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April 3, 2012
2010 AIA Pomerance Award for Scientific Contributions to Archaeology winner and Boston University professor, Paul Goldberg co-authored a paper published yesterday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America regarding the earliest known discovery of man-made fire.
This evidence, discovered in Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa pushes back the date of the first known man-made fires 200,000 years to one million years ago. Goldberg and lead author Francesco Berna used the geoarchaeological, micromorphologic, and microstratigraphic techniques for which Goldberg won the AIA's Pomerance Award for in order to prove the existance of fire and confirm that it was created by humans. ... Read More
February 13, 2012
Two weeks later, our tour is at an end. Our group of ten really bonded, and at our farewell dinner, addresses and e-mails were exchanged to stay in touch and share thousands of photos once we are all back in our usual homes. Yes, all will shortly depart in various directions, and are looking forward to being back home, but all agree that we had one very exceptional time in Egypt.
I stayed on for a few more days of the revolution to meet some of those who were with us last year and have returned to carry on with their interrupted tour from last year. Our brains and cameras are overflowing with thoughts and images of places we visited and people we met and how much we all learned.
Really this was not only a very... Read More
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February 8, 2012
I was here in Cairo a year ago, first on a family vacation, then to host a tour group which had virtually concluded its program when the revolution of January 25, 2011 broke out and as a second tour group was just arriving. We could see the vast crowds at Tahrir Square and had to take some security measures to move about Cairo. We were never at risk while seeing a number of official buildings on fire, seeing military aircraft flying low, plenty of tanks and heavily armed soldiers, checks points and such. Finally we had the opportunity to be evacuated to Athens and we safely made our ways home to America. I came back to Cairo in November on my way to Sudan and again in December on my way back. Often teaching and lecturing about Middle... Read More
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