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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.
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.
Terrible Thing to Waste One of the most important messages in Matthew L. Wald’s “ What Now for Nuclear Waste? ” is that we really have several options for handling nuclear waste. All the options, whether aboveground storage for a couple of hundred years until we decide on the next step, reprocessing fuel to remove the long-lived isotopes to be burned in a fast reactor, or even the original plan ...
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Comoros holds parliamentary elections on Dec. 6 in the first vote since a constitutional amendment giving the government greater powers over the Indian Ocean archipelago’s three island governments was ratified in May.
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'
The Christmas Craft Show and Flea Market, sponsored by the Fritch Chamber of Commerce will open Saturday morning, Dec. 5, at 9 a.m.
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.
Beloit College ranked second in the Midwest Conference in number of representatives on the 2009 Fall Academic All-MWC team released by the league office Wednesday.
Marco Island City Council members will likely be asked to rule on a settlement that could reduce fines that a community association and landscaper were ordered to pay for destroying protected habitat, including mangroves and an Indian mound.
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