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...bones aren't important. Yossi Nagal, the Israel Antiquity Authority's head of anthropology, examined the find, and says it's the remains of two Bedouin women buried about 200 years ago. The Cal State team "got overexcited," says Hanan Eshel, a leader of the Qumran dig and an archaeologist at Tel Aviv's Bar-Ilan University. More important than the bones, says Eshel, is a zinc coffin also found nearby by Dubay and Walker. Zinc has never before been found in burial artifacts from the Essenes' time. That signals an important, probably wealthy person was transported from far away...
...DIED. JIA LANPO, 92, Chinese archaeologist who directed the Peking Man excavation; in Beijing. Over six decades, Jia helped unearth a record 45 Homo erectus fossils from the Zhoukoudian site near Beijing. He discovered the first Chinese hominid fossils dating from the Pleistocene era that began 1.8 million years ago, bolstering the theory that modern Chinese are descended from these early men. DIED. WALLACE REYBURN, 87, war correspondent and author of 25 books, including Rehearsal for Invasion, the first-hand account of the ill-fated Dieppe raid of 1942; in London. A deadpan wit, he raised eyebrows with Flushed with...
...bent can't afford to ignore the precipitous pace of discovery among geneticists, neither can any search for an integrated picture of the past rely on molecular anthropology alone. "Genetics tells us about the travels of human genes - the boy-meets-girl of the story," says Marek Zvelebil, an archaeologist at the University of Sheffield. "But gene exchange is different from language or cultural exchange. Who are we in the long term? There are at least three identities - genetic, linguistic and cultural - and we're all a mix of these...
...there is no reason why it will not. "Thirty or 40 years ago the story of Europe was basically one of watching the covered wagons roll west, full of pottery, wheat and barley, pushing aside the hunter-gatherers," says Clive Gamble, an archaeologist at the University of Southampton. Further back, archaeology was harnessed to political ends, subsumed in Nazi Germany to the dogma of Aryan man, and in most other places in Europe to a kind of manifest destiny...