Antarctica was Likely Discovered 1,100 Years before Westerners 'Found' It - Live Science

"The first humans to discover Antarctica weren't seafaring Westerners but rather Polynesians, who found the coldest continent 1,300 years ago, a new study suggests." Thus Laura Geggel summarizes the import of a New Zealand study that utilized Maori oral histories and helps further rectify a still-largely Western European narrative for south Pacific exploration. Clare Watson posts a memorable title for an important advance in understanding with Unique Gut Bug Study Untangles Early Human Migration From Siberia Into The Americas. Studying the genetic history of a bacterium infecting 50 percent of people can complement human DNA studies charting human movements into the "New World." Bipin Dimri discusses some Scientific Evidence for the Many Myths of the Great Flood. While Dimri focuses on circum-Mediterranean flood myths with a nod to Hindu mythology and Black Sea scientific data, the embedded video extends the discussion to China. The Aztecs also have a frightening flood myth. From large-scale geologic and human events in the distant past there's a more recent and individual tragic mystery as a 300-year-old Girl Buried with Finch in Her Mouth Puzzles Archaeologists. Owen Jarus reports how a fuller analysis of a 1960s find produced the dating and some conception of where the 10-to-12-year-old had come from and possibly why. Yet unanswered questions remain about the odd nature of her burial. And Martin J. Clemens covers "a burgeoning field of study relating to analysing the acoustic properties of ancient megalithic sites and Neolithic caves" in Archaeoacoustics: Adding another Dimension to History. (WM)

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