The West Tavaputs Plateau agreement is intended to protect the rock art in Utah’s Nine Mile Canyon from the dust and vibrations generated by the Bill Barrett Corporation, which is drilling for natural gas nearby. “This is a first step. I don’t see this as the end, but a chance to make sure details of […]

 Twenty-nine artifacts have been seized by police in southern Iraq before they could be smuggled out of the country. A team of German and Russian scientists has been able to distinguish between 30,000-year-old human mitochondrial DNA taken from the Markina Gora skeleton, unearthed in 1954, and modern contamination from people who had handled the bones.    […]