagues discovered 660 bird bones in layers that were dated to around 44,000 years ago.”&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Via Discovery News&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1016212108"&gt;DOI:10.1073/pnas.1016212108&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/3585499769</link><guid>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/3585499769</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 23:10:48 +0000</pubDate><category>neanderthals</category><category>news</category></item><item><title>Child Burial Provides Rare Glimpse of Early Americans</title><description>&lt;a href="http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/02/child-burial-provides-rare-glimp.html?rss=1"&gt;Child Burial Provides Rare Glimpse of Early Americans&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/02/child-burial-provides-rare-glimp.html?rss=1"&gt;Child Burial Provides Rare Glimpse of Early Americans - ScienceNOW&lt;/a&gt;: “About 11,500 years ago, at a seasonal base camp in central Alaska, a 3-year-old child died. Its family burned the small body, perhaps ceremonially, in the house’s central hearth, and then they moved on, never to use the home again.

Last year, archaeologists discovered the remains of the house and burial, providing a rare slice of life of the first Americans. Some aspects of the burial resemble those in both Siberia and North America, but in other respects the new find is completely unique. And it may ultimately reveal any genetic links between these early Alaskans and other so-called Paleoindians in North America.”&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;img src="https://img.skitch.com/20110226-eb5df613i1hsha1hbeid9u7q8t.jpg" alt="Child Burial ScienceMag"/&gt;

DOI:&lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1201581"&gt;10.1126/science.1201581&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/3527665707</link><guid>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/3527665707</guid><pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 23:07:04 +0000</pubDate><category>america</category><category>paleoíndios</category></item><item><title>As múltiplas causas do Dryas Recente (Younger Dryas)</title><description>&lt;p&gt;O Dryas Recente foi um episódio climático frio que decorreu entre 12.800 e 11.500 anos antes do presente (BP) e interrompeu as condições amenas associadas à deglaciação. Os dados apontam para uma transição drástica que pode ter decorrido numa década (&lt;a href="http://www.nature.com/doifinder/10.1038/362527a0"&gt;Alley &lt;em&gt;et al&lt;/em&gt;. 1993&lt;/a&gt;) ou até menos tempo.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.skitch.com/20100401-tsqe9sxb6yc82r2583cbit1dty.jpg" alt="younger dryas"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center" style="font-size:13px"&gt;Fonte: &lt;a href="http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=10136#toc"&gt;Abrupt Climate Change: Inevitable Surprises&lt;/a&gt;, 2002. Figure 1.2&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Há anos que a razão deste arrefecimento é debatida, alternando entre hipóteses de impactos extraterrestres (&lt;a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/104/41/16016.abstract?sid=1949d466-c37f-4833-a118-f6bcc714d3d4"&gt;Firestone &lt;em&gt;et al&lt;/em&gt;. 2007&lt;/a&gt;; argumentos contra em &lt;a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/106/51/21505"&gt;Paquay &lt;em&gt;et al.&lt;/em&gt; 2009&lt;/a&gt;) e de alterações na circulação oceânica.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Esta semana dois trabalhos contribuem com mais duas explicações, uma para cada lado. Ou uma mega-inundação de água gélida nos oceanos Atlântico e Pacífico, resultante do derretimento da gigantesca massa gelada laurentidiana situada no norte do continente americano (Murton &lt;em&gt;et al&lt;/em&gt;. 2010), que terá provocado alterações nas correntes oceânicas e sequentemente no clima global. Ou a queda de milhares de fragmentos de cometa num curtíssimo espaço de tempo, causando um arrefecimento global que pode ter ido até -8ºC (Napier &lt;em&gt;in press&lt;/em&gt;). &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Após ler os dois trabalhos, inclino-me para a primeira hipótese, que se assemelha aliás às propostas bem testadas para o posterior evento de 8.2 anos cal BP (c. 7.250 anos BP; &lt;a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/av85yww1e36wrfwr/"&gt;Von Grafenstein &lt;em&gt;et al.&lt;/em&gt; 1998&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;

Ainda sobre este assunto, refira-se um outro trabalho muito recente, de &lt;a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.02.019"&gt;Broecker e colegas&lt;/a&gt; que sugere que &lt;em&gt;rather than being a freak occurrence, the Younger Dryas is an integral part of the deglacial sequence of events that produced the last termination on a global scale&lt;/em&gt;.

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Referências:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Murton, J.B. &lt;em&gt;et al &lt;/em&gt;(2010) - Identification of Younger Dryas outburst flood path from Lake Agassiz to the Arctic Ocean. &lt;em&gt;Nature&lt;/em&gt;, 464 (7289): 740. DOI: &lt;a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v464/n7289/full/nature08954.html"&gt;10.1038/nature08954&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Sumário:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The melting Laurentide Ice Sheet discharged thousands of cubic kilometres of fresh water each year into surrounding oceans, at times suppressing the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation and triggering abrupt climate change. Understanding the physical mechanisms leading to events such as the Younger Dryas cold interval requires identification of the paths and timing of the freshwater discharges. Although Broecker et al. hypothesized in 1989 that an outburst from glacial Lake Agassiz triggered the Younger Dryas, specific evidence has so far proved elusive, leading Broecker to conclude in 2006 that “our inability to identify the path taken by the flood is disconcerting”. Here we identify the missing flood path—evident from gravels and a regional erosion surface—running through the Mackenzie River system in the Canadian Arctic Coastal Plain. Our modelling of the isostatically adjusted surface in the upstream Fort McMurray region, and a slight revision of the ice margin at this time, allows Lake Agassiz to spill into the Mackenzie drainage basin. From optically stimulated luminescence dating we have determined the approximate age of this Mackenzie River flood into the Arctic Ocean to be shortly after 13,000 years ago, near the start of the Younger Dryas. We attribute to this flood a boulder terrace near Fort McMurray with calibrated radiocarbon dates of over 11,500 years ago. A large flood into the Arctic Ocean at the start of the Younger Dryas leads us to reject the widespread view that Agassiz overflow at this time was solely eastward into the North Atlantic Ocean.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Napier, W. M. (in press) - Paleolithic extinctions and the Taurid Complex. &lt;em&gt;Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.0744"&gt;arXiv:1003.0744v1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Sumário:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Intersection with the debris of a large (50-100&amp;#160;km) short-period comet during the Upper Palaeolithic provides a satisfactory explanation for the catastrophe of celestial origin which has been postulated to have occurred around 12900 BP, and which pre- saged a return to ice age conditions of duration ∼1300 years. The Taurid Complex appears to be the debris of this erstwhile comet; it includes at least 19 of the brightest near-Earth objects. Sub-kilometre bodies in meteor streams may present the greatest regional impact hazard on timescales of human concern. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/489455622</link><guid>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/489455622</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:07:22 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Evolução Humana no Smithsonian</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.skitch.com/20100312-8ntyijwyjumewxxay61igxkhpa.png" alt="Smithsonian Human Origins Program - Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;O Smithsonian Institute lançou um extraordinário &lt;a href="http://humanorigins.si.edu/"&gt;website dedicado à evolução humana&lt;/a&gt;. Fabulosas imagens e textos muito desenvolvidos.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;A ver.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/444090400</link><guid>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/444090400</guid><pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:07:40 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Neanderthal DNA sequence | Nature video</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/videoarchive/neanderthaldna/index.html"&gt;Neanderthal DNA sequence | Nature video&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;Na &lt;a href="http://www.nature.com/"&gt;Nature&lt;/a&gt; pode ser visto um interessante &lt;a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/videoarchive/neanderthaldna/index.html"&gt;vídeo&lt;/a&gt; em 4 partes sobre os recentes trabalhos do &lt;a href="http://www.eva.mpg.de/english/index.htm"&gt;Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology&lt;/a&gt; sobre a sequência do ADN neandertal.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/441022046</link><guid>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/441022046</guid><pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:16:14 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>História genética do 'Homo sapiens' na Current Biology</title><description>&lt;p&gt;A revista &lt;a href="http://www.cell.com/current-biology/"&gt;Current Biology&lt;/a&gt; colocou hoje &lt;em&gt;online&lt;/em&gt; uma série especial de artigos dedicados à história genética do &lt;em&gt;Homo sapiens&lt;/em&gt;, cujo descarregamento é livre.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.skitch.com/20100222-jkucuw9xut89eirkfqp2ryqwdc.png" alt="Current Biology 2010" title="On the cover: NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin walking the lunar surface on July 20, 1969. Though humans have not (yet) settled the moon, lunar exploration marks the pinnacle of the human expansion that began around 60–70 thousand years ago with the exodus from Africa. The reviews in this special issue chart the genetic history of human migrations as well as the impact of selection on shaping the human genome. Photo courtesy of NASA."/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Capa da &lt;em&gt;Current Biology&lt;/em&gt; (v. 20, n. 4)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;A lista é a seguinte:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;li&gt;Editorial: &lt;em&gt;Archaeogenetics — Towards a ‘New Synthesis’?&lt;/em&gt; - Colin Renfrew&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Evolution of Human Genetic and Phenotypic Variation in Africa&lt;/em&gt; - Michael C. Campbell, Sarah A. Tishkoff&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Archaeogenetics of Europe&lt;/em&gt; - Pedro Soares, Alessandro Achilli, Ornella Semino, William Davies, Vincent Macaulay, Hans-Jürgen Bandelt, Antonio Torroni, Martin B. Richards&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Human Genetic History of South Asia&lt;/em&gt; - Partha P. Majumder&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Human Genetic History of East Asia: Weaving a Complex Tapestry&lt;/em&gt; - Mark Stoneking, Frederick Delfin&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Human Genetic History of Oceania: Near and Remote Views of Dispersal&lt;/em&gt; - Manfred Kayser&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Human Genetic History of the Americas: The Final Frontier&lt;/em&gt; - Dennis H. O&amp;#8217;Rourke, Jennifer A. Raff&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Genetics of Human Adaptation: Hard Sweeps, Soft Sweeps, and Polygenic Adaptation&lt;/em&gt; - Jonathan K. Pritchard, Joseph K. Pickrell, Graham Coop&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;hr width="250"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Link: &lt;a href="http://www.cell.com/current-biology/current"&gt;Current Biology&lt;/a&gt;. Trata-se do Volume 20, Issue 4. (2010)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;hr width="250"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Como se pode ver, até dos últimos posts aqui no &lt;em&gt;Estopadas Arqueológicas 2.0&lt;/em&gt;, o tema da genética humana está na moda. :)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/405677345</link><guid>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/405677345</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:05:45 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Inuk: reconstituição de genoma humano com 4000 anos</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Uma das notícias mais badaladas das últimas semanas é a da reconstituição do genoma humano a partir de um tufo de cabelo encontrado em Qeqertasussuk (NW da Gronelândia) numa escavação dos anos 80 e, desde então, conservado num museu. Esse cabelo terá pertencido um indivíduo que fez parte da primeira população humana a estabelecer-se no Ártico do Novo Mundo.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://skitch.com/mjvalente/ni2mu/inuk-location"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.skitch.com/20100217-cbw3bu4fg4n5wx6by8xemmsq8d.preview.jpg" alt="Inuk Location"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Localização do achado na Gronelândia.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Os resultados da sequência genética dizem que o cabelo é de um homem — a quem foi dado o nome de Inuk — de tez morena, cujos ancestrais eram originais da Sibéria. Inuk seria, portanto, descendente das populações que eventualmente migraram para o Novo Mundo entre 6400 e 4400 anos atrás. Trata-se de uma migração desconhecida que terá dado origem à &lt;a href="http://www.natmus.dk/sw18632.asp"&gt;cultura Saqqaq&lt;/a&gt; e que é autónoma das migrações dos ancestrais dos índios americanos e dos Inuit. Ou seja, a população a que pertencia Inuk não deixou descendência entre os grupos indígenas contemporâneos do Novo Mundo.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/25506012@N05/4364432837/" title="Inuk by Nuka K. Godtfredsen by mjoaovalente, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2752/4364432837_2fe152b164_o.jpg" width="276" height="298" alt="Inuk by Nuka K. Godtfredsen"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Imagem hipotética de Inuk, feita por Nuka K. Godtfredsen.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Este estudo marca um importante avanço para a pesquisa arqueológica (e não só) na medida em que aplica uma análise muito mais detalhadas do ADN. Note-se que este nível de detalhe foi possível graças à excelente conservação do material em causa. No caso do ADN de Neandertais, por exemplo, é raríssimo encontrar amostras em tão bom estado.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;hr&gt;&lt;p&gt;Para mais detalhes sobre este estudo podem aceder às seguintes fontes:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Resumo alargado do assunto feito por Alan Boyle (Cosmic Log): &lt;a href="http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2010/02/10/2198747.aspx"&gt;Hairs Trace Human History&lt;/a&gt; (MSNBC).&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Publicação original na Revista Nature: Rasmussen &lt;em&gt;et al&lt;/em&gt;. 2001 - Ancient human genome sequence of an extinct Palaeo-Eskimo. &lt;a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v463/n7282/abs/nature08835.html"&gt;DOI:10.1038/nature08835&lt;/a&gt; (versão pdf com descarregamento livre, algo raro na Nature).&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/394614662</link><guid>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/394614662</guid><pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:38:50 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Subidas e descidas do nível médio do mar no passado mais rápidas do que se pensava</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;cite&gt;More disturbingly, the record suggests that sea level can rise or fall as fast as two meters a century—nearly 12 times as fast as sea level rise in the past 100 years and indicating the potential for a meter of sea-level rise within one human lifetime. &amp;#8220;This has major implications for future concerns with sea-level change,&amp;#8221; says geoscientist Jeffrey Dorale of the University of Iowa, lead author of the new research published in the February 12 issue of Science. &amp;#8220;Our study indicates rapid rates of ice melting and ice formation. The mechanisms underlying these dramatic changes need further consideration as we look to a future of impending climate changes.&amp;#8221;&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Fonte: &lt;a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=sea-caves-reveal-rapid-rise-in-ancient-ocean-levels"&gt;Sea Caves Reveal Rapid Rise in Ancient Ocean Levels&lt;br/&gt;
by David Biello (Scientific American)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Publicação original na Revista Science. &lt;a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/sci;327/5967/860"&gt;DOI: 10.1126/science.1181725&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/389067562</link><guid>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/389067562</guid><pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:23:12 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>"Forget the myths about massive numbers of slaves or Jews building the great pyramids, Egypt’s chief..."</title><description>“Forget the myths about massive numbers of slaves or Jews building the great pyramids, Egypt’s chief archaeologist argues this week. (…)”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ler mais em:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/01/11/egypt-finds-tombs-of-pyramid-builders-and-more-evidence-they-were-free-men/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DiscoverHumanOrigins+%28Discover+Human+Origins%29"&gt;Egypt Finds Tombs of Pyramid Builders, And More Evidence They Were Free Men | 80beats | Discover Magazine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/385997314</link><guid>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/385997314</guid><pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:00:16 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Parecer sobre as condições da Cordoaria Nacional para acolher o Museu Nacional de Arqueologia</title><description>&lt;p&gt;O &lt;em&gt;Parecer sobre as condições geológico-geotécnicas dos terrenos da Cordoaria Nacional (Lisboa)&lt;/em&gt;, realizado pelo Prof. Dr. Carlos Nunes da Costa (datado de Janeiro de 2010), foi recentemente disponibilizado e as notícias não são famosas. Relembro que é neste este local que o Governo pensa instalar o Museu Nacional de Arqueologia (MNA) depois de o retirar do Museu dos Jerónimos (onde se encontra desde 1903), libertando o espaço para expansão do Museu da Marinha.

Ficam aqui duas imagens bem elucidativas da situação geológica (vulnerabilidade sísmica e às inundações) da área da Cordoaria Nacional e um dos parágrafos das conclusões e recomendações finais:

&lt;img src="http://img.skitch.com/20100205-g4wipm8q6t181tfuj6c8782ycx.png" alt="Cordoaria e sismicidade"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.skitch.com/20100205-k2187jwd7s2b7gkgd618r4bwda.png" alt="Cordoaria e inunda败s"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Em conclusão, considera-se que, quer do ponto de vista das condições geológico-geotécnicas, quer no que respeita à exposição a perigos naturais, a localização do MNA no actual edifício da Cordoaria Nacional deveria ser cuidadosamente ponderada, em face da elevada vulnerabilidade que o local comporta actualmente e que deverá condicionar drasticamente o seu uso futuro.
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Escusado será dizer que um museu jamais deveria ser instalado num local como este, muito menos um museu nacional com espólio tão delicado como o arqueológico.

O documento pode ser consultado na íntegra (em formato pdf) &lt;a href="http://www.mnarqueologia-ipmuseus.pt/documentos/Boletim_n_12_P_Cordoaria.pdf"&gt;aqui&lt;/a&gt;.</description><link>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/372964913</link><guid>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/372964913</guid><pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:45:07 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Stephen Hawking: 'a evolução humana actual é a acumulação de conhecimento'</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Uma citação para ler e um link para seguir (e também ler no seu formato completo):&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;(&amp;#8230;) What distinguishes us from our cave man ancestors is the knowledge that we have accumulated over the last ten thousand years, and particularly, Hawking points out, over the last three hundred.
&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8216;I think it is legitimate to take a broader view, and include externally transmitted information, as well as DNA, in the evolution of the human race,&amp;#8217; Hawking said.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the last ten thousand years the human species has  been in what Hawking calls, &amp;#8216;an external transmission phase,&amp;#8217; where the internal record of information, handed down to succeeding generations in DNA, has not changed significantly. &amp;#8216;But the external record, in books, and other long lasting forms of storage,&amp;#8217; Hawking says, &amp;#8216;has grown enormously. Some people would use the term, evolution, only for the internally transmitted genetic material, and would object to it being applied to information handed down externally. But I think that is too narrow a view. We are more than just our genes.&amp;#8217; (&amp;#8230;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Via &lt;a href="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2010/01/stephen-hawking-the-human-species-has-entered-a-new-stage-of-evolution-the-daily-galaxy-top-story-of.html"&gt;Daily Galaxy&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/327060281</link><guid>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/327060281</guid><pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:03:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Heavy Brows, High Art?: Newly Unearthed Painted Shells Show Neandertals Were Homo sapiens's Mental Equals</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=neandertal-art-human"&gt;Heavy Brows, High Art?: Newly Unearthed Painted Shells Show Neandertals Were Homo sapiens's Mental Equals&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;Novidades sobre as capacidades “artísticas” (neste caso na produção de adornos sobre concha) dos Neandertais. O artigo de base, a sair no &lt;a&gt;PNAS&lt;/a&gt; de 11 de Janeiro, ainda não está disponível; contudo a &lt;a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=neandertal-art-human"&gt;Scientific American&lt;/a&gt; faz um bom apanhado das ideias principais. Ressalto esta citação do João Zilhão:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;These discoveries, in combination with earlier findings hinting at Neandertal ornaments and funerary practices, suggest “Neandertals had the same capabilities for symbolism, imagination and creativity as modern humans,” Zilhão says.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Se a capacidade mental dos Neandertais e dos Modernos era equivalente é algo que, na minha opinião, ainda está em debate e longe de esclarecida. É contudo verdade que esta descoberta demostra que os Neandertais estavam longe de ser humanos com capacidades cognitivas e simbólicas básicas.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/324956993</link><guid>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/324956993</guid><pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 11:19:56 +0000</pubDate><category>neanderthal</category></item><item><title>Criança do Lagar Velho: morfologia dentária e a dictomia Neandertal v. Modernos</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/12/22/0914202107.abstract?sid=4dfe2c7f-8bb4-4141-bfce-166187577ec1"&gt;Criança do Lagar Velho: morfologia dentária e a dictomia Neandertal v. Modernos&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;O estudo da dentição da criança do Lagar Velho (i.e. Lapedo) mostra uma morfologia não condicente com a dos típicos Homens Modernos (do Magdalenense). Tal parece indicar que o processo de evolução humana na Europa, na passagem do Paleolítico Médio para o Superior, não deve ser feita com base na dictomia Neandertal v. Modernos, mas sim com base num processo muito mais complexo.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Dizem os autores:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;Some aspects of the dental maturational pattern and tooth endostructural organization of Lagar Velho 1 are absent from extant populations and the Magdalenian specimen and are currently documented only among Neandertals. Therefore, a simple Neandertal versus modern human dichotomy is inadequate to accommodate the morphostructural and developmental variation represented by Middle Paleolithic and earlier Upper Paleolithic populations. These data reinforce the complex nature of Neandertal-modern human similarities and differences, and document ongoing human evolution after the global establishment of modern human morphology.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Fonte:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/12/22/0914202107.abstract?sid=4dfe2c7f-8bb4-4141-bfce-166187577ec1"&gt;Bayle &lt;em&gt;et al.&lt;/em&gt; 2010 - Dental maturational sequence and dental tissue proportions in the early Upper Paleolithic child from Abrigo do Lagar Velho, Portugal. PNAS.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;doi:&lt;a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/12/22/0914202107.abstract"&gt;10.1073/pnas.0914202107&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/324933677</link><guid>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/324933677</guid><pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 10:52:51 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Porquê Lucy?... E para onde vamos?</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Lucy era o fóssil 288. Na grande tenda-laboratório onde marcávamos os fósseis, que não era uma tarefa muito divertida, costumávamos conversar ou ouvir rádio ou cassetes de Bach, Mozart, dos Beatles. Acontece que no dia em que marcámos o osso da bacia e percebemos que era do sexo feminino, estávamos a ouvir Lucy in the sky with diamonds, dos Beatles. A partir daí, 288 passou a chamar-se Lucy, que era, admitamos, uma designação mais elegante.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A ler na &lt;a href="http://jornal.publico.clix.pt/noticia/29-12-2009/vamos-tornarnos--supersapienscabecudosentrevistayves-coppens-18491512.htm"&gt;entrevista do Jornal Público ao Yves Coppens&lt;/a&gt;, onde, entre outras coisas, o investigador nos dá uma versão resumida do modelo que defende para a evolução humana.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/306096846</link><guid>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/306096846</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 12:03:26 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Fonte: New York Times
Inaugurada recentemente no Institute for...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ku8fl4w5Ws1qzwjdno1_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Fonte: &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/11/25/science/112409_ARCH_25.html"&gt;New York Times&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Inaugurada recentemente no Institute for the Study of the Ancient World da New York University, a exposição &lt;a href="http://www.nyu.edu/isaw/exhibitions/oldeurope/"&gt;“The Lost World of Old Europe: the Danube Valley, 5000-3500 B.C.”&lt;/a&gt; é uma daquelas a não perder.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Talvez o MNA a possa trazer a Portugal?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;hr width="500"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ler mais em:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;80beats (Discover Magazine): &lt;a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/12/01/advanced-overlooked-ancient-european-culture-arrives-in-america/"&gt;Advanced, Overlooked Ancient European Culture Arrives in America&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Origins (Science Magazine): &lt;a href="http://blogs.sciencemag.org/origins/2009/11/the-lost-world-of-old-europe-s.html"&gt;The Lost World of Old Europe: See It in New York&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Epoch Times: &lt;a href="http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/25181/"&gt;Lost Artifacts of Old Europe Arrive in New York&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;New York Times: &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/science/01arch.html?pagewanted=1&amp;_r=1"&gt;A Lost European Culture, Pulled From Obscurity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;E, já agora, o &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2009/12/01/science/01arch_graphic.html"&gt;excelente gráfico-síntese&lt;/a&gt; do NYT.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/271692842</link><guid>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/271692842</guid><pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:17:32 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>"(…)
First, Earth’s cryosphere is changing as one would expect in a warming climate...."</title><description>“(…)&lt;br/&gt;
First, Earth’s cryosphere is changing as one would expect in a warming climate. These changes include glacier retreat, thinning and areal reduction of Arctic sea ice, reductions in permafrost and accelerated loss of mass from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. Second, the global sea level is rising. The rise is caused in part by water pouring in from melting glaciers and ice sheets, but also by thermal expansion as the oceans warm. Third, decades of biological data on blooming dates and the like suggest that spring is arriving earlier each year.&lt;br/&gt;
(…)”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v462/n7273/full/462545a.html"&gt;Climatologists under pressure | Nature&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Para quem tem acompanhado a questão da mudança climática e a fuga de informação da Universidade de East Anglia (Grâ-Bretanha), aqui fica um bom ponto da situação: o que é inegável sobre o clima actual e o que esta quebra de segurança nos dados climáticos pode (e deve) significar para os estudos futuros.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/271669780</link><guid>http://estopadasarqueologicas.tumblr.com/post/271669780</guid><pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:44:40 +0000</pubDate><category>climatologia</category></item><item><title>[vídeo] A extinção dos Neandertais</title><description>&lt;p&gt;O website da revista &lt;a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=video-the-mysterious-down"&gt;Scientific American&lt;/a&gt; publicou recentemente um vídeo que tenta resumir uma das actuais teorias explicativas da extinção dos Neandertais. Trata-se de uma explicação principalmente baseada nas alterações climáticas. A ver.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;embed src="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/1399191810" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashvars="videoId=35620919001&amp;amp;linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.scientificamerican.com%2Farticle.cfm%3Fid%3Dvideo-the-mysterious-down&amp;amp;playerId=1399191810&amp;amp;viewerSecureGatewayURL=https://console.brightcove.com/services/amfgateway&amp;amp;servicesURL=http://services.brightcove.com/services&amp;amp;cdnURL=http://admin.brightcove.com&amp;amp;domain=embed&amp;amp;autoStart=false&amp;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;amp;location=embed"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.rtve.es/swf/v2/RTVEPlayer.swf?assetID=562419_es_videos&amp;amp;location=embed" width="400" height="300" name="RTVEPlayer" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&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&amp;#160;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;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></channel></rss>
