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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has contracted with the Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center to monitor cultural resources on about 24 acres of the 75.4-acre Mathy tract on Brice Prairie.
The AP digs into how "Science Digs Into Civil War Sites" and profiles the use of GIS, GPS and GPR. Garrett Silliman, a 35-year-old archaeologist at an environmental consulting firm sums up the state of the art: "A lot of this technology has been around for years, but now it's a lot cheaper and easier to use.
Anthropologists should not be helping U.S. military forces gather information about Afghan villagers and their way of life, a study commission sponsored by their academic...
By: Trishian Bucheli CSULB is also considering eliminating 16 anthropology courses. CSULB is also considering eliminating 16 anthropology courses....
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.
CORPUS CHRISTI —Archeologists will dig as soon as next week to determine a burial site’s size near a subdivision where partial prehistoric Native American skeletons were recently found, the lead archeologist said.Jose Escobedo, 59, and his 7-year-old grandson found the bones the day before Thanksgiving. They were flying a kite in an empty lot in Terra Mar, a master planned community under ...
David Gill, archaeologist, reflects on the return of two antiquities to Italian authorities.
CORPUS CHRISTI —A homebuilder has halted new construction after prehistoric Native American bones were found near a Southside subdivision. Nueces County Medical Examiner Ray Fernandez on Monday examined two partial skeletons found in the 8000 block of Wooldridge Road near Oso Bay. He determined the bones were prehistoric and will ship the bones to a University of North Texas anthropologist for ...
Dr. Jeffrey Soles recently led the Archaeology Tea Talk. Dr. Soles is a professor in UNCG's Department of Classical Studies; he has a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. The discussion revolved around the University of North Carolina at Greensboro's involvement in the Mochlos excavation.
MIDDLEBORO — Local author Michael J. Maddigan will be signing copies of his new pictorial history book, "Middleborough," Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Robbins Museum of Archaeology.
A archeologist with the Alabama Historical Commission said further analysis of Indian sites at the proposed Country Crossing development could take one week or six months.“Hopefully it will be sooner,” said Greg Rhinehart, who reviews project work. “They (developers) could find somebody within the next few days to do it and they could put Phase II through our office quickly.”
A research team argues that hundreds of people were butchered and eaten at a 7,000-year-old German site
DELHI, India----With a view to facilitate visitors/tourists to buy entry tickets of ASI monuments more conveniently and without hassle, ASI releases a common entry ticket for its World Heritage sites and another one for its other ticketed monuments.
A two-year-old Pentagon program that assigns social scientists to work with military units in Iraq and Afghanistan has come under sharp criticism.
An Anne Arundel County judge refused Wednesday to give the killer of a woman who had befriended him a second chance to serve part of his sentence out of prison, saying that Christopher Perkins O'Brien was behind bars because he did not heed conditions of his previous release.
The expanded second edition of Secrets of the Ledge: Pictorial Report of Archaeological Findings on the Niagara Escarpment in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin by local author Dwight Weiser is available at outlets in Fond du Lac, Waupun and Eden.
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