A group of investigators at the Gutenberg University Mainz, in Germany, is getting ready to conduct one of the most comprehensive researches ever on the evolution of elephant ivory. The work is being carried out in collaboration with national and international partners. What the team is trying to accomplish is find o... |
27 November 2010
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New found archaeological proof seems to indicate the fact that music was an integrated part of the human culture as early as the time when the first modern humans colonized Europe, some 35,000 years ago. Recent finds placed the oldest known instruments less than 30,000 years ago, but the bird-bone and ivory flutes th... |
25 June 2009
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This time, the treasure emerged off the coast of Namibia. The 500-year old ship was filled with tons of copper ingots, elephant tusks, gold coins, coffin-sized timber fragments, plus the cannons. The discovery was made by Namdeb Diamond Corp., a joint venture of the government of Namibia and De Beers. The geologists ... |
6 May 2008
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Mustek is not a huge name in the electronics industry, still it pops out rather interesting portable devices. The small Ivory Mp3 player is just an example in this regard. It is true, the player sports some humble dimensions; still, the makers have managed to pack it with an integrated screen display, enough to allow... |
13 November 2007
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The elephants' fate is in our hands, because we're the ones who influence two main factors menacing their populations: habitat loss and the illegal ivory trade. At the beginning of the 20th century, there were 3-5 million elephants in Africa. Then, the hunt was practiced mainly by the Arab ivory smugglers a... |
5 October 2007
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During Ice Age, the plains of Europe were filled with a savanna-like fauna: elephants (read mammoths), lions and rhinos (even if woolly ones). And this was recorded by even the first Homo sapiens entering Europe. American and German archaeologists have found in southwestern Germany the oldest woolly mammoth-ivory car... |
25 June 2007
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What brings sexual success to an elephant also means its death by human hand, ever since antiquity: their ivory. Now conservationists blame Asian mafias operating in Africa for the recent massive slaughter of elephants (particularly of Central African ones) for their ivory.A recent research made by TRAFFIC, a wildlif... |
14 May 2007
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