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  • "Excavated from a limestone cave on the island province of Hainan, the fossils suggest that both the giant pandas and the Giganto apes survived on a mostly bamboo diet, said Huang." ...

    Archive 2007-12-01 2007

  • Excavated with Neal's bomb-defusing help, they appear to be destroyed in a warehouse explosion during the climactic showdown with Adler, but one of the smoking remnants turns out to be Neal's own painting of the Chrysler building, triggering Peter's suspicions of his partner once again.

    Matt's TV Week in Review 2011

  • Excavated in 2006 and 2007, these remains belonged to a racethat lived between 2,900 and 1,400 years ago as evidenced by radiocarbon measurements.

    Meanwhile in Middle Earth… 2008

  • Excavated in 2006 and 2007, these remains belonged to a racethat lived between 2,900 and 1,400 years ago as evidenced by radiocarbon measurements.

    2008 March | ScienceJunkies.com 2008

  • Excavated a couple decades back by Thomas Jacobsen of Indiana University, Franchthi has an amazing sequence, spanning the millennia from end of the Paleolithic through the Neolithic about 5,000 years ago.

    Fish Tales 2009

  • Excavated by Sir Arthur Evans some 80 years ago, it was heavily restored, and today the restoration itself is an artifact.

    Minoans in Manhattan 2008

  • Excavated in the 1970s, this terracotta vessel (2,800-2,500 B.C.), also on view in Beijing University's archaeology museum, has two unusual marks etched near the bottom: an arched line with a dot just above it.

    Interview with Li Boqian 2008

  • Excavated sites have revealed evidence of the earliest human settlement in Australia, the world's oldest evidence of edge-ground axes and pieces of ochre used for painting 25,000 years old.

    Kakadu National Park, Australia 2008

  • Excavated tombs in the chamber with the devotional fresco (The Pontifical Commission of Sacred Archaeology)

    Martyrs or Imperial Guard? 2008

  • Excavated this summer from Block 6, this ring (left) might have been made and lost by a prisoner who never had a chance to send it to his wife.

    Prison Break at Johnson's Island 2008

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