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Drone use in Peruvian archaeology

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The Met has posted free PDFs of over 500 art books.

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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. 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.

(...) priceless historical treasures can never be completely safeguarded, in Europe, the United States, or anywhere else. Natural disasters and warfare are always a threat. But as culturally insensitive (and politically incorrect) as it may seem, recent events suggest that the best place for many of history's priceless antiquities may indeed be far away from the lands that spawned them.

As the Gadaffi regime continues to massacre citizens, its repression also puts a rich cultural heritage at risk.

Theories about Stonehenge have historically tended to regard it as a stand-alone monument. But an increasingly well-supported view holds that Stonehenge was just part of a much larger ceremonial landscape (...) → VIDEO