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		<title>Digging for the treasures American paratroopers left behind</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Archaeologists are hoping to give American World War Two paratroopers a glimpse of some of the personal belongings their regiment left behind when veterans return to the site of their camp at Wollaton Park in Nottingham on Tuesday June 9 2009.]]></description>
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		<title>Archeological evidence of human activity found beneath the Great Lakes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than 100 feet deep in Lake Huron, on a wide stoney ridge that 9,000 years ago was a land bridge, University of Michigan researchers have found the first archeological evidence of human activity preserved beneath the Great Lakes.]]></description>
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		<title>6000-year-old tombs discovered</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A prehistoric complex including two 6,000-year-old tombs representing some of the earliest monuments built in Britain has been discovered by a team led by a Kingston University archaeologist. Dr Helen Wickstead and her colleagues were stunned and delighted to find the previously undiscovered Neolithic tombs, also known as long barrows at a site at Damerham, Hampshire.]]></description>
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		<title>Inca civilization human sacrifices discovered in Peru</title>
		<link>http://www.astigan.com/2009/06/05/inca-civilization-human-sacrifices-discovered-in-peru/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[chile]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Excavations in northern Peru have found nearly three dozen people sacrifices about 600 years ago by the Incan civilization. ]]></description>
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		<title>New &#8216;molecular clock&#8217; aids dating of human migration history</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers at the University of Leeds have devised a more accurate method of dating ancient human migration – even when no corroborating archaeological evidence exists.]]></description>
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		<title>High population density triggers cultural explosions</title>
		<link>http://www.astigan.com/2009/06/05/high-population-density-triggers-cultural-explosions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:32:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Increasing population density, rather than boosts in human brain power, appears to have catalyzed the emergence of modern human behavior]]></description>
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		<title>Serbian archaeologists discover a million years old mammoth</title>
		<link>http://www.astigan.com/2009/06/05/serbian-archaeologists-discover-a-million-years-old-mammoth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Archaeologists working on a site located in eastern Serbia have unearthed the well-preserved skeleton of a mammoth. Experts consider them to be a million years old.]]></description>
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		<title>Neandertals sophisticated and fearless hunters</title>
		<link>http://www.astigan.com/2009/05/20/neandertals-sophisticated-and-fearless-hunters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 18:44:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[neanderthal hunter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Neandertals, the 'stupid' cousins of modern humans were capable of capturing the most impressive animals. This indicates that Neandertals were anything but dim.]]></description>
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		<title>Fire and water reveal new archaeological dating method</title>
		<link>http://www.astigan.com/2009/05/20/fire-and-water-reveal-new-archaeological-dating-method/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 18:41:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists at The University of Manchester have developed a new way of dating archaeological objects – using fire and water to unlock their 'internal clocks'.]]></description>
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		<title>The Collosal Ancient Statues of Mount Nemrut</title>
		<link>http://www.astigan.com/2009/05/01/the-collosal-ancient-statues-of-mount-nemrut/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 09:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the summit of Nemrut Dag, magnificent remains of collosal statues remind of the kingdom’s religious beliefs and the greatness of a king]]></description>
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