Post by sherlew99 on Jan 22, 2016 19:05:04 GMT -6
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The myth of the 'Cave of the Glowing Skulls’
An archaeologist explains how he dug through a publicity blitz to make the find of a lifetime.
John Donovan
January 21, 2016, 3:37 p.m.
It's been more than 21 years since Jim Brady scrambled his way up a river bank in eastern Honduras into one of the greatest finds of his career.
The discovery was a little — well, we'll call it weird — from the start. But the work that Brady performed back in 1994 changed our very understanding of how man lived thousands of years ago. It was, in many ways, an anthropological, archaeological game-changer.
The myth of the 'Cave of the Glowing Skulls’
An archaeologist explains how he dug through a publicity blitz to make the find of a lifetime.
John Donovan
January 21, 2016, 3:37 p.m.
It's been more than 21 years since Jim Brady scrambled his way up a river bank in eastern Honduras into one of the greatest finds of his career.
The discovery was a little — well, we'll call it weird — from the start. But the work that Brady performed back in 1994 changed our very understanding of how man lived thousands of years ago. It was, in many ways, an anthropological, archaeological game-changer.
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