Weekly Science Report

January 10, 2020

 
“History teaches us that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is
cheap.”
Ronald Reagan
 

Introduction
 
Steve Detwiler created this publication with the support of Graham Hancock and the late John
Anthony West to share news and information on various disciplines to include but not limited to
paleontology, space sciences, genetics and archaeology.  His goal behind sharing this publication
has always been very simple, by sharing knowledge we can make our world a better place.  This
publication is Mr. Detwiler’s contribution to bring people together and share ideas and discoveries
with his fellow humans.
 
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News Articles
 
Paleontology, Evolution and Prehistoric Studies
 
Early humans revealed to have engineered optimized stone tools at Olduvai Gorge
https://phys.org/news/2020-01-early-humans-revealed-optimized-stone.html?fbclid=IwAR0-
NeW2HcQFrHMAsjPY7OTG2NuklEAnoCOmzKV63nCPPHDMQY6HSBd05JA
 
Giant Chinese paddlefish declared extinct after surviving 150 million years
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/giant-chinese-paddlefish-declared-extinct-in-china-as-human-
presence-kills-off-an-ancient-species/
 
DNA from Stone Age woman obtained 6,000 years on
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-50809586
 
New Dates for Arrival of Homo erectus in Southeast Asia
https://www.archaeology.org/news/8347-200110-homo-erectus-chronology
 
MU scientists find oldest-known fossilized digestive tract -- 550 million years
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/uom-msf011020.php
 
Always counterclockwise
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/ku-ac010920.php
 
 
 
 
 

History
 
Ghent Altarpiece Restorations Reveal the Alarmingly Humanoid Face of the Famous Mystic Lamb
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ghent-altarpiece-restorations-reveal-alarmingly-
humanoid-face-famous-mystical-lamb-180973846/
 
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Announce Shocking Move to 'Step Back as Senior Members of
Royal Family'
https://people.com/royals/prince-harry-and-meghan-markle-announce-shocking-move-to-step-back-
as-senior-members-of-royal-family/?
utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social-share-
article&utm_content=20200108&utm_term=7554552&fbclid=IwAR2dRvMnDfBZuIuaqvj6rsx0-
qgrV_LdM5xuwpKz6jl_mhoK1gZev_RX1F8
 
A scandal in Oxford: the curious case of the stolen gospel
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/jan/09/a-scandal-in-oxford-the-curious-case-of-the-stolen-
gospel?CMP=share_btn_fb&fbclid=IwAR1wNID6GBaT12_AauermPQjJf-
mImG04uCGVO0UXXLSijTX_6DVyY71GKQ
 
Why the U.S. Sent Librarians Undercover to Gather Intelligence During World War II
https://time.com/5752115/world-war-ii-librarians/?amp=true&__twitter_impression=true
 
A Forward-Thinking Approach to Preserving Our Past
https://gentry.goldenstate.is/a-forward-thinking-approach-to-preserving-our-past/
 
Senate confirms KC’s Crosby Kemper III for federal post; Library needs new director
https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article239141888.html?
fbclid=IwAR1P2Pdvxl_FmuBGpPvopnS6T8i04Dh2m8MxUtu1OqZPE3ClZMAWrjB9lgA
 
‘Hate and its Impact’ discussed at U.S. Holocaust Museum program in Boca
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/florida-jewish-journal/palm/fl-jj-boca-raton-ushmm-anti-semitism-
program-2020015-20200110-jsajapkaxzh6dfvlns2gxiophu-story.html?
fbclid=IwAR2e3Twca4EMPEIL1a91pgRyYhDn_7ZidjkAM3khpfO2dbo-7SyRnD1nkAc
 
Iran and America: A forgotten friendship
https://theconversation.com/iran-and-america-a-forgotten-friendship-99350

Ancient monkey painting suggests Bronze Age Greeks

travelled widely
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2227146-ancient-
monkey-painting-suggests-bronze-age-greeks-travelled-widely/
#ixzz67timcCrJ
 
New Thoughts on Translation of Viking Runestone
https://www.archaeology.org/news/8344-200109-sweden-viking-runes

Archaeology
 
Skeletons Unearthed in Connecticut May Belong to Revolutionary War Soldiers
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/skeletons-likely-revolutionary-war-soldiers-found-
connecticut-180973931/?
utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia&fbclid=IwAR2r6X7NG7-
EVOTY0Hbg96JjYsJhDOxDIonK_BvDflOhqDqkopi-3_rIuhM
 
A perfect storm: An archaeological management crisis in the Mississippi River Delta
https://parks.berkeley.edu/psf/?
p=1651&fbclid=IwAR3GWemZCoJFFYB1tNGq2lPeZXwDkopgyNJUAoNd9HSBWO9R-
ZmA0hRsUcg
 
The Pentagon Has Rejected Trump’s Threat to Bomb Iran’s Heritage Sites. Here’s What May Have
Been Saved
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/pentagon-trump-iran-cultural-sites-1747071?
fbclid=IwAR09MQ21PAPR5kyK4S4GN0FYFMnrCh005f6T6YcW2bEcLMQ6thHse5HYs-
A#.XhYMnG9KE-c.facebook
 
Archaeologists Excavate 200 More Chinese Terracotta Warriors
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/200-more-terracotta-warriors-excavated-china-
180973900/?linkId=80171223
 
In a Rare Political Gesture, the Met Speaks Out Against Trump’s Threats to Iranian Cultural Sites,
Calling Such Targeting ‘Abhorrent’
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/rare-political-gesture-met-released-statement-speaking-trumps-
threats-iran-1746549?
utm_content=buffer3a788&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=new
s&fbclid=IwAR2lD6V6LNlARuQiXcMyfwFPd0-GODnt6WohNPC-nvbfdqUacLDlUwz37jo
 
17-year-old high school student discovers rare new planet 3 days into NASA internship
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-planet-toi-1338-b-discovered-by-nasa-intern-wolf-cukier-tess-
satelitte/?ftag=CNM-00-
10aab6a&linkId=80395607&fbclid=IwAR2WmxDvZv5xDLxygFuuJRpEbFSBBCviPqK2CEZLL
GHxTnWwpnxD9KtbUp4
 
Shinneckock Indian Nation seeks halt to construction on sacred ground
http://longisland.news12.com/story/41518075/shinneckock-indian-nation-seeks-halt-to-
construction-on-sacred-ground?
utm_content=buffer3b3c5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
 
Priceless Treasures and Their Shaky Pedestals
https://harvardpolitics.com/world/art-museum-repatriation/

 
Sacred artifacts held by Southern Illinois University Carbondale reburied with Hopi, Navajo
ancestors
https://herald-review.com/news/state-and-regional/sacred-artifacts-held-by-southern-illinois-
university-carbondale-reburied-with/article_4bf929e2-9446-5ce0-93a5-d34d2cf9d607.html?
utm_content=bufferca014&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
 
‘Look without looting’: the Imperial War Museum charts a history of destruction
https://amp.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/jul/03/imperial-war-museum-what-remains-
exhibition-war-cultural-destruction?CMP=share_btn_tw&__twitter_impression=true
 
A new kind of research is blossoming at Historic Jamestown
https://wydaily.com/local-news/2019/12/26/a-new-kind-of-research-is-blossoming-at-historic-
jamestown/
 
Archaeologists discover Phoenician family tomb in ancient city of Achziv
https://www.timesofisrael.com/archaeologists-discover-phoenician-family-tomb-in-ancient-city-of-
achziv/
 
Great Orme’s golden age of European trade
https://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/great-ormes-golden-age-of-european-trade.htm
 
How to Remember the Alamo: Battle Site or Burial Ground?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/21/us/human-remains-
found-alamo.html
 
Greece's Parthenon temple has had the wrong name for centuries, new research by archeologists
claims 
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/12/17/greeces-parthenon-temple-has-had-wrong-name-
centuries-new-research/
 
Racing to Preserve Rock Art in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands

https://www.texasmonthly.com/travel/preserve-rock-art-lower-
pecos-canyonlands/
 

The mystery of Easter Island revealed?

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2019/12/the-mystery-of-easter-
island-revealed/124953
 
Study puts the 'Carib' in 'Caribbean,' boosting credibility of Columbus' cannibal claims
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/fmon-spt010920.php
 
1,400 Ancient Cuneiform Tablets Identified from Lost City of Irisagrig in Iraq. Were They Stolen?
https://www.livescience.com/lost-city-in-iraq-cuneiform-tablets.html
 
Demon with Forked Tongue Found on Clay Tablet in Library of Assyrian Exorcists
https://www.livescience.com/assyrian-demon-tablet-found.html
 
Gold bar found in Mexico was Aztec treasure: study
https://phys.org/news/2020-01-gold-bar-mexico-aztec-treasure.html
 
 
 
 
 

Egyptology
 
Professor honored for book about Egyptian history
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/dept/faculty/professor-honored-for-book-about-egyptian-history
 
 
 
 
 

General Science
 
STEAM not STEM: Why scientists need arts training
https://theconversation.com/steam-not-stem-why-scientists-need-arts-training-89788?
utm_sq=g670rujvdv&fbclid=IwAR0KNyXBbzU_DoBrWfEw4zzqUy1kNS-
Ne1YwzTeCWC63MYnoEP_BozqHi34
 

Transformative 3D printing approach established from insight

into developmental biology

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/uob-
t3p011020.php

Physics, Earth and Space Sciences

 
Earth-size planet that may support water found 100 light years away
https://abc7ny.com/science/possibly-habitable-planet-found-100-light-years-away/5821548/?
fbclid=IwAR3qWUtCp1IAoT5ejwLANxE87g8cV1nIUHOfmoc-D97XnIJD3t4WDvZKZQE
 
Mysterious repeating fast radio burst traced to nearby galaxy
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/06/world/repeating-fast-radio-burst-source-scn/index.html?
utm_medium=social&utm_term=link&utm_source=twCNN&utm_content=2020-01-
07T04%3A51%3A56
 
International Space Station astronauts play with fire for research
https://amp.theguardian.com/science/2020/jan/01/international-space-station-astronauts-play-with-
fire-for-research
 
800,000 years ago, a meteor slammed into Earth. Scientists just found the crater.
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/800-000-years-ago-meteor-slammed-earth-scientists-just-
found-n1112971?
cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_nw&fbclid=IwAR2TJ37F6ki_nDi9k5KHQdRhkQM2g7LkW-
paHWJ1o2ICsfqdyp_8ByaOmn8
 
China's quantum satellite clears major hurdle on way to ultrasecure communications
https://www.nature.com/news/china-s-quantum-satellite-clears-major-hurdle-on-way-to-ultrasecure-
communications-1.22142
 
Shocked meteorites provide clues to Earth's lower mantle
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/asu-smp011020.php
 
Martian water vapor varies with the seasons
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/aaft-mwv010620.php
 
Satellite constellations harvest energy for near-total global coverage
https://phys.org/news/2020-01-satellite-constellations-harvest-energy-near-total.html
 
Astronomers Prepare a Mission Concept to Explore the Ice Giant Planets
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/astronomers-prepare-concept-mission-to-ice-
giant-planets-180973924/
 
SpaceX Tests Black Satellite to Reduce “Megaconstellation” Threat to Astronomy
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/spacex-tests-black-satellite-to-reduce-ldquo-
megaconstellation-rdquo-threat-to-astronomy/
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Environment, Climate Change and Alternative Energy

Sources
 
'The smell will knock you off your feet': mass mussel die-offs baffle scientists
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/14/the-smell-will-knock-you-off-your-feet-
mass-mussel-die-offs-baffle-scientists?
fbclid=IwAR0aWNKuED4Bm7KMplvMbcFk8BC5YwF0OtcKjmZU8HDH7lCKeMmemgrQFTs
 
Chemists report a new use for the waste product of nuclear power generation
https://phys.org/news/2020-01-chemists-product-nuclear-power.html
 
Study looks at how the global energy mix could change over the next 20 years
https://phys.org/news/2020-01-global-energy-years.html
 
The Amazon Has Lost More Than Ten Million Football Fields of Forest in a Decade
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/amazon-has-lost-more-ten-million-football-fields-
forest-decade-180973879/
 
 
 
 
 
 

Biological, Genetics and Medical Sciences

Wake up dormant dopaminergic neurons to reverse

Parkinson's disease

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/ifbs-
wud010920.php

Other
 
PHOTO: WAITRESS's Former Jennas Reunite On Closing Night
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/PHOTO-WAITRESSs-Former-Jennas-Reunite-On-
Closing-Night-20200106?
fbclid=IwAR1WFiIlEw7ukmbebL6H5I7pk8LbIZB7uBmJhPXmwUuHLQvS7-YNUeHdpZI
 
Tackling the Native American achievement gap
https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/accessibility/476521-new-charter-school-tackles-the-
native-american
 
The Navy Has Secret Classified Video of an Infamous UFO Incident
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxe54z/the-navy-has-secret-classified-video-of-an-infamous-
ufo-incident?
utm_source=vicefbus&fbclid=IwAR2A_9E9GWPNdSBD_vPz3fdnDiouPCZXRo2QBa9KtqQqO_
CMiC_y2bHj13Y
 
Aliens definitely exist and they could be living among us on Earth, says Britain's first astronaut
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/06/uk/helen-sharman-aliens-exist-scli-scn-gbr-intl/index.html
 
Origin of mystery humming noises heard around the world, uncovered
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/09/world/seismic-hum-volcano-scn-trnd/index.html
 
 
 
 
 

Additional Informational
 
Blue Shield International Statement on potential specific targeting of cultural sites in Iran
https://theblueshield.org/bsi-statement-on-potential-specific-targeting-of-cultural-sites-in-iran/?
fbclid=IwAR115NT2hHaIQTenDSthI-swhun8__83YJAFUvns2_EiLQvRerqG2YQrOos
 
Global Heritage Fund Calls for International Commitment to Protecting Heritage Sites
https://globalheritagefund.org/2020/01/06/global-heritage-fund-calls-for-international-commitment-
to-protecting-heritage-sites/
 
AIA Statement Condemning Intentional Targeting Of Iranian Cultural Heritage Sites
https://www.archaeological.org/aia-statement-condemning-intentional-targeting-of-iranian-cultural-
heritage-sites/
 
A historic resolution to protect cultural heritage
https://en.unesco.org/courier/2017nian-di-3qi/historic-resolution-protect-cultural-heritage?
fbclid=IwAR1Fdrz06IS340NaucMv1uKJxI62klhFIarqC_GmVycAgpi7sjXqzsx5BXY
 
American Anthropological Association, Targeting Cultural Sites is a War Crime
https://www.americananthro.org/ParticipateAndAdvocate/AdvocacyDetail.aspx?
ItemNumber=25357#/8/thankyou
 
ICOM and ICOMOS Statement on the Threats to Cultural Heritage in case of Armed Conflict
https://www.icomos.org/en/89-english-categories/home/70868-statement-on-the-threats-to-cultural-
heritage-in-case-of-armed-conflicts
 
National Trust for Historic Preservation Urges the U.S. Government to Protect Iran’s Cultural
Heritage Sites
https://savingplaces.org/press-center/media-resources/national-trust-urges-government-to-protect-
irans-cultural-heritage-sites?
utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=advocacy#.Xhj6PMhKiiO
 
Getty Stands against Threats to Cultural Heritage
https://blogs.getty.edu/iris/getty-stands-against-threats-to-cultural-heritage/
 
FACEBOOK’S BLACK MARKET IN ANTIQUITIES REPORT
http://atharproject.org/report2019/