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This past Monday, the College’s archaeology department hosted a visit and presentation by archeologist Michael L. Galaty of Millsaps College, Jackson, Miss., who described to students his research with the Shala tribe in Albania, entitled the Shala Valley Project. Galaty spent field sessions with the Shala tribe from 2005-2008. The tribe is located north of Greece [...]
SALT LAKE CITY, UT--(Marketwire - February 9, 2010) - Deep Blue Marine, Inc. ( PINKSHEETS : DPBE ) is pleased to announce that contracts have been signed, leases agreed upon and construction has commenced on a museum for marine archaeology in Samana, Dominican Republic. The museum will house many artifacts from the current project, Le Scipion, as well as many artifacts on a rotating loan basis ...
BLANDING, Utah (AP) — High above the spiky sandstone spine known as Comb Ridge that snakes for 120 miles through the desert, archaeologist Winston Hurst treads carefully through a cave of ruins.
Some experts and academics around the state are disagreeing with a University of Alabama archaeologist’s report concluding a pile of stones in Oxford is a natural phenomenon — not built by American Indians centuries ago.
An archaeological study of the area near the Jacobs Creek bridge in southwestern Hopewell Township says the exact path followed through the area by George Washington and his troops cannot be determined.
Secretary of State Charlie Daniels has announced the opening of the State Capitol’s spring 2010 exhibit, Our Uncovered Past, which provides an overview of conservation, research, and interpretive efforts of the Arkansas Archeological Survey over the preceding decade.
By Michael Oppermann Correspondent Ongoing discoveries at a 17th-century archaeological dig near the Ocklawaha River are providing new insights into the culture of the Acuera, a Timucuan tribe that was living in the region where Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto led an expedition in 1539.
Hidden behind property signs, a California tree carving has become an eloquent clue to the science of the Chumash people, whose descendants still live in the state
KOUTS -- The excavation at the Collier Lodge near Kouts has become Northwest Indiana's first purely archaeological site on the National Register of Historic Places, joining 75 buildings and historic districts already listed. John Hodson, president of the Kankakee Valley Historical Society that owns the one-acre lot at Baums Bridge on the Kankakee River, said he received the letter from the ...
MONTROSE — Another victim of the city’s slashed budget, a century-old archaeology site remains fenced at Cerise Park, awaiting its fate. To the average observer, the Kallstrom Jacal Farmstead site looks like a crumbling structure surrounded by junk and old farm equipment.
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Santa Barbara Film Festival and its programme is exemplary of the thoughtful diversity for which the 10-day event is justly valued, mixing strands of anthropological and nature documentaries, Quebecois, Spanish-language, Asian and Eastern European cinema, US independent and local films, with plenty of shorts and encompassing an [...]
ALAMOSA — A pair of Adams State College professors will lecture Thursday on archaeological findings at Fort Garland.
Princeton’s art and archaeology department reflects the field’s changing demographics, with a predominantly male faculty and a primarily female student body.
Anthropologist Todd Disotell of New York University will speak Tuesday night at the Houston Museum of Natural Science about the increasing role of DNA as a powerful tool in understanding the first primates and early humans.
There’s going be a new posse in town. This group of archaeological detectives will be searching for looters of Native American sites and keeping a close eye out for anyone who desecrates cultural and religious areas.
By Michael Oppermann Correspondent Ongoing discoveries at a 17th-century archaeological dig near the Ocklawaha River are providing new insights into the culture of the Acuera, a Timucuan tribe. (Photo by Bruce Ackerman/Staff)
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