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Dr. Jane Ann Blakney-Bailey of the Arkansas Archeological Survey will present a program on Seminole Indian Archeology on Tuesday evening, October 7. Her PowerPoint slide presentation will begin at 7:15 p.m. in the conference room in the rear (north) end of the first floor of the forestry building on the UAM campus.
ALBUQUERQUE, NM----The Cultural and Natural Resources Practice of TRC Companies, Inc. today announced it has won a $1.4 million archaeological data recovery project with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management in Amarillo, Texas.
October is Massachusetts Archaeology Month. Brooks Free Library has collaborated with Cape Cod Museum of Natural History and Harwich Conservation Trust to mark the event with programs that look at Harwich’s earliest peoples, with the help of archaeologist Fred Dunford.
Oregon State Historic Preservation OfficeEarly efforts to protect Cloud Cap Inn included wrapping the historic building in fire-resistant foil. The building was later bombed with fire retardant. A U.S. Forest Service archaeologist who helped protect Cloud Cap Inn and other...
Randy Metcalf/The Explorer , Archeology field technician Estee Rivera last week sifted through gravel from one of dozens of pit houses along Silverbell Road. Archeologists have about two weeks to finish their work.
Reproduction pressures and rising fertility explain why women suffered a more rapid decline in dental health than did men as humans transitioned from hunter-and-gatherers to farmers and more sedentary pursuits, says a University of Oregon anthropologist.
Vibert White came to the University of Central Florida in 2003 to head up UCF's public history program, a blend of archaeology, anthropology, oral history and the collection of everyday artifacts. The program was subsequently discontinued, but White has continued to teach a class on public history and pursue it in his research and writing. His book due out in January, The Pullman Porters of ...
Monmouth University (MU), West Long Branch, has announced Dr. Richard Veit, associate professor of anthropology, will speak at the symposium "An Archaeological Journey at Point Breeze," 1:30 p.m. Oct. 11 at Divine Word Missionaries, 101 Park St., Bordentown, site of Joseph Bonaparte's estate from 1816-44.
Dozens of archaeologists were unearthing history at the Yesteryear's Archeology Fair. October being archeology awareness month, people of all ages had the chance to explore the past by demonstrations and hands on activities.
Monroe's River Raisin Battlefield comes to Fort Meigs in Perrysburg ?when Heidelberg College Professor G. Michael Pratt gives a talk at 7:30 p.m. Thursday about that War of 1812 site. The event is free and will be held in the Fort Meigs Visitor Center. Mr. Pratt will explain his role using archaeology to rediscover the battlefield, which is Michigan's largest War of 1812 site. This summer, ...
In May, as a handful of local archaeologists watched from the gunwales of four research ships, warfare scientists for the Navy and federal oceanographers lowered several high-tech robots into Narragansett Bay’s waters between Portsmouth and Jamestown.
More than 400 universities and colleges now offer undergraduate or graduate degrees in peace studies, which incorporate anthropology, sociology, political science, theology and history to uncover the roots of conflict and develop preventive strategies.
Stonehenge is in the news again with the first major excavations at the site in more than 50 years.
Archaeologists have dug up a mystery worthy of Indiana Jones, one that includes a tomb, skeletons and burial rites with both Christian and pagan elements.
The Grave Creek Stone, a stone found during the excavation of the Grave Creek Mound in Moundsville that was allegedly inscribed with letters of an ancient alphabet, was a hoax, according to the guest speaker at Saturday's annual meeting of the West Virginia Archeological Society.
( University of Texas at Austin ) More than 40 million years ago, primates preferred Texas to northern climates that were significantly cooling, according to new fossil evidence discovered by Chris Kirk, physical anthropologist at The University of Texas at Austin.
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