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IT was just little things at first...a TV would smoulder, a mobile phone would catch fire.


But then it got worse - a whole lot worse.


Over three weeks fridges, washing machines, cookers and furniture all began bursting into flames for no reason. Twelve houses were badly damaged by blazes in the quiet village.


Now, with panic-stricken locals blaming evil spirits and calling for an exorcism, the mayor has ordered a full-scale evacuation.


Last night Italian TV showed people fleeing in tears while fireman rushed to fight yet another spontaneous blaze.


Engineers called to Canneto di Caronia, near Messina, Sicily, were baffled because the fires continued even when the power was cut off.


Mayor Pedro Spinnato said: "This all began three weeks ago and we can discover no explanation. We cannot risk a tragedy through these fires so I have no other option to evacuate.


"We have had engineers in to examine cables and wires but they can find nothing wrong. Twelve houses have been severely damaged after various domestic appliances burst into flames.


"But it is not just electrical items. Furniture is also catching fire for no reason.


"For the time being we have asked families to leave and stay with friends and relatives so a through examination can take place.


"People are blaming evil spirits and I am being asked to get the priest to perform an exorcism."


Civil protection chief Tullio Martella said: "What is going on here is like a scene from some paranormal film.


"The fires continued even when we cut power to the village to see if that was a possible cause."


"For the time being there is no scientific explanation and I have never heard of anything like this before."


Last night more than 100 engineers were in the village and geologists were also due to carry out underground surveys.


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Italian villagers call for exorcist to end 'demon' fires JEREMY CHARLES IN ROME


AN ITALIAN village was evacuated yesterday as investigators attempted to explain an outbreak of spontaneous household appliance combustions, which have left locals fearing for their safety.


Fridges, cookers, televisions, washing machines, mobile telephones and furniture have burst into flame for no apparent reason at a dozen houses in the Sicilian village of Canneto di Caronia near Messina.


Authorities initially suspected the fires were caused by overhead cables on a nearby railway line, but the outbreaks continued even after the village's electricity supply was cut off, leading some locals to blame supernatural forces.


Pedro Spinnato, the village mayor, has ordered the evacuation so further investigations can be carried out.


"This has been going on for three weeks now and there is no explanation for it. We cannot risk a tragedy through these fires, so I have no other option but to evacuate the village," said Mr Spinnato.


"We have had electrical engineers in to examine cables and wires but they can find no explanation. It is not just electrical items, furniture is also catching fire for no reason.


"Already people are blaming the events on evil spirits and I am being asked to get the local priest to perform an exorcism."


The civil protection chief, Tullio Martella, said: "For the time being there is no scientific explanation for it and I have never heard of anything like this happening before in Italy. The fires continued even when we cut power to the village to see if that was a possible cause."


Last night more than 100 engineers were in the village and geologists were also due to carry out underground surveys.


Nino Pezzino, 42, one of 39 villagers evacuated yesterday, said: "Twelve of our houses are uninhabitable. Fortunately, for the time being, the only damage has been to houses and no-one has been hurt, but you can sense the growing fear.


"How can anyone live in a house where any minute something can catch fire for no apparent reason?"


Father Gabriel Amorth, the Vatican's chief expert on exorcisms, said: "With cases of demon behaviour it is normal for domestic appliances to be involved and for demons make their presence known via electricity." Comment: We want to see your data Father Gabriel!


If he, a spokesmen for the Catholic church, can talk about "demons", then surely we can discuss our own theories. We don't have enough data yet for a sound working hypothesis, but surely we can come up with something better than demons.

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Alien Arsonists in Italy!!

By Nick Pisa in Rome
Last Updated: 1:05am GMT 29/10/2007


Aliens were responsible for a series of unexplained fires in fridges, TV¹s and mobile phones in an Italian village, according to an Italian government report.


Canneto di Caronia, in northern Sicily, drew attention three years ago after residents reported everyday household objects bursting into flames.


TV news footage at the time showed electrical appliances as well as cookers, a pile of wedding presents and furniture smouldering. advertisement


Dozens of experts including scientists, electrical engineers and military boffins, arrived in the village 60 miles east of Palermo to investigate the phenomenon.


Arson was quickly ruled out and at one stage an amazed scientist was interviewed after he described how he saw an unplugged electrical cable burst into flames.


Locals were quick to blame supernatural forces and at the time the Vatican¹s chief exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth backed up their fears and said: "I¹ve seen things like this before. Demons occupy a house and appear in electrical goods. Let¹s not forget that Satan and his followers have immense powers."


Now in an interim leaked report published by several Italian newspapers it has emerged that the Civil Protection Department has concluded the most likely cause was "aliens".


The report was ordered by the Italian government and brought together dozens of experts including a NASA scientist. Their two year investigation has cost an estimated £1 million.


According to the report the fires were "caused by a high power electro magnetic emissions which were not man made and reached a power of between 12 and 15 gigawatts."


The report also detailed a possible UFO landing close to the village, citing "burnt imprints which have not been explained were found in a field."


Francesco Mantegna Venerando, Sicily¹s Civil Protection chief who coordinated the report, said: "This is not the final report. We are still working on our conclusions and this has been leaked.


"We are not saying that little green men from Mars started the fires but that unnatural forces capable of creating a large amount of electromagnetic energy were responsible.


"This is just one possibility we are also looking at another one which involves the testing of top secret weapons by an unknown power which are also capable of producing an enormous amount of energy."

Alien Arsonists in Italy!!

Red Headed Neanderthal Step Child

Thu Oct 25, 4:42 PM ET



CHICAGO (AFP) - Some of our cave-dwelling Neanderthal relatives probably had red hair and fair complexions, much like modern-day humans of Celtic origin, according to a study released Thursday.

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The finding comes from the first such analysis of DNA evidence taken from Neanderthal fossils recovered from El Sidron in northern Spain and Monti Lessini, Italy.

An analysis of the DNA revealed the ancient hominids carried a mutation in the MC1R gene that codes for a protein involved in the production of melanin -- a substance that gives skin its color and also protects it against ultraviolet light.

In modern humans, primarily of European descent, mutations in the MC1R gene are thought to be responsible for red hair and pale skin by dampening the activity of the protein.

The mutation observed in the Neanderthal genes was different from the one documented in humans, but when scientists inserted the Neanderthal gene into cells in a test tube, it seemed to have the same effect on melatonin production as the modern human genes, according to the study published in Science.

The genetic analysis doesn't seal the deal, but since the fossil record of Neanderthals does not include any samples of skin or hair, it is the best guide available, said Michael Hofreiter, a paleogeneticist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Leipzig, Germany.

Hofreiter said the number of red-headed Neanderthals was probably pretty small, possibly just one percent of the population and might have popped up in any part of Europe or Asia that the ancient hominids had settled.

The news did not come as a surprise to one leading scholar of Neanderthal evolution and biology.

"The stereotype of primitive peoples is that they are dark skinned, but some paleontologists have been speculating for 20 years that some Neanderthals must have been pale skinned because they lived in northern Europe," said Erik Trinkaus, a professor of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

"Light skin is adaptive at higher altitudes because it allows more UVB radiation to penetrate the skin and that promotes Vitamin D synthesis."

Neanderthals, whose ancestors diverged from that of modern humans about 300,000 years ago, colonized Europe and parts of Asia, dominating Europe until about 30,000 years ago.

The study suggests that the genes that confer pale skin and red hair evolved separately in humans and our closest extinct relatives.


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11,000 Year Old Uber Artefacts

Wall paintings using solely geometric, and only figurative. system of
cross-hatched lines, alternating between black, white and red. 11,000
year old statue of a man, carved stone tools, flints, seed-grinding
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2007-10-23
Archaeologist uncovers 11,000-year-old artefacts in Syria
Latest discoveries in Syria date back to start of Neolithic era in
Epipalaeolithic period.
By Talal el-Atrache - DAMASCUS Deep in the heart of northern Syria,
close to the banks of the Euphrates River, archaeologists have
uncovered a series of startling 11,000-year-old wall paintings and
artefacts.


"The wall paintings date back to the 9th millennium BC. They were
discovered last month on the wall of a house standing two metres (6.6
feet) high at Dja'de," said Frenchman Eric Coqueugniot, who has been
leading the excavations on the west bank of the river at Dja'de, in an
area famous for its rich tradition of prehistoric treasures.


The etchings are "polychrome paintings in black, white and red. The
designs are solely geometric, and only figurative. The composition is
made up of a system cross-hatched lines, alternating between the three
colours," Coqueugniot said.


They were found in a circular building, around 7.5 metres (25 feet) in
diameter. The excavated house features three solid blocks where the
paintings were located.


The main pillar has been completely excavated and stands almost two
metres high displaying the new murals, said Coqueugniot, a researcher
for the Paris-based National Centre for Scientific Research.


The remains of the building, much larger than the small and
rectangular domestic dwellings of the period, "must have been used as
a meeting place for the whole village or for a clan," he added.


Apart from the organic artefacts, which have decomposed over time, the
site has provided many well-preserved treasures.


Carved stone tools, flints, seed-grinding implements and brick-
grinding stones have been recovered. Many bone objects were also found
-- both remnants of the animals that made up part of the daily diet
and intricately fashioned tools.


The dig also uncovered several figurines made of gypsum, chalk, bone
and clay. The most recent discovery, an 11,000-year-old statue of a
man is "particularly important and well preserved," Coqueugniot said.


This item will allow comparisons with other similar sculptures found
on sites in the Urfa region of southern Turkey, added the French
scientist, who has overseen archaeological projects at Dja'de for 15
years.


"The figures could have had religious significance. The female
statuettes could also have been fertility symbols. But they could have
had entirely different ritual meanings," Coqueugniot said


"We can only offer hypotheses," he added. "It is still very difficult
to say what was the significance of this 11,000-year-old statue of the
woman."


The latest discoveries date back to the start of the Neolithic era, in
a period known as the Epipalaeolithic.


Many artefacts from this period have been discovered in northern
Syria, in particular at Jerf al-Ahmar, a site destroyed by the Tishrin
dam, Coqueugniot said. It was one of several built over the past three
decades that have flooded a number of archaeological sites.


For example, the dam at Tabqa flooded an area of around 650 square
kilometres (250 square miles) after it was erected in 1976. Prior to
that, the government approved testing of 56 sites, 20 of which were
spared when the dam was built.
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Clovis-Solutrean Connection?

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Neandertals, humans share key changes to 'language gene'


A new study published online on October 18th in Current Biology reveals that adaptive changes in a human gene involved in speech and language were shared by our closestextinct relatives, the Neandertals. The finding reveals that the human form of the gene arose much earlier than scientists had estimated previously. It also raises the possibility that Neandertals possessed some of the prerequisites for language.


The gene, which is called FOXP2, is the only one known to date to play a role in speech and language, according to the researchers. People who carry an abnormal copy of the FOXP2 gene have speech and language problems.


"From the point of view of this gene, there is no reason to think that Neandertals would not have had the ability for language," said Johannes Krause of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. He noted, however, that many as-yet-unknown genes might underlie the capacity for language. Once found, those would have to be examined in Neandertals as well.


Previous analyses indicated that a very recent rise in the human FOXP2 variant had occurred as a result of strong selection, less than 200,000 years ago, added Svante Pääbo, also of the Max Planck Institute. "Because we know that Neandertal and modern human populations diverged more than 300,000 years ago, we would have guessed that these changes in FOXP2 would have happened after we separated from Neandertals," Pääbo said, noting that the human version of FOXP2 differs from that of chimps in two places.


The researchers extracted DNA from Neandertal fossils collected in a cave in northern Spain. They exhumed the bones under sterile conditions and froze them before transporting them to the laboratory. They then extracted DNA and sequenced the Neandertal FOXP2 gene, revealing that it was identical to the version found in modern humans. To ensure that the Neandertal DNA samples hadn't been contaminated with human DNA, they also sequenced parts of their Y chromosome, which was found to be distinct from that of men today.


In addition to its potential implications for the acquisition of language, the study also marks the first time a specific nuclear gene has been retrieved from Neandertals-opening the door to other breakthroughs in scientists' understanding of human and Neandertal evolution, the researchers said.


"The current results show that the Neandertals carried a FOXP2 protein that was identical to that of present-day humans in the only two positions that differ between human and chimpanzee," the researchers concluded. "Leaving out the unlikely scenario of gene flow [between the two lineages], this establishes that these changes were present in the common ancestor of modern humans and Neandertals. The date of the emergence of these genetic changes therefore must be older than that estimated with only extant human diversity data, thus demonstrating the utility of direct evidence from Neandertal DNA sequences for understanding recent modern human evolution."


Source: Cell Press
http://www.physorg.com/news111933235.html

Wetter Climate Fueled Human Migrations

PNAS 104:16416-21
East African megadroughts between 135 and 75 thousand years ago and bearing
on early-modern human origins
CA Scholz cs.2007

The environmental backdrop to the evolution and spread of early Homo sapiens in East Africa is known mainly from isolated outcrops and distant marine sediment cores. Here we present results from new scientific drill cores from Lake Malawi, the first long and continuous, high-fidelity records of tropical climate change from the continent itself. Our record shows periods of severe aridity between 135 and 75 ka, when the lake's water volume was reduced by at least 95 %. Surprisingly, these intervals of pronounced tropical African aridity in the early late-Pleistocene were much more severe than the Last Glacial Maximum, the period previously recognized asone of the most arid of the Quaternary.
From these cores and from records from Lakes Tanganyika (East Africa) and Bosumtwi (West Africa), we document a major rise in water levels and a shift to more humid conditions over much of tropical Africa after c.70 ka. This transition to wetter, more stable conditions coincides with diminished orbital eccentricity, and a reduction in precession-dominated climatic extremes. The observed climate mode switch to decreased environmental variability is consistent with terrestrial and marine records from in and around tropical Africa, but our records provide evidence for dramatically wetter conditions after 70 ka. Such climate change may have stimulated the expansion and migrations of early modern human populations.

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