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Human remains buried at Stonehenge 5,000 years ago offer a clue to where they came from
By creating a map of strontium isotope ratios across a geographical area and comparing that with those found in a bone fragment, scientists can determine a human or animal’s place of origin — or at least where they spent the majority of the last 10 years before they died.
In this study, the researchers identified bone fragments belonging to 25 distinct individuals that had been buried at Stonehenge. The strontium isotope analysis revealed that the bones of 15 of these people exhibited the same strontium isotope ratio that existed in the area around the monument.
The results from the other 10, however, showed that these people did not consume food grown in the local area alone.
…The researchers can’t be totally sure where these 10 people came from, but the strontium isotope ratios in their bones are consistent with a region in west Wales that is known to be the source of some of the stones in the monument.
Further analysis also suggested that the wood fuel that was used to cremate some of these people did not come from the area around the monument either.
Human remains buried at Stonehenge 5,000 years ago offer a clue to where they came from
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Stonehenge mystery solved? Study sheds light on people buried at monument – CNN
The results revealed that 40% of the people buried at Stonehenge likely came from west Wales, the suggested origin of the site’s smaller bluestones.
…The bone analysis suggested that within the last ten years of their lives, these people were not living at Stonehenge nor originally from the area around Stonehenge, known as the Wessex region.
Stonehenge mystery solved? Study sheds light on people buried at monument – CNN
4 Environmental Activists Are Killed Every Week
Latin America is by far the world’s most dangerous place to be an environmental defender. Almost 60 percent of the environmental killings recorded in 2017 took place in the region.
Mexico’s tropical forests, for example, have been ravaged by everything from illegal cattle ranching to avocado farming. In January 2017, Isidro Baldenegro López, a prominent indigenous activist who won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for his work protecting the forests of the Sierra Tarahumara mountain range in northern Mexico from logging, was shot dead.
…The Global Witness report records several massacres in countries such as Brazil and the Philippines ― in the latter country, the military reportedly killed at least eight indigenous people in December as they tried to protect their land from a coffee plantation.
Brazil remains the most deadly country for environmental activists, with 57 murders last year ― the highest ever recorded by any country. Twenty-two members of one tribe ― the Gamela ― were assaulted in one land-grabbing incident. Some had their hands cut off.
4 Environmental Activists Are Killed Every Week So We Can Have Snacks, Meat And Coffee | HuffPost
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Erdogan: There was no deal to free US pastor Andrew Brunson
Erdogan: There was no deal to free US pastor Andrew Brunson – CNNPolitics
Trump is really bad at negotiating.
Palestinian Activist Ahed Tamimi Released, But Experts Say Israel Has Bigger Problem
“Ill-treatment of Palestinian child detainees by Israeli forces is widespread, systematic and institutionalized throughout the Israeli military detention system. Three out of four Palestinian children experience some form of physical violence following arrest. Israeli military law provides no right to an attorney during interrogation, so Palestinian children like Ahed often typically arrive to interrogation rooms bound, blindfolded, frightened, and sleep deprived. Children often give confessions after verbal abuse, threats, physical and psychological violence that in some cases amounts to torture,” he added.
…”Since 2014, Israeli forces have increasingly used live ammunition to quash protests throughout the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Gaza. This increasing use of live ammunition combined with complete lack of accountability for Israeli forces’ unjustified use of lethal force helped to foster a precarious situation where Israeli forces routinely unlawfully kill Palestinian civilians, including children, and enjoy complete impunity for apparent war crimes. Israeli forces killed 25 Palestinian children in the first half of 2018, nearly three times the number of children killed over the same period last year, with an additional nine children killed in July alone.”
Palestinian Activist Ahed Tamimi Released, But Experts Say Israel Has Bigger Problem
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Swedish activist who stopped Afghan being deported would act again
Eventually, people on the plane took her side and Miss Ersson became emotional.
First, a man stood up behind her and said he supported her – before an entire football team at the back of the plane did the same thing.
She said: ‘It felt good, when the Turkish guy started talking to me and making sure that I knew I wasn’t alone.’
Swedish activist who stopped Afghan being deported would act again | Daily Mail Online
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Montenegro: We’re too small to start a new world war
…US President Donald Trump suggested this week that this tiny Balkan country could be the crucible for a new global conflict.
Montenegro begs to differ.
“We have no intentions whatsoever to start World War III, we are too small for that,” the country’s foreign minister, Srdjan Darmanovic, told CNN in an exclusive interview. “It was fun to hear about it, actually like a good joke, but we are a very peaceful nation.”
…The newest NATO member was thrown into the spotlight when Trump described its people as “very aggressive.”
…Carlson questioned why the US should have to defend Montenegro, as required by Article 5 of the NATO treaty.
Trump responded: “I’ve asked the same question. Montenegro is a tiny country with very strong people. … They are very strong people. They are very aggressive people, they may get aggressive, and congratulations, you are in World War III.”
…Montenegro joined NATO in 2017. Its membership bid was opposed by Russia, which maintains close relationships with neighboring Serbia. The Montenegrin government accuses Moscow of orchestrating a coup as part of an effort to prevent it joining NATO.
Montenegro: We’re too small to start a new world war – CNN
Oldest Greek Fragment of Homer Discovered on Clay Tablet
The epics of the Greek poet Homer, The Iliad and The Odyssey, have been recited around campfires and scrutinized by students for 2,800 years, if not longer.
…It’s believed that The Odyssey and The Iliad come from an oral storytelling tradition. Whether the stories were composed by a blind poet named Homer is a source of debate, though many researchers believe Homer was probably not a historical individual but a cultural tradition that developed the stories over many decades or centuries, with scribes writing them down sometime around the 8th century B.C.
Oldest Greek Fragment of Homer Discovered on Clay Tablet | Smart News | Smithsonian
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