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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.
The long battle to bring national recognition to Nine Mile Canyon took a significant step forward this week when 63 rock art sites were officially added to the National Register of Historic Places.
The fish is the last to see the water. I was recently reminded of this aphorism (from anthropologist Ruth Benedict) on receiving an e-mail from our Dutch friend Pieter in response to our question, Why do you keep vacationing in the U.S.?
Warren Wilson professor David G. Moore will discuss the Berry Site, an archeological site in Burke County, which may be the first European settlement in the interior of North America.
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A piece of skull found this week east of Evansville could be from a person who was buried along the Oregon Trail, Natrona County's coroner said Thursday.
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.
While waiting for her Plants, Health and Spirituality class to start, 19-year-old Laura Hundersmarck, an anthropology and Portuguese major, reads the Alligator outside of Turlington Hall on Wednesday afternoon.
A little-known people existing before ancient Egypt and Greece’s glory worked with metal and had an evolved visual language.
Eight AddRan College of Liberal Arts departments, along with the AddRan dean's office, will be moving into the new Scharbauer Hall in late December. Andrew Schoolmaster, the dean of AddRan College, said the John V. Roach Honors College and the departments of political science, modern languages and literatures, Spanish and Hispanic studies, philosophy, economics, sociology and anthropology and ...
The 1.8-million-year-old fossil was found during work on a Southern California Edison site and will be turned over to the San Bernardino County Museum. The skull of an ice age giant ground sloth was recently uncovered at a construction site in Riverside County and could be headed for display at the San Bernardino County Museum.
Three Calabasas middle school students arrested in ‘ginger assaults'
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.
Many New Yorkers know about the bodies buried beneath Washington Square Park — remains belonging to thousands of impoverished residents who died more than two centuries ago.
Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- The tunnel stank, yet I could scarcely keep from leaping into it after my guide said, “You are now standing on the ruins of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.”
Congress is considering a bill that would lift restrictions on Americans traveling to Cuba. Opponents say U.S. tourism dollars would help the Castro government hold on even longer. But many ordinary Cubans and dissidents, too, say that's not a reason to keep the ban in place.
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