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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.
SALT LAKE CITY - Deep Blue Marine, Inc. is pleased to announce the hiring of Alejandro Selmi as their official company archaeologist. Mr. Selmi comes with high accolades, an impressive resume and years of experience.
She also directed folk and traditional arts programs at the National Endowment for the Arts and served as head of the anthropology department at what is now Cal State Northridge. Bess Lomax Hawes, a musician and folklorist who tapped into the legacy of her influential family of archivists and became a prominent anthropologist at what is now Cal State Northridge, has died. She was 88.
MEXICO CITY.- With the planting of 3,000 endemic trees, the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) concluded reforestation of vulnerable areas at Chichen Itza Archaeological Zone, in Yucatan, with the aim of counteracting deforestation at the Maya site, caused by natural events such as draught.
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.
The Abner Gaines House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, but recent archaeological work could prompt an expansion of the site boundary. • Photos
Dubai: What began as a pharaonic construction site is suddenly sinking in economic quicksand, its future as an archeological attraction possibly more promising than its pretensions as a global financial center.
Millions of Americans are on the road today, driving home from Thanksgiving festivities. And guest host Robert Smith talks to a few of them at a welcome center off I-95 in Maryland. The topic? America's love affair with the car — despite the danger it provides. He also consults Catherine Lutz, an anthropologist and author of the new book Carjacked.
AP File Photo This Aug. 2, 2003 picture shows Lake Superior seen from the North Ridge hiking trail at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore near Munising, Mich. Northern Michigan University geography department head John Anderton and other researchers recently finished a three-year archaeological survey of the lakeshore, during which they found 23 new sites.
Elspeth P. Sterling's and Catherine C. Summers' archaeology book, "Sites of Oahu," makes reference to a place named Hanalei on Oahu, where "there was much milo, neneleau, kamani and other trees on the land, home of the iiwi and oo birds." It is a reference attributed to Theodore Kelsey.
Archeologists are using new technologies to locate Civil War battlegrounds lost under suburban sprawl.
Authorities in Cleveland have asked a leading anthropologist and a forensic artist to help identify the remains of an 11th woman found inside the home of a suspected serial killer.
The landmarked Lott House will soon be surrounded by landscaping in keeping with the venerable structure’s 18th century vintage.
MARQUETTE, Mich. Thousands of years of human activity along the Upper Peninsulas Lake Superior shoreline have come into sharper focus after three years of research.
SAVANNAH - Walking along the bluff of an island off Chatham County, archaeologist Chris McCabe keeps his eyes on the ground looking for the stories the artifacts there can tell him.
A marble bust dredged up from the Rhône River, is thought to be the only known surviving statue of Julius Caesar carved during his lifetime, though some question its authenticity.
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