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ALL YOU EVER wanted to know about the archaeological dig at the ancient Mayan city of Tikal in Guatemala can be found in a six-volume report by Dr. William R. Coe II, containing more than 1,000 pages of small-type text and 238 pen-and-ink drawings.
Party it up on New Year’s Eve with an anthropologist.
CAMBRIDGE.- The Art Fund has helped Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology buy an important work by one of the pre-eminent artists of Papua New Guinea. Biting the Doctor's Arm by Mathias Kauage was acquired for £25,000 with a £9,000 grant from The Art Fund.
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.
California's picturesque coastal prairies and open meadows may be the result of fires set by native peoples thousands of years ago. Kent Lightfoot, a Berkeley professor of anthropology and expert on California Indians and early European colonization, is collecting evidence to demonstrate how much Native Americans relied on fire to manage their environment.
HEMPSTEAD — Archeologists have discovered and are excavating the site of Bernardo Plantation, the place where Gen. Sam Houston took possession of the Twin Sisters cannons and marshaled his troops for the battle of San Jacinto.
SALT LAKE CITY - An unusual agreement to protect a Utah canyon decorated by ancient American Indian art is expected to allow energy development to move forward. The pact is scheduled to be signed Jan. 5 by federal and state agencies, conservation and archaeology groups, tribal leaders and a Denver-based natural gas producer. It calls for road work to cut down on abrasive dust that can erode the ...
Nationwide, there are only about 15 Native American doctorate-level archaeologists involved in the interpretation of their archaeological past. On Dec. 17, William "Rex" Weeks, an Arizona State University graduate, joined their ranks.
More than a half-dozen agencies intend to sign off on an agreement that seeks to protect archeological resources at Nine Mile...
More than a half-dozen agencies intend to sign off on an agreement that seeks to protect archaeological resources at Nine...
Parkersburg, W.Va., native Edward Low was 12 years old in 1943 when he found a valuable archaeological artifact atop a hill near his childhood home on 36th Street. It was against the rules to wander across Murdoch Avenue unsupervised, but Low and his two friends felt adventurous that day. They grabbed their shovels and climbed the hill where they began playing war games and digging trenche.
Combining technology and traditional archaeology, scientists have identified thousands of acres of land farmed by early Hawaiians. The findings also have implications for crop self-sufficiency in Hawaii -- that is, the possibility of ending the need for agricultural imports.
By PAUL FOY Associated Press Writer SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - An agreement to protect a Utah canyon decorated by ancient American Indian art is expected to allow energy development to move forward. The pact is scheduled to be signed Jan. 5 by federal and state agencies, conservation and archaeology groups, tribal leaders and Denver-based gas driller Bill Barrett Corp. It calls for road work to cut ...
Image Caption: This spear-shaped tool used by chimpanzees studied by ISU anthropologist Jill Pruetz will appear in a new exhibition hall opening next year at the Smithsonian's National Museum of History. Photo by Chip Clark, Smithsonian Institution
Image 1: This photo shows workers digging at the Gesher Benot Ya'aqov site archaeological site in Israel. Credit: Gonen Sharon for the Hebrew University of JerusalemImage 2: These are stone tools discovered at the Gesher Benot Ya'aqov archaeological site in Israel. Credit: Photos by Gonen Sharon for the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ruins that archeologists call one of the last links to the original ranches and cowboys that shaped Texas have been kept behind a gate, literally buried, for more than two decades — awaiting the funding that would allow people to see them.
