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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.
Dell H. Hymes, a prominent anthropologist, linguist and folklorist whose work mined the rich, often overlooked territory where language and culture intersect, died on Nov. 13 in Charlottesville, Va. He was 82 and lived in Charlottesville.
Paleoartist Viktor Deak uses the latest in three-dimensional computer software to bring Lucy and other human ancestors to life like never before.
BRUNSWICK - Glynn County students are getting an education this week without have to dig for it. The ArchaeoBus parked in front of Altama Elementary School Monday to give students a quick education on historic artifacts and how things change when they're buried for centuries. In a hands-on display on classifying artifacts, Kimaree Smith held a dull chunk up toward where the sun would have been ...
Archaeologists from USC, UCLA and the Middle East have developed a searchable online map that details 7,000 archeological sites in the Holy Land, a list that may become important in political line-drawing, it was reported today.
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Writer Julie Powell, the Julie of the hit book and movie Julie & Julia, looks like a butcher.
Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Nov. 30. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer.
The landmarked Lott House will soon be surrounded by landscaping in keeping with the venerable structure’s 18th century vintage.
A Colonial-era skull believed to belong to a Revolutionary War soldier is set to be reburied in Connecticut with full military honors.
Years of scientific debate over the extinction of ancient species in North America have yielded many theories. However, new findings from J. Tyler Faith, GW Ph.D. candidate in the hominid paleobiology doctoral program, and Todd Surovell, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Wyoming, reveal that a mass extinction occurred in a geological instant.
POCATELLO – New galleries highlighting the Idaho Museum of Natural History’s increased emphasis on research will be constructed during winter and spring 2009-10. Because of this the museum’s galleries and IMNH’s walk-in Museum Store will be closed from Dec. 18 to July 1.
It houses some of ancient Mesopotamia's rarest artifacts, but what is even harder to find at Iraq's National Museum are visitors.
To stay awake while driving, Adrian Praetzellis listens to audiobooks: classical literature dating back to the 19th and 20th centuries. Yes — to stay awake.
WHAT: 5D | Design is Change
Guilty White Liberals are running amok with their political correctness by Tom Danehy This Thanksgiving, I would like to point out that I'm thankful for Guilty White Liberals. It's nice to have a big, fat, hairy example to help you stay on the path of true open-mindedness and not have to go through life with a stick up your butt. Guilty White Liberals are everywhere these days, making excuses ...
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