<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/af6bd939-63b7-4e85-8915-2ec334f162b6/C0E0FFEB-55F7-415C-A91F-B21377020FAE/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/2009-05-09-Pazyryk-warriors_N.htm" href="http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/2009-05-09-Pazyryk-warriors_N.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.usatoday.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/2009-05-09-Pazyryk-warriors_N.htm"><SPAN class="inside-head">Think your life is bad? Archaeologists show us worse.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/2009-05-09-Pazyryk-warriors_N.htm"><DIV class="inside-copy">Amid swine flu, sinking economies and other sorrows of the modern world, losing track of when life was really tough can be easy. Lucky for us, we have archaeologists to put things in a little perspective.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/2009-05-09-Pazyryk-warriors_N.htm"><P class="inside-copy">Consider life on the high steppes of <KWD href="http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/Central+Asia">Central Asia</KWD>, the Altai Mountains, around 500 B.C., in modern-day <KWD href="http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/Mongolia">Mongolia</KWD>. Back then, it was the home of the Pazyryk peoples, horse-riding nomads who lived next door to the not-so-friendly <A target="" href="http://herodot.glossa.dk/nomadism.html">Scythians</A>. In fact, the ancient Greek historian <KWD href="http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/Herodotus">Herodotus</KWD>, in <I>The Histories</I>, described the Scythians as warriors who tangled with tribes of Amazons, <A target="" href="http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2008/05/life-on-horseback-and-skeletal.html">practiced human sacrifice</A>, scalping and cannibalism of their enemies. A lot more aggravating than the neighbor who borrows your lawn mower, in other words. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/2009-05-09-Pazyryk-warriors_N.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.usatoday.com/img/09E3B5D8-C755-45F5-9059-21A6519E15E2" alt="Chinese border policemen patrol in the northern Badain Jaran Desert in Alxa League, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Monday, May 8, 2006. " /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C0E0FFEB-55F7-415C-A91F-B21377020FAE/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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