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Friday, March 4
March 4, 2011

Thin stone points complete with barbs have been discovered at three different sites on California’s Channel Islands, along with the bones of marine mammals and birds. Scientists say the various points are between 12,200 and 11,400 years old, and support the idea that early seafaring people may have followed a “kelp highway” from Japan, across […]

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Thursday, March 3
March 3, 2011

According to Ahram Online, an armed gang attacked two storehouses at Egypt’s pyramid of Khafre. An inventory of the items in the storehouses will reveal what, exactly, was stolen. Information is hard to come by, but Nature reports that Salah Agab, head of the Libyan Department of Antiquities, says that the country’s archaeological sites and […]

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