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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.
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 ...
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.
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.
VENTURA — The Channel Islands National Park is hosting a lecture Wednesday on the earliest inhabitants of San Nicolas Island. Steve Schwartz, a U.S. Navy archaeologist who has researched the subject extensively, will talk about human occupation of the island, including new research that details the first people thought to have lived there. The island is now used for military weapons testing and ...
Ever wonder how archaeologists are able to discover information about the past by digging into the ground? Here is your chance to discover the secrets of archaeologist Catherine Bird at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12.
2009-11-04 | Renowned French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss has died, aged 100. One of the most influential French intellectuals of the 20th Century, he founded the structuralist school of anthropology in the 1950s.
In trying to understand the work of the French anthropologist, look for pairs of opposites common to all human societies.
After weeks crossing the high seas, Claude Levi-Strauss breathed in his first lungful of the New World, a perfume tinged with pepper or tobacco. The sensory awakening was the start of a journey that turned a young Parisian scholar into a founder of modern anthropology.
The last will and testament of Edward Salter is pictured here. “My body, I desire may be decently interred according to the Discretion of my wife and Executors hereafter named,” reads the preamble of his will.
ATLANTA - An archaeologist says excavations in southern Georgia have turned up beads, metal tools and other artifacts that may pinpoint part of the elusive trail of the 16th-century Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto.
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.
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?
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