Painted puzzles line the wall of an ancient cave

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The Grotte Chauvet is already changing prevailing notions of cave paintings. It contains many depicted predators, which are not present in other known caves, and the presence of child footprints suggest that the art involved the whole community, and was not directly related to hunting.

France, Antiquities, Prehistoric peoples, Art, Rock paintings, Rock drawings

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Working the Web with a virtual lab and some Java

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The National Center for Supercomputing Applications has developed a World Wide Web site called Biology Workshop. Using Java technology, the site provides a single point of access to multiple databases and software tools commonly used by biologists to analyze new DNA sequences.

Information services, Chromosome mapping, Biology, World Wide Web, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign). National Center for Supercomputing Applications

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California social climbers: low water prompts high status

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Researchers have linked the first indications of inherited status among the Chumash to climate changes that occurred from AD 1100 to 1300. A severe drought caused social upheavals that produced status differentiation.

Social aspects, Research, Environmental aspects, Climatic changes, Climate change, Social status, Paleoclimatology, Chumashes

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