News on Social and Behavioral Sciences

U.S. Marines Man Outpost In Restive Helmand Province

2010-03-11T09:33:13Z

KHAN NESHIN, AFGHANISTAN - MARCH 11: (FRANCE OUT) Afghans look on as US Marines search their van March 11, 2010 in a hamlet near Khan Neshin in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Marines in the area have been assigned to help gather census data for planned Afghan governmen...

Census Hispanics

2010-03-10T21:00:51Z

Voto Latino co-founder and actress Rosario Dawson, left, is joined by MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense & Education Fund) national census director Nancy Agosto during a news conference at the Miguel Contreras Learning Complex Center in US are born to minorities each year</div><div><p>Minorities make up nearly half the children born in the U.S., part of a historic trend in which minorities are expected to become the U.S. majority over the next 40 years.</p><p>In fact, demographers say this year could be the "tipping point" when the number of babies born to minorities outnu...

Australian archaeologists uncover 40,000-year-old site

2010-03-10T09:17:01Z

<div><p>Australian archaeologists have uncovered what they believe to be the world's southernmost site of early human life, a 40,000-year-old tribal meeting ground, an Aboriginal leader said Wednesday.</p><p>The site appears to have been the last place of refuge for Aboriginal tribes from the cannon fire of Australia's first white settlers, said Michael Mansell ...

Accused Ga. killer uses creative legal argument

2010-03-08T14:45:49Z

<div id="subtitle">Accused Ga. killer counts on Census as part of creative legal argument, wants charges dropped</div><div><p>A Georgia man accused of killing two people used an innovative legal strategy Monday in an attempt to get his murder charges dismissed. Call it the Census defense.</p><p>Floyd Wayne Williams Jr. wants the charges dropped — or at lea...

Younger women face "gender fatigue," subtle bias

2010-03-08T02:30:52Z

<div><p>LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Women bosses are no longer unusual in the corporate world, where many top-flight companies see gender and diversity programs as a "must-have."</p><p>Flexible working, parental leave, mentoring and women's networks have become the norm in many businesses.</p><p>But gender diversity's move into the mainstream gives an impression that gender issues at work have been...

Indonesia Hobbit

2010-03-06T21:16:44Z

In this photo taken Monday, Sept. 12, 2009, workers labor at Liang Bua cave excavation site where the fossils of Homo floresiensis were discovered in Ruteng, Flores island of Indonesia. An 18,000-year-old dwarf female skeleton was recovered in the cave in 2003 threatening to overturn conventional view of human evolution which says that our species, Homo sapiens, systematically crowded out other upright-walking human cousins beginning 160,000 year...

Growing support for 'hobbit' as distinct species

2010-03-06T21:15:26Z

<div id="subtitle">Growing support for 'hobbit' as distinct species</div><div><p>Here is what other scientists have discovered about Homo floriensis, "the hobbit":</p><p>_An analysis of the teeth from at least three hobbits found traits similar to early Homo species or Australopithecus, which lived in Africa between 3.8 million and 2.9 million years ago. The research by Alexander the Great's time found in Syria</div><div><p>More than 250 silver coins dating back to the time of Alexander the Great were unearthed in northern Syria, a Syrian archaeologist said Thursday.</p><p>Youssef Kanjo, the head of archaeological excavations in the ancient city of SANA on Tuesday, March 2, 2010, Hellenistic coins dating back to the era of Alexander the Great are seen after they were discovered in northern Syria, the head of the archaeological excavation department in the Aleppo province said Thursday, Marc...

Sudan's land of 'black pharaohs' a trove for archaeologists

2010-03-03T15:02:55Z

<div><p>There is not a tourist in sight as the sun sets over sand-swept pyramids at Meroe, but archaeologists say the Nubian Desert of northern Sudan holds mysteries to rival ancient Egypt.</p><p>"There is a magic beauty about these sites that is heightened by the privilege of being able to admire them alone, with the pyramids, the dunes and the sun," says

Burial chamber of ancient Egyptian queen unearthed

2010-03-03T15:00:19Z

<div id="subtitle">French archaeologists unearth a burial chamber for mysterious ancient Egyptian queen</div><div><p>French archaeologists announced Wednesday the discovery outside Cairo of the burial chamber of a mysterious queen from Egypt's Old Kingdom more than 4,000 years ago.</p><p>The necropolis of Saqqara outside Cairo has yielded a string of new discove...

Archaeologists in Egypt find tomb of mystery queen

2010-03-03T11:17:43Z

<div><p>A French archaeological mission has unearthed a 4,000-year-old rare pink granite sarcophagus belonging to a little known ancient queen of Egypt, the culture ministry said on Wednesday.</p><p>The mystery queen identified as Bahnou, was "one of the queens of the Sixth Dynasty which ruled Egypt from 2374 to 2192 BC," antiquities chief Zahi Hawass said in a statement.</p...

Religion News in Brief

2010-03-03T09:32:50Z

<div id="subtitle">Religion News in Brief</div><div><p>Pope Benedict XVI will make a two-day visit to Spain in November, with a stop in Barcelona to consecrate the famed Sagrada Familia church, his spokesman said.</p><p>The Reuters) - Archaeologists have unearthed the intact sarcophagus of Egypt's Queen Behenu inside her 4,000-year-old burial chamber near her pyramid in Saqqara, chief archaeologist Zahi Hawass announced Wednesday.</p><p>The Old Kingdom queen's chamber was badly damaged except for two inner walls cover...

Former Swiss wine grower uncovers Sudan's ancient roots

2010-03-03T00:16:37Z

<div><p>Charles Bonnet, the 76-year-old doyen of Sudan archaeologists who helped rewrite an ancient chapter of Africa's largest country, has come a long way from the Swiss vineyards he harvested as a youth.</p><p>"As a young person, I was a wine grower. I jumped off my tractor and quickly went to university," he recalled, eyes lighting up, as he sat with an AFP correspondent on the terra...

Greek police arrest 2 with valuable antiquities

2010-02-28T11:31:12Z

<div id="subtitle">2 arrested in Greece for trying to sell valuable sculptures for several million euros</div><div><p>Greek police arrested two men trying to sell several artifacts, including a bronze sculpture of emperor Alexander the Great from the 4th century B.C., for which the asking price was euro7 million ($9.5 million), authorities said Sunday.</p&g...

Mideast Egypt Antiquities

2010-02-28T06:00:26Z

This undated photo released by the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities in Cairo, Egypt Sunday Feb. 28, 2010, shows the newly unearthed 3,400- year old red granite head, part of a huge statue of the ancient pharaoh Amenhotep III, at the pharaoh's mortuary temple in the city of Luxor.

Statue head of King Tut's grandfather found in Luxor

2010-02-28T03:15:35Z

<div><p>Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed a colossal statue head of the pharaoh whom DNA tests revealed last week was King Tutankhamun's grandfather, the government said on Sunday.</p><p>The red granite head of King Amenhotep III, part of a larger 3,000 year-old statue, was discovered at the site of the pharaoh's funerary temple in Luxor, Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, Minn., walk across a skyway past a poster reminding motorists of the 2010 census. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

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