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Archeologists Unearth Extraordinary Human Sculpture in Turkey

By Guest PostAugust 4, 2012Culture, Scienceancient antioch, antakya, antakya aleppo road, archeologists, assyria, assyrian conquest, black stone, bronze age, bull and sphinx, calno, citadel of kunulua, eastern mediterranean, excavation, head and torso, hieroglyphic luwian inscription, human figure, human sculpture, iron age, isaiah, jennifer jackson, kaplan fund, kingdoms of idols, kunulua, lion, luwian monuments, neo assyrian, neo hittite kingdom, oracle, patina, patinean king, royal city, shalmaneser iii, southeastern turkey, sphinxe, stelae, suppiluliuma, suppiluliuma statue, syrian hittite coalition, tap, tayinat archaeological project, tayinat gate, tim harrison, turkey

TORONTO, ON – A beautiful and colossal human sculpture is one of the latest cultural treasures unearthed by an international team at the Tayinat Archaeological Project (TAP) excavation site in southeastern Turkey. A large semi-circular column base, ornately decorated on one side, was also discovered. Both pieces are from a monumental gate complex that provided access to the upper citadel of Kunulua, capital of the Neo-Hittite Kingdom of Patina (ca. 1000-738 BC).

“These newly discovered Tayinat sculptures are the product of a vibrant local Neo-Hittite sculptural tradition,” said Professor Tim Harrison, the Tayinat Project director and professor of Near Eastern Archaeology in the University of Toronto’s Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations. “They provide a vivid glimpse into the innovative character and sophistication of the Iron Age cultures that emerged in the eastern Mediterranean following the collapse of the great imperial powers of the Bronze Age at the end of the second millennium BC.” (more…)

Mice Have System to Handle Smell of Fear

Mice appear to have a specialized system for detecting and at least initially processing instinctually important smells such as those that denote predators. The finding raises a question about whether their response to those smells is hardwired.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — A new study finds that mice have a distinct neural subsystem that links the nose to the brain and is associated with instinctually important smells such as those emitted by predators. That insight, published online this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, prompts the question whether mice and other mammals have specially hardwired neural circuitry to trigger instinctive behavior in response to certain smells.

In the series of experiments and observations described in the paper, the authors found that nerve cells in the nose that express members of the gene family of trace amine-associated receptors (TAAR) have several key biological differences from the much more common and diverse neurons that express members of the olfactory receptor gene family. Those other nerve cells detect a much broader range of smells, said corresponding author Gilad Barnea, the Robert and Nancy Carney Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at Brown University. (more…)

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Archeologists Unearth Extraordinary Human Sculpture in Turkey

Mice Have System to Handle Smell of Fear