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Rob Bozell, associate director of the Archeology Laboratory of Augustana College in Sioux Falls, S.D., will talk about pre-European Native Americans of Eastern Nebraska at the monthly Friends of Wilderness Park meeting Sunday.
Why has American novelist Michael Connelly, whose writes the Harry Bosch detective mysteries, taken an interested in the unsolved disappearance of a tourist in Hong Kong?
The so-called "silver spoon" effect -- in which wealth is passed down from one generation to another -- is well established in some of the world's most ancient economies, according to an international study coordinated by a UC Davis anthropologist.
There's a right time for everything, a natural ebb and flow; a time for new beginnings and, just as certainly, one for endings. Now is the time for this column to end, and this change comes purely at my request.
The first few bars of John Williams’ score is enough to evoke hairs stand on the back our neck. You know the music, “Da-da-da-dum-dum, da-da-da, dum-dum-dum, da-da-da-da.” We are of course talking about everyone’s favorite adventuring archaeologist...
TODAY On Monday in the Sacramento State Library Quad, students from the Educational Opportunity Program held a coat drive for the Sacramento Valley Indian Alliance. They will be collecting new or gently used jackets and coats Tuesday and Thursday to be delivered to California Indian Reservations.
To understand the difficulty in searching for old fossils, South Wales resident Kris Parsons gives the example of a deer carcass on the side of the road. Not a pleasant picture, but it shows something important: after a short amount of time, even without human intervention, the body and bones will disappear.
ADDISON, Vt. — The ultimate bad news for users of the shuttered Champlain Bridge came Monday, when the historic span was declared irreparable.
North Carolina officials say they have identified a Civil War shipwreck that burned at sea more than 145 years ago. The state Underwater Archaeology Branch said Monday that a silver-plated spoon inscribed with the name of a CSS Appomattox crew member confirmed the ship's identity. Its Confederate crew set the ship on fire in 1862 while fleeing Union forces.
Merlynda Sol, an anthropology sophomore and member of the Social Justice League, writes facts on a poster about homelessness to post at the second annual Tentropolis on the Mall yesterday.
MIAMI - Lina Garcia remembers her first Hello Kitty purchases at age 15: a wallet, a trash can and an alarm clock, all with the image of the sweet-faced feline, three whiskers sprouting from each round cheek and a bow over her left ear.
The U.S. Forest Service has begun to uncover the remains of a fort used to temporarily house the migrating Cherokee on the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma more than 170 years ago.
BAGHDAD -- As one, the stony faces broke into a free-for-all of kisses, hugs and tears on Monday as the 50 women who called themselves the Lioness group became the first female graduates of Iraq's police officer training academy.
When Anthropology Prof. Kearsley Stewart goes to Cuba on Wednesday, she will bring back an unusual souvenir: a Northwestern course....
Employee briefs • Manny Varela (biology) and John Montgomery (anthropology and applied archaeology) attended the 10th Anniversary Event of the Department of Health and Human Services-Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities Professions...
COKER CREEK — The U.S. Forest Service has begun to uncover the remains of a fort used to temporarily house migrating Cherokee along the Trail of Tears more than 170 years ago.
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