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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.
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.
Long-hidden art and artifacts from the ancient Mediterranean are on display for the first time in years at the University of Michigan's newly expanded Kelsey Museum of Archaeology in Ann Arbor.
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.
Levi-Strauss is credited with introducing the subject of structuralism, which seeks common patterns among human societies. The French intellectual also wrote literary and anthropological classics. Claude Levi-Strauss, widely considered the father of modern anthropology for work that included theories about commonalities between tribal and industrial societies, has died. He was 100.
Egypt and the California-based Getty Conservation Institute announced Tuesday a five year project to restore the Tomb of Tutankhamun, the boy king whose golden mask and artifacts have long awed the world. The project to restore the country's most famous tomb... Egypt - Tutankhamun - Africa - History - Archaeology
GALLUP, N.M. – Daniel Pedro knew when he was a sophomore at Santa Fe Indian School that he wanted to be an anthropologist. He also knew that as a Zuni, he would not be able to touch human remains – a common task for physical anthropologists.
When Anthropology Prof. Kearsley Stewart goes to Cuba on Wednesday, she will bring back an unusual souvenir: a Northwestern course....
I've written more than a dozen news stories and columns about archaeological work in the Lowcountry, but I've never wielded a trowel.
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.
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Maria Teresa Tersigni-Tarrant donned a harness, clipped it to a rope and made her way down Lookout Mountain to the spot where someone found human skeletal remains last April. ...
Claude Levi-Strauss is widely considered the father of modern anthropology for work that included theories about commonalities between tribal and industrial societies. During his six-decade career, he authored literary and anthropological classics including Tristes Tropiques .
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...
Earlier this year, the Moncure Conway Foundation decided that since October is National Archaeology Month, it would be the most appropriate time to dig into the history of the little red-brick building at 123 Cambridge St. in Falmouth. Known as the Magistrate's Office, "It is the oldest surviving county-owned municipal building in Stafford County," said Anita Dodd, chairwoman of the foundation ...
ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. A shipwreck found in the Pasquotank River in August 2007 has been identified as the remains of the Confederate ship Appomattox. A silver-plated spoon inscribed with "J Skerritt" confirmed the ship's identity, according to North Carolina's Underwater Archaeology Branch. James Skerritt was a crew member on loan to the Appomattox from the ironclad Virginia.
Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: Murals found on a buried Mexican pyramid provide an unprecedented look at how the average Maya lived about 1,400 years ago.
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